Reviews (page 6 of 7)
This literally gave me a headache near the end. Some of it was alright, but thats just what it was... alright at best. Overal not very impressed, only a headache left from this one. Favorite track: Everybody needs a 303. Overal score: 10 lost braincells out of 31 pele soccer jerseys.
Not bad really but didn’t fit my vibe AT ALL
Had it on in the background. Wasn't terrible
Annoying, not sure why we need more than one Fatboy Slim album and this is the lesser of the two on the list
Ok as focus music, but I'd rather listen to DJ Shadow.
This music sucks. It's flat and tuneless, made of almost 100% sampled beats, it's impossible to listen to for pleasure, it was made to be bedding tracks for slightly-cool documentaries about insufferable London media types. Still, it was omnipresent in this niche during its time and so probably deserves its place on the list as a historical document. First Down was the only track with some interest for me, as it sampled swing and jazz, but I will not be returning to this album.
Meni je ovo simpa ali baš pokazuje znakove vremena
Same as the You’ve Come a Long Way Baby album. Good dance music but to repetitive to just listen to.
Heard a different Fatboy Slim album before and my conclusion is that I don't like his style. His biggest hits are really good but everything else is just kinda meh? It's not terrible, just not memorable 2/5
Is this the music from those anti-piracy ads that were on every DVD in the late 90s/early 2000s? Love it.
Irritating if you're trying to get something done. Maybe totally awesome if you're on drugs, but I didn't test that theory.
Not sure this was ever good.. Age sure hasn't help it, maybe in another 30 or so years. 1.5.
It was in my headphones while working and it didn’t distract me very much. That much is good.
Nothing terrible about it and IT would be great for clubbing if I liked clubbing, but just not something I’d ever be in the mood to listen to.
I maintain that this is not real music, and moreover, this is not a real album. It's just a collection of similar sounding songs that are not meant to be listened to front to back. I don't know if it's meant to be "listened to" at all, but rather heard. Instead it's a 70 min headache of listening to loops and samples that just feel like they're background music to some movie montage or a game of Lazer Tag. Don't even see the dance appeal in these songs either. Will have to give it another try while on acid I suppose. At least Saint Etienne had vocals.
Got two more songs to go but i’ll just go ahead and say this isn’t really my cup of tea. I won’t listen to it again but I appreciate what it was trying to do? I can imagine enjoying it in a different context
Gear: Focalman Cleardara Artwork: ⬜💾🖊️ Production: 🧏♂️📏💩 Music: 💊🚀🕰️ Rating: 💾(💾)/5
Ihan ok mut tavallaan joka biisi on vähän sama. Junkkaa junkkaa. Kyllä tätä yön tamppais, mut ei ihan yhtä soittoa, kyllästymisen vaara on suuri. Se toinen levy on parempi ja monipuolisempi (onks tää varhaisempi? Kuulostaa siltä, en jaksa tarkistaa, ei kiinnosta niin paljoa)
Mietin, onko tässä mitään toisen/kolmannen kuuntelun arvoista, mutta huomasin, että päätös ei ollut täysin minun: pari samplea levyn alkupuolelta soi päässäni. Tästä piste.
huh
AGOOOONY. Beyond power of speech. Too much. And too much of nothing, as well. 2/5
I mean it has not much to offer but it didn't made a secret out of it. Just another album done
Even as a big electronic music fan, this misses the mark somewhat. Starts strong but fades into little. I may be mad, but I just don't get the Fatboy Slim appeal overall, personally!
Been off this program for a while... Opening cut, SONG FOR LINDY, makes me wanna dance. And I don't dance. Pretty cool mashup of beats and music clips circling around each other. Buuuuttttt, 2nd cut kinda boring. And way too long at 7:30. Don't wanna dance anymore. As track 3 starts up, my immediate thought is "I don't think I'm gonna make it through this whole album." GOING OUT OF MY HEAD, again boringly repetitive, but always nice to hear the chord progression of The Who's CAN'T EXPLAIN. My earlier thought has become prophetic. Saying goodbye to Fatboy. 2 stars cos I liked the 1st song. ⭐⭐ ________________________________ 🎧 LPs reviewed: 63 🎧 LPs left to review: 938 🎧 LPs I found great/relevant enough to be mandatory listens (5): 14 🎧 LPs I *might* include in my own list (4): 17 🎧 LPs I will certainly *not* include in mine (1-2): 17
This album didnt do much for me at all. None of the songs were great or bad either.
Ok bg noise but a bit odd and hip hoppy
Soundtrack for some weirdo 90s techno show
Bouncy, mechanical floorfillers
Why? What’s the point of this? I can’t think of any time or situation when I’d pop this on to just sit and listen to.
You've Come A Long Way, Baby deserved to be on here when it turned up nearly 700 albums ago. Better Living Through Chemistry doesn't though, it's fine, it probably has less wider public appeal and accessibility than its successor, but it's only really going to be one for the purists or those who had a connection and resonance with it at the time. In its current guise listening at home it's okay background music but nothing more, it doesn't stick with me, I have no personal connection to it and, like all the electronica stuff we've had, I need a more epic trance/edm type production if you're gonna grab me. First Down the highlight, it's a lot of fun and in that sort of guise. 2.
