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The funk soul brother is ok.
83/100
Fun, lively, huge beats. Fades into the background a little at times. Favorite tracks: "The Rockafeller Skank", "Kalifornia", "Praise You"
Amazing dance album. This one has always been in my library for a long time. The hits are great but nearly every song on here is a standout to me. Very catchy and fun vibes. Standout Tracks: Right Here Right Now, The Rockafeller Skank, Gangster Trippin', Soul Surfing, Praise You, Love Island
Not really songs, more like he finds a hook and repeats it for a song length. Works sometimes, especially on Praise You. Just repetitive on others.
Great 90s music
Not bad, but a bit too repetitive for my liking
Some absolute bangers. Solid 3.5/5
3.75 out of 5. Norman's smashing it
There are some great nostaligic tunes on here 3+
A bit too gimmicky for me (and in my memory Better Living through Chemistry" was better) but Praise You is still a 5 star song.
Head empty a bit here. It’s kinda interesting and he’s definitely a talented producer. I feel like he tantalizes us a bit with a whiff of cool production techniques but doesn’t fully develop them. The songs don’t feel dated Per se, but they don’t exactly hold up either. I’m pretty neutral overall
this was kind of nothing to me. couldnt really focus on the songs
Прослушано! Не моё хотя и драйвово.
Fat boy slim is fucking in heaven - yung gravy could never
Pretty fun
favourite song: rockefeller skank very good album however maybe a bit too long
You'd think something like this wouldn't have aged very well, but I think it holds up even now.
Great album. Good tunes for a party/night out etc. A lot of hits on this. Enjoyed most of it.
Like this album in hs. 3 stars
Good background music / chill summer music.
Leuk om nummers van deze guy op whosampled.com te bekijken
Cool sampling, sounds like a mix of homemade samples and things found in other songs The album has a unique sound, created by the many repetitions in both the beat and the harmonic structure, the lyrics, witch there are few of, are simple and recognisable soundbites It is easy to find the sound from this album in pop created after this album (maybe not because of this album tho) The placement of 'praise you' is perfect, the track is deferent enough to give a well needed break
Blast of nostalgia … high school baby! The hits are big big and the others are … fine. Fun listen
Couple of top tunes, but some filler
Directo en la nostalgia, aunque con menos impacto que otros porque la música electrónica tampoco es mi favorita. Obviamente sobresale Rockafeller Skank pero también Right Here Right Now, Praise You y Gangster Trippin. El resto están bien aunque un disco completo de una hora de un solo golpe rebasa un poco mis límites con el género. Sólido 4.
Dejando de lado la nostalgia de las mejores épocas de MTv, este es un gran gran disco que siento que de muchas formas es el ejemplo de como la electrónica pasó de algo oscuro (en el caso del techno) o exclusivo de la pista de baile (en el caso de todas las variantes de dance) a algo que se puede oír en cualquier momento y por puro gusto. De hecho es una de las muy muy contadas experiencias que tengo de ver electrónica en vivo y fue una chulada. De todos modos, sigue sin ser mi género y a ratos me cansa y siento que hay muchas canciones que podrían cortarse en un 30% si cortáramos algunos loops. 3.5 que sube a 4 porque es viernes y me puso de buenas.
Top 3 Songs: 1 - Gangster Trippin (4) 2 - You're Not From Brighton (8) 3 - The Rockafeller Skank (2)
It's okay. Didn't necessarily like or dislike it.
A bunch of hits, a bunch of hidden gems, and a bunch of filler stuff
Cool DJ stylings and the enduring hit Rockafeller Skank. Soul Surfing is good. This is a great get shit done album. Praise You is also a great track. Acid 8000 is pioneering.
I didn't like it in the beginning except for the few major hits (Praise You, Right Here Right Now) - I found the repetitivenes and the breaking down of all those beats too long and annoying. But then I played it on my headphones while working out and I found that I actually enjoyed it a lot more than expected. Still, it's not something I'd play on a daily basis and the loooong ending to Rockefeller Skank is just too much for me. 3.5/5 rounded down to 3.
I feel like i want to eviscerate myself after this
Stress alligevel
First time listening. Can get pretty repetitive but good for hyping up I think. Big beat is certainly fun.
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.
bonus points for the classic the rockafeller stank, overall pretty decent album for background music.
Gangster Trippin’, Soul Surfing
Really funky and upbeat
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
Klassiker, och före sin tid. Catchy. Varierande kvalitet.
