Reviews (page 11 of 14)
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
It started off great but got redundant over time. Also using the F Word over and over just for the sake of it was rather juvenile.
It was okay. It was okay. It was okay. It was okay. This brought up some nostalgia but that's about the only good thing I have to say about this incredibly repetitive album. I know that's the nature of this genre but I swear Fatboy Slim turns it up x1000.
I've always been suspicious of this guy, he appears as the acceptable face of dance music and listening to this album in full hasn't changed my opinion. It just feels like commercial friendly radio stuff. I found the incessant hooks tiresome and uninteresting. Far too much going on that sums up to nothing.
Played one at a time, these tracks are kinda fun. But like most albums in this genre, a lot of that cool charm becomes a bit annoying in the repetitiveness when you play them end to end for over an hour. I think doing that really only works if you’re in a dance club…which I happened not to be on this Saturday morning.
I get that the genre was finding its way, but Moby actually found it. Play is an album. This is a dance record, and the repetition of the tracks wears thin immediately.
Révolutionnaire pour l’époque mais TELLEMENT répétitif oufff
weird dance music but at least i can vibe to it
Ik heb nog nooit van mijn leven zo een repetitieve nummers gehoord. 20 keer dezelfde zin is echt massief vervelend.
I suppose there's a time and a place for this album, and it's not a Tuesday at 11:00 AM. This album isn't really for me, and growing up I really got tired of hearing Praise You and The Rockafeller Skank on the radio, but there are some songs that are okay on this album. I'm sure this would be much better in the club on some Molly.
Don’t mind the big hits, but the rest kind of sounds like Jive Bunny from the 1990’s. 2
Try confirmed!
Profoundly boring, simple, repetitive club music
A few good songs
Fatboy Slim can grab a decent hook, and work it until it is boring and dumb. Maybe on ecstasy in a thumping scene it would be okay, but sober old me is like, nah.
Man I get the appeal but I just cannot get behind Mr Slim. Too repetitive, too long, too repetitive, and too long.
Tediarse
Always knew there was correlation between the rise of Fatboy Slim and me no longer having it large on the dancefloor on a regular basis- but this has me thinking whether there may have been some causation too...
Didn't really like it much
One song
Never....let....it......drop.
So fucking repetitive and annoying I’m sorry I couldn’t rock with it.
mas o meno gordito
I'd heard the name Fatboy Slim, but I wasn't aware of how familiar I was with some of his work. Some of it is good stuff. But not really my kind of thing. Good manipulations. I'm more into musical conversation. That is not this. Fucking in Heaven is truly obnoxious and horrendous. This type of music, I suppose like much of dance music, is repetitive. To me, it's repetitive to the point of annoyance. Some of it is the self-referential type of lyric that reflects a narcissistic generation. The artist assumes we care about them. We don't. We care about us, or the world as a whole. I prefer something that contributes to a shared experience/understanding. This doesn't attempt that. By the time I got through Build It Up, Tear It Down, it was all I could do to keep going with it. I said "thank God!" to myself when the album was over.
las canciones duran mucho para mi gusto considerando lo sonoro, tienen 2 o 3 canciones que me gustaron pero que no agregaria a mis playlist. Igual interesante proyecto, diferente a todo lo que escuche alguna vez
Right Here Right Now - 3.5/5 The Rockefeller Skank - 3/5 Fucking in Heaven - 3/5 Gangster Trippin - 3.5/5 Build It Up, Tear It Down - 2/5 Kalifornia - 2/5 Soul Surfing - 2/5 You’re Not from Brighton - 2/5 Praise You - 2/5 Love Island - 2/5 Acid 8000 - 2/5
Dated patchwork sample-based music with summery overtones for overenthusiastic balding men pretending to be 10 years younger while holidaying in Thailand.
It falls squarely in the same category as Chemical Brothers and Moby: shallow, repetitive and heavily sampled electro-dance. So deathly dull and emotionless. And why does he namedrop himself so much?
Some good beats on this one, sounds like it could be a Guy Ritchie movie soundtrack. Overall, it’s very repetitive and I’m not sure when I’d actually enjoy listening to this.
