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slaps ass
Great dance beat.
Not my genre of choice but good for what it is.
It’s dated really badly. The singles are quite fun. It’s horribly repetitive
Legendary
The ubiquitous turn of the century British dance record -- so widespread that a lot of the music I have heard to death over the years in adverts, tv shows etc. to the point it annoys me a bit. Highlights include Fucking In Heaven and Acid 8000 -- two tracks I'd not heard before.
Some good tracks and some boring tracks.
i initially wasn't expecting to like this album very much, but the first couple songs definitely changed my mind. right here, right now was cool but the couple songs after that were awesome. usually i'm not a fan of repetitive lines or sounds, but i think when it's done right it can sound nice. a few songs also reminded me of tv girl which was cool. that being said, after around the halfway point i started getting lost in the repetitiveness a little and it was harder to pay attention, so that bumped my overall rating down a bit. favorite tracks: fucking in heaven, gangster trippin
Close to 5 stars. Maybe wouldn’t be rated the same today, but for when it came out, great. Some songs that still hold up even if some feel a bit long and like he’s still experimenting new things. Praise You is underrated.
Some bangers on here!
5 if I was on drugs
Some great numbers on this album, some not so great
Massive album back in the day and it doesn't sound dated at all to me. The singles are great but the rest of the album is so-so.
Now this is a lot more interesting than his debut which came up earlier in the list for me. Incredibly inventive use of sampling which creates this funky, one of a kind album. Really enjoyed it.
Fun album Right here, Right now is great
The album starts off with a bunch of bangers that highlight how exciting Fatboy Slim seemed for at the time of this 1998 release. Maybe he was not groundbreaking for those initiated with electronic music and triphop, but his drum heavy, amphetamined and amplified beats made for some slamming tracks. The first two songs, “Right Here, Right Now” and “Rockafella Skank” both blaze as do later tracks like “Soul Surfing.” God knows what the BPM are on these songs, they certainly would wear out those on the dance floor. The problem comes when Fatboy Slim adds anything else to the music. The raps/chants that accompany the beats are annoying, and juvenile. This is not music for the sophisticated as it veers towards frat bro shouting complete with fist pumps rather than the open embrace of clubs. The exception, of course, is “Praise You”, whose organ riff and soft vocals in the chorus come close to the gospel vibe that Fatboy Slim seemed to be striving to achieve. I cannot say this album aged poorly as it always sounded fun, but puerile, to me.
Didn't have a bad time with this - the loops and transitions are really creative, made me laugh several times and definitely somewhat danceable. The thing is - EDM progresses so fast, that the shit you hear today at Festivals, Clubs, Parties, won't be all to relevant in a few years time, except for a nostalgic callback maybe. I don't know anyone eho listens to Avicii anymore, even though he's a legend. Similiar thing here - dont think anybody will be to impressed with this ultra-repetetive sound. For me this is more of a time-capsule, a relic maybe. Will show my DNB-Friends and see if I can get a reaction out of them. Intresting, but not listenable to me in any situation
Yeah, it's a masterpiece. The songs speak for themselves. all these years later, with timeless beats. 5/5 for probably FBS's best and signature album.
Decent but didn't love it
This isn’t necessarily bad music if it wasn’t so repetitive
Upbeat, fun, makes you want to move. I would listen to this while cleaning for a boost of energy and to make it go faster. While it does sound dated, I think it leaves a more nostalgic impression than old.
I don’t think I’ve heard a more repetitive album in my life, only 2 songs in and it felt like I’d been listening for at least half an hour, I’m going to spare this a 1 as it is listenable, but once you’ve heard 2 or 3 tracks you get the gist of the album
The criticism that this is repetitive is true. If this album was cut by about a third it would be better. Still not a bad album though
Leans a little too much on the same basic idea, but enjoyable nonetheless
Right here, right now!
One of the best dance albums ever made. If you get it, you get it. The loops and the samples and the heavy drums and all the repetition yet it's one of the most addictive sh*t you've ever heard. Peak late 90s. Unbelievable in every aspect.
danse danse danse het is wel funny.. beetje repetitief
dit was echt een danceable album
2.5, not a fan of electronic music.
I realised, as soon as I saw the album cover, that I listened to this album a lot in my younger years, either at a sleepover with one of my old school buddies, playing video games in the afternoon, car trips with my parents on my ipod... but I haven't listened again since that time, some 20 years ago now. Boy, how time flies. Will be interesting to see if I still like any of this. "Right Here, Right Now" is still a classic, with it's epic strings and big beats, layered with the two contrasting vocals. It became the anthem of summer endings and has been sampled and remixed countless times now. It's important for me to note that it seems Nostalgia is playing a big factor here, so this review is probably not going to be useful to anyone who doesn't feel that same throwback to a time where you were becoming an adult and every experience, banal or otherwise, felt intense. "Rockafeller Skank" I found more irritating than I once did, with the high pitched electric buzz before the beat switch up just annoying me and all the repetition being sped up; the latter half of the song just ruins the rest of it's iconic vocal sample and beat/guitar mix. "Fucking In Heaven", for all it's creative mashing of it's samples, was also just irritating due to the lyrical repetition. Even in the sections without it (which isn't often) it just sorta snakes along in a generic mash of hip-hop sounds. The beats, echoing vocal sample and the trumpets combined in "Gangsta Trippin'" are still incredible for me; this is nostalgia in overdrive. The muffled vocal fading into clarity is still super cool, followed by the bubbly beat and recording scratching; just lots of cool sounds in a better arrangement. Still, it's the trumpet that really sells it for me. "Build It Up Tear It Down" I don't remember as much, that it comes off for me as a mix of Crash Bandicoot soundtracks and SFX. It was interesting, but not exactly enjoyable. "Kalifornia" with it's grimey beat and shrill beats reminds me of another video game I loved as a kid and, again, I wonder if this is carrying my enjoyability of the song (that being Jet Set Radio Future). Lot's of similar sounds here (especially at 2:37). Unfortunately, another one where he just went way over the top with that vocal sample to the point it became annoying. As the album goes on, the more I think it's my age (or exposure to much more music?) that's pushing me away from this type of music that I so adored when I was younger. "Soul Surfin'" was another I found insufferable, but for some reason I really enjoyed "You're Not From Brighton". This is possibly because the vocal sample used is more satisfying in general, so repetition of it works just fine here. Just like Right Here Right Now, "Praise You" became a iconic for having memorable piano chords surrounded by well arranged beats and a satisfying and memorable vocal sample. Along with the Flash Mob music video being a completely new thing in the 90s too, it is a staple of the 90s zeitgeist for good reason. "Love Island", I did not realise, is what played in one of the most hilarious scenes in 'Kevin and Perry Go Large'; instant nostalgia, but also chuffed that I actually manage to find what the song is. The dark beat on this one is insane and I can't help but love it. "Acid 8000" was enjoyable in places, but outstayed it's welcome some 3-4 minutes after the fact. Strange way to end the album; Personally, I think it would been better to end on high with "Praise You" instead. I enjoyed this one far less than I used to. Seems even nostalgia can't rescue absolutely everything. That said, there is still stuff in here that I am glad I found again. It is still fun, regardless.
I always feel like I would like the dance albums more if I was listening when they came out. It's just not the right experience to listen to this at work. I feel like this is the type of CD that should be stuck in a CD player in 1999, and you listen on repeat. But, alas, I didnt experience it that way. Still, a good listen. Liked it more than I thought I would.