Finally, some good music. mieux que le français et le beck combinés
classic album a lot of big hits on this one.
a little too long for me and i'm not sure I was in the right mood to enjoy it fully, but still great nonetheless
It grooves. Fatboy Slim rules. Good album for working or having on as atmospheric while doing something.
A bit repetitive and not really my type of music, but that album cover is everything.
This was new to me! Interesting, but not really my mind of music. Would characterise it as techno/indie.
I bought this CD when it was released and I still have it. I must have played it non-stop back in the day cause I can still sing along word for word. Love it.
Some really annoying bits in here like the high pitched whine towards the middle of Rockafeller Skank and the repetitive lyrics of In Heaven but the rest is so good.
Inte hört hela plattan förut men den är verkligen späckad med hits.
Sehr durchwachsen. Mischung aus ein paar guten Liedern und anderen Liedern wo man einfach nur weiterschalten will.
Ideal for those who appreciate samples from Joe Walsh's James Gang period and the movie Strange Days, along with people who see every Spike Jonze film because they really loved his music videos. Three solid bangers that hold up surprisingly well. Everything is is a snooze.
Great album. Takes me back to college
It's just great fun. Big beat may remain my favourite dance subgenre. A mix of hip hop, electro and house that is all about being big, dumb and funky. I mean, the opening four tracks do it all save for giving you a mitsi and the next three days off work. It's almost saddening that 25 years ago, you had Fatboy, Daft Punk, Propellerheads, Faithless and Basement Jaxx all coming up. Now you have Calvin Harris, Diplo and various interchangeable north Europeans who have cornered mainstream dance all spoonfeeding you the warm sick of late 80s/early 90s revivalism (feat. Flo Rida). It could have gone so much better.
Decent with some influential songs, not my forte for the majority of it.
me re divertí kjj creo q es el q más me gustó hasta ahora aaa. 8.5/10
Fat Boy NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPE!
Holy crap how did we make it through the late 90s with this repetitive nightmare music? Praise You was the right single because the rest of this album is doing my head in.
Gives you all the fatbot slim energy and fun you need in life. Right here and right now!
Gangster Trippin is nice. That's all I'm going to say about this.
The master of the ever repetitive sample loop's second outing has a few choice pieces (Right Here, Right Now; The Rockefeller Skank; Praise You), but is otherwise unimpressive.
Very enjoyable. An exercise in repetition, and how that isn't necessarily a bad thing.
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 »!
The absolute genius of Fatboy Slim *chefs kiss*. What a seminal album with some amazing heavy-hitting all time bangers. I was relatively young when this record came out, but all of the singles released were EVERYWHERE, and inescapable. I'd argue that there wasn't a kid in the playground that hadn't at least heard of them - it was all over TV ads and throughout the radio. The Big Beat genre is a perfect mix of electronica, heavy drums, loops and impeccable use of sampling, and Fatboy Slim is one of its masters. Best: Right Here Right Now; Rockafeller Stank; Praise You Worst: Fucking in Heaven
Cool Beats, ahead of its time.
Derry girls made me add on two stars
Wall to wall bangers
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.
It's okay
I already loved "Right Here Right Now". However most of the songs in the album have the same rythm and it feels like listening to the same song with different lyrics.
Love this album.
It's been a while since I had him in regular rotation, but I love me some Fatboy Slim. Obviously, one's enjoyment of Fatboy Slim and similar big beat/electronic music is contingent upon one's ability to enjoy its repetitiveness. If you're cool with it, then this is a solid album; if not, its quality is irrelevant. Other than "Right Here Right Now," "Rockafeller Skank," and "Praise You" (all classics), I was unfamiliar with most of this album. My favorite track I'd never heard was "Kalifornia," and "Gangster Trippin" was a pleasant surprise as well. The only real throwaway track was "Fucking in Heaven;" calling it sophomoric is probably kind.
This album got me pumped and reminded me how fun it was to be a twenty-something in the 90s. I was a college kid at UT Austin, and the city was still very weird at the time. I remember clubbing & going to raves...so many weirdos, gays & club kids...so much Fatboy Slim, The Prodigy, and Daft Punk. A solid 5 stars for this album.
I'm sorry, but this album was torturous. I'm not a fan of this type of music, but I did my best to approach it with an open mind. I say that even though I hate Praise You with a passion. I think my issue with this album is the constant repetition of one bar over and over again for way too long. A song would start, I would start to get into what he's laying down and then BAM, a zillion bars in a row of druggiedruggiedruggiedruggiedruggiedruggieddruggiedruggiedruggie. Nope. Pulls me right out of the groove and just pisses me off. But again, not my style.And seriously an entire song of just repeating the line Fat Boy Slim Fucking in Heaven. And that's it? I wanted to tap out on this one so damned many times.
