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You've Come a Long Way Baby by Fatboy Slim

You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim

1998
3.32
Rating
29472
Votes
1
7%
2
16%
3
31%
4
31%
5
15%
Distribution
Genres: Electronica Styles: Big Beat, Instrumental

Reviews (page 10 of 15)

Had this CD years ago. Hits are the clear highlights. Low 3 stars.

Everyone who hasn't been under a rock for the last 26 years has heard The Rockefeller Skank. The album is cool, but it's not my type of music. I'll leave 3 stars!

„Right Here, Right Now“, „The Rockafeller Skank“ and „Praise You“ are great songs. I did not enjoy the rest of the album that much. Too repetitive and sometimes even annoying, and what the hell is the idea behind the lyrics of „Fucking in Heaven“? Sounds like a child just learned a new word it’s not supposed to say.

Favorite Track: Rockafeller Skank Praise You Built It Up, Tear It zdiwn

Overplayed and just horrible earworms now not even sure I liked it in its heyday

A few bangers on this, but it does get repetitive after a while.

This is one of those albums that mostly everyone in the late 90’s owned. A few classic tracks but relentlessly repetitive on the fillers.

Mmm yeah okay I guess. Some are nice some aren't

Terribly fun

imagine the most annoying guy you know made an album but it was somehow a banger

Know the singles but never listened to a Fatboy Slim album. Enjoyed it far more than I expected to, was expecting some generic house for the album tracks but there were loads of ideas in this. The way he samples the bits of speech/singing into ever smaller syllables gets a bit tedious but I guess he mostly pioneered this so fair play. I think if I heard almost any of these tracks on their own id really enjoy it, as a full album I'm not sure, but still surprisingly good 3.5.

A real pioneer - what I enjoyed most is he never lets you get bored of a song. Very rarely is the same 4 bars repeated, there's always some slight difference, introduction of extra beats or instruments, or manipulation of the vocals. The album starts very strong, does meander a bit, but then comes back on form towards the end. I knew all the main tracks, but none of the ones I didn't know particularly resonated with me. I think my hesitation about giving it a 5 means it must be a 4.

Kinda surprised this isn't more highly rated on this list..... It was absolutely huge in the UK. Another that doesn't translate too well across the pond? I would say it's not really my thing, but there are so many iconic tracks. There was a massive thing about it being made by one guy in his bedroom at the time. Don't think that would be that out of the ordinary now really. Right here right now, the rockafeller skank, gangster tripping and praise you are all great. The rest of it isn't bad at all either At least a 4. Probably closer to 4.5

Groovy, energetic, lively, and fun. A bit repetitive, but still enjoyable the whole way through, and a great late 90s time capsule!

Too repetitive for me

As a kid I found F Boy Slim’s brand of DJ dance music lame and annoying. As an adult I feel the same. Maybe that’s a reflection on me. Either way, let’s keep it moving.

not bad, not my thing at all

Don't know if id enjoy it or not Not particularly my thing but the music is quite good

“Right Now You Funk Soul Brother! Check it out now you funk soul brother!” There was a point in the late 1990s when EDM ruled the world, and Fat Boy Slim was there wearing his crown. I’m not sure who came first, FBS or Oakenfold but between the two of them they created another decade away from the grunge, Nu-Metal, singer-songwriter pop of the early 90s. Praise You and Rockefeller Skank were all over the media, and I heard Gangster Trippin on the “Go!” Movie Soundtrack. This album was more radio-friendly that his previous work but still a lot of fun!

2 Fatboy Slim albums. I swear we already reviewed this one but it must have been a different album. This has the classic Fatboy Slim tracks that are still regulars spins everywhere: "Right Here, Right Now", "Rockafeller Skank", "Gangster Trippin", and maybe the best of the bunch: "Praise You". I never though of Fatboy Slim as an "album" artist. He was always about the singles but this is a good album with several now classic tracks. (Shit, that last sentence made me feel so old.).

Good vibes, not a favourite

**not my cup of tea, no real music, just noises and rap

3.6 rounded to 4 Very listenable dance music including the cross over hit Praise You.

VERY REPETITIVE....TOO MUCH...

Other than hearing The Rockafeller Skank in all its glorious context, this didn’t do much for me. I’m sure it’s good for those that enjoy this kind of sampling electronica.

Club music that I don't hate. Knew a couple of these that are radio staples but the sound gets monotonous after a while.

This was fine but felt monotonous. I'm sure this was hard to make but it didn't do very much for me.

I'm not sorted for E's and Wizz, so this album is about four times too long. Some good work but just so repetitive. Works in a rave but not anywhere else.

OK, but nothing exciting.

Sigue soñando tan fresco como el primer día.

actually really helped me get into the groove for sudoku but my ears bled a little into my headphones. this album may haunt my nightmares

Very good, no snoozers

Great workout album

Way too repetitive but the songs stuck in my head and I didn't end up hating it.

Couple of hits are sentimental just because of where I was in my life when they came out, but otherwise, sadly kind of boring. Nice as background music.

Right about now…from the first song to the last song I’m in. Goes to show one that repetition can be a good thing when mixed with talent. And the sampling throughout the album makes for a fun guessing / listening game. This could be a 5. I had just recently made the Housemartins connection and that’s cool.

This is is playing in my cell in Guantanamo Bay. I know this is super objective but I just get so annoyed.

3.5/5 essential tv-backgroundmusiccore b-side deutlich schlechter

Rip Fatboy Slim. You would have loved garage band

I enjoyed this.

Ein Klassiker.

Nice grooves - if you like raving, it's perfect. Some of the tracks are OK to run to, so that's fine, tbough I wouldn't choose to listen to it.

Musically this isn’t a perfect album, but nostalgia strikes again.

I enjoyed it for a while but by the end I was a bit fatigued

Grandioses Techno-Album, das es meisterhaft versteht, moderate Acid- und Rap-Aspekte im Techno zu integrieren. Es überzeugt durch drei herausragende Songs der Ära: “The Rockafeller Skank”, “Right Here, Right Now” und “Praise You”. Diese Tracks sind wahre Klassiker und definieren das Album. Neben diesen Meilensteinen bietet das Album weitere fantastische Techno-Schätze wie “Build It Up - Tear It Down”, “Kalifornia” und “Acid 8000”. Fatboy Slim, mit bürgerlichem Namen Norman Cook, ist ein britischer DJ und Musikproduzent, der maßgeblich zur Popularität des Big Beat-Genres beigetragen hat. Vor seiner Solokarriere war Cook Mitglied der u.a Bands The Housemartins und Beats International. “The Rockafeller Skank” ist einer der bekanntesten Tracks des Albums und wurde 1998 als Single veröffentlicht. Der Song zeichnet sich durch seine eingängigen Samples und den markanten “Right about now, the funk soul brother” Refrain aus. Diese Elemente machten den Track zu einem festen Bestandteil der Clubszene und trugen zur weltweiten Bekanntheit von Fat boy Slim bei. Das Albums für war ein Meilenstein für das Big Beat-Genre und half, elektronische Musik in den Mainstream zu bringen. Das Album kombinierte Elemente aus Acid House, Techno und Hip-Hop und schuf so einen einzigartigen Sound, der sowohl in Clubs als auch im aufkommenden Musik TV und im Radio begeisterte 😊👍

7/10. It's repetitive, but the mixing is really cool. :)

Still a great album that made me smile so often while listening to it. Good vibes only!

