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British but based in New York, Spacehog's publicity material would have you believe the group resurrects the glam heyday of vintage Bowie and Mott the Hoople (even disingeniously referring to them as "the band who fell to earth"). It's all well and good to set your sights high, but the hype creates expectations that Resident Alien is incapable of delivering, despite the blatant Ziggy Stardust vocal inflections of "Starside" and "Zeroes." There's no doubt that this awkwardly-named combo attack their chosen retro-glam vocation with panache, flash, and good humor, but there's ultimately not a lot of substance behind the theatrical pose and fat Gibson runs. With few exceptions (there's no denying the preening bulls-eye of "Never Coming Down") the songwriting tends to be fairly frothy. Still, I'd take a dose of Resident Alien any day over yet another cold dish of serious, mystically dour, faux-acid rock Doors/Led Zep wannabes. Ironically, by homogenizing the Brit-glam sound in their manner, Spacehog may just succeed in bridging to U.S. audiences who often have difficulty relating to the "Britishness" of the latest U.K. wave. ~ Roch Parisien, All Music Guide
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", which reached the top of the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart in the United States, and remained there for four weeks.
Track listing
"In The Meantime"
"Spacehog"
"Starside"
"Candyman"
"Space Is The Place"
"Never Coming Down (Part I)"
"Cruel To Be Kind"
"Ship Wrecked"
"Only A Few"
"The Last Dictator"
"Never Coming Down (Part II)"
"Zeroes"
"To Be A Millionaire"
"Was It Likely?" (hidden track)
Most of Resident Alien's basic tracks were cut live in a barn out in Woodstock, NY. It was intended to give the album the immediacy of live room recording.
Although Jonny Cragg makes his singing debut in "Skylark" on The Chinese Album, it is his voice that introduces "Space Is the Place" on Resident Alien.
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.
"Only A Few" & "In The Meantime" were used in the 1996 movie "Libor Karas World Tour, The Bouncing Czech"