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.
this could have been 20 minutes and i would have gotten the same exact thing out of it. no thank you.
It was fine, very repetitive with some interesting beats to make up for it.
Big beat party tunes
Чикиряу нау
Great dance beat.
It’s dated really badly. The singles are quite fun. It’s horribly repetitive
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...
Sympa mais les sons sont beaucoup trop longs, genre beaucoup trop. Même les sons biens deviennent ennuyants car trop répétitifs
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?
Best Song: Praise You I didn't like this is the late 90s and I don't like this now. It is repetitive and boring. Each song seems to pick one line of dialogue and then repeat it over, and over, and over, and over, and over for five minutes. I spent most of the time listening to this going back and forth whether this should have been included on the 1001. It does tell a story of sorts of the music scene in 1998 in a post grunge, pre-boy band/Brittney, Christina, P!nk era but, at the same time, this is feels like a one hit wonder album to me. In other words, I don't really think Fatboy Slim made a huge impact to music outside of having that 'Praise You' song. Maybe I'm wrong and all the Slim heads will come out of the walls and correct me. 2/5.
niet voor mij
Davon kennt man natürlich ein paar Sachen. Ist und war aber nie meine Musik. Ein oder maximal zwei Songs auf einer Party hätte durchaus seine Berechtigung, aber als Album nur unter Schmerz hörbar. Der gleiche Satz immer wieder, manchmal innerhalb von 4 Sekunden 10 mal. 🙄 Aber the rockafellar skank und praise you sind wirklich eingängige Klassiker bei denen man einfach zumindest mitwippen muss. Deshalb noch zwei Sterne und ein Song bei einer Party von mir aus.
Not my music
1.75 - Praise You is very good. Most everything else is too repetitive, but I liked this a lot more than The Chemical Brothers.
whatecer
Fat boy slims you’ve come a long way baby is an interesting album. Not what I excepted, had always heard of him but never listened. I expected a pop rock sort of like the new radicals, not moby!?
Always quite liked Praise You back in the nineties, but a whole album of this style of music was just a bit too long and repetitive for me.
Although not my thing at all, individual tracks were listenable, if not a tad repetitive. However, a whole album was too much for me.
Ok you’re not from brighten and praise you are bangers. Your not from brighten sounds like it should be the opener for an 2000s romcom. Overall each song on the album has repeating sounds and short lyrics that also repeat making it VERY annoying.
Cool samples but not quite my style
There must be an audience for this, but it is not me.
So much repetition and just looped sound effects not my cup of tea at all.
Estaría escuchable si no fueran 6 minutos repitiendo las misma 3 frases. ¿Puedes hacer una canción repetitiva y que sea disfrutable escucharla? Si, pero no repitas "fatboy slim is fucking in heaven" 41 veces en 3 minutos.
repetitive. too simplistic. some kind of grating.
fun but not my thing
There are a few really good tracks on here, but not sure I'd ever find myself listening to it all the way through again. It gets a little repetitive for me. Highlights: "Praise You" and "Soul Surfing"
Like with previous electronic albums the repetition is grating. The runtime could have been cut by half. It is relatively fun and works as background music for gaming.
I guess this is probably ok for a dance club, but I didn't enjoy it that much. Not my favourite kind of music. Too long and pretty repetitive. "Praise you" is the track I enjoyed the most.
Meh
Telling that I got both this one and the Chemical Brothers in the same week. Listening to them together -- Fatboy Slim is a pale, pale pretender to what some of the more interesting EDM is. While the Chemical Brothers were more focused on creating soundscapes around the samples they chose, FS simply bangs that sample into your brain again and again. Now, if you're rolling on molly and you just wanna dance, I guess this would be a decent listen -- but just normally? Nah.
Like I don’t hate the album but i don’t know, it sounds like a Fat Boy Slim album
Definitely not my favourite album. I found a lot of the songs really didn't jive with me, and they were also too long.
