Resident Alien

Resident Alien
For legal concept, see Alien (law).
Resident Alien
Studio album by Spacehog
Released 24 October 1995
Genre Alternative rock, Glam rock
Label Elektra
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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 24 October 1995, the album was certified as gold on 29 July 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. 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. A tribute to the film Candyman, the chorus to "Candyman" repeats the titular name four times (also referencing the Sammy Davis Jr. standard).

"Only A Few" and "In the Meantime" were used in the 1996 movie Libor Karas World Tour, The Bouncing Czech. "In the Meantime" was used as the theme song for David Spade's 1998 one-hour HBO stand-up comedy special David Spade: Take the Hit. "In the Meantime" was featured in the film Fanboys. "In the Meantime" is also a playable song in the video game Guitar Hero 5, as well as in Rock Band 3.

Track listing

All songs by Royston Langdon except when noted.

  1. "In the Meantime" - 4:58
  2. "Spacehog" (Antony Langdon) - 2:13
  3. "Starside" - 3:49
  4. "Candyman" - 5:23
  5. "Space Is the Place" (Antony Langdon) - 3:06
  6. "Never Coming Down (Part I)" - 1:44
  7. "Cruel to Be Kind" - 3:05
  8. "Ship Wrecked" - 5:28
  9. "Only a Few" - 3:23
  10. "The Last Dictator" - 4:14
  11. "Never Coming Down (Part II)" - 4:02
  12. "Zeroes" - 6:38
  13. "To Be a Millionaire... Was It Likely?"
    "Untitled" (hidden track) (Royston Langdon, Antony Langdon) - 21:19

Personnel

v · Spacehog
Royston Langdon • Antony Langdon • Jonny Cragg • Richard Steel
Studio albums
Resident Alien · The Chinese Album · The Hogyssey
EPs
Hamsters of Rock · Was It Likely? (Sampler) · 4 Future Tracks
Singles
"In the Meantime" · "Cruel to Be Kind" · "Space is the Place" · "Candyman" · "Mungo City" · "Carry On" · "I Want to Live" · "At Least I Got Laid"
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