| "Eighteen Strings" | ||||
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| Single by Tinman | ||||
| Released | 8 August 1994 [1] | |||
| Length | 3:48 | |||
| Label | Polydor | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart, Paul Dakeyne | |||
| Producer(s) | Tinman | |||
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"Eighteen Strings" is a song by English techno producer Tinman. It was reached number nine in the United Kingdom and peaked atop the UK Dance Chart. Outside the UK, "Eighteen Strings" topped the Canadian RPM Dance/Urban chart and reached the top 20 in Australia, Finland, Ireland and Italy.
Music writer and columnist James Masterton described it as a "mainly instrumental track", "using a guitar figure that is startlingly similar to "Smells Like Teen Spirit". Closer examination reveals it is actually a slightly different sequence of chords, but not enough to dull recognition." [2] Pan-European magazine Music & Media commented, "The strings attached to this dance bopper are direct quotes from Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit". Sequencers and the "rock da house down" one-line chorus finish it off." [3]
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