Didn't get much from this, it's pretty generic electronica in the most part, there's not much oomph or much soul, both of which we got a lot more of with his later and superior album. 2/5.
It's fine, but lacks most of the original ideas that makes Fatboy Slim stand out on later albums. That means this album has some newfound style that isn't present in those later albums that makes this a pretty decent dance record, but I dislike it more because I can't imagine sitting through any of this again. I grew up with a couple of these tracks on his greatest hits record, but it's telling I've never craved listening to these songs like I did with his other hits.
This is #day82 of my #1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie challenge, and... I'm surprised to see another Fatboy Slim album on the list. I got You've Come A Long Way just a couple of days ago and gave it a 3. Now, this... Well, as I've said earlier, I clung to different artists in the genre back in the day. As for the record itself, it's woefully tedious... Aside from "Everybody Needs a 303" and (actually, what else is there?), I have nothing to remember it by. It's the third consecutive 2 out of 5. Looking forward to #day83.
Good for hoofing and not much else. Not my cup of tea.
meh, Good to dance to, but to just sit there and listen to.
4.5/10
2.5
Sem graça
Was Fatboy Slim actually cool? This album is average, kind of like a watered down Chemical Brothers. Going Out of My Head is the best song, Michael Jackson is pretty good, but the rest is just blah.
Not much to say other than this is an EDM album, which of course means way too many songs that are way too long and sound exactly the same. Not the most egregious example of boring monotony, but entirely skippable in my opinion outside of a few decent moments. Top tracks: Santa Cruz, The Weekend Starts Here
Alright to have on in the background. Not great for much else. 2/5
Kan ikke huske den anden Fatboy Slim plade vi havde godt nok til at sammenligne dem, men har det som om den havde en del flere bangers, den her er altså ikke nødvendigvis ældet med ynde. Måske havde der ikke behøvet at være to
Music for a middle-aged woman's birthday cake presentation.
Generally fun with infectious beats and cool sounds but something that needs a club to be truly enjoyed. This is not music that one puts on to sit in the sweet spot and listen to. Because of that fact I won't listen to it a 2nd time. And at 1 hour and 10 minutes, it's 30 minutes too long. 2.5 stars
Boring, repetitive beats. His other album was better.
Pretty good for electronica, not really close to my overall musical taste but fine.
Not to brag but my garageband material is better than this
Dance bop
A little too repetitive, and some of it was basically chiptune before that was cool. I did like a couple tracks though
Meh
There were 2 things I liked about this album: One, the last song Next To Nothing actually kind of slaps (though this wasn't on the original US release, so only half counts I guess?), and second, there was a synth/arpeggiator patch that clipping. uses in their song The Deep, so that was a fun sort of easter egg. All that said, I didn't really like this album much more than You've Come a Long Way Baby, and probably won't listen to it again.
I didn't care for this one, but it's a lot better than the other Fatboy Slim (You've Come A Long Way, Baby). I think it's because this one doesn't abuse vocal samples in the same way. 2/5
Way too much for me. Nothing super special about it. Like Paul's Boutique with less effort.
Oh boy! Repetitious repetition, over and over and over and over again! Great for when you're whacked out of your gourd on molly in the club, not so much when you're sitting in an office.
Feel like I'm getting a lot of this stuff lately. And it's all the same
Look, I love random noises as much as the next guy…. Ok maybe not as much as Fatboy Slim… but an hour of them is too much
The first track gave me You wouldn't steal a car vibe. It got boring very quickly and it never really recovered. this genre does nothing for me
Just not for me
too intense man.
Never heard 'early' Fatboy Slim before. Some of his trademarks are there but without the really instant vocal and musical hooks that gave him monster hits later on. First time through I thought it was still worth a solid 3 stars, but listening again I'm not sure what sets this apart from similar dance albums by less heralded names that I've previously deemed decent background music but ultimately unremarkable. 2.5
Maybe I've had too much electronica in the last week that it was hard for me to focus on this. A lot of it sounded the same, probably in part to the super common drum beat over most the tracks. It felt like I was watching a commercial for Six Flags or something towards the end. I think it's fine music and produced well, it just didn't stand out to me. I think 10th and Crenshaw as my favorite, but it was almost a 12 way tie.
If I was on class As in Ibiza I'm sure I would love it
A feast for all enjoyers of misheard lyrics and repetitions. Unfortunately, not something I enjoy.
I like techno, I like house, I like EDM, I like some trap music. Thank goodness these genres have evolved into something fully formed, unique, and full of talent. This album is from an era that I'm glad is in the past. I especially don't miss whatever you call this type of drumbeat that permeates every song. If you played this in a club today the crowd would evaporate.
Sounds like the music for a scene in a movie where they're robbing a casino or something. Too long and repetitive
I think the chemistry is a key ingredient, which I don’t have. A couple fun moments but overall not good.
ok. it's fun but I get bored of it because I'm working in excel, not on drugs at a rave
Meh. Just a bunch of beats on loop. It was okay, but it felt very repetitive and incomplete.