I've occasionally heard clips from this album in short bits, either in passing or as background in something on TV, and they seemed fine. But I never realized how long and monotonous these songs are on the album. I will never put this on again; songs range from tiresomely annoying to outright maddening.

The use of repeated samples on this makes me wanna commit homicide 1/5

Other than one or 2 good songs the rest is just too repetitive and too much swearing. I don't mind a song that cusses but there has to be a point to it snd not just cussing for the sake of cussing

Could not finish it. There were maybe 2 songs that were ok; had a hard time listening to most of the others. 1/10

Maybe I’m overvaluing this a touch, but it’s just so much fun. “In Heaven” is an all-timer

OK I like this one. The singles are bangers, and the rest of the album goes alright too

Not my cup of tea and the album was a bit too long, but Praise You, Right Here Right Now, and Rockafeller Skank we’re pretty good which is probably why I’ve heard them a million times before

A few very recognisable tunes which I enjoyed. Wouldn't listen to the album again though, feel like it's just made to be soundtracks in movies or games.

The album starts off strongly with the first two tracks; however, both are a minute or two longer than they should be. After that, it takes a significant downturn. I have to question who approved the inclusion of "Fucking in Heaven"—it's truly awful. The rest of the album is ok, and "Praise You" somewhat redeems its score. Unfortunately, many of the songs become repetitive very quickly, which could have been avoided by making them all shorter. One final point. How did he know I'm not from Brighton?

I didn't hate this as much as I thought I would. Although Fucking in Heaven was Fucking shit. The Rockafeller Skank gave me FIFA 99 Flashbacks which was fun even if the song annoyed me. Praise You is great.

A couple of bangers, but album goes on for far too long.

I liked the two popular songs. But even on those, it’s a ton of repetition in each song. And they seem to go on forever. Do we really need 5 full minutes where he says nothing but fat boy slim is fucking in heaven? The beats and hooks are great. And maybe this is what this type of music is supposed to be but for me it was just too much.

arguably brought pop electronica to the masses. white boys think they're cool.

Daft Punk if they ate McDonalds

Background music, not my first choice.

This is peak 90s. The kind of electronica hinted at on Bjork’s Debut is on full display here. At the time it was a groundbreaking smash. But now, it’s hard not to regard this as background music. There was almost never anything to really grab me and let me know “THIS is the heart of the song”. It wasn’t until close to the end of the album when the song “Love Island” came on that my ears perked up. It was so different from the previous 9 songs that I thought the album was over and a new artist was auto playing. Which, speaking of… When the album was over, this song "Spitfire" by The Prodigy came on, and it blew me away in all the ways Fatboy Slim didn’t, so I put on the full album it came from - Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned. The songs here were full of hooks and variations and melodies that wormed their way into my brain. Every track found some way to surprise me. So even if I was disappointed with the Fatboy Slim album, it was worth it to be led to The Prodigy, Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned.

Very repetitive

Is it just me, or does this get old really quick?

Fun aka ACIIIIIDDDDD. I remember hearing the big songs from this album on tv/radio/whatnot back when it was released and it was enjoyable, but for whatever reason I did not buy the album. Most of it still sounds pretty good. The overall vibe I got from this album is montage soundtrack with Simon Pegg & Edgar Wright. Which is a good thing.

Here’s the formula for a Fatboy Slim song: take a vocal sample (right about now funk soul brother), repeat it many many times, then start stuttering the sample over and over and over until it just starts repeating again, then add the same drumbeat to every song, some repetitive guitars or piano and repeat for about five and a half minutes. All that being said, it does work more often than I expected it would. Not great and way too long, but better than some other albums of this ilk on the list.

One of the better (maybe the best?) electronica albums we’ve heard so far. This was much more fun and interesting than previous ones, and I didn’t mind listening to this at all. He did a lot of cool effects, and beats, and variations. But, it was still too long and repetitive for me, and I’m sure that’s just personal taste and, ultimately, maybe this genre just isn’t overall for me.

I have to praise you like I shouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuld. This song has lived in my head, rent free, since 1998.

Much better than I remember it being. This came out when I was 17 and heavily into American alt rock. I've had Dub Be Good To Me and his remixes of Body Movin' and Brimful of Asha on my playlists for years and I've always had a soft spot for the Housemartins but I guess my teenage cynicism about this album has unwittingly persisted. The reality is, this album is pretty good in places, but is patchy, the singles are enough. The rest is just filler.

You've Come a Long Way, Baby by Fatboy Slim is a vibrant testament to Norman Cook's musical enthusiasm and innovative sampling. The album's standout tracks, Gangster Trippin and Praise You, effectively blend various genres, showcasing Cook's adeptness at creating catchy, memorable tunes. While not typically a fan of this genre, I found this album surprisingly accessible and engaging. Initially, I dismissed it, feeling overwhelmed by the market's saturation with big beat and electronic music. However, a closer listen reveals the craftsmanship and creativity that sets it apart. Cook's previous musical projects inform this work, but it ventures into new, refreshing territory. His infectious energy permeates the album, making it a unique entry in the late '90s music scene. NUMBER OF BANGERS - 6 STAND OUT TRACK - Gangster Trippin

This album shows a real evolution in house electronic music could be taken seriously. Not only are the songs catchy, but they play with motifs and often feature a considerable amount of theme and variation. It’s not just a handful of samples played the same way for 3-7 minutes at a time, and I think that makes it stand out against the bleeps and bloops that came before it.

Didn't use a private session on Spotify. I have heard most of these songs, but never sat down and listened to the whole album. I was amazed how repetitive this crap is, maybe it should only be played in the background, maybe it should only be listened to when you are tripping balls, but when soberly focusing on the music, this crap is annoying. I don't want to use the word repetitive again as it would be repetitive but Fatboy has no issue being repetitive with beat or being repetitive with the lyrics, so why should i avoid being repetitive in my use of the word repetitive?

Love this album. Bought it the week it was released and enjoyed listening to it again for the first time in ages. Peak Big Beat party tunes

It is what it is. And it's still pretty fun

You've Come a Long Way, Baby is Fatboy Slim's second album, and is his most successful studio work. Fatboy Slim makes techno or big beat dance tracks that are driven, and engaging. He weaves a variety of samples into a mixture with a consistent rhythm, and whimsical samples mixed around it. He developed a style that became a standard for producers and DJs all over the world. Fatboy Slim has recorded only four studio album, and released a number of singles. Most of his long career has been as a DJ, remixing his own track. This album includes a handful of tracks that made Fatboy Slim internationally famous.

Liked certain bits but not my thing really on a whole. Ended up skipping a couple of tracks. Went on a bit

great 90s dance album

Super fun. I'm not sure that you MUST to listen to, but it is a great dance record

I don't have to love everything.

Quintessential 90s movie/show music.

The repetitive nature of this was painful to get through at times. I understand the nature of establishing a groove in a club setting. This is average at best IMO, but I’ll round up since it had some mainstream success. 2.5/5

I can dig the songs that made regular rotation and most likely will up my number here, but overall this was just too much of an assault on my senses. Too repetitive, a bit annoying and not my thing.

