Tin Planet

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Tin Planet
Studio album by Space
Released	March 9, 1998
Recorded	1997
Genre	Britpop
Length	49:36
Label	Gut Records
Producer(s)	Jeremy Wheatley, Space
Professional reviews
All Music Guide [1] NME (8/10) - link
Space chronology
Spiders (1996)	Tin Planet (1998)	Suburban Rock 'N' Roll (2004)
Alternate cover
Limited edition metallic packaging

Tin Planet is the second album from Liverpool-based Britpop group Space. It was released on March 9, 1998 and peaked at #3 in the UK charts, two places higher than their debut album Spiders. The songs "Avening Angels", "The Ballad of Tom Jones" (a duet with Catatonia's Cerys Matthews), "Begin Again" and "Bad Day's" were released as singles, all hitting top 40. It is notably more polished, heavy on synths and pop-orientated than Spiders.

Earlier limited editions of Tin Planet came with a special metallic tin packaging, presumably to fit with the 'metal' theme of the sleeve artwork.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Begin Again" (Scott/Space) – 3:11
2. "Avenging Angels" (Scott/Space) – 2:59
3. "The Ballad of Tom Jones" (Scott/Space) – 4:11
4. "1 O'Clock" (Murphy/Palmer/Griffiths/Scott/Space) – 4:05
5. "Be There" (Scott/Griffiths/Space) – 2:49
6. "The Man" (Griffiths/Space) – 3:53
7. "A Little Biddy Help from Elvis" (Scott/Griffiths/Space) – 3:28
8. "The Unluckiest Man in the World" (Scott/Space) – 3:25
9. "Piggies" (Murphy/Palmer/Griffiths/Space) – 3:15
10. "Bad Day's" (Scott/Space) – 3:24
11. "There's No You" (Scott/Space) – 3:46
12. "Disco Dolly" (Scott/Griffiths/Space) – 3:52
13. Four second silence
14. "Fran in Japan" (Griffiths/Space) – 7:13

• Lead vocals on tracks 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11 and 12: Tommy Scott
• Lead vocals on tracks 4 and 9: Jamie Murphy
• Tracks 6 and 14 are instrumentals

[edit] Bonus tracks (2+CD edition)

• "Stress Transmissions"
• "Stress Transmissions" (5 O'Clock Shadow Mix)

[edit] External links

• "Tin Planet" on SpaceTheBand.com