You've Come a Long Way Baby

some tracks great, some meh

A thing of dance beauty.

A classic

Thirty years on it's still got it.

dance, electr., rap, acid, 1998 -> 2

Classic. Still holds up.

Absolutely slaps - first 10/10

This is a fun album, it a bit of a brain rot kind of way. Incredible mixing from a largely pre digital time. The beats are funky and fun. Electronic has never been my favorite genre though. Favorite track is the titular you've come a long way

Fun play with repititions. A bit much as an entire LP and slightly dated.

A few bangers but otherwise pretty meh

This is a real mixed bag. There are three or four good tracks that anyone who was alive in the 90s is likely to remember but the rest are repetitive and an after a little while just plain irritating.

Rv/g

I think I may have reached an epiphany listening to You've Come a Long Way Baby. I asked the internet why is electronic music so popular in Europe? The less obvious answers are Europe's embrace of disco and its various offshoots, less restrictive club laws, an abundance of music festivals and a general reverence for DJs as artists. However, the real reason, apart from being generally danceable, is that electronic music transcends language and ideology. I mean, you can condense a timeline of European events to 1. electronic music ascends and 2. European Union forms. It seems quite straightforward. In fact, I think electronic music in all its guises would mitigate the political climate in the United States. By the way, another epiphany is that Fatboy Slim is an English DJ and not a mid-aughts alt rock band from Mississippi. So, I give You've Come a Long Way Baby five stars for its sheer import to mankind's past and its future. Now, more than ever, the funk soul brother.

absolutely bonkers. just crazy pants. have you seen my marbles?? i've seemed to have lost them. no highlights because i already had every damn song saved off this album.

Yeah this is pretty much a 5 out of 5, it's one of the most iconic of its genre and makes me happy, this was in the background to my youth being played everywhere and I almost forgot how great it is, still stand up as one of the best. In Heaven is a bit repetitive/annoying though.

Beg beat perfection

1.5/5. Repetitive, annoying nonsense. Praise You is a banger that saves it from a 1 star review. I struggle to understand how anybody can enjoy listening to this album in its entirety.

It was just ok nothing to write home about 5/10

Every song appears to be the same loop repeated for the entire song. But your review is very cute so I’m going 2 instead of 1.

whoooaaaaaa I had completely forgotten about this album but I did in fact buy it in 1999 and listened to it on repeat on my boom box in my bedroom to draw comics. and OMGGGGGGG the WBCN clip to start out Rockafella Skank "who's your fahvorite ahtist?" has there ever been a more Boston moment in the history of Boston?? I cannot objectively review this album because it is apparently, somewhat embarrassingly, integral to my self hood.

This album isn't necessarily bad but I do question on what merits it made this list? Rockafeller Skank and Praise You are decent radio songs. In Heaven was a good laugh if nothing else. The album cover with the fat kid is way better than the American version.

I liked it, 1 or 2 duds

Very fun electronic music

Praise You is the only song worthy of eternal fame. The rest of the album has moments, sure, but it's more of the same electronic nineties stuff and I would take The Prodigy above Fatboy Slim any day of the week.

This is not my favourite style of music. This one has a bit of a spark that a lot of British electronic music does not. Extra point for Rockafeller Skank, which I heard a lot playing FIFA 99.

No puedo decir que me haya gustado mucho este álbum. Siento que tiene ciertos momentos divertidos y reconocidos. Pero en general me resulta demasiado repetitivo y de humor estúpido (como "Fatboy slim keeps fucking in heaven..."). No conecté con el humor ni con el groove. A pesar de que aprecie el trabajo de sampleo oscuro que utilizó para el desarrollo del álbum. No es mi estilo.

Day 77 This was every house party from the year I turned 18 and for about 3 years afterwards. Every song burned into my brain even though it’s not one I’d choose to listen to often 7/10 for the happy memories. Highlights Kalifornia Acid 8000

Very fun! How can you not wanna bust a move to "Praise You", "right Here, Right Now", and "The Rockafeller Shank"? Favorite track: The Rockafeller Shank

oh hell yeah tracks are little too long for my liking, but this is still pretty rad

The use of samples set a new precedent for dance music, and brought it to the masses. This creates a depth to the tracks that make them super interesting to listen to!

What a time to be alive. These songs are pretty good, and one of the sounds of the era, but they're way too long.

Iconic album. Completion nostalgic for me. I remember when this came out on cassette and my mum dropped me at a friends house. My friend and I listened to it with one headphone each ontop of a stack of hay bails on a really sunny evening- that was way before the world went to shit. Fun album!

As I predicted the top rated comments miss the mark by a country mile. You can make anything seem unimpressive if you box it in with a simple word like "repetitive". How is that in any way helpful? Why not try "infectious", "energizing" or "blood-pumping"? I find those words do a much better job at capturing the appeal of this music.

Сложно слушать сидя дома. Мозаика звуков, подходящая для веселья.

There's some really solid parts of this album but also elements that drag on to the edge of annoyance. Pretty likeable overall

A surprisingly enjoyable listen—I haven't listened to much electronic music, but I tend to enjoy the genre, and this is a fantastic example of it. It does drag a little long, though; a few of the longer songs could stand to be shorter.

Definitely liked this one more than the other fatboy slim record, praise you is a classic. Even more experimental but this time with the flow feeling more in place. Still not totally my genre but I respect it

Solid classic dance album

I like the two hits that’s all

Catchy club music from the year of my birth

Pretty decent for it's genre

Fun

Unlistenable after 1999

Repetitive techno synth in combo with (is that) raps not my fave in the least, so the opening track put me off. Later tracks turned right round, so all in all I am a neutral fan of this selection. Listened before? N Saved to library? N Favorite track(s): Praise You, Rockefeller Skank -- if I have to choose ⭐⭐⭐: Liked it well enough.

