You've Come a Long Way Baby

You start with two decent tracks and then the rest is bad? Favourite track: Rockafeller Skank.

Not for me

Turns out, the more you repeat the same phrase over the same beat, the song doesn't get any better. Not an enjoyable listen whatsoever.

Hard to get through, repetitive and annoying

# 188 : Very enjoyable as repetitive background music! An exercise in repetition, and lets repeat again! solid music of the genre, but a genre I only want to listen to 1-2 songs from before I say "What The....". If it wasn't so repetitive, it might have pulled an extra star 2/5! Fav Track : Praise You Praise You Praise You Pra....

did not finish

I had this album back when it originally released. I'll say what I thought then and it still stands. The beats and samples are infectious and very reflective of the time, however it's so so repetitive. I'm trying to listen to this to start my day at work. It's upbeat and fun, but makes me want to throw my monitors through a window.

I literally fell asleep

Not for me. 2.

I understand why this album is on here, but this genre isn't for me.

A few good tracks in The Rockefeller Skank and Praise You, but besides that - nothing special here.

Not my cup of tea

Ahhh Fatboy Slim. Made popular by Rockafeller Skank, which is unfortunately the only standout song on the album. Many of the songs feel like a 15-30 second clip replayed on loop for 6 minutes. Not necessarily offensive, but it gets old pretty fast.

It's very repetitive, all the songs sound like the same, Gangster trippin is really good tho. Not really my style. 2.5/5

music to dance to, not listen to 2.5

I mean, it wasn’t “make me angry” bad - but I can’t say I’d ever listen to it again.

Jea okay

My son said this album sounds like a producer asked somebody to make a bunch of tracks for a popstar to sing over, but then they forgot to record the actual vocals

Would be ok without the lyrics.

Some decent songs with good beats / mixes but repetitive at times. Some songs were so bad though I had to skip to the next track.

It's ok. Electronic is not my favorite.

#140. While one or two of these songs may be interesting enough on their own, I absolutely cannot handle 62 minutes in a row of this repetitive nonsense. 2/5: don't

Couple of notable bangers....the rest is repetitive electronica/rap/groove/machine beats. I wouldn't seek it out, but didn't hate it. I thought Fatboy Slim was a person - guess not :)

Meh... I'd have to be in a rare mood to enjoy this

Teils, teils

Couple classics like Praise You and Rockafeller Skank mixed with meh.

Very repetitive, not my style. Good background music though

Not my thing. Songs are a minute too long

Me gusta lo electrónico, esto me aburrió. Esperaba q explote en algún momento. No me pasó. Vamos por más.

One good song.

Not gonna lie, that kinda sucked.

not for me

Didn't age terribly well...

Electro, samples, triphop, funk, singles well known, still airing at indiediscos (with chemical brothers and prodigy). Other songs more interludes or copy of the hits, missing the consistency, some songs rather boring, not eyeopening - expected more. But the music videos and album cover are great.

This is tough to rate—classic songs, but repetitive beats and lyrics make it difficult for me to enjoy listening to the album from start to finish. I’d rate some of the individual songs highly (between 3 and 4), but I just can’t bring myself to rate the album as a whole higher than like a 2.5.

Day16 - makes me want to dance like christopher walken

Really not my style

Better than expected, did not finish the entire album though, only about 3/4ths.

Long e) electronic songs

It had a few catchy songs I remember from the 90s, but even the better songs were incredibly repetitive and mindless. This feels like an edm album only old boring people would pretend to like to try to be cool. 2.1 just for nostalgia.

This album was a huge moment in time in my formative years, and really rode a wave to be a huge part of pop culture at the time - further immortalised by Christopher Walken's dance moves. The three big tracks are great. Listening to it today I was quite shocked at how boring the album felt outside of those three big singles. Some tracks felt like they were more closely resembling an emergency klaxon that repeats for 4 minutes rather than enjoyable music. Maybe I am just an old man yelling at clouds, but I feel like this album, as revolutionary as it was at the time, does not hold up all that well.

REPETTETIVE

not for me.

Not my thing… I wasn’t expecting it to be just instrumentals, some nice stuff here and there but overall ??? skipped through most of it

very likely the best version of this sort of thing, which is not saying much

Started out really enjoying this. Hit a nostalgia nerve the right way and still sounded good. Then I realized 9 years had passed, I’d heard the same 2 phrases 840,000 times and track 2 still had another minute left on it. It was then I remembered why I never bought this album back in the day. Would prob add 2 stars if I had a bunch of ecstasy.

a lotta repetitive and a little pretentious for a second album - not the worst thing i’ve heard but i have no real desire to hear it again. although it’s really a product of it’s time i have to admit it grew on me as i listened to it

Not my cup of tea

Apart from the singles that made it big, the rest of this album isn't great.

Right here right now is a song I didn't know, but had heard a million times. Good song. The Rockafeller Skank (Short edit) is a little annoying tbh Fucking in Heaven is even more annoying my god. Gangster Trippin isn't great, and at this point I think it seems clear that Fatboy Slim isn't my kind of music. The lyrics are the same line repeated over and over again... The next songs are also not great, until... Praise You is a great song. And the rest aren't great :/

I thought overall that the songs are all too long. They go on beyond my interest level. They are also way more “techno” than I prefer. I did like the first song l thought, but mostly because of the video.

