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The Soup Dragons

Index The Soup Dragons

The Soup Dragons were a Scottish alternative rock band of the late 1980s and early 1990s. [1]

71 relations: Acid house, Alternative dance, Alternative rock, Alternative Songs, ARIA Charts, Ö3 Austria Top 40, Baggy, Bass guitar, BBC Radio 3, Bellshill, Big Life, Billboard Hot 100, BMX Bandits (band), Chris Hunt, Clangers, Comedy, Dance Club Songs, Deejay (Jamaican), Demo (music), Drummer, Extended play, Flexi disc, Future Pilot A.K.A., Guitar, Hotwired, Hydrophonic (Soup Dragons album), I'm Free (The Rolling Stones song), Indie pop, Indie rock, Irish Singles Chart, Isobel Campbell, Jazz Summers, Junior Reid, Lanarkshire, Lead guitar, Lovegod, Mainstream Rock (chart), MDMA, MegaCharts, Mercury Records, Mother Universe, Motherwell, New Zealand, Nirvana (band), Official New Zealand Music Chart, Pop punk, Post-rock, Rave, Raw TV, Rock music, ..., Ross Sinclair (artist), Science fiction, Singing, Single (music), Sire Records, Smells Like Teen Spirit, Snowgoose, Superstar (band), Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique, Teenage Fanclub, Teenage Superstars, The High Fidelity, The Primary 5, The Rolling Stones, The Subway Organization, The World's End (film), UK Albums Chart, UK Independent Singles and Albums Charts, UK Singles Chart, Ultratop, Wham!. Expand index (21 more) »

Acid house

Acid house is a subgenre of house music developed around the mid-1980s by DJs from Chicago.

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Alternative dance

Alternative dance is a genre that mixes alternative or indie rock with post-disco dance music.

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Alternative rock

Alternative rock (also called alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a style of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s.

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Alternative Songs

Alternative Songs (also called Alternative and formerly known as Modern Rock Tracks and Hot Modern Rock Tracks) is a music chart in the United States that has appeared in ''Billboard'' magazine since September 10, 1988.

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ARIA Charts

The ARIA Charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association.

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Ö3 Austria Top 40

Ö3 Austria Top 40 is the official Austrian singles chart, as well as the radio show which presents it, aired Fridays on Hitradio Ö3.

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Baggy

Baggy was a British dance-oriented rock music genre popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

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Bass guitar

The bass guitar (also known as electric bass, or bass) is a stringed instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

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BBC Radio 3

BBC Radio 3 is a British radio station operated by the BBC.

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Bellshill

Bellshill (pronounced "Bells hill") is a town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, south east of Glasgow city centre and west of Edinburgh.

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Big Life

Big Life was a record label established in 1987 by Jazz Summers and Tim Parry.

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Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.

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BMX Bandits (band)

BMX Bandits are a Scottish 1960s-influenced guitar pop band who have been making music from 1986 to the present day.

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Chris Hunt

Chris Hunt is a British journalist, magazine editor, and author.

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Clangers

Clangers is a British stop-motion children's television series, comprising short films about a race (or perhaps a family) of creatures who live on, and inside, a small moon-like planet.

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Comedy

In a modern sense, comedy (from the κωμῳδία, kōmōidía) refers to any discourse or work generally intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, television, film, stand-up comedy, or any other medium of entertainment.

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Dance Club Songs

The Dance Club Songs chart is a weekly chart published exclusively by Billboard in the United States.

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Deejay (Jamaican)

In Jamaican music, a deejay (DJ) is a reggae or dancehall musician who sings and "toasts" to an instrumental riddim.

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Demo (music)

A demo (from "demonstration") is a song or group of songs recorded for limited circulation or reference use rather than for general public release.

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Drummer

A drummer is a percussionist who creates and accompanies music using drums.

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Extended play

An extended play record, often referred to as an EP, is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single, but is usually unqualified as an album or LP.

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Flexi disc

The flexi disc (also known as a phonosheet, Sonosheet or Soundsheet, a trademark) is a phonograph record made of a thin, flexible vinyl sheet with a molded-in spiral stylus groove, and is designed to be playable on a normal phonograph turntable.

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Future Pilot A.K.A.

Future Pilot A.K.A. is the nom de plume of Glasgow indie musician Sushil K. Dade, a former member of the Soup Dragons, BMX Bandits and Telstar Ponies.

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Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

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Hotwired

Hotwired is the third studio album from The Soup Dragons.

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Hydrophonic (Soup Dragons album)

Hydrophonic is the fourth and final studio album from The Soup Dragons.

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I'm Free (The Rolling Stones song)

"I'm Free" is a song by the Rolling Stones written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, first released as the final track on the UK Out of Our Heads album on 24 September 1965.

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Indie pop

Indie pop (also typeset as indie-pop or indiepop) is a music genre and subculture that combines guitar pop with DIY ethic in opposition to the style and tone of mainstream pop music.

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Indie rock

Indie rock is a genre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom in the 1970s.

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Irish Singles Chart

The Irish Singles Chart (Irish: Cairt Singil na hÉireann) is Ireland's music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by the Irish Recorded Music Association and compiled on behalf of the IRMA by The Official Charts Company.

