Reviews (page 7 of 7)
Why? Even as chamber music this is boring, predictable, and pointless.
Can’t believe how bad this is knowing that he goes on to create Praise You and Rockafeller Skank.
Repetitive as hell
Hard Nope.
I imagine this music is fun to make, but God, is it boring!
why did we need two of these?? at least the other one had some bops. this was nothing.
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
There are as many songs on this list that repeat the name “Tina Turner” over and over again as there are actual Tina Turner albums.
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.
Ваш звонок очень важен для нас. В целях повышения качества обслуживания разговор может быть записан. Время ожидания ответа специалиста составляет 58 минут. Изначально 2/5. Под конец уверенная 1/10. Ужасно долго и однообразно. Во время всего прослушивания в голове сам собой проигрывался геймплей сабвей серферс.
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.
This really shouldn't be here.
Irrelevant album. Er moet maar één album van Fatboy Slim hierin. 1.2
Awful
this sounds like the music that plays and cycles through while you spend an hour or 2 making your Sim
Bag of shite
I didn't like this one. Definitely not an essential album to listen to before you die, especially considereing there is another, much better Fatboy Slim album on the list. Completely lacks all the fun of that other album. There is a reason that one produced several big hit and this one didn't. Key tracks: Song for Lindy
Let me save you some time… Boom pa-pap pa pap “punk to funk” x 47 “Throw your hands in the air” x 14 “Michael Jackson, Tina Turner” Bip bip pap ba bip pa pap 1001 album worthy: bip pa pap “hell no” x10 - 68/126
This is the 93rd album I’m rating. I don’t know who this is but cool name. Adding to my Playlist - Nothing. Not Adding to my Playlist - Song for Lindy, Santa Cruz, Going out of my Head, The Weekend Starts Here, Everybody Needs a 303, Give the Po’ man a Break, 10th & Crenshaw, First Down, Punk to Funk, and The Sound of Milwaukee. All in all I liked 0/10 songs. I don’t like this type of electronic music. Never did.
not this mf again
This level of repetition is for the comfort of people out of their gourds on designer drugs. For the sober individual this is not so fun.
At the risk of sounding like the Old Man Yelling at Clouds... I really hate this shit.
This is the stuff that gets pre-loaded onto keyboards at Circuit City in 1996.
Terrible, every song is a 6 second snippet on repeat. I understand why this album was important and launched his career into commercials and movie soundtracks but good lord, this is not my scene.
p774. 1996. 1 star. More background noise for hipster bars :( Tedious, repetitive loops with no redeeming features. Not essential listening.
two Fatboy Slim albums in the 1001 you should listen to before you die, huh? really. really. hated. (⌐■_■)
I was too generous to the fat boy last time.
Pales in comparison to what he’d produce later
Habe ich als Jugendlicher auch nicht gut gefunden.
1/5
I almost wrote this one off completely, but then I really enjoyed Santa Cruz and a few others. I still don't think he deserves more than one album in the book though. You've Come A Long Way, Baby is great and representative enough of his work.
1008 albums... let's go with it!
This did not age well, very boring.
Boring.
I was originally writing a sarcastic review...... but will be nice and say this music was not for me when it came out. And it's still not music for me.
#38 Not of to a good start with Song for Lindy. This was just not my vibe. To many weird noises. The beats are nice, but the sounds just ruin it for me.
Drivel.
1/5
Terrible
Ich will diese Musik nie wieder hören
Less awful than the first one. At least he had the good taste to keep his mouth shut on this one.
couple decent songs but this sucked
They all sound the same: bad
I sure am not a Fatboy Slim fan. And while I understand why this album is here, I sure didn't enjoy it. Better Living Through Chemistry, whose cover was a trigger to me, is definitely different from other electronic albums, whether now in 2024 or then in 1996. But god was it boring and repetitive to my poor ears. At times, it felt otherworldly and incorporated jazz and I just. Couldn't care less.
Go away.
Two EDM albums in a row? This list must hate me. Started ok but after what felt like an hour I was only 3 tracks in and track 4 was annoying as hell and they never got better again. Repetition is not music.
Going Out of My Head Everybody Needs a 303
Super weird, not my thing at all.
Consistently selecting the wrong album
# 278 : Repetitive shite, just beats and loops, Terrible music and terrible album choice. May god have mercy on the person that decided to make this an album to hear before you die.
I remember Fatboy Slim as more fun. This sounded like a repetitive demo song on an old keyboard.
Recognized the name but not what I thought it was going to be. Like an unexciting version of Prodigy.