Props for the successful songs on here, just not my thing

I learned that the lyric is “the funk soul brother” and not “the funk’s yo’ brother” like I thought it was. And that it is repeated 64 times in the song. Props for several mainstream hits on this but I can barely make it through a full song much less a whole album.

Not my musical cup-o-tea, but no denying Right Here, Right Now, The Rockefeller Skank, Gangster Trippin', and Praise You are straight up bops. 3.75/5

Lots of classics on this one album!

It’s like a parrot on speed, strangely enjoyable

Classic stuff!

When will the palest and whitest of white guys stop taking samples of music made by black people, putting them into a computer, and turning them into “their” songs and making millions of dollars off of them? Never. You can’t make them. I can’t make them. They will never stop. The last number one song before humanity dies out will be created from a snippet of the chorus from 1920’s Mississippi blues man “Blind Willie” Tyrone “Blackity Black” Johnson’s song “Oh Lawd I’m Glad You Took My Eyes (So I Can’t See What Dem Crackers Done Done)” mixed with a horn section from Isaac Hayes, a beat from Kurtis Blow and an anime porn video game voice sample mixed in garage band by Greg Mayonaisington under his stage name DJ Lil Coochee Stank. And it will be a bop. That’s the thing. Fatboy Slim, Moby, Daft Punk, DJ Shadow, The Chemical Brothers, I like them all. It’s a winning formula. The original artists made great music and the DJs who sample them make great music out of that other great music. Now, could the DJs make great music without relying on the earlier artists? Probably not. So I’m glad they did what they did. Cause this shit is bangin’.

Fresh sound at the time where techno meets rock & alternative blended with unique samples. Knocking one star off because a couple tracks have some annoying (ear pain) sounds which detract from an otherwise great album.

Horrible. Horrible. Horrible. Horrible. Tried listening to every song and couldn’t get through any of them. So repetitive that I’m sure I didn’t miss anything.

Check it out now, funk soul brother Right about now, funk soul brother Check it out now, funk soul brother Right about now, funk soul brother Check it out now, funk soul brother Right about now, funk soul brother

Love this album!

After lamenting last week that better living through chemistry isn't as good as you've come along way baby, I've had You've Come a Long Way Baby by Fatboy Slim. I still think I'm right and this is a lot better, I do agree that it can get very repetitive at times and I'm not a fan of a few songs as it feels like the drag on too long, but still good stuff and a 4

Definitely the best of Fatboy Slim, like taking a time machine to the late 90s

Fun, but very repetitive after a while

Fun! I had never heard it before in its entirety and it was a fun listen.

No. 219/1001 Right Here Right Now 4/5 Rockefeller Skank 4/5 Fucking In Heaven 2/5 Gangster Trippin 2/5 Build It Up, Tear It Down 2/5 Kalifornia 2/5 Soul Surfing 3/5 You're Not From Brighton 3/5 Praise You 4/5 Love Island 3/5 Acid 8000 2/5 Average: 2,82 Some iconic songs at the beginnig. Overall the repetitve elements aren't really my thing.

Iconic album. Like all good electronic music, it's just a little annoying.

This still slaps. I had a lot of fun listening to this - however, some of the songs dragged on a bit and I found myself feeling frustrated by the constant repetitions.

Got me tapping my feet and nodding along

Way better than 95% of 3s I have given but not enough for a 4 Heard many of the hits before

Some great tracks but they all start to blend into one. Very repetitive, but somehow still, mostly, enjoyable.

This album is a double-edged sword, bringing a sense of bittersweet nostalgia. On one hand, it was really nice to revisit because I have a strong connection to it on a nostalgic level. The memories of my teenage years, living a carefree life and adapting easily to things, come flooding back. The album has some really cool parts that were enjoyable and fun at the time. However, there’s a flipside. Some tracks feel kind of sloppy, as if Fatboy Slim was still honing his production skills. I noticed this even when it first came out, but I was more accepting back then. Now, if I disconnect from the nostalgia, I find that this album hasn’t aged well. As I’ve grown older and my musical tastes have evolved, the flaws that were once minor annoyances have become stumbling blocks, making it harder to appreciate the album for what it’s meant to be.

More hits on it than i remembered like right here right now and funk soul brother. Kinda need to be in the mood for the album lol

Serious college flashbacks. This album is a lot of fun.

I was in my final year of primary school when this album dropped. It was EVERYWHERE. It was inescapable. It was a totally new sound, blending genres, subverting tropes. The "electronic" music I'd grown up on was Darude and Sash!. I had not had much exposure to hip hop. Maybe this album isn't quite as revolutionary as it initially seemed but I don't think it's impact can be over-stated. An extra star just for that.

I laughed out loud when I saw this was album of the day. It is fun and catchy and woke up some 90s nostalgia. Man, this does remind me why everyone knows or should know to never date a DJ though lol

That was a bitchin' album

I grew up right next to Brighton, where Norman Cook is from. He is a local legend. His music was unavoidable in the late 90s and early-mid 00s. He played on the radio constantly, performed in Brighton regularly, and was always being played at gatherings. As has often been the case in this project, I've never actually listened to this album front to back so I'm looking forward to it! The transition from Right Here, Right Now to Rockafeller Skank is so good. I laughed as it happened. This was a great album to have on in the background. The songs are varied, while keeping the unmistakable Fatboy Slim sound. My favorites are the ones everyone knows. I enjoyed You're Not From Brighton & Kalifornia a lot as well. This album is iconic. 9/10

everything about this is wrong

Loved it as a teenager. Disapointing listening to it today. Too repetitive and boring loops. Though, the sound ist fat.

I suffered through this. Bonus star for Ganster Trippin, which tripped me down memory lane to being 13 and thinking it was great. Also when I hear Fat Boy Slim I see in my mind Christopher Walken dancing. But this shit is obnoxious. Repetitive, grating, juvenile in all the worst ways. I’d have to do a mountain of ecstasy to get in this groove; even then I’d want something less idiotic.

Never heard this one. Tbh when I saw it I first thought “ I’m gonna hate it “ but I was wrong. And I realize now that I’ve been narrow minded with music. Or I mean I only listened to a handful of artists at any given time and so I’m SO APPRECIATIVE of this site ) Favorites: Right Here Right Now. The Rockefeller Skank In Heaven. Dammit totally ruined my vibe that I had going on !!!’ No matter the meaning of the song, those two words together in a sentence. Just , no. love most of the rest , though. Love to listen to this with earbuds in the library and bop around maniacally like I do. That part is a lot of fun!!

REALLY repetitive. Not a good listen.

Nice for what it is, but I’m not a huge fan of one-man “bedroom djay” albums. They’re not album-sized meals, just appetizers for me. Opening acts. It’s amazing what computers and other technologies have opened up creatively, but it’s rare that I’ve had this genre provide a cohesive, full album experience as opposed to some nice beats on a series of songs. This one comes close, but still falls to the same pitfall for me.

bom, mas gosto apenas de 4

Certainly influential in its time. The artistry in sample-craft and beats is still solid. My nervous system these days simply can't handle the entire album at once! "The Rockafeller Skank" and "Praise You" are club/dance/EDM canon.

