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Minneapolis, United States (1981 – present)

Soul Asylum is an band formed in the summer of 1981 by Minneapolis high school friends Dan Murphy, Karl Mueller, and Dave Pirner. The band (named Loud Fast Rules up until 1984) quickly became frontrunners of American college rock, following in the tradition of fellow Minnesota bands Hüsker Dü and The Replacements.

Landing their first record deal with Twin/Tone in 1984, Soul Asylum recorded a total of four albums for the local label: Say What You Will… Everything Can Happen in 1984 (later reissued as Say What You Will, Clarence. … Karl Sold the Truck), Made to Be Broken in 1986, While You Were Out in 1986, and the EP Clam Dip And Other Delights in 1988. The band then switched to A&M, releasing Hang Time in 1988 and And The Horse They Rode In On in 1990 under that label. Although they enjoyed some success as a live band, Soul Asylum suffered from low album sales and considered disbanding.

In 1992, they signed with Columbia Records to produce Grave Dancers Union, a record that would come to transform them from underground college rockers to international superstars. The first two singles off the album, Somebody To Shove and Black Gold, both came in at high positions at the Modern Rock and Album Rock charts, but it was the album’s third track and it’s video of missing teens that led them to their major breakthrough. Runaway Train peaked at #5 on the Billboard Hot 100, raised album sales to double-platinum level, and won Soul Asylum the Grammy Award for Best Rock Song in 1994.
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  • LiveBootlegs

    Soul Asylum - Live @ Glastonbury Festival, UK, 23-06-1995 http://livebootlegconcert.blogspot.pt/

    Thursday morning

  • justanotherider

    The Silver Lining went pretty much under the radar, but it's actually a good album and should be in the top three right after Grave Dancers Union and Let your dim light shine.

    last week

  • coanta

    Runawat Train is one of my favourite songs of all time! [9]

    10 days ago

  • PirateDolly13

    Grave Dancers Union is my ultimate good-mood album: Always makes my day awesome.

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  • WasNotWhyNot

    this band needs more recognition.

    last month

  • Kellsr9

    old times when Somebody to Shove started to play on the radio, i remember turning up and up the stereo...

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  • Pedrodoon

    "Somebody To Shove" very good!

    March 2012

  • wert100500

    Группа одного хита. Зато очень классного! ♥

    March 2012
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23 Oct 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/soulasylumofficial

80'sOpening for "The Exploited" at First Avenueor possibly the same venue opening for  "Billy Idol"or a triple bill which we headlined at the Metro in ChicagoPearl Jam (First)The …

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