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This is the first album on the list that came out in my living memory. While I never listened to the album in full I clearly remember it's two hits praise you and funk soul brother. In 1998 sounded so current to the point that it felt futuristic. I remember feeling like this is what all music would sound like in the 2000s. I think it's hits are my favorite songs from the album but it was a fun listen over all. In the intro to funk soul brother a voice says fat boy slim is the band of the 90s and idk if that's true but the band of 1998 maybe lol.
so evil
Had a fun jam! A real flow state
Boring
Had some pretty iconic songs, but was a bit out there
6/10 Sounded nice and all but the songs getting repetitive after a few min
Bang-er!
I’m not a fan of these instrumental electronic albums or any instrumental albums in general and it seems like either this list has too many of them or I’m just generating them way too often. 6/10
He is very good at making music to listen to while doing other stuff
1.5 What are we doing .5 star for praise you
Couldn’t care less. It is at least of inoffensive construction so I’ll be somewhat nice with a two.
big beat at it's finest, maybe
I knew this album and it couldn’t be more ‘of its time’…and yet it stands up pretty well on a first listen for many years.
Oh yeah, lots of nostalgia for this one. I remember learning "praise you" on the piano (perhaps teaching myself ) when I was pretty young, being happy with myself, and playing it all the time. They're very simple chords, but something about the vintage quality of the vocals and production, as well as the bass and everything else in that song keeps me coming back. I've always liked that kind of soulful/uplifting chord progression. even doing my best to look at this objectively, I think it is aged very well. The sampling is noticeably better than many other albums we've heard in this space. He has a talent of finding natural rhythm in spoken conversation, and combining that with other samples and production elements, to convert it into music that is very catchy. I think I feel good enough about it to give it a four
Very interesting. Does it sound dated? Hard to say -- I guess it sounds a bit of its time, and yet I still think it also sounds fresh and crisp and funky groovy (but then again, I'm about the same age as Fatboy Slim/Norman Cook, so maybe I'm not the best judge, lol). As Sam correctly noted, this one takes me (us) back to 20 (+) years ago, so might benefit from a bit of nostalgia glamour. For me, though, this is between a 4 and a 5, and that's a tough call, but I'm leaning toward a (low) 5. Is there a weak track on here? I'm not sure there is. Possibly #8 (You're Not From Brighton), or #10 (Love Island)? But they're actually not that bad, and the other 9 tracks to me range from very good to great. I wonder how this will sound in another 20 or 25 years? Anyway, gonna go with a low 5.
this is one of a dozen or so albums I was listening to as far back as I can remember, long before I knew what acid was, when I was discovering electronic music. Acid 8000 still defines acid for me. And most of the tracks still hold up. The beats are infectious and fun. I remember being conflicted about the repetitiveness, and at times I still think it's a bit much, but moreso I think the repetitiveness makes it dancey, groovy, and is offset by tasteful arrangement, builds, and sample manipulation. I mean it's nowhere near as predictable as typical electronic music. It has a lot more character and wackiness. Fatboy Slim's background as a bassist shines through the record. The bass lines and drum beats are undeniable, with a few exceptions. The main weakness, to me, is the corniness of the vocal samples at times, paired with the cartoonish-ly positive upbeat-ness that lends itself to use in commercials. The first two tracks and last three are my favorites. Tracks 3-8 are a step down. Although Gangster Trippin might be a 5 too. So I'd say half the album are 5's and the other half are something less. Plus the album art is... not for me, so strong 4 overall
I vibed to this album and was surprised to find out I knew some of the songs already, I guess Fatboy Slim is as recognizable as I thought he was just from the name alone
I didn't finish it, it was boring as shit DJ music.
Soulless
So boring and repetitive. Probably for some people is the peak in the genre, but for an outsider, this was a torture to go through....sorry
Wow what a vibe!! Feels like a record that influenced a lot of music I listened to as a teenager in the 00s without me knowing it, both pop music and tv show music. Let alone stuff I’m into now like 100 Gecs. Feels like riding a fucking wave! Didn’t realize I had heard Praise Me before until I got to it near the end of the album. Definitely need to be in a specific mood to enjoy the repetition but I do not believe that repetition in music is a bad thing.
Even as a pop child of the 90s, I couldn’t make it through this album. DJ ear worms repeat to the point of “this isn’t fun anymore”.
It's a big beat masterclass. Some huge songs here and the king of the genre. Well done Norman from the housemartins
Ah, the 90s. This was everywhere at the time, along with Moby's "Play" and other stuff in the same vein... Still super fun.
Still holds up after all these years
You've come a long way from Better Living Through Chemistry LOL!!! Seriously though, this is much better. The hits speak for themselves, but what it becoming clear is his ability to create/communicate a very specific personality through this limiting style. "We got to kick that gangster shit!" over a very light and upbeat horn section, which i just learned is from Ann Robinson (deep cut), has a lot of personality to it. Other records in this genre or adjacent genres often feel faceless and aimless. Listening to this I feel like I know who Fatboy Slim is, for better or worse. Many songs are repetitive and this doesn't need to be 60 minutes.
Sean’s review sold me on this album. Getting cheekiness across w mostly just loop and sample choices is impressive. Rockefeller skank was my favorite song at middle school dances. About as good as computer music gets
I love electronic music and I knew a lot of tracks from this album, but its kind of not worth 5 stars from me 4 stars so far Fav track: Praise you
This is always a banger to listen to. First time listening to the whole thing all the way through as there were like three songs on it I've never heard before. The hits are the hits for a reason and are always on my playlist. Peak UK 90s music.
🌕🌕🌗🌑🌑 (rounded down, but with the potential to be rounded up if I were in a different mood). This is a very similar situation to Deee-Lite—I loved the most popular (and, I think, objectively best) song on the album, "Praise You," but found the rest of the offerings to be a lot more repetitive and less detailed than the single in question. This felt a little better than Deee-Lite and I have a feeling if I wasn't so tired I'd really enjoy it, but I'm having trouble convincing myself to go back and listen again. It seems like the sort of thing I'd have to already be in a dance trance to get. 1: Bad | 2: Okay, No Desire to Revisit | 3: Good, Conditionally (OR Inconsistent Mix of Qualities) | 4: Great (OR Technically amazing but missing the sauce emotionally) | 5: Amazing
Praise You is the obvious standout of the album, and the rest isn’t bad at all.
3 ou 4 bons morceaux mais je ne vais pas le réécouter
Only hits hard if you go partying. A bit too repetitive
Early 2000 vibes that peaked
Big dumb fun thats like a party in your pocket. It's hardly deep and it's sloppy, but it bangs so hard. If you're not having a good time with this then I feel sorry for you.
Délicieux
J'ai triché par ce que je l'ai écouté plusieurs fois mais quel banger, il y a des sonorités qui ne se font plus mais au niveau tehcno expérimentale, ça reste extrêmement fort
Other than Praise You, I didn't find anything to like about this album.
Very 90’s
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isso aqui chapado/bêbado deve ser uma experiência né
who doesn't love a bit of Fatboy Slim memories of many journeys in the car to see friends and girlfriends
Not really my bag, but definitely some classic tunes in here.
A common issue I have with this type of music is the songs are good for about a minute but the simplified unceasing repetition gets old real fast.
It's so hard for me to rate dance music - it triggers a lizard brain mixed response of revulsion and boredom. This must be good by the standards of people who like dance music, but I just can't see it. Fun video, though.
This is a DJ at the height of his creative powers. This is the one that put Fatboy Slim on the international map. And there's a reason the wee lesbian and her friends got into a literal fight so they could see this man perform live in person. Brilliant work.
