Spacehog - Mungo City

Name: Spacehog - Mungo City
Uploaded: 1998-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Description: Released in early 1998 as the lead single from 'The Chinese Album', 'Mungo City' arrived at a moment when Spacehog's glam-inflected alternative rock occupied an increasingly marginal space between Britpop's commercial peak (already fading) and the post-grunge American mainstream. The band — four Leeds-born men operating out of New York…

1998 · Late 90s Alt-Glam Revival (1998) · music video

1998Late 90s Alt-Glam Revival (1998)Neo-Glam / Late-90s Alternative Rock — Bowie/T.Rex revivalism within MTV alternative format

What this video is

Released in early 1998 as the lead single from 'The Chinese Album', 'Mungo City' arrived at a moment when Spacehog's glam-inflected alternative rock occupied an increasingly marginal space between Britpop's commercial peak (already fading) and the post-grunge American mainstream. The band — four Leeds-born men operating out of New York City — were explicitly revivalist in approach, drawing on David Bowie, Queen,…

Why it matters

As the lead single from Spacehog's sophomore effort, 'Mungo City' represents a key artifact of neo-glam's late-90s persistence within the MTV alternative pipeline. The track and its video demonstrate how a British-American band operating on a major label (Sire/Warner Bros.) packaged 1970s glam…

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