You've Come a Long Way Baby

It's very much of its time, but at least it defines the era. Praise You and Rockafeller Skank are standouts.

Some albums age like milk. Others, like this one, sound derivative because everyone copied it afterwards. The production is high and the musical ideas are fully fleshed out. Happy I listened. Glad people improved on it over tie.

I took this way too seriously the first time I listened. It's actually really funny and ironic and I feel like that's the point of his music. Probably wouldn't play it in the club but it helped me whip through 100 pages of my book, so that says something right?

Fun

I really, really dislike anything that resembles techno or dance music, but I’ve always liked Fatbot Slim for some reason. Maybe it was the awesome videos of his when I was younger. This album was a fun way to start my morning commute.

I liked this more than I thought I would.

Some absolute classic tracks on this but the other songs really aren't great and drag the album back down to average for me.

Good beats

Listening to a full album of this is wild. It's long a little much, but I enjoyed it.

always cool to see electronic music in its early forms, and I dig the use of samples on this album. some of the songs either don't really work for me or tend to drag on. favorites: the rockefeller skank, praise you

Groovy 90's background music but nothing of real substance.

Bin du bon beat electro. C'est ma limite de musique électronique. Juste assez sans que ce soit désagréable. Une couple de gems sur cet album 3-4 toune qui s'écoutent assez bien.

I wasn’t sure what to expect with this one so I was surprised to say the least. Praise You is obviously a classic… not sure that I liked the rest of the album enough to give this one a 4.

Hyvää settiä, vaikka Fatboy Slim vähän liikaa tuo mieleen EDM:n esiasteen. Ei soundit sinänsä, mutta fiilis.

Samplaus-musan uraanuurtajia tämäkin, tosin ei koskaan omien suosikkien joukossa. Vähän arvon kolmosen ja nelosen välillä, mut nyt jää 3.

It's so easy to get acid, you can get it anywhere.

-sound bite king -90s movie nostalgia -drum n bass vibes

3.5/5

i mean it was cool

Interesting project, catchy, i'm sure well regarded among Electronica fans, only reason it is not rated higher is because this music simply is not my bag

I can handle this in small doses, and only if it can skip past the repetitive bits.

nice

Most of that was fun

Fun listen, funny moments, the way he uses the samples is decent. There seems to be a repetitive nature to his beats and production 6/10

First few tracks sounded very distinct to me, others blended in as it went. Fun and high energy

legal eletrônico.e pah, mas não é muito de ficar curtindo na baia

This was truly the sound of my teens. I completely wore this CD out back in the late 90s. Sadly it's showing its age now. Maybe it's because some of these tunes are still so ubiquitous. Still, I guess it's still the most pure embodiment of the genre of big beat. Enjoyed it but didn't blow me away like it did 25 years ago

i can appreciate fatboy slim's you've come a long way, baby with its creativity and its place on this list. some tracks i enjoyed more than others; i think the ones i didn't enjoy just fell into the category of too weird. electronic music can allow the artist to explore the bounds of music, and i think fatboy slim was able to do so. the album is electronic, but there's a funk or rap feel throughout. he was able to make each song pretty catchy, to boot.

I feel like "Right Here, Right Now" and "The Rockafeller Skank" alone are two songs that most people know from radio, commercials, or various media without even realizing it. Overall, this was a pretty fun listen. I did feel like the music was quite a bit repetitive and looped at times, but given the way this album was created (which I found to be cool), maybe that was the intention. I do like the heavy funk influence across the album. This album kind of feels locked in a small period of time. I don't know of too many artists who dabbled in this sound, and it was ultimately a short-lived time in music.

Rockefeller Skank was a banger in just dance. You won't forget you're listening to Fatboy Slim. 3

I enjoyed more than half of this, which was surprising. However, since it was really long that means I didn't enjoy about 20 minutes of the music. Still worth trying, of course. I don't think I'd normally put anything like this on. More a 3.5 than a 3, but since we don't have that, it gets a 3.

Cool sampling, a little bit dated except for when listening in altered states of mind.

Brilliant production and some classic singles, but so repetitive it makes me want to smash my head through a wall, especially in the second half. 7 minutes of Rockafeller Skank?!

Mehh, too electronic 66%

The album was pretty good. I recognized a couple of the songs which i would listen to again.

This is so incredibly late 90's. The songs are way too fucking long. I like it more than the Tina Turner and less than Blondie

Right Here Right Now is a classic. I’m not too into electronic music so take this rating with a grain of salt.

Esse som não me atrai muito

I expected to enjoy this one a lot more than I actually did. Every track feels so good... until it doesn't. Norman always seems to take his tracks at least one step too far to be 100% enjoyable. For example, about 4 minutes into "Rockafeller Skank" (arguably the biggest hit on this record), there's a sudden, escalating siren of a saw-wave that's a solid 15 seconds of painful noise. And I'm not sure what the point of that is. Because, ostensibly, this is dance music, right? So why does every track seem to have an extended section of completely undanceable noise? The ONE exception is "Praise You" which is inarguably fantastic. The weird, noisy break on that track is at least short and remains danceable. But, even though "Praise You" is utterly fantastic, it's just not enough to save the album as a whole. I fully expected to give this 5 stars when I hit play but quickly downgraded it to a 4-star rating. By the time it wrapped, I was so annoyed with Mr. Slim's nonsense that I was forced to remove yet another star from the final score. Just... just quit it with the noisy, undanceable nonsense, man.

El sentit de la melodia i la seva creativitat musical ja es van fer ben paleses amb Housemartins. Com si volgués deixar emprempta a cada década amb el so que li correspon als diferents temps, Norman Cook es va treure de la màniga un dels discos més cacarejats a l'época, vitorejat per gairebé tothom. En realitat, viu dels seus millors temes. 'El començament amb 'Right Here Right Now' i 'Rockefeller Skank' és certament espectacular. Però la resta del minutatge perd molta efectivitat, amb moments aquí i allà, com a 'Praise You', on es recupera puntualment

Fundamentals of electronic dance music.

A fun record, but a bit dated I suppose. Having been born in 1994, it gives me a weird sense of nostalgia. I heard the few two songs a lot as a kid. Advances in sampling techniques and digital production mean that, today, this album sounds a bit rigid. It doesn’t help that the songs are so long. It’s a slow burn.

