Candy/Molly's Lips

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"Candy/Molly's Lips"

Single by The Fluid and Nirvana
from the album -
Released	January 1991
Format	7", 12"
Recorded	1990
Genre	Grunge
Length	???
Label	Sub Pop Records
Producer(s)	???
The Fluid and Nirvana singles chronology
"Sliver" (1990)	"Candy/ Molly's Lips" (1991)	"Here She Comes Now/Venus in Furs" (1991)

'Candy/Molly's Lips' is a vinyl-only split-single from the American rock bands the Fluid and Nirvana. It was released in January 1991, and includes the songs "Candy," by The Fluid, and "Molly's Lips," by Nirvana.

"Candy" first appeared on The Fluid's 1990 EP, Glue. The EP was re-released on CD in 1993 along with their 1989 album, Roadmouth.

"Molly's Lips" was recorded live on February 9, 1990, at the Pine Street Theatre in Portland, Oregon. It was written by the Scottish band the Vaselines. According to Michael Azerrad's 1993 Nirvana biography Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana, the band's singer and guitarist Kurt Cobain was opposed to the release of the track, feeling that this version was not strong. However, the single constituted part of the band's buyout deal from their former record label, Sub Pop Records. "Candy/Molly's Lips" was Nirvana's final release on Sub Pop Records. The word "Later" is etched into the single's run-out groove.

[edit] Other versions of "Molly's Lips"

Brazilian 12" Promo

Nirvana performed "Molly's Lips" several other times in concert from 1989 to 1993. On August 23, 1991, it was performed live with its author, the Vaselines' Eugene Kelly, at the 1991 Reading Festival in Reading, Berkshire. It was again performed live with Kelley on December 5, 1991 in London, England. On both occasions, Kelley and Cobain shared vocal duties.

A studio version, recorded for John Peel in October 1990 in London, England, appears on the 1992 tour EP Hormoaning, and on the 1992 "odds-and-sods" compilation Incesticide. This version was released as a 12" vinyl promo single in Brazil, to promote Incesticide.