Made me feel so nostalgic for a better time. 3.5
He does know there are more lyrics right? He doesn’t just have to say the same ones over and over again- he can combine words to make new ones! Either way the best song in their was: praise you (track 9)
Prior to listening to this album, I hadn't heard a lot of Fatboy Slim and was familiar with just the hits. Turns out a lot of those came from this album, almost felt like a greatest hits. It mostly holds up, even if The Rockafeller Skank has Dreamworks trailer stink all over it. As an album, it is quite long, is very repetitive, and is as a result a bit of a chore to listen to. I like this, but I cannot see myself listening to it as a whole album again any time soon, but it is excellent playlist fodder and I reckon it would still go down well on the dancefloor.
Right here right now is such a cool opener to this album. I didn’t know what to expect at all going into this but I can vibe with this. Rockafellar skank was also a bop, but it got very repetitive for me very quickly. In heaven was just plain bad. It felt like it went on for so much longer than 4 minutes. At least gangster trippin was back to having a bit of a better flow and some more ideas, including the horns. It was still very repetitive and got old fast though. Build it up, tear it down, again. Super fun music, but it just doesn’t keep my attention. Kalifornia was super grating, I hated it. I don’t really have much to say about Soul surfing or You’re not from Brighton. Again, alright music but super repetitive (kind of like how I’m being now). Praise you was slightly better. Still some similar complaints but this one at least had some different sounds. Love island had some great sounds to it, and Acid 8000 definitely wasn’t bad. 3/5 ⭐️ 151/1089
Fatbly slim, what a name. Wish I had come up with that. I could tell he was British immediately. Something about how his music sounds. Could not even make this up. Oh shit, okay. Okay. OHHHH, THE FUNK SOUL BROTHER!!! Yeah, I liked it.
I haven't heard much Fatboy Slim prior to this, aside from classics like Rockafeller Skank and Praise You. This is a cool album! Lots of bangers. Though it's not on this album, I agree with Kori that the Weapon of Choice music video with Christopher Walken is one of the best of all time.
I’ve always been a fan of Fatboy Slim’s music. I know I likely had Right Here, Right Now pirated off limewire on my iPod back in the day. That late 90s electronic style is iconic. That track will always get me hyped up. I love learning that this was cooked up with floppy discs on an Atari ST computer. Not featured on this album but the music video of Weapon of Choice with Christopher Walken is one of the best music videos of all time. If you haven’t seen it already you should watch it now. If you have seen it already you should watch it again. If your interested in watching some core late 90s/early 2000s history check out the Woodstock 99 mini series on Netflix. It captures the epitome of event planning failure and denying any responsibility. The set list for the festival seems like an all time dream set list. There is an interview with Fatboy slim about his set where he witnesses the crowd start to descend into pure chaos with an ambulance overtaken by the crowd. It’s truly nightmare fuel for Karen I’m sure. Watching from your couch as much as it looks like a pure hell experience. There is a piece of me that wishes I was present not as the 10 year old I was at the time but as a young adult accepting the chaos as a ridiculous series of events.
Halfway between a 3 and a 4 on this one, but I think I have to lean to a 4. Although I usually don't get annoyed at repetition, and I don't think this album annoyed me with it. I just think the filler songs didn't have much going for them, so the repetition got a bit stale. The standouts for me were Right Here Right Now, Rockafellar Skank, Soul Surfing, Praise you and surprisingly Acid 8000. Straight bangers. The others were a bit forgettable, other than the one were he was fucking in heaven lol, but didn't really get down with that one. Good electronic album, with some all-timers that would be great additions for a dance party soundtrack. IMO, better to listen to the all-timers than this whole album. 7.5/10
I love breakbeats so much it’s addicting :)
When I listened to this album, I just had to say goodbye to my long-distance partner in person for the next 5 months, which definitely sucked. However, this album definitely DID NOT SUCK, IT'S FUCKING AWESOME. Fatboy Slim is one of the two artists I have seen in person on this list (and Crowded House), and he does not disappoint here. Sure, the hits are the best parts of the album, but the great, polished beats are a treat to hear.
I mean this album is great and also kind of annoying. But I'm also tired :P
Not for me
Yeah, there are tracks here that everyone has heard at least once in their life. They’re definitely cool, but listening to the whole 6 minutes of them gets boring. Just like listening to the whole album in one go.
1. Right Here, Right Now (★★★★★) -Fav -El videoclip siempre me pareció una genialidad. 2. The Rockafeller Skank (★★★★★) -Fav -Esta la tengo desde aquel FIFA que la usó como intro... inolvidable. 3. Fucking in Heaven (★★★★☆) -Buen ritmo, de ahí las estrellas, pero el "mantra" no me gusta... 4. Gangster Trippin (★★★★★) -Fav 5. Build It Up, Tear It Down (★★★★★) -Fav 6. Kalifornia (★★★★☆) 7. Soul Sourfing (★★★★★) -Fav 8. You're Not from Brighton (★★★★☆) 9. Praise You (★★★★★) -Fav 10. Love Island (★★★★★) -Fav 11. Acid 8000 (★★★★★) TOTAL = ★★★★★ (4,7)
I liked it more than I expected
This is so late 90’s. Not as good as Moby but still good
I think I’ll stick to the few popular songs by Fatboy Slim that I know! Not a fan of this album personally overall
This hit with absolute perfection on Friday evening in the gym. Also the first album I had so far with more than one track I know, one of them being an all time favourite in Praise You! Anyway I like danceable electronic beats I can sprint on the treadmill to and I like long instrumental tracks with layered samples that put me in a bit of a trance, so I was looking forward to jamming out to this for an hour and it didn't disappoint. Just pure joyous good vibes. Real turn your brain off music, meant in the best possible way. I nearly gave it a 5 just from how good a mood I was in from it, but I can admit to myself that's a bit high for an album that is mostly loops and breaks when I only gave R.E.M's greatest work 4. Assume all my ratings are subject to potential changes. It occurred to me that I can't really give a complete and true rating for an album on its first, even second listen within a 24 hour period. Because a lot of great albums need some time to sit with the songs, and my instinctual first reactions will probably unfairly favour instantly likable pop like this over a more contemplative record like Automatic for the People. But then, there's plenty of "likable" pop I have listened to and not loved as easily and immediately as You've Come A Long Way Baby. Maybe the 5 stars are warranted. Standouts: Right Here, Right Now, Rockafeller Skank, Praise You, Fucking In Heaven, Acid 8000 man i enjoyed this album so much.
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Fine listen but nothing notable
My first reaction was "Enjoy this reasonably well but also heard enough of it in the 90s, three starts." But to be honest as I listened more I enjoyed it less. Each track reaches a degree of repetition where I have to hit skip for my own sanity, even though I like most of the elements. I'm pretty sure it's not just the genre... I enjoy other ambient and electronic stuff with much more repetition. But I have had similar responses to other 90s electronica in the list, so my guess is that it's something about the sounds of this period specifically that turn me off. Anyway, two stars, sorry funk soul brotha.
