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The ideal "soundtrack your chores" music. You need this kind of music in your life. 3.5
Pretty cool
90s lift muzak with a bit of cartoon music chucked in for good measure.
An interesting album, but hardly a classic. It does what you would expect from Fatboy - it builds, it bleeps, it bounces. But it's very much a fast food instant hit. I didn't find myself humming any of the lops later in the day. My main interest was in trying to spot the samples.
Would probably sound fantastic if you were high
I very much enjoyed this one
What’s the point of this? There’s no depth. No beauty. No lyrical poetry. No instrumentation that makes you go “Wow!” It’s just to dance? No one actually listens to this because they like the music, right? Why is it here?
God I really don't like electronic music
6 / 10
Blei nesten lurt opp et knepp her
Not a fan. Just couldn’t get into it . Bad Zappa .
Sunset 303 <3
Whatever else this album may be it's amazing music to get yardwork done to?
Not for me. 2/ 5
Awesome thanks for the 30th electronic album.
Not my thing
This may have been more enjoyable than most electronica albums at times, but still is just too long and annoying. I like electronic elements in songs, but when that is the whole song, it gets stale.
In the middle of the night It feels alright, but then tomorrow morning, then you come down, oh what if you never come down?
Does anyone really listen to this voluntarily? Also...I'm not buying that it's influential.
Great start! Just write some melodies and some words and you'll have songs.
My first 4! I'm not exactly sure I'd call it music, but it was a lot of pleasing noises in my ears.
I have no problem with Fatboy's big album being on this list. I enjoyed that one. This one though? It's not great. Very repetitive, but none of the famous hits that make me like Fatboy. It has some interesting stuff, sure, but not enough to get this to 3 stars.
Finally some good electronic music, great use of samples and looping and overall all of the production
With the 90s house music kick I've been on, I'm amazed this is my first time listening to this album. Loved it front to back, fun sampling recognition, tasty breakbeats, earwig vocal samples. Gonna have to really dig into Fatboy Slim now.
More synths, more computers, more songs that sound like they’re in a 1996 Olympics/Nike commercial….but somehow works beautifully. These songs really pop on decent speakers…also a lot of the classic rock samples (Sabbath, The Who, etc) are so recognizable that they almost sound like covers, but he still made something interesting and original out of them. Idk why every album on this list seems to be 75 minutes tho, that’s a turn off for me. But i dig it
Repetitive, but takes me back to high school.
It has the same song structures as his later work, with lots of sample-heavy build ups and crescendos but isn't quite as catchy. Still a lot of fun, but I don't think any of the songs stand out enough to go on the playlist.
Fatboy Slim is a DJ. That means his music should be heard on the dance floor and has therefore absolutely no right to be on this list.
No es mi estilo, pero ta bien, qué se yo. 5/10
Já conhecia o nome do Fatboy Slim, mas nunca havia ouvido nada dele. Curti até, mas tenho alguns problemas com o disco. Primeiramente, a sonoridade desse tipo específico de eletrônica costuma me agradar, mas é inegável que é um som bem datado, e até mesmo antiquado. Em curtas doses, é perdoável… mas o álbum não é entregue em curta dose. Com quase 1 hora de duração, a experiência de ouvir esse álbum acaba ficando um pouco maçante lá pela metade. Mas não é ao todo ruim. Como eu disse, eu até gosto dessa sonoridade específica, apesar de ser um som datado. Até salvei algumas das canções. Há aqui samples interessantes, e o disco é ao todo bem produzido. De todo modo, é o clássico CD que eu gostaria de ter na coleção, mas não ouviria com extrema frequência. OK no que propõe, mas com algumas falhas que o impedem de ascender para além da mediocridade. 3/5
It was ok, not a must listen in my opinion
It was alright, just had it on in the background
I knew before I opened this one that it would be a longer album but I actually didn't end up minding the length. I liked this record quite a bit. Yeah, it's repetitive but that's the point for this genre. The repetitive nature lets you get in the groove and get lost a little bit in the music. Then you notice little nuances in the repetitions and that makes it more rewarding. I understand repetitive music isn't for everyone but it really works well for my brain. It's why I like krautrock and krautrock influenced music so much.
I tend to not vibe with this era of digital music (FBS, Moby, Prodigy. I think it is objectively cool shit. And I can hang with it for like 15 minutes, but then I'm pretty much over it. Santa Cruz was a jam. I really like that song.
Good listening while running 🏃♂️ 🏃♀️ 🏃♂️
Pretty good.
Beter dan ik dacht gewoon beetje acid
3.6 2x not sure i've heard this album but it's solid and fun
I like Fatboy Slim. his Live sets are a delight to watch and one album here is okey to showcase the impact he had on early electronic dance music... two is a bit much. Most of the tracks feel pretty dated and some tracks feels like music made for a commercial. Also no hits on this album, feels like it was added only because it was his first album.
Perfect grunge while staying modern. 4.
2.5
I would be shocked if I ever heard an album more predictable than this
2.8 Can honestly say I never bothered to explore his debut, despite loving YCALWB when it came out. The reason was probably, as I later realised, bar a few tracks it's really not fantastic music. Extremely repetitive, most ideas not very exciting, but each one sticks around for way longer than necessary. It's a good entry level into electronics, which is why I think it exploded on to the mainstream. This album then, is a step behind that. It's easy to hear why this didn't have the same reach, as it's lacking the killer instinct of tracks like Rockefeller skank and right here right now which burrow into your head as earworms and make you want to go back. Here it's a just a hodge podge of sounds mashed together, there's talent there to bring it together but not to make it land right. Interesting to hear what came before YCALWB, but can't help but feel this is a lost opportunity to hear so many other great electronics albums but lesser known artists that haven't made it on to this list.
Understandably their most unpolished and raw album, but damn if it doesn't satisfy. I am a massive sucker for 90s electronica.
Spesielt. Men funget veldig bra å arbeidet til, så veldig situasjonsbetinget album.
Fatboy Slim is obviously talented. And his music is fun to listen to. But on this particular album, his first, we are not getting a fully formed artist.
I like this one a bit more than their other record on here. It’s a bit chiller.
Not for me
On a single straight-through listen, this lacks the specific energy that made You've Come a Long Way Baby pop. At its best, this album will get you moving with plenty of boom-bap, shuffling drum beats, and cascading layers of sounds/vocals/effects. At its worst, it is downright boring and certain concepts feel overstretched where they were thin to begin with. Take, for example, First Down, which takes a jazz trumpet loop and repeats it ad nauseum while doing very little underneath to create any meaningful arc. Its not so much "bad" as it is just completely bland and forgettable. Unfortunately the number in this category outnumber the good, though there are a few worth mentioning. Everybody Needs a 303 is a bright bopper and my favorite on the record (also has a synth loop that I could swear LCD Soundsystem ripped in the middle). Give the Po' Man a Break is another fun one with some really solid layering. Overall this lands pretty low in my book. Like a really low 3 or a really high 2.