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Isobel Campbell

Isobel Campbell (born 27 April 1976) is a Scottish singer-songwriter, cellist and composer.

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Jazz Summers

Gordon "Jazz" Summers (15 March 1944 – 14 August 2015) was a British music manager.

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Junior Reid

Delroy "Junior" Reid (born 6 June 1963) is a Jamaican reggae and dancehall musician, best known for his featuring on the songs "It's Okay (One Blood)" and "This Is Why I'm Hot", as well as being the lead vocalist for Black Uhuru on three albums: Brutal, Positive and Black Uhuru Live in New York.

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Lanarkshire

Lanarkshire, also called the County of Lanark (Siorrachd Lannraig, Lanrikshire) is a historic county in the central Lowlands of Scotland.

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Lead guitar

Lead guitar is a musical part for a guitar in which the guitarist plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure.

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Lovegod

Lovegod is an album by the Soup Dragons, released on 12 July 1990.

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Mainstream Rock (chart)

Mainstream Rock is a music chart in Billboard magazine which ranks the most-played songs on mainstream rock radio stations, a category that combines the formats of active rock and heritage rock.

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MDMA

3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), commonly known as ecstasy (E), is a psychoactive drug used primarily as a recreational drug.

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MegaCharts

MegaCharts, since 2008 called GfK Dutch Charts, is a chart company responsible for the composition and exploitation of a broad collection of official charts in the Netherlands, of which the Single Top 100 and the Album Top 100 are the most known ones.

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Mercury Records

Mercury Records is an American-based record label owned by Universal Music Group.

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Mother Universe

"Mother Universe" is a single taken from the Soup Dragons album Lovegod.

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Motherwell

Motherwell (Mitherwall, Tobar na Màthar) is a large town and former burgh in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, south east of Glasgow.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Nirvana (band)

Nirvana was an American rock band formed by lead singer and guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington, in 1987.

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Official New Zealand Music Chart

The Official New Zealand Music Chart is the weekly New Zealand top 40 singles and albums charts, issued weekly by Recorded Music NZ (formerly Recording Industry Association of New Zealand).

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Pop punk

Pop punk (also known as punk-pop) is a music genre that fuses elements of pop music with punk rock.

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Post-rock

Post-rock is a form of experimental rock characterized by use of rock instruments primarily to explore textures and timbre rather than traditional song structure, chords or riffs.

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Rave

A rave (from the verb: to rave) is an organized dance party at a nightclub, outdoor festival, warehouse, or other private property typically featuring performances by DJs, playing a seamless flow of electronic dance music.

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Raw TV

Raw TV is a British television production company producing documentaries and scripted television shows, including Gold Rush, Banged Up Abroad and Shackleton: Death or Glory.

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Rock music

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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Ross Sinclair (artist)

Dr Ross Sinclair (born 1966 in Glasgow) is a Scottish visual artist, musician and writer.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (often shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, spaceflight, time travel, and extraterrestrial life.

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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Single (music)

In music, a single, record single or music single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record.

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Sire Records

Sire Records is an American record label that is owned by Warner Music Group and distributed by Warner Bros. Records.

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Smells Like Teen Spirit

"Smells Like Teen Spirit" is a song by American rock band Nirvana.

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Snowgoose

Snowgoose is a Glasgow based folk rock band.

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Superstar (band)

Superstar were a Scottish guitar band founded in 1991.

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Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique

The National Syndicate of Phonographic Publishing (Syndicat national de l'édition phonographique; SNEP) is the inter-professional organization which protects the interests of the French record industry.

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Teenage Fanclub

Teenage Fanclub are a Scottish alternative rock band formed in Bellshill in 1989.

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Teenage Superstars

Teenage Superstars is a 2017 film about the Glasgow independent music scene between 1982 and 1992, focusing on the bands that emerged from in and around the city at this point including The Pastels, BMX Bandits, The Soup Dragons, Teenage Fanclub, The Vaselines, The Jesus and Mary Chain and Primal Scream.

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The High Fidelity

The High Fidelity are a British rock band, formed in 1995 by Sean Dickson, formerly of The Soup Dragons.

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The Primary 5

The Primary 5 was a Scottish pop band from Glasgow, Scotland, formed in 2003 by former Teenage Fanclub and Soup Dragons drummer Paul Quinn.

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The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London, England, in 1962.

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The Subway Organization

The Subway Organization was an independent music label founded in 1985 in Bristol, by Martin Whitehead.

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The World's End (film)

The World's End is a 2013 comic science fiction film directed by Edgar Wright, written by Wright and Simon Pegg, and starring Pegg, Nick Frost, Paddy Considine, Martin Freeman, Eddie Marsan and Rosamund Pike.

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UK Albums Chart

The Official Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales and (from March 2015) audio streaming in the United Kingdom.

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UK Independent Singles and Albums Charts

The UK Independent Singles Chart and UK Independent Albums Chart are charts of the best-selling independent singles and albums, respectively, in the United Kingdom.

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UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently entitled Official Singles Chart) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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Ultratop

Ultratop is an organization which generates and publishes the official record charts in Belgium.

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Wham!

Wham! were an English musical duo formed by members George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley in 1981.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soup_Dragons

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