I'm the Urban Spaceman
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Leeds indie rock band Cud performed an extremely fast version, only 1:07 long, for a 1989 Peel Session. The recording appears on their albums Elvis Belt and BB Cudn't C.
The B-side, "The Canyons of Your Mind", was written by the Bonzo's frontman Vivian Stanshall.
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