Happy to see another Fatboy Sim album after the last one. 10th and Crenshaw vocals sounds like RFK Jr. Without relistening to We've Come A Long Way I would say this one is slightly less hit oriented, but all of those same techniques are there to make a truly head bopping album.
Just Fatboy Slim putting out the most elite background noise songs of all time on this album. Was perfect for exactly what I was doing during the time. No knock on it at all, this was great.
As with most Fatboy Slim, I would 10000% meet up with my friend Molly and dance to this in a warehouse. Not as good as the last album we had by him but still this was excellent while working and doing some chores around the house. Low 4. James I will be blasting "THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE" tomorrow afternoon so be ready for that.
I always forget that YCALWB wasn’t Norman Cook’s debut as Fatboy Slim. Instead, this very much sets the blueprint for the big beat sound that would launch him into the stratosphere in the 90s. All the traits are there, but the songs are less defined, have fewer hooks and don’t really stand out from each other. Worth listening to so you can hear how much he developed in just a few years, but feels fairly inessential.
At best it was pretty non-engaging and at worst it was boring. Nothing awful but nothing amazing either. 2.25/5
Enjoyed this more than I thought I would, was good music to work to. Feels a lot more like a mixtape than the other album we had with seemed to more track/hit focused. Sort of sounds halfway between chemical brothers and Mr scruff, mostly it's quite rocky and drum led but it's got an undercurrent of being quirky and relaxed. Reluctant to say it's great because I don't feel the need to hear it again, though it'd be perfectly happy if I did there's nothing that made me specifically want to come back.
Some (presumably) groundbreaking stuff here. A bit boring - lots of the breaks and build ups lead to the same places. Can hear echoes of what's to come. The follow-up is better.
I wasn't aware of this album at all. I thought "you've come a long way baby" was his debut album..... Didn't recognise any of the tracks I don't think. Not a patch on you've come a long way baby, he did clearly! I know that's what this music is, but it's very repetitive and nothing overly interesting here. 3
Unendliche Wiederholungen
Big beat is not a favourite of mine, always loved Santa Cruz though. Listening today, oddly still sounds pretty fresh. Nice bit of variety on the sounds, but ends weakly. 3.5 rounded up Heard before? A couple of tracks Owned: No: 22/1001, 22/93 (23%) Will I get? Maybe
Fantastic & memorable title. Repetitive and uninspiring music.
some fairly dated 90s electronic beats that massively overstay their welcome. each track has a constant, semi-catchy energy that never really goes anywhere. gotta respect the classics I guess 2/5
Is us listening to an album like this now kind of like if a yuppie in the ‘90s was listening to psychedelic music? Is this album now music for old people? This old guy says 4 stars. *wheeze*cough*hack*
I guess we’re just gonna keep getting these techno-y albums. This was at least a bit more interesting than the others. Still, I’m good, list.
Was this what I wanted to hear at 8 am?No. Would I have liked it better much later at night? Also no
Not bad, but didn't do much for me either. Unfortunately sounded very dated, despite being fun.
At first I was thinking it might not be too bad, but with each passing very repetitive track I quickly realized this was more noise than music.
You can hear the potential of the artist in these, but they sound like demos compared to the full tracks of his brilliant second album.
Really feel like doing a lil Guy Ritchie style heist to this. Fun
Very repetitive album. Pretty well just kinda boring throughout. Not terrible, just not memorable in any sense of the word. No interesting melodies or musical decisions.
Liked this better than the last Fatboy we got. The Sabbath sample was cool. Much more listenable. But still not really my thing. 3
Fatboy slim siempre rompiéndola
Fantastic. My ears love picking these sounds apart, and this was a great soundtrack to my Borderlands The Pre Sequel grinding
8/10 - great first album from Fatboy Slim, I'm gonna be honest and say I've never heard any of these songs before but I'm all for it
Better listening to just a few tracks, but I'm biased because I like Fat Boy Slim so here's 4 stars.
Some really nice EDM that is not too aggressive. Great mix of beats and themes throughout the album. I can't think of anything that dragged on or I didn't like, the whole thing maintains the energy. I don't know that I have ever actually heard this album until today and I think it's great, will be listening to this one many more times.
Ah yes, another 90s electronica album made for people on drugs that is absolutely terrible to listen to while sober. "Santa Cruz" can absolutely go fuck itself.
As always, every song is way too long. That being said, there were some serious hits on here for me. Got my butt moving. There were also some major misses.
This isn't usually my thing but was surprisingly fun to listen in the background as I accomplished some mostly mindless tasks
Dated and not my taste
It’s just so not my thing.
Sorry Fatboy, no.
Llegamos al miércoles después de unos días muy movilizantes y vamos con el debut de Fatboy Slim, un artista que relaciono directamente con MTv y, por ende, con mi infancia. Es probablemente el disco más experimental, ácido si se quiere, de su discografía. No lo recordaba y me encantó: apunté varios temas para mi lista de Spotify de los ácidos 90s. Hasta mañana.
I can remember buying this album on release because the guy in the record shop told me it was by the 'talented one' from Beats International. An absolutely amazing album, there were only a few artists creating music like this at this time, and even after 30 years it sounds fantastic.
fun and would be great to dance to especially give po man a break
I can't find anything bad to say about Fatboy Slim. He seems like a fun guy. He just wants to make fun music and his music *is* fun. I don't often find myself thinking that I want to listen to Fatboy Slim, but when I do it's always a good time. I'm sure it's always fun to be Fatboy Slim, regardless of the decade. That floppy disk, though.
This is very fun and scratches a nostalgic itch for mid-'90s electronic music that I didn't know I had. It neatly captures a sound I intensely associate with that time that I have a surprising amount of affection for. It also made my walk to the grocery store sound waaaaay more exciting than it actually was. Currently adding several of these songs to my running playlist.
Electronic, fine in the background
The 90s was loaded. Something about even just the word itself - LOADED! - screams 90s for me. There was the magazine, stylised lowercase loaded, named for the Primal Scream song that was named for the feeling of being so, yep, but there was also the video game I spent large parts of 1997 playing (one level I must have wandered through for an hour before giving up and restating the game – I hope my moment comes again). Funny given the outsized impact of that one magazine brand on British 90s culture, but it’s the video games that best explain my attachment to that word LOADED. Not because I so rued the wasted hour spent traversing a scorched alien landscape looking for a door at which to use the green pass card I’d just wasted 600 crustacean-looking things to earn … but very specifically because of the impact on my young life of the phenomenon of the loading screen. I must have spent an actual full percentage of my life by 7 looking at loading screens. Some were intergalactic and groovy, the sparse polygons of the Sega Saturn’s cruise through deep space for example. Most were just a reproduction of the game’s cover art with a bit of exciting music looped over the top. By the time the PS1 had made its way into my life, load screens taken on a life of their own. The developer’s logos were suddenly alive, animated and having sprouted sonic logos to accompany the pixels – IT’S IN THE GAME – and the games had full title sequences. (Perhaps not quite Saul Bass, but I’d gladly sit and watch Bugs Bunny’s Lost in Time’s first cut scene on repeat all over again.) Fatboy Slim, a defining figure of the second half of the 90s, played in the same space that loaded and its ilk had helped to boundary off. And while you’d be hard pressed to force any definition of “lad” onto Norman Cook directly, it’d be impossible to imagine a 90 lad’s CD rack without one of his albums appearing in it. And yet, again; with the wave of 90s nostalgia that carries through when I play this record … it’s the sound of those video game loading screens that most stick in my memory. Which is to say, this is a record full of the sort of exciting patchworks of borrowed sounds that made the 90s so incredibly bouncy. It’s perfectly entertaining, but I get the feeling it’s also the sound of Fatboy Slim loading; not yet the megastar that will play era-defining live shows, but not far off it either. Will I ever find the door destined to receive that green pass card? It’s a Kafkaesque question. Maybe sometimes you’re better off just leaving the game on the load screen. Sometimes it’s more exciting that way.
