That title does wonders by itself, no?

Can you believe that a certain little someone sitting on the floor in this picture:

Grew up to be this hot bear?

Maybe there’s hope for this little guy to grow up…

That bear is DJ Hifi Sean. *swoon*

Sean was one of the DJs at a party I was at in Dallas this year. Sadly, he was locked away in that sound booth so I didn’t get a chance to shake his hand. Yeah, his hand.

But back to when he was young(er). Back when he was in the band The Soup Dragons. And back when I was a youngin’ like in that picture.

I have no idea where I found out about The Soup Dragons, but I know the album was their 1988 release called “This is Our Art”. There were two songs I loved from that album, both are in the title of this post. And both can be seen in this live performance:

Majestic Head, Passion Protein, and Kingdom Chairs

The studio album is (obviously) a lot cleaner sounding than the live performance, but they still hit the mark live.

In 1990, they released the album “Lovegod”. Which most people know because of their cover of The Rolling Stones song “I’m Free”.

I’m Free

While I wasn’t a total fan of “I’m Free”, it was definitely a catchy tune. And probably the one the band is remembered for by most people.

But my favorite song on the album was either “Mother Universe”, “Softly”, or “Lovegod”. I’m not sure because they were all good, but all different.

As I can’t find online versions of “Softly” or “Lovegod”, you’ll have too hear “Mother Universe”, of which there are two versions. I’m not a fan of the 1991 re-release version which is a little off-sounding to me with the added horns, backing chorus, and increased tempo.

Mother Universe (1989 version)

Mother Universe (1991 version)

In 1992, the band released “Hotwired”. Each album they released seemed to get a little more “dancier”. And I was okay with that. The only song I remember hearing from that album on the radio in the US was “Divine Thing”.

Diving Thing

But one of my two favorites was “Running Wild”.

Running Wild

The other was “Pleasure”, which I also cannot find online to play for you.

I’m not sure where I was going with this post. It got away from me. Wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey. Let’s just chalk it up to an audio trip down memory lane, shall we?

In reality I probably got sidetracked because I was looking at pictures of Hifi Sean while I was listening to all this…

I’m sure he’d like some Majestic Head. 😉