"6 Underground" is a song by the British band Sneaker Pimps, from their 1996 album Becoming X. First released as a single in the UK in October 1996, the song reached number 15 on the UK Singles Chart and had moderate radio airplay in the United States. However, after appearing on the soundtrack of the 1997 American film The Saint, radio stations began playing it more frequently; many stations continue to keep the song in their playlists. The single was re-released in the UK in May 1997, where it reached number 9 on the UK Singles Chart. In the United States, the song peaked at number 45 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Originally, the song was a club hit in the UK. After the commercial success and popularity of the album version of the song, the group released several remixes, some of which became hits in dance clubs and radio stations with a dance format. The version most frequently heard on radio was the remix by Nellee Hooper (which appeared as a hidden track on the album).
The cover art for the 1996 single is created from a Lego piece popular in the 1980s. The piece is a large, square, grey platform with mountains and craters for building space scenes.
The harp melody at the beginning of the song is sampled from the track "Golden Girl" from the soundtrack for the 1964 James Bond movie Goldfinger (specifically the scene where Bond discovers Jill Masterson covered in gold paint).
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Famous quotes containing the word underground:
“Or as, when an underground train, in the tube, stops too long between stations
And the conversation rises and slowly fades into silence
And you see behind every face the mental emptiness deepen
Leaving only the growing terror of nothing to think about....”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)