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"Spin Spin Sugar"
File:SpinSpinSugar.jpg
Single by Sneaker Pimps
from the album Becoming X
Released3 March 1997
Genre
Length3:36
LabelClean Up
Songwriter(s)
Sneaker Pimps singles chronology
"6 Underground"
(1996)
"Spin Spin Sugar"
(1997)
"Post-Modern Sleaze"
(1997)

"Spin Spin Sugar" is a single released by Sneaker Pimps from their debut album Becoming X.

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.

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 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".[1]

Track listings

UK CD single[2]
  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[3]
  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

Chart positions

Chart (1997) Position
Australian ARIA Singles Chart[4] 126
UK Singles Chart 21
UK Dance Chart[5] 1
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 87
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs[6] 2
Chart (2015) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Dance Club Songs[7] 7

Cover versions

  • In 2015, Scotty Boy featuring Sue Cho recorded a version which made the US Dance Club Songs chart.

References

  1. ^ "10 underground UK garage classics that still sound fresh today". Red Bull.
  2. ^ "Sneaker Pimps - Spin Spin Sugar". Discogs. Retrieved 2020-02-06.
  3. ^ "Sneaker Pimps - Spin Spin Sugar". Discogs. Retrieved 2020-02-06.
  4. ^ "Response from ARIA re: chart inquiry, received 2015-07-15". Imgur. Archived from the original on 2015-07-16. Retrieved 2015-10-18.
  5. ^ "Official Dance Singles Chart Top 40 | Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com. Retrieved 2020-02-06.
  6. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Hot Dance/Disco: 1974-2003. Record Research. p. 238.
  7. ^ "Dance Club Songs". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. December 19, 2015. Retrieved December 8, 2015.