Good
I don’t think Fatboy slim understood music theory. Seems most of the songs had one repetitive chord progression that he got lucky finding, and then that was looped a thousand times to make a 5 minute song. Album with most skipped songs so far on this list
I guess there’s some cool sounds but the energy felt super off and it didn’t really go anywhere. Big time snoozer
Sterero imaging in 10th & crenshaw is really cool, 8d audio before its age interesting, but kinda soulless
The author of this book should be put to jail for having TWO Fatboy Slim albums in it. Painful
Why does this list give me their toughest battles.
I've only found torture and pain having to listen to a second Fatboy Slim album in this challenge.
Like sick beats bro but did it actually need to be an hour?!???!?
Sorry, cRap is not my thing.
Best Song: Going out of my Head As one who was in college when this came out, I can say it was relatively popular around campus. And, I didn't like it then anymore than I like it now. Repetitive and boring is the best way to describe it. It's like that episode of Friends where Ross was playing with the sound effects to make music with his keyboard - this is just more on beat. I will not listen again. 2/5.
It’s better if you listen while distracted
Good, but what makes someone think "wow, what a great sample, this needs to be repeated 358 times"?
'You've Come A Long Way, Baby' is a definitive big beat album — maybe **the** definitive one, if you ask me. Almost nothing can top it, in terms of tone, tempo, energy, sampling... In terms of anything. Even in length, despite my thought that not **everything** needed to be 5+ minutes. It's an album I've loved dearly since I first heard "Praise You", and it continues to this day. That's basically how my review of 'You've Come A Long Way, Baby' went back when my group got it, in slightly more-or-less words. And I stand by this opinion greatly. I've listened to it quite a bit since then, and I never get tired of "Gangster Trippin" or "Right Here, Right Now" or, of course, "Fucking In Heaven". Of every electronica-related album my group's gotten thus far, this one easily takes a spot in the top five — heck, put it in top three. Yet, despite my love for 'You've Come A Long Way, Baby', I've rarely ventured into Norman Cook's further discography. There's been a visit or two to the Attack Hamster edit of "Weapon Of Choice" and that's about it. So imagine my surprise, then, when the Randomizer throws out that there's actually a **second** Fatboy Slim album on this list — and it's his **debut**, no less. I mean, I'd seen this cover before, but I'd somehow never put it together that... Heck, that it was even a Fatboy Slim album. The words at the top just somehow always managed to pass me by. So, hey, wow, I finally get to adventure into another Fatboy Slim album! About time I finally got around to one, eh? Looks like I'm bound for more of the same great stuff I've heard on the follow-up! Well... Let me explain. First, let me throw out an old, classic qualifier: "it's not bad." Fatboy Slim knows what's doing as a DJ and I appreciate it very much. There was just... Something about this album that doesn't sit right with me for most of it. Like, it was very recognizably Fatboy, and it's very much the kind of music he makes, but... It was just slightly different enough in a way that it's a little off-putting. I ended up putting it this way to myself: the stank. Fatboy Slim, as I typically enjoy him, has a bit of a stank to his music. Y'know, **attitude**. Even the more "serious sounding" songs on 'You've Come A Long Way, Baby' have some stank to 'em. And of course: "Fucking In Heaven". Now **that** is some **stank**. I ended my 'You've Come A Long Way, Baby' review with the challenge to name another album with that song (or, I'll say now, at least one **like it**), and I think I can say pretty certainly that this album doesn't. There are just some tracks that sound oddly typical, like it could have come from any electronic or big beat DJ at the time. And I get it: it's his debut. He doesn't exactly have the stank figured out yet. But then there are others where, even if you'd presented them to me with the name filed off, I'd **very easily** be able to tell that it's him ("Going Out Of My Head" especially). So... Y'know, it flips. And I kinda just wish it'd just flip over and get stuck on the side that sounds like proto-'You've Come A Long Way, Baby'. I realize as well, I'm largely talking about this thing for what I'd **want** it to be rather than what it **is**. Nothing exists in a vacuum, so it's not entirely**unfair** to compare this to 'You've Come A Long Way, Baby', but to the extent which I've done so far... Yeah, maybe a little. I mean, this is a "pre-evolved" Fatboy Slim, so to speak. I can't expect the same stuff from him that I've gotten from his older self. Heck, from an opinion I've read, this is more a compilation than a proper album. I gotta meet this thing where it is. But even then... It was a little hard to get to the end of this thing and **not** want to just hop over to some cuts from this album's big brother. I suppose if you have a problem with the stank Fatboy Slim would spin on his later albums, this is the one for you. And it's not like there's nothing to enjoy here if you **do** like that stank — "Going Out Of My Head" is the best for that, and "Give The Po' Man A Break" don't do too bad neither. Throw in the bonus cut "Michael Jackson" as well; I enjoyed it quite a bit. But, yeah. 'You've Come A Long Way, Baby' continues to remain definitive. This album didn't do too much to change that. Still, if nothing helps, it helps me appreciate just how far Fatboy Slim **did** come once he got around to making his second album. So, I guess my conclusion is this: while it may not be Fatboy's best, I think it's still worth a listen anyway; it's a good time. And, hey, better living through this than certain other kinds of chemistry, eh?
While it might be as famous as his later work, this is still some damn good big beat. 4.5 bumped up to 5.
