For years I didn't realise there was an original that didn't have the sped up intro and how epic it was. This is a Rock classic. It's insane how it's overlooked and even crazier that the lyrics are if anything, more poignant today given the rise of bigotry.
Music channels still pretended they are about music. There was music from almost all genres. I remember metal show at mtv streaming around 11pm. Even in the early 2000's you could hear bands like Slipknot, or Korn going on and on. Now it's corporate shit.
Poetic words. You're right!But I think the music industry is behind it. Did they write the songs themselves? Unfortunately I don't know the history of this band and I heard this song for the first time on TV in a hotel in Belgium in the evening. The song was brand new and I think it was on MTV. I was immediately blown away by the sound.
It was originally a classic rock n roll track, but it got a remix for the Levis advertisement (by legendary producer Arthur Baker). The next year it got a No.1 in the UK charts.
O M G has it been 24 years already? This song brings so many memories from the golden era of MTv music. I feel sorry for todays generations and their music.
@@benzina7 Nope. I just typed a comment when doing a revisit into my old digital music archive. I remembered the TV advert and the song made a huge impression at the time it was new.
I rediscovered this song last Summer and the 90s when I was reconnecting with myself. This was one of the songs that came to mind. . . I was reminded why I liked it. 😎
Now, of the three different versions of the spaceman video, this one is the longest and is definately the best as it actually tells a story. Absolutely love the ending on this one
My DJ friend let me take over a kids party from him in about 1996..🤣 I mixed the start of this song into EVERYTHING and the kids went wild. This song + Fugees Killing me softly was a hit... As the kids loved my set so much, he let me DJ the nightclub later that evening... It didn't go as well, several people lost teeth and the bouncers had to be called to the dance floor 4 times. I had a good time though 😀
This IS the original one, from 1995...the "original" edigt you say, which appeared on the TV advert, was a remix by Arthur Baker but ended up as the album version.
I think 90s was a sea of good music in every genre... rock,electronic,pop and everything! You could easilly hear a song on the radio and then the mellody would stay in ur head for ages!Now we are goin downhil...
@@UnusSedLeo-w5l I'm an autistic author and amateur guitarist. So I can think about the song's composition. Guitar distortion, wah pedal, bowel shaking bassline and drums are energetically brilliant.
Рік тому+1
i'm on it right now since i rediscovered it last week
Absolutely. Especially the bit about the internet and your soul. First time in 23 years I actually paid attention to the lyrics and theyre eerily relative.
Indie version? This is the original version before it was changed to the "final" version which was only done because some business execs from a marketing company for Levi jeans heard it remixed from a DJ at a club. If not for them this band would probably not been known today and this very intriguing and ahead of it's time song be buried forever.
Extraordinary... ....Extraterrestreal Fantastic!!! it is a phenomenal brilliant 90's this is Something who lived the era can archive that kind of feeling that you perfectly know what I am talking about 🌌 take care beloved kids of yesterday!
I love this song, it came out in 1993 or 1994. It was part of a Levis jeans commercial. After the commercial appeared, it jumped high on the top of the charts.
The nineties were like a magic show/trick where you didnt know what to expect with smoke everywhere and you didn't know how it was done and you were just amazed and in the moment. Today its like a magic show which you know exactly what to expect, without the smoke and you know how everything is done and it falls flat. Pretty much the same magic show, but very different experiences.
On which album/EP was this exact version of the song present? I'm always finding the version with that chipmunk effect. BTW I noticed that all the streaming services have the shorter (radio edit) version of this song even though the original album had the longer version (with this great bridge from 3:08).
I liked this song back when it was out. It's now starting to grow on me as a ninties theme - it has a strong vibe of pre 2000 era, while feeding strongly on stuff like the club scene from Strange Days and Frankie Goes To Hollywood, and at the same time it somehow accurately projects (at least the near) future... It's basicallly 1990-2000 in a bundle with X-Files cassettes as a bonus gift. Yeah - cassettes! I needed to spell check that sh*.. word, I hadn't used it for so long..!