Not my type of music, but respect the talent involved. I had heard a few of these tracks back in the day. 1.5/5

Not my style, but a lot of songs got my head bobbing. It was a little too lengthy, but i get that it comes with the genre

it's Alright

Headache but disco vibes

Da funke litt, men ikkje nok

There was an element of fun in this one but ultimately it's too repetitive, too long, too much of bloody everything.

Cool album, but quite repetitive and not my style.

Avg

FIFA98 vibes!

The songs that slap, slap. But there is a lot of filler.

Meh. Right here, Right now—I don't think this has aged that well—funk soul brother.

My issue with this album is similar to my issue with every album from this genre - the songs are too long. If I was at a party, I probably wouldn’t hate it, but listening to it on its own is repetitive and annoying. I expected I was going to like this album more than I actually did. I hated “Praise You” when it first came out, but it has grown on me. But I think I liked the radio edits more. They felt more purposeful and concise. With that said, I do understand why this album is on this list, and Fatboy Slim really changed the game and brought this genre mainstream in a way it wasn’t at the time. I just don’t care for it. This album gets an extra star for “The Rockefeller Skank” because that song is amazing to this day. But I didn’t care for it overall.

Nothing really stood out to me. I tend to enjoy lyrics the most in a song and this album really isn’t that. The actual production is fun so I’ll give him that but man… I just don’t think I care that much.

So many repetitive vocal samples. 2

Strange how boring this hyped artist of my adolescence sounds today to me.

The best song on this album is Praise You...a fantastic tune.

These 90’s techno albums just don’t cut it over a full album. Couple jams, but I wouldn’t give it another spin.

If this was album was 3 songs long, it would be a 4, but alas, it isn’t. But this album did remind me to watch the Christopher Walker dance Weapon of Choice music video which was such a treat

interesting never heard of this guy until right now might have heard his name once or twice before electronic hip hop????? not rlly my thing a lot of repetitiveness not my fave genre or sound this was so fucking mid lol

Just a lot of noises

Not really my cup of tea this music, unless there's drugs involved...

It's an album of fun beats, but every song is just the same beat and the same line looped like 200 times over 4 minutes. Then do that 11 times. So incredibly repetitive. The kind of music that plays when the credits roll in a 2002 rated PG spy comedy.

Not a huge fan. Praise is a classic though.

The tunes were pretty great, got me bobbing my head, but the repetition (though fun in the beginning) became old pretty quick. 2 stars because by the end I was just waiting for it to be over

Two songs. Two songs that I like. Two songs that I like on this album. Everything else. Meh.

A few great songs, a few "I'm stuck in a locked room and can't get out" songs.

2.5/5

Overrated. Great album if you like tripping your balls off at a rave while hearing the same samples be repeated nonstop for 7 minutes until the next song comes on and the cycle repeats.

aside from rockafeller skank, this is one of the most irritating listens

Annoying songs that you end up bobbing your head to

I’ve loved Praise You since I was a kid, and that’s the only reason this didn’t get one star. I see the value of this album as high art or “couture” music, but honestly there’s a limit to how much repetition a person can stand, and modern electronic artists thankfully seem to have a better understanding of that.

advert music.

Not something I would return for but was not the worst thing I have heard and probably not the last.

I wouldn't say any of this was necessarily bad, just really repetitive. The lyrics were garbage, but that's pretty much expected for this kind of music. My main issue with this was that every single song could've been at most 3 minutes. The repetitiveness would start to get annoying around that time and then there'd be a false ending where I felt a real ending would've been natural, only to then go on for 2-4 more minutes with no payoff. Easily could've been a 3/5 from me if it was just shorter. 2/5

Seven nation army seuraavaks?

I can't say I'd listened to this through in one session before, it's not bad but quite repetitive and was definitely made for other artists to sample.

Not really my type of music did not finish

It's 4AM, your tranced out on XTC & Yayo, and the glow in the dark pacifier is starting to loose its chew. Holy shit I need some water. That's where I need to be in order to enjoy this album. Unfortunately I not. There were two radio bangers from back in the day though.

This is jolly modern pop music by numbers - nothing subtle but quite catchy in an obvious way. It passed a morning quite pleasantly, but I wouldn't go out of my way to play this album. The production is slick, if basic. About the most complimentary thing I can say is that it's preferable to The Housemartins. By track 7 I did feel like I had been listening for too long already, though.

Wasn't for me tbh

Favourite song: Praise You

I can hear the layering of beats and loops and recognize it’s being done well, but the overall experience is repetitive. Nothing really stands out, it’s just a flat plane of sound. It was a real slog for me.

Lots of noises, got sick of it by the end

Extremely repetitive. I was glad when it was over.

i beg you a pardon

this album is abundantly redundant. i suppose it is typical for this genre of music, but it is not for me.

