Spin Spin Sugar

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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
Clean 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

Kelli Dayton provides the vocals.[1]

"Spin Spin Sugar" was further popularized with the release of a

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 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

  • 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

References

  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.