@@zoomgallygally I don't really much like her, but that song is indeed pure gold. Only beaten by the 'New Rose Hotel' ost - but that is unob-ffff-tainium dough. Thax cereals-lee prrreem-yum. :[
Anybody else is here because of The Kovenant covering this song? Man! The cover is excellent, and thanks to it I discovered Babylon Zoo. Hell of a band!
Remember how i was waiting for this song. Every day. When finaly have a chanse to listen to. Level of my adrenalin rise to max then fast on bike. And as alwsy only one purpus (target). To cros over 60km/h from the brige in my town.
I'm kind of annoyed that this was a one-hit-wonder. I still get inspired by this song. It was a peek into the weird culture of the time, but its really great, so many people liked it, now all the people in the band are absolute nobodies.
Believe or not, but album version of "Spaceman" have also that annoying speed-up chimpunk voice. But one more important thing. Album "The Boy with the X-Ray Eyes" is like concept album. There no silence gaps between tracks. Does mean next song starts before previous has ended.
Interesting. I've had the CD single and album sampler with this version of the song since 1996 but had no idea that there was an alternative cut of the video lurking out there all this time. Thanks for uploading.
Hmm, tough call choosing between this and the more well-known edit. They're both brilliant. This one's a bit less avant-garde, more straight alt-rock. Think I might prefer it, actually.
This was the first time an album from a new artist had gone straight in at number on, in the UK at least. But I think their success was not sustained because everyone bought the album - as did I - from the short speeded up section of this song used in the Levi's ad. And the album wasn't like that. But taken own it's own merits without prior expectations, it's a really good album that easily stands repeat listening
Gotta say, the transition from introduction to main verse in this one is much less jarring than in the final version, the tone seems an awful lot more consistent throughout in fact. I might actually prefer this one.
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For years I didn't realise there was an original that didn't have the sped up intro and how epic it was.
This is a Rock classic. It's insane how it's overlooked and even crazier that the lyrics are if anything, more poignant today given the rise of bigotry.
To think this wasn't even considered rock or heavy music in the 90's. It was mainstream alternative. What a masterpiece!
Alternative progressive grunge 🤟💯 l was there
I agree... Was there too, ever been told I was a spaceman even though the song didn't yet exist... Still the same.
Music channels still pretended they are about music. There was music from almost all genres. I remember metal show at mtv streaming around 11pm. Even in the early 2000's you could hear bands like Slipknot, or Korn going on and on.
Now it's corporate shit.
Poetic words. You're right!But I think the music industry is behind it. Did they write the songs themselves? Unfortunately I don't know the history of this band and I heard this song for the first time on TV in a hotel in Belgium in the evening. The song was brand new and I think it was on MTV. I was immediately blown away by the sound.
It was originally a classic rock n roll track, but it got a remix for the Levis advertisement (by legendary producer Arthur Baker). The next year it got a No.1 in the UK charts.
O M G has it been 24 years already? This song brings so many memories from the golden era of MTv music. I feel sorry for todays generations and their music.
Sure still is a banger
I really do feel sorry for this generation
Todays music is the dried up semen of corporate ejaculation metaphorically speaking... generally
It's certainly not all bad, not even close
@@symbolsarenotreality4595 damn it just can't get anymore brutal
What a classic 90's tune , a perfect fusion of alternative rock,grunge and electro
The lyrics are so current I imagine they took a time portal to 2023 looked around, went back and wrote down the lyrics. Prophetic.
Do you see the comment I wrore here over 3 years ago before all this deception took place? Look for it.
@@benzina7 Nope. I just typed a comment when doing a revisit into my old digital music archive. I remembered the TV advert and the song made a huge impression at the time it was new.
So right!!!
My favourite song when I was 14 years old and still loving it at 40 years old
1982 generation ay? Ugh... 40y now, damn time flies.
Same at 38.
1981 also my favourite song when i was 15^^
listen to the lyrics. It fits perfect to our conflict and TV manipulation nowadays.
Same! I just randomly thought about it and typed it up.
This is the version I was looking for! Thanks!
By far one of the best songs of the decade and way, way ahead of it's time ... A timeless classic!
It would have been a huge success 100 years ago.
Ok. I have now watched it a millionth time and I can safely say that this is pure brilliance.
Do you like my spaceship?
right...