Despite being an incredibly repetitive album, when he uses fun and creative samples, I really dig it. However, most of the samples don’t connect with me at all. But, there are a few bangers on here.

Worth a revisit. Very fun.

Every time I hear an album that feels made for the club or at least uses heavy sampling and repetition as its main vibe, I’m continually surprised by how much I enjoy it. It’s a very specific vibe, a very specific mood, but it hits. For me, there isn’t much else to say except that this is just fun to listen to. It works as background music, it works as music you want to dance or groove to, and it works as music you can actually pick apart and think about to see how it works. I never thought I’d do this, but this gets five stars. And I’m pretty ok with that. Oh but I hate the cover. And “Kalifornia” and its robot voice. Robot voice is something I would remove from music entirely if I could. It sucks. Standout Tracks: The Rockefeller Skank, Fucking in Heaven, Gangster Trippin, Build it Up, Tear it Down, Soul Surfing, Praise You

Hit hard, hit fast, left fast. He will forever be why I hate club DJ's.

A staple of my college salad days. I don't think deep cuts on it aged particularly well, though, and re-listening to the album reminded me why I moved on to stronger EDM things (Machine Girl and danmaku VGMs spoiled me hard). These vocal samples get annoying fast... I think his subsequent album is generally better, though I'm a bit afraid to relisten to it and find out that it's not.

Sometimes, I miss drugs. Other times, I'm reminded of how annoying people on drugs really are.

Turns out repetition can be good.

90s Dance-house-techno-big beat record. All bangers. Every track danceable. Loved the looping short vocal samples and the big drop beats. Great fusion of rock, jazz and funk in some tracks. So much fun. Favorites: Rockafella skank, Gangster trippin, Kalifornia, You're not from Brighton, Praise you.

"Kids today don't know what it's like to get their hands dirty." - FatBoy Slim, on cratedigging

Even when I was a kid who liked house music, I felt that Fatboy Slim was a little more redundant than the other electronic musicians. Important for the popularization of electronic dance music, but not a great listen today.

Repetitive and annoying.

3.5? Interesting mix of genres, a bit repetitive in spots

Dude really earned that parental warning label

**Album Review: "You've Come a Long Way, Baby" by Fatboy Slim** Released in 1998, "You've Come a Long Way, Baby" is the second studio album by English big beat musician Fatboy Slim, also known as Norman Cook. This album marked a significant moment in the electronic music scene, bridging the gap between underground dance music and mainstream pop culture. Here's an in-depth review focusing on its lyrics, music, production, themes, and influence, along with the pros and cons. ### Music and Production **Music:** The album is a quintessential example of the big beat genre, characterized by heavy breakbeats, acid house-inspired synthesizers, and an eclectic mix of samples. Each track is a high-energy amalgamation of various influences, from funk and hip-hop to rock and electronic dance music. 1. **"Right Here, Right Now"** - The opening track sets the tone with its pulsating rhythm and iconic build-up. The bassline is powerful, and the layering of samples creates an anthemic feel, making it a staple in both clubs and commercials. 2. **"The Rockafeller Skank"** - Perhaps the most recognizable track, this song combines a surf guitar riff, vocal snippets, and a driving beat. The repetitive "Right about now, the funk soul brother" line, sampled from rapper Lord Finesse, becomes an earworm. 3. **"Gangster Trippin"** - This track features a heavier, more aggressive beat with samples from The Art of Noise and Dust Junkys. It's a chaotic yet controlled piece that showcases Fatboy Slim's ability to blend diverse elements into a cohesive sound. 4. **"Praise You"** - A departure from the album's more intense tracks, "Praise You" offers a more soulful, gospel-infused vibe. The sample from Camille Yarbrough’s "Take Yo’ Praise" is central to its appeal, creating a warm, uplifting atmosphere. **Production:** Norman Cook's production on this album is meticulous and innovative. He demonstrates a masterful ability to manipulate samples, turning snippets of existing songs into entirely new compositions. The production quality is high, with each track featuring a rich, full sound that emphasizes the low-end frequencies essential to dance music. Cook’s use of effects like reverb, delay, and filtering enhances the dynamic range of the album, keeping listeners engaged throughout. ### Lyrics and Themes **Lyrics:** The album is not particularly lyric-focused, as is typical in the big beat genre. Instead, it relies heavily on sampled vocals. These samples, often looped and repeated, serve more as rhythmic and melodic elements than as conveyors of complex messages. For example: - **"The Rockafeller Skank"** features the repeated line "Right about now, the funk soul brother," which, while catchy, doesn’t offer deep lyrical content. - **"Praise You"** is one of the few tracks with a more coherent lyrical message, centered around gratitude and positive affirmation. **Themes:** The overarching theme of the album is hedonistic celebration. It encapsulates the late 90s party culture, where the emphasis was on having a good time, dancing, and enjoying the moment. Tracks like "Gangster Trippin" and "Build It Up - Tear It Down" exemplify this with their relentless energy and upbeat tempos. Another theme is nostalgia, as seen in the use of samples from older songs. Cook’s ability to repurpose these samples creates a bridge between past and present musical eras, giving the album a timeless quality. ### Influence and Legacy "You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby" played a crucial role in bringing electronic music to a wider audience. It was a commercial success, with several singles charting globally. Its influence can be seen in various aspects: 1. **Mainstream Acceptance** - The album’s success helped to legitimize electronic music within mainstream pop culture, paving the way for future electronic artists to achieve similar recognition. 2. **Sampling Techniques** - Cook's innovative use of sampling inspired many producers. His method of blending disparate samples into cohesive tracks showcased the creative potential of the technique. 3. **Cultural Impact** - Songs like "Praise You" and "The Rockafeller Skank" became cultural touchstones, frequently used in films, commercials, and TV shows, embedding them in the public consciousness. 4. **Big Beat Genre** - The album solidified the big beat genre's place in music history. While the genre was already gaining traction, "You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby" brought it to the forefront, influencing contemporaries and new artists alike. ### Pros and Cons **Pros:** 1. **Innovative Production** - Norman Cook's production techniques are groundbreaking. His skillful manipulation of samples and creation of intricate, danceable beats set a high standard in the electronic music genre. 2. **Eclectic Sound** - The album’s diverse range of influences, from funk to rock to hip-hop, makes it a rich auditory experience. Each track offers something unique, keeping the listener engaged. 3. **High Energy** - The relentless energy throughout the album makes it perfect for parties and clubs. Tracks like "Right Here, Right Now" and "The Rockafeller Skank" are designed to get people moving. 4. **Cultural Relevance** - The album has left a lasting impact on popular culture, with several tracks becoming iconic in their own right. Its influence is still felt in electronic music today. **Cons:** 1. **Repetitive Elements** - The heavy reliance on looping samples can become monotonous for some listeners. The repetitive nature of tracks like "The Rockafeller Skank" might not appeal to those looking for more lyrical or melodic diversity. 2. **Niche Appeal** - While the album was a commercial success, its primary appeal lies within the dance music community. Listeners who prefer more traditional song structures and lyrical depth might find it less accessible. 3. **Era-Specific Sound** - Some aspects of the production are very much of their time. The big beat style, while influential, might sound dated to modern listeners accustomed to contemporary electronic music trends. ### Conclusion "You've Come a Long Way, Baby" by Fatboy Slim is a landmark album in the history of electronic music. Its innovative use of sampling, high-energy tracks, and eclectic influences make it a standout example of the big beat genre. The album played a significant role in bringing electronic music to mainstream audiences and has left a lasting legacy in the music world. Despite some repetitive elements and its niche appeal, its cultural impact and production quality make it a timeless piece worth revisiting.

