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The Chinese Album by Spacehog
The Chinese Album is an album by Spacehog, released in 1998. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 5 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Mungo City”, on 5 lists with a best position of #96.
The Chinese Album, Spacehog's second record, came out on Sire in 1998, and it's a grander, stranger beast than anyone expecting another "In the Meantime" bargained for. The expatriate Brits, based in New York, had a whole concept in mind: the album was considered as the soundtrack and blueprint for a film called Mungo City, about a band that decamps to Hong Kong after a New York label turns them down. The band disliked the final script and killed the movie, but kept the songs.
And there were plenty of them. Spacehog wrote and recorded 20 songs for the project, with "Final Frontier", "Isle of Manhattan" and "Cryogenic Lover" ending up as B-sides on European singles. The sound is pure glam-rock dress-up, Bowie and T. Rex and Queen folded into Britpop swagger and space-rock swoosh. In the UK, "Carry On" reached No. 43 and "Mungo City" No. 79.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from The Chinese Album on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mungo City | 5 | #96 | – | 1998–2000 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.