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Podcast Episode
Season
Eight
number
379
Type
Roundtable
Post Date
4/17/2018

Spacehog

379 Sophomore Slump Revisited - The Chinese Album by Spacehog

Sophomore Slump Revisited Roundtable - The Chinese Album

Label
Sire Records
Release year
1998
Producer
Bryce Goggin, Spacehog
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Spacehog scored a massive hit single off their debut, but their follow-up failed to chart, is it a sophomore slump worth revisiting?

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Do you remember 1995? If you do, you probably remember "In The Meantime" by Spacehog off their debut album Resident Alien. The single went to number one on the US mainstream chart, number two on the US modern rock chart, and top fifty in about every country that had a radio station. The album went Gold in the US and Platinum in Canada, and the video was in constant rotation on MTV. So what happened with their second effort, 1998's The Chinese Album? We don't know because neither the album nor any single charted in the US. So it's time for a sophomore slump revisited, and decide once and for all if we need to revisit Mungo City, or leave it a ghost town.

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Songs in this episode

  • Intro - Mungo City
  • 15:45 - Goodbye Violent Race
  • 18:15 - Captain Freeman
  • 23:07 - Beautiful Girl
  • Outro - One Of These Days

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