Electronic music is not my favorite, but Praise You is great. So '90s. I'd save some other tracks to my favorites list to shuffle if they were shorter, but a few did get saved to themed playlists. Listened before? N Saved to library? N Favorite track(s): Rockafeller Skank, Gangster Trippin, Praise You, Acid 8000 ⭐⭐⭐: Liked it. Saved some tracks.

It’s repetitive in the best way.

Not the biggest fan of fatboy slim - It's just so...repetitive? hyped me up for a pilates class though.

it takes a level of talent to make music this aggravating it’s not bad I just hate it feeling kind of kombucha girl w this one actually…

Wow - liked this so much. Wasn’t expecting that! Praise You a favorite.

Ok, dragged a bit. 3 stars

Fatboy Slim be definitely fucking in heaven.

Yeah loved it. made me think about Zoe ball and nostalgia.

First CD album I ever bought. Loved it then, love it now.

I'm not going to lie, just fast, banging memories come flashing back. The build of the intro to right here, right now is up there with the best. Cook has a real skill of resurrecting songs that were not on the average person's radar & turned them into globally recognizable tunes. Album doesn’t flow terribly well and a bit full on but I’m always teleported back to a warm summer Saturday night under a giant spider at Glastonbury when I hear Praise You

Is this what I needed on a rainy, blustery horrible day in the UK? Hell yeah! Are there better dance pop acts around? Oh yes of course, but this seems to hit the spot today. But definitely something to be in the mood for. If I was in a grumpy, pretentious mood, I'd be less up for this. The absolute hits Praise you, Rockafeller Skank and Right here, Right now are incredible. I've seen him live a few times and it's always been a great party. So thank you Norman!

Good album

Very 90’s x feel

Such a fun stroll down 90s memory lane. I’ll add this one to my rotation for sure.

A love letter to chaos, caffeine, and clunky tech. A monster built in a bedroom and defined a decade. Best enjoyed while chugging Code Red and pretending Gran Turismo is your real job….repetition as religion.

one of the most emblematic DJ's that brought the genre to the mainstream in the 90's

own

Why would this crap be on the list? 0.00

I already knew i was going to like this. Mad start, could give or take the middle album tracks, then the highlight is Praise You. Sweet.

Loved it. From start to finish is a great hype up album. Was always hesitant to listen because when ive heard fat boy slims songs it sounded super repetitive. But hearing the album from start yo finish is chefs kiss

There are 3 classic songs on the album, the remaining songs are lackluster. Hard to listen to with kids 😂

Loved a lot, but not Fucking in Heaven's duration.

My life remained the same before and after this album. I found it repetitive and a bit annoying at times. Electronic music like this has the potential to be so much better and more intricate! The redeeming factor was the sampling. The sampling was creative and fun!

Funk Soul Brother, Check It Out Now 1001 Albums Generator 144 (10/21/2025) You've Come A Long Way Baby is an album that makes me sad because some of the ideas and sample flips are so genius but others are so annoying. This may be the album thus far that has the highest standard deviation in quality. Songs like the hypnotic Right Here, Right Now, the iconic Rockafeller Skank (which gets way weirder that I imagined it would), and the great turntablism on Gangster Trippin' is interrupted by the obnoxious In Heaven. Some of the songs here are also experimental in a slightly unpleasant way, like Kalifornia and You're Not From Brighton. I was also slightly disappointed because the only other album I've heard that is in this style of Big Breaks is Prodigy's Fat Of The Land, which I think is great, but Fatboy Slim, while obviously having the production chops to run with the best of them, sometimes doesn't know when to stop himself from doing something annoying. But again, some of these songs are absolutely genius, so I guess this is a 3/5. Favs: Right Here, Right Now Rockafeller Skank Gangster Trippin Least Fav: In Heaven

Absolute classic!

If you’re looking for upbeat, feel good theme music for your day, then look no further. “The Rockafeller Skank” and “Praise You” were to the two global hits, but every song has a certain foot tapping beat to it.

Fatboy Slim was my shit in 2nd grade. 5/5

More than anything it is embarrassing that this exists.

this album goes so hard

An electronic album that stayed appealing, though not impressing.

It'd be great at a party, too repetitive at home though

Not really. Repetitive to annoyance.

Too repetitive, but 3* for the singles that came out of it.

It was surprisingly fun to hear the singles again, despite how much they were overplayed on radio and adverts at the time. The rest of the album was hard work to get through. I had to listen to a song at a time and take breaks because it was intensely irritating. Two and a half minutes into You're Not From Brighton, I had to check how long was left. It felt like it had been playing for about 25 minutes, but I was still halfway from the finish line. Acid 8000 is even longer. Jesus Christ, Quentin, rein it in a bit.

great

More tecno shit. Wow this shit sucks

I like Fatboy Slim's music, but many of the tracks get repetitive and go on for way too long.

I have a soft spot for Right here, right now because my daughter unexpectedly loved it when she was pre-school age. But I’ll be honest the album is just background noise to me.

Dear electronic music artists, Two minutes is more than enough time to get the point across in a song that just repeats the same phrase over and over again. If the majority of your songs are hitting the 5-minute mark, those songs are WAY too long. Sincerely, The world

Meh

Best one so far, fun and digestible and catchy

Strong singles, the rest a bit meandering

The song “Praise You” is the only thing that saved this from being a 1.

Not my style at all. I skipped almost every song. Once you hear the first minute, you've heard it all. Boooooooo.

