Enter the Vaselines

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Enter the Vaselines
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Compilation album by
The Vaselines
Released5 May 2009
Recorded1986–89
Genre Indie pop, indie rock, jangle pop, alternative rock, noise pop
Label Sub Pop
Producer The Vaselines, Stephen Pastel, Jamie Watson
The Vaselines chronology
The Way of The Vaselines: A Complete History
(1992)		Enter the Vaselines
(2009)		 Sex with an X
(2010)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 85/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [2]
The A.V. Club A− [3]
Cokemachineglow 81% [4]
Drowned in Sound 8/10 [5]
The Line of Best Fit 92% [6]
Pitchfork 8.0/10 [7]
PopMatters 7/10 [8]
Record Collector Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [9]
Uncut Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [10]
Under the Radar 8/10 [11]

Enter the Vaselines is a compilation album by the indie rock band The Vaselines, released on 5 May 2009 through the record label Sub Pop.

Contents

The album is a deluxe reissue of their 1992 compilation The Way of the Vaselines: A Complete History . Disc one compiles all tracks from their two previous EP's ( Son of a Gun and Dying for It ) and debut LP record ( Dum-Dum - their only full-length release before 2010's Sex with an X ), in chronological order of release, with the exception of the previously unreleased track "Bitch", which is inserted after what was the fourth track on Dum-Dum. Disc two includes demos and live tracks recorded in Bristol in December 1986 and London in June 1988. The mixes used of tracks 8-19 on disc one differ to the mixes used on the original Dum-Dum album and The Way of the Vaselines: A Complete History compilation, having been remixed by Jamie Watson at Chamber Studios in November 2008.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Eugene Kelly/Frances McKee except "You Think You're a Man" by Geoff Deane and "I Didn't Know I Loved You ('Til I Saw You Rock 'n' Roll)" by Gary Glitter/Mike Leander.

Disc 1

  1. "Son of a Gun" – 3:46
  2. "Rory Rides Me Raw" – 2:28
  3. "You Think You're a Man" – 5:43
  4. "Dying for It" – 2:22
  5. "Molly's Lips" – 1:44
  6. "Teenage Superstars" – 3:28
  7. "Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam" – 3:31
  8. "Sex Sux (Amen)" – 3:10
  9. "Slushy" – 2:00
  10. "Monsterpussy" – 1:43
  11. "Bitch" – 2:42
  12. "No Hope" – 3:21
  13. "Oliver Twisted" – 2:49
  14. "The Day I Was a Horse" – 1:29
  15. "Dum-Dum" – 1:57
  16. "Hairy" – 1:48
  17. "Lovecraft" – 5:37
  18. "Dying for It (The Blues)" – 3:09
  19. "Let's Get Ugly" – 2:19

Disc 2

  1. "Son of a Gun" (Demo) - 2:30
  2. "Rosary Job" (Demo) - 3:01
  3. "Red Poppy" (Demo) - 2:13
  4. "Son of a Gun" (Live in Bristol) - 3:58
  5. "Rosary Job" (Live in Bristol) - 3:24
  6. "Red Poppy" (Live in Bristol) - 2:11
  7. "Rory Rides Me Raw" (Live in Bristol) - 3:07
  8. "You Think You're a Man" (Live in Bristol) - 1:48
  9. "Dying For It" (Live in London) - 2:12
  10. "Monsterpussy" (Live in London) - 1:58
  11. "Let's Get Ugly" (Live in London) - 3:03
  12. "Molly's Lips" (Live in London) - 2:14
  13. "The Day I Was a Horse" (Live in London) - 2:37
  14. "The Day I Was a Horse (Again)" (Live in London) - 2:50
  15. "Sex Sux (Amen)" (Live in London) - 4:14
  16. "I Didn't Know I Loved You ('Til I Saw You Rock 'N' Roll)" (Live in London) - 3:25
  17. "Teenage Superstars" (Live in London) - 4:22

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Critic Reviews for Enter the Vaselines. Metacritic. Retrieved 23 September 2014.
  2. ↑ Enter the Vaselines at AllMusic
  3. ↑ Matos, Michaelangelo (5 May 2009). "Enter The Vaselines · The Vaselines · Music Review The Vaselines: Enter The Vaselines · Music Review · The A.V. Club". The A.V. Club . Retrieved 2 June 2016.
  4. ↑ Purdom, Clayton (29 April 2009). "The Vaselines - Enter The Vaselines". Cokemachineglow . Retrieved 8 May 2025.
  5. ↑ Power, Chris (6 May 2009). "Album Review: The Vaselines - Enter The Vaselines / Releases / Releases // Drowned In Sound". Drownedinsound.com. Archived from the original on 28 August 2016. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
  6. ↑ Wisgard, Alex (13 May 2009). "The Vaselines - "Enter The Vaselines"". The Line of Best Fit . Retrieved 8 May 2025.
  7. ↑ Amy Granzin (5 May 2009). "The Vaselines: Enter the Vaselines Album Review". Pitchfork.com. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
  8. ↑ Hart, Ron (11 May 2009). "The Vaselines: Enter the Vaselines". PopMatters . Retrieved 8 May 2025.
  9. ↑ Pearlman, Mischa (25 April 2009). "Enter The Vaselines - The Vaselines". Record Collector . Retrieved 8 May 2025.
  10. ↑ This collects all that, plus demos and live tracks, into a demonstration of how a fabulously obscure Glasgow indie group became one of the most influential of their time. [Jun 2009, p.105]
  11. ↑ Everhart, John (3 July 2009). "The Vaselines - Enter the Vaselines". Under the Radar . Retrieved 8 May 2025.
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