Reviews (page 8 of 14)
Too repetitive, but 3* for the singles that came out of it.
I like Fatboy Slim's music, but many of the tracks get repetitive and go on for way too long.
Strong singles, the rest a bit meandering
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
Great album
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!
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
Praise You was on repeat junior year in college. Right Here Right Now was on repeat in every tv ad.
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
tbr
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...
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
великий альбом, мощная музыка, даже в 2025. Но пара треков вызывают недоумение и без них было бы лучше
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
Not a horrible album. Couple of bangers, but not traditionally my thing.
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.
This is a great album for dancing in a club. But for general listening, it gets too repetitive for me.
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.
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.
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.
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
Out there, very left of center hip hop.
Maybe a bit formulaic but some good hooks and great grooves
Repetition rules but an hour of it can get a bit tiring.
Ok never a big fan
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.
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.
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.
Really enjoyed listening to that for the first time in years ! Rockefeller skank still banging.
3+
Great & novel in ‘98 but now seems repetitive
-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.
Wish I was engaging in vegetable eating and hitting the pen stiller while listening instead of working.
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.
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.
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
Ugh! More electronic music again!
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
this had some bangers but was a tad repetitive
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.
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
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.
good techno
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.
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.
Pretty fun, but not a 4.
Entertaining, but repetitive at times.
211/1089 - Eh, it's music. I liked Praise You.
the rockafeller skank alone samples i fought the law, david bowie and jay-z. this man was operating on another stratosphere with this came out
some songs i'm familiar with and ended up still really liking! kind of repetitive and stupid at times so i was starting to get annoyed and then a song i did like would pop up and make me like it again LMAO. the song with 29268373737373 fucks needs to be banished for life tho. would probably like this more if i was drunk at a festival lbr
This album probably would’ve been better if I listened to it in a club/dancing setting. Alas, I did not. It’s not a terrible album by any means but it’s so repetitive, not good when you’re looking for how long is left til the next song. Could’ve been worse, from someone who isn’t the biggest fan of electronic music.
Previously rated: Better Living Through Chemistry (2/5) ******************************************* Because we really needed another album from this guy. I suppose we had to squeeze the funk soul brother in here somewhere. I could certainly have done without "In Heaven," which I'd certainly skip if I heard this album again. The repetition is here definitely, but wasn't as annoying as the other album, so I liked this one a bit better. +1 star
Some good stuff for running or dancing g but I can’t quite call it 4 musically.
I knew the name Fatboy Slim, but didn't connect which songs that I already knew were theirs. It definitely is of a time and makes me feel a bit nostalgic. Much better recommendation than the previous album.
Nostaglic. But overall DJ albums aren't my vibe
Special boy
Very repetitive but I liked it overall. It’s nostalgic and fun - I enjoyed the listening experience!
I mean, what is there to say about this album, a wave of sonic electronica moves over you from song to song, but are distinct enough to keep you engaged and not feel like it is really just one meandering song. Also, I love the fact that he produced the album on floppy discs.
I didn't hate it. But I didn't love it, either. As a fan of later electronic music, though, I have to rate it on the more generous side.
3/5
imagine being arm in arm with the boys listening to Fatboy Slim drop Praise You in Butlins swimming pool, 2025. What a moment, and what a way he's come from this records release
Kinda nothing but a nice nothing. I don't think i'd listen again.
Interesting, but not my style.
Some big hits and a lot of repetition
can't give every album 4
76/1001. Is this album a lot of fun? - He'll yeah. Would you consider this to be one of the 1000 masterpieces of popular music? -...
This is the top result for the term “repetitive”. Unfairly so, in my opinion. The songs use a lot of repeating patterns but the album is pretty varied and doesn’t get boring. The hits on here are great, I fondly remember Funk Soul Brother and Right Here, Right Now, so it was nice to hear the album they were from. That said, the hits felt like they were a cut above the rest. The other songs were fine but not nearly on the same level.
Rating: 2.9 All I was thinking the whole time was that this sounded like the music of Crashbox (which I am aware came out after this album did), FutureCop LAPD, C + C Music Factory and Insane in the Brain all smashed together. If every song didn’t repeat itself for nearly its entire duration this very plausibly could have been a weirdo masterpiece.