2/1001 First listen. Fatboy Slim. The Praise you guy. Neve liked the song. The rest of this album however, I did enjoy and will come back to. Catchy. Fun. Druggy druggy druggy druggy druggy druggy

Soooo repetitive

This big beat album is grating and overblown, its repetitive hooks and blaring samples quickly wearing thin under a barrage of forced energy and empty swagger. Yet beneath the bombast, a few calmer, groove-driven moments hint at a more nuanced, hypnotic sound the record rarely explores, making it feel like a missed opportunity buried under its own noise.

Meh

Not gonna lie, this one was pretty awesome. Not a huge fan of electronic music as most if it goes on too long, this one was pretty awesome. I don’t wanna give you that to deliberately, but I think this is a five star.

Not really my thing. Reminds me of early Youtube days and not in a good way. It sounds pretty cinematic tho- I can see the appeal

Why would any one listen to Coldplay

Great album

What a talented artist. No skips, 10/10

Demasiado urbano y experimental para mí. He vuelto a dejarlo a medias. Es todo música y todo el rato igual, no hay casi letra. Hay una canción que me ha gustado, cosa que le sube nota. Aún así, no me veo escuchándolo otra vez. ⭐⭐

Wonderful album.

Marrant mon expérience ressemble pas mal à celle jazzy d’hier. J’aime vrmt bcp le style dans la plupart des sons mais je supporte pas trop les répétitions très rapprochées des motifs qui donnent un effet volontairement saturé tout le temps et qui me rendent crazy in the bad way… dommage que ce soit cognitivement au-delà de mes limites car j’aurais pu groover

premier album électro que j’écoute entièrement et sans interruption, l’expérience d’écoute a été vraiment surprenante. après une première écoute en voiture, où les sons étaient franchement déroutants (surtout la répétitivité et les layers de samples), j’ai décidé de stopper avant le son 4 pour réécouter l’album entier une fois plus posée. en le réécoutant au calme le dimanche matin, ça a fait clic : boucles hypnotiques, drum runs intéressants, effets de glissement… Kalifornia et Fucking in Heaven font maintenant partie intégrante de ma playlist. je pense aussi que le fait d’avoir vu les clips de certains sons, surtout celui de Right here, right now, m’ont encore plus fait kiffer la vibe du projet. en bref, pas un album évident à la première écoute (surtout si c’est une écoute limite passive), mais une appréciation qui vient au fur et à mesure des réécoutes.

There are some classics in there that are timeless, but once you get past them there’s nothing spectacular but still remains enjoyable throughout.

The opening four track salvo is like a best of Fatboy Slim for sure! It does tail off in the middle with three or four tracks that just don’t do much for me. I thought this would prove to be an album “of its time” but it has held up so well! Great album full of great big beat dance tracks!

The first 2 songs are iconic, after that the album sort of falls off for me. 2.49 stars.

Perfection.

This is a sample pack as an album. Good in short clips and has been used commercially to great effect. 90’s viral music

I didn’t love every song but there are some certified bangers on this one! Fast paced and so stupid you sometimes don’t want to admit it’s also kind of genius.

Good for sampling. Good vibes. Would be type of album you would put in the background for the entrance of a character.

1 nahhhhh way to much going on and I wasn’t feeling it

Incredible instrumentals behind catchy samples, a bit repetitive but alright overall.

Not bad, but not particularly good. Not what I would want to listen to normally. 3/5

Groovy throughout! Classic body of work

Praise You was on repeat junior year in college. Right Here Right Now was on repeat in every tv ad.

Eh

I wanted to feel the magic but I just simply could not.

Unbelievable. Best days of my life.

Has some iconic and memorable tracks, but as an album it's painfully repetitive.

Ultra classic. Ahead of its time perhaps to this day.

The first track was played to my old RE class on a lesson about evolution/ the Rockafeller skank I definitely know from somewhere (well not the ending) but I know the start- really should be called ‘funk soul brother’. They work and then fucking in heaven sounds like something they’d use to brainwash someone. Then I genuinely stop caring about this music… praise you is a good pop song though. So yeah good hits just not entirely for me 3/5… generously

Yes it's repetitive, of cours it is. It is EDM. Electro DANCE music, so try listening to it dancing and feeling it instead of sitting in an overpriced designer chair being a snob

So far, this album is upbeat and fun beats BUT so repetitive that it gets annoying and seems to lack creativity. There are interesting and fun aspects to the beat and rhythm of the music, but I’m just looking for more lyric creativity and not to feel annoyed by what I’m listening to. At times it just feels like a record broke and they left that in the album. Finished the album and feel the same way at the end lol, not the worst thing I’ve ever heard, but definitely not good either.

tbr

I mean this is great. How do you not like this one? Catchy, fun, nostalgic hits. It's got it all.

Classics. Wasn't really a fan then, and I'm not now.

the tracks start to sound formulaic after a while - but why change the formula if it creates a banger after a banger

Meh...

Listened to this and it is a great album. 1990s dance music with a variety of existential mashups. A wonderful mix of samples from various decades, samples of strong women’s singing and electronic vibes. One of the first albums I ever owned and reminds me of my youth, dancing at clubs and being electrified on the dance floor.

