Tin Planet is the second album from Liverpool

Liverpool

Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880...

-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

Spiders (album)

Spiders is the debut album by Space, released on September 16, 1996, peaking at #5 in the UK album charts and later going platinum. "Money", "Kill Me", "Neighbourhood", "Female of the Species", "Me and You Versus the World" and "Dark Clouds" were released as singles.-Track listing:# "Neighbourhood"...

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The songs "Avenging Angels", "The Ballad of Tom Jones" (a duet with Catatonia's Cerys Matthews

Cerys Matthews

Cerys Elizabeth Matthews is a Welsh singer and songwriter. She is known as the lead singer of the Welsh rock band Catatonia, her more recent bilingual solo career, and for a 1998 Christmas duet with Tom Jones.-Biography:...

), "Begin Again" and "Bad Days" 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.

Track listing

1. "Begin Again
   Begin Again (Space song)
   "Begin Again" is a song by Britpop band Space, released in 1998. The song charted at 21 in July 1998 on the UK Top 40.-Track listings:CD 1 #"Begin Again "#"You Romantic Fool"#"Numb the Doubt"#"Influenza "CD 2...
   
   " (Scott/Space) – 3:11
2. "Avenging Angels"
   Avenging Angels (song)
   "Avenging Angels" is a song by Space, released as the band's first single from the bands second album Tin Planet on December 29, 1997. The song reached #6 in the UK singles chart.-Track listing:* CD:# "Avenging Angels" - 3:10...
   
     (Scott/Space) – 2:59
3. "The Ballad of Tom Jones
   The Ballad of Tom Jones
   "The Ballad of Tom Jones" is a song by Space and Cerys Matthews, lead singer of the band Catatonia, which was released in 1998. The song peaked at number four in the charts in March 1998.-Track listings:CD 1 #"The Ballad of Tom Jones" - 4:13...
   
   " (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 Days
    Bad Days
    The Bad Days EP is the last single to be taken from Space's critically acclaimed 1998 album Tin Planet. It reached #20 in the UK charts and includes a cover of "We Gotta Get out of This Place" by The Animals, as well as the songs "Bad Days" and "The Unluckiest Man in the World".-Track listing:*...
    
    " (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

Bonus tracks (2+CD edition)

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

External links

• "Tin Planet" on SpaceTheBand.com