The Vaselines have long been celebrated by musicians and music enthusiasts across genres and across the globe, including super-fan Kurt Cobain. Sub Pop’s May 5th release of Enter The Vaselines is an opportunity for those already familiar with the Scottish band’s brief career to delve deeper into their body of work, while those new to their music can experience firsthand why so many hold them in such high regard. This new collection is effectively a deluxe-edition reissue of the 1992 Sub Pop release The Way of The Vaselines with a new title and new cover art, both from the band, and a whole lot of new material (the entirety of the 17-song second CD/third LP has been added). Originally mastered from a cassette tape, The Way of The Vaselines compiled the band’s two EPs (Son of a Gun and Dying for It) and their sole LP release (Dum-Dum). Enter The Vaselines is the definitive triple LP/double CD Vaselines collection. It includes new mixes and re-mastered versions of everything by The Vaselines, plus never-before-heard demos, and live recordings from 1986 in Bristol and 1988 in London.

What follows is from Everett True’s contribution to the liner notes for Enter The Vaselines (the other contributor is, appropriately enough, Stephen McRobbie/Pastel). And it provides a better/more entertaining background on The Vaselines than we could possibly come up with on our own. Anyone who bothers to read the following would likely come to the same conclusion, but to avoid the possibility that it’s a little inside baseball, the “trio from Olympia (NOT Seattle!)” who Everett refers to below a few times is, we’re pretty sure, Nirvana. We’re also pretty sure they’re from Aberdeen.

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• Promo Photo - credit: Stephen McRobbie
• Promo Photo - credit: Claire Stewart (2009)
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