She Don't Use Jelly
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| "She Don't Use Jelly" | ||
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| Single by The Flaming Lips | ||
| from the album Transmissions from the Satellite Heart | ||
| Released | 1993 | |
| Format | CD | |
| Genre | Alternative rock Psychedelic rock |
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| Length | 3:40 | |
| Label | Warner Bros. Records | |
| Producer(s) | The Flaming Lips, Keith Cleversley | |
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| The Flaming Lips singles chronology | ||
| "Yeah, I Know it's a Drag... But Wastin' Pigs is Still Radical" (1991) |
"She Don't Use Jelly" (1993) |
"Turn it On" (1995) |
"She Don't Use Jelly" is a 1993 song by The Flaming Lips, and is arguably their most well-known song to date, despite its Dadaist lyrics. The song became popular after being featured on the MTV show Beavis and Butt-head, nearly a year after the album's release. It is still their highest charting single to date (and the only to chart on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100), even entering the top 10 of the Modern Rock Tracks chart. "She Don't Use Jelly" is still played at the band's shows, usually preceded by a video of Jon Stewart introducing the song on The Jon Stewart Show. After the song Coyne usually inflates an enormous balloon, filled with confetti or smaller balloons, until it bursts onto the crowd.
From the band's website: "With its chiming pedal steel chorus breaks and seemingly nonsensical lyrics, the song entered into the realms of novelty hit. It's a happy little ditty about strange people and their individual idiosyncrasies, with pretty melodies laced throughout and punctuated by trademark moments of crunching but still harmonious noise."[1]
The success of the song garnered the band a notorious guest spot on the TV show Beverly Hills, 90210, in which they played live at the show's hangout, The Peach Pit, where supporting character Steve Sanders (portrayed by actor Ian Ziering) remarked "You know, I've never been a big fan of alternative music, but these guys rocked the house!"[2]
This song has been covered by Drugstore, KT Tunstall and Ben Folds Five (the latter in a cocktail-pop version on the 1997 Lounge-a-Palooza compilation), among others.
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