I owned this. I was so excited to see it on the list. But it’s awful, isn’t it? How did I ever endure it as a kid?

Oh this is an old favorite, I love all the mixes.

6/10 I’ve been wanting more electronic stuff on this list, so it pains me to give a mixed to negative review On the good side: it takes me straight back to that 90s period where UK dance was the new rock and roll. Reminded me of seeing him DJ in the dance tent at Glastonbury. Generally excellent samples and a good sense of melody. But this is one of the most painfully stuck in the late 90s things I have heard in a while. Has aged poorly compared to e.g. the Chemical Brothers. Drum programming is pretty weak in retrospect Songs aren’t exactly complex ad are often maybe 25% too long Some of this is just straight bad Best: Praise You

Funky hip hop instrumentals. Very bouncy. They’re nice, and this album is not bad at all, it’s just not my kinda music. Standouts: The Rockafeller Skank and Praise You.

Not a fan of the Heaven song but the rest are pretty good, if sometimes repetitive.

My son got in the car at the absolute wrong time during this album. As others have pointed out (and to contribute my own repetitive rating), the songs kinda blend together and are, you guessed it, repetitive. 3/5

This is pretty fun

Definitive. This, to me, is what big beat should sound like, in sampling, production, tempo, tone, energy—everything. Even in length, as much as I don't think everything needed to be 5+ minutes. If there's anymore big beat albums on this list, I doubt I'll like them as much as I do this. I mean, you name me another album with "Fucking In Heaven"—y'can't.

Some of the best electronic tracks to come out of the 90s, bar none. Norman Cook is a genius behind the turntables.

Well, that’s a masterclass in how to make repetition sound compelling. This is definitely getting a 5 from me; I thought the energy and the vibes were great here, and that’s why it’s getting a 5. In terms of the tracks by themselves, I would say a couple of them hit on the repetition for a bit long in a way where they began to really lose their luster, but most of them kept the energy throughout in a really strong way, even with the repetition. The only real thing I can nitpick this album for is the length; I don’t think that everything on here had to be around 5 minutes, and I especially don’t think Acid 8000 had to be 7 and a half minutes… but that’s a nitpick. The vibes are good, the energy is great, the sample work is immaculate, and I felt pretty captivated for most of those 62 minutes. Super cool album, and a hell of a proper introduction to Fatboy Slim for me – that was really fun. Easy 5.

I especially like Right Here Right Now, the Rockafeller Skank, Love Island

This is specifically what I didn't like or understand about electronic music when I was growing up and taking cues from my older brother about what I was allowed to like and listen to.

As with many records made for dancing, they work better in a DJ set than in an album. I like fat boy slim and listen to his sets from time to time but as an album it blured into the background except for the hits.

If "The Rockefeller Skank" wasn't on here, it would be a 1. This album is practically unlistenable as it is annoying. That one song is good but that's it, everything else is god awful.

BOMB ASS ALBUM!

I have to celebrate you, "You've Come a Long Way Baby". I have to praise you like I should.

Some classics

90s jams at their finest.

the songs remind me of when I had 45s that skipped and repeated the same phrase, over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over.

I almost gave this one a 4/5, but then a bout of the 'tism hit at the same moment "praise you" started and I said fuck it we ball.

This album ended up being more fun that I thought it would be.

More swearing in that one song than all of wolf of Wall Street

Reviewed the album on a walk with the dogs and I feel about it like I did when it was first released two or three good songs that don’t burrow into your brain and get annoying. His later collaborations are better and don’t turn off people with anxiety where the repetitive beats and phrases don’t overwhelm.

Felt so happy that I discovered it! It feels like this albumhas inspired so much incredible music that I've lustened to. The songs are imperfect but bold, exploratory

Those first two tracks are amazing

This was better on 2nd listen as I used on a long bike ride. But I feel the same I did about the Australian group--fun for dance parties and definitely technically amazing, but would probably not just toss on to hear.

Another album I don't even have to listen to. I know the whole thing front to back and back to front. Praise You is one of the low points of the album (and always has been). Starts with two absolute bangers. Track 3 is a meme before memes that I remember saying "Where is he?" "What's he doing" between the lyrics with my college housemates. Core memory unlocked. Overall this was one of the best albums I had ever heard at the time and was part of the small set of albums that drew me into the genre.

yes, great boy

Incredibly repetitive. Incredibly repetitive. Incredibly repetitive. Incredibly rep rep repetitive. Incredibly repetitive. Incredibly rep repetitive.

Very much of its time, this was the sounds of the summer of 1998 for me, but 25 years later (almost) I was fully expecting it to have aged badly, but by the time I got to the fourth track, "Gangster Trippin", I was fully invested and chair boogying... It's a layered cake of repetitive banging beats, pitched sequenced sounds, repetitive sampled vocals, I can certainly appreciate the craft that went into it, moreso that it was done without the modern tools people take for granted, I mean he produced it using C-Lab Creator on an Atari ST that was already pretty old by 1998 standards (watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLjgXPDzeZo to see how homebrewed his studio was). Nostalgia ain't what it used to be, but I enjoyed this trip down memory lane, though it does get a little weak in the back end aside from "Praise You".

You know, with the exception of the Rolling Stones, every artist so far to give me multiple albums has been one that I had a pretty positive opinion of from the first album of theirs that I listened to. Even then, I knew that I would eventually find a Rolling Stones album I cared about, and I was right. I did not care for my first Fatboy Slim album, if you can call it that. I myself refer to it is a collection of random beats. However, I have seen more praise for You've Come a Long Way, Baby than that other one. So, do I care for this album more than the first? Well, I do, but only by a tiny margin. I really just don't think I care about Fatboy Slim. Is he talented at making beats? Sure, I guess. I just don't feel anything when listening to this. There's enough substance here for me to actually call this one an album, but not enough for me to like it. The added words make the album feel more complete, but they're so repetitive that it doesn't really matter. There's some okay songs on here. I thought "Praise You" was pretty solid. Other songs just aren't fun to listen to. That third song really made me want to fucking-fucking-fucking-fucking end it all right there. I don't really care at all about this album or artist, and I'm happy to say that Fatboy Slim doesn't have any more on the list. 2/5.

Praise You is a top 10 music video

There some bops on here tbh. Praise you, right here right now, and the Rockafeller skank were all recognizable. Def see why it’s on this list

The sampling and chopping is great fun, but it gets tired pretty quickly.

Epic start. For me, this sound defined that decade, even though I wasn't around to hear it.

Day 10 - June 11th I think the only thing Fatboy Slim is fucking is my ear drums. 3/5

Used to have this on CD back in the day. Singles are etched into my brain. Forgot how good the rest of it is. I may indeed have come a long way, baby, but my musical tastes haven't changed in the 25 years since this came out. Fatboy is fucking in heaven and so am I.

