i think honestly some of the blame for babylon zoo's "boy with the x-ray eyes" not doing so great as an album rests squarely on Levi jeans' corporation's shoulders, or more specifically whoever made the choice to alter and edit Spaceman to just be the sped up intro, rather than the actual song.
The song's a fuckin' banger, the entire album is amazing, doubly so now I'm older and ... well... also that I've Awakened My Gender as it were. But I think it got dismissed at the time due to Levis.
like everyone was like "OH SHIT THIS IS A GREAT FUCKIN' TUNE I WANNA HEAR MORE OF THIS SWEET FUCKIN' TRANCE/TECHNO TRACK" and nope it's fuckin' crunchy guitars and screaming and anger and a sense of loss of self in a capitalist hellscape and struggling with gender identity and sexuality in a world that Does Not Want You To Exist, and that just... threw a lot of people, at the time.
Hell it threw ME out for a loop too. I rapidly grew to love it though, even though at the time I didn't know why.
@Nine thankfully very easy and cheap to get hold of a copy
@avie yesyes, i will rectify, cause it deserves monies thrown at it
@Nine £2 from musicmagpie
@Nine tho if you wanna get fancy, someone on ebay is selling a sealed copy for 9 quid https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/274819495614
@avie aw dang i gotta update my card details . hm.
@Nine The first ten seconds being exactly from the advert, then slooowwwdoooowwwwwn yeah that got me too, but in a good way
I also love that they made a bunch of £££ off that jeans advert, disappeared for years and then reappeared with a single called "All the money's gone"
Their second album is fun and cheesy and oddly lovely
@ifixcoinops Honeslty I had no idea they made a second album until today and I'm genuinely tempted to go check it out lol.
@Nine There's a track on it called "Are you a boy or a girl" that's... genderqueer in a 1999 way? It's one that always makes me smile anyway
...actually I don't own a legit copy of that album even now lol. I copied it onto tape from my cousin's cd she had of it and listened to it until the damn tape got chewed up in my handmedown alba hifi system. e_e; (luckily I'd made a copy. Twin tapedecks baybeeeeeee!!!...but it didn't sound as good tho, cause, you know, analogue and sequential copying :< )
I should probably fix that.