Fatboy Slim is someone I’ve heard of. I think in 1998 it would have been impossible not to have heard of him or his music, as his music was everywhere. In fact, around that time, companies began licensing more real music for commercials, making it a new revenue stream for artists. Also, electronic music was really having its boom period during this time as it was fresh and new. This is the second album by Fatboy Slim. I reviewed his debut album, Better Living Through Chemistry, as my third album in this dumb journey. I gave it 3 stars, but I wasn’t blown away. I can already see there are three or four big hits off You’ve Come a Long Way Baby. Either he leveled up, or he got better representation by pushing his music out to the masses. Track 1 is Right Here, Right Now, which should not be confused with the Van Halen hit, Right Now, from 1991. This was the fourth single released off the album, and I can specifically remember a local news station using this song in a promo previewing their award-winning news coverage or some such nonsense. Not one of my favorite songs as I tend to get bored with it, but I was surprised to find out the song sampled a James Gang song. The James Gang was essentially a solo band built around Joe Walsh, but I guess Walsh didn’t want it to be all about him, so they named the band the James Gang. It’s a great band and better than Fatboy Slim. The song also samples Angela Bassett from the movie Strange Days. The song wasn’t released as a single in the U.S., which is weird because I know this song well enough to be tired of it. Track 2 is Rockafellar Skank, and you might know it as Right About Now the Funk Soul Brother, as that is repeated about 236,329 times. It was the first song released as a single, and it hit #1 on the U.S. Dance charts. Rolling Stone, a massive prisoner of the moment, announced it as one of the best dance songs of all time. I don’t think it’s so good as it kind of breaks down in the middle, then speeds up. This must have also been used in a bunch of ads or TV show promos, as I remember being bombarded with it. I’ll be interested to see if I enjoy a song I wasn’t already bombarded with from this album. Track 3 is In Heaven. And here we are. A song that was not released as a single. It says the F word about 2,749 times. I’m no prude, but ugh, enough. I know I've said many times I’m not a big lyrics guy, but I do think the human voice is an instrument that is needed to make a song truly great. Some instrumental songs prove the exception, but for the most part, I need more than some sample repeating, “Fatboy Slim is f**king in heaven” over and over again. I hate to say it, but I’d rather have more My Bloody Valentine in my life than this. Track 4 is Gangster Trippin.’ Is Fatboy Slim being disrespectful by not spelling it gangsta? I thought the hard R was anathema back then? Again, the same voice sample repeats one sentence over and over. It just gets boring. I think I’ll come back when something really interests me. By the by, this was a single off the album. Granted, it wasn’t played as much as the previous singles, but I thought I recognized it. Track 7 is Soul Surfing, and it’s someone yelling Jack it up, jack up over and over again over a swinging 60s beat. It’s not great. It’s not even making me chair dance. I’m actually getting some solid work done, whereas usually I have to stop listening after every song to work a little before continuing to listen. Fatboy Slim is just not my cup of tea. Track 8 is You’re Not from Brighton. The only reason anything caught my ear about this rather mediocre song was that there’s a whistle sound played 2,000 times that sounds exactly like the whistle in the Insane in the Membrane song by Cypress Hill. Track 9 is Praise You and this was the big song off the album. Not only did it hit the top of the charts in the U.S and all over the world, but the music video was great. The video was directed by Spike Jonze, a madman in his own right. It was shot in hidden video style with Jonze performing a dance to this song on the sidewalk in front of a movie theater, or at least I think it was a movie theater. It was pretty cool. I’ll admit, the video endeared me to this song. It’s fine. The thing with a lot of the songs on this record is that if these were songs written and performed by a group, I don’t think the album would be as big as it is. This album came along at exactly the right time in music history to become huge. If it were released today, I just don’t think it would have done half as well as it did. Maybe I’m too square to get it. It’s very possible. I’m not cool and will never be. I just know what I like. Track 10 is Love Island, and I’ll admit, I like the sound of the synth being used as the bass. I think it’s a synth. The keyboards in the background that are acting like strings are also pretty cool. This was not a single, so I’m not sure I’ve heard it. I like this song. I’m floored. It’s got me chair dancing too. And I know it’s not my Monster Energy because I forgot to drink one today. Track 11 is Acid 8000, and I think I like it even more than Love Island. In fact, it seems Love Island faded into Acid 8000. Though now we come in with the dumb drum and bass beat that is just overplayed. I like the sound of the synths in the song, though. The obligatory repeated line of the song is, “If this don’t make your booty move, your booty must be dead.” It’s got me moving, so I guess my booty isn’t dead. Which means the rest of the songs on this album aren’t great at moving booties. Okay, I had to give up on Acid 8000 about midway through as it was becoming unbearable. I won’t say I hate this album, but I just thought it was bland. It could be that we’ve come so far when it comes to dance music that this seems like what 80s rap seems like to a kid today, old and remedial. If you are a dance music fan, you should probably hear this album because it was the album for 1998-1999. Otherwise, you can skip it.
And I’m back again! Sorry it’s been so long since my last review, but now that it’s summer I’ll have a lot more time to review albums. But enough of that, what about the album? Honestly, I thought that this Fatboy Slim album was a pretty good showing of his talents as a DJ. Songs like Right Here, Right Now, and Praise You, which are my two standout songs the album, incorporate interesting samples along with the album’s electronic elements. The use of these samples to impact the feel of a song instead of making it feel like just a song to mindlessly jam out to in a club was a pleasant surprise. However, there are still some club jams on the album, such as Rockafeller Skank and Gangster Trippin’ which are two of the hip hop/dance influenced tracks on the album. However, some songs do stretch on longer than they should, such as Build It Up, Tear It Down, and Acid 8000, which stretch in for 5 and 7 minutes respectively, but don’t feel like they use that time for much other than repetitions. The middle of the album is kind of a slump as well. But, these low points do not detract from an otherwise impressive album, I’d give this album a high 3, low 4. But you also have to remember, if this don’t make your booty move, your booty must be dead.
Amateurish crap
Some classic bangers.
2/10 - I can understand that some people love this genre and that all genres should be part of a list of 1001+ albums. This is not a style I like in the least.
Super groovy and danceable, everything on here sounds like it should soundtrack a late 90's/early 2000's montage. I wish each track was trimmed by about 1-2 minutes in length. Strong 7/10
"right about now, the funk soul brother" - this is in the album to give me a reminder of the kind of music. It's like electronic music that feels big band, upbeat, and fast pace. A lot of it is just fun beats with phrases repeated over and over again. It's fun but not something I could listen to over and over.
Album 207. You've Come a Long Way Baby (https://open.spotify.com/album/2ELLu16F9TTREQuU4OuAnN?si=RwLGN7HDQPG8H47hcbBtNw) — Fatboy Slim (1998) It's too much electronic music recently, third album in a row. And this one I liked the most. It has great repetitive beats, and it's perfect for background or something like that. Some of its tracks are quite famous like Right Here Right Now or The Rockafeller Skank. This repetitiveness is maybe a little annoying, but it's working great for me. It's more like brain-off background music that kills distraction and works better than lofi or other shit. 5/5 Liked: — Right Here Right Now — The Rockafeller Skank — Fucking in Heaven — Soul Surfing — You're Not from Brighton — Praise You — Acid 8000
This was really good ambience vibe music
Very on theme for the Era of release...some solid tracks
Big beat Right here right now The rockefeller skank
I’m typically not a fan of Electronica, but Fatboy Slim is an exception for me. I’m not quite sure what he does that makes it work. Possibly he changes up the beat and sound more than others? I wouldn’t be annoyed if “In Heaven” didn’t make the cut, but works with the album.
Something that would play at a home screen in a early-2000s video game about skating. I liked the 2nd half of the album more than the first. "Soul Surfing" is probably the one I like the most. Lots of repeating the same phrase over and over on most songs. It was ok.
I don't know how I feel about this honestly. It feels... okay? At some points? Certainly doesn't feel like I'd come back to any of the songs, but there are some highlights like "Praise You" and "The Rockafeller Skank". Even those don't really warrant them adding those to any of my playlists though...
How many times can one phrase be repeated in a song? Ask Fatboy Slim, because he’d just tell you it’s not enough.
Pleasantly surprised. I was expecting non-stop dance music. Founder of Big Beat electronic music. Wide variety of samples. More musical hip-hop. Samples are vocals as well as instruments.
I don’t get the people who said this was repetitive. It’s house music, that’s the whole point.