I remember when big beat sounds from Britain were hip. The singles, "Right Here Right Now", "The Rockafeller Skank", "Gangster Tripping" and "Praise You" are still cool tracks, even if they obviously sound dated now. Unfortunately, the rest is far less pleasant, often too linear, and even borderline obnoxious in some spots--not *every* repetitive vocal samples out there can work to great effects--even shrewd opportunistic foxes such as Moby or the Chemical Brothers, who used those too, know that (which is why they often shifted gear and went to other places as well if needed). Of course there's a way to compare Fat Boy Slim with those latter artists I've just mentioned to make it work in his favor. One can consider he offered a crazier, tastier meal than them somehow. But he was also much more of a one-trick pony than those other artists were. Besides, you also need to take into account the fact that there's that huge discrepancy between highlights and fillers within his debut album--the sort of awkward discrepancy that makes "You've Come A Long Way, Baby" a somewhat awkward candidate for a list of essential albums imho. Number of albums left to review: 659 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 169 Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 81 (including this one) Albums from the list I will certainly *not* include in mine (many others are more essential to me): 96

Nice to jam out to while at work

Beats, maar toch iets aangenaam om op de achtergrond op te zetten

Od svih vrsta elektronike devedesetih big beat je najgore ostario, ali kad slušaš ovaj album koliko je retardirano zabavno. Da pisme su preduge i prerepetativne ali je istodobno urnebesno

decent album all the way through but just some amazing classic songs.

Far too long, but at least it's fun

Pretty good, nostalgic.

Ovo je baš zabavan album sa onim jakim hitovima. Nije za 4, ali je u sredini.

Un nice album d'electro, pas spécialement mon genre mais des bangers quand même.

Check it out now, the Funk’s lil brother! Check it out now, the funks soul rubber! Right about now the chunk hole snubber! High energy, move that body music. Kinda exhausting after a long day of work, but still got me schmoovin and groovin. 3.5/5

Good!

That opening is absolutely iconic - Right Here Right Now with the radio bit at the end into Rockafeller Skank - but overall the album is a bit of a disappointment. I came into it knowing those two plus Gangster Trippin and Praise You, and I don't think there's another song on there that I'll ever actively listen to again. That said, those 4 alone are enough to get this album to a 3, but no higher.

Värt att återkomma till

Some classic bangers but also a bit repetitive in places. Would selectively listen again.

This is the kind of music I want to listen to when I haven’t slept in 36 hours and I’m driving 2700 miles on a case of Red Bull….

Patchy. Very of the moment. Feels v corporate.

In Heaven: I am truly uncertain if Fatboy Slim is enjoying extensive coitus sessions in the afterlife or if he is in a heightened state of euphoria. Yes, I had to look up how to spell coitus correctly. Yes, I guessed correctly the first time. Yes, I’m proud of myself.

It really has some amazing highlights, like "Right Here, Right Now" (especially with video clip) "The Rockafeller Skank," and "Love Island" I know this album well and after absolutely adoring it for quite a few years, I now find this album to be dragging on a bit.

Dated

Fun music but sits a little stagnant for my taste. Broad use of soundscapes and samples used to good effect however, some sounds can't help but come across as a bit goofy at times to my ears (also owes to my unfamiliarity with the genre). Mix is a bit safe at times, but some songs break this trend (Love Island). Some solid grooves, but has a lighthearted and dance-y atmosphere I have trouble connecting with. Not a bad album by any stretch, in fact to my ears pretty effective at what it sets out to be and carries some solid tracks; Just not entirely for me I think. Favorite Tracks: Kalifornia Praise You Acid 8000

As long as you’re not in it for the lyrics…. I do love a lot of these tracks, they’re great to dance to. Yes they’re repetitive but Ravel’s Bolero repeats the same melody 14 times but is still a great piece of music. Listening to the whole album straight off can be a little mind-numbing but there are enough hooks to entice you back in. Could do without the Fucking in Heaven altogether.

I'm gonna pog on you like I should

pretty solid. not what i expected but good

3/10

I don't usually listen to this kind of sample based music, but this album is surprisingly good. Especially the first few tracks pulled me in, but sadly the album loses some of its steam in the second half. Still a worthwhile listen. 3/5

When I saw that this was the album for today I thought that either I was going to be really happy or really disappointed. There was a bit of both. When the first song started I was immediately disappointed because it wasn’t as good as I remembered it being. Rockafeller Skank was as fun as ever. In Heaven repeated fucking about a million times too many. Then came Ganster Trippin. From that song on my sensibilities shifted and I was happy. Except for Kalifornia. That was annoying. The thing that made me happiest was remembering that Norman Cook used to have a group called Beats International and my roommates and I listened to the album (cassette) Let Them Eat Bingo a lot in 1990. It still holds up. I was also thinking about how I say I don’t like jam bands but this seems to be an electronic jam record. And jazz has lots of jamming going on. So I guess I just don’t like the Grateful Dead and Phish.

When I first heard Praise You, it was a vibe I never heard before and I fell in love. Like literally in love because it was the time in my life when I also met my future husband. I still dig that song (and my husband) but some of the tunes got too repetitive even for me. Still it’s a worthy album for this list

Very much of its time, but undeniably some proper bangers in their, including best song Praise You. And Norman Cook was a very nice and patient man when he listened to me going on about Take That and Suede during a drunken night when we were both at Rosie's in Kings Cross.

Good not great.

Buen disco de hip-hop con buenos ritmos y del estilo de la época. Para gente que le guste este estilo.

The funk soul brother is ok.

Fun, lively, huge beats. Fades into the background a little at times. Favorite tracks: "The Rockafeller Skank", "Kalifornia", "Praise You"

Not really songs, more like he finds a hook and repeats it for a song length. Works sometimes, especially on Praise You. Just repetitive on others.

There are some great nostaligic tunes on here 3+

A bit too gimmicky for me (and in my memory Better Living through Chemistry" was better) but Praise You is still a 5 star song.

Head empty a bit here. It’s kinda interesting and he’s definitely a talented producer. I feel like he tantalizes us a bit with a whiff of cool production techniques but doesn’t fully develop them. The songs don’t feel dated Per se, but they don’t exactly hold up either. I’m pretty neutral overall

this was kind of nothing to me. couldnt really focus on the songs

Прослушано! Не моё хотя и драйвово.