I’m at a 5. The last time we got Fatboy Slim was 474 days ago; I gave that album a 5 and called it a masterclass in how to make repetition sound compelling. 474 days later, I feel like that is a weirdly dismissive statement that undermines just how fucking tough this style of music is & how impressively this album comes together. This is a masterclass not in repetition, but in how to mesh samples together in a coherent, exciting, and constantly entertaining way. Yes, this is occasionally a repetitive album, but to point that out while you're listening to it leaves a sort of impression that you’re a bystander to the groove as opposed to immersing yourself in it, and that makes you kind of a square. Time is supposed to fly when you’re having fun, and damn it, I had a LOT of fun here. I’m not sure if this is better than “You’ve Come a Long Way Baby”, given that it has been 474 days, but I’ll damned if I don’t feel just as good after listening to this one. When this album is rolling at its highest points, it feels like listening to a DJ having the set of their fucking life. Of course, this album isn’t immune to criticism; this is Fatboy Slim’s first album, after all, so a lot of the tighter refinements that he’d make by that second album just aren’t here. There are points where intros go a little long in a way that tests the patience at points (specifically the first 1:20 or so of “10th & Crenshaw”), or some tracks that go a little long in a way that stalls some of the album’s momentum (namely “The Weekend Starts Here”), at least one track that’s a little too basic (“Punk to Funk”), & one track that just doesn’t have a great sense of progression (“The Sound of Milwaukee"). If I had listened to just the original UK tracklist, this would be a 4.5 that would still be bumped up to a 5. Thank goodness then for the two extra tracks included on the U.S. version of the album; “Michael Jackson” & “Next to Nothing” really bring the energy back after the original last two tracks pull the vibes down just a bit. The punchier, techno-inspired percussion in the former really makes the track, & the vague chaos of all the synths flying around in the latter really works for me, especially as it makes for a more compelling album closer. Granted, those tracks make the album go from 57 minutes to 70 minutes, but I think the trade-off for a more satisfying ending is worth it. There’s not a track I’d cut or replace from the original UK version, even with some of its flaws. I can acknowledge that electronica / plunderphonics stuff isn’t for everyone, so I guess I’m not that surprised by the 2.99 on the site (even if it is a little baffling to me). For my tastes, it’s just really easy to pop headphones in and fully get immersed into this sort of thing. As always, there’s some level of VGM influence that makes this easier to digest for my ears, and I guess that helps far more than I can ever realize. This album is a damn good 5, and subconsciously, it was probably always going to be a 5 the second it popped up. I highly recommend it, and I’m glad it’s on the list.
Enjoyable listen.
I already listened, that's good.
Not his best record, there is a certain someone I owned on CD in the 90s and still love. This one was pretty dull.
Loved this!
I can definitely see why people wouldn't really like this. I loved it front to back.
Good music, but my poor head can't handle club music. I need more variety in my songs. 2.5/5
Good listen, but I feel with Fatboy Slim you need to do extreme reading between the lines to find anything other than pure entertainment.
Fine
Listened to this like a cloth-eared dunce from my iPhone’s little speaker and that felt right. I’m not a murderer of joy, N Cock has a grasp on fun, and I can live with this and its grand beats for a day. Trois.
"I'm really into Fatboy Slim but, like, his *early* stuff" Anyone? Thought not
Fatboy slim really has a penchant for fabricating these punchy tunes that just get me pumped. Everything just seems like such a breakthrough for the time it was created.
there's something really special about listening to this while already being pretty familiar with his work immediately following this. you can hear "You've Come a Long Way Baby" brewing in this.
Concentration music. It’s repetitive and kills you into the zone but you’re not paying attention to the album. At all. Is this good? Maybe if you need to get work done, maybe not if you’re hoping for a dance party.
It's one of those albums that the longer they are, the better they get. It started off quite slow and boring but got more fun by the end. His other album was even more repetitive and annoying at some points, though I loved the hits very much. Here there weren't any hit songs but overall it's a good big beat / electronica album.
Not my favorite. Repetitive in an obnoxious way, not a fun one.
I find Fatboy Slim good in small doses. Albums that run over an hour start to become diminishing returns. 3/5
Decent electronic album, honestly not enough on this list 3/5
Nice experimentation before better things
Quite enjoyed this
This isn’t the genre I’d personally enjoy but the album is not bad. Many tracks do repeat themselves a lot but this kinda works. I didn’t feel they tried too hard to make me remember anything. +0.5 stars for Going Out of My Head. A very weak 4 for me.
fun album, i really like this kinda of "simple" sound when it comes to electronic music. not sure how much i could realistically go to this album/Fatboy Slim, but nothing to knock against him or the music. this is more of a music choice of what i prefer to listen to. solid album.
This Fatboy Slim album just was not as enjoyable as the other one we have already had. That album had me feeling like I hadn't given drum and bass enough credit, while this one left me feeling burnt out like I had been. Still great driving music during a commute, and also makes me feel like I'm about to pirate music and media in the 2000s while giving the family computer a deadly virus. Could hear arguments for a three but two is where I'll land.
I've been putting off putting together a presentation for work for about a week now. Today was the final day I had to turn it in. I sat down, put this album on, and cranked out a week's worth of procrastination in 1 hour. Absolutely perfect album to get work done to! Right place and right time for this album.
9/26/25. Familiar with Fatboy Slim but didn’t give this a fair listen over the weekend, so this review is a throwaway. Will be cool to see when I revisit in the future and if I still align with my “gut feeling” rating.
it just felt like dull dance music, i’m not big on this guy anyways, he’s got some tunes but that’s it to me, it felt a bit dated
Al principio vi que duraba dos horas y pensé que al fin había encontrado el disco que reflejaba lo que más odio de la electrónica: la duración de sus discos. Pero no, estaba escuchando la edición aniversario. Afortunadamente, la edición original es más breve, aunque de igual manera cada canción resulta ser más larga de lo que debería. O a lo mejor ese es el género y tengo que aprender a quererlo tal y como es.
While not nearly as good as the subsequent album, this is still an enjoyable listen. Fatboy Slim was really my first love when it came to electronic music. 3.5/5
Fun, energetic electronic album. Favorites include Sonf for Lindy, Santa Cruz, Going Out of My Head. Enjoyable listen, the second half of the album starts a slightly different vibe with more repeated, rhythmic electronic beeps and bops.
Long repetitive and the same approach over and over.
Not his best work but it set the stage for his next, very popular album which defined late 90s popular dance music.
It's fine, his better work is yet to come. You need to be there live to really appreciate it. 3/5.
And that's meant to be good is it? 2/5.
i'm genuinely flabbergasted at just how much exponentially better this is than you've come a long way baby
Um álbum que trás um ritmo divertido e diferenciado, comparativamente a outros discos deste tipo de música "artificial". Mas sua duração prolongada e as repetições rítmicas o tornam um tanto arrastado e cansativo, especialmente na segunda metade.
I was not very hopeful I’d like this album as it’s not my thing but really enjoyed it.
Not the best Fatboy Slim album but still a good listen
good
Nice album. Enjoyed a first listen to that.
This album had highs and lows. Some songs I was really jamming to and others I thought “ow my ears” Intetesting that one album had me so polarized.
Love the beats!
kinda like entroducing. i really liked this album. and want to revist again
I felt like this was a very strong debut album from Fatboy Slim. I really enjoyed the electric feel that this album had to it with the processed rhythms as well as the sampling of sounds and vocals. Overall, I really dug this album and would listen to it again in the future!
Strong debut album, which must have generated a lot of excitement. My heart really belongs to his next album, "You've Come a Long Way, Baby". Fatboy Slim was really the first electronic music artist to land on my radar--this album came out when I was 14 and the successor when I was 16. He made me excited for the future of music, and I was right to be.
Ok
8.5/10
not really my kinda thing
Heel vet album. Nog wat ruiger dan zijn latere werk!
Thought this was a podcast but was electropop instead.