It's a vibe. I mean that both as a positive and negative. Positive because it's fun, enjoyable, and has some addictive grooves. Negative because it's repetitive and has little distinction as it goes-- it just kinda persists. I think the album runs way too long for what it is. Not sure I need to listen to it for an hour+. That said, I probably would enjoy it more in much smaller doses. There are a number of songs on here that I like, including some I knew and already liked. I don't think they were stronger in the context of the album, but work well on their own. Some new ones (to me) were also good, but again didn't really gain much from listening to the album as a whole. There wasn't anything that I particularly disliked beyond just getting a bit tired of it by the end. Considering it in full, this isn't something I'd consider a great album. I think it has a lot of staying power, and it stands out considering that came out in the 90s. The songs retain listenability. Even so, considering it as a whole makes it seem less impressive; it's basically just fine when you listen to it through. It's probably a situation where, if this style of music is your vibe, you'll love it. But if not, you won't be all that moved. I fall into the latter category. Overall: 2.3/5

Some big hits that I really like, but I wouldn’t choose to listen to the rest of the songs again. I must have heard The Rockafeller Skank a million times because of FIFA 99 on PC Praise You is genuinely a great song

Great fun some of these songs are classics too

великий альбом, мощная музыка, даже в 2025. Но пара треков вызывают недоумение и без них было бы лучше

Groovy. Lots of funky classics

I love my '90s electronic but I did in theory think the hits on this album were going to have more power than they actually ended up having in practice. They also kinda have their one central recognizable part (funk soul brother check it out now!) and they don't really know exactly what to do with the, like, six-minute average runtime of each song As they say; if you love a '90s electronic artist, don't listen to their full tracks Still a good, fun album

Meh

Didn't hold up very well. It gets repetitive and annoying quickly

Been a while…solid

Not a horrible album. Couple of bangers, but not traditionally my thing.

Fucking in Heaven, Gangster Trippin and Praise You are the only good songs on this album per my taste. It’s a little too techno for me.

Huge nostalgia for this album, and I prefer it to Better Living Through Chemistry. Both are masterclasses in big beat repetition, but YCALWB has more bounce. On more critical listening today, this album comes out swinging, which makes it very front loaded. It’s also very long and plays longs, there are a few tracks in the second half that could be weeded out to make this more concise album with more punch. As much nostalgia as I have for this, it’s an album that sounds better when you are in Ayia Napa, or Amnesia.

que terror sonoro

Actually quite liked this one. Quite a cool and unique electronic sound. Considering adding it to my personal library, but would probably have to give it another listen or two.

A lot of nostalgia with this one. As a teen, it was on heavy rotation during our weekend parties!

3.5/5

I could never really get into Fatboy Slim, which is surprising cos I really enjoy a lot of similar stuff (The Crystal Method, Aphex Twin). I can't put my finger on why it doesn't resonate with me, but it mostly doesn't. Favorite track: Gangster Trippin

I was pleasantly surprised by this one. I know I comment on repetitiveness a lot and I definitely want to dock this one for that, but it somehow manages to remain interesting. I also happened to recognize some songs that I haven't heard since I was a kid on this album. Fun experience!

This is a great album for dancing in a club. But for general listening, it gets too repetitive for me.

This album I’m pretty sure would be amazing at any point in time in the past or in the future. I saw Fatboy Slim perform at the 930 club in Washington DC and it was electric. I had always previously passed off mixing and DJing as less creative as live music creation but oh man, what a show.

*1998. English dance/electronic. *Rockafeller Skank and Praise You are the only songs I knew, and definitely the most interesting. *House/DJ music. *Most of the songs are long and repetitive, but I guess that's the point. *It's fine, but I wouldn't revisit. RATING - 6/10

Мені 9 чи 10 років, я вмикаю FIFA 99 на PS і звідти після пафосної заставки починає грати The Rockafeller Skank. Супер кайф) Давно не слухав цей альбом повністю. Багато супер хітів, які було приємно згадати. Іноді потрапляються відео Baauer, де він розбрає його семплінг і завжди дуже цікаво дивитися за ходами. Не сподобалось, що багато пісень довгі, репетативні і часто хочеться щоб вони були в якійсь радіо версії та коротші.

 Завжди любив фетбой сліма, це один з найкращих його альбомів, з хітами які звучали з кожної праски. Вчора переслухав з задоволенням.

не найкращий альбом фетбой сліма, але як завжди дуже гарний вайб, люблю його

Good example of something I’d rather listen to. But it's not as good as Madvillainy.

Honestly, love the vibes. and is it just me or is this giving tv girl??

Knew a few off this obviously but the ones I didn’t know blew me away. Amazing

I don’t know who electronic music is for. I get annoyed with the same sound every 10seconds for 6 min. Whats saving this album from a 1 star is praise you. It’s great.

Охуенный альбом,сэмплы,элементы разных жанров,изменение звука каждые 20 секунд,лучший биг бит альбом всех времен Любимый трек:Soul Surfing Худший трек:Love Island Ar:9.87/10

Sampling and splicing are art forms that need to be more prevalent and Fat Boy Slim put them on the radar for most. Not really the kind of music I would listen to all the time, especially some songs with uncomfortable amount of expletives in them but, it makes for cultured listening.

if you know the singles from way back then you know this is a perfectly executed lesson in sampling and repetition so this is a perfectly executed rating between 1 and 5 stars

I liked it but the last two songs are horrible so that brings the rating down.

GOATed

Contrary to popular belief, I think that Rockafeller Skank sucks and every other song on this album is waaay better. I'll give it 3/5 cuz it's definitely groovy and puts you in a good mood, but I probably wouldn't go out of my way to listen to this.

Incredible album

Hey man we need you to soundtrack this 90s teen comedy/hacker movie from the late 90s/early 2000s. You got anything for us?