You'd think something like this wouldn't have aged very well, but I think it holds up even now.

Like this album in hs. 3 stars

Couple of top tunes, but some filler

Top 3 Songs: 1 - Gangster Trippin (4) 2 - You're Not From Brighton (8) 3 - The Rockafeller Skank (2)

It's okay. Didn't necessarily like or dislike it.

A bunch of hits, a bunch of hidden gems, and a bunch of filler stuff

I didn't like it in the beginning except for the few major hits (Praise You, Right Here Right Now) - I found the repetitivenes and the breaking down of all those beats too long and annoying. But then I played it on my headphones while working out and I found that I actually enjoyed it a lot more than expected. Still, it's not something I'd play on a daily basis and the loooong ending to Rockefeller Skank is just too much for me. 3.5/5 rounded down to 3.

First time listening. Can get pretty repetitive but good for hyping up I think. Big beat is certainly fun.

bonus points for the classic the rockafeller stank, overall pretty decent album for background music.

Really funky and upbeat

classic album a lot of big hits on this one.

a little too long for me and i'm not sure I was in the right mood to enjoy it fully, but still great nonetheless

A bit repetitive and not really my type of music, but that album cover is everything.

This was new to me! Interesting, but not really my mind of music. Would characterise it as techno/indie.

Ideal for those who appreciate samples from Joe Walsh's James Gang period and the movie Strange Days, along with people who see every Spike Jonze film because they really loved his music videos. Three solid bangers that hold up surprisingly well. Everything is is a snooze.

Decent with some influential songs, not my forte for the majority of it.

Holy crap how did we make it through the late 90s with this repetitive nightmare music? Praise You was the right single because the rest of this album is doing my head in.

The master of the ever repetitive sample loop's second outing has a few choice pieces (Right Here, Right Now; The Rockefeller Skank; Praise You), but is otherwise unimpressive.

It's okay

I already loved "Right Here Right Now". However most of the songs in the album have the same rythm and it feels like listening to the same song with different lyrics.

It's been a while since I had him in regular rotation, but I love me some Fatboy Slim. Obviously, one's enjoyment of Fatboy Slim and similar big beat/electronic music is contingent upon one's ability to enjoy its repetitiveness. If you're cool with it, then this is a solid album; if not, its quality is irrelevant. Other than "Right Here Right Now," "Rockafeller Skank," and "Praise You" (all classics), I was unfamiliar with most of this album. My favorite track I'd never heard was "Kalifornia," and "Gangster Trippin" was a pleasant surprise as well. The only real throwaway track was "Fucking in Heaven;" calling it sophomoric is probably kind.

Time to drop some MDMA. Speed, sure? Then jump into the mix. Oh wait, it is a crawling pit of human sweat and ever-multiplying bacteria. Maybe I'll sit this out and appreciate that I'm not at a rave with overly confident teenagers in the year 2000. Now that this album isn't on constant play in every market, it is enjoyable for its hits and for dancing around the house with a kid.

It's a bop. A little repetitive, but still fun.

The soundtrack of a long-ago summer. I remember when this was bleeding edge. Familiarity breeds contempt, I guess.

album ok pra um rap dos 90's

An unremarkable electronic dance album with one remarkable electronic dance song. 3 🌟

Its not subtle. Big Beat. Massive drum sound. Much repeated vocal samples. Rhythm pauses and big "drops" wherever possible. On top of that it contains 4 big hits and it sold in tons though it seemed that every copy was in a charity shop 5 years later.. Its full of joy admittedly but it all feels a bit cheap. 3.

je viens de réaliser que Fatboy Slim et The Prodigy sont deux artistes différents

It's good, but also got on my nerves at times.

Not bad. I was surprised by what I heard. I could've maybe named one song by FBS and my expectations were not what this album was.

P R A I S E, natural mayonnaise. This one has some classics.

i got an IUD and then made ravioli by hand and listened to this album. three stars

Great at the time, but I'm less interested in it now. Still worth having in any decent record collection though.

Varmaankin ensimmäisiä modernin konemusan artisteja joita tuli itsekin aikoinaan kuunneltua? Ihan jeppis vaikkakin aika pitkä levy nykyiselle suoratoistopalvelukuuntelijalle.

Ce gros lourdaud nous offre un album très réussi d'Obèse Beat.

Un excellent album de grosse bedaine beat, j'ai notamment adoré les pistes "Maxi Best-Of" et "Coca-Cola"

I really didn't like this - even the 'hits' felt dated.

Huh. Well, the intro didn't catch me, but the second song, 'The Rockafeller Skank,' did. I liked the playing with sound clips the artist did. The longer the album went on, however, the more tuned out I became. It really should have been shorter than an hour, that's just too much for these kinds of albums.

So. Repetitive. But some of these tracks are so foundational to the 90s electronics scene I can’t help but give three stars. I listened this and a whole bunch of other albums in the second half of the nineties… is there a German word for unwilling nostalgia?

Este es un disco de fiestas, verano, asados multitudinarios, tres cosas que yo ya ni conozco. Al rato aburre un poco, pero hay dos pedazos de canciones aquí que ya son clásicos de la electrónica de fines de los 90.

Definitely starting to show its age, and the singles really stand out, but still great.

It was driving me nuts yet I couldn't turn it off

Really like the song “Praise You”, but the rest is pretty meh.

Holy shit, I haven't listened to this in like twenty years. This album, more than The Prodigy, more than Basement Jaxx, more than Chemical Brothers or Crystal Method or anything else really made big beat blow up as a popular genre of music, and along with the popularity of trip-hop, Moby, and Aphex Twin made people realize electronic music was more than just cheesy techno. But... is it good? There are songs on here that still get radio airplay, which is kind of mindblowing considering none of its contemporaries do. Maybe The Prodigy? I've personally gone back to The Prodigy a bit more, including in the last year. I feel like they might have aged a little worse in places, some of their samples being more dated and cheesy, with their image being more self-serious and edgy. That being said, there is a lot more depth to what they were doing. Music For the Jilted Generation was a reaction to British rave laws and had a real dark, sinewy sound compared to the overly bright memelord energy of Fatboy Slim and You've Come a Long Way Baby. Expanding my focus, I have to compare this to other albums I listened to at the same time in my life that appear on the list and how they've held up. I guess this is comparable to Green Day's Dookie - inconsequential, irreverent, but ultimately harmless.

