Back then there were two types of album/singles charts; one that counted EPs as singles and one that counted them as albums. Rage's music chart counted them as singles and that's the only one worth bothering about.
The song had a very simple video, and its EP flew up the charts and hit number 1 in no time. Unfortunately, Ratcat's record label (rooArt) decided to stop pressing Tingles while it was still at number 1 (couldn't they have waited a few weeks?) so promo etc could be centred on the forthcoming album. It worked, and both the album and follow-up single were both number 1s and Tingles dropped like a stone from the charts, only having had two weeks at number one.
However, Tingles got to have its moment of glory in the year-end charts for 1991, where it ranked number 2. Number 1 was that godawful Bryan Adams song from that Robin Hood movie which stayed at number 1 for 11 weeks, but I think it could have easily been overtaken by Ratcat had rooArt not ceased making the EP.
I couldn't believe it when a few months ago a shitty cover version of "That Ain't Bad" was used in a tacky Bonds TV ad. Simon Day, Ratcat's singer, was even in it. Nothing pisses you off more than an awesome song from your teenage years being bastardised for the sake of some lame commercial two decades down the track.
I remember watching the year-end countdown on Rage in 1991 with some others and we were all blown away when we saw Ratcat at number 2. The sliding volume knob on the clapped-out Mitsubishi TV was pushed all the way up and yanked off.
Enough talk. Watch the video, turn the sound up, and jump around like a rhesus monkey on crystal meth. Just like we did in '91.
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