I never got techno. I mean - some of it is cool I guess. This album has some cool stuff, but everything is sooooo loooooong. I think I'd like it (and the whole genre) better if they weren't so self indulgent.
Not an album to enjoy without a cocktail of chemicals coursing through the bloodstream. Norman is having lots of fun with his 303 but it's just a lot of knob twiddling.
Very much a one-trick pony before he learned new tricks on his funkier follow-up. Always annoyed that his labelmates the Lo-Fidelity Allstars are overlooked, they brought much-needed attitude and grit to the genre.
Good beats but way too long. Somewhere between a 2 and 3 but not everything can hit! Fun enough for one listen through, but I had never heard it until now, so couldn’t rely on nostalgia to carry me through this one. Probably no relisten.
Part nostalgia, part good, part meh - like raw samples
We already had the one landmark Fatboy Slim album, so this seems to be an unnecessarily redundant inclusion. The beats are fine, if not a bit repetitive and monotonous with continued listening. It’s just not as good as the other one. Meh.
My techno phase was between 1998 and roughly 2003. Fatboy Slum was definitely on a short list of favorite DJs. Techno/EDM is hard to judge. It’s about telling an audio story in 120BPM 4/4 time. I always appreciated that his was fun, buoyant and integrated a lot of influences from funk to rock to classical. That said I rarely focused on individual songs, but rather feel. Today I listen to techno for its repetitiveness when I need to drown out other stimuli. It’s better than Ritalin (well, almost). I can’t say this is a bad or good album. I might listen to it again but I probably wouldn’t necessarily look for it. For me, it’s a musical capsule of a foregone time between college and reality.
Not much to get excited about
I don’t get it
Album 469 of 1001 Fatboy Slim - Better Living Through Chemistry Rating : 1.75 / 5 More of the Electronica bs I don't care for but this one was just a bit better than the others.
extremely meh. the other fatboy slim album actually had some good tracks and was deserving of its place in the list. this just feels like the cutting room floor b-sides or reheated leftovers of those songs. pass. favorites: going out of my head
(Not) free samples
Man I really didn't need another fatboy slim album on here. It's not even that bad but I just didn't need to hear it. Fav songs: - Song for Lindy - Santa Cruz
2.5 Eh. I expected to like this more. Almost smack dab in the middle, but I was waiting for something exciting to happen and clicked back to Spotify to see how many more tracks I had until the end and noticed I was back on track 2. That feels like it deserves a little ding.
Cocozin
The most mid-90s pilled album possible, this was middling even at the time during the tyranny of Big Beat. No-one needs 2 Fatboy Slim albums on the list.
Eh? It doesn’t really stand out in anyway from other electronic music of the time
I didn't really like this album, not a huge electronic music fan I guess
Jesus Christ. Another one?? Worse than multiple Blur albums. 2.
Just not my vibe
Haven't heard this, but first thought is why is this necessary when You've Come A Long Way Baby is in the book? Ugh, it was alright I guess
I was disappointed. Expected more...
Repetitive & repetitive. I'll take the Go! Team instead.
Every 90s movie soundtrack. Dope tunes but not my skyle. Fat boy slim always barefoot tho. Which I agree with
Its an ok album. I listened to it while playing games, but I don't really see myself listening to it any other time. I don't really feel like listening to the rest of the album.
Maybe it was genre creating and revolutionary for its time, but I don't think this album has aged all that well. Just a lot of sounds and repetitive patterns, but not a lot of depth to the instrumentation or samples and just a bit too overtly digital sounding for my tastes.
Eh! It's okay, I would probably listen to it again in a few years
This was a bit tough for me. However there was so much repetition that I found it hard to listen to periodically. Not something that I would listen to regularly but then I think it is not intended for casual listening.
Wanted to like it, liked it for like a track, got tired of it rq.
This album is actually kinda interesting as far as electronica goes, but who the hell wants to listen to THIS for SEVENTY minutes?!
I listened to Fatboy Slim's second one... Are you sure I needed to listen to this one too?
Slightly disappointed with this one. I have been quite enjoying this genre recently and finding new albums and Fatboy Slim was on the radar. He has some great songs and I do love his sound but this album just did not do it for me. Started really song but it did the sin of just constantly going downhill and just did not resonate with me like other albums. Also 10th and Crenshaw was awful just very annoying and served no purpose. I would have loved to have just ended the album after the first 5 to be honest. Not terrible music but no more then a 2 unfortunately. Stand Out Songs: Song for Lindy Santa Cruz Going Out of My Head
Generic 1990's action movie music. Pretty cool, but less than desired from an artist that's a famed dj. I much prefer house music from the time, and this album doesn't do house. But it was fun to learn of other dj albums from the time period.
I just couldn’t get into this album. It was predictable and repetitive and didn’t seem to be pushing the genre forward in any way. It was fine in the background, but focused listening did not do too much for me. It was also too long for how repetitive it was.
More electronica, or at least electronica adjacent. This actually has some musical sounds, so more tolerable than most.
