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It is an album of 11 tracks, most of which consist of one line being repeated over and over again. And somehow it is fantastic. It is an incredibly infectious album dotted with some absolutely bangers. Favourites: Right Here, Right Now The Rockafella Skank Praise You
4.5
Mainly instrumental and very funky, all funk tone and beats, real good to just vibe out to.
Even if this isnt your favorite album, this is absolutely essential. This was the sound of the late 90s, early 2000s. But really, its a great album as well.
I realized I have a lot less patience for this style of techno than I did in 1998. I appreciate that it was more challenging to do loops & samples then than now, but this album didn't seem to break much new ground beyond the 1996 release we already listened to.
Funky Fresh BEATS... I like this one quite a bit; the only thing I can say is that "In Heaven" is ehhhh, but that's about it. Other than that, this album slaps. Favs: Right Here, Right Now, Rockafeller Skank,
Great
Felt much too long but I liked a few songs & others were miserable. I prefer songs to have lyrics but sometimes it can slide
Für mich ein One HIt Wonder
Album #197 This album is not at all my kind of music. Like - it sounds good. I guess. But a whole song of just some beats and one repeating line like most of these are isn't great. This album was just pretty boring and samey and the tracks really dragged on. It would get a 1/5 for my enjoyment but I added a point because I do respect the art of this stuff. Gangster Trippin and Praise You are the only somewhat-decent songs from this record that I would actually consider listening to again
I very much wanted to like this one. Like everyone else on the planet, I was familiar with "The Rockafeller Skank" and "Praise You." Listening to the rest of the record, it's apparent that there is a very specific formula at work for each and every song, namely a looping vocal sample, either spoken or sung, with some simple repetitive melody over top and an eighties drummy sort of beat. Cut the vocal sample up in strange ways and voila! I compare this to my favorite record of this type, "The Fat of the Land" by the Prodigy. That record also has repeated vocal samples, but on top of that there's rapping, singing, and even a kick ass instrumental that sort of ties up the musical themes. It's a proper album and one I very much hope is on this list. This is a collection of songs. The songs do activate my brain in a nice way, this is true. They make me want to drive fast and dance in my kitchen. It's a winning formula. But it gets tired over a whole album.
Funky wunky. Not good music but fun music.
Two Fatboy Slim albums that you must hear? I'm not sure. At least this one was better with the hits
Here’s some words over and over badoinka doinka doinka zooooom brrrrp doinka doinka
Really a lot of fun. The repetitive nature here holds it back, and generally speaking dance/rave music isn't up my alley. But Mr. Fatboy can sure as hell make a phat beat. The good tracks fuck, quite hard.
My only real exposure to Fatboy Slim is the Brimful of asha remix, and a music video of Steve Buscemi dancing, so I was intrigued with this pull. After listening to half the album, i've realized i've listened to the big hits before numerous times and have finally connected the dots on it being Fatboy Slim's work. Rockafeller Skank, Praise you and right here right now are certified bangers in my eyes. Overall, this album encapsulates the techno/electronic sound period which I begin to enjoy its genre. The Irony in that being, I listened to Moby's Play not too recently and i didn't get that vibe. Guess my taste is different (and somewhat groovy in comparison?) It has a cool blend of paying homage to the pioneering sound while giving a cool modern take at the same time. I enjoyed this listen. 4/5
This is such a good mood album, full of smiles and manic dancing all the way through, well from me anyway. It doesn't sound like it's almost thirty years old at all. Great dancey album, and Acid 8000 is a total banger of a track that blows my mind every time I hear it.
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Hell yeah, I dig it. That album cover nails exactly the kind of person who listens to this music -- me.
Gøy tidskapsel.
Det var en tid og sted for dette albumet, men det blir for spinkelt og repeterende i 2026.
Hakk i plata - the album.
Really fun, coming in, with the repetitiveness one would think it would get old fast, but it didn't happen.
It's funky but songs could be half the length
Pretty funky. Lots of elements of this that I liked
God, I listened to this a lot back in the day. Doesn't hold up quite as well as I'd like.
For all the repetitiveness, the style is pretty fun. Still, there’s a limit of about 4-5 tracks before it becomes tedious. Favorite: Right Here, Right Now 2.5-3
Great fun. Big beats and really catchy samples. Love the energy.
Didn't pay it much attention, but here we are.
9/10
hum no
His first album was better, heck, the Housemartins were better. It was the sound of the time, but I enjoyed the times more. Not that difficult to create and not that ambitious it’s a bit ordinary 30 years later.
Better than expected
Frábær byrjun á plötunni og það eru þarna 35-40 mínútur af snilld. Verst bara að restin er ekki up to par. Því miður nær þetta ekki að vera snilld út í gegn, verður leiðagjarnt og rosalega mikið endurtekið stöff. Auðvitað verður maður að líta til þess að þessi stefna er svolítið þannig og þetta er skapað á fornöld. Verst var þó að Brighton unnu United og kenni ég algorithmanum um að hafa gefið plötu frá herra Brighton á leikdegi.
Norman Cook er snillingur. Góð og mjög hressandi plata. Hittararnir frábærir en aðeins og mikið af endurteknu efni. Hefði a.m.k. sleppt 2 síðustu lögunum.
Three really fantastic songs (praise you, Rockefeller skank and right here right now), the rest are good but don't quite live up. a lot of them have really decent beats though.
What the hell is with the excessive repetition? I’ve never heard the full album, just the hits and Fucking In Heaven, which was funny for about 2 seconds. I liked Praise You and Rockafella Skank, but this album actually made me like them less. Giving it a 3 for those songs, but it should be a 2 like the Chemical Brothers, or even a 1 because I will never listen to this one up again.
we all need da vibes
repetitivo? si. groovy & fun? también. otro album que me toca una semana dsp de que este artista haya pisado mi país, verdaderamente este challenge me odia.
acho que ouvir em um escritório na frente do computador em um dia nublado não é a melhor experiência. mas achei divertido, gostei da capa.
interessante embora meio repetitivo, mas foi legal treinar ouvindo
o mais próximo que eu poderia chegar de curtir música eletrônica. fora as duas famosinhas (rockafeller skank e praise you), o resto eu só queria que passasse logo.
