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The Soup Dragons is a Indie rock act. Their sound grew out of Junior Reid, Buzzcocks, The Rolling Stones and The Primitives. Those roots explain a lot about how The Soup Dragons arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as EMF, The House of Love, The Wedding Present, Teenage Fanclub and Primal Scream, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Superstar and Teenage Fanclub, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 18 connections around The Soup Dragons, reaching back through Junior Reid and forward to Superstar. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
The Soup Dragons are a Scottish rock band of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Named after a character in the 1970s children's television series Clangers, the group is best known for its cover of the Rolling Stones' song "I'm Free", which was a number 5 hit in the United Kingdom in 1990; and "Divine Thing", a top 40 hit in the United States in 1992.
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The Soup Dragons connections
The Soup Dragons grew out of Junior Reid, Buzzcocks, The Rolling Stones and The Primitives, shares an orbit with EMF, The House of Love, The Wedding Present and Teenage Fanclub, went on to shape Superstar and Teenage Fanclub. 18 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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