Dance music not my thing. Some of this is ok, but much of it is annoying and repetitive. How many times in a row do we need to hear “Give the po’ man” or “Michael Jackson?” Sheesh. Won’t listen again.
Amazing that they fit the album on a 3.5" floppy but that explains the compression.
Yeah its just the same 5 second beat over and over
Bland 90s take on electronic music. 2/5
1.5/5. It was too long, and most of it sounded the same.
Tedious. Just 60 minutes of the same boring loops. I got the other Fatboy Slim album almost 750 albums ago and I said then he has one trick and I agree. It's just tiring.
Kinda makes me anxious
..(.
Disliked the first half of the record but starting with track 7 it turned around for me. I ended up liking the songs that were not attempting to be overly lyrical and were closer to the more straightforward rhythm-forward electronic styles I prefer. 2.5 rounded down to 2.
i am 38, this can only be chore music for me now
This didn't really grab me until Give the Po' Man a Break which is unfortunately at least halfway through the album, depending on which version you're listening to. Mine had Michael Jackson (the song) on it, which I also enjoyed, and I liked Punk to Funk. Maybe it's an issue of having or not having a vocal sample to catch my attention vs it feeling more like a soup of electronic music.
Techno-dance with heavy synth and drum beats. Songs seem like a compilation rather than a single cohesive album narrative.
The type of music that works great as a single, but really wears out its welcome as a full album. Some good high points, but the songs are too long and the sample lyrics approach starts to grate on many of them.
Boing, Zip, Buzz, Schlap, (with an occasional Squeak) over good techno drum beats. I listened to this while running and it worked. High energy, extremely repetitive, and fun. (Not sure how people listened / danced to these eight minute songs back in the day - musta been the drugs.) 303 is the best song in my opinion, but a still a bit lame compared to other electronica I’ve been exposed to (and liked). No need to listen again or download any songs. Loretta OUT —> this list is “1001 Albums to make you die before your time .” That said; (1.6*s)
Fatboy Slim has a recognizable sound and this album is a fun listen (even more fun if you get the title). That being said, I don't think he's a standout in this genre, just more recognizable and consumable to the everyday goer. Even if you aren't grinding your teeth while listening to this (and therefore don't get the title), this setlist is still great in the background while you're doing other things, like if you need to take a shower but are in a hurry for example. "Give the Po' Man a Break" had me smiling but "Michael Jackson Tina Turner" was a bit silly. Still not a bad take and I presume there's another FBS album on here, because this isn't his top work.
Ah yes, the 90s electronica revolution. I remember hearing "out of my head" on a cd mix I bought and said I need to listen to this guy more. Later found out that the who "can't explain" rif is what got me. I did delve into slim along with the Chem Brothers, prodigy, and crystal method. Slim lagged in my opinion. This album is good but just didn't have as much of an impact on me and still doesn't. If this made the list for 90s epectronica, there are much better to come.
::repetitive beat:: ::whimsical melody on top:: ::spoken word:: ::extra long buildup before beat drops:: no.
The good: I just met this hot girl and she wants to take me to a rave? The bad: They put blood in the emergency sprinklers? How do you even keep it from coagulating? The good: Oh hey, is that Wesley Snipes? The bad: Why does he have a katana? Two stars.
I was excited to listen to it, but I was disappointed, it was rather bland
To give it some credit, there's a degree of playfulness on these tracks that are appealing. However, to be probably enjoyed, these thrusting dance anthems need to be experienced in a packed warehouse rave, as opposed to the rather more pedestrian confines of my living room.
Good to know they have more than one song
Not my jam at all
it was ok, dragged on a bit and i wasn't very impressed
Mid. Pero kanye le hizo sample a algo de aquí so theres a whole star for it. Si no fuera por eso, its as much a 1/5. Not my favorite.
*Better Living Through Chemistry*. Given the innuendo pointing to drug use in the title of this record, I'm gonna assess the latter the way a drug dealer measures the content of his "product": Big Beat formula = 3 points. It's lively and you can dance to it (4/5?), but it's not a genre that aims for "substance", very ironically. It's all about *style*. (No, 3/5!) Peremption date : - 1 point. This thing already sounded pretty dated only a few years after its release. Electronic music always points towards the future, yet the future is often unkind to it. You need a few specific addition to examples of this umbrella genre to make them hold water one or two decades later. Can't pinpoint this specific additions in the album. No instantly recognizable and memorable hits : - 1 point. "Going Out Of My Head" points towards the bangers that would make Fatboy Slim famous with album *You've Come A Long Way, Baby* (this one's a keeper!), but the man wasn't quite there yet with this track. You have the "fake rock", copied-and-pasted guitar riffs, but not the infectious vocal samples that could allow you to file this cut with the best Chemical Brothers and Prodigy hits. Worse, the rest is a little "meat-and-potatoes" when it comes to electronic forays. See the next paragraph. A few groundbreaking arrangements that hit the mark : +1 Some of those arrangements are still too much indebted to older examples to house music and techno to allow me to give more than one bonus point to this thing (which only emphasizes the "dated" aspect of this record). But you gotta recognize that *Better Living Through Chemistry* was at least groundbreaking because it helped spawn new sounds now associated with that Big Beat thing. Too bad that this subgenre had a very quick peremption date itself. End score: 2/5 for the purpose of this list gathering "essential albums". Which translates to a 7/10 grade for more general purposes. Next, please. Number of albums left to review: less than 300, approximately (I've temporarily lost count here) Number of albums I'll include in my own list: half so far, approximately Number of albums I *might* include: a quarter, approximately. Number of albums I'll never include: another quarter (many others are more important to me, including this one)
Going Out of My Head //
Pretty meh. I found this quite boring and repetitive.