I didn't like this as much as I did as a kid. I still liked the first track again.

brighton have the worst gulls and the best fries. and decent music. although i consider this as a club classic and pretty good its not something i would listen to every day. 3.5/5

Not often is say this and it's not really MY favourite genre, but take the last track out and I could listen to this album on repeat. Faultless in many ways.

eh. not my thing

I'm glad to see the tracks I loved as a kid are just as great as I remember (Praise You, Rockafeller Skank, Gangster Tripping, Right Here Right Now). The rest are just fine, and not as terrible as I remember. Overall it's a lot of fun but its biggest flaws are that it's inconsistent and most of the songs are a bit too long.

I am just not a fan of this style. It is too repetitive for me and goes nowhere. There are some HITS here that I didn't know were by Fatboy Slim, but overall this is fine. I have heard "Right Here, Right Now" at every Pens Game during the pregame show and had no idea this is who that was by. I just wish the songs were shorter or they developed into something more. The top songs are great tho and the transition from "Right Here, Right Now" into "The Rockafeller Skank" is so fun. Actual rating is 2.5. Liked Songs: "Right Here, Right Now" , "The Rockafeller Skank" , "Gangster Trippin" , "Soul Surfing" , "You're Not From Brighton" , "Praise You"

Not good 1.5

Out there, very left of center hip hop.

So baller. Really enjoyed this. Classic after classic

Maybe a bit formulaic but some good hooks and great grooves

Repetition rules but an hour of it can get a bit tiring.

Not many people know that that infamous Brighton Beach incident was actually a result of Houmous & Chutney opening the gig. The surge from the crowd was too much! Of course Norman took all the credit. H&C only opened as an apology to Norman after Len had knocked boots with Zoe Ball. 4.9 9/11 Praise You

Club beats

Ok never a big fan

Great album. This and Halfway between the gutter and the stars are the peak of Fatboy Slims sampling powers.

This really takes you back - it seems like every song was a single - they were so ubiquitous, pervasive and insistent - the childlike frivolous “lyrics” - the constant, incessant, relentless, pummelling repetitions - I hate it.

Loved this when it dropped. Completely grew out of it after a while. Now I’m middle-aged and inexplicably have a whole new appreciation for this shit again.

Reasonable 90's electronic music. I didn't like this stuff as it came out, but I've grown to appreciate it a bit more.

Over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again and again and again and again and again and again and afain.............................................................................................................??? ????? ?????????? ? ???? ????????????? ???????? ?? ? ?????

I guess it was ok on the dance floor in the nineties, but to listen to it today not so much.

amazing lyrics not found

no me gusta

Some proper banging tracks on this one

I know of this artist and some of their music and most of it actually off this record. I know that his stuff is good and groovy.

Grooving on my morning hike the whole time this played.

Blast from start to finish. We’re past 100 albums & this is easily the most fun shit we’ve had. Read a lot of reviews that are like “duhhhh it’s repetitive” but that’s like saying a rap album has too many words. The original album art is infinitely better. So far I think this is my favorite album we’ve done????

Right about now The guns in my mouth

As far as, electronica, trip-hop, techno-pop goes, I'm sure this is a great record. It is not my thing. Each song becomes tedious until they finally end. I don't think I'll ever listen to it again.

what a fantastic way to start my week. lets go baby

probably not the kind of album to just throw on and listen to with headphones. pretty annoying stuff.

Bleh

Loved it a lot more than a lot of the other British electronic instrumentals albums. A lot catchier, it changed it up often enough to keep it interesting, and the hooks were fun

So much fun, and you can tell he doesn’t take himself too seriously.

5/5

I loved this! (I'm not sure about this cover. I hope intent is "way to be, awesome fat kid" but I have doubts.) Anyway just a groovalicious dance romp. Listened while lifting and that was perfect. Had only heard Right Here, Right Now (put to perfect ominous use in Veronica Mars) Rockefeller Skank, and of course Praise You. But dug all of them and didn't even mind that most of them were 6 minutes long. Also wiki'ed him and Fatboy Slim was in the HOUSEMARTINS?!? 5/5

I’ve never heard of Fatboy Slim before, and so didn’t have any idea what to expect going into this album. I thought it was very unique. Some of the audio techniques I’ve never heard from any other artists, and a lot of it was very catchy. The different tracks were very repetitive though, I would have a hard time telling them apart.

There was a time when there was a 50/50 chance that during a party scene from a movie that a song from this album played. I’ve heard clips of these songs so many times through so many different medias that I was shocked at how long they actually were, and when I paid attention how good they still are. I then listened to a Crystal Method song to compare to that era/genre and it felt massively dated. Really solid from beginning to end.

Have you read the Big Beat Manifesto? Big Beats are the best, get high all the time. Fave Tracks; Praise You, Love Island, Acid 8000 3.1/5

Wow. Other reviewers weren’t wrong. Each song is very repetitive. Perhaps too much. I enjoy some. Repetition drops it from like to meh.

Always liked Rockefeller Skank, but the rest of the album is enjoyable too.

Back in the day I had a roommate with a 25 CD boombox. 10 of the slots were filled with Dave Matthews Band, the 11th was this album, the rest were empty. Fatboy Slim was a breath of fresh air whenever that came on the random playlist. Still just a great album.

Really enjoyed listening to that for the first time in years ! Rockefeller skank still banging.

Mind numbingly repetitive

It is pretty solid early techno stuff

sick

So obnoxious it somehow reverts back to just being incredibly fun. I don't know how it works, but it sure as hell does, and it's made many a gym session simply fly by.

3+

The songs are varied, but too long since the lyrics repeat too much.

Best DJ to come out of the 90s. His music is definitely great to work out to. High energy and fun, highly recommend.

