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“Divine Thing” by The Soup Dragons

From the album Hotwired (1992)

“Divine Thing” by The Soup Dragons appears on 29 radio countdowns from 11 stations between 1992 and 2022. It was first released in 1992 on the album Hotwired. Its best result is #8 on the WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1992. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #9 alternative song of 1992, #1,062 alternative song of all time and #359 of the '90s.

29countdowns
11stations
#8best position
0#1 finishes
1top 10 finishes
1992–2022years charted

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"Divine Thing" comes from Hotwired, the Soup Dragons' 1992 album, and it's Sean Dickson's song from top to bottom: he wrote the words and music, sings it, plays guitar, co-produced it with Marius de Vries and Steve Sidelnyk, and mixed it with de Vries. Jim McCulloch adds the second guitar and the backing vocals, Sushil K. Dade holds down the bass, and Paul Quinn covers drums and percussion, with Matt Budd engineering. The result is a sunny, loose-limbed singalong, guitars jangling over a groove that swings more than it rocks, the sound of a guitar band that had caught the dance bug and decided to enjoy it.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

Indie & Adult Alternative

All Rock Formats

Year-end countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1992 30 KROQ Los Angeles, CA KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1992 107
1992 29 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana 91X Top 91 Songs of 1992 91
1992 16 Live 105 San Francisco, CA Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1992 105
1992 30 Q101 Chicago, IL Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1992 101
1992 8 WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1992 100
1992 76 CFNY 102.1 The Edge Toronto, ON CFNY Top 102 Songs of 1992 102
1992 102 CFNY 102.1 The Edge Toronto, ON CFNY Top 102 Songs of 1992 102
1993 67 Q101 Chicago, IL Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1993 101

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1994 311 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1994) 500
1996 483 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1996) 498
1999 478 Q101 Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 1017
1999 491 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1999) 500
1999 888 CD101 CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 2000
2000 939 CD101 CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) 2001
2001 945 CD101 CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) 2002
2002 945 CD101 CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) 2003
2002 737 Fred (XM 44) Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002) 2002
2003 930 CD101 CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) 2004
2003 1307 Fred (XM 44) Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003) 2044
2004 930 CD101 CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) 2005
2005 929 CD101 CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) 1994
2007 1056 CD101 CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007) 2008
2008 1070 CD101 CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008) 2009
2009 1080 CD101 CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009) 2010
2010 1120 CD101 CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010) 2011
2011 1159 CD101 CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) 2011
2013 1179 CD101 CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) 2012
2014 1161 CD101 CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) 2013
2021 867 90.9 The Bridge 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '90s 908
2022 324 The Colorado Sound The Colorado Sound Top 900 Songs of the '90s 900

Charting alongside it in 1992

Best songs of 1992 →
  1. 1Friday I'm in LoveThe Cure
  2. 2Under the BridgeRed Hot Chili Peppers
  3. 3DriveR.E.M.
  4. 4OneU2
  5. 5JeremyPearl Jam
  6. 6TomorrowMorrissey

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