I’m a very lyric heavy person, and find myself needing them to really enjoy most songs so this wasn’t for me. Kept half dancing to this though so I can for sure say I do see the appeal. In the club or perhaps in a movie/tv scene I would enjoy this a lot more. But not what I’m looking for, so not for me. Which is how I’m ranking these.
eehm not really my type but has some good ones
Ett par bra låtar men i övrigt svag
Gav kanske inte det här albumet en ärlig chans?
Liked: In Heaven, Kalifornia, Praise You Disliked: Rockafeller Skank
Repetitive ... (Repetitive). Not just the "lyrics" but the beats are also repetitive. Some of them sound good for about 10 seconds. Then repeat. Most of the tracks are also annoying. Praise You is actually decent, and it raises the score up to 2. Barely.
i did not particularly like the songs to begin with but then he did the same thing like 10 more times
I came into this wanting to defend it more, as I do like fun weird electronic music, but some parts were legitimately very unpleasant and annoying. I did find the Heaven song funny though
It is wild that an album can have Right Here/Right Now, Rockafeller Skank, and Praise You, but also so much complete dreck. The following tracks stink so much they're bringing the score down to a 2: In Heaven Build It Up, Tear It Down Kalifornia Acid 8000
Repetitive, like most EDM I guess. There were interesting things here, but nothing that I wanted to hear repeated as nauseam.
These tracks are joyous and fun. I love the inventive samples and hooks created with them. They are also too long for my taste. With only the shortest track at just under four minutes, and many in excess of six, I find myself really hyped at the start of every new song because I'd started to check out with the repetition of the previous. When I have the album playing in the background I'm digging on it. The Rockafeller Skank Praise You
I’ve heard of fat boy slim and I’ve heard a few songs but not this whole album. I’m not a fan of electronic music at all. This album cover is great. Right Here Right Now: 6.5/10 Sounds like a big song. Great album opener. The Rockafeller Skank: 6.4/10 Iconic song. Fucking in Heaven: 6.2/10 Really nothing to this song. Gangster Trippin: 5.4/10 Pretty boring. Build it up, Tear it down: 5.8/10 I like the build it up, tear it down part with the guitar. Kalifornia: 6/10 Cool sounding Soul Surfing: 5.2/10 You’re not from Brighton: 5/10 Praise You: 6.6/10 Good piano. Best song on the album. Love Island: 5.6/10 Interesting intro. Acid 8000: 5/10 Very long song.
One of the best electronic albums I have listened to. I knew a few songs with "Praise You" being an absolute bop- shoutout to the "Michael Jordan to the Max" documentary. However like every electronic album, I am so sick of the sound by the end and want it off. I don't know why all these albums have to be a hour long. Why! 2.5/5- going down to 2 for length
Ok
Not my favorite but recognized some classes on here.
I understand why people like "Rockerfeller Skank" and "Praise You." I found myself enjoying this as music to work to, here and there, but it's also SO tedious and repetitious. All Sound Same can be fine if you really like the sound, but I don't, especially. And "Fucking in Heaven" was terrible.
A 90's dance record with a lot of noise and a few too many speaky intros. There were a couple classic songs on the record (The Rockefeller Skank and Praise You) which I recognized, but overall it was a wash of sound and dance beats that I couldn't really get into. Now I'm not an EDM fan by any stretch, but this album felt stuck in its time, echoing contemporaries Run DMC and The Beastie Boys at times, but overall just feeling like a 90s record that I couldn't get into 30 years later. 4/10
ça va pas vraiment ce que j'ecoute mais ça va, mais ça ne me touche pas plus que ça
Well, they do have that one song… but the rest is unremarkable
Fatboy Slim will always remind me of Derry girls Started off strong but every song is just soooo repetitive I had to skip most of them towards the end The hits are great and there's a reason they're popular, but I don't think that should justify this album being classed as one of the best of all time
Ihan hyviä sinkut levyltä, mutta ei iske kyllä kokonaisuutena. 2/5.
Rhythms were fun but it was way too repetitive. I wanted to like it but the number of times it just said "f***" over and over without any real musicality didn't do much for me.