Good ole 90’s DJ music. I like it if I’m in the mood for it.
I will not include the bonus tracks from the US Astralwerks release in this review. It had been some time since I listened to Fatboy Slim, after getting You've Come a Long Way Baby as album #46 on my journey. I figured going back to his debut album would elicit an understanding of the sonic direction he would take his big beat music, without being as strong or compelling as his international breakthrough. Turns out that was the right expectation to set for Better Living Through Chemistry. To be fair, there are a couple of genuine bops on this record, particularly the run from "Going Out of My Head" through "Give the Po' Man a Break", where the eclectic sampling and electronic instrumentation are cleverly blended and make for an engaging listen. However, my interest admittedly started to wane with the warbly synths on "10th and Crenshaw", saved towards the end with the Kraftwerk-esque vocalization against the breakbeats on "Punk to Funk" and the filtered guitar rollick playing through "The Sound of Milwaukee". There are some good ideas to be found here, and I can hear how Fatboy Slim would become the creative force he's known to be in the electronic landscape. It's a fine record, even if it doesn't feel like their most enticing output.
I like the sound of this. It's creative in the mixing and sampling. There's a lot of creativity here, and I like how it builds on itself. But it's so excruciatingly long and repetitive. I really want to know who puts this album on, and listens to it in its entirety. What are you doing? It's too harsh for study music, it's too grueling for active listening, it's too hollow for mundane tasks, and it's too boring to dance to. Considering the name, should I take drugs for this? Which ones? Who is listening to this album and what are they doing?!? Also, to me (and I'm guessing a lot of, for lack of another term, CANZUK people), 303 is first a rifle cartridge and nickname for the Lee-Enfield, making "Everybody Needs a 303" a literal call to arms, and there's nothing in the song to hint otherwise. I had to look it up on the Internet to figure out it's a synth, which would not have been easy to do in 1996, and had been discontinued for over a decade, while the gun was still going strong. This was his debut, a song title saying everybody should be armed, and no lyrics to clarify? What is this album saying, and who is it for? Again, who is listening to this, and when?
Good production, the songs here are more interesting than most other things I've heard from this genre.
Enjoyable
This is rubbish IMO. His best album is by far You’ve Come a Long Way Baby.
While not quite in my usual musical lane, this turned out to be a surprisingly enjoyable listen. What really hooked me was the clever use of samples—spotting Black Sabbath’s “The Wizard” and The Who’s “Can’t Explain” added an extra layer of fun and appreciation. It’s a record that feels both chaotic and calculated, with infectious grooves and a cheeky sense of rhythm. Not something I’d listen to again, but I’m glad it came up.
Please make it stop. I like some of his singles, so I thought this would at least be listenable. I was wrong. There's not enough drugs in this world to make it tolerable.
Probably makes more sense as a live experience than as a studio album.
Ok I suppose, never gonna listen to it again though.
Is this repetitive? Yes, but it's repeating something fun!
This is just one of the many albums that shows you why Norman is so well regarded
More music I never got to but finally could have a listen. Good fun, but couldn't really make it stick.
Standard rave music; I guess good for background music when working, but there are better sounds for even that.
Boring
"The Weekend Starts Here" and "Song For Lindy" are really awesome so far. "Everbody needs a 303", "Give The Po' Man a Break" also good. Overall a 3 though for me.
just a fun listen to groove to while working
Kadett, Dinkelsbühl - Würzburg, Deutschland. Gar nich so gut.
This album is like the time a couple of girls invite you and your mates over to one of their houses to watch DVDs. One of your mates chooses the movie 'SWAT'. It's not memorable. Yes, it has action scenes and a big budget, but you couldn't quote a line now or remember who exactly was in it (was Terry Crewes in there?). But it's an exciting romp. Predictable and not difficult to listen to you. One of the girls wants to snuggle up close to you (I know?! I'm just as surpised) and you ignore the movie for ten minutes. But who cares? You know how it is going to go! The movie finishes, you forget it. The girl never texts back despite the texts you end with 'tb'. You'll do the same again next week with Ben Stiller in 'Starsky and Hutch'. 3 Stars. Imitation in the highest for of flattery.
This gives the vibe of a low level group of criminals in east London. Using IT knowledge, they hack the security systems of clothing shops and steal fashionable clothes. Some of the clothes they resell, some of the clothes they steal for themselves. They are always the best dressed in the dance clubs on high street.
Having only heard his later stuff I was surprised by this. Well rounded effort and an easy listen
3.5
3.5
Goes to get the cardboard I keep in the back of my car for just this occasion. Finally, a Breakdance battle in the Walmart parking lot ... Hit it DJ!
This was about what I was expecting it would be. Was digging it while driving between Seattle and Portland, and had an easy 3 from me, but hearing a track featuring my favorite Fela Kuti track upped this to a 4.
The only interesting thing I have to say about this is that when "You're Come a Long Way Baby" appeared a few months ago, for some reason, since that day, every time I open the 1001albumsgenerator app on my phone in airplane mode, without internet access, the album page appears as if I had never listened to it. Which made me desperately want a T-shirt that says "I'm Number 1, so why try harder?". Thanks, little-chubby-guy! You're the coolest guy in the world! Other than that, it's still not my type of music and sounds even more repetitive than what I've listened to before. 2 stars
I am two years older than this album, and I am still not old enough for this.
Every song is very repetitive.
Ugh another one I know is gonna be a slog (and it was). This kind of music is just not for me. I don't feel like stealing hooks from other people's music and adding shitty repetitive electronic beats and random sounds over the top while twisting knobs to phase, fade, and pan the sound should be celebrated. Remember in Friends when Ross played keyboards and had his 'sound'? That's what this is. It was funny when Ross did it, this is not funny. Nor is it good music. 1/5
I prefer trip-hop or artists like Underworld or Goldie or Even Moby
Better Living Through Chemistry has its moments of groove and club atmosphere, but over time it becomes monotonous and tiring. The heavy breakbeats and repetitive structures lack variation, and while the production is solid, many tracks feel like slight variations on the same idea. It works better as background music on a dancefloor or a FIFA game than as an album you actually want to listen to from start to finish. An important step in Fatboy Slim’s career, but musically not very engaging. 2/5
Norman Cook does exactly what his name says. I was very familiar with his work on YCALWB, and I see in this album where a lot of the ideas came from. That being said, it does have more flaws than that album, at some points being repetitive. Yet it keeps you hypnotized on even the most boring songs. Better than "The White Album." Sue me. 4/5
#680. It's noisy. That's about it. 2/5: yeah
A whole album of this is too much for me. I guess it was cool in its day but now it's rather tedious. 3/5
Way fewer irritating vocal samples than the other album so a lot easier going, he actually allows the moods and vibes of the beats to breathe, settle, and come through a lot more. Extremely 90s UK mix of dub, house, baggy, trip hop and DnB sounds. Mostly big beat brash bangers that are joyously stupid dance floor fillers, but a few chilled out mellow melancholy numbers to cool off. Still, a lot of songs for really trying to convince yourself your having a good time - no wonder this has become the default inoffensive sound of high energy optimistic advertising for package holidays, sales at the electronics megastore, exciting new biscuits, and 2 for 1 pizza delivery.