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.
Time to drop some MDMA. Speed, sure? Then jump into the mix. Oh wait, it is a crawling pit of human sweat and ever-multiplying bacteria. Maybe I'll sit this out and appreciate that I'm not at a rave with overly confident teenagers in the year 2000. Now that this album isn't on constant play in every market, it is enjoyable for its hits and for dancing around the house with a kid.
It's a bop. A little repetitive, but still fun.
I had forgotten how much I liked this album considering my copy was stolen 15+ years ago.
Absolutely loved it and got me hyped for seeing FS next week in Brighton
Such a banger of an album. Ever track is a total banger and it's sounds as fresh as ever.
The soundtrack of a long-ago summer. I remember when this was bleeding edge. Familiarity breeds contempt, I guess.
some good early 2000s house and uk techno whatever the hell. not bad and has some bangers, also some really cool ideas
album ok pra um rap dos 90's
It's not particularly original, just better produced than his previous album. (7/10) FT: Praise You, Love Island
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.
What else can I add? Yeh feels a little dated now. But yeh, if you know, you know.
An unremarkable electronic dance album with one remarkable electronic dance song. 3 🌟
Its not subtle. Big Beat. Massive drum sound. Much repeated vocal samples. Rhythm pauses and big "drops" wherever possible. On top of that it contains 4 big hits and it sold in tons though it seemed that every copy was in a charity shop 5 years later.. Its full of joy admittedly but it all feels a bit cheap. 3.
EDM
Loved it back then - still love it now. Such great anthems, and good fun from start to end.
Apparemment ça s'appelle le big beat et apparemment j'aime pas trop ça (à part Praise You)
je viens de réaliser que Fatboy Slim et The Prodigy sont deux artistes différents
23/06 5/5 I've known a few of these songs a long long time ago, and listening to them again made me realize how good those songs are, as well as the entire album. Every song is just a banger and the mix of instrumentals and electronic music sounded so good. I loved this album a lot.
Man, “The Rockafeller Skank” takes me back to childhood. So good. I’m very happy to know there’s a whole album of that energy. This is a really fun album with an abundance of personality. Other highlights: “Gangster Trippin,” “Soul Surfing,” “You’re Not From Brighton,” “Praise You,” “Love Island” (wow, the bass on that one!)
Yesss! I had some kind of EP (or home made ripped CD) of theirs with "Right Here Right Now", "Rockafellar Skank" and "Praise You" on it, so that was really my first taste of more modern electronic music and I dug it! Reading the Wiki, it looks like a lot of tracks have "Sample credits", which I am slowly learning is common among the genre. I used to be like "just make your own shit", but now I think I'm starting to get it.
This album was such a guilty pleasure for me when I was a kid. All of my friends were into heavy metal as was I, but I would listen to these tracks and love them in secret. (side note - guilty pleasures - what a silly thing). It's a great album. Only listening now do I find that this album has some tracks that are very videogame soundtrack-y.
Best Song: Praise You. Even though this is one of the three big songs I'd heard before, the vocal sample here is just too good, and used too effectively, for it not to be the number one. Worst Song: In Heaven. You can just tell that the artist thought that the vocal sample was cooler and edgier than it actually is. Overall: One thing that I found Fatboy Slim is the master of on this album is holding things - notes, patterns, looping samples - longer than I feel many artists have the courage to hold things. The effect is that often, for these extended repeated sequences, I found myself going through this entire trajectory of liking whatever new sound he introduced, growing tired of it and wishing it would end, but then pushing through to some point where it felt like it had wormed itself fully into my brain. I know this idea obviously isn't unique among electronic artists, but I think that Fatboy Slim does it tremendously here.
What an album this was! One of the hottest to come out that era, packing the energy of a few atom bombs. I still remember the sheer joy of playing FIFA 99 just so I could listen to Rockafeller Skank again and again (the game was great, too; it was the era before loot boxes took over). Add Right Here Right Now and Praise You into the mix, and you have an armada of smash hits with great videos to match. There are too many fillers in the album, and it has dated by now, but it's still good.
I’m sorry if anyone disagrees, but it’s not like it’s bad for it’s genre. Like it’s cool and stuff it’s just not my style of music. I don’t like that it didn’t really contain music and no music is okay sometimes if you provide instruments but there’s no instruments either. Like I don’t really listen to this type or genre of music but I think it could be good for its genre is just not good for me.
