Spin Spin Sugar Explained

Spin Spin Sugar
Cover:Sneaker Pimps Spin Spin Sugar CD Single 1.jpg
Type:single
Artist:Sneaker Pimps
Album:Becoming X
B-Side:
  • "Walk the Rain"
  • "How Do"
  • "Walking Zero"
Released:3 March 1997
Genre:
Length:3:36
Label:Clean Up
Prev Title:6 Underground
Prev Year:1996
Next Title:Post-Modern Sleaze
Next Year:1997

"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

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

  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
  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

Weekly charts

Chart (1997)Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[5] 126
UK Singles (OCC)21
UK Dance (OCC)[6] 1
US Billboard Hot 10087
US Hot Dance Club Songs (Billboard)[7] 2

Year-end charts

Chart (1997)Position
Canada Dance/Urban (RPM)[9] 25
UK Club Chart (Music Week)[10] 88

Notes and References

  1. 'Sneaker Pimps: Splitter' on AllMusic (no date). Accessed 14 January 2021
  2. Web site: 10 underground UK garage classics that still sound fresh today. Red Bull.
  3. Reviews: Singles. Music Week. 15 February 1997. 23. 11 May 2022.
  4. "The week's top pop releases; Records". The Times. 8 March 1997.
  5. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20150716153430/http://i.imgur.com/oyPN1pW.jpg. Response from ARIA re: chart inquiry, received 2015-07-15. 16 July 2015. 18 October 2015. Imgur.
  6. Web site: Official Dance Singles Chart Top 40 Official Charts Company. www.officialcharts.com. en. 6 February 2020.
  7. Book: Whitburn, Joel . Joel Whitburn

    . Hot Dance/Disco: 1974-2003. Joel Whitburn . 2004 . Record Research . 238.

  8. Web site: Dance Club Songs. Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 19 December 2015. 8 December 2015.
  9. '97 Year End Top 50 Dance Tracks. RPM. December 1997. 5 November 2023.
  10. The Club Top 100 of 1997. Music Week, in RM (Dance Update Supplemental insert). 10 January 1998. 5. 9 January 2023.

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