The first few songs are absolute classics. I wish the same could be said about the other ones. "You've Come a Long Way, Baby" suffers from repetition. This is also the case with other '90s electronic albums. It seems that Fatboy Slim is only capable of a very limited number of great songs. 3 stars for "You've Come a Long Way, Baby".
I have this on CD from back in the day. It was hugely popular when I was younger but I'd go with an overall 3 now.
6/10
It was ok but pretty repetitive, which made the album feel even longer than it already was.
• 3/5 • A bit uneven, with some monotonous tracks, a few fun grooves and, of course, the one track that elevates it all: Praise You
what did i just listen to
Franchement sympa on enchaîne bien Et surtout énorme classique en intro ça fait plaisir
Its a classic for me at least. Like even in the intro to Rockefeller skank that guy is singing it to get his point across. I feel that in my soul. But as I get older I see too many flaws in things like this. At least flaws to me. Its alot of the shit I hate in other electronic music. its repetitive but it does a better job than most mixing it up. Praise you is a sick song but do I really like it or is it nostalgic? That's where im stuck mostly. Its good but am I just thinking it's good because it was good back then? It gets a positive look but I won't be the funk soul brother anytime soon.
Idk, another mid album. Beats started decent but then got noisy and repetitive. I dont even remember if i finished this one
Album 831 of 1089 Fatboy Slim -You've Come a Long Way Baby (1998) Rating : 3 / 5 It’s well known that electronica isn’t really my genre—I’ve just never connected with it. That said, this one was a bit more tolerable than most I’ve heard in that space. It had a few moments that caught my attention and managed to keep me engaged here and there. One could possibly even argue that the “electronica” category doesn’t quite fit this album—it leans more toward big beat party energy than moody synth landscapes. While it may not be one I'll return to, I can understand why it made the list. For fans of big beats and club energy, I’m sure this one’s a classic. Honestly, I can’t believe I rated an electronica album this high… but here we are.
Got bought this album when I was a teenager as a gift and enjoyed it so got a bit nostalgic when I saw it - in saying that, it has not held up to my changing music tastes and I struggled to keep it playing through
lotts of great tunes in isolation , but doesn’t stand an albums worth . 3.5
It’s a tricky one to rate, because at the right time and in the right place (ironically NOT ‘right here, right now’) this would be a banger album!!! Outside the context of a nightclub/rave or a Mitsubishi/volvo/toyota car commercial, the album can be pretty fucking repetitive and irritating. It’s a solid 3 from me. I had never heard the song fucking in heaven, but after just one listen, I managed to learn the whole thing. That track is such an ego wank. Fatboy Slim is fucking in heaven Fatboy Slim is fucking in heaven Fatboy Slim is fucking in heaven Fucking 'n fucking 'n fucking in heaven Fatboy Slim is fucking in heaven Fatboy Slim is fucking in heaven Fatboy Slim is fucking in heaven Fucking 'n fucking 'n fucking in heaven Fatboy Slim is fucking in heaven Fatboy Slim is fucking in heaven Fatboy Slim is fucking in heaven Fucking 'n fucking 'n fucking
Very fun. Nothing absolutely blew me away, but good background music.
Uneven album with a couple of standout tracks.
7/1001 Fatboy Slim - You've Come A Long Way Baby Heard before? ❎ Would I revisit? ❎ I've heard the singles before and they're decent, but this sort of thing is so far out of my comfort zone. One of those where I neither liked nor actively disliked. I can obviously appreciate it's influence on the dance/rave scene.
Catchy thx!
Of course I knew Praise you. To my surprise the rest is not bad either
I mean, I don’t even think Fatboy himself would recommend sitting down and listening straight through while sober, but I did it and regretted not having spent my time doing pretty much anything else. Right Here, Right Now and Praise You kick ass and I like all the peacocking throughout though!
Very cool, but sometimes he ruins it with long stretched/slowed sound bites.