Like a musical version of that Throbbing Gristle noise we listened to yesterday. I can definitely see the evolution.
Njeh... myndi ekki hafa þetta albúm á listanum. Alls ekki hans besta.
So I'm guessing this is on the list because it was one of the early electronica albums, so I'm okay with that... Less of an album, and more of a compilation of beats and loops - but at least it was rock-based... Best songs included "Going Out Of My Head" - which has samples of The Who's "I Can't Explain" throughout, "The Weekend Starts Here" - which was one of the more unique songs on the album (i.e. many of the drum beats from song to song are REALLY similar throughout the album - so this one was a bit of a variation...), and "First Down" - which was also more unique sounding... The last track - #12 on my TIDAL stream "Next To Nothing", was also pretty decent... Glad I listened, and probably a precursor that inspired much of the electronica that came after it, but just can't give it more than 2-stars...
Although I do like a lot of electronic music, this just sounds like a constant drill of disco robot sounds. Really not into that.
Not my kind of music, I liked it better when he was still playing with the Hausmartins.
People are saying it's repetitive. It is. 2
Every song is a loop of the first 15 seconds
Fun enough but fundamentally unserious, which must have suited its time. The derivative title – a joke which was old and stale full decades before the release – sets the tone. “Going Out of My Head” riffs on “Can’t Explain” in a finger-painting, “hey-look-how-clever” sort of way. Not much to it and anyway hadn’t Big Audio Dynamite already done this, like a week and a half previous? Really not worth one’s time, save for eliciting some fun, clubby memories (including memories of why one never much liked going to clubs in the first place, which had to do with music such as this).Goes on awfully long to be so generic and soulless. Same predictable structures – tension mounts with same cheesy studio techniques, and is then climaxed through the same sort of release point – time and again and song after song. Rounding down because it’s annoying and makes one miss the Housemartins which really should be in this book instead of this.
Det skulle bli bättre plattan efter men detta är bara trist.
It only takes a few tracks to realize you don't need to listen to the rest. Once you've heard one, you've heard them all.
More dated than it is enjoyable. That couldn't possibly have been the point, yet here we are.
I'm sure an interesting and influential electronic album at the time, but didn't feel like it held up as well as some of the other artists of the era (Daft Punk). Felt very "jock jams"
I've always consumed Norman Cook in small doses. Am I going to get annoyed by a full Fatboy Slim album? Risky click of the day... Ok. Really digging Santa Cruz. Give the Po' Man a Break is unpleasantly repetitive. Really broke me out of the work focus trance. Yikes. 10th and Crenshaw immediately following. This is falling apart quickly. Welp, I gave it a chance. Started out strong, but whimpered across the finish line. A starting point for some of his absolute bangers later on.
Fatboy Slim really makes you think. Why would an overgrown man, who loves snooker, eat bees on a regular basis. @SHACK, what are you doing eating bees, mate?
ok but why
This is solid but also kind of boring. I don't think I'll be coming back to anything but it made for decent listening. Repeats:everybody needs a 303
There are elements of this music that I like, but every song on this record is just too long and too repetitive for my tastes. 2/5
This is like the wikipedia summary of dance music from the 90's. Opens with piano old school, then trance, then DnB then breakbeat, then I gave up. There are some nice hooks in here, but the actual music produced this is aping was actually done with care, this is just a sample from a sub genre repeated over and over and then another sub genre picked
Fatboy Slim heeft echt geweldige muziek gemaakt, maar dit is niet echt een heel overtuigend plaatje.
Het is voor dance redelijk alternatief, maar toch kan ik er maar weinig mee. Teveel gebiep en getoeter en ook geen zang. Dan houdt het voor mij snel op.
A little boring and repetitive.
This is not a review of an album. You want to know why? Because Better Living Through Chemistry by Fatboy Slim is not an album. It is a collection of random beats. That's it. Let me just say that I don't have a problem with instrumental songs or albums. I haven't listened to any other instrumental albums, but I do know that they can be good and meaningful. You don't need to use lyrics to have emotion in a song. You can use aspects of the musical composition like chord progression to tell a story. This collection of beats does not tell a story or do anything unique of the sort. It's just beats. The beats aren't bad. I could see these making for good songs. That's just the thing. These could make good songs. However they do not stand out enough on their own to constitute as good songs. They're serviceable background noise I guess, but they don't really have much value beyond that. Why is this album even on the list? Fatboy Slim apparently has better albums, one of which is also on this list! I think it's just another classic case of "We wanted to represent an artist so we used their debut album even if it's far from their best work." Overall, I don't care about this one. It's well made, but it doesn't mean anything to me. 2/5.