Sounds like a shitty hostel in Amsterdam. Better wash your hands.

Fatboy shit

When I was in college, the web cartoon Homestar Runner was huge. In one episode, Strong Bad creates an electronic music song and explains that every techno song has one random sentence that just repeats over and over for now reason. That’s what this whole album is.

I bet this album was cool when he played the songs live at a 90's rave and everyone was rolling their faces off.

De fleste af numrene kunne være godt være op til et minut kortere, men langt de fleste af dem er kæmpe bangers alligevel

Der er nogen kæmpe bangere her på men det var også lidt trættende i længden

Fed plade. Stort set alle dem man kender. I flere af sangene lød det som om min hjerne gik i stykker - på en god måde!

Really good songs Some aren't tho.

AlienSpin - Track1 AlienOverheat/AlienGlitch - Track2 AlienDance - Track6 and +

Probably revolutionary, but nothing too amazing in my book.

The standout tracks on this are absolutely incredible, but the rest dip into the bad side of repetitive - I’m sure this was fun in a club when my uncle was a DJ in the late 90s/early aughts, but sober in my living room it’s a bit of a headache. Will absolutely go back to the best tracks more often now that I’ve been reminded.

Shot out to WBCN If you took out all the repetition on this album, the playing time would be 46 seconds. I danced once, reminisced twice. And got bored by the repetitive nature of it all. You don't NEED to hear one Fatboy Slim album (maybe a few songs, but aside from that), let alone 2 Praise You is good though.

I wish the way was still being taken, so we didn't have to listen to the album... wasn't my taste in the '90s, isn't my taste today

Right Here, Right Now, Rockafeller Skank and Praise You are amongst the very best dance tracks of the 90s taking samples of classic riffs and putting monster beats and breakdowns behind them. Unfortunately they are also the best things on this album by a long way. I could really have done with out hearing the track ‘Fucking in Heaven’ immediately after the first two bangers. Out of the non hit tracks, the highpoint is an old school acid track at the end.

I didn't listen to this in more than 20 years. I still know what to expect next at the end of each title, so I guess I listened to it quite a few times back in the day. So, I was happy to bring back memory, but re-listening to this album, it strucks me how repetitive it is. I have no issue with repetition — I generally love it — but when it's the music, not the lyrics. And it gets annoying. Apart from that, the music itself is diverse and there are not two similar tracks. An instrumental version of this album would deserve another star.

The singles really pop on this, but even all of those overstay their welcome. All I need from this is the shortened radio edits of the singles. As a full album (and even as album-length songs) this really started to grate on my nerves. Over the course of a full hour, this music really starts to feel like a gimmick.

I cannot imagine being passionate in any way about this album. It's not bad! I want to be clear I don't think it's bad. It's just forgettable. It's music that plays and doesn't offend sensibilities and is generally fun, but nothing that'll stick with you. Fun, forgettable music that I could listen to pretty much whenever, but I'd never actually choose to listen to it myself.

Very solid club bangers for the 90s.

This album is a trip and can take you anywhere, no passport needed! 4/5

Sometimes catchy but too long. I couldn’t do the whole album.

- very enjoyable I love the dj sound - the songs were catchy - good gaming music

- this was mostly a tough listen - a couple 90s jams - otherwise this album is made for people who like the same 5 words repeated over and over

To be honest i was really in the mood for some 90s music so this review is a little bit biased but overall really liked this

What an album! In my head canon Fatboy Slim, Chemical Brothers and The Prodigy make the big trio of electronic music from 90/2000s. And this record is just amazing from start to finish, with three bangers, that will stay on my favourite lists forever. 10/10

I really tried. But some times you have to admit, it's just not for you. I appreciate the effort and creativity but I don't enjoy this firm of music.

Wanted it to be so much better. Most songs just weren’t listenable for me

Thats ok but so repetitive. 2 stars

Enjoyable, recognizable music. Probably won't revisit this though.

Well, I'm already familiar with Fatboy Slim as a big-beat producer, particularly for the songs "The Rockafeller Skank" and "Praise You" from this album that I've heard on alternative radio. Needless to say, the rest of the album is of similar quality to those two tracks. This is a very electronic album, where Slim experiments with beat loops, samples, and track manipulation to create fresh rhythms to groove to. Sure it's a bit repetitive and long, but that comes with the territory of the big-beat genre. If that's not your cup of tea, I get it. For everyone else, give this a shot.

Certainly dated, but nonetheless it has a few classics. More so than not the album has some repetitive beats, but I do enjoy a few b sides. Great background house music.

Think I’m too hungover for that

Started off so strong. And then it dips. And then Praise You comes on and your back at the top. Really good album.

Classic, love it

Okay, so i wasn't interested in this album, but gave it a listen anyway. First song is iconic, especially when you are watching it with the video, but i got high once and the song gave me anxiety, so since then i skip it. The rest of the songs are OK. Gets an extra star for the iconic sleeve.

Perfecto para el viernes. Lo escuché bastante es su época. Hoy en día me sigue gustando, aunque se hace pesado en una solo tacada. Temas brillantes para siempre y otros más "estándar".

The Rockafeller Skank, Right Here, Right Now and Praise You… some of the best 90s tracks all on one album. And the ones I’m less familiar with are really fun too. Go watch Spike Jonze’s Praise You music video if you haven’t, absolute treat.

Previous British electronica artists from the 90's got a lot of hate from me. Fatboy Slim is a hard exception from me. He was my personal childhood introduction to the world of electronic music.Especially "Right Here Right Now" and "The Rockafeller Skank" have a special place in my heart. In early 2000's these songs were a defintion of coolness for me. And they still are.

Fatboy Slim is Fucking in heaven

Cracking album, full of bangers and very enjoyable even for somebody who isn't usually fond of this genre of music.

Very enjoyable

punishing repetition...

Was surprised by how many tracks I recognised and can see why it's on the list. Not my cup of tea as I found each track a bit repetitive.

Meh. Pure meh.

A lot of this album is way too repetitive, I think 20 minutes could easily have been cut to make this a normal-length LP. Two stars for that reason alone, otherwise this music is well-produced, nostalgic, fun to listen to.

"Here we go" i thought, another fucking album which samples shit to hell and back. Just what i need after a few mediocre hip hop albums. Im not sure what it is, but sampling should be outlawed for many artists. Im not normally one for dance music albums either unless they are compilations. But this really hit the spot. Right here, right now. Absolute banger. Rockafeller skank, banger. Gangster tripping, banger. Praise you, absolute banger. Plenty of bangers on this album. The album starts really well, very strong and gets weaker as you go until you hit praise you. build it up, tear it down also good. Lots of stand out tracks. The samples are actually fun, catchy and make you wanna rock it a bit. Even if you didnt know who fatboy slim was, you will have heard many of these songs. Which i think is a testament to the quality. These songs have been used on adverts, TV, films, you name it. Theres at least 4 very strong singles on this album. Probably 5 imo with build it up, tear it down. The sampling on this is great. Very catchy lyrics throughout the main songs. The front cover is pretty iconic too. Overall, a very good album for me. Rating - 4/5

It's good while it's on, and it's impressive that the 3 big singles he had all came from this same album, but it does get a bit tiring towards the end. Though the blow is softened a little bit by that banger of a closing track, that did have me grooving. It just seems to be common with electronic albums that they stretch the albums and songs out to longer lengths than they need be, but I guess the intended listening experience is on a dancefloor, not sitting at home with headphones on. So it's understandable.