Not my thing

cool undso aber in welcher situation hört man sowas?! 3/10

Full of all the “hits” that people will recognise but then ask you to skip after 30 seconds, repetitive soulless junk.

The first two tracks and 'Praise You' were all over the Radio and TV when they were released. ALL OVER. They're not terrible, but I am utterly sick of them now. I have never heard the other tracks on this album. Blimey, 'The Rockafeller Skank' does drag on a bit, doesn't it?! Oh, I remember this one too, terrible. Christ. This one! I remember everything! Did every single song from this record get a release? Perhaps I have secretly listened to this album before? Bored now. 2 / 5 stars.

The question is whether I would turn up—get crunk—raise the roof, dare I say—if this came on in the club. The long answer is I wouldn’t.

Not quite bad enough for a one but nothing more than a 2.

C- Right Here, Right Now - 2 The Rockefeller Skank - 3 In Heaven - 2 Gangster Trippin’ - 2 Build It Up - Tear It Down - 2 Kalifornia - 1 Soul Surfing - 2 You’re Not from Brighton - 2 Praise You - 4 Love Island - 1 Acid 8000 - 1 Late 90s/Early 2000s teen rom-com's would've been nothing without this album.

Always preferred Fatboy Slim to Moby, but I knew what was on the radio. Listening to the album, it seems like there's a lot of filler (like half of the albums on this list).

acompañamiento para manejar e ir pensando en la definición canónica de lo que es (o no) música y en lo difícil que es no juzgar

ugh

The only thing keeping this from being a one star album is "Rockafeller Skank"

Heard it before?: a few tracks but first time in entirety Enjoy it?: Yeah was good for most parts and important for genre but a lot felt like long filler Favourite song: Track 1 - Right Here Right Now

Hauska heh... Ei tämmöinen harmia tee.. Paljon helpompi kuunnella kuin jotain rock paasauksia.. Oikeasti miellyttävää kuunneltavaa kun joskus täällä joutuu hampaat irvessä.. YLLÄPITO SAATANA.. laittaa semmosta paskaa sieltä yläilmakehistä.. Tässä parasta.. Selvästi näkyy mikä vuosi tehty.. hassu heh..

Couple of good parts and a lot of rubbish. Favorite song: Praise You.

Can appreciate some of the samples used, but the songs were very long and repetitive. Felt like every song could have been cut in half

Well I enjoyed this at the time and got pretty heavily into big beat, though in 2023 I never imagined I would listen to this album again. Obviously it's aged terribly for the most part. There is a reason this album was overflowing the bargain bins of record shops for £1.99 everywhere after a while. Nice to hear Right Here right now and Praise You, the other two singles were hugely overplayed but still good - as is Praise You but is more fun somehow. The rest of this - without exception - is pure filler. Some more egregious than others, Soul Surfing is alright, but that's it. Honestly, absolutely noone needs this in 2023. Will reserve judgement on the other one but honestly, TWO Fatboy Slim albums in this list, with the stuff they've left out? Criminal. Amusingly the book leaves an error in, referencing the sample from the Chambers Brothers - Fried Tomatoes, which doesn't exist. Just Brothers - Sliced Tomatoes however is a banger.

Better than I expected but second half especially pretty shite. Love island can get in the bin.

Not my cup of tea.

Too repetitive and it said the F word a lot in one song.

too repetitive for my taste

I think this is a good album when you already know it. It's not a, "I'm gonna go on a long drive and listen to this," but more of a, "This is an album I grew up listening to and have fond memories associated with it." Like I wouldn't choose to listen to it but I'm glad that I did.

Pioneering but the style wasn’t for me

Just no.

It's okay but Jesus Christ, the repetition is enough to drive one insane. I'm the kind of guy that, if you tell me that Fatboy Slim is Fucking in Heaven, it might go in one ear and out the other. Tell me a second time and it's still possible I will miss it. Tell me three times and I've got it, no need to belabor the point. Tell me 200 times in a row and it will make my head explode. Literally. I enjoy this in very small doses but that's about it. 2 stars.

Dunno

2+

Sometimes an album grows on you the more you listen to it. This is not one of those times.

Very different type of music but enjoyed the energy of the album at the start (got a bit sick of it towards the end as listened to it nonstop). I liked how every song has its own twist on a normal beat, for example in Gangsta trippin there was a part of the song with a Ukulele in the background which I liked. Very electric and high energy album. Would enjoy some of the songs in certain situations but some of them were just not good. 2.5 STARS

Interesting synths and vocals starting in Right Here Right Now, kinda a vibe👌. Okie vibing, just saw a floofer too. Hold up it’s 5 minutes?? Hmmm not vibing at minute 1:50 and so. …it’s good but repetitive. Love the violin parts though. I dig the flow of the music. Resisting the urge to skip the last minute… Rockefeller Skank: had no idea what they were saying, looked at lyrics 😂 Loving the groove of the rythme. Noticing a theme of repetition… okie it’s literally all the same lyrics, imma skip ahead and see if there is a beat change. Interesting shift at minute 4 some matrix stuff. Minute 5: intrusive thoughts be like.