Sympa mais les sons sont beaucoup trop longs, genre beaucoup trop. Même les sons biens deviennent ennuyants car trop répétitifs
Meh. I grew up in the late 80's and 90's, and I precisely remember when this album came out and propelled Fatboy Slim everywhere. I kinda liked the singles, but when I listened to the whole album at the time, I was left unimpressed. Not to brag, but I was drifting away from "mainstream" music at the time, and I found so many mind-blowing small artists and indie records that this just didn't make it. Almost 30 years later, my feelings about it haven't changed. Bigbeat mainstream idm/soft techno, in the vein of Prodigy, but less agressive, or Chemical Brothers, but less bombastic. It's a fun take at first, mixing old tunes, classic Detroit techno from the 80's/early 90's, 70's disco, but it sometimes feels like Fatboy threw everything at the wall to see what sticks, and by the end, the record overstay its welcome, and I felt kinda relieved when it ended. Overall a solid effort, , sure, but in no way an "essential album". On a personnal note : it's the fifth day in a row I'm suggested a mediocre or plain bad album that cannot be considered an essential listen. I'm wondering who is curating this list and what are the vetting processes.
Wasn't sure how this 90s classic would hold up, but it's still fun after all these years. Lots of classic bangers and inventive beats. It's not perfect IMO -- a few beats are held a little longer than they need to be for my tastes -- and I still think Prodigy's "Fat of the Land" is the true 90s Big Beat king -- but this effort surely isn't far behind.
has some bangin moments
I imagine this would sound awesome if you were picking out your signature pukka shell necklace or hitting a bong in your friends basement for the first time ever. In 2026 it’s pretty trite.
Super nostalgic for the opening track, it almost transports me to when I like 8, rest of the album isn't as great but it's fun enough to get a middling rating within the context of rating the entire thing
Not aged well
Fucking great. Bit intense to listen to the whole album on a run. It's above 40mins. But it's the one album so far that's probably had the most number of good tracks. 5/5.
Great artwork but not my cup of tea, the last song is fucking peak
simplemente épico, simplemente épico
Fine
What a Banger of an album - outstanding🙌
The first half of this album is brilliant, but second half ventures into territory I don't really enjoy as much.
Fatboy Slim’s You've Come a Long Way, Baby is an album where cultural legacy appears to outweigh the actual listening experience, resulting in a project that has not aged well. While "Right Here, Right Now" offers an iconic opening, the momentum quickly fades as "The Rockafeller Skank" becomes repetitive and tracks like "In Heaven" prove difficult to endure. There are brief moments of technical interest found in the boom-bap elements of "Gangster Trippin" and the old-school hip-hop influences of "You’re Not from Brighton," yet even these highlights are weighed down by overlong runtimes and questionable mixing. Relying heavily on samples to provide a "vibe" rather than cohesive structure, the album ultimately feels skippable and dated.
Better as background music than stuff you listen to actively. Still pretty fun though Favorite Song: Praise You
I like some of Fatboy Slim's work, but it's clearly a couple of steps below the best artists in the genre. The build-up in a lot of these tracks feels really unimaginative, which is sad because the hooks often show promise. The second half of the album thankfully shows some improvement in this regard. Overall, though, I think this album could've ended up much better than it is with just a couple of adjustements. Favourite track: Soul Surfing
No thank you
Got pretty old pretty fast
No thats okay
3,2/5
Rate: 10/10. Que espléndido que es Fatboy Slim no sabía de su existencia, como me encanta la música con personalidad.
Great album
Very cool! Didn't expect much at first, but I suppose that's why you don't judge a book by its cover. Love finding things that are dots along the line to Sonic Rush / Jet Set Radio OSTs. Favorite tracks: Right Here, Right Now & Praise You
Absolute fucking banger.
Half of these tracks are classics, rhe other half is solid. This was just the sound of the millenium.
A perfect album. Banger after banger, toe tapping beats, and infectious hooks.
Re 2000. Me gustó mucho
This is really good. Definitely not my type of music, but it’s so intricate and catchy and you can tell this is an artist at the top of his game
Very strong first impression with "Right Here, Right Now" I'm loving the complexity. Some of the sounds and effects are a little too much, as I feel they don't fit some of the moments in the tracks. However if I was at a concert or rave this shit would be hype as fuck, but I'm listening through earbuds. Overall good but I wouldn't feel like listening to the album by itself, because I think it's too overwhelming to listen to these tracks back to back. Light 4
AIDS
No. Just, no. There is no way on God’s green Earth I am listening to this crap. Repetitive, pretentious and irritating. Life is too short.
3.0 - Ok
im sorry mr fatboy slim but this was really boring
Great for driving, will definitely make its way into my regular listening, but maybe not with the kids in the car (bit sweary!! 🤣)
Incredibly influential both generally and for me in my formative years. Takes a dip in the middle section but picks right back up at the end. I imagine a lot of non-Brits will rate this lower but this album basically IS British Culture for the late 90s, encapsulated in disc form.
Quite loud, what is the content or meaning? Sounds relatively uniform within itself
Another album that is undeniably influential but I wouldn’t quite place in the top 1001. This is kind of a “you had to be there” album.
So got a small story here, somewhat related, i went to a festival a few years back with a killer lineup and it was strong throughout the day with the penultimate band (Ballpark Music) basically sending it out with a bang, and then this lad comes out as the big international name for the closer and plays the most heavily edited versions of his own music and sends *in my opinion* the festival out with a whimper. Now i rarely like “DJ” music and that was truly no exception, so im sure others enjoyed it, but it left a sour taste in my mouth. So now i finally listen to this and man its about what i expected, some decent stuff here and there, catchy for sure but mostly stuff thats just not up my alley. Standouts are the intro track and praise you.
Yes, its a massive market produce, but I can't mark it down dor that. Had a good time listening to it and the occasional dance too.
When the beat takes you it's a blast. When it doesn't, five minutes seems a long time.
Now THIS is a Fatboy Slim album I want to hear. Serious big beat feel and full of great songs.
Pretty fun ride. This is not a genre I listen to much, but as young adult in the 90s, I had definitely heard the hits. There is plenty of stuff to listen to beyond the singles but I have a dance music ceiling, I guess.
2/5 - Sometimes this is catchy. Sometimes it makes me want to put a drill against my head. The latter times outweigh the former.
I think it was kind of mid. One of the suprising thing was that one of the songs had a slow reverb to it which felt so weird, in fact many of them had this weird thing where I felt like the album was trying to do too much and was just weirded out. The only song I did enjoy was because it felt normal. Also HOLY MOLY the songs are long, I think the average is like 6 minutes
There's a handful of standout tracks that hold up: Right Here, Right Now; The Rockafellar Skank; Gangster Tripping; Praise You. The only song that really grinds this down is In Heaven, and that's more from the repetition and abrasive choices overwhelming the idea of the song. Not really my go-to genre, and I never need to hear Praise You again after years of it, but this is still danceable, fun, and is definitively 90's. Adding up all the songs, this rates at a 3.75 for for me, but I'm rounding down instead of up because I can't get enthused about Rockafeller Skank and Praise You anymore from overexposure. I can, however, keep Gangster Tripping around, cuz that shit still works.
A classic
“Fatboy Slim is fucking in heaven. Fucking 'n fucking 'n fucking in heaven.” “Jack it up, jack up Jack up, jack up Jack it up, jack up.” The beauty is in the repetition. 😎
Terrible. Not my thing. One or two ok songs.
A couple of timeless pieces in here, beyond those, I think this album has a time and place, for which it would hit, but not an everyday album for me
as fun as it was in 1998/1999. dark basement party dancing vibes.
