Summer of Subway: The Soup Dragons

In these parts, Memorial Day weekend marks the unofficial start of summer. A mere 15 Saturdays later, on Labor Day weekend, we say goodbye to the season. It just so happens the Subway Organization had 15 bands on its roster. Let's make this the summer of Subway. We'll listen to a little something from every act before the leaves change.

From Subway 4, here's the flip side to the "Whole Wide World" single by the Soup Dragons, released in 1986. Quite a year for the lads too, being on 'C86' and all. As with so many Scottish musicians at the time, half the band were in BMX Bandits too. My, how the band's sound would change as they became hit-makers, but this song could be mistaken quite easily for Buzzcocks. Was this really the same band that did "I'm Free" four short years later? Actually, there were quite a few personnel changes, but that's a story for another time. Time to get outside and enjoy the summer. "Whole Wide World" peaked at No. 2 on the UK Indie Chart. Until next Saturday then...

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