3 von 5 Repetitiv, macht dennoch Spaß zu hören. Etwas zu lang. Favoriten: Rockafeller Skank, Kalifornia

And I thought I would hate this album. There is something mesmerizing about it. It repeats, it can get annoying, but I enjoyed it way more than a person should be allowed.

Usually don't like this kind of music but this wasn't half bad.

Check it out now, this album is not bad. In fact, it’s pretty good. Other than In Heaven, that song sucks. All songs are very repetitive and run long. Album comes in at (2.3*s)

This album is pretty solid, it had most of the tracks I recognize from FBS and was a fun listen. It does get a bit repetitive and some tracks are a little too long but that's to be expected in this genre (considering it was designed to be digested on a stimulant-induced dance floor). Given that, it still translates to other settings pretty well like driving, working out, or vigorously cleaning your floors. I don't know if we've come a long way in terms of sound, but the fact that this was recorded and produced with an Atari and some floppy disks is absolutely insane. Rounding up on that, high 2.65.

Well Fatboy...you've come a little way from 1st album. Starts off pretty good but I lost interest by side 2. I'm not into party electronica and prefer a darker, headphone listen from the genre. Def has hits that were all over MTV and the radio in the 90s and had an impact on popularizing electronica so I see why it's on this list....2.4

This is the Fatboy Slim album that I was familiar with. It's got most of his/their best songs many of which still hold up today. I thoroughly enjoyed the re-listen. It's got a pretty iconic late 90's techno sound. Glad to see it represented on here. 3.53 stars

As much as I like Praise You and some other early moments on this album it is still repetative and punishing at times. While the backbone of the sound feels more joyous and natural, it still lacks the variation or exploration that keeps me engaged.

I don't remember how but I know this album really well, in spite of never having owned it. Fatboy slim wasn't the first to turn sampling into an art form in it's own right but my word did he do it well. What's amazing is that in 2024 he is still an A list DJ and people still love what he does. This is a fantastic album, can be enjoyed anytime and anywhere

90s techno pop. Terrible. Hope to not listen to it again

nice change from his previous work

banger after banger

Some fun hits and some meaningless repetitive drivel.

The influence on electronica is clear, with a mix of classic and beach rock guitar riffs, hip-hop drum beats, and electronic blips. Gave me a huge nostalgia hit of JSR, but overall not something I would listen to everyday.

Some bangers.

Pretty fun

Hmmm... Loved this album when it came out. Not listened to it for ages... Listening to it again I was not as enamoured. I guess because it's no longer as 'fresh' / I've got older... It's not bad, just didn't register as mind-blowing on a re-listen. Still a solid four though.

Die 2 Hits sind ganz ok, aber dann nerve’s.

Right Here Right Now.

Actually pretty good dance club beats - fast and pumping! Would listen again

The singles from this album and particularly The Rockafeller Skank and Praise You were absolutely huge in the very late nineties in a way that was really fun. The video for Praise You has to be one of the all-time greats.

I always laugh when I see this album's cover, which I know isn't nice. (I'm also quite shocked that the internet has yet to identify this person from the 1983 Fat Peoples Festival in Danville, Virginia...) And I always enjoy listening to songs from this album when they show up on my playlist, as they're (to me at least) uniformly fun and driving. (I'm not at all surprised, though, that the US version of the album had a different cover, which is my personal copy's version, sadly...) I had never seen the videos for the singles on this album until now, and they're about what I expected, although I didn't expect to see the cover guy at the end of "Right Here, Right Now", and I thought the Spike-Jonze-directed/-featuring "Praise You" was truly mesmerizing. This album also evokes a very specific time and place for me, as I think the first time I heard Norman Cook's music was when I came across this wild Webbie-Award-winning site in the early 2000s which featured Fatboy Slim's and other artists' music in this weird dress-a-dancer interactive game-like thing, called "Dancing Paul". (It got created by an out-of-work web developer who wanted to teach himself how to use Flash, and amazingly it's still there and largely functional in a post-Flash-world at <https://www.dancingpaul.com/>) I know this isn't really a "great" album per se, and I'm not sure exactly whether it's fair to describe Fatboy Slim as a musician either (although Norman Cook is clearly a musical artist), but I really like this album nonetheless.

Until I listened to this album, I didn't realize I knew, and liked, quite a bit of Fatboy Slim! A couple of great dance songs with a few not-as-good beats.

Didn't have high expectations, but, I enjoyed it!

Praise You and The Rockafeller Skank are the high watermark achievements here, they're both iconic tracks that have been imbedded into the culture zeitgeist of the 90's. The rest of the record is an unproblematic listen, but hearing it all at once back to back makes it feel less special, like maybe Fatboy Slim isn't even a musician, just a guy who got lucky that a few of his "experiments" were sonically delightful. I think hearing all these tracks back to back highlights what I don't like about electronic music, the repetitious nature and intentionally grating tones, because it makes each track feel so formulaic and dispassionate. It's the same thing every track - come up with a beat and lay a weird lyrical phrase over it, then repeat it over and over and over again for 3.5 - 5 minutes until the song is over. It’s monotonous to listen to and if that’s the whole point, then fuck you even more electronica!

All I could think listening to this is how much better it would be live. But as I am in bed, listening to this by myself, I can't do anything but pray for it to end. But again, if it was in a better setting, it would probably be fun, so 2 stars it is. Fav songs: - Right Here Right Now

Great, uplifting classic.

Great album, a defining sound of it's time

muy divertido ngl, me gustó esa mezcla muy rara de breakbeat y hiphop

I had a whole thing typed out for this but it disappeared. Sad.

Repeatative sure, but why not repeat greatness?

The extended intro of Right Here Right Now is pretty infectious. I wish they'd gone into more variations of that repeating theme, because it's genuinely great. The Rockafeller Skank also has some great ideas (those two simultaneous guitars... man. Good stuff.), as does Kalifornia. Unfortunately, there are numerous moments with only vocals and/or percussion. The vocalist (rapper?) in most tracks has a generic and unexpressive rapping voice. When this happens, I tend to start paying closer attention to the lyrics, but that's a mistake here. ("Right here right now right here right now right here right now check it out right here right now right here right now check it out now funk soul brotha right about now right here right now funk soul brotha now now now now now now right about now now now now now now now right about now.") This album is a solid reminder that using a soundboard for vocals is a terrible idea. The percussion is barely passable as long as you don't pay too close attention to it. Very repetitive and artificial. The producers are trying to direct attention to the synths and guitars (I guess) and those are pretty good. Praise You takes the synth prominence to the next level and, combined with singing rather than rapping, it's easily the strongest track. 3/5 Key tracks: Right Here Right Now, The Rockafeller Skank, Praise You

Never really got Fatboy Slim. Just too blasted repetitive. Praise You is alright. An entire album of this is just not enjoyable. I don't see why this is on the list.