Some great songs off this but there's a reason everyone only remembers the hits on this one
Fun until you realize the repetition is all there is.
Interesting that we should get this one so soon after its sample-heavy Electronica contemporary, Moby's "Play". Released only months apart, it would be easy to waste a bunch of time comparing and contrasting the two. Bottom line, I like "You've Come a Long Way Baby" a lot more than "Play". Fatboy Slim is just more fun.
This might be the most obnoxious album of all time
This is some music to move to, otherwise it would be a repetitious nightmare. I now know where the Rockafeller Skank comes from...it is the most Shrek sounding song that wasn't in any Shrek movie.
i hate this
rockafeller stank got stuck in my head for the whole weekend thx
If Fatboy Slim covered a song by The Prodigy he would’ve called it Wife My Girl Up. This was like the chaotic good version of The Fat Of The Land, which, as we all know, was a chaotic evil album.
Oscillated between “this fucks” and “this sucks” during my listen. A 2.5 for me.
"Praise You" is actually still a fucking incredible song though.
Imagine the first computer you ever used. Windows 98 maybe? Those colorful Macs perhaps? This album was produced on something years older than that: a 1990 Atari ST. With floppy disks. And four *megabytes* of RAM. This album is a technical feat, and it sounds pretty cool too. Some of the production moves haven’t aged well (or are of genres that I’m not as into) like stuttering, slow-mo, and excessive repetition. In Heaven sucks, and I wonder if it served solely to give the album an explicit label. But the rest of the record feels like the soundtrack to your first time at a big amusement park: exciting, colorful, overstimulating.
This album is bangers after bangers, just absolutely rock solid beats you want to dance to. Fatboy slim is fucking in heaven!
Vaya discu amigo! Pa ponerlo y chiflar
I see how it would influence in it's genre. It's a solid contribution to hip hop beats and electronic, why not. Good album.
Abysmall album cover. I really dont want to listen to this. The name of the band is so bad too. Oh shit its an hour long. Oh god. Its extremely dated, the hooks are horendous, its annoying as all hell, its repetitive. Its dogshit bad. Im so glad I never have to relisten to fatboy fucking slim after this shit. Dont listen to this please you deserve better/5
Fatboy Slim – You've Come a Long Way, Baby (1998) On Day 260, listening to this directly after Moby’s Play made for a surprisingly fitting and cohesive double feature. Much like Play, this is far from your typical, unidimensional electronic LP. It is layered with so much craft and dynamic punch that it creates an undeniable groove, leaving you wishing the tracklist wouldn't end. Beneath the high-energy surface lies genuine soul, inspiration, and innovative sampling that went on to influence an entire generation of producers. My clear standouts were "Gangster Trippin," "Praise You," "The Rockafeller Skank," and "Right Here, Right Now," along with strong cuts like "You're Not from Brighton" and the low-key, breezy atmosphere of "Love Island." A wildly fun and inventive record. A well-earned 4/5.
Hits and filler. 3.5
Not bad
Classic, full of hits. Never listened to the entire album before.
carefully crafted, but it did not move me in the slightest. no swing, no groove - just the most obvious beats and build ups. tiresome 1 star
Some bangers. Se hace un poco repetitivo, pero puede funcionar para trabajar.
Un peu chiant apr!s 5 min
Ça commençait mal avec cette cover
Comedy. Though it may not be my vibe, I can imagine times when it would be, and also Jordan reminded me of the (irrelevant to this album) perfect music video with Christopher Walken dancing
Own it (CD). I love Fatboy Slim in general, particularly because of the videos associated with this album. I'm not really in an EDM/House mood today - but I am enjoying some of the lesser-loved tracks here like "Kalifornia" and "In Heaven" I'm giving this 4 stars because of the classics on this album, but it's a soft 4 - more like 3.5-3.75 that's rounded up.
I don’t like all the repetition. Enough already.
Repetitive electronic music has never been my favorite, but this is undeniably well put-together. The production is incredible as well, obviously.
very fun and catchy
Sounds like a DJ at a children's party
"The Rockafeller Skank" is a classic. Most of the rest starts to get repetitive though.
The repetition will drive me insane. NOT the album for a workday.
It was a huge hit. The singles were pretty great (though the original songs were better). Yes it’s must listen. No it’s not terribly good. But it’s not bad. 3
Great sounds, classics, fifa 99 lol
Look, if "Right Here, Right Now" doesn't get you hyped for whatever you're doing then you may want to consider checking your (physical or emotional) pulse because you might be dead. Hearing this album, it's easy to understand how Norman Cook became the harbinger of Big Beat worldwide and specifically in America - this is the sonic equivalent of one of those Nineties beer commercials in which somebody cracks open a tallboy and a party immediately materializes out of thin air. That said, usual caveats apply - there are some misses, and even some of the hits are a bit overlong. (On that note: feel free to skip "In Heaven" - heaven knows I always do.) But there's almost certainly at least something here for everyone, and more than that for most people.
I’m not really into the clubbing and dancing scene, but this album is clearly designed for that atmosphere; it was definitely an unusual listen while sitting down on my sofa! However, despite this, I still really enjoyed it. I didn’t know that Fatboy Slim made half of these songs, lots of them were very recognisable and incredibly famous - ‘Praise You’ and ‘The Rockafeller Skank’ in particular. This wasn’t some masterpiece, but it was a very easy listen and put me in a good mood.
Great dance album of its time, still holds up now.
I was very surprised at how much I liked individual songs while feeling that the album is absolutely not working for me. There are some great singles out there (Praise you is an absolute banger), but this is not a very good album.
So if you're looking for clever lyrics you need to go somewhere else. This is clever in its use of rhythm and tempo changes and sometimes subtle variations behind often the same lyric over and over again. It's dance music not Bob Dylan, and in that it excels. Some absolute bangers that defined the genre and could easily get a play in a club today (I imagine, as it's been many years since I was last in one!)