Right here, right now - 4 The Rockafeller skank - 4 In heaven - 3 Gangster trippin - 4 Build it up, tear it down - 2 Kalifornia - 2 Soul surfing - 2 You're not from Brighton - 2 Praise you - 3 Love island - 1 Acid 8000 - 1
Meh. This music sounds like DnB candy. I think people get pissed off at Passion Pit for the same reason, but I love Passion Pit. Whenever I want to hear electronic style music, I want to hear something a little more exciting than this. I want techno, i want crazy synths, I want minimalist stuff; the hip-hoppy DJ scratches here feel kinda corny even though they’re well done. I don’t like the sample selection like this is some little big planet ass music
2/5. I am admittedly not the most familiar with Big Beat as a genre. I basically only previously knew the Prodigy with the crab album (fat of the land.) Fatboy Slim was another one of the large artists in that scene, and he was up there with the prodigy as one of the few big beat artists to make a splash in the U.S.. as for this album it’s some sample-heavy danceable electronic music. A lot of the songs I started off thinking “this is kinda catchy.” But then the biggest flaw of this album for me rears its head, and it’s that every song on here is just a minute or two too long which turns it into a slog to get through.
Alright I guess...not in the mood, doesn't land.
Insanely repetitive. I thought the other reviews were exaggerating, boy was I wrong.
Meh, hi ha un parell de temazos però molta palla pel mig. Millor tema de fatboy és Weapon of Choice que no és d'aquest àlbum
It is what it is - dance club music with tons of beats based on snippets of melodies and alliterative chants. It would be fun w a crowd that wants to get wild, but as an album I need to listen to before I die, it doesn’t cut it.
Repetitive repetitive repetitive repetitive repetitive repetitive repetitive repetitive and so forth and so on
Got a few bangers on it but I just can’t really get into it as an album
Bouncy, fun to listen to Great use of samples, but sometimess they feel repetitive or overused. I think if somone wanted to listen to a production album, Endtroducing... would be a better option, but this is better for a "good time" These songs are either heat or very annoying, mostly the latter unfortunately. I feel like I'll listen through 15 minutes of trash for 30 minutes of great production
Interesting and mildly entertaining in the background.
Mah non il mio genere noioso
couldnt make it through but heres a few stars for technical prowess and cultural impact
This was ok. I knew Rockefeller Skank and Praise You. They make me think of the late 90’s. The songs were too long.
o álbum é muito bem feito, mas eu não gosto de música eletrônica, então não importa o quão bom ele seja eu não consigo gostar, escutar esse álbum por uma hora foi tortura pra mim
I'm personally not a fan of the whole big beat/house genre of music. I get that the point of it is to be repetitive and danceable, but for someone like me who is not big into the whole dance club scene, I don't really understand music like this and it becomes more along the lines of background music for me. I did recognize a few of the samples though. Thought it was cool that they sampled a James Gang song on "Right Here, Right Now".
El disco no es malo en sí, pero escucharlo de corrido cansa. Es hartante que utilice siempre el mismo recurso de repetir palabras o una frase durante 5' y 1/2 con una base de fondo. Creo que casi el 100% de los temas, andarían bien escuchados individualmente.
Very very very very very very very repetitive. "praise you" still slaps tho
smorilo me ovo
J'me rappelle de quand c'était nouveau et innovateur. C'était pas ben bon non plus à cette époque. 2.49 étoiles
It gets pretty damn monotonous pretty damn quickly....and there's a song absolutely littered with f-bombs. At least we got a couple radio hits on this one. What puts this above/below the OTHER Fatboy Slim album (if there's not more) on this list. 1,001 is a big number - not sure why the author/editor has so many multiple 'meh' albums by so many artists.
Man, I did not know that this album was going to feel as long as it did. I've spoken before of the problems with a "CD" first outlook when creating music. This is a perfect example of that, it just felt like it was too long too many long repetitive songs. The few I remembered were a welcome respite from the rest of the album.
Yeah not my style lets repeat the same phrase 50 times in a song and have some noise in the back. 2/5
Too repetitive and juvenile. Out of my wheelhouse for sure.