It starts off well, but the tracks become very samey.
It's good, but also got on my nerves at times.
can see why the hits were the hits, rest is very repetitive filler
Not bad. I was surprised by what I heard. I could've maybe named one song by FBS and my expectations were not what this album was.
Great
I was pleasantly surprised, by how much i enjoyed this album. Usually not my kind of music, i ended up nodding my head the whole time.
I bought this CD when it came out, and it was definitely a favorite. Electronic music can be pretty dull in its repetitiveness, but this is special. There's something always exciting happening in the music and the repetition is actually pretty groovy here. It was so good to hear the whole thing again, it'd been a long while.
I love this album! I have, do, and will listen often! It is perfect for the soundtrack to cleaning the house, cooking dinner, or getting your groove on. I mean, if this don’t make your booty move…
Super fun. I danced all day.
I’ve heard several of the songs before and liked them very much. This is the first time I have heard the entire album. I liked everything on it from beginning to end. Really fun and catchy! In the Wikipedia page for this album it mentioned that this was created on an Atari ST computer using floppy disks. That’s pretty freaking amazing since this was released well after that computer was discontinued. I love this album even more given it’s classic computer roots!
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
P R A I S E, natural mayonnaise. This one has some classics.
A stone-cold classic in its way, not all to my liking, but there are some truly seminal musical moments on this album.
This was a fun album. I had heard several songs from the record, but didn't realize they were Fatboy Slim. I'm down for it!
i got an IUD and then made ravioli by hand and listened to this album. three stars
Cool sound.
GASA! Le prime due sono due bombe. L'ascolto in metropolitana è consigliato. Love island non la conoscevo ed è un altro capolavoro oltre 'Praise You'
Surprised by how many songs I knew, seems to have been everywhere even more than I noticed at the time. Gangster Trippin is still my favourite, but the album as a whole is so good, and so consistent, that it works best as a piece.
just was not feeling this today. its good but a full album was a bit much.
What a fat fuck that kid on the cover is. Grotesque, obese, ugly motherfucker. Can you imagine giving birth to such a beast? His mother must feel physically and mentally ill.
Who'd have thought we all be sat here in 2022 listening to Fatboy Slim and actually enjoying it? We have come a long way, but also we've barely moved at all, baby. I did enjoy him at Glastonbury 2019 too, but there may have been other reasons for that. Get me to Ayia Napa.
Strong enough to really compete in a Eurovision semi final. Probably.
Mostly gross
Great at the time, but I'm less interested in it now. Still worth having in any decent record collection though.
LE-GEN-DA-RY! You may not know who they are, but you definitely heard the songs
Varmaankin ensimmäisiä modernin konemusan artisteja joita tuli itsekin aikoinaan kuunneltua? Ihan jeppis vaikkakin aika pitkä levy nykyiselle suoratoistopalvelukuuntelijalle.
En ihmettele et löytyy listalta. Muistot palasi nuoruusvuosiin ja ihan yhtä täysii maistui
Ce gros lourdaud nous offre un album très réussi d'Obèse Beat.
Un excellent album de grosse bedaine beat, j'ai notamment adoré les pistes "Maxi Best-Of" et "Coca-Cola"
I find EDM repetitive and boring. NOT THIS! Just when it's in danger of becoming boring, he wanders off into something knew. It's a lot of fun, some of those odd, mangled vocals remind me of naughty boys playing with words and fart sounds. It's when he segues into those big beats that he shows his mastery. This is so far above anything in this genre, except maybe Daft Punk.
I really didn't like this - even the 'hits' felt dated.
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.
Definitely makes me want to boogie! Good in small doses, can be a bit on the noise side for my taste
This album was more sound effects than music and some of it had a good beat. The vocals kept me from rating it higher.
They had such a distinct sound. It's really surprising that they caught on, but they were smart enough to know it would. Their samples are iconic, and most importantly, they know what they are and offer no pretense. HIp-Hop can be heavily hyperbolized and degrading, but they are able to be mostly real, innovative, and take aim on interesting subjects...like Bill Laimbeer. I think Sabotage is the perfect example of what they are. It's a great track, produced perfectly and timeless. This album is way better than I expected it to be.
Huh. Well, the intro didn't catch me, but the second song, 'The Rockafeller Skank,' did. I liked the playing with sound clips the artist did. The longer the album went on, however, the more tuned out I became. It really should have been shorter than an hour, that's just too much for these kinds of albums.