Yoooo

A very funny album. I thought that The Rockefeller Skank would be the funniest track on the album but then it’s immediately one upped by Fatboy Slim is Fucking In Heaven. Humor aside, it’s a good party album. I feel like the whole thing suffers from being a bit too long. I don’t know if the remedy is to cut the amount of tracks down or to just trim down each songs length. Either way I feel once you get past the quirkiness, some of the songs can overstay their welcome.

First two tracks and Soul Surfing are pretty good, the rest is kind of underwhelming. The vocal samples can get annoying at times.

Was great in its day. 3/5

Notes done

It was fine but quickly you realise he uses the same damn trick a lot so that takes a lot away.

Absolutely loved this album when it came out, but surprised now but how little it holds up. The songs were way too long in general...didn't need 6 mins per. Gangster Trippin top song. 3.5/5

few great songs, rest pretty mediocre

When this came out I had it on regular play in the car. It was new. fresh and innovative, and Fat Boy Slim was at the forefront of big beat music. I thought, then, that this would be a satisfying wallow in nostalgia but it turned out to be underwhelming. Parise You aside, it hasn't stood the test of time. Essential to have heard? Yes. Essential listening? No.

Rockafeller sank es un temazo El resto me ralla No es de mi gusto

A bottomless bog of big beat bangin bops, brilliant

Remember when this came out, listening in my mates bedroom. We would have been 10, his Dad was into his dance music. Still sounds class today.

pretty good

This is not a genre of music I care to listen to outside of a good old fashioned dance party, so the fact that I enjoyed listening to this album is a testament to Fatboy Slim. It has a wonderful vibe of fun throughout the album

I always love Rockafeller Skank and Praise You. I don't think I've heard any of the other songs but I enjoyed the entire album.

Some fun beats and this album holds so much nostalgia for me- takes me back to roller rinks and 90s teen dramas during sleepovers. But to listen to the album in full is…. A lot.

Some fun dance/house on this one, normally I’d be annoyed by the length and repetition but the beats are great and there’s enough tongue-in-cheek lyricism to make things work

Recognisable and enjoyable for the most part.3*

Repetitive in the most part

Not huge on electronic music, as you've probably heard by now. But that being said, I enjoyed this record a lot. Production is fresh (despite being from 1998!) and the songs hold energy and originality that feels timeless.

Genre: Big Beat 3/5 While the album itself doesn’t meet the mark on every track, they’re all sandwiched between two of techno’s biggest hits ever, The Rockafeller Skank and Praise You. Two absolute titans of the genre, two genuinely great singles, and two songs that will exist in the milieu for quite some time. There a few hidden gems here, but Fatboy Slim can’t hide from the obvious influence of his predecessors. Prodigy, Thomas Bangalter, and plenty of house legends played a big role in the creation of this album. It’s big beat, it’s energetic, and it’s not too bad, overall.

Not really my cup of tea. I do appreciate the creativity and the uniqueness of some sounds, but blasting the same sentence for an entire song doesn't seem right to my ears. I guess it's great for hitting the dancefloor while on acid, and still better than most of the mainstream EDM currently out there.

Seems like the profanity was used just for profanity's sake, rather than to progress the music. Not totally enamored, but it's OK to listen to occasionally.

6/10 some bops that really caught my attention, but at times the looping vocals were annoying and I think it’s quite dated

Cool beats but each song was far too long. 6/10

3/5 there were some known songs here, the rest of them were not good though.

Ikke helt min type musikk, men de første to sangene på albumet var artige. Albumet bar preg av å være DJ-laget. 90-talls DJ-musikk

This is a perfect example of a mixed bag. At least half of these are bangers that make you want to dance like no one's watching. Right Here Right Now and Praise You are fantastic songs in their own right either. The other half of the batch is too repetitive for its own good and gets pretty annoying (You're Not From Brighton and Soul Surfing are such examples). Must say though for working out to at the gym our outside sports, its fantastic.

"Right Here, Right Now", "The Rockafeller Skank", "Praise You", are quite popular obviously and very late 90s sound. Almost sounds experimental electronica. 6/10.

some of it was good

"Right Here, Right Now", and "Praise You" I actually really liked. The rest would be great in a club, but not really anywhere else.

Meh

Skemmtileg plata, nokkrir bangerar

iconic 90s hypnotic sampled beats. fatiguing to listen to a whole album of this energy, but it certainly deserves to be on this list.

I liked a lot of it - some of it was pretty repetitive though (but ig thats the point)

This was the first album I received on this list where I had not heard the entire album but had heard specific tracks in the past (Right Here, Right Now; Rockafeller Skank). I can see why this album is on this list as I am guessing it was a pioneer for the techno/club music genre (especially since there were songs I already knew). It is difficult for me to judge since it is not the type of music I ever listen to or since it is not meant to be heard on earbuds/at work, but it seems rather innovative and possibly influential to future artists (though I do know Daft Punk's first album came out before this). Praise You was the track that stood out to me the most outside of the two songs listed above; however, I probably wouldn't listen to this song or the album again (though I understand the appeal). 2.5/5.

bump bump in the lab catchy beats

A few classics. Liked Love Island a lot. Very 90s.

6/10

Not my style

Still dubious about remix as an art form, however much this calls me out as Old Man Grumpus. This is mostly pretty easy to listen to but aside for other artists' work I think it's pretty sterile. All the heart and soul in it derives from the songs it lifts content from.

Liked this far more than I thought I would

Norman is still a twat

Great singles but the rest is forgettable

Solid enjoyable dance music

Halfway between the gutter and the stars. A mixed bag.

Ironically, I spent some time on the weekend listening to some modern dj mashups (thanks to my brother in law) and they were just awful. So I appreciate Fatboy Slim and what he does even more (and it's definitely more than mashups). Rockafeller Skank and Praise You were always well-orchestrated and catchy tunes but it's his lesser knowns (Gangster Trippin, Kalifornia, Soul Surfing, Love Island) where I find myself tapping along to the beat and nodding with respect. I'm still not going to play this album on repeat (partly because the looping he likes to do can get excessive and annoying), but it's solid.