Happotekno on jees ja fatboy slimin muussa tuotannossa on kunnon bängereitä, mutta tää oli kyllä todella väsynyttä.
Huoh, elektronista on listalla aika vähän ja nää valinnat on kanssa usein outoja. No tietty big beat muistuttaa mukavasti rockia, niin siksi sitä on varmaan eniten... Mutta sanattomaksi vetää, jos tämä on listalla eikä yhtään esim. Autechrea, Boards of Canadaa tai Burialia.
Jotkut biisit ihan jees, mutta ei ehkä parhaiten vanhentunutta konemusaa. 2/5
Not a fan of this one.
Very samey
I was hoping to like this album and be exposed to some different Fatboy Slim songs beyond the usual hits that I know, but the album was disappointing. It feels very dated, I did not recognize a single song, and it was just overly repetitive beeps and boops. I can appreciate the influence this had in the 90s as a fresh new electronic sound, but unfortunately it doesn't really have the same impact anymore to me. It's like a first draft of Daft Punk. And at over an hour, it just goes on far too long and you start to feel every loop. Maybe I need to hear these jams in da clurb to really understand it.
Who knew that Fat Boy Slim had multiple albums? Who knew that two of these albums are so good that you needed to listen to them before you died? Anyone besides the editor of this book? I will generously round up.
Some mid-90s electronic that didn't live up to their contemporaries. Not that I was all that into this genre back then but these guys never really did it for me.
1.10, 10%
Ikke min kop te. Mindede mig lidt om chemical Brothers men federe pga mere melodisk og guitar riffs
Niet echt van onder de indruk
(Techno) Dance music is meant to be danced to and isn't something I'd ever reach for for a listening experience. It gets so repetitive and tedious and I get kind of annoyed waiting for it to change or resolve and it never comes. The first song sounded like it sampled Chicago's "I'm A Man" and I kept waiting for that song to start and play out. There's also something cold and soulless about music made without any musicians or instruments so I find it difficult to get on board with that. I aged out of this type of music before it even existed but I'll give it two stars as an appreciation for some of the grooves.
not quite my tempo. not great on headphones but might be better on speakers
It was ok
BORING
Not bad but none of their hits
4/10. I didn't really care for this, but it was so much more tolerable than his other album on here, so definitely a pleasant surprise.
Weak synth
This one was a little better, but still, no chance I needed to hear this shit.
Not a fan of this one.
Not sure why this is considered music
Just jangle noise. Norman has a better record collection than you and usually finds some smart samples but curiously not here - you’ve heard these beats and hooks before elsewhere. An exhausting listen in truth, all with a tiring, albeit bright sameness.
Neat to listen to once, but not my kind of music.
2.9 - Some AI bot will gladly shit out these types of songs for you. Just remember to say “please.”
Saying this kind of music falls into the same familiar structure of “build up and drop” as a criticism would be rather hypocritical as most other music falls into its own structure specific to genre. But I’ll make an exception this time because I don’t like this music.
Not a huge fan
I don't know who needs the Fatboy Slim origin story, but it ain't me. Best track: Going out of My Head
Maybe if I was at a rave with Molly, but doesn't work with headphones while working
Not for me. Perhaps I'd like it more if I were playing laser tag instead of working.
Gets a bit samey and doesn't seem to have the layers that Slim's next album possesses.
2.5
2/5 didn't really like it.
Overreliant on one to two vocal samples to drive each track, this album fails to impress in terms of originality and variation no matter how catchy some of the underlying DnB is. The sampling and arrangement brilliance of the last two songs show how the others could have been so much better.
Ehhh. Pass.
Da un poco las vibes de que si lo escuchas, ella es demasiado madura para su edad no? Me siento como si tuviese 50 años y bebiese burn
I think I may be missing the gene to truly enjoy EDM. Absolutely sure it would sound better in a club than it did while walking my dog in the woods.
I caaaaaan't. So repetitive.
A couple of decent tracks on this. 'Song For Lindy' is great, as well as 'Everybody Needs A 303'. 'First Down' is also fun. Rest of this album is repetitive filler and hasn't aged all that well.
Säkert bra om man lyssnar på fest eller vid något mer lättsamt tillställning. Funkar inte alls till jobb dock
War nichts für mich. Zu wenig Struktur und zu viel Krach.
Enjoyable enough but not a type of music I would ever really choose to listen to. I need a little bit more going on
You really need to be at a rave, sweating and high on acid to be into this music. Sitting at home reading the paper it was a bit too high NRG and it got really repetitive. It’s better than Chemical Bros but not as good as say Daft Punk or the OGs Kraftwerk
This was probably a very important album for its time, and electronic music, but didn't connect with me.
Too repetitive
Meh
Some cool tracks, but more annoying than not.