The electronic style of this album isn’t really my thing but it had a really good energy to it. The Rockafeller Skank is my fav.

1.5 Some of the songs are lowkey and almost a jam. Some gets or are boring. Some of the songs are horrible. Some parts of the songs are really good, some parts of the songs are really bad. Praise you is a fine song. Also his most popular in fact. Not my type of album. To much… techno?

I don’t feel good and this album gave me a headache but I feel like if I felt good this would be fun and jez me up. So I don’t know what to think, 2.5/5

Even though I am not a huge fan of electronic music, I was very much looking forward to this album. I remember his hit songs and the cool music videos when I was younger. However I don't think the music holds up all that well. The samples being repeated over and over and over and over is annoying. I don't think it is quite deserving of a one as I usually reserved those that I had to skip songs or shut off immediately. Barely passing grade.

Interesting but too repetitive for me, and not in a good way. Too punk for me I guess.

Irriterende med de digitale effektene, spesielt Rockafeller Skank. Både effektene midt i og når den bytter stereoside i begynnelsen. Slitsomt lydbilde generelt, men deler av det var kult.

This is one of those albums that made sense to some people at a certain time. It got huge air play for the couple of catchy songs it has, but overall, the album is boring and the two songs are played out.

I’d almost completely written this album off, then Praise You came on and that twang of nostalgia bumped this album up to a 2.

Hip hop samples without the hip hop. Not coming back to this.

Nobody starts a party like Fatboy but you spend almost all this album wanting to play the singles versions as they are much better

1/2

Nadal nie rozumiem muzyki elektronicznej, dzisiaj trafilo na big beat z drugiego studyjnego albumu pana Fatboya Slima, czyli elektronicznego czlowieka orkiestry z wysp, o ile jakos kojarze sama postac, czy niektore utwory z tej plyty tak nigdy nie sluchalem go wczesniej, nic dziwnego, bo przeciez elektonika z 98, wiec mocno samplowane orkiestrowe skreczowanie i multum dziwnych dzwiekow skompilowane w ponad godzinnym materiale, jesli dwa pierwsze utwory gdzies mi sie obily o uszy, to im dalej w plyte tym bardziej obskurne duze bity sie robily, no moze poza przed ostatnim utworem praise you, ktory rowniez zachacza o mainstream, ale tak czy inaczej odsluch raczej wymeczony, za malo pozytywnych zaskoczen na rzecz katowania dziwnoscia, gdyby jeszcze bardziej basowe to bylo granie, to pomyslalbym ze jestem na totrurach erwinowskich, gdy odpali swoja diabelska muzyke w samochodzie, na plejke elektrykowa dodam otwierajacego right here right now, ktory nie wiem czemu kojarzy mi sie z wczesnym jutubem lub jakimis reklamami

Praise You is fun. There are not many other fun moments.

way too repetitive

esencial del Dance music a final de los 90, nunca lo había escuchado pero nada que llame en gran manera mi atención. Prodigy es mil veces mejor que esto.

Fine, not into this style of music. One track I recognized.

Fat boy slim is fucking in heaven - yung gravy could never

I feel like i want to eviscerate myself after this

Stress alligevel

Where to start? Didn’t like this at the time and I think it’s got worse over time. Sounds like a poor man’s attempt at David Holmes style soundtrack music (sorry Norman). It’s a no from me.

Two cool songs, surrounded by fuckin fuckin fuckin fuckin fuckin fuckin fuckin fuckin (in heaven, though, so that’s nice) druggy druggy druggy druggy druggy druggy druggy druggy druggy booty move your booty move your booty move in a bounce bounce bounce bounce bounce bounce house house house house house. Kind of an ordeal, but not the worst thing I ever heard, I guess.

some catchy riffs but it's basically one vulgar joke over an over

Sehr durchwachsen. Mischung aus ein paar guten Liedern und anderen Liedern wo man einfach nur weiterschalten will.

Gangster Trippin is nice. That's all I'm going to say about this.

Meh. Not my kind of music, though some of the tracks are good to keep moving when I do my power walks. Really liked « Praise You »!

A DJ set put down on an album. To me it is the kind of thing where you pick an individual tune out for dancing at a party, mixing it with other tunes. However listening to this as an album from start to finish does not work for me. In this connection I get stressed with all the sampling and scratching. Tedeous.

Mixed. Often find the repetition grating. Gangster Trippin is inspired, however. I particularly like the style change and implied key change connected with the vocal sample. Most of this album is on the edge of irritating for me amd most songs cross that line at some point where I want to hit the skip button. The unconventional structure of each song makes me want to stick with it anyway, though, because the changes are often rewarding.

i can see someone enjoying this but sadly its not for me

A repetição das batidas deve funcionar para as pistas, mas para mim, foi demasiadamente cansativo.