Not my style but quite entertaining
I liked it but I will not listen to it again.
la imagen lo describe bien. creo que hay una con melodía, que no estaría mal si no se repitiera 1000 veces
better than the other one
Meh
its fine. its a dance album. i get it. 2.5
Oh no. I had to live through this balls at the time, and everyone loving it. You could not go anywhere or do anything in the late 90s without a song from this album invading your personal space without consent. If it wasn't ol' saggy britches boning Zoe Ball and her gushing all about it, it was on the radio, and if it wasn't on the radio it was in your face at school, in the shop, blasting from the cars of steeks. And it was terrible. The summit and nadir of everything dance music had been steaming towards. So yes, it's wall to wall hits. The only good one is if course Right Here Right Now. By the very nature of the genre, each track only has about 1 minute of material, so you can get through the whole album in about twelve minutes and get the same effect as if you had listened to the whole thing.
Would rate it 2.5 if I could. Liked the way he used the samples, fun album, good listen, just not my genre.
Maybe it was years of sitting through shitty corporate presentations which (seemingly contractually) used "right here right now" as an introduction to unsuccessfully try & get people excited.....maybe it was the appalling vocal repetition in some songs (especially during 'farking in heaven'), but this was pure punishment in parts. Feels like Fatboy is a "small dose" artist +1 star awarded for the nerd cred - album produced on an oldskool Atari ST
It's alright, on the wrong side of repetetive sample dance stuff. Rockafeller skank brings up bad memories
Very repetetive, helped me study though
The 2nd album I ever bought with my own money. Rockafella Skank was on Fifa 99 and I thought it was the coolest thing ever. It’s still a banger. Right Here Right Now and Praise You also great The rest is hot garbage. I’m giving a generous 2 just because I like those three songs.
Klarte å høyre gjennom, men siste låtane var jo heilt sjukt vonde å høyre på. 2 fordi det var ganske fett i starten.
The sound track to every ski town in the 90s. Some of the songs are good, some are bad. I wouldn’t want to listen to this often but it was fun for a little while
This is, quite simply, too much Fatboy Slim
Appreciate the significance, but sounds a bit basic to 2025 ears. 2.44 stars rounded back down to a flat deuce
Nice beats. But it is not for me
every song is really good for like the first minute and a half, then the same beat just loops about 200 more times making you completely sick of it
Das Album wurde im House of Love in Brighton aufgenommen. Fatboy Slim, britischer Produzent, verbindet auf diesem Werk tanzbare Breakbeats mit markanten Samplecollagen und Einflüssen aus Funk, Soul und Rock. Besonders bekannte Stücke wie „The Rockafeller Skank“, „Praise You“, „Right Here, Right Now“ und „Gangster Trippin“ zeigen die klare rhythmische Linie und die durchdachte Struktur der Songs. Die Produktion ist präzise, die Stücke behalten trotz vielfältiger Einflüsse ihre Erkennbarkeit. Das Album vermittelt den typischen Big‑Beat‑Charakter und wirkt konsequent stilistisch ausgerichtet. Hörenswert für Fans elektronischer Tanzmusik.
Algunes cançons memorables però no crec que sigui un àlbum per escoltar d'una tirada perquè a la mínima es fa molt repetitiu. El tornare a escoltar d'aquí un temps a veure que tal. Seria un 2'5
Alright, very dated now though
Not bad
Why do I suddenly feel inclined to wear frosted tips, a puka necklace, and pose aggressively above a fish eye lens?
idk man, i like fatboy slim, but this is not his finest work. 1.5 today
I dodnt expect to hate this so much. The samples are utterly grating
It's interesting, but that’s about it. Songs are repetative and the beat drops aren’t all that amusing. Felt that they were always going on longer than they should.
Thought I was going to enjoy this as I had fond memories from my yoof. Listening to it now though, the rose tinted spectacles of memories past quickly fell away. Some things are better left in the past...
