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By rss@youtube.com (kanapatipulai) Author: kanapatipulai Keywords: manuel: guitar kurt cobain the vaselines Added: April 25, 2009

 Canada But what lifted The Vaselines from almost total obscurity to cult band status was Kurt Cobain's infatuation with them. Nirvana covered "Son Of A Gun" and "Molly's Lips" on Incesticide and "Jesus Wants Me For A Sunbeam" on MTV Unplugged In New York. ...

 NY But the 2 EPs and 1 album they recorded left a strong impact on a lot of musicians that followed, especially Cobain. Not only did Cobain name his daughter after Frances McKee, but Nirvana also recorded 3 Vaselines covers during their also short-lived ...

 CO Fans of sharp, late- '80s indie-pop take note: Sub Pop Records has lovingly reissued the two EPs and single album recorded by Scotland's Vaselines, and filled out the set with demos and two concert recordings. Nirvana fans already will be familiar "Son ...

But even before “Smells Like Teen Spirit” forced hundreds of hair-metal bands to shear their Samson locks, Nirvana dragged an obscure Scottish band out of retirement to open a show in Edinburgh in 1990—the Vaselines. Primarily a duo of Eugene Kelly and ...

 Seattle CHANNELING NIRVANA, ONLY BETTER: Yeah, we said it, but as Kurt Cobain once noted about the Vaselines, "They are my most favorite songwriters in the whole world." So much so, that he named his daughter Frances Bean after lead singer Frances McKee. ...

 WA By Krist Novoselic in Krist Novoselic: Contention & Conscious Nirvana loved to play Vaselines tunes. It was always fun just to bust out a pop tune, and the songs written by the Scottish duo Eugene Kelly and Frances McKee fit our sensibilities a lot. ...

And that's probably where the Vaselines' story would have ended had it not been for Nirvana's Kurt Cobain. Nirvana introduced the Vaselines to a mass audience, including covers of Vaselines songs on 1992's “Incesticide” and album/television special ...

Their likeness to Nirvana was less than striking: Typical Vaselines songs sound twee by comparison, with a special kind of drowsy, homespun charm. But then, the language translated quite nicely to Cobain's when Nirvana took to covering “Molly's Lips,” ...