Spin Spin Sugar

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"Spin Spin Sugar"
File:Sneaker Pimps Spin Spin Sugar CD Single 1.jpg
Single by Sneaker Pimps
from the album Becoming X
Released3 March 1997
GenreTrip hop, alternative rock (Original)
Speed garage (Armand van Helden, Tuff Jam & 187 Lockdown mixes)
Length3:36
LabelClean Up
Songwriter(s)
Sneaker Pimps singles chronology
"6 Underground"
(1996)
"Spin Spin Sugar"
(1997)
"Post-Modern Sleaze"
(1997)
Music video
"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]
  1. "Spin Spin Sugar (Radio Edit)" – 3:34
  2. "Spin Spin Sugar (Album Mix)" – 4:20
  3. "Walk the Rain" – 4:58
  4. "How Do" – 5:01
  • UK 12" single[6]
  1. "Spin Spin Sugar (Armand's Dark Garage Mix)" – 9:05
  2. "Walking Zero (Tuff & Jam Unda-Vybe Vocal)" – 6:36
  3. "Walking Zero (Tuff & Jam Unda-Vybe Dub Instrumental)" – 6:36

Remixes

Charts

Chart (1997) Peak
position
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

References

  1. ^ 'Sneaker Pimps: Splitter' on AllMusic (no date). Accessed 2021-01-14
  2. ^ "10 underground UK garage classics that still sound fresh today". Red Bull.
  3. ^ "Reviews: Singles" (PDF). Music Week. 1997-02-15. p. 23. Retrieved 2022-05-11.
  4. ^ "The week's top pop releases; Records". The Times. 1997-03-08.
  5. ^ "Sneaker Pimps - Spin Spin Sugar". Discogs. Retrieved 2020-02-06.
  6. ^ "Sneaker Pimps - Spin Spin Sugar". Discogs. Retrieved 2020-02-06.
  7. ^ "Response from ARIA re: chart inquiry, received 2015-07-15". Imgur. Archived from the original on 2015-07-16. Retrieved 2015-10-18.
  8. ^ "Official Dance Singles Chart Top 40 | Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com. Retrieved 2020-02-06.
  9. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Hot Dance/Disco: 1974-2003. Record Research. p. 238.
  10. ^ "Dance Club Songs". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 2015-12-19. Retrieved 2015-12-08.