Good vibes! Passade bra när man gick runt med stöldgods som man snott dagen innan på väg till sitt safehouse (Issy)
I figured out I know some songs from Fatboy Slim while not knowing Fatboy Slim before this listen
Straight bangers, even more than expected. Can see why this rules so much of edm even now, it feels like people are afraid to try and copy because they know they can’t do it as good
was great for post-festival blues
Not a bad album I guess but reallyyyy not my cup of tea
What I can now confirm, after listening to this and two Chemical Brothers albums, is that this is just not really for me. Listening to this today, it just feels both a little dry, and somewhat annoying. There are elements to this album, especially some great sample sources, that I appreciate, but compositionally and technically, I don’t think Mr. Slim takes them anywhere interesting for the most part. And the skits are kinda cringe. I did enjoy “You’re not from Brighton” (where he actually makes something groove), and “Praise You” (great sampling here) - but the latter did get a little ruined for me from those (at least now) cliche drum build-ups. But those tracks are followed by “Love Island” which just reminded me of how annoyed I was at the beginning of the album. On a positive note, this made me discover Camille Yarbrough (sampled on Praise You) so thanks I guess. 5/10
We open with a song that literally just the beat and nothing else for like 5 minutes straight which is fine but I’d never listen to that again. Oh the second song was the same way. The beats are groovy at least but it’s just not an enjoyable listen when you get the gist of a song in 30 seconds and nothing develops. Oh it’s every song. I mean the beats aren’t terrible but imo they’re terrible songs because there’s nothing else there - I was getting bored during almost every song Favs (barely) Praise you Build it up tear it down
This was garbage. “Hey guys let’s take a 4 word phrase and just repeat it for five minutes while the exact same beat plays over and over again with minor alterations!” It worked for daft punk. It did not work here. The hits of this album would be more enjoyable if they were half the length. Favorite: acid 8000
The worst white guy you know from Staten Island loves this album. The remix work is solid, but the tracks are just all entirely too long. While reading about him, his music was described as "sloganistic" and that made it click for me. There are interesting ideas, just too repetitive (that's a hard line to cross for someone who listens to minimalist classical music). Ironically this music would be best used as a sample in a better song. Favorite Tracks: - Praise You - Acid 8000 Least Favorite Track: - Gangster Trippin I'm calling out a least favorite track especially on this album. This track feels straight up disrespectful. The lack of any words you can hear besides his own name in a genre built up around lyrical wordplay is heinous. The traditional sounds of the genre are cut up and softened. It completely ripped any heart or emotion out of the sound and turned it into mushy british peas. I hated this track so much.
This entire album sounds like How It's Made background music except worse. Actual shit from a butt.
I hate almost everything about this album. I hated his voice, I hated how long the songs were and I didn’t like most of the beats. There was occasionally one or two to which I bopped my head but then he started repeating the same line over and over and OVER AGAIN. No favorites from this LP. Rating: Low 1/10
Praise You was the only song on here I even halfway liked, but even it gets tiring. Not my thing.
Really enjoyed this! Was expecting more hip-hop and was pleasantly surprised by the electronica/trip-hop elements
I cannot get over how good this album is. From start to finish this album is engaging, entertaining, and does a fantastic job of keeping the songs varied so there are no droning or dull moments. A real triumph for electronic music, and should be used as the standard for what makes an electronic music album good
A pesar de haber escuchado el álbum completo, me gustaron solo unas pocas canciones, pero es bueno el álbum.
FBS knows how to crowd-please with some big club hits here like “Praise You” and “Right Here Right Now.” The loops get too repetitive, though, for a straight album listen.
Loved it
Hur bra kan en skiva med 2-3 textrader på repeat per låt va? Ganska jävla bra
Feeling patriotic towards Brighton
Every track is unskippable. A perfect piece of music.
All these songs are good but you hear it all in the first 60-90 seconds and then it just keeps going. Undoubtedly good but every song that's sampled fat boy slim is better than the original.
Surprisingly, I remembered almost all the songs on 'You've Come a Long Way, Baby'. I didn't remember how annoying some of them are, though. The hit songs are excellent, but you get the best experience by watching the music videos.
This is a lot better than his first album, and had me boogying in the kitchen. It still feels childish and emptily hedonistic though. Dance music for lager louts.
It started off great but got redundant over time. Also using the F Word over and over just for the sake of it was rather juvenile.
För repetitivt och långtråkigt.
Ingen, och speciellt inte jag själv, kan stoppa min kärlek till big beat! Ingen!
Som kattmynta för mtv-och-FIFA-generationen. Repetitivt sväng när det är som bäst!
Såg FatBoy på fejk-Hultsfred. Fruktansvärt. Riktig mardrömsupplevelse. Var inte sugen på att återuppleva den direkt.
haha jag tyckte att det var fett
En trea för nostalgin
Poets have known about the power of repetition for millennia. Poets have known about the power of repetition for millennia. Poets have known about the power of repetition for millennia. Poets have known about the power of repetition for millennia. Poets have known about the power of repetition for millennia. Poets have known about the power of repetition for millennia. But this album takes a good thing too far.
Recognized more than I thought I would! Skipped some others
This was a giant shot of nostalgia hearing Praise You and Rockefeller Skank were fun to hear again. There were cool moments on the rest of the record as well, but this music is also very very repetitive.
A powerhouse of an album with some of the best dance tracks of all time. I can’t help but feel there’s a couple of weak spots on here, particularly in the second half. A 4 but very nearly a 5.
loved it very jumpy i will be dancing to this in the kitchen
It was okay. It was okay. It was okay. It was okay. This brought up some nostalgia but that's about the only good thing I have to say about this incredibly repetitive album. I know that's the nature of this genre but I swear Fatboy Slim turns it up x1000.
‘You’ve Come a Long Way Baby’ might not be my favourite Big Beat album, but along with The Prodigy’s ‘Fat of the Land’, it kicks the shit out of the competition for platinums. The reality though, is that it’s not particularly a genre for considered album appreciation, this is simply an occasional side effect benefit if you’re lucky. Don’t get me wrong, this is a good home/car listen too, but this music is essentially a scientific construct with a 1000 hours of DJ research. Cook applies his accumulated evidence to craft beats and breaks that are guaranteed to inhabit the souls of chemically shifted party people, raising them up, teasing them and slamming them together with the precision of a drop. Outside of that context, we can marvel at catchy hooks, fun samples and an artist who knows how not to take things too seriously. Or we can moan about “real music”, plagiarism, repetition, repetition and repetition. Reduce this simply as drugs music though, and you might as well try to write off 80% of all music of the rock’n’roll age. Personally, my era of increased music enjoyment because of substance abuse was a few years (and a couple of drugs-du-jour) prior to Big Beat, so I have no rave nostalgia here, but while I may have other preferences (Chemicals, Prodigy, Lionrock) I can still recognise and enjoy this as a successful album. And I’m glad it happened for Norman Cook.
