“Backwards Dog” by The Soup Dragons

"Backwards Dog" is one of the four singles the Soup Dragons pulled from Lovegod, their second album, in 1990, and on paper it's all Sean Dickson: he wrote the words and the music, sings it and plays guitar. Jim McCulloch plays the other guitar and adds backing vocals, Sushil K. Dade is on bass, and Paul Quinn covers drums and percussion.

It shared the singles run with "Crotch Deep Trash" and "Mother Universe", but the one that took off was a cover: "I'm Free", from the Rolling Stones' 1965 album Out of Our Heads, which went top 5 in Britain, topped MTV's most-requested list as a video, and was slotted in as the opening track when Lovegod was reissued. The album itself reached number 7 on the UK albums chart and number 88 on the Billboard 200, all behind a zoomed-in picture of the Mandelbrot set.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.