дисторшн звук, биг бит, прикольный вокал, всё летает и гремит

The singles from this album are pretty iconic and seared into our collective sub-conscious. I’m not a huge fan of Big Beats but I prefer this to its peers such as Chemical Bros or The Prodigy. I got bored with a few of the other tracks because they were so repetitive but this music was made to be danced to at a rave and not while having your morning coffee. Props for being so influential 20 yrs ago though

I’d like to praise this, but I’m not sure I sh-sh-sh-sh-shouuuuuuluuuuuldddddd. It’s fine. Beats and samples. I can’t dance.

det är för långt när det bara är instrumentalt. men visst, några riktigt goa låtar va.

I typically hate this kind of music. This however, is probably, the best in it's class, and I have to admit it sometimes bangs!

Big beat, indeed. Fun album, I'm imagining how much it would have killed to hear some of these songs in a club. The hits are obviously the star tracks on the album (""Praise You," "Rockafeller Skank," "Right Here, Right Now"). But I must say I really enjoyed the whole back half of this album, from "Kalifornia" to the end. Fave songs: Praise You; The Rockafeller Skank; Acid 8000; You're Not From Brighton

Some really great stuff if you’re in the mood

Interesting, nice change of pace

Audible para ser hip hop

Fully expected to hate this album since I’m not into dance music but found it overall pretty enjoyable. Songs are a little long and repetitive but I guess that’s just the genre. Standout tracks were “Right Here, Right Now” and “Gangster Trippin”.

This is more fun and interesting than the other electronic albums on this list so far, but I still can really only care so much

Some great singles, but doesn't half get repetitive after a while: 2 bar vocal loop, breakbeat, and repeat

Not my brand of electronic music, but I’m sure it was huge back in 1998 club scenes. It was cool hearing where the Rockefeller skank beat came from.

The extended funkadelic attention spans of the 90s, pure warehouse vibes

Not as good as I remembered.

strong start but becomes samey after a while. The hits are outstanding but the album doesn't feel like it's more than the sum of its parts. Would be a 2, but the hits are great great great.

Little disappointed after the listen, still pretty good

Reminds me of all the sports video games I played as a kid.

6/5/2021 - Started the 1001 Albums challenge with this one. And what a way to start. The entire point of the challenge is to discover new music and put myself out of my listening comfort zone. Never been the biggest fan of techno(?!) but Rockafeller Skank at the beginning of the album definitely put a nostalgic spin on things. Other favourites from the album - Soul Surfing and Praise You.

Great hits and bangers individually but listening to a whole album is hard for me. I love the songs tho, I would realistically give this a 3.5 but on this scale it will have to be a 3

A good if not a touch too long big beat acid/techno album. You can hear a lot of the influence big bet music had on the stuff to come (looking at you dubstep, what you really thought you invented drops in electronic music?). Unfortunately a very good album gets a bit sunk by too much bloat in the middle. Trim off 15 minutes and this is an absolute banger of an album but alas it falls more in the 'hits are great, the rest is a mixed bag' territory.

I'm giving this a solid 6/10 because while its not really my kinda music, i can appreciate it for what it was at the time it was released. This album had 4 singles in the top 10 around this time while music sampling was starting to get pretty popular. It caught more traction in the UK since thats where Fatboy Slim was based but "Rockefellar Skank" and "Praise you" were both pretty popular singles in the US. When I was in dance class, one of our routines was to the rockefellar skank and that was in like 2003 so it was still pretty popular around then too.

Good music, not entirely into electronic.

It was ok, nothing I could listen to every day

me: is Fatboy Slim fucking in heaven? Song:

Not good for studying, but I would still say its good music

This is pretty fun, but hard to take seriously because I've heard some of the songs so many times in movies and commercials and stuff. It's like a happier version of The Prodigy and The Chemical Brothers.

3-4 really good songs and the rest is just boring

My only prior knowledge to Fatboy Slim was Rockafeller Stank and Weapon of Choice, so when I put on the album and found it wasn't nearly as good as the singles, I was disappointed. Although I'm not familiar with Big Beat or Breakbeat, I feel that there are far better sample-based albums that elevate the samples beyond just selected beats and single lines ("Fatboy Slim is fucking in heaven" is particularly uninspired). A mere two years after this album's release would be The Avalanches' "Since I Left You", a masterclass in plunderphonics; The Funk Sould Brother should take notes. Otherwise this is a perfectly fine album. Pretty good beats but overall not blowing me away or anything.

coo

little repetitious, but lots of funky tunes!

3.0 - Solid album of breakbeats. Enjoyable enough as high energy background music. Overall, it sounds frozen in 90s UK.

Founding sounds from Fatboy Slim. Skank brings this to a firm 3.

"The Rockafeller Skank" Released: 8 June 1998 "Gangster Tripping" Released: 5 October 1998 "Praise You" Released: 4 January 1999 "Right Here, Right Now" Released: 19 April 1999 "Build It Up – Tear It Down" Released: 15 September 1999

lo moderno se convierte en contemporánea y luego en clásico.

finally a new one! I am slightly familiar with his few radio/MTV hits, but this was not what I was looking for when it came out so I ignored him. The first track is already a jam. OK, I know Rockafeller Skank. I always assumed this was called "funk soul brother".

Fun record, nostalgic.

Best of it’s kind. I hate repetition.

This was a decent album. I'm not so into break beats as I was in the late 90's. But this still had some nostalgic hits ("Rockefeller skank" and "praise you") which made it a nice trip down memory lane.

Levotonta menoa. Parit hittibiisit ovat jonkinlaisia moderneja klassikoita, mutta muuten en saa oikein kiinni tästä.

Classic dance music.

It was fun. I have heard his newer versions of many of these songs. Nice to catch the “originals”

Fine

I'm uncertain if after listening more i get bored of it or on the contrary will like it more

Some amazing tracks

90’er dance, bangers, rytmisk, humoristisk

Another artist I know, have listened to, have seen the 'must see' live dvd of and still didn't connect with or go back to. Why, nobody asked. Because it has sold hooks, lots to get your teeth onto however it outstays it's welcome on every single song. I expect that's because it was written for people who are having the best time on the disco biscuits and marching powder. They should do a half length sober cut. The same should be done with the chemical brothers albums while we're at it.