At times I could have given this a 5, at other times a lowly 1. It Is creative. It Is infectious. And it certainly is a 'time capsule' of the late 90s. But it's also repetitive, sometimes grating and designed solely for late night dancing, not for a wet Friday morning on the way to work. Big, Obnoxious Brighton Beats. I found it interesting that upon release in North America, they changed the cover to avoid any issues around fat-shaming and links between obesity and tobacco. I suppose if it had been a gun he was holding it would have been fine.
It's surprising that this kind of music still sounds fresh after 30 years. Groovy feelgood stuff and some extra credit to Norman for being the bass player in the Housemartins.
So nice and groovy but I'm getting somehow bored during Fatboys albums. Throughout small boredom stays on really good side. I need to listen this again
You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby was much better than the earlier Fatboy Slim album, which I gave only 2/5 because it felt more like a test run for this one. Even during work I caught myself moving in the chair like an underpaid office goblin. The style is ridiculously repetitive, but it somehow works perfectly. Spotify showing lyrics is also hilarious when most songs repeat one sentence forever. The hits are great, but the lesser-known tracks surprised me too. Still wondering if the guy on the cover ever sued Fatboy Slim or just accepted immortality.
#389 / 1089 Heard before? ❌ (some of it is familiar) Revisit? ❌ I've heard tracks off this one, plus off his first release. I was quite doubtful since usually UK club sound is not to my liking. Surprisingly I do like the groove, I've also just learned this is called the Big Beat sound, I feel like this is missing the thin drugged out breakbeat shite that I mostly associate with the early to mid 90's UK sound. It's also quite impressive that it's been done with Atari ST! Well, the sound capabilities of IBM clones weren't that amazing, from what I can remember playing with trackers, DirectSound was just becoming a thing, SoundBlaster and Turtle Beach were the shit... ah yeah, DAWs were just becoming a thing in 1998! Anyway and all that reminiscing aside, I liked it way more that I was expecting to! Very strong 3, tipping into 4/5
Nice
What a fucking great album this is, can’t help but 🕺🏻 dance about
Ja ne znam kako album s ovolikim bangerima može ispasti ovako težak za preslušati, valjda jer svaka pjesma traje koju minutu više nego što je potrebno. A i zato što su samo ti bangeri dobre pjesme. Dovoljno dobre da ipak prevagne na 4 zvjezdice. Gangster Trippin moj #1 zauvijek.
Certainly of its time for me, and I'm not really into listening to this type of music any more. Also, my favourite song of his - Weapon of Choice - isn't even on this album. But this was massive, and rightfully so, even though a guy from Brighton (Fatboy Slim's hometown) I knew at the time was extremely dismissive of it - that may have been a case of local envy or something.
Favourite Songs: Praise You
Two great songs. It was a big album and got a lot of attention for this type of music. Definitely should be on this list just for that.
This doesn’t deserve a 3.3 more of a 2.8 in my opinion
Infectious grooves that can be repetitively annoying
It was a good listen. Made me move my body and shake my head.
The hit songs are classic, the filler is repetitive. I know Fatboy Slim was on the forefront of this electronic wave stuff becoming mainstream.
A bit tamer with time but still groundbreaking
The three singles (Praise You, Right Here Right Now, The Rockafeller Skank) are definite highlights of the album. The rest of it is ok, but gets slightly tiring after a while. Overall, pretty average, in my opinion. When you are in the mood for big beat its great, otherwise - not so much.
i mean its just so... wow really smth
strange nothing positive
None of these songs should be as long as they are. Feel like they are just made for needles drops in movies, just drop in the 30 seconds for a particular scene, the rest of the song is just taking up space.
When I was a kid I thought Fatboy Slim actually held that note in Praise You and I would always take a deep breath and try to sustain it as long as he did, inevitably failing. Three stars.
This album works for me. Sounds like freshman year of college and everything that comes with that. I was waiting for weapon of choice the whole time and didn’t realize that’s from a different album.
Yes they have, a long way to the demise of creative music that comes from the soul.
Stadium intro staple, Right Here, Right Now leads off. I wonder how Fatboy Slim feels about being in basically every NBA team's intro...probably rich. Three massive hits and a bunch of songs no one listens to...and two of the hits are done in the first two songs. Rockafeller Skank sucks. In Heaven is terrible. The repetition of the words in these songs is the worst part. It reminds me of the Limp Bizkit song where he says fuck 1,000 times...I get it, you used a cuss word over and over again, very edgy. Gangster Trippin had a moment too...I vaguely remember it in something...a commercial or movie trailer or something. The six words repeating for the entire song maybe works when your out of your mind on E, but it makes it hard to listen to this in any other context. Where are all the kids with pacifiers? That being said, Kalifornia is one of more tolerable tracks. Praise You is awful too. This album was insufferable when it came out and it's insufferable now. I can't believe this got so popular. The Move It, Move It guys heard Love Island and had an idea. I also think it has a sample of King Hippo's voice from Mike Tyson's Punch Out. Acid 8000 sounds like 8 bit video game music.
¡¡De fábula!!
I like techno in general, so I'm used to listening to some relatively repetitive music. This is extremely repetitive. It's impressive what he was able to do with such rudimentary equipment - the quality of the recording is top rate, but the music itself is extremely tiring.
Praise you is decent, the rest feels like he’s hit the duplicate sample button on his DAW over and over again until it hits 5 minutes
gnbnbvnbvnbvn bv
Gets sort of repetitive at the end
Some fun stuff on here, some nostalgia here. But overall, not my thing. Just a bunch of noise sometimes
Pretty good, will listen again for sure
Some great tracks, but a bit more dated than I would have expected
A record that does as much with the DJ-led electronic dance genre as you can possibly do. Not my cup of tea, but undeniably infectious with some truly great transcendent tunes ("Right Here Right Now", "Praise You"). Not going to spin this a lot - or perhaps ever again - but it's about the pinnacle of what you can do with this otherwise insipid style.
Goood
Plenty to like here but no real need to listen to the whole album - you'll hear the good bits all the time anyway.
weak sauce
Isfuckingisfucjingisfucjingisfucjo 2.5
I find the corniness of this release to be terribly endearing. Genuinely awesome idk. I like what I like straight up
tiresome. right here, right now is fun
i mean. sure. whatever. "right here" (and its music vid {and the various advertisements it scored [it cannot be understated just how much this fucking genre was propped up by the choices of temp writers and their "4 quadrant + racial taxonomy hitting" music choices |was there ever an ethical way to make big beat? i couldn't tell you. prodigy were actual rockers. handsome boy modeling school were actual beatmakers. <a lot of it feels like Mostly overglorified exercises in racially dubious plunderphonics that "happened" cause of the post-nirvana/oasis beating madchester into the dirt + post-britpop bubble burst + pre-strokes + trance era tiesto EDM interregnum /tl;dr the thing that gave ok computer a leg up/> maybe it's like being a pop rapper. hard to win respect. another quick fuck you to moby|]}), "praise you," and "rockafeller" (just fine imo) are classics. like i said. despite my big beat misgivings he makes it happen on occasion. SOME of the album cuts ("fucking in heaven", "you're not from brighton", "are we having fun yet") are nice. good in the "fun yet" case. the drums take a lot out of the rest; it's failure to iterate. personally i need futuristic skater graffiti (jungle always sounds like the future ¯\_(ツ)_/¯) for this stuff to click. looking forward to chopping the kalifornia samples into a MASSIVE™️ (please. god. tell me there's remixes. i'm so tired of those fucking drums {remixes were mid}) rave tune. also. letting you guys know his government name's NORMAN COOK. norman cook? intermittently. 2.4-3.2. quick shoutout to whosampled; best of luck with the IDF funding.