Repetitive, repetitive, repetitive... Some sounds are okay, but just by repeating them over and over and over they become extremely boring. No need to listen to the whole song. Just the first 30 seconds are usually enough to know how the rest is going to be like. Praise you and Right Here, Right now are okay.

A bit boring.

It’s good for dance music

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Pas mon style pour écouter chez moi

One good song

I've come a long, long way together Through the hard times and the good I have to celebrate it, baby I have to praise it like I should

Review in the key of Moby. Who came first Fatboy Slim or Moby? Or are they the same person? I know they're not but they might as well be. It's the exact same shit. It's repetition. The beat is repetitive. The layout of each song is repetitive. The samples are overused and repeat the same part far too much. Every now you get a bit of a change up, but it's not enough of a change... Because seconds later, it's back to those repetitive parts because it's all just repetition. How does one get excited for this? Apart from maybe hearing parts of these songs in an action movie scene... I can picture movies like Crank... This music has nothing appealing to me. Maybe that it's all done by one person. For the most part. Anyways, this Moby album sounds like Fatboy Slim. Or is it the other way around.

hmm. some good some very repetitive. interesting but yet whole songs that have 2 phrases huh.

I knew some of these songs but I never knew they were by an artist called fatboy slim though I did know the name fatboy slim. Huh! 2.5

I put this album off for a few days, because I wasn't looking forward to it. I found the last Fatboy Slim album to be extremely repetitive. Surprise, this one is too! But for some reason, it hit the spot today. Bangers like "Rockafeller Skank" and "Praise You" added some nostalgia to the whole affair, and even the tracks I didn't know were a good soundtrack to work to. On a normal day, I'd probably give this a 3, but it gets the "good day bump".

I remembered it being better. It is quite repetitive but doesn't really hold up today imho.

Mesmerizing for the most part. I could have Rockafeller Skank on repeat. There's so many good songs but there's also some real duds that really brings down the album.

Sonidos muy extravagantes para mí gusto pero muy buen ritmo excelente para alguna droga y para un sample

Old school classic to me. Some fun memories on the dance floor in the nineties

👍🏻👍🏻

It's very well heeled in its time. I reckon it was more impressive when it was released but perhaps hasn't aged as well, or just, not as good in the modern context. 2.5 but some 3.0 tracks.

Really? You think I'd wanna listen to this profanity spewing album? That would be a big fat NO!!

4.5/10. Lots of movie jams,but a little too much

Cool consept, but it gets slightly tiring! Probably works better in a club when you're high as a kite.

This album is a fun one that brings back memories of listening to this on repeat with a portable cd player on long car trips. Rockafeller Skank, Gangsta Trippin, Praise You, and Acid 8000 are some of my favorite tracks on this albums. 3.7 stars

Not a bad listen at all I love this site I get to hear albums I wouldn’t normally gravitate to a solid 3/4

Each individual song is great and enjoyable…at first. Unfortunately the album outstays its welcome by at least 20 minutes or so, and there isn’t a single song that was short enough for me to want to play again immediately after it was over. Would listen if it was on, but won’t seek out any songs other than the hits (with “Praise You” being the clear winner here) again.

Not everyone's cup of tea, but a smash hit in the DJing and dance world that I am so fond of. This album exhibits how electronic music can both be subversive and mainstream at the same time. Almost all of the tracks on this album are bangers and hearing them again made me recall fondly when I was a child dancing like a maniac to "The Rockafeller Skank." I only didn't give it a 5 because it honestly doesn't age as well. Definitely a snapshot in the late 90s but unless you put it on as a soundtrack for a period piece or as background music for a trendy urban thrift store, I can see it not pleasing the people around it as readily as the other 5/5 albums I have rated on this list.

Best: Acid 8000 Love Island Praise You're not from Brighton Worst: Fucking in Heaven

Some classic tunes -- and overall a very cohesive collection of eclectic samples and beats. Great fun!

You’ve Come a Long Way Baby Oh the warm, warm piss of nostalgia on my face. I don’t think I’ve ever heard the album in its entirety but the singles are so seared into my memory. I can feel the red vinyl covers and the stickiness of the tables, I can smell the disinfectant and beer and I can see the tiny tv up in the corner of the Grey bar when I hear The Rockerfeller Skank. I can see us all standing around, waiting for the pool table and thinking about pizza. The big singles, Rockefeller Skank, Gangster Tripping, Right Here, Right Now still sound great, brilliant bits of pop music. Kind of Moby and DJ Shadow-esque in the samples they use, with Gangster Tripping even sampling DJ Shadow of course, but with a very pop party music attitude. The fact they still get used in TV, films and adverts 26 years later shows how strong they remain and how little they have dated. And then Praise You is just a genuinely brilliant song, irrespective of genre, and it rightly endures as a pop classic. Fucking in Heaven is fine but not as strong, the guitar part/sample/interpolation really does date it and it doesn’t really have a strong enough hook for me. Build it Up, Tear it Down and Kalifornia are fun and stronger musically and have good hooks, but Soul Surfing and You’re Not from Brighton are similar to Fucking in Heaven, fun enough but not at the heights of the other songs. Love Island is a good dance track and Acid 8000 is a fun in a squelchy way. It feels like there are 3 tiers to the album: Great - RHRN, TRS, GT, Praise You; Good but not as good - BIUTID, Kalifornia, Love Island, Acid 800 and fine but a bit fillery - FIH, SS, YNFB. Obviously the whole genre is based around repetition and groove, but I suppose Fatboy Slims take on it is to put that together with sampling and making it very accessible and poppy, and it works really well for the most part, but some hooks are better than others and you can’t help thinking the album format isn’t the best for this - you kind of want to hear them at a party, in a bar, club, pub at a festival. All places I frequent on the reg these days. It also suffers from a bit of bloat, each track is long and the whole album at just over an hour feels lengthy. Some judicious editing of tracks or just losing a couple of tracks altogether to get to 45-50 mins would be good. As an album I’m not sure it really works but then again that’s not the point. But it does have some truly great tracks and within the genre each song has it’s merits, you’d be happy to hear any of them on a night out. It’s one of those albums I’m glad to have a listen to, but ultimately it’s a ‘pick your best songs for a playlist and then probably never listen to again album’. ⭐️⭐️⭐️

The king of using sampling to create infectious hooks. Overall this album just makes me happy. Maybe it’s nostalgia, but I honestly only knew a few songs from the full album and even the ones I didn’t know, I enjoyed.

2.5/5 Better than I expected. It’s sometimes a bit too repetitive but overall a good album to have on the background. Favourite song: - Praise you

Nostalgia!

There's inescapable and then there's Right Here Right Now. Equally at home across sports footage, film montages, DIY presenters walking into homes, probably even local news about roadworks, it has become shorthand for 'this is exciting, honest'. It and Praise You and Rockefeller Skank are killer singles. The rest of the album is, well could work in a club mix.

90s classic Norman

Electronic music has never really been my jam - just too much repetition lyrically - but I enjoyed listening to this mostly. Maybe because it took me back to an exciting time in my life, though. I like thinking about how Fatboy Slim recorded this at his home. By the way, this album cover is 100% better than the shelves of records.