This album was a huge part of my teenage years. I remember some of my friends refusing to listen to Fatboy Slim because we were all about what we called “real techno,” the kind you’d only hear at raves or find on DJ mixtapes in underground clothing stores. They wrote off anything mainstream as “techno wannabe,” thinking they were too cool for him. But the truth is, Fatboy Slim was an incredible producer with a knack for finding unique and special samples. He had a way of transforming them into something completely different, giving them a whole new vibe from the originals, and that’s what really made his music stand out to me.
***An ok album
first part was magical
Somewhat dated, but still fun and energetic.
Fatboy Slim falls squarely into the epicenter of my musical world. There is no "this is great" or this is OK... it is canon for my music taste universe. Several bands fall within this bandwidth and form the foundation of my inner circle that expands and takes in every other band and style thereafter. It all starts here and everything evolves from it. Thus, there is really no point in candy coating it. For me this is the cats meow.
Unbelievably boring
Umm…Not really sure what this is. Definitely, some of the sounds and mixes are unusual, but also repetitive.
Within this genre, this is pretty good - I didn't feel like a film was about to start or an elevator door was about to close.
The soundtrack to an endless chase scene in a modestly budgeted 90s movie.
Fatboy Slim is clucking in heaven.
Song for Lindy - 4/5 Santa Cruz - 3/5 Going Out of My Head - 5/5 The Weekend Starts Here - 3/5 Everybody Needs a 303 - 4/5 Give the Po'Man a Break - 4/5 10th and Crenshaw - 3/5 First Down - 5/5 Punk to Funk - 3/5 The Sound of Milwaukee - 3/5 Average score: 3.7/5 (rounding down) some tracks were alright. i just found this average at best for the most part
geometry dash ahh music
nah
Ts was buns. I did not enjoy this genre.
Another goat when it comes to grinding bosses I just don’t know if it’s the kind of thing I’d replay
i spaced out
Not there yet
I really enjoyed this. Part way through the album it occurred to me that this sounded familiar. It reminded me of that music video where Christopher Walken dances. What do you know it's the same artist. I listened to this while working and it was great for that because there aren't any lyrics and it's pretty vibey.
Give me a pair of wire framed sunglasses, a trench coat, a wardrobe with a suspicious amount of latex in it, a pair of calf length jack-boots, and jack my ass into the matrix baby. Then turn on this album, and let me stop some bullets and punch some agent smiths, and you’ve got a great Saturday night right there.
2.3 / 5 Make your own fatboy slim song at home! Repeat the same line 50 times and add in one or two fills! Sass aside, none of this album has the staying power of his sophomore album which I imagine we will listen to later fave song: going out of my head
Interesting (:
sorry, Yellow Magic Orchestra, we know you were very influential in the field of electronic music and you made lots of good music, but we REALLY had to make room for our 300,000th album of English electronic drivel, and we just really strongly felt it was important we include a second Fatboy Slim album that most people haven't heard of and doesn't even seem to be particularly well regarded. it truly is regrettable that you aren't from a western country and didn't appear in NME when Robert Dimery was a teenager but we're sure you can make it into the next edition if you simply become English and get a lobotomy!
Fatboy Slim’s sophomore album is titled, “You’ve Come along Long Way Baby” I can only assume it’s in reference to the debut and how painfully boring it is. It’s unnecessarily long and the builds leave you unsatisfied, they really go nowhere. The beats are dull, I never felt the energy that should accompany an electronic/dance album. I really didn’t expect to hate this but I did. 1 star
Club/dance music really isn’t my thing. I’m sure this is fine if you are in a club and want to dance to it. But listening to a whole album’s worth in one go is a bit much
there’s no way i needed to listen to this before i die
Magpie music. Jeremy Usborne music. FIFA menu screen music. Edgy advert music. Quite tedious. Too high energy for study beats, too low energy for party beats. Music for dads who were quite into their Stone Roses but are now “passionate“ about EDM. They’ll even DJ at your 50’th if you want.
This is fun. Like eating a feast ice lolly. It's a quick pick-me-up, to elevate your day. It's over quickly and doesn't leave a lingering unpleasant taste. But it's not something thats going to change your perspective on life. And if you ate this all day every day it might do some serious damage to your internal organs.
Not exactly sure why two Fatboy Slim albums made this list but this was certainly a fun listen.
A very dated album in my opinion. It’s super long and repetitive, nothing really stands out, and it can probably be fully appreciated only if you’re full of illegal chemicals. I’m not a huge fan of big beat in the first place, it’s too close to dance and house music for my taste – but I find it even harder to listen in "album mode". Big beat is explicitely designed as clubbing music ; it doesn’t make much sense to blast it on speakers at home unless you’re having a party. And even then, it's super basic. I initially considered giving this album a 2* because I enjoyed the first few tracks. But by the end of the album, the repetitivity was seriously getting on my nerves. Certainly won't listen again. A completely dispensable album in my opinion, especially since You've Come A Long Way Baby is already on this list too...
Benn - idk Luke - 7
Enough with the damn edm!
Fatboy Slim loves to name his albums after advertising campaign slogans. The first half of this album is much stronger than the second half of the album. I think "You've Come a Long Way Baby" is the most consistently album but this is the better album. The highs are higher, even if the lowers are lower. The first 4-5 songs are really good and I didn't even know how much I knew Going out of my Head. This album still reeks of Brooklyn hipster (see my review for You've Come a Long Way Baby) but there is more on here that I like compared to the album after this one. My favorite tracks are: Santa Cruz The Weekend Starts Here (I really liked this one and don't know why) Going Out of My Head Everybody Needs a 303 First Down Punk to Funk (mostly the horns)
Not my kind of music.
Not as iconic as We Have Come A Long Way Baby. But I enjoyed this, I like big beat grooves it seems, and the record settled nicely into the background. Still, not sure if this list needed 2 albums by Fatboy Slim.
I hate this kind of drum and base electronica...
i'm not huge on electronic music in general, but at the very least, fatboy slim seems to make some of the most fun to listen to stuff i've heard out of this project. the songs are upbeat and the beats here are enjoyable to listen to. the unfortunate thing is that i have a bit of a short fuse when it comes to electronic music, so the runtime for me was the real killer here. if it was 20 minutes shorter, i probably would have liked this a lot more.
Electronica with plenty of sampling makes for a good dance/clubbing album. Sounds Prodigy like in places without the vocals. Doubt I will listen to this ever again
I've got the other Fatboy Slim album on this list. It's hardly better than the other one. "Better Living Through Chemistry" has some interesting beats, though. I think that "Santa Cruz" is the best song on the album, and it should've been a single. The actual singles are no better than the filler. 2 stars for "Better Living Through Chemistry".
Not quite there yet, but his release sround '00 is a 5/5
All my homies love fatboy slim, banging album.