Quite a strange techno album. It felt a bit all over the place. Very unique sound but a smidge too chaotic for my taste. Giving a more grunge Daft Punk… on crack….maybe heroin too… and coke… lol what a wild listen. I appreciate it for its uniqueness but not sure I’d listen to again, sorry!! Favorite 2: Rockefeller Skank, Praise You
I wouldn't listen to it in my free time but i think it deserves a 4 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Never knew cobra starship sampled praise you
Big Fat Boy Slim Fan .. Great Album but not quite worth a 5.
I did think before I listened to this that I was going to enjoy it and it would be at least a 4. How wrong I was. Listening to songs in isolation or in the context of a night out or at an open air event a I have definitely enjoyed. Listening to the whole album from start to finish in a single sitting or two, I have a different view. Complete torture, repetitive twaddle, just a bunch of sounds either repeated, slowed down, put through a phaser or some other sound modification system. Save it for Brighton beach, not on my hifi!
This guy comes up with one sentence and repeats it for 4 minutes straight. A couple catchy ones, but gets old
Technically sublime. A few big tracks. Original and well executed.
Nothing hugely special for me, nostalgic hits for sure but there's something a teeeny bit neither here nor there about this for me. Some fun bops to dance to, some slightly more boring stuff that feels like early 00s optimistic background dancey music.
I have an irrational dislike of Fatboy Slim, and listening to this didn't change that. I think it's just totally lacking in edge, wayyy too happy go lucky for me when it comes to dance music.
Beats to be fat and get slim too. Praise You was one of my favorite songs growing up. I only have heard like one other song off the album but the view counts were crazy for this one. 8/10
Funk so brava
Dj. El chabon la re vio me re gustó
Great album
Back in the late 90's I recall enjoying this album very much. I also really liked The Housemartins, so I think Norman Cook held a small place in my musical heart. With all of that, I was quite excited to jump into this record today. I won't say I was completely disappointed, but it no longer "did it" for me as it did back then. At the time I thought it was very cool (and likely thought my musical taste was very cool too). Listening today I mostly thought it was painfully repetitious. Each song built on one theme and stuck with it almost completely. When they were interesting to me (In Heaven, Gangster Trippin, Soul Surfing, and especially Praise You), I was getting into it. But the other songs felt like they just went on and on with no point. I'm not sure how I'm going to rate this, as it's around a 3.5 but I can see it going lower rather than higher.
Impossible to judge fairly because i'm totally blown away by the nostalgia. Big Beat, as a genre, was short lived, but it was so fun! That combination of dance beats and old rock n roll samples goes so well, and the lead tracks still stand up today. Add to that some dancier tracks that would easily fit in with Orbital or Daft Punk styles and it's a properly enjoyable listen. Just a little bit more variety - such as a later track like Bird of Prey or something more chill, amd this would make a 5. As it is, a strong 4.
4/10 I know repetition is an essential part of music, but SURELY there's a limit. That being said there are some good moments, but overall not for me.
15. 팻보이 슬림 - 윱 컴 어 롱 웨이 베이비 총 11곡 수록, 1시간 2분 프레이즈 유는 참 좋지... 그러나 그뿐이다 그때는 뭐 굉장했겠지만 이제는 좀 식상한거같음 그랬네용 한줄평: 아아 시대의 흐름이여 취향: ★★☆☆☆ 재방문: ★☆☆☆☆
Classic big beat dance tracks. Wasn’t a thing I was huge into at the time but it can’t be denied that it’s great dance music
should've made it FASTboy slim
7/10
I find this album both enjoyable and frustrating. Enjoyable because, for my surprise, it's a very funny record. At least at some points. And that's something surprising because I rarely like repetitive music. And this album is very repetitive. But, I can't find interesting songs that are all the time the same. Yes, they are funny, but just that. I don't think I would like to listen to it again. So, surely, I've liked this album, at least at times, but I can't find it much of my taste, and, definitely, not something I would call good.
Techno odd
3/5, альбом детства, Прейз Ю и Райт Хир Райт Нау были добавлены ранее, Ты Не Из Брайтона, Рокафеллер Сканк и Асид 8000 добавлены после прослушивания альбома, но асид возможно будет удален, надо с ним пожить; кал-ифорния не понравилась; у Лав Айленд есть потенциал, но мне не очень нравится основной вот этот странный дребежащий бас, с 1:46 вводится вообще клоунский гуфи ахх инструмент, который все окончательно превращает в саундтрек сабвей серферс; остальное сойдет
ну крайне так себе
A good album, I liked Right Here Right Now and Praise You the most.
Not my thing, electronic is too busy for me. Didn't finish.
Esimene pool albumist on tõesti kõva, sellele annaks 5/5. Fatboy oli omal ajal revolutsiooniline ikka. Aga teises pooles see kuidagi vajub ära, kahju. Plaat on ikka laias laastus ülimalt hea ning täidetud lihtsate, aga meeldejäävate ja õõtsumapanevate käikudega. 4.2/5
Basically every Fatboy Slim hit I know of are in here.
7.5
Praise You is the only good song on the whole album sure, but it's a great song.
Praise You is one of my favorite songs ever and was so excited to have an excuse to listen to it! The whole album is so much fun, and must have sounded so cool when it first came out. It definitely feels of a particular time and place now, but will always love Fatboy Slim (and the iconic music videos)
this might be the most based pick so far Would I listen again: hell yeah Deserves to be on this list: yeah 4.2
Como The Prodigy y The Chemical Brothers, fue el líder del big beat. Diferente The Housemartins, Freak Power, Betas International... son nombres asociados al éxito y al buen rollo (cualquier tema de los Housemartins es de obligada escucha, Dub Be Good To Me y Turn On, Tune In, Cop Out) Norman es un tipo que cae bien, haga lo que haga, lo hace bien. En cierto modo tanto Heaton como Cook son la antítesis de Mozzer. Este disco, fundamental, tuvo un éxito masivo y contiene temas que suenas igual de frescos hoy en día. Nada menos que 5 sencillos, a cual más reconocible: Right Here, Right Now, The Rockafeller Skank, Gangster Tripping, Praise You y Build It Up - Tear It Down. Puede que Kalifornia no sea gran cosa pero Acid 8000 mantiene el nivel. UN disco , sobre todo disfrutable.
I remember "The Rockafeller Skank" being one of the really big songs in the summer of 1998. I also really like "Praise You" and hearing that a lot on the radio too. Pretty good electronica album. Definitely repetitive but interesting enough that it didn't get on my nerves.
Some bangers on here 4.5/5
Funk show brother. Cool, not what I expected!
Right up my street. Been a long time since I heard this, but has aged very well. Upbeat and great to work to :D
I love the first few tracks but gets repetative and dies towards the end.
ich brauche TEXT, das sind nur snippets und geräusche... halt gute dj skills und guter 90s vibe aber nicht meins... es wiederholen sich einzelne sounds auch viel zu sehr, ich kann das nicht ab
This is a fun album with few true classics. 3.5 stars only as there is a considerable amount of filler on this one. Shrink it to an EP and I would give it five stars for probably the first and best mashup of Northern soul electronica......unless you pick all the filller tracks.....shame on you.
All I knew of Fatboy Slim was "Weapon of Choice." This album was interesting but not really my cup of tea. A lot of the songs sounded really similar and had similar beats, which admittedly did sound cool. I skipped a few parts of songs (including that awful fucking in heaven song) and don't feel like I missed much.
I'm not into DJ music, but it's not unlistenable. 2.5/5 rounded up to 3.
Quite repetitive although it does have 'Right Here, Right Now' on it which I do like, so a bonus star for that tune.