It was fine, very repetitive with some interesting beats to make up for it.

Big beat party tunes

Чикиряу нау

Great dance beat.

The ubiquitous turn of the century British dance record -- so widespread that a lot of the music I have heard to death over the years in adverts, tv shows etc. to the point it annoys me a bit. Highlights include Fucking In Heaven and Acid 8000 -- two tracks I'd not heard before.

Didn't have a bad time with this - the loops and transitions are really creative, made me laugh several times and definitely somewhat danceable. The thing is - EDM progresses so fast, that the shit you hear today at Festivals, Clubs, Parties, won't be all to relevant in a few years time, except for a nostalgic callback maybe. I don't know anyone eho listens to Avicii anymore, even though he's a legend. Similiar thing here - dont think anybody will be to impressed with this ultra-repetetive sound. For me this is more of a time-capsule, a relic maybe. Will show my DNB-Friends and see if I can get a reaction out of them. Intresting, but not listenable to me in any situation

This isn’t necessarily bad music if it wasn’t so repetitive

I don’t think I’ve heard a more repetitive album in my life, only 2 songs in and it felt like I’d been listening for at least half an hour, I’m going to spare this a 1 as it is listenable, but once you’ve heard 2 or 3 tracks you get the gist of the album

2.5, not a fan of electronic music.

Couldn’t care less. It is at least of inoffensive construction so I’ll be somewhat nice with a two.

I didn't finish it, it was boring as shit DJ music.

Even as a pop child of the 90s, I couldn’t make it through this album. DJ ear worms repeat to the point of “this isn’t fun anymore”.

🌕🌕🌗🌑🌑 (rounded down, but with the potential to be rounded up if I were in a different mood). This is a very similar situation to Deee-Lite—I loved the most popular (and, I think, objectively best) song on the album, "Praise You," but found the rest of the offerings to be a lot more repetitive and less detailed than the single in question. This felt a little better than Deee-Lite and I have a feeling if I wasn't so tired I'd really enjoy it, but I'm having trouble convincing myself to go back and listen again. It seems like the sort of thing I'd have to already be in a dance trance to get. 1: Bad | 2: Okay, No Desire to Revisit | 3: Good, Conditionally (OR Inconsistent Mix of Qualities) | 4: Great (OR Technically amazing but missing the sauce emotionally) | 5: Amazing

3 ou 4 bons morceaux mais je ne vais pas le réécouter

Only hits hard if you go partying. A bit too repetitive

isso aqui chapado/bêbado deve ser uma experiência né

He does know there are more lyrics right? He doesn’t just have to say the same ones over and over again- he can combine words to make new ones! Either way the best song in their was: praise you (track 9)

Not for me

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Fine listen but nothing notable

My first reaction was "Enjoy this reasonably well but also heard enough of it in the 90s, three starts." But to be honest as I listened more I enjoyed it less. Each track reaches a degree of repetition where I have to hit skip for my own sanity, even though I like most of the elements. I'm pretty sure it's not just the genre... I enjoy other ambient and electronic stuff with much more repetition. But I have had similar responses to other 90s electronica in the list, so my guess is that it's something about the sounds of this period specifically that turn me off. Anyway, two stars, sorry funk soul brotha.

Fatboy Slim is someone I’ve heard of. I think in 1998 it would have been impossible not to have heard of him or his music, as his music was everywhere. In fact, around that time, companies began licensing more real music for commercials, making it a new revenue stream for artists. Also, electronic music was really having its boom period during this time as it was fresh and new. This is the second album by Fatboy Slim. I reviewed his debut album, Better Living Through Chemistry, as my third album in this dumb journey. I gave it 3 stars, but I wasn’t blown away. I can already see there are three or four big hits off You’ve Come a Long Way Baby. Either he leveled up, or he got better representation by pushing his music out to the masses. Track 1 is Right Here, Right Now, which should not be confused with the Van Halen hit, Right Now, from 1991. This was the fourth single released off the album, and I can specifically remember a local news station using this song in a promo previewing their award-winning news coverage or some such nonsense. Not one of my favorite songs as I tend to get bored with it, but I was surprised to find out the song sampled a James Gang song. The James Gang was essentially a solo band built around Joe Walsh, but I guess Walsh didn’t want it to be all about him, so they named the band the James Gang. It’s a great band and better than Fatboy Slim. The song also samples Angela Bassett from the movie Strange Days. The song wasn’t released as a single in the U.S., which is weird because I know this song well enough to be tired of it. Track 2 is Rockafellar Skank, and you might know it as Right About Now the Funk Soul Brother, as that is repeated about 236,329 times. It was the first song released as a single, and it hit #1 on the U.S. Dance charts. Rolling Stone, a massive prisoner of the moment, announced it as one of the best dance songs of all time. I don’t think it’s so good as it kind of breaks down in the middle, then speeds up. This must have also been used in a bunch of ads or TV show promos, as I remember being bombarded with it. I’ll be interested to see if I enjoy a song I wasn’t already bombarded with from this album. Track 3 is In Heaven. And here we are. A song that was not released as a single. It says the F word about 2,749 times. I’m no prude, but ugh, enough. I know I've said many times I’m not a big lyrics guy, but I do think the human voice is an instrument that is needed to make a song truly great. Some instrumental songs prove the exception, but for the most part, I need more than some sample repeating, “Fatboy Slim is f**king in heaven” over and over again. I hate to say it, but I’d rather have more My Bloody Valentine in my life than this. Track 4 is Gangster Trippin.’ Is Fatboy Slim being disrespectful by not spelling it gangsta? I thought the hard R was anathema back then? Again, the same voice sample repeats one sentence over and over. It just gets boring. I think I’ll come back when something really interests me. By the by, this was a single off the album. Granted, it wasn’t played as much as the previous singles, but I thought I recognized it. Track 7 is Soul Surfing, and it’s someone yelling Jack it up, jack up over and over again over a swinging 60s beat. It’s not great. It’s not even making me chair dance. I’m actually getting some solid work done, whereas usually I have to stop listening after every song to work a little before continuing to listen. Fatboy Slim is just not my cup of tea. Track 8 is You’re Not from Brighton. The only reason anything caught my ear about this rather mediocre song was that there’s a whistle sound played 2,000 times that sounds exactly like the whistle in the Insane in the Membrane song by Cypress Hill. Track 9 is Praise You and this was the big song off the album. Not only did it hit the top of the charts in the U.S and all over the world, but the music video was great. The video was directed by Spike Jonze, a madman in his own right. It was shot in hidden video style with Jonze performing a dance to this song on the sidewalk in front of a movie theater, or at least I think it was a movie theater. It was pretty cool. I’ll admit, the video endeared me to this song. It’s fine. The thing with a lot of the songs on this record is that if these were songs written and performed by a group, I don’t think the album would be as big as it is. This album came along at exactly the right time in music history to become huge. If it were released today, I just don’t think it would have done half as well as it did. Maybe I’m too square to get it. It’s very possible. I’m not cool and will never be. I just know what I like. Track 10 is Love Island, and I’ll admit, I like the sound of the synth being used as the bass. I think it’s a synth. The keyboards in the background that are acting like strings are also pretty cool. This was not a single, so I’m not sure I’ve heard it. I like this song. I’m floored. It’s got me chair dancing too. And I know it’s not my Monster Energy because I forgot to drink one today. Track 11 is Acid 8000, and I think I like it even more than Love Island. In fact, it seems Love Island faded into Acid 8000. Though now we come in with the dumb drum and bass beat that is just overplayed. I like the sound of the synths in the song, though. The obligatory repeated line of the song is, “If this don’t make your booty move, your booty must be dead.” It’s got me moving, so I guess my booty isn’t dead. Which means the rest of the songs on this album aren’t great at moving booties. Okay, I had to give up on Acid 8000 about midway through as it was becoming unbearable. I won’t say I hate this album, but I just thought it was bland. It could be that we’ve come so far when it comes to dance music that this seems like what 80s rap seems like to a kid today, old and remedial. If you are a dance music fan, you should probably hear this album because it was the album for 1998-1999. Otherwise, you can skip it.