Great & novel in ‘98 but now seems repetitive

hehe yeeeeeah

Good good 8.3

A very good album, but it could be 5% shorter with a lot of repetition removed. Overuse of repetition is my single biggest issue with the release, which is a small thing but it seems to hit in every track. Sometimes not having a creative editor is artistic freedom, other times you get this. Still above average and a fun, fun listen ...albeit with some skipping forward. :) Gonna have a good time!

Never was a fan of Fatboy Slim- seemed like a commercial version of the great electronic or DJs of the era. Give me DJ Shadow, Land of the Loops, A Guy Called Gerald, or any/all of the Trip Hop artists instead.

-mid -nice sounds though

I like a few of their songs but the rest of this particular album reminds me of the 80’s when we used to go to disco’s. Not sure as a kid I would spend the money to buy the CD.

honestly loved this album it was funny it was well written ad just a down right vibe.

This album is undeniably great fun (Bon and I just spilled coffee all over the kitchen floor boogying around to Rockefeller skank 😂) I don't know if maybe it's been a victim of its own success and all of the advertising it's been used in (or copied for) has taken the sheen off, but it does sound incredibly dated and dare I say it, daggy. There's still a lot to like here though, aggressively boogy-inducing beats, deep sample cuts, filthy synths. It's silly, enthusiastic and doesn't take itself seriously. A joy if you allow it to be

очень понравился, конечно подряд его слушать словно сложно, голова устает но он такооооой классный

Wish I was engaging in vegetable eating and hitting the pen stiller while listening instead of working.

CHECK IT OUT NOW FUNK SOUL BROTHA

Fun record. Would put on for background music, more than likely. I’m not super into this type of EDM, but I love the sample work. Definitely a good party band/album.

This album kicks ass. It makes me want to go to the gym and rip the elliptical HARD for an hour. Which is the 40 year old equivalent of doing molly and dancing til 3am at the club. Still Not my favorite genre, but will probably jam this record again…. At the gym.

Vaffanculooo

I’m sure it was creative when it was released, but has not aged well in my opinion.

Probably a better album to take drugs and go dance to than to just sit down and listen to. That being said, it ain’t bad.

A classic

Meh

The album feels very electro-hiphop-y. Not my cup of tea

9/10 Favorite: In Heaven

Eh.

Very reminiscent of late 90’s movie soundtracks. I liked it but a lot of the songs have the same beat.

An important lesson for every aspiring songwriter is that music without any recurring elements is very tiring to listen to. On this album (and presumably on every other recording), Fatboy Slim shows that the opposite is also almost unbearable. From a capitalist point of view, this approach is of course absolutely admirable: with ideas that are normally only enough for one song, he fills an entire LP, from which several successful singles could even be released. This is of course not fraud, but market economy.

Fun listen overall, but very repetitive. There’s points that are really good but then just keep going on and on. The worse parts do the same. Some of the samples were really good. I just don’t think this is the type of album you sit down and listen to. Maybe one you play in the background because it’s got some great energy.

A clear idea well executed

Monster album. Everything is great.

Really enjoyed - not my chosen genre, but really good tunes

Ugh! More electronic music again!

Some albums are timeless and some are so timestamped you can’t listen without being taken back to that time and place. Fatboy Slim belongs firmly in the 90s, the aural equivalent of Beanie Babies, WWJD bracelets and a pre-9/11 sense of innocence and enthusiasm. This was the American century, after all, and with ¨You’ve Come A Long Way, Baby,¨ Fatboy Slim was an electronic music evangelist bringing his loops and beats across the pond to give the uncultured colonists a peep into the future of popular music. Nowadays everything you hear on the radio is electronic, synthesized, looped and autotuned. Popular tastes change and it’s very easy to be an old man yelling at a cloud, but one can’t help but miss the days when there were a few musicians in the studio making music. The Europeans had been making robot music throughout the 90s, and the rave scene thankfully mostly missed in the New World but then again we did have dubstep. Perhaps it’s a matter of taste, but hearing the same words looped over and over again like Groundhog Day, a collage of samples and a drummerless beat is my idea of hell. 1998 will never go down as a great year for art, and ¨You’ve Come A Long Way…¨ is about as good a proof of that outside of a Limp Bizkit album. Best songs: ¨Funk Soul Brother,¨ ¨Praise You¨

