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Son of a Gun (EP)

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Released
  
14 August 1987

Label
  
53rd & 3rd

Genre
  
Indie Rock

Son of a Gun (1987)
  
Dying for It (1988)

Recorded
  
March 1987, Berkeley Street Studios, Glasgow

Producer
  
Stephen Pastel The Vaselines

Son of A Gun is the debut extended play single by Glasgow alternative rock group The Vaselines. The title-song of this EP came to a wider audience after Nirvana covered it, along with "Molly's Lips", on their compilation album Incesticide. "You Think You're A Man" is a cover of a song written by the cult-film actor Divine, while the other two were written by Frances McKee and Eugene Kelly.

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Kelly and McKee except where noted.

Side A

  1. "Son of a Gun"
  2. "Rory Rides Me Raw"

Side B

  1. "You Think You're a Man" (Geoff Deane)

Personnel

  • Eugene Kelly — vocals, guitars
  • Frances McKee — vocals, guitars

    • Additional personnel

  • Aggi Wright — keyboards on "Son of A Gun"
  • Stephen Pastel - Producer, Additional guitar on "You Think You're A Man"
  • Gordon Rintoul — engineer

    • Legacy

    A reggae version of the title track was released on the Little Roy album Battle for Seattle in 2011.

    References

    Son of a Gun (EP) Wikipedia
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