Resident Alien
by Spacehog
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Resident Alien is ranked as the best album by Spacehog.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Resident Alien track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| 12/04/2025 07:28 |  MadhattanJack | 5,931 | 66/100 | |
| 11/25/2024 17:51 | BallLightning | 58 | 78/100 | |
| 06/19/2024 16:16 | BorderFreeAndrew | 15,465 | 74/100 | |
| 01/04/2024 20:37 | TheSink | 1,467 | 68/100 | |
| 10/15/2023 18:48 | matterhornrider | 5,088 | 81/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 70.2/100, a mean average of 68.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 69.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.8.
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In the Meantime is a truly epic track and one of the defining songs of the era. Unfortunately, that's as close as Spacehog ever flew to the sun. Some decent psychadelic-pop-rock moments, and Cruel to be Kind is catchy enough, but even at an hour-plus, this album never manages to live up to its stunning opener.
sageamagoo 05/27/2017 15:22 | #191514
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.
Awesome songs, but later, it becomes weird and unatractive.
junodog4 03/14/2015 21:32 | #136794
What pearljammer said.
In The Meantime definitely the standout song but there are other songs worth a listen too.
sageamagoo 11/24/2013 20:52 | #94413
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.
Spacehog did better with The Chinese album.
pearljammer13 12/06/2011 23:21 | #32163
Love In The Meantime, but I gave this a few listens and couldn't really get into much else.
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