There’s some of Fatboy Slim’s best known songs here. I’m a fan of Praise You. Everything else was pretty enjoyable too, danceable and fun. I especially liked Acid 8000.
me gustó, tiene sus clásicos y otras joyas
Not that far though
don’t remember this being worthy of this list. we’ll find out tomorrow. alright, it's still quite good. it's not gonna make it back into my listening rotation, but it's a solid album
I LOVE ELECTRONIC MUSIC. That is one of the bigger things that 1001 albums has shown me- if it is an electronic album or has a lot of electronic elements then I probably love it. Right out of the gate, the opening track sat me back into my seat. Grooving and dancing along right away. Solid album, I will probably return to it. I would say it had a really strong start and strong finish with some weaker tracks in the middle. Pretty good, I liked it.
Nothing I would normally put on but pretty good. I've never listened to the whole album but still somewhat of a throwback to my teens when this was popular.
I know this album very well through my dad’s car cd collection. We’d always ask to skip to song 9 and sing it on the way to my nans. It then moved into the big drawers in the dining room to be sold. It was really nice to hear this again. This album feels of its time which I think when it first came out made a big impact on commercial dance music. I think which is why now it doesn’t sound as great. It’s definitely stamped in my brain but think my nostalgia overrides its actual sound. I think it’s interesting at points. I enjoyed love island and it’s not one i remember.
I've always been suspicious of this guy, he appears as the acceptable face of dance music and listening to this album in full hasn't changed my opinion. It just feels like commercial friendly radio stuff. I found the incessant hooks tiresome and uninteresting. Far too much going on that sums up to nothing.
Lost interest in listening quickly. 2nd track is alright. Rest is just rep rep repetitive rep rep repetitive as fu fu fu fuck.
Great album for a Saturday this. Good energy. Little repetitive if you’re sitting and listening, if on the move, perfect.
Played one at a time, these tracks are kinda fun. But like most albums in this genre, a lot of that cool charm becomes a bit annoying in the repetitiveness when you play them end to end for over an hour. I think doing that really only works if you’re in a dance club…which I happened not to be on this Saturday morning.
Huh, an album of this genre, when done right, can make even me appreciate the effort. Enough changes and variations throughout to keep monotonous sounds from becoming annoying.
I haven’t heard this in awhile. It kinda stands the test of time. Still reminds me a lot of the 90s, his songs seemed ubiquitous back then.
Divertido, poco variado.
Thoroughly enjoyed this album.
Very time & place-specific, but all the hits still sound good (if very late 90s too). This was a middle-school/high-school soundtrack album for me, so a lot of my thoughts are tied to that time and are hard to separate when I listen to it 25 years later. Played it loud on a good speaker too - I'm surprised how the fidelity of the production still sounds great. The second half of the album (esp. "Love Island" and "Acid 8000") hit better now than then, though, surprisingly enough. Still a solid album, if not a great one. (4/5)
Such a fun album. I knew all of the singles beforehand, but never listened to the full thing. I think a few of the songs go on for a tad too long, but overall, this is a really fun album. Low 5!
The three most famous songs from Fatboy Slim. Every single song is very repetitive though. I wonder why it is still iconic
I get that the genre was finding its way, but Moby actually found it. Play is an album. This is a dance record, and the repetition of the tracks wears thin immediately.
This is a really fun record. We used to blast it in the car when car CD players were still new. I still put it on occasionally, as there isn't really a miss here, and the highs are in the stratosphere.
The songs are so nostalgic but fucking repetitive
Révolutionnaire pour l’époque mais TELLEMENT répétitif oufff
weird dance music but at least i can vibe to it
Ik heb nog nooit van mijn leven zo een repetitieve nummers gehoord. 20 keer dezelfde zin is echt massief vervelend.
Very repetative
Fet, gillar även det jag inte hade hört förut! Big beat är en riktigt härlig om än extremt kortlivad genre
Bangersarna är riktigt obestridligt bangiga. Resten når inte alltid hela vägen, men överlag mycket bra.
Jävligt härligt o medryckande sound, och topparna är skyhöga men tror flera delar gör sig bättre live faktiskt!
Det fanns 2 toppen låtar och resten var 4:or. En femma!
Riktigt bra när det är som bäst, men andra delar gillade jag inte alls.
I suppose there's a time and a place for this album, and it's not a Tuesday at 11:00 AM. This album isn't really for me, and growing up I really got tired of hearing Praise You and The Rockafeller Skank on the radio, but there are some songs that are okay on this album. I'm sure this would be much better in the club on some Molly.
A mixed bag. There are some great songs here, ‘Right Here, Right Now’ one every sports fan has heard before a big moment, and it’s joined in the early stages by the very good, if more teasing than tense, Rockefeller Shank and Gangster Tripping. My highlight comes in Praise You, a real listenable classic. However, the formula of Fatboy Slim of basically one sample and beat for the whole song really does grate on less good tracks where the concept is less interesting. Probably more of a singles act.
Surely one of the biggest electronic albums of the 90s (possibly ever?). The three famous hits are also the three best tracks: ‘Right Here, Right Now’, ‘The Rockefeller Skank’ and ‘Praise You’. I generally enjoyed the big beat sound, the choice of samples, and the fact that most tracks have really fun, catchy grooves. Early on I was really digging it, but unfortunately, pretty much every song is very repetitive, and most of them could have stood to be quite a bit shorter too. This did somewhat dampen my enthusiasm by the end. Still, it’s a very strong 3 stars.
I was big into mainstream big beat stuff like this in the late 90's - I remember buying this CD but never really clicking with it. I think a lot of the beats are kind of fun for a second but with a couple of exceptions (just the singles, probably), most of the ideas here don't justify the length of the songs. It's not bad by any means; even as of-its-time as this is, it's still enjoyable enough for the most part.
