moment and turn the tune back into the catchy-as-heck pop melody that finishes with a couple happy to go to hell together." "Love Child of the Queen", a tongue-in-cheek guitar pop song, is the first of three consecutive tracks written and sung by Jamie Murphy. "No-One Understands" is a "satirical lament" according to Johnny Cigarettes of NME, which features "overly mixed guitars" which make the song "maddeningly and engrossingly repetitive", whilst "Voodoo Roller" takes inspiration from the 1995 film The Usual Suspects. "Drop Dead" is a funk rock track sung from the point of view of a celebrity stalker, whilst "Dark Clouds" is an ironic "holiday siesta" featuring a trumpet solo." "Major Pager" concerns then-Prime Minister John Major "selling E's to the Russians", a lyric that made musical journalist Colin Larkin surprised that the band didn't end up receiving litigation." "Charlie M." is a "Charles Manson fantasy" which features "Mickey Mouse screwing Minnie". The closing track, "Growler" is a techno instrumental composed and performed by Griffiths alone that uses a prominent voice sample of Cheech and Chong from the film Up in Smoke; writing of the track, Consumable Online said "it doesn't hit 160 beats a minute, but it could easily fit in at a rave. The album's title track is a hidden track at the end of American editions of the album. The song concerns Scott's girlfriend's arachnophobia; Scott explained "that song is about me girlfriend. Basically, I know that she's terrified of spiders but if anyone, like say you come up and tried to hit me, she'd kill ya. She's not frightened of anything in the world except spiders." Journalist Stuart Bernan explained "that's Tommy for ya, expressing his romantic side by playing on his girlfriend's worst fear." Imprint magazine said the song offers "some sound relationship advice which might not sit too well with any of Space's male fans who value their testicles". Release Spiders was released by Gut Records in the United Kingdom on 16 September 1996. In the United States, it was released by Gut and Universal Records on 14 January 1997. Scott chose to adorn the album artwork with numerous tarantulas, which also gives the album its title; he explained "some people can't even put the CD on the [player]. They have to get their friends to put on the CD for them. The reason we put it on the LP cover is simply