Something that would play at a home screen in a early-2000s video game about skating. I liked the 2nd half of the album more than the first. "Soul Surfing" is probably the one I like the most. Lots of repeating the same phrase over and over on most songs. It was ok.

I don't know how I feel about this honestly. It feels... okay? At some points? Certainly doesn't feel like I'd come back to any of the songs, but there are some highlights like "Praise You" and "The Rockafeller Skank". Even those don't really warrant them adding those to any of my playlists though...

Meh. I grew up in the late 80's and 90's, and I precisely remember when this album came out and propelled Fatboy Slim everywhere. I kinda liked the singles, but when I listened to the whole album at the time, I was left unimpressed. Not to brag, but I was drifting away from "mainstream" music at the time, and I found so many mind-blowing small artists and indie records that this just didn't make it. Almost 30 years later, my feelings about it haven't changed. Bigbeat mainstream idm/soft techno, in the vein of Prodigy, but less agressive, or Chemical Brothers, but less bombastic. It's a fun take at first, mixing old tunes, classic Detroit techno from the 80's/early 90's, 70's disco, but it sometimes feels like Fatboy threw everything at the wall to see what sticks, and by the end, the record overstay its welcome, and I felt kinda relieved when it ended. Overall a solid effort, , sure, but in no way an "essential album". On a personnal note : it's the fifth day in a row I'm suggested a mediocre or plain bad album that cannot be considered an essential listen. I'm wondering who is curating this list and what are the vetting processes.

I imagine this would sound awesome if you were picking out your signature pukka shell necklace or hitting a bong in your friends basement for the first time ever. In 2026 it’s pretty trite.

Super nostalgic for the opening track, it almost transports me to when I like 8, rest of the album isn't as great but it's fun enough to get a middling rating within the context of rating the entire thing

Not aged well

Got pretty old pretty fast

So got a small story here, somewhat related, i went to a festival a few years back with a killer lineup and it was strong throughout the day with the penultimate band (Ballpark Music) basically sending it out with a bang, and then this lad comes out as the big international name for the closer and plays the most heavily edited versions of his own music and sends *in my opinion* the festival out with a whimper. Now i rarely like “DJ” music and that was truly no exception, so im sure others enjoyed it, but it left a sour taste in my mouth. So now i finally listen to this and man its about what i expected, some decent stuff here and there, catchy for sure but mostly stuff thats just not up my alley. Standouts are the intro track and praise you.

2/5 - Sometimes this is catchy. Sometimes it makes me want to put a drill against my head. The latter times outweigh the former.

I think it was kind of mid. One of the suprising thing was that one of the songs had a slow reverb to it which felt so weird, in fact many of them had this weird thing where I felt like the album was trying to do too much and was just weirded out. The only song I did enjoy was because it felt normal. Also HOLY MOLY the songs are long, I think the average is like 6 minutes

Terrible. Not my thing. One or two ok songs.

Nice

Favourite Songs: Praise You

This doesn’t deserve a 3.3 more of a 2.8 in my opinion

None of these songs should be as long as they are. Feel like they are just made for needles drops in movies, just drop in the 30 seconds for a particular scene, the rest of the song is just taking up space.

Stadium intro staple, Right Here, Right Now leads off. I wonder how Fatboy Slim feels about being in basically every NBA team's intro...probably rich. Three massive hits and a bunch of songs no one listens to...and two of the hits are done in the first two songs. Rockafeller Skank sucks. In Heaven is terrible. The repetition of the words in these songs is the worst part. It reminds me of the Limp Bizkit song where he says fuck 1,000 times...I get it, you used a cuss word over and over again, very edgy. Gangster Trippin had a moment too...I vaguely remember it in something...a commercial or movie trailer or something. The six words repeating for the entire song maybe works when your out of your mind on E, but it makes it hard to listen to this in any other context. Where are all the kids with pacifiers? That being said, Kalifornia is one of more tolerable tracks. Praise You is awful too. This album was insufferable when it came out and it's insufferable now. I can't believe this got so popular. The Move It, Move It guys heard Love Island and had an idea. I also think it has a sample of King Hippo's voice from Mike Tyson's Punch Out. Acid 8000 sounds like 8 bit video game music.