I never understand how this Band could be a One Hit Wonder
I rediscovered this song last Summer and the 90s when I was reconnecting with myself. This was one of the songs that came to mind. . . I was reminded why I liked it. 😎
Dude youre beautiful
this song is beyond its time
Still proud of my 1996 self for buying the single.
Yeah I also still got mine XD
Me too! Although the 1996 single wasn’t quite this version as it had the double-speed intro featured on the Levi’s add
Me too!! On tape cassette! I was so disappointed it came in a sleeve rather than case tho! 😂
I still feel so young at 39 when i hear this prophetic song since 98. Yes, the Spaceman really wanted to bring us into Space......man.
Mate, then I was 18, and this is brutal song, try the cover of The Kovenant, awesome job!
how do you feel, now? with over 40, I mean 😛
@@GeorgiBelinov i like that version too
@@las10plagas41 by now LOL
@@tamapurba82 hehehe... well, I'm facing the 35 soon ;-)
see ya, when I'm 41 👋🙂
Now, of the three different versions of the spaceman video, this one is the longest and is definately the best as it actually tells a story. Absolutely love the ending on this one
Yeah it’s my favourite ending tooo I could keep replaying it for days
Powerful timeless song, performed by an absolute charming and beautiful singer. Miss the '90s so much...
The chorus is just something else.
agree 100% also beuatifully framed by the pre- and post-chorus "I'll get ya.. I'll get ya"
Babylon Zoo & Smashing Pumpkins were my fav bands growing up in the 90s. This brought back so many good memories.
My DJ friend let me take over a kids party from him in about 1996..🤣 I mixed the start of this song into EVERYTHING and the kids went wild. This song + Fugees Killing me softly was a hit... As the kids loved my set so much, he let me DJ the nightclub later that evening... It didn't go as well, several people lost teeth and the bouncers had to be called to the dance floor 4 times. I had a good time though 😀
Mashing up before there was a name for it xx legend 🤟💯🌷👽
The best version of this classic track!
This IS the original one, from 1995...the "original" edigt you say, which appeared on the TV advert, was a remix by Arthur Baker but ended up as the album version.
@@brendancolton2993 The album version just sounds more electronic in a way and paces up at the end, pure nostalgia though man
I think 90s was a sea of good music in every genre... rock,electronic,pop and everything! You could easilly hear a song on the radio and then the mellody would stay in ur head for ages!Now we are goin downhil...
And I never saw this version in 90's! Not on MTV Europe. Internet is a magic thing, I tell Ya! ;)
This is one of those songs where I cannot play it just once, I must have it on repeat for several days. And that's quite alright with me.
Yep, this song has an autistic effect on me too.
Same!
@@UnusSedLeo-w5l I'm an autistic author and amateur guitarist. So I can think about the song's composition.
Guitar distortion, wah pedal, bowel shaking bassline and drums are energetically brilliant.
i'm on it right now since i rediscovered it last week
Does anyone else feel that this song is a bit prophetic?
Absolutely. Especially the bit about the internet and your soul. First time in 23 years I actually paid attention to the lyrics and theyre eerily relative.
Pathetic more like.
@@howardsend6589 Incredible input, dweeb.
Electronic informattion tempers with your soul.. yes
There is alot of illuminati imagery before Illuminati as we know now is out in the open
It’s a pity they weren’t more successful but it must be really hard to follow up a song this good.
I was obsessed with this song for a unhealthy long time. My neighbours hate me until then. And i still love it so much. OMG. Send help.
😄
If they didn't like this song are they even good neighbours?
Rather flying saucer.
Always liked the harmonies and the hypnotic rhythm. Played the heck out of the CD.
The distorted guitar and percussion is why I always liked it.
I love this indie sounding version whatever you called it! The lyric is crazy relevant as today.
Indie version? This is the original version before it was changed to the "final" version which was only done because some business execs from a marketing company for Levi jeans heard it remixed from a DJ at a club. If not for them this band would probably not been known today and this very intriguing and ahead of it's time song be buried forever.
The lyrics are TIMELESS, mate. Literally.
Number 1 when my lad was born 2.2.96
Miss you son, time heals x
❤
Extraordinary...
