Soup (Blind Melon album)

Soup
Studio album by
Blind Melon
ReleasedAugust 15, 1995 (1995-08-15)
RecordedNovember 1994 – January 1995
Studio
  • Kingsway Studios, New Orleans
  • Ultrasonic Studios, New Orleans
Genre
Length48:14
LabelCapitol
ProducerAndy Wallace
Blind Melon chronology
Blind Melon
(1992) 		Soup
(1995) 		Nico
(1996)
Singles from Soup
  1. "Galaxie"
    Released: 1995
  2. "Toes Across the Floor"
    Released: 1995

Soup is the second studio album by American rock band Blind Melon, released on August 15, 1995, through Capitol Records. It is the band's last album released during the lifetime of vocalist Shannon Hoon.

Soup received generally mixed reviews from critics and fared poorly commercially, with the album only reaching number 28 on the US Billboard 200 albums chart and going on to sell 217,000 copies in the United States by October 1996.[1] Hoon's death from a fatal drug overdose two months after the album's release resulted in the album's promotion being abruptly cut off, further affecting sales.

The album has retrospectively been considered a "dark horse" in the alternative rock genre.[2]

  1. ^ Borzillo, Carrie (October 19, 1996). "Blind Melon's Double Remembrance". Billboard. Vol. 108, no. 42. pp. 19, 22.
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