I like techno in general, so I'm used to listening to some relatively repetitive music. This is extremely repetitive. It's impressive what he was able to do with such rudimentary equipment - the quality of the recording is top rate, but the music itself is extremely tiring.

Praise you is decent, the rest feels like he’s hit the duplicate sample button on his DAW over and over again until it hits 5 minutes

Some fun stuff on here, some nostalgia here. But overall, not my thing. Just a bunch of noise sometimes

weak sauce

Isfuckingisfucjingisfucjingisfucjo 2.5

i mean. sure. whatever. "right here" (and its music vid {and the various advertisements it scored [it cannot be understated just how much this fucking genre was propped up by the choices of temp writers and their "4 quadrant + racial taxonomy hitting" music choices |was there ever an ethical way to make big beat? i couldn't tell you. prodigy were actual rockers. handsome boy modeling school were actual beatmakers. <a lot of it feels like Mostly overglorified exercises in racially dubious plunderphonics that "happened" cause of the post-nirvana/oasis beating madchester into the dirt + post-britpop bubble burst + pre-strokes + trance era tiesto EDM interregnum /tl;dr the thing that gave ok computer a leg up/> maybe it's like being a pop rapper. hard to win respect. another quick fuck you to moby|]}), "praise you," and "rockafeller" (just fine imo) are classics. like i said. despite my big beat misgivings he makes it happen on occasion. SOME of the album cuts ("fucking in heaven", "you're not from brighton", "are we having fun yet") are nice. good in the "fun yet" case. the drums take a lot out of the rest; it's failure to iterate. personally i need futuristic skater graffiti (jungle always sounds like the future ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯) for this stuff to click. looking forward to chopping the kalifornia samples into a MASSIVE™️ (please. god. tell me there's remixes. i'm so tired of those fucking drums {remixes were mid}) rave tune. also. letting you guys know his government name's NORMAN COOK. norman cook? intermittently. 2.4-3.2. quick shoutout to whosampled; best of luck with the IDF funding.

This guy comes up with one sentence and repeats it for 4 minutes straight. A couple catchy ones, but gets old

I have an irrational dislike of Fatboy Slim, and listening to this didn't change that. I think it's just totally lacking in edge, wayyy too happy go lucky for me when it comes to dance music.

4/10 I know repetition is an essential part of music, but SURELY there's a limit. That being said there are some good moments, but overall not for me.

Techno odd

Not my thing, electronic is too busy for me. Didn't finish.

Praise You is the only good song on the whole album sure, but it's a great song.

Nearly every track on this album is 5+minutes but only a few are worth being that long.

DJs and EDM just aren't my thing

Probably an unpopular opinion but 11 songs each having basically a single lyric is relatively unimpressive.

na het derde nummer begon het echt allemaal hetzelfde te klinken. niet mijn ding

Damn, this is actually pretty annoying. Overly repetitive, songs don't progress much, gets tiresome quickly. Another miss for Dimery on this one, to no surprise.

Not really my vibe atm, praise you will always be iconic though! Think i need to relisten to this another time

Started out a vibe, got boring fairly quick

I love ultra repetitive beats and computer noises! Oh wait, I don’t ….

Repetitive. Not bad, just repetitive.

Medio choto, no para de repetir la misma frase en varios temas

Few decent tracks, but mostly slop

This is like a mix of an adult swim intro and the beastie boys except instead of rapping they’re repeating the same thing for 6 minutes straight until it gets to the next song. Praise you was the only song I might consider listening to again.

I don’t do the right kind of substances to enjoy this album.

I mean a little repetitive no? I wanted to like this more but it just sounds a bit corny. I’m sure I would’ve loved this in 1998 tho.

Ughhhhhhhh sooooo boring!

#86/1001 🇬🇧 It's been a long time since i last listened to this. I was a constant on the CD player, pre nights out. Can't say that i ever loved it but there are some brilliant moments that would really sound amazing in a packed club in isolation. Listening back, i can totally appreciate the craft that has gone into creating the record, putting together all the samples and building the sound. Unfortunately it grates on me after a while and an hour in, i'm sick of listening. Some of the "best" tracks have been played to death in adverts, montages etc so it just got painful to endure sadly. Best Tracks:

Yes, it's more pop-oriented EDM but it's still EDM so annoying af.

Damn, I thought this was going to be good, it wasn't. It was repetative, egotistical and boring. It sounded like the 90's and should stay there.

Praise You is a guilty pleasure of sorts but the rest of this album is repetitive, boring and feels like baby's first beats in a way. 3/10

No me gustó mucho este jaja no niego que es peculiar pero no aguante el escucharlo

muy medio pelo, no banco la repeticion estupida de una sola oracion

Liked a couple of the songs a good amount, generally like the DJ sample heavy stuff, but some of the songs were too abrasive for me. And too looped. There's a fine line for me, and this was on the wrong side of it.

def not my thing but not awful just also insanely repetitive and kind of tweaky

It made me dance in my chair but not my kinda music. It's interesting, but not good? Or good but not interesting?

Ok, but gets a bit boring 2/5

Not my thing

Praise You has been one of my favorite songs for nearly three decades, but listening to it in the context of this album makes its success feel more like an accident than a work of genius. Each one of these tracks employs exactly the same tricks over and over again... riffing off of a vocal sample or two and a bit of music... each track going through the same progressions as the one before. Praise You is still a massive success, but I'll gladly bin the rest of this.

Icl, it got waaaay too repetitive and annoying. Despite that it does have some proper tunes. Praise You was my fav song of the album with The Rockafeller Skank and Gangster Tripping (my fav first listen) as my other highlights.

Favorite songs: The Rockafeller Skank, Praise You

Epuisant.

It is It is It is just It is It is just It is just It is just a little bit really goddamn repetitive It is It is It's not a 1 because Praise You is a stellar song on its own and because I think if you were at a live DJ set this would be what you'd want..but as an album to sit and do some work with headphones on it absolutely is not. That's not Cook's fault. However. Also what the fuck is up with in Heaven?

The songs are too long and repetitive. Praise You sure did have a moment, didn’t it?