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

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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.

[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

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• 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"
• "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.
• A tribute to the film Candyman, the chorus to "Candyman" repeats the titular name four times (also referencing the Sammy Davis Jr. standard).
• "In The Meantime" was most recently featured in the film Fanboys.