I've just loved fatbot slim for so long. I used to get pumped on the bus to speech and debate tournaments on songs from this very album. so. uh. let's fucking go.
Well, this is something of a classic - there are some brilliant singles on here and of course, an all time favourite album track, Love Island. There's not really a lot to say about this, except it was great when everybody started getting into Fatboy because I'd been a big beat enthusiast since I bought a weird grey covered Skint record with a name I could barely read and thought it just said FATBOD SLIM... you have indeed, come a long way baby.
Absolute banger. A classic electro lofi triptastic dance monster.
So. Repetitive. But some of these tracks are so foundational to the 90s electronics scene I can’t help but give three stars. I listened this and a whole bunch of other albums in the second half of the nineties… is there a German word for unwilling nostalgia?
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.
I don't like this music, it's not for me. Sorry.
Este es un disco de fiestas, verano, asados multitudinarios, tres cosas que yo ya ni conozco. Al rato aburre un poco, pero hay dos pedazos de canciones aquí que ya son clásicos de la electrónica de fines de los 90.
Definitely starting to show its age, and the singles really stand out, but still great.
Bangers
fy vad bra och fortfarande fräscht 20 år senare
It was driving me nuts yet I couldn't turn it off
Lots of bops and different-ish vibes from the songs.
Really like the song “Praise You”, but the rest is pretty meh.
solid music of the genre, but a genre I only want to listen to 1-2 songs from.
Literally impossible for me to be objective about this one, due to my fatboy slim tattoo and all. I haven't listened to this album in a hot minute though. I know it's very loopy and very repetitive. It's still a JAM. Love Island + Acid 8000 is one hell of a finale.
You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby by Fatboy Slim (1998) This Britpop one-man-band production of repeating electronic music is just too damn repetitive to be taken seriously. He just finds a mildly appealing groove and repeats it to death on his Atari ST computer. The repetitive words don’t qualify as ‘lyrics’—they merely repeat mostly sampled phrases. That leaves us with the too-repetitive ‘music’, which is mostly eight-measure repetitions of cute bits. And of course, the samples, which are duly repeated ad nauseum. If you’ve got one hour and two minutes to listen to one minute and two seconds worth of music, then this album is for you. But if you listen to it, and repeat it even once, I want some of what you’re smoking. Have I mentioned that it’s repetitive? 1/5
i like the idea of this album
Iconic album!
Incredibly repetitive. Incredibly repetitive. Incredibly repetitive. Incredibly rep rep repetitive. Incredibly repetitive. Incredibly rep repetitive.
Holy shit, I haven't listened to this in like twenty years. This album, more than The Prodigy, more than Basement Jaxx, more than Chemical Brothers or Crystal Method or anything else really made big beat blow up as a popular genre of music, and along with the popularity of trip-hop, Moby, and Aphex Twin made people realize electronic music was more than just cheesy techno. But... is it good? There are songs on here that still get radio airplay, which is kind of mindblowing considering none of its contemporaries do. Maybe The Prodigy? I've personally gone back to The Prodigy a bit more, including in the last year. I feel like they might have aged a little worse in places, some of their samples being more dated and cheesy, with their image being more self-serious and edgy. That being said, there is a lot more depth to what they were doing. Music For the Jilted Generation was a reaction to British rave laws and had a real dark, sinewy sound compared to the overly bright memelord energy of Fatboy Slim and You've Come a Long Way Baby. Expanding my focus, I have to compare this to other albums I listened to at the same time in my life that appear on the list and how they've held up. I guess this is comparable to Green Day's Dookie - inconsequential, irreverent, but ultimately harmless.
10/10, great feel-good vibes also super impressive for 1990
Yoooo
The production was great on this, the drums, the timing. I like how he changes tempo so suddenly and it still works, goes half time, double time. The craziest part about this album was that it felt like it could've just been released, it must have been way ahead of its time. I hear this album's influence in a lot of EDM artists (Skrillex, Don Diablo, Griz, Bassnectar). Favorite songs - Rockefeller Skank, Gangster Trippin, Build it up Tear it Down, You're Not From Brighton
A very funny album. I thought that The Rockefeller Skank would be the funniest track on the album but then it’s immediately one upped by Fatboy Slim is Fucking In Heaven. Humor aside, it’s a good party album. I feel like the whole thing suffers from being a bit too long. I don’t know if the remedy is to cut the amount of tracks down or to just trim down each songs length. Either way I feel once you get past the quirkiness, some of the songs can overstay their welcome.
