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"Spin Spin Sugar"
Single by Sneaker Pimps
from the album Becoming X
B-side
  • "Walk the Rain"
  • "How Do"
  • "Walking Zero"
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)
Music video
"Spin Spin Sugar" on YouTube

"Spin Spin Sugar" is a song by English electronic band Sneaker Pimps, released in March 1997 by Clean Up as the fourth single from their debut studio album, Becoming X (1996). The album version is typical of the Sneaker Pimps in both style and format; there is a driving bass line produced by a synthesizer keyboard which is accompanied by a second synthesizer loop playing above it. Kelli Dayton provides the vocals.[1]

"Spin Spin Sugar" was further popularized with the release of a speed garage remix by Armand van Helden, which is sometimes credited with breaking speed garage into the mainstream for the first time. Redbull.com included the remix in their "Honorable mentions" list of "underground UK garage classics that still sound fresh today".[2]

Critical reception

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British magazine Music Week gave 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 newspaper described it as a "twitchy, dance-rock crossover song from much-fancied indie kids with attitude."[4]

Track listings

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  • UK CD single
  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-inch single
  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

Charts

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References

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  1. ^ 'Sneaker Pimps: Splitter' on AllMusic (no date). Accessed 14 January 2021
  2. ^ "10 underground UK garage classics that still sound fresh today". Red Bull.
  3. ^ "Reviews: Singles" (PDF). Music Week. 15 February 1997. p. 23. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
  4. ^ "The week's top pop releases; Records". The Times. 8 March 1997.
  5. ^ "Response from ARIA re: chart inquiry, received 2015-07-15". Imgur. Archived from the original on 16 July 2015. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  6. ^ "Official Dance Singles Chart Top 40 | Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com. Retrieved 6 February 2020.
  7. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Hot Dance/Disco: 1974-2003. Record Research. p. 238.
  8. ^ "Dance Club Songs". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 19 December 2015. Retrieved 8 December 2015.
  9. ^ "'97 Year End Top 50 Dance Tracks" (PDF). RPM. December 1997. Retrieved 5 November 2023.
  10. ^ "The Club Top 100 of 1997" (PDF). Music Week, in RM (Dance Update Supplemental insert). 10 January 1998. p. 5. Retrieved 9 January 2023.


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