Some bangers but a lot of meh
There must have been a lot of copies of this album sold. This is because you can always find a copy or more for sale cheap at charity shops which is where I bought my copy. Not a must buy but I do recognise it to be a significant album and deserves a place in my collection. So whilst not entirely to my taste there are one or two tracks which I really do like. Probably like what the rest of the world’s population think Right Here Right Now is the stand out track and must be one of the most popular tracks of the last 20 plus years and will continue to be a staple at wedding do’s and the like for years to come. For that reason alone a seminal album. 3/5 27/6/25
this was fine. i think this type of music is a product of its time. not because it’s bad, but because it’s not impressive anymore. like this was weird almost unheard of stuff when it came out but now it’s just kinda old, run-of-the-mill sample electronica. i somehow have another album of his to listen to next so maybe it’ll stand out more
Not quite my tempo, but I acknowledge and respect the cultural significance
this was fun as hell obsessed with this fat little boy on the cover too - an icon <3
If the songs had been 2 minute long, I would have loved it. After the second minute, most of them got quite repetitive for me. Even though I really liked many of the beats and melodies, I must admit I skipped a couple songs.
Some classics, others not. 3/5
5/10 Yep, something happened here 6-23-2025
goeie nummers... maar om een hele plaat na elkaar te beluisteren is het teveel... maar hier en daar eentje op de dansvloer, dan heb je me mee...
Good for what it is, but incredibly repetitive (the nature of the genre, I suppose).
je préfère d'autres artistes de breakbeat, notamment The Prodigy et les Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim a toujours eu un peu de mal à me parler même si en temps normal mon oreille apprécie vachement les sonorités hip hop
Solid 90s soundtrack. Interesting to get this right after Moby. I'd always conflated them, but Fatboy Slim is heaps better, more original and funkier. Main issue is just how overplayed it was
If I could score 3.5 I would. Some really great tracks mixed with some mid tier ones
Good four songs in here, used to love the praise you video
Not my cup of tea. Skank and Praise You was everywhere in the late 90s and I’m still not ready to revisit.
Big beat indeed. Across the iconic hits on this record Norman Cook brings his very biggest beats, clever manipulation of samples and pop sensibilities from his time in a band to deliver a brash record with popular appeal. At its best these are dramatic, panoramic songs with a real sense of energy and fun to them. The bravery of the man also. To let some of these songs run on for as long as they do. When you’re in the groove with Cook and onboard with the song then this is a definite enhancer. Away from the singles there are several songs that could have done with either a trim, or removing entirely. The track names that you do not recognise in the middle of the album could all go. There is a significant uptick in quality at the end, songs which could have happily sat in the middle. The album as a whole is feast and famine with big singles followed by filler, and at 61 minutes in length that didn’t need to be the case.
Obnoxious, but found myself still bobbing my head. I used to listen to this often in high school and I think has a time and a place, but not so much in my 40s.
It get's kinda old quick but there's some bangers in here.
Great first half, but pretty average second half (other than Praise You).
What a record!
Not to bad, a really good album of the genre. It has some really good songs i enjoy even today. Still it is not my preferred genre of music, gets a little tiring after a while.
straightforward fun
great
This album screams late 90s in every concievable way. It has four massive singles (from the UK, anyway) and lots of other tunes which are familiar from films and adverts from the time. It's big, fun, brash, dumb and very disposable. Enjoyable but a strange one for the 1001 list.
Not sure if this is the best Drum and Bass album we've had, or if I enjoyed it because I've heard a bunch of these songs and snippets from this album in commercials, on soundtracks, and in various other places pretty much all my life. Praise You goes so hard, and I'd assume its hard to find someone that hasn't at least heard the main part of Right Here, Right Now. Definitely notable, just don't know how much I'll seek out this album on my own.
Well done Norman not a bad effort at all! Some of it is a bit repetitive but that’s the nature of the beast. All in all a decent bit of sampling!
not sure how I feel about this one, but the album cover is great Will I listen to again: 7%
bin natürlich nur bis zum zweiten lied gekommen, weils DER banger ist, aber wär nie auf die idee gekommen, n album vob fatboy slim zu hören
Any yokes?
This one was a lot of fun. Funk and soul brothers for life. But besides a few great moments I just don't see myself returning to it any time soon.
