Beam Me Up ‘Spaceman,’ For This Week’s Video You Deserve!
Mondays can be rough.
And so, every Monday, we give you a music video. A fun, funny music video. Something that’ll make you smile, make you laugh, make you reminisce, and make you realize that back in the day, music video creators were probably either insane or heavily intoxicated. But were also incredibly entertaining.
We call this feature, The Video You Deserve, and you can find it every Monday on your site for fun, free entertainment and features, QuadCities.com.
Our latest video is pretty much a one-hit wonder from a band which beamed down some fame from that very popular means of gaining notoriety for your music in the ’90s — the TV commercial.
There were a ton of hits in the ’90s and early ’00s that were spawned from songs being featured in commercials, and this one was no different, as it accompanied a fun and stylized commercial for Levis jeans that played into the major zeitgeist love for aliens, UFOs and all things extraterrestrial in the decade of “The X-Files.”
The song, “Spaceman,” by Babylon Zoo, would prove to be a massive worldwide hit, buoyed on that unique Levis spot. The band would have a few minor hits after that in their native Britain, but “Spaceman” was really the only one that hit huge there and outside of there, spending several weeks at number one and spawning a number of funky appearances of the band on Top Of The Pops featuring a DJ spinning records while wearing an alien mask.
Anyway, this is NOT that video (you can click through to see that one), but it is the official video for the single, which is cool and trippy enough as it is. So here ya go, your Video You Deserve, “Spaceman,” by Babylon Zoo…