Fatboy Slim songs remind me of SNL sketches. Some start really brilliant but as they keep going I can't believe how long they're willing to drag it out when they should have ended it four minutes ago. I do really get the impression that he really respects the source material he uses and loves music more than a lot of other DJs.
Good album to listen to while working, but not interesting enough to listen on its own.
A less refined version of You’ve Come A Long Way, Baby, but equally repetitive. While this one influenced that late 90s big beat sound, the repetition really rips my knitting! Especially on Santa Cruz. Not my favourite album that I have heard this week, but does put me right back in the big Ibiza clubs, off my tits on mandy, and basking in the laser strobe glow. Good times.
This was a fun surprise. Fatboy Slim’s debut delivers a mix of big beats, funky samples, and just enough weirdness to keep things interesting. You can hear the early blueprint for what would become his signature sound later on. Tracks like “Santa Cruz” and “Everybody Needs a 303” bring a lot of energy, and the album keeps a good pace throughout. It’s a snapshot of late ‘90s electronic music before it really exploded. Even if you’re not big on electronic stuff, there’s enough variety and groove here to keep you engaged
I have never listened to this album before, however, even though it is defenitely not my genre I really appreciate it. All those electronic rythms are stuck in my head and while i was listening I felt absorbed.
Relentless, raw Fatboy with vintage drums and sometimes guitars. Lots of interesting bits peppered throughout.
The Good: Hopefully my last Fat Boy Slim album on this journey! The Bad: That this is my second Fat Boy Slim album on this journey… The Ugly: My lab after me trying to get to better living through chemistry… The other day I was grateful to Mr Demiry’s list as I was listening to some stuff that I’d never listened to before, and probably never would have listened to if it hadn’t been for this journey—Tago Mago by Can, for those of you wondering… Today, I am ungrateful to Mr Demiry’s list as, for the second time, I’ve been exposed to absolute shit EMD which, if we are being truthful, does not deserve more than 1 to 2 albums on a list of 1000… and yet I’ve had the displeasure of being forced to sit through—Just checed, and under pure electronica, I have currently listed 14 albums, with an average score of 2.4, due to Kraftwork and Moby getting good reviews. Anyway, I’ve already wasted too much energy reviewing an album which I will never listen to again… Sorry Fat Boy Slim, hope your ego can handle the second 1* I am handing out to you...
Started listening at 2:46 PM - it’s a lyricless album so idk how much I’ll genuinely connect to it but Ykw, I’ll see. The beats seem to be cooking thus far so I’m not complaining - I still don’t get why any electronica album is a must listen but I’m genuinely not mad I spent my 51 minutes on it - Give the Po‘ man a break cooks
This album was a huge part of my teenage years. I remember some of my friends refusing to listen to Fatboy Slim because we were all about what we called “real techno,” the kind you’d only hear at raves or find on DJ mixtapes in underground clothing stores. They wrote off anything mainstream as “techno wannabe,” thinking they were too cool for him. But the truth is, Fatboy Slim was an incredible producer with a knack for finding unique and special samples. He had a way of transforming them into something completely different, giving them a whole new vibe from the originals, and that’s what really made his music stand out to me.
Taitavaa mutta ei todellista sielua
Repetitive and distracting trying to figure out where the music was sampled from. Thinking “is that the Wizard from Black Sabbath “ is not enough to override “this song is not very good.”
it's giving the 2001 TV spy drama Alias starring Jennifer Garner
Coincidence that the song The Weekend Starts Here features a sample of the intro to Black Sabbath's song The Wizard, and I had this album literally the day after Ozzy's death. RIP Ozzy Favorite songs: Give the Po' Man a Break, The Weekend Starts Here, Song for Lindy, Everybody Needs a 303 Least favorite songs: 10th and Crenshaw 3/5
Fav: Santa Cruz Least Fav: Give The Po’ Man A Break Celebrating 400 albums with a good album! Credit to Fatboy Slim, you can always tell when it’s his music, he just has that uniqueness to his mixing
Much better than I expected
Loved that breakbeat vibe
I hoped I'd never have to hear this guy again. Big Beat was crap in the '90s, and this aged very poorly.
Not bad but I don't remember any song sticking out. Not something I would revisit for active listening but decent as background music. 4/10
This is our second Fatboy Slim album, and I'm excited. The last album we listened to was his sophomore project, and this is his debut. I've never listened to this one front to back either. "Going Out of My Head" is a banger filled with classic Fatboy Slim sound effects. "Everybody needs a 303" is funky. I like "First Down" a lot. I didn't enjoy this album as much as his second. It was definitely not bad, but a lot of the songs were single-tone and the album ran way too long. This was surely pioneering work back in the day, but EDM has come a long way and it makes this album feel a little empty. I think I'd enjoy it a lot more if I was dancing somewhere. It was fun, but it was mostly background music. 6/10
It's nothing wild now, but I could see this going hard in a club if you've never heard anything like it.
It’s me. I’m the funk soul brother.
First time hearing this after years of constantly bumping “You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby”. Love it even though it’s too long and rendered redundant by its successor. Prob closer to a 3.5
I repeat NO electronic music album should ever be in a top anything list.
I was in my early 20s when this came out in 1996, which meant if it wasn't metal it was crap. I outgrew that attitude, thankfully, and grew to like some dance music, like Daft Punk, Justice, Royksopp and Robyn. Fatboy Slim's BLTC is good, and it has some tasty grooves, but as a whole, I doubt I'll listen to it again. Highlights for me were Song for Lindy, Going Out of My Head (the one song I'd heard before) and my fave song The Weekend Starts Here with a tasty sample of Black Sabbath's The Wizard.
Sorry this might not be a fully popular opinion but my favourite thing with norman cook on it is the housemartins hull 4 london 0
me enjoy
Fun listen, a bit flat, but I enjoyed it 3
It's 90s electronic and it still sounds good in 2025. Maybe even better than some of the new stuff with the extremely obnoxious samples.
I'll give it 2 stars, cause it features a sample from my favorite composer of all time Keith Mansfield.
Not bad instrumental album
Not my kind of thing but quite enjoyed. Some catchy beats and although it has the genre's usual repetition I didn't get as bored as with some other EDM
I thought this album was totally new to me, but more than a few of the album tracks were very familiar. I guess it was everywhere in the mid 90s and beyond. It's a thrilling start of the reign of FBS, though some of the songs feel a little formulaic with their sample styles
I always thought Fatboy Slim was a rapper?? The weekend starts here contains a sample of Sabbath's "The Wizard"
Not as obnoxious as the Chemical Brothers, but not for me. It sounds like forgettable video game soundtrack music.
Haven’t heard this in a while but it was fun to revisit.
It's repetitive like all his stuff.
After weeks of mercifully getting no British electronica….sigh Oh cool it’s a Fatboy Slim album with none of his hits on it, and it’s 70 minutes long!
This is the British bias coming out. This album is alright but not even close to Come Along Way Baby. About a 3.5 but Im taking it to a 3.
