Like The Smiths and Beat Happening—two other bands born in the ’80s that are now considered forerunners of twee—The Vaselines were never as precious and delicate as they seemed. In fact, the band’s sugary indie-pop is rife with aggression, sarcasm, smutty jokes, and punk snarl. As a less-than-subtle reminder, the Scottish duo of Eugene Kelly and Frances McKee (recently reformed after disbanding in 1990) has dubbed its comeback album Sex With An X. That lack of subtlety isn’t always a virtue, though. Gone is the playground innuendo of classics like “Rory Rides Me Raw” and “Molly ...
- 9/21/2010
- avclub.com
Eugene Kelly has said that he is "happy and surprised" at his band The Vaselines still being in demand by fans 20 years after they first split up. Kelly formed the group in Glasgow in 1986 with his then-girlfriend Frances McKee and they split in 1990, before reforming in 2008. They release comeback LP Sex With An X on September 14. The band attracted attention after their initial split when Nirvana covered their tracks 'Son Of A Gun', 'Molly's Lips' and 'Jesus Doesn't Want Me For A Sunbeam'. Asked if he was resentful that it took the band so long to gain recognition, Kelly told The Quietus: "Not at all. It's just the way things happen. At the time we weren't sitting around going, 'Oh, the record is great. Why aren't we getting front covers on magazines? Why aren't we (more)...
- 9/6/2010
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
Frances McKee of The Vaselines has admitted that her children prefer Nirvana's cover of 'Molly Lips' to her original. The group's 1988 Dying For It Ep featured the that track and 'Jesus Don't Want Me For A Sunbeam', both of which were performed by Nirvana after the Scottish band first split in 1990. Asked what Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain took from their song, guitarist/singer Eugene Kelly told The Guardian: "I think he liked the childlike simplicity of them. "They weren't trying to get a big message across, they were just simple, funny tunes that were maybe an antidote to the heavy, (more)...
- 7/19/2010
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
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