Don’t mind the big hits, but the rest kind of sounds like Jive Bunny from the 1990’s. 2
Try confirmed!
I really like when hip-hop/electronic albums have very playfully repetitive sounding vocal snippets that create a sort of counter-rhythm, really well mixed drums, the only thing that brings this album down for me is the overly candy coated horn and bass samples from soul/rnb songs that make it sound like something out of diners dine in and drives or whatever it's called, RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW. - guy feirie (jk)
Känns som en bättre skiva än Better Living.... Men det är lite lika med loopar och upprepningar. Ingen skiva man spelar till frukost. Praise You bäst. 2,5 av 5 så jag avrundar uppåt till 3.
Profoundly boring, simple, repetitive club music
Another album that deserves well over 5 stars.
A few good songs
I wasn't expecting to like this as much as I did - it's so danceable and catchy. The best word I can think of to describe it is joyful. A real pleasure to listen to
Fun
Crazy to think of the amount of samples represented here. Especially in the pre-find-everything-on-the-internet days. Fun tracks, sometimes a bit tedious. Overall good stuff.
Love it
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
Great album! Iconic 90s dance sounds. Top tracks Right here right now Rockefeller skank
Somehow, I actually just intentionally listened to "Praise You" for the first time in full last week and it was in public. Ironically enough, I don't feel like this has the length issue that a lot of these kinds of records have. Pretty much a blast the entire time.
Holloooooonnnnnnnnn🕺🏾🔥
Fatboy Slim can grab a decent hook, and work it until it is boring and dumb. Maybe on ecstasy in a thumping scene it would be okay, but sober old me is like, nah.
The hits and some others had me bobbing my head and having a little 90s nostalgia. There were some mundane stretches, though. Album could have been a third shorter and still done its job.
Great!
this is fuuuun
Pretty cool. Would be a great work album. A little long. Lots of record scratches
An extremely repetitive album that somehow makes it really work. I wouldn't necessarily want to listen to an hour of this again, but there are some tracks I could see myself revisiting: Right Here Right Now, Rockafeller Skank, Gangsta Trippin. Definitely was getting a bit tired of it by the end of the album, but I enjoyed it more than I expected. Favorite Track - Rockafeller Skank Least Favorite Track - Build it up, Tear it Down ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The funk soul brother! One banger after another.
Amazing 🤩
i liked it a lot more than i thought i would!
it's like im channel surfing but in a not bad way
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!
isnt electronic music commonly repetitive? i was not around when this was mainstream so maybe i have a different perspective on this album but i thoroughly enjoyed it.
Repetitive, with beats for days. But that's kind of the point. At times, it can get a bit overdone and annoying, but you can't deny the appeal of tracks like 'The Rockafeller Skank', 'Right Here, Right Now', 'Build It Up, Tear It Down' and 'Praise You'. Norman Cooke found a formula which worked for him and he does not deviate from the path for the whole hour of this album.
Supi
Man I get the appeal but I just cannot get behind Mr Slim. Too repetitive, too long, too repetitive, and too long.
Tediarse
Ritmos infecciosos, rápidos y frescos. Sentó las bases de un género y su influencia es innegable. Pero en algunas ocasiones se me ha hecho repetitivo.
Always knew there was correlation between the rise of Fatboy Slim and me no longer having it large on the dancefloor on a regular basis- but this has me thinking whether there may have been some causation too...
An iconic British album which I don’t think I’ve ever listened to before. I was never into Mr Cook’s alter ego and outside the obvious hits this did little to convince me that I missed much. Dance you can’t dance to.
I still love Fatboy Slim...catchy as and makes me want to dance, even though I can't
3.5 rounded to 4
Didn't really like it much
This album is fine. A few songs are good. They are all catchy but some I'd rather not listen to for more than 2 minutes.
This album and Play by Moby are the two redeeming 90s electronic albums that I’ve been generated here to almost make up for the crappy trip hop stuff. This is fun. Rockefeller skank and praise you are iconic. Love island is quite fun. Fatboy Slim goes hard
For the most part I really enjoyed this but two things kept me from giving it 4 stars - the excessive length of each track and of course “Heaven” which was just juvenile and idiotic. Really enjoyed Kaliforina in particular.
Not my style of music.
An object lesson in situational listening. I took in the first 70% of this at the gym, and almost took off from a cross trainer with the exuberance that the opening four tracks gave me. It was an absolute barnstormer - the singles in particular. The last section I listened to at work and it was, bluntly, annoying. Praise You still bangs really hard, but the rest was more of a chore. Anyway, that's not Norm's fault - so my rating is largely based on how good this can be given the right environs.
Good for a dance party
There is nothing too spectacular here outside of the three hits, which are all classic 90s big beat bangers. Alright stuff. 6/10
Daft Punk this is not, it is certainly fun though.
Wasn't really in the mood for this when I listened, but it's fine I suppose.
It’s a strange day to have this album as it concludes with me seeing Fatboy Slim playing the park opposite my house. I’m not a big dance music fan, but what i do like is generally like this. Bordering on hip hop beats. There’s no denying to hit of the big singles and front loading the album with three means you get off to a great start. I dont mind ‘Fucking in Heaven’ but part of my issue with dance music is the repetitiveness and it does outstay its welcome. ‘Build it up, tear it down’ manages to get the balance better and is just a great feel good tune. ‘Praise you’ with its piano driven opening and stripped back vocal is unmistakable and impossible to hear without picturing Spike Jonzes dance troop. It is such a great track i dont think its possible to fault it.
I don’t think I appreciated quite how much Fatboy Slim was one of the sounds of my childhood until I listened to this. So much of this album was huge when I was 7 or 8 years old and I remember it so clearly, especially “Praise You” and its music video (despite not remotely being its target audience). I don’t know whether nostalgia played a part in my enjoyment of this, but I really enjoyed large parts of it - especially “the hits”, which still sound great nearly 30(!) years later. Other tracks are giving “standing in a field, off my tits on ecstasy” which, admittedly, is mostly the point of albums like this, but is my idea of hell. Others, frankly, made me feel exhausted and a bit anxious (much like Norman in heaven, bless him - poor lad must be wrecked). Overall though, I enjoyed this a lot more than I assumed I would and the hits gave me a nice, fuzzy, nostalgic feeling. It’s probably a 3.5* for me and I’ve hovered between which full mark to give it; however, I’m on my holidays and the hits are just so good, I’m in a generous mood.
