Lovegod

Lovegod is an album by the Soup Dragons, released in 1990.[7][8] Four songs from the album were released as singles"Backwards Dog", "Crotch Deep Trash", "Mother Universe" and "I'm Free". The latter, a cover of a Rolling Stones cut from their 1965 album Out of Our Heads, made the top 5 in the UK charts. First pressings did not include "I'm Free", but it was subsequently placed first on the re-release, which also dates to 1990.

Lovegod
Studio album by
Released12 July 1990
RecordedLivingston Studios, London, 1989
GenreAlternative rock, alternative dance
Length40:55
LabelBig Life[1]
ProducerSean Dickson & George Shilling
The Soup Dragons chronology
This Is Our Art
(1988)
Lovegod
(1990)
Hotwired
(1992)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[3]
Entertainment WeeklyC[4]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide[5]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[6]

The album peaked at No. 7 on the UK Albums Chart.[9] It peaked at No. 88 on the Billboard 200.[10] The video for "I'm Free" made it to the top spot on MTV's most requested list.[8]

Critical reception

Trouser Press called the album "an effective, accessible (if ultimately tedious) trip of house-geared rhythms, semi-firm melodies and singer/guitarist/programmer Sean Dickson’s obviously mind-expanded lyrics."[1] Spin deemed it "well-crafted danceable rock with immaculate production."[11]

Track listing

All songs by Sean Dickson except where noted.

  1. "I'm Free" (featuring Junior Reid) (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards) – 3:58
  2. "Mother Universe" – 3:43
  3. "Backwards Dog" – 2:17
  4. "Softly" – 2:55
  5. "Drive the Pain" – 2:20
  6. "Lovegod" – 3:38
  7. "Dream-E-Forever" – 2:14
  8. "Sweetmeat" – 4:22
  9. "Kiss the Gun" – 2:31
  10. "Love You to Death" – 2:40
  11. "Beauty Freak" – 3:07
  12. "Lovegod Dub" – 4:14
  13. "Crotch Deep Trash" – 2:56

Personnel

Notes

  1. "Soup Dragons". Trouser Press. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
  2. Lovegod at AllMusic
  3. Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Volume 7: MUZE. p. 627.CS1 maint: location (link)
  4. "Lovegod". EW.com.
  5. MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1999. p. 1058.
  6. The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 657.
  7. "The Soup Dragons | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  8. Buckley, Peter (January 18, 2003). "The Rough Guide to Rock". Rough Guides via Google Books.
  9. "SOUP DRAGONS | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com.
  10. "The Soup Dragons". Billboard.
  11. "New Music". SPIN. SPIN Media LLC. January 18, 1991 via Google Books.
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