First two tracks and Soul Surfing are pretty good, the rest is kind of underwhelming. The vocal samples can get annoying at times.
Probably really a 3* album (although there are a handful of great tracks, to be fair) but I listened to this so much as a kid that the nostalgia trip it provided boosted the overall listening experience.
great tunes. takes me back
More guitars than I'd have assumed. Fun album, especially the last track.
Was great in its day. 3/5
Notes done
nostalgiaaaaaa
It was fine but quickly you realise he uses the same damn trick a lot so that takes a lot away.
Absolutely loved this album when it came out, but surprised now but how little it holds up. The songs were way too long in general...didn't need 6 mins per. Gangster Trippin top song. 3.5/5
few great songs, rest pretty mediocre
Fun album.
When this came out I had it on regular play in the car. It was new. fresh and innovative, and Fat Boy Slim was at the forefront of big beat music. I thought, then, that this would be a satisfying wallow in nostalgia but it turned out to be underwhelming. Parise You aside, it hasn't stood the test of time. Essential to have heard? Yes. Essential listening? No.
What a nice baby
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 knew going into this record that I would enjoy it, but a closer listen didn't disappoint. It depends on looped samples to a fault, but the seams, especially those in the vocal lines, end up as tasty imperfections. The sides are reasonably distinct: A has the hits and the self-reference, B a couple deeper cuts and a melodic surprise at the end, C brings the drums over melody as such, and D takes a beautiful left turn. One has to be prepared for repetition in form, but it rides on strength of execution.
Rockafeller sank es un temazo El resto me ralla No es de mi gusto
A bottomless bog of big beat bangin bops, brilliant
I'm confused. Is he fat or slim?
Very cool. I liked his work before but had never heard a full album.
Ish, vraiment pas mon genre. Praise You est pas pire, mais that's it pour moi.
Eh boy. Je peux comprendre que cet album soit dans la liste à cause de Rockafeller Skank. À sa sortie c’était un nouveau son, une nouvelle façon de faire. Mais tout un album, c’est redondant et vite ennuyant.
Fun to listen to
the nostalgia is strong with this one
Iconic! Remember dancing around to this back in the day. Saw him live at Latitude a few years agonand he was smokin’ hot! Love it!
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.
Maximum 90s
I didn’t really care for this type of music as a teen when it released but upon release as an adult, I really enjoyed a number of tracks.
Remember when this came out, listening in my mates bedroom. We would have been 10, his Dad was into his dance music. Still sounds class today.
Great album that highlights the rising digital creative scene.
pretty good
This is not a genre of music I care to listen to outside of a good old fashioned dance party, so the fact that I enjoyed listening to this album is a testament to Fatboy Slim. It has a wonderful vibe of fun throughout the album
I always love Rockafeller Skank and Praise You. I don't think I've heard any of the other songs but I enjoyed the entire album.
Some fun beats and this album holds so much nostalgia for me- takes me back to roller rinks and 90s teen dramas during sleepovers. But to listen to the album in full is…. A lot.
Classic, great rhythms and beats. I think this album contains 3 of my favorite songs.
Some fun dance/house on this one, normally I’d be annoyed by the length and repetition but the beats are great and there’s enough tongue-in-cheek lyricism to make things work
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.
I know it shouldn't have 5 stars but when I enjoyed it that much what exactly are 5 stars for?
why try harder?
The undisputed Big Beat king and the epitome of bedroom production. Impossible to not dance to it. Too many classics to name.
Liked it!
4.5
Fun
Recognisable and enjoyable for the most part.3*
One or two tracks that I've become ingrained to but otherwise not my thing particularly.
Repetitive in the most part
A solid album although starting to sound a little bit dated.
Not huge on electronic music, as you've probably heard by now. But that being said, I enjoyed this record a lot. Production is fresh (despite being from 1998!) and the songs hold energy and originality that feels timeless.
Genre: Big Beat 3/5 While the album itself doesn’t meet the mark on every track, they’re all sandwiched between two of techno’s biggest hits ever, The Rockafeller Skank and Praise You. Two absolute titans of the genre, two genuinely great singles, and two songs that will exist in the milieu for quite some time. There a few hidden gems here, but Fatboy Slim can’t hide from the obvious influence of his predecessors. Prodigy, Thomas Bangalter, and plenty of house legends played a big role in the creation of this album. It’s big beat, it’s energetic, and it’s not too bad, overall.
Not really my cup of tea. I do appreciate the creativity and the uniqueness of some sounds, but blasting the same sentence for an entire song doesn't seem right to my ears. I guess it's great for hitting the dancefloor while on acid, and still better than most of the mainstream EDM currently out there.
