Spacemen 3′s "Big City (Everybody I Know Can be Found Here)” Featured on "The Simpsons"

Spacemen 3's "Big City (Everybody I Know Can be Found Here)” Featured on "The Simpsons"

It’s not every day that you hear Spacemen 3‘s music on network television, but last night’s episode of “The Simpsons” featured a song from the legendary psych outfit, as The Wall Street Journal points out.

“Big City (Everybody I Know Can Be Found Here)”, the opening track from 1991′s album Recurring, soundtracked a scene in which Homer and new love interest Candace (voiced by Lena Dunham) get high. Watch the entire episode here; “Big City” starts around the 11:46 mark.

Speaking with The Wall Street Journal, founding Spacemen 3 member Peter “Sonic Boom” Kember noted that he turns down lots of requests to license Spacemen 3 songs, but “The Simpsons” was a no-brainer. He said:

When I saw the script I was psyched. I couldn’t imagine a sweeter use of that track in this context, and particularly in context of a “trip” scene. [That is] something that’s usually for me a high point of ‘The Simpsons’ oeuvre. I imagine it is what people in bands secretly, or openly, dream of. Animation is so useful for these sort of stretches of reality.

Read our feature “Twenty Great “Simpsons” Music Moments”.

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