Spin Spin Sugar
"Spin Spin Sugar" | ||||
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File:Sneaker Pimps Spin Spin Sugar CD Single 1.jpg | ||||
Single by Sneaker Pimps | ||||
from the album Becoming X | ||||
Released | 3 March 1997 | |||
Genre | Trip hop, alternative rock (Original) Speed garage (Armand van Helden, Tuff Jam & 187 Lockdown mixes) | |||
Length | 3:36 | |||
Label | Clean Up | |||
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Sneaker Pimps singles chronology | ||||
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"Spin Spin Sugar" on YouTube |
"Spin Spin Sugar" is a song by English electronic band Sneaker Pimps, released as the fourth single from their debut studio album, Becoming X (1996). The album version is in true Sneaker Pimps style and format; there is a driving bass line produced by a synthesizer keyboard. As the bass drives, there is a second synth loop playing above. Kelli Dayton provides the vocals.[1]
The song was featured in The Girl Next Door soundtrack in its radio edit form. A music video was made for the radio edit version and features the bandmates in what appears to be a highly colorized motel room, with many references to the 1960 film Psycho.
"Spin Spin Sugar" was further popularized in a speed garage remix by Armand van Helden, which is sometimes credited with breaking speed garage into the mainstream for the first time. The remix appears in Dance Dance Revolution Extreme 2 and Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories. Redbull.com included the remix in their "Honorable mentions" list of "underground UK garage classics that still sound fresh today".[2]
Critical reception
British magazine Music Week rated the song three out of five, writing, "A faster, guitar and percussion-cluttered radio mix lacks the brooding menace of the album version, but club mixes by Van Helden and Farley & Heller, plus a new track 'Walk the Rain', will lift its chances."[3] The Times described it as a "twitchy, dance-rock crossover song from much-fancied indie kids with attitude."[4]
Track listings
- UK CD single[5]
- "Spin Spin Sugar (Radio Edit)" – 3:34
- "Spin Spin Sugar (Album Mix)" – 4:20
- "Walk the Rain" – 4:58
- "How Do" – 5:01
- UK 12" single[6]
- "Spin Spin Sugar (Armand's Dark Garage Mix)" – 9:05
- "Walking Zero (Tuff & Jam Unda-Vybe Vocal)" – 6:36
- "Walking Zero (Tuff & Jam Unda-Vybe Dub Instrumental)" – 6:36
Remixes
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Charts
Chart (1997) | Peak position |
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Australia (ARIA)[7] | 126 |
UK Singles (OCC) | 21 |
UK Dance (OCC)[8] | 1 |
US Billboard Hot 100 | 87 |
US Hot Dance Club Songs (Billboard)[9] | 2 |
Chart (2015) | Peak position |
US Hot Dance Club Songs (Billboard)[10] | 7 |
Cover versions
- In 2015, Scotty Boy featuring Sue Cho recorded a version which made the US Dance Club Songs chart.[citation needed]
References
- ^ 'Sneaker Pimps: Splitter' on AllMusic (no date). Accessed 2021-01-14
- ^ "10 underground UK garage classics that still sound fresh today". Red Bull.
- ^ "Reviews: Singles" (PDF). Music Week. 1997-02-15. p. 23. Retrieved 2022-05-11.
- ^ "The week's top pop releases; Records". The Times. 1997-03-08.
- ^ "Sneaker Pimps - Spin Spin Sugar". Discogs. Retrieved 2020-02-06.
- ^ "Sneaker Pimps - Spin Spin Sugar". Discogs. Retrieved 2020-02-06.
- ^ "Response from ARIA re: chart inquiry, received 2015-07-15". Imgur. Archived from the original on 2015-07-16. Retrieved 2015-10-18.
- ^ "Official Dance Singles Chart Top 40 | Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com. Retrieved 2020-02-06.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Hot Dance/Disco: 1974-2003. Record Research. p. 238.
- ^ "Dance Club Songs". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 2015-12-19. Retrieved 2015-12-08.
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