There was a period in the 90s when trip-hop was a big deal. England’s Sneaker Pimps–an electronic band at its core–found itself swept up in the post Portishead wave with this single from a 1996 album entitled Becoming X. In addition to being a top 15 hit in the UK, it got quite a bit of alt-rock radio play in North America. A 1997 re-release coinciding with its inclusion on the soundtrack to The Saint saw hit bounce back to even higher chart positions on both sides of the Atlantic.
Fun fact: The horns and harp at the beginning of the song were sampled from a song heard in the 1964 Bond film, Goldfinger.
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