You Can Fly And You Can Buy

The Soup Dragons officially released their new singles last Friday and yesterday I received my 7" vinyl from those lovely people at Last Night At Glasgow.

The songs, Love Is Love and No Music On a Dead Planet, have been released as separate 7" singles flipping the lead track, individual cover art and respectively in green or pink vinyl. I pre-ordered one of them, two arrived in my package. Over to LNFG's recent email to members

Today we took delivery of the brand new singles from The Soup Dragons, clearly someone at the plant felt they new better than the professor from the Glasgow School Of Art who designed them. For the records turned up on Yellow and Blue Vinyl as opposed to Green and Pink. Well their mistake is your gain.

We have agreed with the band to bolster all pre-orders as small apology. If you ordered "Love is Love", we will send you both that and "No Music" and vice versa. If you ordered both we will send you a wee gift card you can use off another purchase.

So, as you can see I'm now the proud owner of both singles, in the mis-pressed vinyl. And the songs? Well, they're just great but don't take my word for it, check out the videos and then buy the vinyl for yourself.

 

 

And yes, that is Fred Schneider from The B-52's. 

I've just renewed my LNFG membership for 2024. It's been worth every penny this year and unable though I am to move to Glasgow and experience some of the related gigs, the arrival of a new package of vinyl through the year has been a real treat.

My very first non-membership purchase when I joined was the Hi-Fi Sean & David McAlmont album (glorious double yellow vinyl) and The Soup Dragons' Raw TV Products: Singles & Rarities 1985-88 compilation (beautiful blue vinyl, as pictured above). The latter is a wonderful 15-song compilation, remastered by Sean himself and a reminder of why The Soup Dragons were (and are) such a great band.

So, my selection for today provides another collection of their songs, none of which appear on the vinyl compilation (I urge you to buy it now). It covers roughly the same period, 1986 to 1990, with B-sides, 12" versions, a fantastic cover and a bootleg extended version of Soft As Your Face editing together the single and instrumental 'arrangment' from the 12" to pleasing effect.

By comparison with Sean's beautifully restored songs on the Raw TV Products album, these are rough and ready with variable sound quality depending on the vinyl source. But they are all very, very good songs.

 

1) Head Gone Astray (12" Version) (1987)

2) Burn Out (1989)

3) If You Were The Only Girl In The World Would You Take Me? (Flexi Single Version) (1986)

4) 4 Way Brain (1988)

5) Kill Kill Kill Me (1989)

6) Our Lips Are Sealed (Cover of Go-Go's) (1987)

7) You Can Fly (1989)

8) It's Always Autumn (1987)

9) Kingdom Chairs (Unabridged) (1988)

10) Crotch Deep Trash (Single Mix) (1989)

11) Backwards Dog (Remix) (1990)

12) Soft As Your Face (Noise Records' Bootleg Extended Version) (2023)

You Can Fly And You Can Buy (44:26) (KF) (Mega)