Pretty damn good even outside of the classics.
Seems like the profanity was used just for profanity's sake, rather than to progress the music. Not totally enamored, but it's OK to listen to occasionally.
I was going to give it 2 stars and then Acid 8000 came on. It’s a painful reminder that this album is chock full or idiotic repeating phrases with little else other than throbbing beats that may be danceable but not enjoyable. Intolerable.
6/10 some bops that really caught my attention, but at times the looping vocals were annoying and I think it’s quite dated
2/10. Felt so long because very song was so damn repetitive.
Cool beats but each song was far too long. 6/10
3/5 there were some known songs here, the rest of them were not good though.
I love this album. Still so cool!
Really cool!
Ikke helt min type musikk, men de første to sangene på albumet var artige. Albumet bar preg av å være DJ-laget. 90-talls DJ-musikk
No one has made better electronic music that it's actually listenable and enjoyable, not only at rave parties so much as anywhere else, than Fatboy Slim. And this album alone, it's just a pure gem in the uplifting 90's music.
Here we go. This is a formative album for me. It's of the few albums that managed to cut across the divide at school between all the dullard "real music" britpop bores, and the super cool kids like me listening to electronic music. It drips with pop appeal but manages to keep a pretty cool edge. Album opener Right Here Right Now, sampling the wonderful Angela Bassett from the film Strange Days is an absolute powerhouse of a tune. Big lush and emotive. I remember being blown away hearing this on a mixtape for the first time. It doesn't quite tingle the spine as much today but it's a fine track. Rockafella Skank is amazing, it epitomises the bright and breezy pop appeal of the album. In a sea of po faced indy wankers it's not hard to see why tracks like this stood out. Fucking In Heaven at first glance feels like a bit of filler but I ended up loving the funky breaks thing going on here. It stands up better than some of the more overt big beat tracks like Build it Up Tear It Down. Big beat was a light that burned so very bright but for a very short period of time, so sounds very much of they're time. Gangster Tripping sandwiched between those two is another that was hammered on the radio. This really is a rare album for me. One that I both hold in fond regard personally and one where many of the singles were widely popular. You'd hear this wafting out of car windows, playing in shops or whatever. Kinda makes me wish I enjoyed more popular music. Or at least that the music I like was more popular. Anyway, as we get into the second half of the album there's still plenty to enjoy. Kalifornia is another nice breakbeat number, bringing in daftpunkesque vocoder type voice. I don't remember the breaks tracks being as strong as this. Soul Surfing was always a favourite, he used to chop this into his DJ sets, possibly works better as a DJ tool than an album track, but meh, it's still fun. But the time we get to You're Not From Brighton though it's feeling like it needs a bit of a change up. Which happily is delivered with the album's most successful single, the (amongst others) Camille Yarbrough sampling Praise You. Fatboy Slim always seems to work best when things seem at their most simple. Catchy vocal sample, breakbeat, bang. He's got a tremendous ear for it, as seen with his ace renegade master. Love Island brings a bit of of an urgency, with some driving beats as we get to the end of the album. This is more club gear really but it still fits pretty nicely here. Acid 8000 brings things to a bit bombastic squelchy end. These are not the cross over tracks, but they show off Cook's club chops. He could still get the cooler dancefloors jamming .I saw him play Back2Basics a few years after this and it was absolutely mega. He probably gets a bit of stick for being the first pop crossover DJ, but he's done it better than most.
This is a perfect example of a mixed bag. At least half of these are bangers that make you want to dance like no one's watching. Right Here Right Now and Praise You are fantastic songs in their own right either. The other half of the batch is too repetitive for its own good and gets pretty annoying (You're Not From Brighton and Soul Surfing are such examples). Must say though for working out to at the gym our outside sports, its fantastic.
4.5
"Right Here, Right Now", "The Rockafeller Skank", "Praise You", are quite popular obviously and very late 90s sound. Almost sounds experimental electronica. 6/10.
Such a throwback!
Good memories
some of it was good
"Right Here, Right Now", and "Praise You" I actually really liked. The rest would be great in a club, but not really anywhere else.
Meh
Skemmtileg plata, nokkrir bangerar
4/5
iconic 90s hypnotic sampled beats. fatiguing to listen to a whole album of this energy, but it certainly deserves to be on this list.
shockingly good the middle gets slow but there are a lot of bangers to go around 4.5
I liked a lot of it - some of it was pretty repetitive though (but ig thats the point)
Garbage
Not my normal music but pleasantly surprised.