So you really can't listen to this sat in your house, purely attempting to listen to this. The repetition will drive you stark staring bonkers. However at the two opposite ends of the spectrum (tipsy and dancing in a field OR while getting a ton of ironing and washing up done) this works great. There are certain songs that I find it impossible to divorce from the music videos, and "Praise You", directed by Spike Jonze and Roman Coppola, is one of the primary examples. The weird dudes, shot on grainy footage, really badly dancing their hearts out, was such a unique video it stood out so much at the time. My favourite track is probably Gangster Trippin but honestly I kinda like everything. It's not an album I'd actively want to put on and listen to, but I wouldn't ever turn a track off if it appeared on shuffle. I do think as a whole album, it's just too long, but its so, so hooky. I think this is actually a 3.5, but given this appeared on the weekend of Tramlines festival and I spent all evening dancing to live music at the Tramlines Fringe while Fat Boy Slim himself played the main event, it set the right mood and so I'm rounding up: 4/5
Pretty fun! 2nd song was a bit shocking (NSFW) but includes the iconic Praise You and Rockafeller Skank.
Very fun to listen to, and I didn’t realize how much I had heard before!
I already liked a few songs on this one but even those go on a bit too long
A classic at the end of the Millenia. This thing was everywhere... and then it wasn't. Still a good album though.
enjoyed it more than i shouldve, it was a vibe
One song
(8.4) Didn’t know what to expect going into this, but man it was a funky ass record
mid 3.5. Algumas músicas boas mas é repetitivo como álbum.
AN ANALOG ELECTRONIC MASTERPIECE
It's alright, outside of the singles It's pretty repetetive and kind of boring in parts
The album contains a couple of absolute bangers. Great music videos too. It was the music I danced to in the late nineties. I never listened to the entire album though, so I was pretty stoked. Listening left me underwhelmed. The tracks I didn’t know all sounded a bit the same. The setting was probably not right. This is music to be listened to by young people in a club. Not by a middle aged dude with earphones in on his lunchbreak walk. I’ve come a long way, but I feel like I’ve gotten nowhere
This was the first album I ever bought so quite a bit of nostalgia for me. I hadn't listened to it since the 90s and wasn't expecting much but I enjoyed it much more than I thought I would.
A much better FBS album than the other one on the list. Also aged better than I expected - it remains a very creative electro record with infectious beats and fun samples. A bit uneven, however (and that was already my opinion when it came out). First two tracks are absolute classics, but the remainder of the album feels less compelling, and kind of too long for its own good. Would probably sound better on a dancefloor and / or with chemical help. I can still enjoy it as a one-time listen, but it's certainly not something I'd play at home. 5/10
As huge as the guy on the cover back then, with four or five singles on constant rotation, this album ruled the big beat scene alongside The Fat of the Land and Dig Your Own Hole, both released just before it. It definitely brings back memories, but I much prefer those two last records. This one is a bit boring to sit through. Yet, it’s never really unpleasant and it belongs to a period of electronic music that I really like.
Really wish there was more manipulation to some of the vocal samples throughout because they really start to wear on me after hearing them as is 50 times in a row. Thankfully everything else rules
Iconic.
Fatboy Slim is fucking in credible.
Pretty great. Lots to enjoy, with a couple where I listen for a while and then skip to the next song because it can get overly repetitive.
some james on here but also annoying
⭐⭐⭐ Blev lite glad när jag såg att detta albummet kom upp då det väcker en del minnen från när jag var ung. Hit-spåren är engagerande och fortfrande och riktigt bra väcker dessutom minnen då man satt och kollade på musikvideos på MTV. Som album så är det lite för mycket mellanspår för att jag ska vara taggad att lyssn på det i sin helhet. Det får bli en 3a. Bäst är Right here right now, The Rockefellar skank, Gangster trippin, Praise you
Electronic music for people who don't like electronic music. Extra star for Praise You.
Pretty enjoyable
My phone wallpaper, lol. Always liked it, listen occasionally. Would have given 4.5 if been without a doubt.
The Rockafeller Skank was an earworm I remember from the 90s. Just about every track on this album gets you moving a little, and I imagine in a large crowd with the volume at 11, watching Fatboy Slim doing his thing, you could really get into this. Popping in earbuds and listening to it during the workday, it's just numbingly repetitive.
Never....let....it......drop.
That was not at all what I expected. It was pretty good but way too long.
3.2/5 - Generally pretty good. Would not listen to in my own time, but definitely suitable party music for an evening BBQ in the summer.
Great listen that combines breakbeat music with crossover pop appeal. I enjoyed the melodies and pop samples used throughout the record. Even though I don't usually listed to electronic music, this was definitely a must listen. As for the commercial hits on this record, I understand why Rockefeller, Right Here, and Praise You songs are certified platinum. They definitely stand out in a cohesive & melodic album such as this one. I can now say I like these songs after not caring at all for them as singles.
I love how often they say Fatboy Slim - it's a funny name don't let it go to waste!
