Two Princes
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| Single by Spin Doctors | ||||
| from the album Pocket Full of Kryptonite | ||||
| B-side | "Off My Line" | |||
| Released | April 13, 1993 | |||
| Format | CD single, CD maxi, 7" single | |||
| Recorded | July 1990 | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock, funk rock, blues rock | |||
| Length | 4:16 | |||
| Label | Epic | |||
| Writer(s) | Mark White Eric Schenkman Chris Barron Aaron Comess |
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| Producer | Mark White Peter Denenberg Frankie LaRocka Eric Schenkman Chris Barron Aaron Comess |
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"Two Princes" is a song by the New York City-based pop rock band Spin Doctors. As a single, it reached #7 in the United States, #2 in Canada, and #3 in the United Kingdom. It was the band's most popular song. It also ranked at #21 on Blender magazine's list of the "50 Worst Songs Ever".[1] It ranked #41 on "VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of the 90s". In October 2009, the song was announced by Harmonix on the Lego Rock Band track listing, as one of the 45 songs included with the game.[2]
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[edit] Cover versions
The group sang a "modified" version of this song on Sesame Street that emphasized the importance of sharing. They told Zoe she did not have to choose between being friends with Elmo and Telly, but rather she could be friends with both of them. It was also remade in a parody on the Bill Nye the Science Guy Show as "Two Eyes by the Eye Doctors". An episode of The Sarah Silverman Program featured this song as a major plot point. The song was played after wins in the clubhouse by the 1993 Philadelphia Phillies. The scat part of the song was used as the jingle for Kmart Australia for numerous years.
The song appears on The Moldy Peaches album Unreleased Cutz And Live Jamz as a live version. The boy band Son of Dork covered this song in 2006 on one of their singles. Boston-based a cappella group, Overboard recorded a version of this song on their 2007 album, "Stranded".
Canadian-Israeli singer, Dorine Levy, made a feminist cover version in 2011 as well.
[edit] Legacy
The song gained fame in Israel as the ending song of the popular TV show Ha-Comedy Store, airing between 1994 and 1996. The song was also included in the 2005 movie Pooh's Heffalump Movie's soundtrack, and was featured in Futurama as an example of 'college rock' as opposed to 'alternative rock'. Also was used in a Peugeot 307 Spot called "Demmands Attention" in Australia and Argentina.
It was also featured in the pilot episode of the CW's Life Unexpected, an episode of The Sarah Silverman Program ("Maid to Border") and the films Love and Other Drugs and So I Married an Axe Murderer.
[edit] Track listings
- CD single
- "Two Princes" (album version) – 4:16
- "Off My Line" (live) – 5:30
- CD maxi
- "Two Princes" (album version) – 4:16
- "Off My Line" (live) – 5:30
- "Rosetta Stone" (live) – 8:07
- 7" single
- "Two Princes" (album version) – 4:16
- "Off My Line" (live) – 5:30
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| Preceded by "Informer" by Snow |
Swedish number-one single June 2, 1993 |
Succeeded by "Somebody Dance with Me" by DJ Bobo |
| Preceded by "Ordinary World" by Duran Duran |
Top 40 Mainstream number-one single April 10, 1993 - May 22, 1993 |
Succeeded by "That's the Way Love Goes" by Janet Jackson |
[edit] References
- ^ The 50 Worst Songs Ever! Watch, Listen and Cringe! from Blender.com (retrieved April 6, 2010)
- ^ Lego Rock Band tracks revealed, transferable to Rock Band from Joystiq.com (Retrieved October 30, 2009)
- ^ a b c d e f "Two Princes", in various singles charts Lescharts.com (Retrieved April 3, 2008)
- ^ a b "Single top 100 over 1993" (in Dutch) (pdf). Top40. http://www.top40.nl/pdf/Top%20100/top%20100%20-%201993.pdf. Retrieved 15 April 2010.
- ^ German Singles Chart Charts-surfer.de (Retrieved April 3, 2008)
- ^ Irish Single Chart Irishcharts.ie (Retrieved April 3, 2008)
- ^ UK Singles Chart Chartstats.com (Retrieved April 3, 2008)
- ^ a b c d Billboard Allmusic.com (Retrieved April 3, 2008)
- ^ "1993 Australian Singles Chart". aria. http://www.aria.com.au/pages/aria-charts-end-of-year-charts-top-50-singles-1993.htm. Retrieved 15 April 2010.
- ^ "1993 Austrian Singles Chart" (in German). Austriancharts. http://www.austriancharts.at/1993_single.asp. Retrieved 15 April 2010.
- ^ "1993 Swiss Singles Chart" (in German). Swisscharts. http://www.swisscharts.com/year.asp?key=1993. Retrieved 15 April 2010.
- ^ "Billboard Top 100 - 1993". http://longboredsurfer.com/charts.php?year=1993. Retrieved 2010-08-27.
- ^ "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank ('Two Princes')" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie. http://www.musikindustrie.de/gold_platin_datenbank/?action=suche&strTitel=Two+Princes&strInterpret=&strTtArt=alle&strAwards=checked. Retrieved April 20, 2009.
- ^ "UK certifications, database". Bpi. http://www.bpi.co.uk/certifiedawards/search.aspx. Retrieved 15 April 2010.
