Soup sports a huge list of ingredients

Soup was Blind Melon's second and final album before the sudden death of lead singer Shannon Hoon in 1995. Just a couple months after the album was released, the band was on the road touring and promoting it when Hoon died of a drug overdose in New Orleans, LA in late October.

Soup derives it's name from the idea that each musician through in his own special ingredient in each song, sort of like making a good soup. You take lots of different things and mix them together and hope it turns out good. Sometimes you get spicy, sometimes you get bland. This album is somewhere in between.

Soup is very different from Blind Melon's first self-titled album. The first album was all guitar-driven, past songs, while this album contains a lot of more slow and mellow tunes. This album relies more on acoustic guitars than electric, and doesn't have any extended guitar solos like the first one contained.

The first single from Soup is a song called Galaxie, and came along with a really cool video about a bunch of guys trapped in a car inside a beaker in some mad scientist's laboratory. The song was somewhat popular, but never reached the popularity of Blind Melon's best-know song entitled 'No Rain'. Another song was to be released, along with a video, called Toes Accross the Floor, but Hoon's death overshadowed that and it hardly received any radio play.

And so, the band who became MTV poster children with the bee girl, was forgotten and turned away, because they decided to do something different an unique. Soup has a lot of eerie songs about death, including one about serial killer Ed Gein and another about Susan Smith. The album begins and ends with New Orleans style parade marching music, that is actually music from a funeral procession. Irony? Indeed...