Listens: very familiar I know the word "epic" was so outrageously overused by my generation 15 years ago that it has almost ceased to have a meaning, but there's no other way to describe the opening to this album. The way the brilliantly layered strings (sampled from the hauntingly beautiful coda to James Gang's 1970 "Ashes the Rain and I") loop and slowly swell to a climax gives the unshakeable feeling that something incredible is about to happen. And of course, what that incredible thing turns out to be is the triumph of the album that follows. I was raised on this album, so it'll always be a classic for me. I've been told I had some weird dances to some of the songs as a preschooler. It's catchy and fun, sure, but so much of what's long fascinated me about this album is the genius of its sampling. The album is, almost entirely, built from samples, and Fatboy Slim is one of the best crate-diggers there ever was. There are so many little things that go into sampling. You have to have an ear for what to sample in the first place; you have to know what to do with it (splice? pitch-shift? reverse? loop?); and you have to know where to put it. Fatboy Slim is so good at this that he can take a brief moment from a rap battle and turn it into the foundation of a classic song ("Gangster Trippin"), find the perfect clip of movie speech to top off a song's epic feeling ("Right Here, Right Now"), or figure out that what a song really needs is a bit of Mickey Mouse Disco guitar ("Praise You"). To be fair, I'm sure a significant amount of these choices happened by accident, but it still takes an ear to know what you've got, and a serious wealth of musical knowledge to know where to turn once you know what you're missing. Anyone familiar with this album who hasn't dug through the WhoSampled pages for Fatboy Slim, I implore you to do so, because it is a ton of fun. Anyway, I'm not going to pretend I love every song on this album. "Fucking In Heaven" has always put a damper on the one-two punch of the first two songs for me, and some of the songs in the middle, while certainly decent, drag the album down a bit. But for the quality of the hits and the role it's played in my life, this will always be a five-star album for me.
California is druggy, druggy, druggy, druggy
1. Fajny początek to oh oh, skoczne szybkie, nie no te przerywniki super, brzmią trochę jak muzyka filmowa nawet momentami 8/10 2. Fajne przejście z pierwszej nuty, coś co usłyszysz na plaży, ok zmiana bitu na coś cięższego, przyspiesza ok to było spoko i powrót do początku 6,5/10 3. Powiedziałbym że oldschool, głupkowate ale brzmi nieźle 6,5/10 4. Niby gangster ale trochę taki ice cubowe bym powiedział, fajny ten co śpiewa 7,5/10 5. Do rozgrzania sceny takie, build up w drugiej połowie fajny 7,5/10 6. No takie mocno narkotykowe, słychać crazy froga, za długie imo 6/10 7. Funky trochę, brzmi spoko ale nie czuć tego 6,5/10 8. Niby ładnie skomponowane ale coś jest nie tak 5/10 9. Pianinko, spokojniejsze ale główna linia melodyczna szybsza 7/10 10. Co do tego basu nie przekonany 6/10 11. No jest kwasowe, zabawny tekst 7,5/10 Album 6,73/10
i dont like it
While the world is certainly a better place for having Norman Cook in it, and this IS an undeniably fun record, it does feel like a bit of a one trick pony. It launches into its stride immediately and doesn't really change gear throughout. It's fun, bouncy, dance music from the 90s that sits nicely alongside all the other fun, bouncy dance music from the 90s. I listened to the whole thing, but I probably didn't really need to.
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.
I've reached the bargaining stage: if I give this a 5 can I never ever have to listen to another British techno album again?
Too fat
So fucking repetitive and annoying I’m sorry I couldn’t rock with it.
Back in the day, Detroit had Techno, Chicago had House, Bristol and Manchester had Big Beat and Big Beat as a genre has his own way of being described: Woodstock 99. It wasn't just The Chemical Brothers headlining night two while Limp Bizkit, Rage Against The Machine and Metallica were on the other side of the festival, releasing one of the most furious, destructive, and significant moments in music history. Fatboy Slim himself also lived terrified moments that same Saturday when a group of people stole a van and started to driving it inside the Rave Tent after crashing with it, forcing him to interrupt and subsequently abandon his set. One year prior to this event he had released this record. An album that paved the way to a generation of electronic music heavily inspired on breakbeats and house. Alongside The Prodigy, and The Crystal Method coming from North America, Fatboy Slim managed to make a name for himself on a select group of artists that were releasing banger after banger consolidating rave culture as we known it today and this collection of songs it's not exception to that rule. The fact that 4 of his most recognized singles are on the first 5 songs of this album it was indeed a warning: I don't came to make people dance. I came to conquer. And like Julius Caesar himself, he eventually came in, and with songs like "Right Here, Right Now" as an opening track followed by "The Rockafeller Skank" he eventually conquered us all. Electronic Music and rave culture was never the same after this record, and specially, after that Woodstock 99 night.
I've complained in a bunch of other reviews (mostly of hiphop and electronica) that I hate the repetitive nature. Somehow this album - MOSTLY - managed to avoid that same critique. I think the big difference is that even though there's repetitive parts, they generally only last for around 30 seconds rather than 5 minutes. There's still bits I didn't like, but overall, this album is pretty feel-good and it's hard to resist a head-bob or foot-tap to a lot of it. Honestly, shockingly enjoyable. Low 4.
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.
Beste Dance album ever Big beat boutique
Fatboy Slim is so good at his job. Maybe I’m just a product of the 90s but the big beat just makes me want to move. On the other hand, a little bit goes a long way. A whole album starts to drag with its repetition. One song, though, is *chef’s kiss*.
I enjoyed this album
Лучший альбом Кука.
Epitome of 90s big beat electronica in all the right ways. Always pumps me full of energy no matter the circumstances. Deserving of a 5 through and through no matter what other people might say.
This was very dance-able! I found myself involuntarily bopping my head to the beat a few times. All in all, a solid electronica album, even if a lot of it was pretty monotonous and would've benefited from some trimming (especially the first two songs as well as the last one).
Too tired. Not inspired. It's fine
So repetitive
Not bad, but very repetitive. Not sure I liked every song but there were a few bangers from my childhood
mas o meno gordito
FIFA !
Gets a bit repetitive and it's quite a long. Still good music. 3/5
I'd heard the name Fatboy Slim, but I wasn't aware of how familiar I was with some of his work. Some of it is good stuff. But not really my kind of thing. Good manipulations. I'm more into musical conversation. That is not this. Fucking in Heaven is truly obnoxious and horrendous. This type of music, I suppose like much of dance music, is repetitive. To me, it's repetitive to the point of annoyance. Some of it is the self-referential type of lyric that reflects a narcissistic generation. The artist assumes we care about them. We don't. We care about us, or the world as a whole. I prefer something that contributes to a shared experience/understanding. This doesn't attempt that. By the time I got through Build It Up, Tear It Down, it was all I could do to keep going with it. I said "thank God!" to myself when the album was over.
