Tingles
{{about|the 1990 record|the plural|Tingle (disambiguation)}}
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{{Infobox album
| name = Tingles
| type = EP
| artist = Ratcat
| cover = Tingles EP by Ratcat.jpg
| alt =
| released = {{Start date|1990|10|01|df=yes}}
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio =
| genre =
| length = {{duration|m=13|s=12}}
| label = rooArt
| producer = Nick Mainsbridge
| prev_title = This Nightmare
| prev_year = 1989
| next_title = Blind Love
| next_year = 1991
}}
Tingles is an extended play (EP) by Australian indie pop band Ratcat, released on 1 October 1990.
It went on to peak at No.1 in Australia and finished 1991 as the second best-selling single of the year, behind "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" by Bryan Adams.{{cite web|url=https://www.aria.com.au/charts/1991/singles-chart|title=ARIA Top 50 Singles for 1991|publisher=ARIA|access-date=6 June 2021}} It was also the highest-selling single in Australia by an Australian artist in 1991. The EP was promoted by the song "That Ain't Bad", which charted on the US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart, peaking at number 27 in November 1991.
Reception
Tingles was given 4.5 out of 5 in a review by All Music.{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/tingles-mw0000265498|title=Ratcat – Tingles|publisher=AllMusic|access-date=12 March 2015}}
Steve Gardner from NKVD Records said "I'm really surprised they could chart with a guitar sound this gnarly; the songs are obvious radio pop stuff, but songs made for radio don't have guitars mixed as loud as the vocals and they certainly don't have the distortion set to 10." adding "All of the first side is excellent, and "Skin" from the second side is equally good. "Away from This World" sounds cool on first listen as the music is married with the soundtrack from the Challenger space shuttle explosion, but it doesn't hold up to repeated play and "My Bloody Valentine" is a throwaway experiment that fizzled out. Still, a pleasant surprise and show of potential for good things still to come."{{cite web|url=http://www.ratcat.id.au/review.html|title=Album and Single Reviews|publisher=Ratcat Reviews|accessdate=2 July 2018}}
In The Sell-In, Craig Mathieson said, "Day had written "That Aint Bad" in a simple attempt to mix noisy guitars and the words 'I love you' together in a song. He thought it was funny, coming from the thrash-punk scene. The result was undeniably catchy."{{cite book |title=The Sell-in: How the Music Business Seduced Alternative Rock|last=Mathieson |first=Craig |authorlink= Craig Mathieson |publisher=Allen & Unwin |year=2000 |page=51|isbn=1-86508-412-3}} Junkee described "That Aint Bad" as, "buzzy and ever-so-slightly painful: It’s an ode buried amongst an entire broken speaker’s worth of feedback that eventually descends into a series of scream-sung promises. Blast it outside the house of your beloved through a cassette player held aloft over your head."{{cite web| work= Junkee | title=The 200 Greatest Australian Songs Of All Time, Part One|author=Joseph Earp| url=https://junkee.com/longform/200-greatest-australian-songs-part-one}}
Track listing
{{Track listing
| total_length =
| title1 = That Ain't Bad
| writer1 = Simon Day
| length1 = 4:04
| title2 = Tingles
| writer2 = Day
| length2 = 3:26
| title3 = Don't Go in the Water
| writer3 = Day, Amr Zaid, Andrew Polin
| length3 = 3:47
| title4 = Getting Away (From This World)
| writer4 = Day
| length4 = 5:19
| title5 = Skin
| writer5 = Day
| length5 = 3:20
| title6 = My Bloody Valentine
| writer6 = Day
| length6 = 3:22
}}
Charts
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=Weekly charts=
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!scope="col"|Chart (1991) !scope="col"|Peak |
| {{single chart|Australia|1|artist=RatCat|song=Tingles EP|rowheader=true|access-date=11 March 2015|refname="ARIA Charts"}} |
| scope="row"|US Modern Rock Tracks (Billboard){{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/alternative-airplay/1991-11-02/|title=Alternative Airplay|magazine=Billboard|date=2 November 1991|url-access=subscription|access-date=18 August 2023}} {{small|"That Ain't Bad"}} |27 |
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=Year-end charts=
Certifications
Release history
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" |
| scope="col"|Region
!scope="col"|Date !scope="col"|Format !scope="col"|Label !scope="col"|{{abbr|Ref.|Reference}} |
|---|
| scope="row"|Australia
|1 October 1990 |CD |rowspan="2"|rooArt |{{cite web|url=http://i.imgur.com/j4BHO0C.png|title=New Release Summary – Product Available from: 01/10/90 > Singles (from The ARIA Report Issue No. 38)|publisher=ARIA|via=Imgur|access-date=18 May 2016}} |
| scope="row"|United Kingdom
|15 July 1991 |{{cite magazine|title=New Releases: Albums|magazine=Music Week|page=10|date=13 July 1991}} |