It sounds like fatboy slim, but it’s just not quite there yet
Not the best Fatboy Slim album and hasn't aged as well as others from the big beat genre IMO. "Going Out Of My Head" is the big song that I remembered from this album, and it's decent at best. "Song For Lindy" sounded familiar for another reason, turns out was sampled in the much better Love Island on his next album.
Long, repetitive, a bit grating by the end. Wish it had more lyrics. 2.5
Not really my style -- funky and metallic, without much lyrical substance or 'groove'. It just felt empty to me and a bit boring. Some cool moments, but overall not my thing.
I don’t believe this has aged very well although I was never really a fan even in the 90s.
I liked it, but I can't really just listen to 45 minutes of dance music. I didn't listen to the whole project. It seemed like it pulled from some serious hip hop influences and I liked give the po man a break. Good album, just not for me, 4/8.
Santa cruz would be good for a "Sunrise over Siskiyou" playlist
1.5/5. I don't understand how people enjoy this type of music, very unenjoyable, makes me a little insane listing to this stuff.
Eh this kind of skanky UK techno stuff doesn't do it for me, it never really goes anywhere and drags on too much. I'm sure if I was 10 years older I would love it and have cool memories of doing drugs in dirty dive bar toilets while it played, but it just sounds grimy and annoying really. 2/5.
I recognize that people like this, but it's just not for me. Some good beats and all, but will likely never listen to this album again.
Can I just get a good album please ? This album is tetrible on many level but mainly, it aged like milk and its annoying.
2/10 Was not a fan
The one he had to make before the biggie sorted it for him. It was an extremely unpleasant listen.
This went on for what felt like an eternity. Maybe it’s best experienced in a club with some of the chemistry referenced in the title; on headphones it’s just dull and repetitive. Didn’t like this when it was first around, the years haven’t softened me to it.
How is Zoe Ball, she left you yet? ....She has left him, I forgot about that.
Makes me remember why I hated big beat. Just incredibly boring and cheese, coming from a time when you didn't have to fight for every sample a lot more was possible.
It's not horrible but I'm not a fan.
I could make better noises and beats with my buttcheeks
I'm sorry, guys, but I just don't think I like dance/techno stuff like this. Every song was too long. I felt no emotion to latch onto, either in the music or especially not in the lyrics. I can see the appeal of stuff like this if I was out in the club, but just being at home listening (especially listening while eating apple and oranges at the dining room table, prime techno circumstances for sure haha) fell just short of torture. It was just too much to be ignorable but not interesting enough for me to care. Sorry, Mr. Slim.
This really wears me down more than anything else. 𝘉𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘓𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘛𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘊𝘩𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘺 keeps hammering the same repetitive big beat grooves into the ground until the whole album starts to feel more annoying than exciting. The constant loops and exaggerated energy quickly become exhausting, and after a while it all starts blurring into the same thing. I get why this kind of music had its moment in the 90s, but as a full listen it just doesn’t work for me at all.
Second album proposé, j'avais détesté le premier (noté 1/5 - terriblement répétitif et inintéressant). Celui-ci n'est pas mieux ! =>1/5
Got about halfway through and literally said out loud to my cat, "ugh I don't want to listen to any more Fatboy Slim!" And then proceeded to finish listening to the album.
Not into it
There's no reason I shouldn't like Fatboy slim. But for some reason, I just don't. It's incredibly clever nicking the good bits from other people's music and repeating it to a groovy beat, and he's obviously got a wide ranging taste in music to get the samples he does. But truth be known, I think I'd rather listen to his record collection than the music he creates. It's kinda like a Picasso/ Van Gogh/ Banksy/ Michelangelo collage.
This is tough. Just so long and it doesn’t need to be. Loops are great; beats are good; everything overstays its welcome. Didn’t like it. Not something you NEED to hear.
I just realised that I thought I knew what Fatboy Slim's music was like, but I don't think I have ever actually listened to it. This album is very much meh and I didn't really enjoy actively listening to it. However, I went to the artist's profile and listened to the top songs and those are ones that I know, so my palette has been cleansed. Regardless though, I am not a huge fan of the songs from this particular album, but instead it seems that "You've Come a Long Way Baby" is the more popular album, which was released two years later.
I disagree, that class was Hell back on my junior year.
Sometimes wonder if I missed out by not being a raver and then I’m forced to listen to trash like this and I realize I missed nothing.
I tried but I can't listen to this all the way through I just can't do it
Mind numbingly (perhaps that's the point) monotonous crap.
noise, and not the good kind.
Honestly I have better things to do with my time than listening to this.
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Not my jam
I can appreciate EDM & I enjoy some of Slim’s stuff but this album was pretty boring, I didn’t make it past 4 songs.
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Repetitive and 99% instrumental. Pass. Best song: Santa Cruz
While it gave me some Jet Set Radio nostalgia at times, I had a hard time listening through the whole album
Me gusta la electrónica pero este álbum me perturba
DNF Boring EDM.
