The Vaselines / Vaselines Skull - 2014599

This is a classic Vaselines shirt featuring art from The Way of the Vaselines on luxurious American Apparel cotton.

Released: August 3, 2010

The Vaselines / Sex with an X (single) - SP901

“Sex with an X,” the a-side of this new single from The Vaselines, is found on and the title of Sex with an X, the beloved and influential Scottish band’s first new album in over 20 years. “Roaster” is neither of those things, but it is quite good!

Released: August 24, 2010

The Vaselines / Sex with an X - SP889

Formed in Glasgow in 1987, The Vaselines released two singles and one album (Dum Dum on the 53rd and 3rd label) and then split up in 1989 (in the same week their album was released). They might have faded into obscurity but for the intervention of a certain band from Seattle. Nirvana covered three Vaselines songs, helping to fuel a growing after-the-fact appreciation of their seedy, two-and-a-half chord, garage pop manifesto. Founding members Eugene Kelly and Frances McKee remained musically active between then and now: the former with Captain America aka Eugenius and finally as a solo artist; McKee with Painkillers and Suckle. Eugene and Frances also collaborated intermittently in the intervening years and, in 2008, toured America (including a stand-out appearance at Sub Pop’s 20th anniversary festival, SP20), Brazil and Japan and played some UK festivals. The Vaselines “re-connected” with wildly appreciative audiences who had blinked and missed them the first time round. Buoyed by the success of their live return, the two punk rock chums decided to go back into the studio.

The new Vaselines album, Sex with an X, was recorded outside Manchester at the Analogue Catalogue studio in Mossley with Julie McLarnon engineering and produced by Jamie Watson (who also produced that first album Dum Dum). The Vaselines ca. 2010 is Eugene and Frances with guest musicians Stevie Jackson and Bob Kildea from Belle & Sebastian on guitar and bass, and Michael McGaughrin from the 1990s on drums. It may have taken The Vaselines 20 years to get round to making this baby, but it was worth the wait—bringing their solo careers to a climax. The irony has not been lost. Who says indie music can’t be fun? No hand-wringing on these tracks—just good clean smut with a twist of bitter. The Vaselines will tour the US in October, 2010.

If you are among the first 200 people to pre-order Sex with an X by September 14th, you’ll receive a bonus 7" featuring “White Chapel” b/w “Picked a Cherry”, demos both recorded by Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub)—the latter not available on the new record.

Released: September 14, 2010

The Vaselines / Enter The Vaselines - SP810

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 5 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 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.

Released: May 5, 2009

The Vaselines / The Way of the Vaselines - SP145

MEDIUMS: CS, CD

TRACK LISTING:
Son of a Gun
Rory Rides me Raw
You Think You’re a Man
Dying for It**
Molly’s Lips
Teenage Superstars
Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam
Sex Sux (Amen)
Slushy
Monsterpussy
Bitch
No Hope
Oliver Twisted
The Day I Was a Horse
Dum-Dum
Hairy
Lovecraft
Dying for It (The Blues)
Let’s get Ugly

NOTES: Released 5/1/92. Entire catalog on one release from the amazing Vaselines.

Released: May 1, 1992