Spin Spin Sugar

"Spin Spin Sugar"
Single by Sneaker Pimps
from the album Becoming X
Released 1997
Format CD, 12"
Recorded 1996 (1996)
Label Clean Up
Songwriter(s) Chris Corner, Liam Howe, Ian D. Pickering
Sneaker Pimps singles chronology
"6 Underground"
(1996)		 "Spin Spin Sugar"
(1997)

"6 Underground"
(1996)		 "Spin Spin Sugar"
(1997)

"Spin Spin Sugar" is a 1997 single released by Sneaker Pimps from their 1996 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 track continues for approximately 3 minutes and 31 seconds, and sampled Luciano Berio's 'Visage' (1961) in the portion featuring a woman crying and speaking in a foreign dialect.[1]

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.

Chart positions

Chart (1997) Position
Australian ARIA Singles Chart[2] 126
UK Singles Chart 21
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 87
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs[3] 2
Chart (2015) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Dance Club Songs[4] 7

Cover versions

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

References

  1. ↑ "Sneaker Pimps's 'Spin Spin Sugar (Album Version)' - Discover the Sample Source". WhoSampled. Retrieved 2018-09-29.
  2. ↑ "Response from ARIA re: chart inquiry, received 2015-07-15". Imgur. Archived from the original on 2015-07-16. Retrieved 2015-10-18.
  3. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Hot Dance/Disco: 1974-2003. Record Research. p. 238.
  4. ↑ "Dance Club Songs". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. December 19, 2015. Retrieved December 8, 2015.


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