She Don't Use Jelly

She Don't Use Jelly

Infobox Single
Name = She Don't Use Jelly


Artist = The Flaming Lips
from Album = Transmissions from the Satellite Heart
B-side =
Released = 1993
Format = CD
Recorded =
Genre = Alternative rock
Psychedelic rock
Length = 3:40
Label = Warner Bros. Records
Writer =
Producer = The Flaming Lips, Keith Cleversley
Certification =
Chart position = * #9 (U.S. Modern Rock Tracks)
* #55 (U.S. Billboard Hot 100)
* #25 (Australian ARIA Singles Chart)
Last single = "Wastin' Pigs EP"
(1991)
This single = "She Don't Use Jelly"
(1993)
Next single = "Turn it On"
(1995)

"She Don't Use Jelly" is a 1993 song by The Flaming Lips, and is their biggest radio hit to date. 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 one of the few pre-"The Soft Bulletin" songs 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." [ [http://www.flaminglips.com/content.php?sid=2e8ecd7c69cf8da349020fbd9fce6118&page=%2Fcontent%2Fdiscography%2Fs%2F05_main.php&pageColor=333333&id=disc&section=sing Band's webpage about the song] ]

The success of the song garnered the band a 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!" [ [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJC6GWZGswY Clip of performance on Beverly Hills, 90210] ]

This song has been covered by Drugstore, The Hyannis Sound, 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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