Super annoying and repetitive. So bad
Nope
Не дуже, як на мене
I remember in the 90's when MTV was trying to make techno a thing. It's laughable to me that so many albums on this list are from that shitty era where everyone thought this crap was the future of music. TWO FATBOY SLIM ALBUMS?!?! Fuck outta here. Much like the floppy disc on the album cover, this is obsolete technology that belongs in the 90's.
kolejny dzien, kolejna tortura muzyczna, tym razem z gatunku najgorszej elektroniki jaka czlowiek stworzyl, czyli wielkie beatowanie, plyta z 96 i oczywiscie z wysp, kojarze tego pana z jednego kawalka right here right now, to nie z tej plyty, a okazalo sie, ze wszystko brzmi tak samo w tego typu muzyce, polaczenie jechanki agresywnie atakujacej uszaki z jakimis okazjonalnymi zloopowanymi rzutami lirycznymi, i tak przez godzine meczenia sie nad synthami, dawno nie mialem takiego albumu ktory pozostawil mnie bez zadnego pozytywnego odczucia po przesluchaniu, a panu fatboyowi slimowi sie udala ta sztuka
Não gostei, primeiro álbum que não adicionei nenhuma música em minhas playlists.
Over an hour of dance music? Electronica is not my favorite genre and long electronica albums have a high bar to cross. This is an annoying album. The sounds are grating. It's impossible to tell when one song ends and the next begins. Going Out of My Head is the hit and it is just the same one minute seconds over and over and over again for five minutes. This is the music playing at an expensive hair salon where the staff, men and women, all have shirts that show their abdomens in the late 90s. He's saying, "Give the Po' Man," over and over...but it sounds like he's saying, "Keep Momentum." 10th and Crenshaw is terrible, the worst song so far. First Down is maybe the best? It's not a high bar though. Repeating the name "Michael Jackson" gets old really fast. This honestly isn't terrible when you're barely paying attention. Adding "Tina Turner" to the pattern doesn't make it better. I remember my friend having a different Fatboy Slim album and listening to it on the way back from a camping trip it sounded like they kept repeating "Monkey Jizz". I believe it was "Funky Fresh" though. Had no idea the album ended and listened to god know how much additional Fatboy Slim.
Have no idea why this album is in here over so many others that aren't in this generator.
I zoned out through this entire album I didn’t even notice when the album ended and Spotify just kept playing more Fatboy Slim. Who is the intended audience for this music? It’s not me. I know 1,001 albums is a lot but I would love to know the rationale behind this one. I could not differentiate how any of these songs are different from one another. You know, the more I write, the more I’m annoyed that I spent an hour of my life listening to this.
1/5 - Literally headache inducing. Turned it off.
Meh. I guess I wasn't in the mood.
My god. I hope to never have to listen to this again.
Just not the type of music I enjoy
Pre-chart friendly Norman Cook. Not keen on the first track but enjoyed track 2 (Santa Cruz). Passed on track 3. Track 4 decent and starts to sound like future Fatboy Slim. Track 5 (Everyone needs a 303) dials up the funk to good effect. Unfortunately the rest of the album lost me. Not for me, but interesting to hear earlier Fatboy Slim. 2/10
Музыкальная ценность данного альбома почти нулевая. Может чуть лучше некоторых рэп пластинок. 2 из 10.
Insufferably boring. Maybe you need to be on drugs.
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.
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.
I would be shocked if I ever heard an album more predictable than this
Not for me
Unendliche Wiederholungen
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.
Dated and not my taste
It’s just so not my thing.
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
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.
Sorry, cRap is not my thing.
This is rubbish IMO. His best album is by far You’ve Come a Long Way Baby.
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.
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
Unbelievably boring
geometry dash ahh music
nah
Ts was buns. I did not enjoy this genre.
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
there’s no way i needed to listen to this before i die
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...
I hate this kind of drum and base electronica...
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
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...
I hoped I'd never have to hear this guy again. Big Beat was crap in the '90s, and this aged very poorly.
It's repetitive like all his stuff.
girl sometimes i wonder who made this list of álbum i must listen to before i die…
Very dated and just boring. I didn't enjoy this.
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.
I’ve given 1’s before but never quite this passionately.
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.
This album particularly frustrates me, because almost every song starts with some epic breakbeat that gets me excited, but then quickly becomes annoying, repetitive, and completely devoid of anything remotely interesting or creative.
Not my thing - repetitive and boring. It made me want to listen to my washing machine
repetitive ecstasy mucke
no ty
Made it about 10 minutes.
Bailed at The Weekend Starts Here…that shit was giving me a headache. Probably would be better with drugs 💊💊💊😵💫
Apparently Big Beat originated partly in Electronica. It seems to be characterized by repeating loops and samples that just feel like they're background music to some computer game.
You know how REM wrote Shiny Happy People to prove that they could sell even the shittiest, most meaningless of songs? Similarly, I never understood the draw of Fatboy Slim and for a long time was convinced it was a joke band. Not quite as bad as the other one, but still pretty terrible, and even worse by today's standards.
Dated, boring, repetitive, all played in a loop to funky, poppy rhythmic beats. It has the musical depth of a puddle. The 90’s will be remembered for some awesome, timeless music. This is not that.