Not much can be said about The Vaselines that hasn’t already been said. Loved by people in the know, but all but forgotten by the general audience; relative obscurity has done this offbeat collection of jangling pop songs well, like a tightly sealed time capsule, these songs are fresh as they were almost 20 years ago and getting a chance to unearth them again is like a breath of fresh air, and I’d go so far as to say Sub Pop knew that spring time would be the perfect season to reissue The Way Of... and just to really get us all excited, pin on an extra disk (and extra Vinyl) of rarities, out-takes and b-sides.

I’m not going to go into all the details with this band – there’s enough info out there on them to sink a battleship, but for the sake of those of you who havn’t heard Molly’s Lips or Kurt Cobain’s aching, pained cover of Jesus Don’t Want Me For A Sunbeam, then imagine a a sweet and sour mix of 60′s love lorn fuzzpop and a touch of modern (late 80′s modern, that is.)  garage grit and raunchy inuendo. Got it? Does it not quite make sense? Go take a listen to this definitive collection and i promise it will.