Neighbourhood (song)

For other uses, see Neighbourhood (disambiguation).
"Neighbourhood"
Single by Space
from the album Spiders
Released 25 March 1996
21 October 1996 (re-issue)
Format CD, 12"
Recorded 1995-1996
Genre Rock
Length 3:28
Label Gut Records
Producer(s) Stephen Lironi
Space singles chronology
"Money / Kill Me"
(1995)		 "Neighbourhood"
(1996)		 "Female of the Species"
(1996)
Alternative cover
Re-issue (CD)
Alternative cover
Re-issue (Remix CD)

"Neighbourhood" is a song by Space, written by band members Tommy Scott and Franny Griffiths, and released as the second single (though the band prefer it to be the first, as they consider "Money"/"Kill Me" to be a "test" release) from their debut album Spiders, and their third single altogether. It was originally released on 25 March 1996 and peaked at #56 in the UK charts, but it later re-released on 21 October that year, this time managing to peak at #11.

The lyrics to "Neighbourhood" were partially inspired by frontman Tommy Scott's upbringing in the Liverpool housing estate Cantril Farm (which has since been reestablished as Stockbridge Village), yet it stays true to the band's twisted sense of humour by depicting a variety of somewhat warped personalities including a man who thinks he's Saddam Hussein, Mr Miller, a "local vicar and a serial killer," a "big butch queen" who's "bigger than Tyson and twice as mean," and others. The lyrical style has eighties dub reggae & sound system deejay influences..

In September 2004, "Neighbourhood" was used by the BBC in an ident for their short-lived series Fat Nation. The line "Who lives in a house like this?" is thought to be a reference to Through the Keyhole, another BBC programme. The song is also on the soundtrack from the 1997 movie "Shooting Fish".

Track listing

Initial release

  1. "Neighbourhood"
  2. "Turn Me On To Spiders"
  3. "Rejects"
  4. "Neighbourhood" (Live It! Club Mix)
  1. "Neighbourhood" (Live it! Club Mix)
  2. "Neighbourhood" (Live it! Instrumental Club Mix)
  3. "Neighbourhood" (Pissed Up Stomp Mix)
  4. "Neighbourhood"

Re-issue

  1. "Neighbourhood" (Radio Edit)
  2. "Only Half An Angel"
  3. "Crisis"
  4. "Shut Your Mouth"
  1. "Neighbourhood" (Radio Edit)
  2. "Welcome To The Neighbourhood" (Remix by Franny Aspirin)
  3. "Nighthood" (Remix by Franny Aspirin)
  4. "Neighbourhood" (Pissed-Up Stomp Mix)

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