It’s got a good beat and I can dance to it.
Nostalgic
Fatboy Slim reminds me of when I was a kid. I remember when i heard some of these songs for the first time and was fascinated, and how I grew to hate them when they became repetitive. The bizarre videoclips. I really liked relistening to this.
Nearly every track on this album is 5+minutes but only a few are worth being that long.
It is 1999, I’m wearing pleather pants and dancing to this album at a dorm party with a Marlboro Light and a bottle of Zima. “This is the coolest I will ever be”, I think. I am mistaken on all counts.
It's NBB (nothing but bangers) but it's hard to take seriously as one of the greatest records ever. One of those albums which isn't the best of pop and it isn't the best of dance music it's in that radio playable middle ground
Great album for running
DJs and EDM just aren't my thing
Probably an unpopular opinion but 11 songs each having basically a single lyric is relatively unimpressive.
Quintessentially solid and fun, adaptable and quite universal, just kinda listenable and breezy in most of any contexts. In a way it doesn't deserve some "best of all time" rating, but if you think about it, creating something so flexibly fun is a grand achievement in of itself. A 4 feels like a fine and appropriate rating, then, although I'm sure some would be quite unimpressed and give it a 3, while others might find it to be extremely impressive in its own right and give it a 5.
I don't know, I was expecting to hate it - turned out to be an unexpected bop. I was dancing and smiling like the lad on the cover the whole way through. Kind of lost me in the last third but not enough to detract from the first two. It's just a fun and carefree album that doesn't require much concentration or even inebriation, which isn't a given considering the genre this album resides in. Listening notes: well this is a long one it's long cause the songs have to be long, this is a DJ album after all F-ing in Heaven sounds straight out of an old Guy Ritchie movie it just sounds like everyone involved had a lot of fun making the album and I appreciate that Kalifornia does something to me, not sure what, I'll get back to you Soul surfing and Brighton are kind of whatever at this point, let's see if it comes back to me It does, Praise You has a much more traditional melodic structure to get you back to familiarity on top of a magnificently funky bassline Can we also take a second to appreciate that album cover? I know nothing about it but I want to be as happy and as carefree as that lad Last couple of tracks probably require more "chemical pick-me-up" than I'm willing to have on this moody Monday at work, but the album overall made it less moody than it needed to be
I get why this is considered essential, but it just doesn’t work for me. 𝘠𝘰𝘶’𝘷𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘢 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘞𝘢𝘺, 𝘉𝘢𝘣𝘺 relies a lot on the same kinds of loops and big beats, and after a while it starts to wear me down. A few tracks are fun at first, but over a full album it feels repetitive and kind of annoying. I can see why people like it, just not something I’d want to sit through again.
Blast from my past 3.5/5
Had me for a little bit but kind of lost me at the end. I'm not an electronics kind of person but it was alright.
Nice, bit nostalgic of course, very much of its time. But couple of bangers.
Yess I love rock music but the generator was giving me too many rock albums it was gettin repetitive but then it refreshed me with this. I love this type of music too!
Banger
I got this album when it came out and it continues to be one of my favs. I’m not super into electronic music, but this guy holds my interest.
For me this ia absolutely 1 star or F- garbage.
Now we are talking. EPIC og electronic music. When mixes had soul, creating various kinds of genres and personalities. Bug Beat. I was starting to get worried i havent gave starts to nothing yet, and despite this not being my favourite yet, it definitely started perfectly taking me aback and vibed through it. Im feeling generous today
7/10 Buen album, divertido, no aburre con los ritmos y te levanta
4 Enjoyed this a lot more than the other electronica albums I've heard. Could still do with trimming down a bit tbh, cut out a few songs.
Entertaining and unique listen but can definitely get repetitive and annoying at times. Likes: Right Here Right Now; Rockafeller Skank; Praise You
High energy, repetitive club hits from the late 90s. I think I’m more of a Crystal Method fan.
All of these songs work great as individual tracks but listening to it all back to back gets really boring. 6/10
much better than expected
Fatboy Slimin You've Come a Long Way, Baby on ihan hauskaa jumputusta, vaikka biiseissä on ihan helvetisti liikaa toistoa. Tuskin tätä tulen enää kokonaan kuuntelemaan, mutta joitakin yksittäisiä biisejä voisin kuunnella vielä uudestaankin.
Fatboy Slim is such a great producer.
na het derde nummer begon het echt allemaal hetzelfde te klinken. niet mijn ding
a few songs on here are awesome, first two and last three. if this don't make your booty move, your booty must be dead!
God, this album encapsulates the 90s for me. It's full of earworms and it's a fun listen. Some of these songs were everywhere when I was growing up. So much nostalgia here. But is it good? Outside of some repetitiveness, I'd say hell yeah, it's very good. Cook has assembled some banging beats and quirky electronic accents and vocals that mesh really well together. The songs build and swell and its kinda everything you want out of this genre. Standout tracks on this listen were "The Rockafeller Skank" "Gangster Trippin" "Kalifornia" and "Praise You" I think its gotta be a 5 from me. A couple songs were a little lacking and "Fucking In Heaven" was pretty cringe-worthy, but it's all kinda forgivable considering how catchy the whole album is. I'd pop this back on any day.
iconic album
Fine. I did get bored halfway through.
Banging
Damn, this is actually pretty annoying. Overly repetitive, songs don't progress much, gets tiresome quickly. Another miss for Dimery on this one, to no surprise.
Not really my vibe atm, praise you will always be iconic though! Think i need to relisten to this another time
Started out a vibe, got boring fairly quick
Old school electronic dance music. Some of the sound hasn't aged well
Fat boy slim es el papá. 1. Right here, right now 2. Praise you 3. Soul surfing 4. The rockaffeller skank
Buen álbum, el sonido que nos prometió un gran siglo XXI lol
Niet mijn ding.
Two Fat Boy Slim albums on the list is excessive.
Fatboy Slim is iconic, but a one hour album of Fatboy Slim is tiring. Best Songs: Right Here Right Now, The Rockafeller Skank, Praise You Worst Songs: In Heaven, Acid 8000
These songs were too repetitive and long. Like a 6 min track contains 2 min portion repeated thrice. But good music tho
An absolutely fine album. Most of the songs go on for a bit too long, but there's enough variety on here to keep it interesting.
I love ultra repetitive beats and computer noises! Oh wait, I don’t ….
Repetitive. Not bad, just repetitive.
amazing album I grew up with thanks fatboy
Medio choto, no para de repetir la misma frase en varios temas
Canciones completamente monótonas casi lineales, muy extensas, no añaden variedad armónica o rítmica durante la canción, solo ligeras variaciones en sonidos. Comprendo que el álbum es de un DJ, y que como tal, debe tener canciones más o menos de este estilo, a pesar de ello, son muy extensas sus canciones, no ofrecen novedad musical. La única canción que levemente puedo rescatar es 'Praise You', aunque sigue siendo muy extensa.
Hmmm that’s not the album I remember…. Fitbit Slim is one of those guys that probably should have kept his face hidden from the music masses because I feel it greatly reduced the impact of hi music. Moby was the same way. But then again, being a DJ is an ugly man’s job perhaps. I had this CD. I wasn’t disappointed. It’s been years since I’ve listened to this so I’m curious how I’ll respond to it after becoming a musical genius of the taste kind. You know what, it’s good. Forget the bald skinny fuck that makes these beats. It’s nothing. I’m not saying this is music that one would blast out their open windows. I don’t even know if nostalgia plays a part in this either. It’s just worth a listen is what I’m saying I guess. Choice cut: Praise You
It’s pretty good but I think the songs would be better if they were shorter