Literally me. I debated just leaving the review at that. Unfortunately, this sick ass album cover is not recorded by Spotify. Devastating. The easy confidence of this individual combined with the sassy t shirt stretched over ample torso girth makes for a truly memorable snap. Gets me ready for what will assuredly be an overly repetitive slog. Right Here, Right Now - I don’t love being right all the time, you know. I wish this wasn’t another dance music situation where we have to endure an hour of noises meant to be enjoyed in a nightclub with other things going on. Rockafeller Skank - This reminds me of huddling around the GameCube and skating around virtual Barcelona in the 2004 video game, Tony Hawk’s Underground 2. Played the living bejeezus out of that one. Should play it again. Anyway, this song is actually really great. So much more variety, and while it has that constant spine as many electronic songs do, there is enough variety around it to keep me interested. Especially that heavy breakdown around 4 minutes in. Hell yeah. Way to go, Fatboy, if that is your real name. In Heaven - Fatboy Slim is doing what? This is back to the repetition stink pile. A dumpster of annoying sounds that I’m sure was very difficult to put together, but it was arguably more difficult to endure for 6 minutes. Gangster Trippin - Ahh see this one is really fun. Just an undeniable groove. Shave a minute off for the dopamine addicted generation and you’ve got an absolute “bop” here. Build It Up, Tear It Down - Alright, the word that I will use again and again here is “fun.” There is a really exciting energy to all of this at this point. Kalifornia - Ditto the last track review. I’m losing interest in the track review formula, but I want to comment on individual moments still. Uhh. Well. Uhh, this is fun again. Soul Surfing - We’ve got swamp noises. I don’t know how else to describe those synth stabs, but they’re sick. You’re Not From Brighton - How did you know??? Praise You - An imperious megalith of nostalgia rises from the murky brine. The brine wasn’t all that murky, but hey, the megalith still rises. Is megalith even a word, or is that just death metal album knowledge rearing its ugly head. I love this song. It’s still fun to this day. The gentle singing is super camp, and the beat remains funk Love Island - A song as entertaining as the show that shares its name. Which is to say that it’s kind of entertaining in a “can’t look away from the train wreck” sort of fashion. Acid 8000 - About time we had some more drug innovations. For too long we’ve been friggin’ around with original acid. What is this, the 60s? Get with the times. This drug is super cool, you take it and just immediately fucking die, BUT you get to kind of feel pretty good for 2.8 seconds right before. It’s all the rage. This was a lot of fun. It takes a special artist to be able to instil this much personality into a record where you don’t even appear. It’s a collection of borrowed sounds and clips mashed into a digestible format that somehow has excitement and musicality in spades. Was it too long? Yes. Was it overly repetitive? At times. But not as bad as I thought it would be. Now that the “asking myself questions I know the answer to” portion of the review is out of the way, I can say that I had a good time with this. Not as good as whatever kind of time the man on the front cover is having, but I have a similar smile after listening to this Fatboy Slim project. 3-3.5 HIGHLIGHTS: Rockafeller Skank, Gangster Trippin, Kalifornia, Praise You

Not my cuppa, iconic album though. Praise You will always go hard.

Solid album, few saves would revisit. 4.6

Sure, songs are repetitive to the point of absurd, but with almost every one of them being unforgettable even decades later, this is a definition of a 5.

Great if you like repetitive dance! Works for me while working.

Loved it.

Some catchy grooves that, unfortunately, draaaaaaaagggggg oooooooonnnnnnn. Way too repetitive.

I reviewed Fatboy Slim’s Better Living Through Chemistry about a year and a half ago, and I thought it was good (I gave it four stars). However, I’ve been looking forward to this one quite a bit, because I know three of the songs off of it, and all three of them are incredibly fun. I’ll stop my introduction here, because I’m ready to jump into this one! The three songs that I know off of this album still hold up really well: “Right Here, Right Now,” “Rockafeller Skank,” and “Praise You.” The rest of the album ran the gamut from really good (“Soul Surfing” and “Love Island”) to good (“Gangster Trippin”) to grating (“In Heaven”). Overall, I found You’ve Come A Long Way Baby to be good album, with a lot of enjoyable songs and a fun sound. The samples and beats sounded great, and I really enjoyed how all of the musical elements came together. I love the darker and more serious tone of “Right Here, Right Now.” The synthesizers had such a sweeping sound that I really loved, and the beats punched up the overall sound really well. “Rockefeller Skank” is incredibly goofy, but I always find it really fun. The vocal refrain is excellent (unlike on “In Heaven”), and I love that guitar sound that repeats throughout the song before the cymbals crash. The fake slowdown and fade out halfway through the song is perfect. It gives the song a chance to change and evolve in a really unique way. But the gem of this album is easily “Praise You.” I love that keyboard melody, and the bright sound is incredibly fun. The pulsing and scratching on the vocals are awesome, and the drum machine beats and bass give it just enough punch while allowing the keyboards to drive the melody. There were other songs that I enjoyed, but nothing on this album is nearly as memorable as the three songs I highlighted. This isn’t the type of thing I listen to often, but I really enjoyed getting to listen to another album from Fatboy Slim.

One of the best electronic albums ever conceived.

this had some bangers but was a tad repetitive

It really is iconic. The most repetitive songs ever written, maybe, but great lol.

Turned my brain off and vibed

very nice

How many absolute bangers are on this one album is incredible. I'm not even a die hard fan, but Fatboy Slim is an icon, without question

Reminds me of Jez from peep show

J’ai moins d’inspiration qu’hier mais très bon album j’aime beaucoup gros classique bien sûr même si c’est compliqué à écouter seul je trouve c’est plus de la musique de club. Solide 4/5 GG fat boy slim

Etonnant de se poser enfin sur l'album complet quand on n'a été touché plus jeune que par les ultras tubes "Praise You" et " The Rockafeller Skank" Et pour un non initié comme moi, c'est finalement assez difficile d'accès. Particulièrement quand on bute sur ces samples écorchés et répétitifs sans être parfaitement lisses (ce qui fait la patte de Fatboy Slim). Au final, s'il y a surement un génie artistique dans cette proposition, elle m'a laissé un peu de marbre

J’ai kiffé ça m’a donné envie de danser

« My favorite artist right now is FATboy slim, that guy kicks ASS » : transition de fou entre le "Right here, right now" et "The Rockafeller skank" Les 3 premiers morceaux = du génie. Le milieu s’essouffle un peu, il réussi à répéter sur toute une chanson «California is druggy, druggy, druggy, druggy» (5min53 quand même !) avec une autotune qui ferait pâlir Daft Punk (et la phrase est par ailleurs un sample d'une animatrice TV, qui, petite digression, donne cette dédicace dans les crédits de son album : This album is dedicated only to the people who have bought it retail and not the SOB's who are listening to it for free at their friend's house, SOB signifiant Son of a b****... relativement agressif comme phrase hahaha) Les trois morceaux de fin sont aussi des masterclass. Donne globalement envie de taper du pied mais peut être un peu répétitif, ça reste quand même une dinguerie de sampling (avec environ 10 samples par morceaux >:0 (avec des samples allant de David Bowie à Jay-Z en passant par Giorgio Moroder) Fun fact : L'interview radiophonique de la fin du premier morceau est bien réelle, et Norman Cook (Fatboy Slim) est ensuite devenu pote et "drinking buddy" avec le fan en question

Almost engaging to me, I would be fine with this playing in the background of a bootleg jet set radio game.

