Resident Alien

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Resident Alien
Resident Alien cover
Studio album by Spacehog
Released October 24, 1995
Genre Glam rock
Label Elektra
Professional reviews
Spacehog chronology
Resident Alien
(1995)		 The Chinese Album
(1998)

Resident Alien is the debut album from the British glam rock band Spacehog. Released by Elektra Records on October 24, 1995, the album was certified as gold on July 29, 1996 and included the hit single "In the Meantime".

[edit] Track listing

  1. "In The Meantime"
  2. "Spacehog"
  3. "Starside"
  4. "Candyman"
  5. "Space Is The Place"
  6. "Never Coming Down (Part I)"
  7. "Cruel To Be Kind"
  8. "Ship Wrecked"
  9. "Only A Few"
  10. "The Last Dictator"
  11. "Never Coming Down (Part II)"
  12. "Zeroes"
  13. "To Be A Millionaire"
    "Was It Likely?" (hidden track)

[edit] Trivia

  • The spoken line in the middle of Never Coming Down (Part II), "Everybody in the world is bent", comes from the 1969 movie The Italian Job. The movie also features jail inmates clapping out the rhythm used in this song.
  • The song "In The Meantime" features a slighted distorted sample of the United Kingdom's ringback tone loop used in "Telephone and Rubber Band" by Penguin Café Orchestra throughout the whole song with the exception of the middle 8. However, this sample is not credited in the linear notes.
  • There's more of "To be a Millionaire...Was it Likely" starting at 13:10 of the song. The song is actually just over two minutes long, followed by silence for almost ten minutes. What follows is a continuous weird sounding loop of backwards sounds for over eight minutes which finishes the album.
  • Resident Alien is the title of an early 1980's vinyl release by The Happiness Boys- Edward Bobb and Stephen Nester- seminal experimental electronic sound art.