Soul SideIn 1985, Soulside was known as Lunchmeat and Chris Thompson played bass. In 1986 they released a split single with another local band called Mission Impossible on the Sammich record label. An eponymously named album followed, also released on Sammich. During a quiet patch in Soulside activities Chris Thompson went to play with another D.C. band, Ignition. He stayed with them and Johnny Temple joined Soulside.

On Dischord, they recorded Trigger (lp) with the help of Ian MacKaye and Eli Janney (Girls Against Boys) in 1988. In June of 1989 the band recorded their third album in Eindoven, Holland, 'Hot Bodi-gram'. And between these two records there was a 7" called 'Bass'.

In 1989 the band split up to persue various other projects, the most commercially successful being Girls Against Boys.