Pro: I still love the way this sounds. It’s fun and interesting. Cons: songs can drone on a bit and wear out their welcome.

It's the best big beat album, it's got some of the sounds of a time and it's also unfortunately wholly repetitive, as all dance music ultimately is. It's not for listening, it's for experiencing.

If this don't make your booty move your booty must be dead.

Great album. Always enjoy listening to this one.

Que beats tan hptas

Straight my the roots of my heart. Can be repetitive sometimes, but whatevs

8/10

I was familiar with Right Here, Right Now and The Rockafeller Skank since I've heard them in movies/tv over the years. It's a fun album, though I did start to tire of it toward the end. I have the same issue with instrumental beat/electronic music where the looping of hooks and music starts to get a bit repetitive.

que buena forma de conectar con la nostalgia entrando suave la primera cancion, me ganan los instrumentos de oriente medio. Cuando va pasando el disco se va haciendo un poco pesado pero reconozco la calidad

Electronica is not my genre, but I do like Praise You. The Rockefeller Skank is a quintessentially 90s track. It could exist in no other time, and I kinda love it for that, despite not actually wanting to listen to it.

Right in that big beat center of electronic dance (acid house), hip-hop, and rock/pop. Consistently solid groove throughout, though a little more chill (or less extreme) than some of their contemporaries. Not much I dislike here other than some repetition, but it l doesn’t find the hit high peaks necessary to make this album truly top level. Still fun though.

A bit repetitive and not really my style of music. Not enough to make me want to listen to it more than once (probably not helped by how popular the big singles were from the album in the late 90s).

Just didn’t care sorry

Paise you is quite good, which is in complete contrast to the rest of the album, which is absolutely SH-ONE-T. I don't really understand how repeating the line "fucking in heaven" for several minutes is music Suppose I will have to give it one star

The majority of Fatboy Slim's most popular songs are on this album (apart from Weapon of Choice). And they are all bangers. They work better as singles, but it's still a really fun album. Overall, might be worth a listen.

An album that feels too full of itself and gets annoying once every song repeats the same hook for like 6 minutes. 3/10 Favourite: None Least Favourite: In Heaven

THE consensus album of the late last millennium. no matter which scene or music genre you identified with - this album everybody seemed to like. I hadn’t listened to it in more than 25 years and was grateful for the nostalgia. Not sure how good this is objectively but I spun it four times yesterday and enjoyed it more on each return

This album is definitely mood dependent listening. If I was chilling on a Sunday I would not put this record on out of choice, however I got it on a Saturday after a gym session. Very fitting, although no song is quite short and sweet.

Esta cosas es funky por mucho tiempo que pase. Super divertido y repleto de hits. Mis 4 estrellas. Es mi tercer album y me alegro el viaje al trabajo rememorando tiempos pasados.

Often quite delightful.

This is a wormhole that directly transports me to the late 90s. Specifically that girl who thought the lyric was "I want to praise you like a shoe" (well, it rhymes). This was the soundtrack of many social gatherings and stores and car stereos as we headed into the new millennium. A pleasant artefact.

good techno

It's perfect from start to finish, where you never get bored, a masterpiece of sampling.

I don't enjoy most styles of electronica, but there are exceptions. Large parts of this album belonged to the enjoyable exceptions category. Some good stuff. Some slightly annoying parts too, but more of the good stuff. 3.5 rounded up.

Though I do dig two of the songs, even those two became irritating as they carried on and on and on. But FSB keeps this 3 instead of the 2 I'd have given it.

There were some good beats, but this was so repetitive it made Daft Punk sound like Zappa

Great album. The whole thing feels like I’m in a 90s house party. I’ll never forget “Right Here Right Now” in the 2002 hit Big Fat Liar. Overall, good songs but some get a little drawn out at times.

This album can be really annoying and repetitive. I never really cared for electronic or house music and this album was one of a few reasons why. Most of the songs are a beat with the lyrics just repeating over and over again. I just never wanna listen to In Heaven ever again. It's like when a kid curses for the first time and never stops like dropping the F-Bomb in a song is not edgy to the point where it has to be dropped on repeat bro. But you know what, Praise You is a great song though. That's all I'll say that is good about this album. Favorite Tracks: Right Here Right Now, Praise You Rating: 2/5

Ah, Fatboy Slim--the sound of 1998. While I didn't love the singles at the time, I did appreciate their music videos (especially Spike Jonze's dance troupe in the "Praise You" clip). Listening to the album as a whole, I can appreciate the FS vibe, even if it is not something I would actively choose to put on.

It's good dance pop. I'd never choose to listen to it nowadays but it has its place in the ecosystem, as it were.

Oh brother another one of this guy. How? So repetitive, explicit to no gravity or reason, sophomoric. This guy stinks.

No

Pretty fun, but not a 4.

I have to agree with the majority of the reviews. Too repetitive. I was surprised that I knew two songs though. That is the only reason I gave it two stars instead of one.

I read the reviews about it being very repetitive. I didn’t believe them. Believe them.

Enjoyed this way more than expected. I've always enjoyed "Praise You" for some reason. The rest of this was decently good house music compared to a lot of other house I hear. I can't really pinpoint why.

Ultra cool

Entertaining, but repetitive at times.