Resident Alien (studio album) by Spacehog

Resident Alien by Spacehog
Year: 1995
Overall rank: 10,750th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
69/100 (from 42 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1995 (207th)
Award Top albums of the 1990s (1,817th)
Award Best albums of all time (10,750th)
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Average Rating: 
69/100 (from 42 votes)
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 68.9/100, a mean average of 68.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 68.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.9.

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90/100
From 05/27/2017 15:22
Really wish I could edit that old comment since I wholeheartedly regret putting Only A Few and The Last Dictator in the "bad" column. Both are excellent songs, and even better is the one preceding them, Ship Wrecked, which builds and builds into something truly great.

This album may have some problems with track order, but I'm liking it more and more each time I realize there's a new great song on it.

The Chinese Album still blows it away, though.
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60/100
From 05/19/2015 19:39
Awesome songs, but later, it becomes weird and unatractive.
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65/100
From 03/14/2015 21:32
What pearljammer said.
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75/100
From 04/03/2014 10:24
In The Meantime definitely the standout song but there are other songs worth a listen too.
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90/100
From 11/24/2013 20:52
This album contains many of Spacehog's "classic" songs, but there are so many bad 90's pop-rock songs that it becomes an unlistenable album.

The good:
In The Meantime
Starside
Candyman

The bad:
Only A Few
The Last Dictator

The ugly:
Spacehog
Space Is The Place
The hidden track

Check out The Chinese Album instead: almost every song on that one is near the quality of this album's best.
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From 03/05/2013 05:32
Spacehog did better with The Chinese album.
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55/100
From 12/06/2011 23:21
Love In The Meantime, but I gave this a few listens and couldn't really get into much else.
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