....Extraterrestreal Fantastic!!!
it is a phenomenal brilliant 90's this is Something who lived the era can archive that kind of feeling that you perfectly know what I am talking about 🌌
take care beloved kids of yesterday!
Ich bin REAKTIONÄR! Die 90er waren die beste Zeit (tolerant, kreativ usw).
Это шедевр!!! Добавлено в альбоме бессмертные!
From lil child to 30.. this song makes me feel a million feelings at once thank god and beautiful artists make my life feel worthy for music !!💚❤
This is one of those "OH SHIT!!!! TURN THIS UP!!! I FORGOT ALL ABOUT THIS SONG!!!!" songs...
How I miss the 90's!
Why do I keep coming back to this video?
I love this it's bring so many good memories still listening 2022
I like both versions, but this one the original is my preference. Sounds grungier and more like alt rock.
I love this song, it came out in 1993 or 1994. It was part of a Levis jeans commercial. After the commercial appeared, it jumped high on the top of the charts.
Babylon zoo released this song January 1996 was on top of the pops
Vivan los 90's.
Spaceman de Babylon Zoo está fenomenal, la banda estuvo muy adelantada a la época en ése entonces. Es un sonido bastante espacial.
I actually think this may well be the best version
@Mildly Amusing Channel I think this might be some sort of "industrial shoegaze" like NIN meets Curve. This is a masterpiece.
The greatest and best song in the world.
havent heard this in years. brings back memories 🎉🎉🎉🎉
The nineties were like a magic show/trick where you didnt know what to expect with smoke everywhere and you didn't know how it was done and you were just amazed and in the moment. Today its like a magic show which you know exactly what to expect, without the smoke and you know how everything is done and it falls flat. Pretty much the same magic show, but very different experiences.
Exactly. Great comment.
Well put and IMO very true
On which album/EP was this exact version of the song present? I'm always finding the version with that chipmunk effect.
BTW I noticed that all the streaming services have the shorter (radio edit) version of this song even though the original album had the longer version (with this great bridge from 3:08).
One of my favourite 90's tunes.
Don't you just love the desert scenes, they are so futuristically trippy and the singer's facial expressions are unforgettable. What a timeless gem!
This was way before it's time... fkn fabulous and genius 👽👽🌷🌌💯🤲🌟
Each generation has their own music tailored to their state/psyche. This should tell you about the 90s kids state of awareness!!
My Pre-Corona soundtrack that was getting me pumped up for the golden twenties... now what
Spaceman is a 90s classic.
Bought this on cassette from Our Price, I think it was on a tv advert? Good times.
- Do you feel that ?
- What, the music ?
*Breathing*
- The 90's smell...
I was 29 at the time and now 56 and I still love it
Best version, I just LOVE it...Especially the end..
i jak tu nie kochac radiowej jedynki za przypominanie takich kawalkow.. nie slyszalem tego chyba od '96.. :)
I liked this song back when it was out.
It's now starting to grow on me as a ninties theme - it has a strong vibe of pre 2000 era, while feeding strongly on stuff like the club scene from Strange Days and Frankie Goes To Hollywood, and at the same time it somehow accurately projects (at least the near) future...
It's basicallly 1990-2000 in a bundle with X-Files cassettes as a bonus gift.
Yeah - cassettes! I needed to spell check that sh*.. word, I hadn't used it for so long..!
Strange days was pure class, love the song by juliette lewis
@@zoomgallygally I don't really much like her, but that song is indeed pure gold.
Only beaten by the 'New Rose Hotel' ost - but that is unob-ffff-tainium dough. Thax cereals-lee prrreem-yum. :[
Anybody else is here because of The Kovenant covering this song? Man! The cover is excellent, and thanks to it I discovered Babylon Zoo. Hell of a band!
God I remember this in the charts good lord thanks for uploading
Loved this song back in the day my late sister who passed away last July loved it then too
Love this song, i played it many times in 90s
wow. thank you for the version I never heard before. what a tune! what a great album!. What a beautiful times..
Remember how i was waiting for this song. Every day. When finaly have a chanse to listen to. Level of my adrenalin rise to max then fast on bike. And as alwsy only one purpus (target). To cros over 60km/h from the brige in my town.
