“In The Meantime” by Spacehog

"In the Meantime" was Spacehog's debut single, lifted from their 1995 debut album Resident Alien and released in February 1996. Royston Langdon wrote it, and it's a big, cosmic rock swoon from an English band with its head in the stars. It's built around a sample of the Penguin Cafe Orchestra's "Telephone and Rubber Band", which gives it that odd, looping, clockwork shimmer.

Royston and Antony Langdon share lead vocals and pile on the keyboards, from Hammond organ to Moog; Royston plays bass, Antony adds guitar and analog synth, Richard Steel plays guitar too, and Jonny Cragg handles drums, percussion and backing vocals. The singing soars high over a wide, sweeping, surging arrangement that sounds like a rocket slowly lifting off. Bryce Goggin produced, engineered and mixed it with the band for Elektra.

It went to the top of Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks and the UK Rock Singles Chart, and reached 32 on the Hot 100 and 29 on the UK Singles Chart.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.