Apparemment ça s'appelle le big beat et apparemment j'aime pas trop ça (à part Praise You)

can see why the hits were the hits, rest is very repetitive filler

Great

Man, if these guys could JUST have shortened up some of these songs I would have loved it. But the endless 6-7 minute repeating is not going to do it for me. Song added to Playlist: Praise You

Mostly gross

Some blasts from the past that get you dancing for about 10 seconds, until the repetition kicks in. Overall, self obsession overtook any good tunes.

Another album of the 90s big-beat period but somewhat more infantile and self-indulgent than Chemical Brothers or Prodigy. Additionally struck me as more repetitive than the other artists and so the album just leaves me thinking that I could here something similar but better if I put on either Chemical Brothers or something crazier but similar (and therefore more interesting) if I put on Prodigy.

This album was more sound effects than music and some of it had a good beat. The vocals kept me from rating it higher.

The singles are fun but dated. As a whole this album is pretty much unlistenable though. It makes the Avalanches sound complex and meaningful. In Heaven? Smh. It's a shame because some of his sample choices are fantastic but there's a lot of filler. In a Spotify world, I wonder whether this album would ever happen.

You know, without having Christopher Walken to watch dance around and distract from this repetitive nonsense, it's just not worth it. 2 minutes of the same 10 seconds looping followed by a new 2 minute 10 second loop...repeat. I can't even figure out when a person would listen to this? Rave? Tripping? Homework? Work? Fishing? Camping? Warming up for a basketball game? Nah, it doesn't fit anywhere because it's just annoying repetition. As is this review. Purposefully repetitive.

Meh.

I'm confused. Is he fat or slim?

Only for the nostalgia. I was there in Brighton when this all kicked off. It was fun. Big fun. But it’s not a record that holds it’s quality. Disposable.

Have to admit to being somewhat disappointed on listening to this for the first time in many years. I now find it quite dated and repetitive. Maybe a result of overplaying over the years. In contrast, DJ Shadow's Endtroducing ... (an album of similar style and vintage) still sounds fresh and interesting.

One or two tracks that I've become ingrained to but otherwise not my thing particularly.

In which an Atari ST soundtracks adverts.

Didn't make it through. Timing wasn't great.

I remember when this album came out in the 90's and there was literally no escape from the catchy singles "Rockafeller Skank" and "Praise You". The other tracks are fine but I found a lot of it to be repetitive - most of the songs literally repeat the same phrase over and over. I need more drugs to enjoy this.

Another electronic album... the famous songs are worth it, but it is so much longer than it should be.

It’s an ok album. Mostly an alt electronic album that starts with a couple hits that are solid. After that it becomes a dj style chanting album. In heaven is a pretty bad song. Overall the album is middling only due to the two good songs. 4.6/10

This is fairground music. You listen to it on the dodgems or you listen to it at the ice rink. And its fine and it has its place but fundamentally, Norman has a wicked record collection and he knows which ones to sample - but since the originals give you the same vibes, oftentimes, as these remakes and you start to wonder - why don’t I just listen to the original songs instead and enjoy some real skill and artistry?

Never got it, still don't.

Old boy writes a pile of great hooks but hasn't a clue how to expand or develop them making the stand alone listening experience really boring and hugely repetitive. Lazy.

ugh I knew this album would be in here somewhere. Been dreading it for months. It's basically an hour of ps1 advertising jingles. Bog UK techno. Sounded like 1 or 2 beats dragged out for an hour. ugh. 2/5.

The songs felt very… formulaic. Introduce a theme, beat it to near death. And just when you think it was over… they’ll beat it some more. A lot of the songs were definitely at least a minute or 90 seconds too long. I knew the two big songs from it, and Kalifornia was good, too. But man, use the edit button, there, FS.

I generally liked the grooves/samples, but he has a tendency to throw in annoying sounds (like repeating the same sound rapidly over and over forever) or using really annoying effects (like in Kalifornia and Soul Surfing). I'll call it a 2 because I didn't mind hearing it and generally liked the grooves, but I don't have much of an urge to hear it again. But, not gonna lie, in Acid 8000 "If this don't make your booty move your booty must be dead" made me laugh and I was definitely bopping to that song. I'll leave it a mystery whether my booty moved.

hiphop 👎

Hepsini dinlemedim ama 2lik bu album

Not even a heart dose of nostalgia can help this one from running out of puff too early and out staying its welcome. I don't think many albums are so rooted in their particular era as this, but now I wonder what we were all thinking? Norman Cook has a coffee takeout place down by the lagoon in Hove, and he personally served me at the kiosk a few months back. I didn't recognise him.

OMG I can’t believe this was 100% my favourite music and a top-5 artist. The reason I was a DJ. I can make the argument that his earlier stuff was better (and sure, Everybody Loves a 303 was head and shoulders better than this), but wow. It’s amazing how much your taste can change over 20 years. And yeah, this album fucking sucks. Wow. I can’t believe how bad. But the two popular tracks are what they are, and they’re not bad after all is said and done. So two stars.

2.5

Wish there were more lyrics

Meh

This earns 2 stars solely for "Praise You" because "The Rockafeller Skank" was a fun flashback for only about 60 seconds, and I don't ever need to hear anything else from this album.

Only ever felt the commercially released tracks is what makes the album. Even a listen through now still not feeling the rest.