In which an Atari ST soundtracks adverts.
Didn't make it through. Timing wasn't great.
Bangers all throughout. Gets you hyped wherever you are
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
Basically unlistenable after 3 songs
Difficult to rate as I loved this album when it came out, listening to it now it's everything I hate about mainstream dance, but it does have some genuinely great hooks in there. could give it any score based on how I feel that day. 4 seems generous but fair
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.
Not my style
A few classics. Liked Love Island a lot. Very 90s.
Apparently, John Terry was one of the co-writers on Rockafeller Skank. I plan on doing no further research to disabuse myself of the idea that this means the former Chelsea F.C. captain. While he had his ups and downs off the pitch, his career on it was first rate and remarkably consistent. Unlike this.
Bijzonder rap genre. goed gedaan en ik kan het waarderen maar niet zoveel als eerst.
Música electrónica (big beat). Me ha gustado.
Right Here Right Now
6/10
Another electronic album... the famous songs are worth it, but it is so much longer than it should be.
Repetitive garbage.
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
90's Big Beat what's not to like about this Album, the mixture of humour and serious point making continues to make this relevant 23 years later. But the reality is you can't separate the music from the videos really. "Rockafella Skank" and "Praise You" are stand outs for me. Just love his inventiveness and his cheeky British lad like humour. "Right Here, Right Now" rightfully a classic in it's own right. Good Stuff all round.
Honestly, this album was more consistently good than I thought it was going to be. It's got a distinctive style, but manages to pack a lot of different moods into the album 4/5
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?
Breakbeat sampling is what I love about the late 90s.
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.
This album felt like a natural evolution of Homework by Daft Punk. It was still repetitive, catchy electronica but kept it fresher than Homework, in my opinion. Overall, sounded good the whole way though while still having quite a few standouts, with acid 8000 sounding like a Daft Punk song. Also the original album cover is way cooler than the American version. Fav songs: The Rockafeller Skank, Soul Surfing, Love Island
Good stuff. My only criticism is that the tracks are each just a little too long, but that's pretty minor and probably just a side effect of the genre
Liked this far more than I thought I would
Dope beatz
Je suis vraiment pas fan...
All bangers
Norman is still a twat
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.
Great singles but the rest is forgettable
Solid enjoyable dance music
Halfway between the gutter and the stars. A mixed bag.
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.
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.
Maybe, if you give me some ecstasy and get me on a dance floor with a bunch of beautiful scantily clad ladies I'd really enjoy the hell out of this. More likely though, I would just throw up on them and it's more likely to be the music than the drugs. As a disclaimer I do like some DJ music (and am really looking forward to DJ Shadow if he's on this list)
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.
A balmy foist of fun and unexpected beats was unleashed to the world in 1998. A beauty
hiphop 👎
Hepsini dinlemedim ama 2lik bu album
дисторшн звук, биг бит, прикольный вокал, всё летает и гремит
Super fun!
This is better than the last FBS album. The question is whether it's enough to get it a higher rating. I think it is and I also like the cover.
When FBS spun the first 2 tracks of this LP at the Olympic Games closing ceremony in London, I got a better idea of how popular and influential he was/is. His ability to construct catchy, surfy tracks using obscure samples is amazing. He still enjoys assaulting your ears a little too much with noise and repetition for my liking, otherwise it would be a 5 for me – that and the fact that the original of Praise You is superior to his bland remix. My CD had the record library cover but I love this original (UK) album cover from the fat people’s festival – the cigarette is a nice touch!
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
Again - every song starts out interesting and then runs itself into the ground. I'm not into it.
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.
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.
Bangerz!! Only really knew the hits, but man are they absolute choons. Enjoyed the rest of the album too. Makes me really miss festivals and gigs!
Took me back….
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!
That cover photo is taken from Fat Peoples Festival, in Danville 1983, and the guy is still not identified. But was there ever a festival like that? Rabbit hole warning! https://www.reddit.com/r/nonmurdermysteries/comments/lw1wlj/the_identity_of_the_man_on_fatboy_slims_album/ And the the songs are great too! Best: Rockafeller Skank, Gangster Trippin, Praise You.
Was one of my favourite albums growing up, and whilst it has lost some of its edge for me, and I can see maybe some flaws that I didn't when younger, I still think it has great energy and gets me wanting to dance and have fun.
Great album with lots of bangers on it. Front to back very cohesive record!
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
kind of cool to listen to it with headphones. I feel like it changes the experience to a more active one.