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Hartlepool, England (1995 – present)

Sneaker Pimps are a downtempo/trip-hop band which formed in Hartlepool, England in 1995. The band best known for their first album Becoming X released in 1996, and particularly its highest charting single “

6 Underground”. As line of flight and Frisk, DJs and childhood friends Chris Corner and Liam Howe (from Middlesborough and Hartlepool in the NE of England) released two EPs: “Soul of Indiscretion” and “World as A Cone” in the early 1990s. While not nearly as complex as the song-based material they would produce, these bedroom-recorded mixes of sampled beats and folk sounds would form the blueprint for the later sound.

While at art college in Reading, Liam met David Westlake and Joe Wilson, who would both contribute to the first album and join the band on tour. When Frisk performed a gig with this line-up they later recorded some demos with Chris singing - these were considered the next stage in the evolution of Chis and Liam’s professional partnership; another in an ever-improving set of smaller projects intended for a few thousand records at most. Drafting in Ian Pickering in 1995 to help with lyrics, they recruited Kelli Dayton (aka Kelli Ali) for vocal duties after seeing her singing in a pub in Reading. The name ‘Sneaker Pimps’ itself was taken from a Beastie Boys article about a man they hired to track down classic shoes.

The first single Roll On preceded the first album, followed by Spin Spin Sugar,

Post-Modern Sleaze,

6 Underground and Tesko Suicide.

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trip-hop, electronic, chillout, alternative, electronica
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1	6 Underground full track	2,814
2	Spin Spin Sugar	1,527
3	Becoming X	1,433
4	Low Place Like Home	1,432
5	Tesko Suicide full track	1,171
6	Walking Zero	1,007
7	Wasted Early Sunday Morning	989
8	Post-Modern Sleaze full track	955
9	Roll On	924
10	How Do full track	917
11	Waterbaby	903
12	Half Life full track	720
13	Low Five full track	647
14	Bloodsport	646
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bradysmom wrote:
Saturday evening

Is there any site that has the SP5 leaks anymore? I'm curious to hear them..

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Jin-L wrote:
Thursday afternoon

Loretta Young Silks is such a great song. Even the acoustic version is ace. <3

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Bubble-Factory wrote:
20 days ago

<3

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sad_caterpillar wrote:
21 days ago

love them

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Eleima wrote:
21 days ago

"Splinter" is probably still their best to me, although BX will always hold a special place in my heart; first trip-hop album I ever heard, and it changed my life [2] Well said, breatheH20!

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djcratedigger wrote:
last month

Did SP really do the beat for that new Metaform joint? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKxTFiC7GsM

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breatheH20 wrote:
last month

"Splinter" is probably still their best to me, although BX will always hold a special place in my heart; first trip-hop album I ever heard, and it changed my life... I just think they progressed so much with "Splinter" and took the band places I didn't think they could go. Kelli and Chris both deserve credit for their contributions, at least in regards to vocals; neither is bad or worse or whatever, both essential to the body of work that is Sneaker Pimps.

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clicktrackheart wrote:
last month

i consider Bloodsport the second best trip hop album i ever listened to (Mezzanine being the best).

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blackadder77 wrote:
last month

Kiss and swallow is hardly even sneaker pimps.

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alicefairyberry wrote:
last month

Oh, and I do love Kelli's folky solo stuff, Rocking Horse is really cute x

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alicefairyberry wrote:
last month

Hehehe, well I'm not going to get violent about it, but I prefer Chris Corner's singing also, he's a sexy beast =)

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Geckonator wrote:
last month

I completely missed the boat on trip-hop. Bands like Sneaker Pimps (as well as Massive Attack and Portishead) make me wish I was a teenager during the '90s. :c

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ativke wrote:
last month

Makes me want to smash Becoming X into shards, shove them through your music-illiterate ears, and desecrate your corpse while blasting Kiss & Swallow.

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blackadder77 wrote:
last month

http://www.last.fm/user/bloodyoctopus/library/music/Sneaker+Pimps?sortOrder=desc&sortBy=plays

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bloodyoctopus wrote:
last month

becoming x was so legendary. makes me wat to beat up people who only like the new sneaker pimps... damn..

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ReFa123 wrote:
last month

Russia-Slovenia EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!))))))))))))))))))

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placebo_molko wrote:
last month

i would like to hear chris on becoming X. There are any good recordings of that? i've heard a few live versions of the hits/singles but in bad quality and etc.

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Sayu_x13 wrote:
last month

Chris WAS clearly that band.

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blackadder77 wrote:
last month

I wouldn't want to hear chris on becoming X, and Kelli on bloodsport/splinter.

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lizaragon wrote:
last month

So much arguing going on here... is it ok for one to like both Kelli's AND Chris' vocals? Because I do. Actually, I enjoy Chris' voice a bit more but I think all the albums are good, I like pretty much every song they've made (that's rare for me) and I disagree that the band's quality declined. I think Bloodsport and Splinter are *awesome* albums, I don't see what everyone's making a big deal over.

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