5.5/10
Portada durísima, electrónica full noventera, canciones que podrían estar en el FIFA y cositas que creo que influenciarían más a delante a grupos como Kasabian y toda esa ola de indie rock británica. Las cuatro primeras canciones me han molado mucho, las siguientes 4 han pasado como música de fondo durante 20 minutos y las últimas tres han vuelto a mejorar un poco, sobretodo Praise You. En definitiva, buen disco, para la lista del gimnasio directo.
Vaaaale mejoramos. Una pena las dos últimas que me han gustado cero y dejan un sabor de boca regular. Algo machacón a ratos, pero en general ha estado guay. Creo que solo conocía The rockafeller shanck, así que me ha gustado escuchar el disco entero. Me guardo Soul surfing, me ha parecido la mejorr.
Big beats are the best, get high all the time. Trimmed a bit, could be such a tight album
Screaming and crying begging for the radio edits 3
A more mainstream DJ Shadow? Great album regardless.
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.
las canciones duran mucho para mi gusto considerando lo sonoro, tienen 2 o 3 canciones que me gustaron pero que no agregaria a mis playlist. Igual interesante proyecto, diferente a todo lo que escuche alguna vez
Extremely fun record to listen to, just lacking in memorability for me. 3/5
Great album.
Lot more breakbeats and genres than just pure house record. Love seeing him live and love the various sounds in this overall but not my favorite record front to back
- Uh it's chill ig haven't listened to stuff like this - Some songs were lit - Also I was cutting my hair
Goofy record. Fun first half, back half falls off a cliff. Standouts: Build It Up - Tear It Down
Right Here Right Now - 3.5/5 The Rockefeller Skank - 3/5 Fucking in Heaven - 3/5 Gangster Trippin - 3.5/5 Build It Up, Tear It Down - 2/5 Kalifornia - 2/5 Soul Surfing - 2/5 You’re Not from Brighton - 2/5 Praise You - 2/5 Love Island - 2/5 Acid 8000 - 2/5
Not ANOTHER Fatboy Slim album 😭
sample de niño gordo flaco de wos !!!!!!!! el album meh 6/10
Dated patchwork sample-based music with summery overtones for overenthusiastic balding men pretending to be 10 years younger while holidaying in Thailand.
A couple of bangers that brought back some long suppressed memories and the rest made a great backdrop to my long indoor rowing session this morning.
It falls squarely in the same category as Chemical Brothers and Moby: shallow, repetitive and heavily sampled electro-dance. So deathly dull and emotionless. And why does he namedrop himself so much?
Some good beats on this one, sounds like it could be a Guy Ritchie movie soundtrack. Overall, it’s very repetitive and I’m not sure when I’d actually enjoy listening to this.
awesomeeee
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.
Definitely very dated. A few bangers tho.
crazy sound
Great album.
And then I went straight into the other side of electronica: big beats, lots of noise, high energy, and lots of rock and hip hop influence. The album has plenty of tracks you’ll recognize, mainly ‘The Rockafeller Skank’, ‘Praise You’, and ‘Right Here, Right Now’. I enjoyed most of this record, with the exception of ‘Praise You’, I just really dislike that track for some reason. This would be a perfect 3.5 candidate, but I have to make a choice. I’ll give it a low 4/5; other than ‘Praise You’, I’d listen to this again.
i have my favorites off this album but by the end of it i realized how most of the songs couldve been cut short to half their length it became very monotonous but still fun to jam to
Sample based big beat music. Coachella-core. Music that is fun if you just want to dance. You’re not pouring a finger of scotch and putting this on the hi-fi for an evening of active listening.
Another artist I know, have listened to, have seen the 'must see' live dvd of and still didn't connect with or go back to. Why, nobody asked. Because it has sold hooks, lots to get your teeth onto however it outstays it's welcome on every single song. I expect that's because it was written for people who are having the best time on the disco biscuits and marching powder. They should do a half length sober cut. The same should be done with the chemical brothers albums while we're at it.
Jako dobar album actually. Ne znam kako nikad nisam slusala. Of course The Rockafeller Skank je classic ali isto nikad nisam povezala da je to Fatboy Slim. Moram jos par puta poslusat.
This was so fun! Need this as a vinyl. Praise you is such a great song and the rest of the album perfectly works around and with it.
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
this could have been 20 minutes and i would have gotten the same exact thing out of it. no thank you.
I was already in a bad mood and had a headache and ts pissed me off. had to take several deep breaths throughout the ablum bcs of how horrible it was.
It was fine, very repetitive with some interesting beats to make up for it.
Ah late 90s pop/club scene… This bothered the charts a lot and still holds up well. Catchy hooks everywhere you turn.
It’s good. A bit high energy for my boring ass self
Big beat party tunes
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ICONIC
At times 'You've Come a Long Way Baby' is both Infectious and inventive, featuring impressive four and five-star hooks but those hooks unfortunately outstay their welcome across repetitive, overly long tracks. While this approach works to some degree - offering a fun, engaging listen if you are in the right mood - some pruning was definitely needed on what becomes an unduly long 58-minute record. For this reason, while individual elements certainly deserve a four- or five-star ratings, as a complete album it achieves three stars 1 "Right Here, Right Now" (3/5) 2 "The Rockafeller Skank" (4/5) 3 "Fucking in Heaven" (2/5) 4 "Gangster Tripping" (3/5) 5 "Build It Up – Tear It Down" (2/5) 6 "Kalifornia" (2/5) 7 "Soul Surfing" (2/5) 8 "You're Not from Brighton" (3/5) 9 "Praise You" (5/5) 10 "Love Island" (3/5) 11 "Acid 8000" (2/5) Total - 31 Average - 2.8 362/1001 192/362 albums reviewed were new to me.
This is one of those “projects” that I feel like the critics are hyping up to sound well-rounded and forward-thinking. I genuinely don’t believe any of them would turn it on to listen to as a project the way you would an album. This is party music that hits when on one’s on substances, but it is not an album that you could enjoy in a different context. Can you shower to this? study to this? fold laundry to this? drive by a beach to this? Absolutely not! I was walking around NYC listening to this, which should make any half-decent album sound cinematic. This album was lowering the quality of the walk, silence was better. The more listenable parts of the album are only good in comparison to the looped farts in tracks like “In Heaven”. Will not be returning to this one.
I wore this album out in college. Still good.