Resident Alien by Spacehog

Resident Alien, Spacehog's debut, came out on Sire and Elektra on 24 October 1995: four Brits living in New York City making a record that sounds like it tumbled out of a glitter-caked time machine. Most of the basic tracks were cut live in a barn at Woodstock to grab that everybody-in-one-room rush, and you can hear it in the strut of singer and bassist Royston Langdon, lead guitarist Richard Steel and drummer Jonny Cragg, whose voice introduces "Space Is the Place".

This is glam and space rock from the Bowie, Queen, T. Rex and Slade school, run through '90s alternative rock and Britpop. "Never Coming Down (Part II)" nicks a spoken line and a clapped-out rhythm from The Italian Job, and "Candyman" tips its hat to the film of that name. Then there's "In the Meantime", the big, soaring hit that has never really gone away, turning up in Fanboys, Guitar Hero 5 and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.

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