-idk this was a liiittle bland by acid house standards to me. i adore electronic music but it was sorta hard to get into at first -i definitely warmed to it a bit by the end and it barely made 3 stars for me -there are definitely worse albums out there. it was a fun vibe for sure i’ll give it that -Favorites are Going Out Of My Head and 10th and Crenshaw
Nope. Don’t need this many Fatboy Slim albums.
Put your hands in the air like you just don't care.
Not really into DJ music. I felt like these songs could easily have lyrics which is not something I usually find in DJ music.
I like the "hits" of Fatboy Slim: "Weapon of Choice," "Praise You," and whatever. But maybe because I heard the single edits, I expected the songs to be shorter. Sadly, they are not. Every song FEELS too long, even the ones that are well under 5 minutes. And repetitive. The build in each song just... bores me after a while. It's all A-A-A, and no B or even a C to vary it up. But that's how I've always felt about electronica, but I will give him one or two of the songs, they were a bit catchy. Top tracks: "Song for Lindy," "Going Out Of My Head," "10th & Crenshaw," "The Weekend Starts Here"
My first thought was the Rockafeller Skank needs two albums on the 1,001 list? His sophomore album with that hit should be it. But I think I might like this one better. He's groovy and really blends his real instrument and electronica samples well on this album. He was talented from the get-go. I didn't love everything and I don't think I can quite hit a 4 with this album, but I did really enjoy Santa Cruz, Going Out of My Head, Give the Po Man a Break, and Michael Jackson (technically a bonus track).
DOOO...DOOO...DOOO...DOOO DOO-DOO-DOO-DOO-DOO-DOO-DOO-DOO D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D This is my second Fatboy Slim album. It's boring and repetitive. It's also repetitive and boring. Especially that one drum beat that he uses in almost EVERY. SINGLE. SONG. Plus, he occasionally throws in sounds I can't stand. Not a 1 because it was somewhat tolerable, but it was pretty close. Song I sort of liked: Santa Cruz (still tons of repetition and that same drum beat he uses throughout most of the album, but it had a nice vibe).
Excelente álbum. QKZxHBB Hades.
Road trip music forever. And instantly transported to figure skating on in-lines at 17/18/19. Not a regular listen, but so good with heavy dollaps of the best kind of nostalgia
Fun beats, but you couldn't pay me to care
Would have been good in the right environment.
girl sometimes i wonder who made this list of álbum i must listen to before i die…
I can get the hype and there are some super cool tracks here, just will never entirely be my thing.
Very dated and just boring. I didn't enjoy this.
Ah yes, the late ’90s musical time machine continues its tour—and I’m apparently still onboard. Fatboy Slim was peak dance-floor fuel back in the day. I actually drove from Portland to Seattle with friends to see him live, which felt very important at the time (and still kinda does). His stage presence was electric—like your favorite house party DJ who accidentally became famous. Also, he didn’t wear shoes during his set, which felt rebellious and approachable. Listening to this album now feels like opening a box of old sparkly toys from your childhood—there’s instant joy, a little “aww,” and a brief existential crisis about how time…... It’s all good though. This album was perfect for what it was when it was: a glitter bomb of funky beats, squiggly sounds, and dance-floor memories.
I hear a lot of Perrey and Kingsley, Wendy Carlos, and Ennio Morricone influences I like going on here, which was apropos of the era. It's wild to consider what a variety of subgenres those same 60s sample sources all contributed to at the time; be it trip-hop, house, techno, ambient, or in this case big beat. That said, I always found big beat to be fucking boring. This album is no exception. Most of it sounds like generic stock placement library music to be used in a middling heist film directed by Guy Ritchie or a sneaker commercial. Yawn. Sure, it's listenable, in that nothing about it is particularly annoying (perhaps other than the needless hammering repetition), but none of it really excites the senses either. There are some fun samples and sounds effects throughout, but probably all a lot more engaging to hear while hopped up on goofballs in a warehouse or out in the desert under the starts at 100 dB where the bass is pumping your heart for you. I've always maintained that if one must have one's senses altered to appreciate a piece of creative work, it's not all that creative.
It is what it is Not sure I ever want to listen to it again in its entirety but Going Out Of My Head goes on the gym playlist Let’s be kind and say 3 if you’re smashed in a club
a little bit cooler than the last You’ve Come A Long Way Baby but still nothing crazy crazy. like if this album came out today i don’t think anyone would care
I'm gonna tell my kids this is what CDs looked like. Past that this album was kinda useful, keeping me awake on a Friday afternoon, starting an evaluation report, waiting to lunch the clock. (Work to live, not the other way 'round, am I right?). At least the words didn't get of the way and the hypnotic reporting was surprisingly good for focus work. Won't be doing it again though. Probs just a two.
Chill vibes beats
It sounds like something a vibe coder would listen to while getting into the zone. I don't particularly hate it, but it's more background music than something you actively listen to in my opinion.
I’ve given 1’s before but never quite this passionately.
I did use a private spotify session for this one, as not a fan of EDM. I also waited until the afternoon until I gave it a listen as I thought I would be more receptive to it. A positive comment about this album: it is one of the most appropriate titled albums I have heard in a while as you need to be on club drugs to enjoy this redundant noise over repetitive beats.
Fun background music. It's not really what I think of when I think of DJ music but this is probably what DJs sounded like in the 90s. It ain't bad, it ain't good either. Should've been "You've Come A Long Way Baby", and if that is in this list, this should have been omitted. In a list of 1001 albums, do we really need 2 Fatboy Slim albums? Maybe i'm underestimating how much 1001 albums really is...
Started chill, good beats and loops, good background, inspired
What do you mean there are TWO Fatboy Slim albums on this list. I'll admit I enjoyed You've Come a Long Way Baby but this one is just repetitive and boring. Get out of here with this crap stuck in the 90s. Why are we doing this.
Smaller amount of words made it only a little better than that album with a fat kid. I am still a Fatboy Slim hater, sorry Fatboy Slim enjoyers.
Not bad, not as good as fat of the land in my opinion, but worthy of a few listens
Big electronic guy, so i had fun with this one. Kinda reminded me of aphex twin
Nice one
I like the album name, it has an interesting history. I feel like you don't hear that much about DuPont nowadays. Album itself was very 90s and pretty boring. Not bad for doing work. High 2.
7/10 - I feel like this type of noise music just makes me happy. I can say that the sound of Milwaukee is fairly accurate that's all I hear when I visit.
Parts were good, but mostly just mediocre. As is the case with every 90s techno/electronica album, it was too long Edit: didn’t realize I originally gave this a 3. There are songs on here that I still listen to frequently which is somewhat rare for these 90s electronica inclusions so I’m bumping it up to a 4
A bit dull, surprisingly.
I was surprised by this, in a good way. I'd always know FBS as a pop focused big beat producer, but this had some lovely rough edges and is based on a more underground/rave culture sound. Like early chemical brothers, with lots of early ibiza house touches. It ran out of ideas quickly and the second half dragged, but enjoyed the first half
I feel really conflicted on this one cause the songs I do like I really like it’s just a shame there’s only 3 of them and all the other songs could have been 1 minute long