I'd heard The Rockafeller Skank before (Funk Soul Brother) but didn't know who sang it. I see how it's iconic of a time/era, but I didn't care for it. Essentially zero chance I'd listen again.

More laid back lyrics/beat Don’t really like it 2/5 Songs from the album get repetitive fast

it was really weird, some of the songs were really competitive and just not good, others were just boring. but some songs were nice 👍

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Het weekend leek al een paar dagen eerder begonnen maar na de hitjes was het voor mij wel klaar.

the singles take me straight back to the 90s but that's probably where they belong. As an album listen its grating.

Listened to this quite a lot back in the day, but it really hasn't aged well. Sounds like someone made it on a PlayStation. Just a bit silly really

Some songs are good

Not a personal favourite. Some good songs but also some very irritating ones.

Definitely not my thing

Cheesy.

Artists like this need to shorten their songs. This was almost 2 hours and 19 songs. Each song was the same refrain repeated over and over again. I mean musically it's good, but so goddamn repetitive. Cut 'em in half or write some fucking lyrics, for God's sake!

Feels like this used to be good and hasn't aged well.

not for me

RIGHT ABOUT NOW. Continuing the trend of learning where random one/two hit wonders are. Overall music loops>vocal loops

Two Fatboy Slim albums in one week...oof. Couldn’t finish either.

Såg FatBoy på fejk-Hultsfred. Fruktansvärt. Riktig mardrömsupplevelse. Var inte sugen på att återuppleva den direkt.

Lost interest in listening quickly. 2nd track is alright. Rest is just rep rep repetitive rep rep repetitive as fu fu fu fuck.

Ruido. Ruido. R- R- Ru- Ruido Ruido. Ruido. R- R- Ru- Ruido Fav: Praise You

nothing but noise.

Uff, menudo tostón

Me temía un ñordo, pero confirmao. Praise you

I haven't heard any of these songs since they were playing on MTV and seemingly on every other commercial 25 years ago. These unabridged versions are even worse. I cant understand why millions bought this to.listen to it the few moments when these songs were not being played on a television nearby. Shit!

Not my style of music.

i dont like it

I tried, I really did, wasn't Fatboy Slim the epitome of cool? Barely made it past the 3rd track before I had had enough. Catchy in places but mostly banal dirge.

Oh it's this song, I think I've only ever heard the first few minutes of this song, lets see how a whole album holds up. Yeh not well. So it has these sections building up to something and then they'll like do a "drop" and then the part after is more boring than the build up, impressive stuff. This is my vision of hell, no visual stimulus and just this repetative trash on constantly to drive you insane.

So repetitive

I will NEVER enjoy electronic music. It is all just ear rape over and over. I came into this with an open mind thinking maybe it will change my mind on electronic music but it didnt. There was some good moments here and there but very time you think its about to get good it starts to slow down or distort. It made my ears bleed.

Not ANOTHER Fatboy Slim album 😭

Of course this is on the list. I didn't understand how it was popular when it came out, still don't understand it now. Boring, repetitive, and unimaginative.

Jesus fucking Christ end a god damn song. Can someone tell me where it is and when? Maybe if he said it just a few more times in his first song I would know. Make it Fucking Fucking Fucking Fucking Fucking Stop Favorite song was Rockafeller Stank but it’s really like a would you rather stab a fork or a knife in your eye type of situation

so evil

Boring

Soulless

So boring and repetitive. Probably for some people is the peak in the genre, but for an outsider, this was a torture to go through....sorry

Other than Praise You, I didn't find anything to like about this album.

It's so hard for me to rate dance music - it triggers a lizard brain mixed response of revulsion and boredom. This must be good by the standards of people who like dance music, but I just can't see it. Fun video, though.

Amateurish crap

2/10 - I can understand that some people love this genre and that all genres should be part of a list of 1001+ albums. This is not a style I like in the least.

How many times can one phrase be repeated in a song? Ask Fatboy Slim, because he’d just tell you it’s not enough.

Fatboy Slim’s You've Come a Long Way, Baby is an album where cultural legacy appears to outweigh the actual listening experience, resulting in a project that has not aged well. While "Right Here, Right Now" offers an iconic opening, the momentum quickly fades as "The Rockafeller Skank" becomes repetitive and tracks like "In Heaven" prove difficult to endure. There are brief moments of technical interest found in the boom-bap elements of "Gangster Trippin" and the old-school hip-hop influences of "You’re Not from Brighton," yet even these highlights are weighed down by overlong runtimes and questionable mixing. Relying heavily on samples to provide a "vibe" rather than cohesive structure, the album ultimately feels skippable and dated.

No thank you

No thats okay

No. Just, no. There is no way on God’s green Earth I am listening to this crap. Repetitive, pretentious and irritating. Life is too short.

im sorry mr fatboy slim but this was really boring

strange nothing positive

Yes they have, a long way to the demise of creative music that comes from the soul.

