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"Spin Spin Sugar" is a song by English electronic band Sneaker Pimps, released as the fourth single from their debut studio album, Becoming X (1996). 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. Kelli Dayton provides the vocals.[1]

"Spin Spin Sugar"
Single by Sneaker Pimps
from the album Becoming X
Released	3 March 1997
Genre	Trip hop, alternative rock (Original) Speed garage (Armand van Helden, Tuff Jam & 187 Lockdown mixes)
Length	3:36
Label	Clean Up
Songwriter(s)	Chris Corner Liam Howe Ian D. Pickering
Sneaker Pimps singles chronology
"6 Underground" (1996) "Spin Spin Sugar" (1997) "Post-Modern Sleaze" (1997)
Music video
"Spin Spin Sugar" on YouTube

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 1960 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".[2]

Critical reception

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

Track listings

• UK CD single[5]

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[6]

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

Charts

Chart (1997)	Peak position
Australia (ARIA)[7]	126
UK Singles (OCC)	21
UK Dance (OCC)[8]	1
US Billboard Hot 100	87
US Hot Dance Club Songs (Billboard)[9]	2
Chart (2015)	Peak position
US Hot Dance Club Songs (Billboard)[10]	7

Cover versions

• In 2015, Scotty Boy featuring Sue Cho recorded a version which made the US Dance Club Songs chart.^{[citation needed]}

References

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