I've heard so much about Fatboy Slim and how essential groundbreaking he was in his era in various documentaries, but I feel like no one really talks about him anymore. I've heard "Rockafeller Skank" and "Praise You" a lot, but I feel like it's always in the context of nostalgia. There's some cool sounds here, but so much of it is too redundant. Maybe that's the point? I dunno. I typically enjoy dance music and turntablism, but I can't grasp the appeal of Fatboy Slim. Just kinda boring and repetitive. J-j-j-ust kinda kinda kinda kinda boring and repetitive Just kinda boring and repetitive-tive-tive-tive just kinda boring and repetitive
Pretty good but got bored
Quite enjoyed but dragged on towards the end
It's obviously good music, but I found it irritating to listen to as an album. The songs by themselves can be fun, and dancing to them is great. It is just incredibly boring as an album.
Not a fan. Not bad by any means, but not for me. The hits are classics for obvious reason with praise you being my standout
Tämä genre ei vaan uppoa...
I find it really hard to comprehend that this is/was rave music
Just ok. I was hoping for more...
Head nodding turns to stomach turning on the fifteenth loop in all of these songs.
The first two minutes of every song were really delightful. But every song was much longer. I wanted to give this a higher score but I found myself excited for every song to end.
Two absolute bangers and a whole lot of shit Best Song: Right Here, Right Now Rating: 3.5/10 Stars: 2
dance, electr., rap, acid, 1998 -> 2
A few bangers but otherwise pretty meh
This is a real mixed bag. There are three or four good tracks that anyone who was alive in the 90s is likely to remember but the rest are repetitive and an after a little while just plain irritating.
Every song appears to be the same loop repeated for the entire song. But your review is very cute so I’m going 2 instead of 1.
No puedo decir que me haya gustado mucho este álbum. Siento que tiene ciertos momentos divertidos y reconocidos. Pero en general me resulta demasiado repetitivo y de humor estúpido (como "Fatboy slim keeps fucking in heaven..."). No conecté con el humor ni con el groove. A pesar de que aprecie el trabajo de sampleo oscuro que utilizó para el desarrollo del álbum. No es mi estilo.
I like the two hits that’s all
Not the biggest fan of fatboy slim - It's just so...repetitive? hyped me up for a pilates class though.
My life remained the same before and after this album. I found it repetitive and a bit annoying at times. Electronic music like this has the potential to be so much better and more intricate! The redeeming factor was the sampling. The sampling was creative and fun!
More than anything it is embarrassing that this exists.
Not really. Repetitive to annoyance.
I have a soft spot for Right here, right now because my daughter unexpectedly loved it when she was pre-school age. But I’ll be honest the album is just background noise to me.
Dear electronic music artists, Two minutes is more than enough time to get the point across in a song that just repeats the same phrase over and over again. If the majority of your songs are hitting the 5-minute mark, those songs are WAY too long. Sincerely, The world
Meh
The song “Praise You” is the only thing that saved this from being a 1.
This big beat album is grating and overblown, its repetitive hooks and blaring samples quickly wearing thin under a barrage of forced energy and empty swagger. Yet beneath the bombast, a few calmer, groove-driven moments hint at a more nuanced, hypnotic sound the record rarely explores, making it feel like a missed opportunity buried under its own noise.
Meh
Not really my thing. Reminds me of early Youtube days and not in a good way. It sounds pretty cinematic tho- I can see the appeal
Demasiado urbano y experimental para mí. He vuelto a dejarlo a medias. Es todo música y todo el rato igual, no hay casi letra. Hay una canción que me ha gustado, cosa que le sube nota. Aún así, no me veo escuchándolo otra vez. ⭐⭐
Marrant mon expérience ressemble pas mal à celle jazzy d’hier. J’aime vrmt bcp le style dans la plupart des sons mais je supporte pas trop les répétitions très rapprochées des motifs qui donnent un effet volontairement saturé tout le temps et qui me rendent crazy in the bad way… dommage que ce soit cognitivement au-delà de mes limites car j’aurais pu groover
The first 2 songs are iconic, after that the album sort of falls off for me. 2.49 stars.