Send it bruh!!
Perfection. Nothing else to say.
I'm kind of annoyed that this was a one-hit-wonder. I still get inspired by this song. It was a peek into the weird culture of the time, but its really great, so many people liked it, now all the people in the band are absolute nobodies.
What a beautiful enigma of a man... Will never forget the first time I saw this vid and vowed to follow him to the Sahara desert 20 years ago 😋😅
Did you ever make it to the Sahara then? 🤔 😋
I LOVE THIS SONG
This version is god tier
SPACEMAN.....I ALWAYS WANTED YOU TO GO INTO SPACE MANNNNNNNNN!
This should be the official album version. Not the remix one
Believe or not, but album version of "Spaceman" have also that annoying speed-up chimpunk voice. But one more important thing. Album "The Boy with the X-Ray Eyes" is like concept album. There no silence gaps between tracks. Does mean next song starts before previous has ended.
Brilliant song and video from 1995. Platinum seller in UK! Out of this world!
This knocked Titanic song off the 1 position in the charts back then in the good ole days!
How? Spaceman (Levi’s version) was released over a year before that
Think you're muddled up mate. This came out in 1996. Titanic song, in the UK, was number one in 1998.
This was out round about the same time as Firestarter by Prodigy if memory serves right
It didn't live up to the teaser on the levi advert in my opinion, only the fast high pitched part is any good
@@joeylittle3535 Your opinion is shit.
Interesting. I've had the CD single and album sampler with this version of the song since 1996 but had no idea that there was an alternative cut of the video lurking out there all this time. Thanks for uploading.
how has this not had over 1000000000000000 views
Hmm, tough call choosing between this and the more well-known edit. They're both brilliant. This one's a bit less avant-garde, more straight alt-rock. Think I might prefer it, actually.
I loved this tune growing up 🤙🏼🤙🏼🤙🏼🤙🏼🤙🏼🤙🏼when I was 9 & still love it
Still listening this song, and it is 2022..
so underrated - the boy with the x ray eyes
holy fuck I never knew there was an even better version wow
Ok I've listened to this since it first hit and I've decided this the best song ever written in the entire existence of the human race
For some reason this came to my mind so i searched it up, remember watching them on the top of the pops back in the day haha
This was the first time an album from a new artist had gone straight in at number on, in the UK at least. But I think their success was not sustained because everyone bought the album - as did I - from the short speeded up section of this song used in the Levi's ad. And the album wasn't like that. But taken own it's own merits without prior expectations, it's a really good album that easily stands repeat listening
1 of the best fucking song of all time....guitars are just awesome!
Thank you for putting the best version of this song. Much better than that stupid remix.
one of the best song ever !!!
Yes they were definitely ahead at the time.
Nunca pensé ver algo que no había visto con detalles desde 1990
Верхушка чартра моего детского хит парада:) потрясающее было время!
Electronic information tampers with your soul
They knew
HQ Audio And VHS Quality video...remebering 90's!!!
Classic tune of my youth 🙂
My favorite song and clip
Still so good! Love this version!
One of my all time favourite songs
The Kovenant band brought me here, cheers!!!
Gotta say, the transition from introduction to main verse in this one is much less jarring than in the final version, the tone seems an awful lot more consistent throughout in fact. I might actually prefer this one.
Padraic Smith 100% agreed
I hate the version when it goes into a chipmunk thing.
@@alexkid1 It's funny because most people who bought the single were disappointed that the song wasn't all sped up.
This one is the best definitely. Just feels stronger.
@@hexyko4850 exactly this. But the years have fared well with this song. It is still a good classic.
this guy told you so spaceman welcome to babylon 2022!!
I used to have this on tape!
Those channel V days...😇
"Electronic information tempers with your soul." timely lyrics for now...
Loved this song back in High School Dayz when X-Files was the top TV show.
Sorry but the chorus is so epic!
Its the only good part of the whole song.
the build up/bridge is really good but before that it's pretty err unremarkable
YES.
@@GraftedOliveBranch you really have a short attention span
@@guitaristssuck8979 depends what im paying attention to.