I did think before I listened to this that I was going to enjoy it and it would be at least a 4. How wrong I was. Listening to songs in isolation or in the context of a night out or at an open air event a I have definitely enjoyed. Listening to the whole album from start to finish in a single sitting or two, I have a different view. Complete torture, repetitive twaddle, just a bunch of sounds either repeated, slowed down, put through a phaser or some other sound modification system. Save it for Brighton beach, not on my hifi!

15. 팻보이 슬림 - 윱 컴 어 롱 웨이 베이비 총 11곡 수록, 1시간 2분 프레이즈 유는 참 좋지... 그러나 그뿐이다 그때는 뭐 굉장했겠지만 이제는 좀 식상한거같음 그랬네용 한줄평: 아아 시대의 흐름이여 취향: ★★☆☆☆ 재방문: ★☆☆☆☆

should've made it FASTboy slim

ну крайне так себе

I get why this is considered essential, but it just doesn’t work for me. 𝘠𝘰𝘶’𝘷𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘢 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘞𝘢𝘺, 𝘉𝘢𝘣𝘺 relies a lot on the same kinds of loops and big beats, and after a while it starts to wear me down. A few tracks are fun at first, but over a full album it feels repetitive and kind of annoying. I can see why people like it, just not something I’d want to sit through again.

For me this ia absolutely 1 star or F- garbage.

Niet mijn ding.

Canciones completamente monótonas casi lineales, muy extensas, no añaden variedad armónica o rítmica durante la canción, solo ligeras variaciones en sonidos. Comprendo que el álbum es de un DJ, y que como tal, debe tener canciones más o menos de este estilo, a pesar de ello, son muy extensas sus canciones, no ofrecen novedad musical. La única canción que levemente puedo rescatar es 'Praise You', aunque sigue siendo muy extensa.

favs: praise you rating 0.5/5

Muy de fondo

its totally not my vibe, the only song i slightly liked was „praise you” and „right here right now” wasnt that bad, but overall i dont like the repetitive lyrics and weird beats/noises (even though i think the production is really creative) also idk but the cover is throwing me off lol not really my genre, i think after this one im sorry for giving yesterdays ella fitzgerald only 2 stars :P

Plz stop

I am having a hard time coming up with adjectives to describe these crap albums that keep popping up on this list. At some point, I'll go back and see what my average scores have been, but I'm guessing it's low. I listen to a lot of music across many genres, and I feel like I am not getting the best of any of those. This exercise is becoming tedious and the opposite of what I was hoping for. Give me some cool music that I have not heard and that I should before I die!

I could MAYBE see this being interesting if I was in a club with lights flashing surrounded by people on drugs. But, I have/will never be in that situation so I found this repetitive and boring.

Ass

I have a great idea for an album, let’s make every song repeat the same line over and over again. Yeah, I know this type of music is more meant for the beat than the lyrics, but its hard to ignore how annoyingly repetitive it is.

lebenslust beim Hören verloren

I aint listening to a DJ album bro

I despise Praise You with all my guts

- 80's synth but modern beats. it's like i'm on acid. funk elements , i hated it, ngl.

Lose brate bas lose

1/5 didn’t listen but also cldnt get into it

I'd only known Fatboy Slim from the song "Wonderful Night" which does not appear on this album. That particular song was featured in a Dance Dance Revolution game and got a lot of play in my household because it was a song with easy choreography and a steady beat, but I never really enjoyed listening to it due to its repetition. After listening to this album, that appears to be Fatboy Slim's modus operandi. The repetition of the spoken lyrics is unbearable at times and for that reason, I think this album could be used as a form of aural torture. "Kalifornia" is bearable, largely because I couldn't understand what the robotic voice was saying and therefore couldn't get annoyed by hearing the same phrase over and over. I really didn't want to finish listening to this even after the first song (I did though, for the sake of this project). Hated it.

bad

i was gonna give this a generous 2, but it just kept on getting worse. my ears were lowkey bleeding at the end

Albums like this really put me in a position of having to consider what this project is and why I've chosen to take part. Albums you must hear before you die. I think that "must" shadows a lot of my listening; I want to approach with an open mind, but that imperative throws me off, closes my mind to an extent. A person who endeavors to listen to this entire list will have a pretty good understanding of the musical culture of the later half of the 20th century but is it all essential? I now have almost the entirety of recorded music history available to me, do I really NEED to hear most of this stuff before I die? It really complicates assigning a rating, and I think I've vacillated wildly on my motivations for certain ratings. Do I rate an album for it's merit as an essential, needs must album? Do I rate on my personal satisfaction? On perceived artist achievement? As for Fat Boy Slim, this is music for dancing, and its very successful at being that. This is 5/5 for dance-ability. Is it something I ever care to seek out again? No, 0 stars for that. Is it something essential that everyone should listen to before they die? Hardly, but good luck finding someone who hasn't heard it. If you're interested in the history of advertising, you should probably dive into Fatboy Slim.

Poop

Sorry I'm just not a fan of his or this type of music.

