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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 ''

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chart and reached the top 20 in Australia, Finland, Ireland and Italy.

Critical reception

Music writer and columnist

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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." Pan-European magazine ''

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'' commented, "The strings attached to this dance bopper are direct quotes from

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's "Smells Like Teen Spirit". Sequencers and the "''rock da house down''" one-line chorus finish it off."

Track listings

* CD single – Netherlands # "Eighteen Strings" (radio edit) – 3:48 # "Free" (Freedom to Party edit) – 5:07 * CD maxi – Netherlands # "Eighteen Strings" (radio edit) – 3:48 # "Eighteen Strings" (Full On Kitchen mix) – 7:10 # "Eighteen Strings" (Chris & James remix) – 7:24 # "Free" (Freedom to Party mix) – 5:07

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

1993 songs 1994 singles Music Week number-one dance singles Polydor Records singles Songs written by Bobby Hart Songs written by Tommy Boyce Tinman songs {{1990s-dance-song-stub