Tell Me When I'm Home: Thirty Years of Spacehog's Resident Alien
Tell Me When I’m Home Thirty Years Of Resident Alien By Ethan Brennan “ A nd in the end we shall achieve, in time, the thing they call divine.” To begin the first song of your first album with such ambition denotes that four Loiners, living in New York City in 1995, knew they were on to something. That something turned out to be the band Spacehog, and its classic debut LP: Resident Alien . The lyric is derived from the the record’s leadoff single “In The Meantime,” which is another mark of the ambition of the project. In the days before streaming, album sequencing was a meticulous process, it was rare for a radio single to start an album. Resident Alien calls your bluff right off the bat by dropping the single first, and daring you not to listen to the rest of the album. For three quarters of my life now I’ve been rewarded for taking that journey. In 2025, Resident Alien is thirty years ...
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