Shit, this is terrible. This album is like when a kid gets a new toy and just keeps hitting that same button as fast as he can to make the same noise over and over and all of the adults in the room are at their wits end. Fatboy Slim is fucking in heaven, Fatboy Slim is fucking in heaven, Fatboy Slim is fucking in heaven....etc, etc. All the samples are just repeated so fucking often, it's obnoxious. Gangster Trippin' is a perfect example "What we're doin, when a, what we're doin when a, what we're doing when a..." Shut the fuck up. I was gonna give this a 2 because Right Here, Right Now is some cool 90s nostalgia and so is Praise You but I just can't. This was so hard to listen to, I couldn't stand it. Like the fat guy on the front cover, this is a 1.

No thanks

Annoying as hell. I tolerated it during my 25 minute commute - hung it up - and refuse to ever go back. Curse everyone involved with the production of this trash. 1/5

2.9/10 Not for me

Dance en elektronica echt niet mijn ding. 1x luisteren en nooit meer

Weird

Насолоджуватись цим я не можу, проте це й не найгірше, що я слухала.

- Dj music - focuses on sounds and noises - no real lyrics

I don't particularly care for DJ/techno music. This seems pretty catchy and fun. Some of the songs seem a bit too long and way too repetitive. Okay, it went from catchy and fun to repetitive and boring. I guess Fatboy Slim is not for me. I can see why people like this music but it is annoying as hell to me in large doses. I could not get through this whole album.

DNF

More like Fat Boy Shit.

This thing is too repetitive for an hour long run time. Bailed after 30 minutes. Should’ve quit sooner 😒

Defiant not a lyrically strong album. Mostly beats. It felt like a party album. Reminds me of the 90s. Did not save any songs, and probably would not reach for this album again.

blah

Absolutely mind numbing. Just as bad as when it was originally released. Unforgivable that this is an hour long.

Proprio non cosa mia, beat fighi ma la maggior parte delle canzoni era praticamente sempre la stessa frase ripetuta e non c'era neanche un accenno di melodia o simili. Pass

no. y encima son todas larguísimas me muero siete minutos de esto son infumables

Not for me

Another one that I have to assume the author wants everyone to listen to only to make sure we all know this album is complete trash. Somehow this is over an hour long. Each song has one idea that is then somehow stretched to 4 minutes each.

When an album contains not one but *two* entries from my "Most Hated Songs Of All Time" list, it's already going to start out behind the eight ball. The rest of this record is the same shtick, with tracks that repeat a vocal sample ad nauseum (while Fatboy Slim congratulates himself along the way). This copy-and-paste stuff might have seemed revolutionary at the time but it has since been eclipsed by others who took sampling to new heights, leaving kindergarten stuff like this in the dust. (Hell, Double Dee and Steinski did more with razor blades and tape than Fatty Boy could ever do with a computer.)

Oh no, another ‘90s DJ album that doesn’t need to be on this list. It’s ok and good for dancing but it’s musically lacking. There’s no way that this should be essential listening.

It's just noice to me.

Repetitive in a way I can only describe as relentless... oppressive even. I was on the cusp of losing my shit from the amount of times I had to hear the phrase "Fatboy Slim is fucking in heaven." Even the big hit songs from the album have been so overplayed that they offered very little reprieve from the agony.

Praise You and Rockefeller Skank are all I really cared about. I did a lot of skipping because of how boring and obnoxious some songs got, lik In Heaven and Kalifornia.

I've at least heard something from this album before. Right Here, Right Now - 4/10. Meh. Repetitive and not appealing to me. Rockafeller Skank - 5/10. I actually recognize this one, too. It's OK, but the middle part (where it went super slow and distorted) was unpleasantly weird. In Heaven - 0/10. Deeply unpleasant. Gangster Trippin - 4/10. Meh. Build it Up, Tear it Down - 4/10. Meh. Kalifornia - 1/10. Unpleasant. Soul Surfing - 1/10. Not to my taste. Not fun in any way. You're Not From Brighton - 3/10. Better than many of the tracks on this album, not that that takes much. Praise You - 5/10. Decent. Still things that just grate on me (long holds that feel like a CD skipping), though. Are We Having Fun Yet? - 2/10. Much like the rest of this album. Acid 8000 - 2/10. Again, unpleasant and repetitive. Overall Rating - 1.41/5 (2.81/10). Unpleasant and repetitive. Unpleasant and Repetitive. Unpleasant and Repetitive.

Ugh, couldn't stand it then can't stand it now...

what.

strong in some areas but it's hard for me to listen to something so repetitive and lengthy

not my cup of tea non ho apprezzato nulla capisco per gli amanti del genere che sia qualcosa ma veramente ero disturbato dalla continua ripetizione

Hated it in the 90s, hate it even more today as I thought it would never again cross my ears.

Absolute nightmare! It was like a terrible mashup of Primus and Moby. I couldn’t listen to a single song all the way through.

dj trash

First two songs are good the rest are shit

Perhaps it's just not the genre for me, but I found this repetitive to the point of insanity. I can see the appeal from a clubbing standpoint, but otherwise it just grated on me. Rockefeller Skank and Praise You I was familiar with, but felt a lot of the songs were just too long with not enough to keep it interesting.