Idolator

In The Meantime is on my iPod and comes up on the random shuffle on a regular basis...a good song indeed...too bad the rest of that record is crap...

And as a bass player, I give mad props (do the kids still say that?) to anyone playing the old Rickenbacker 4003...

You are correct Mick it was a good song on an otherwise terrible album, and no the kids don't say props anymore

Right. The kdis say "w00t".

Well, actually, they don't, but what the hell...

This thing really holds up well, I think. It still gets some recurrent play in the rotation on Sirius' Alt Nation, and it seems to fit in pretty well. The bass line is one of the best to come out of the 90s.

Lead dude is probably just happy he married Liv Tyler.

Their other albums -- "The Chinese Album" and "The Hogyssey" -- are really cool, I always thunk. Much better than the debut, which was, as mentioned previously, "In the Meantime" and a bunch of filler.

Mick Kraut -- isn't that a 4001?

i guess i'll be the lone ranger here and say i liked the entire album. "zero," in particular, was (i thought) fantastic.

the 'hog is dead.
long live the 'hog!

Spacehog had a great song on The Craft soundtrack called "The Horror." I think it was on Hogyssey? Definitely check that out.

Always nice to see a lead singer playing bass.

I actually love the debut. Never Coming Down (both parts) and Space Is The Place are excellent tracks and I don't think any songs are overly fillerish (save the 20 or so minute loop at the end... dammit, mid 90's bands, who did you thing would be entertained by that kind of crap?). The two followups on the other hand... I'll blame Michael Stipe for my dislike of the Chinese Album (Stipe, and the crappy songs), but the Hoggysey's suckitude falls directly on the band.

I actually loved Resident Alien. Never Coming Down Pt 2 and Space Is The Place are excellent tracks and the rest don't strike me as overly fillerish except for the 20 minute loop at the end. Was it a requirement in the mid 90's that all bands must include an interminably long "hidden" track composed either of silence or grating studio "experimentation"?

I'm not a fan of their other two, though. The thought of ever hearing Almond Kisses again makes me want to break a 400x over Michael Stipe's album wrecking head (not that I liked any other tracks on that album, I just like to blame Stipe for any problems I have in my life and for the problems of society at large).

Let me follow up my double post with a third that apologizes for the extra post above. Compounding problems, that's what I'm all about.

I've always thought this was a phenomenal song, and, like Pengln, I enjoyed the album as well.

I'm in the middle here: loved-loved-loved "In the Meantime," thought the album was half-good but not nearly as great as the single. Sort of how I feel this year about Gnarls Barkley: a three-star album surrounding a five-star single.

Thanks for bringing back the video. I remember someone somewhere that year grouping this together with Radiohead's "Just" clip as evidence that Antonioni was the Hot '60s Director To Reference of 1996. Too bad there wasn't a third Blow Up-esque clip on MTV; it could've been a charticle.

speaking of stipe, i actually saw spacehog open for REM on the Up tour. they were not good.

I can't tell you how happy I am to see that other people still like this song. It comes up on my iPod's Shuffle Songs a lot too, and I'm always worried that I'm going to catch hell from my friends for having it on there.