Too repetitive - and I don’t live through chemistry. I need some more lyrics to reel me in. When the guitar or the piano jumps in, I enjoy the songs on here a little more. But I could never put this record on again
Bunch of noise
Where is the music?
Two things: these songs are way too long and way too repetitive, and none of them are as good as Weapon of Choice and Praise You.
Terrible
Apple Music classifies this as Alternative which is a big fatboy lie. This is electronic music and I do not like it.
This was a slog to get through. Boring and repetitive.
? Why would anyone listen to this on purpose?
With so much great music out there I would never waste my time on this. But I did try.
1.5
Not gna rate this one cuz it’s out of my wheelhouse - really not my type of music. Didn’t really fuck with it, but I can see how other blokes might. Big shrug from me - Boring asf
I like some of the smash hits off of "You've Come a Long Way, Baby" as much as the next guy, but this album is a stinker. Talk about plain, muzak-esque electronic music. This album is souless, void of unique elements, and to top it off way too long. I will not be listening to this again. 1/5.
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Couldn’t get this album so listened to other FBS stuff - meh other than top 5
not my cup of tea..sorry
Maybe I'm weird, but I just don't like Fatboy Slim.
Fatboy Slim and his sirens can go fuck themselves.
When I thought I was warming to electronica, Fatboy Slim made me return to my senses. Repetitive beyond belief, utter rubbish.
Sometimes this type of electro/sampling works for me. Most of the time it doesn't. Moby, and Mylo, are good examples of this. "Going Out of My Head" was the only track on this album that did anything for me at all. I think that this album will appeal to people who like to get high and look at flashing lights as well as people with short attention spans who have no concept for chord progressions or song development. Yes, that was me calling the 4 and 5-star voters a bunch of simpletons.
far too repetitive. not a fan of this style
I'm 4 electronic albums in (out of 26 total so far) and am quite tired of them. Repetitive. Boring. Minimal thought, not engaging. Doesn't sound good. A 10 second clip in a movie, sure, but 71 minutes straight absolutely not. Speaking of, Wikipedia states the UK version is 58 minutes and excludes the two bonus tracks. Making it longer is just cruelty.
I guess for some people in some context in 1996 it made some sense
Not the fat boy slim you would see Christopher walker dancing to but still fat boy slim. This was pretty repetitive and not too interesting over all. I guess if you’re into sampling and electronic music this may be for you but it is not for me. 2.6/10
Suck
My audible groan when I saw today's album artist very literally scared my poor dog. I'd rather continue to listen to her not-so-silent farts of varying pitch than be subjected to *another* (jfc wasn't 1 enough) bullshit album by Fatboy Slim. Awful. -- ...admittedly that was all written before i listened to a note of this so in the spirit of an open mind... -- Yup - after 2 tracks it's probably the same - I like electronic music quite a bit. BUT. Not repetitive drill-a-fake-kick-drum-through-your-head with the same pattern for 16 (or more!) bars, then ooooh! change it up a little bit ... here's the drop ... 16 more bars with an added cool snare ... ooo add an EQ filter here to create the cool swirly-phasing sensation zzzzz Any random 20 second sampling of this album sounds fine and yet that is the big joke. It's a huge fake-out. idk maybe I'm being intentionally sarcastic and avoiding the aspect that this was one of the first to loop to such effect. Was he? If so does it even matter? I don't care or like it enough to look it up - in the end for me this is terribly-droning-repetitive-music-on-autopilot. Just struck me - this album is more akin or suite to being a user's manual / sound palette on: "these are some cool things you *can* do with your music!" Hmmm...now if this had been marketed as such - e.g. given away as a freebie with the latest Akai controller or Ableton version - that would be a cool/valuable resourse. As a commercial album to purchase? GTFO. Musicians: listen and try all of these admittedly neat tricks and sounds and use like...*THREE*... interspersed within actually interesting music. 2/10 1 star.
I. Hate. Techno.
not my fav
2/10
Didn't get anything from this. Odd, I thought I would like it more
random sound, no lyrics
I dunno, this album just feels pretty "basic" to me. Not my thing so I won't judge too harshly. It seems like goofy fun spring break music for white college kids who like to drink beer. Probably not a fair comparison but given the music coming out around this time from Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin, Kruder + Dorfmeister, Third Eye Foundation, or Nightmares on Wax this just feels really Half-assed.
horrível
Not a fan.
Feels like being stuck inside a washing machine.
Boring ! Wenigstens erscheint vorm inneren Auge eine Montage mit Szenen aus romcoms feat. Cameron Diaz
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Adios que asco