Hella funky, hella groovy, tons of variety from song to song. I don't quite see this one making it into my rotation, but for the purpose of the challenge it was a banger. Standouts: Rockafeller Stank • Gangster Trippin
The first two songs are bangers, of course, and the rest don't stand out at all. Typical electronic music.
So, the hook-drop-hook/repeat style never really was my thing. This sound hit the airwaves right when I took the full guitar-based rock path on my musical tastes journey. Bouncing in a room full of my sweaty peers while some dude with headphones and a turntable spun hooks as we were ecstasied up didn't land with me. No, I preferred bouncing in an arena with my sweaty peers, working my way to the rail to see (insert rock band here) shred their axes was more my thing. Most of our drug experience went up in little chimneys throughout the show. That being said, the sound of this album is pretty amazing considering how it was produced, and it was an undeniable influence at the time. He knows how to set a hook, I just kind of feel like I'm listening to the same 30 seconds on repeat, though goddamn if I don't find myself on occasion involuntarily moving to this one. Guess that's the point.
Two back-to-back albums from any artist is a stretch for this list. I'd give preference to this album over Better Living Through Chemistry. This album is more infectious and has a better vibe, if not more repetitive.
Listened to it too early. Need to do drugs.
Makes me want to watch the Italian Job
This is very much not my genre. In fact I think it's currently my lowest rated genre in this project. That being said, I enjoyed this album. I'm not sure I would want to listen to the full thing again, there's only such much repetitive music I can listen to. But I would happily listen to a lot of the songs again. Some great samples used really well, some fun beats. I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it. Fav song: The Rockafeller Skank Least fav: Kalifornia
ecstasy is a helluva drug
very entertaining, loving all the breaks. 3 or 4?
Bit dated, but still has some great songs. Songs can be too long, and some of them a little boring.
Decent. Some timeless classics and one or two still sound fresh.
The very definition of a "you only need to listen to the singles". Some astonishingly good singles mixed with some ok and mildly catchy and some downright irritating songs. I think I liked this more when I was younger.
The hits from this are tremendous. It's incredible how he could pull samples together and make them such impressive cohesive tracks. Especially considering how long ago it was and what technology was available. Also though he loves having his name mentioned in tracks, it's a bit Shakira Shakira. Plus they're very long and the non album tracks are pretty repetitive. The hits made it good.
This came out the year I was born and I remember hearing quite a bit of this album into the mid 2000s, so a lot of this is quite nostalgic like Praise You and The Rockafeller Skank. Gangster Trippin is quite like the Beastie Boys, I liked that one because of that Fucking in Heaven is actually quite good instrumentally, but the stupid vocal refrain spoils it. Kalifornia is kind of annoying, kind of 'kiddy'. Love Island sounds like some schlocky pisstake that Limmy would make on Ableton Good, but gets a bit tiring and repetitive after a while Highlights: Gangster Trippin, The Rockafeller Skank
Very nostalgic!
Much as In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida was of its time, You’ve Come A Long Way is very much a 90s album. A good 90s album. I could listen to any of the songs any time, but the album as a whole I probably wouldn’t. Interesting that this was our follow up to Soul II Soul. They’re both dance albums that would be great in a club, but without folks shaken’ what they got, they’re a bit less interesting.
Isn’t this the most 90’s album to ever 90?
Really funky but soon got quite repetitive
Fun listen. Funky and catchy songs. The samples are a bit long and repetitive as you go through the album. It's a listen I prefer with individual songs.
Some classics in there obviously, but the loops are a bit too annoying and repetitive for me. Teenage me thought it was the coolest shit though.
what in the ancient EDM. it was catchy at times though. [robot voice] fatboy slim is schmoicking in heaven
It's fine.
Praise You and Rockafella Skank are still cool. Much of the rest sounds the same, but more interesting and clever than a lot of the other EDM on here.
I bought this album but I could only really remember the singles. It turns out there’s a reason for that, but the singles are still fun.
ist ganz gut 3.5 Sterne würd ich sagen aber jetzt nicht für die Playlist fav Gangster trippin
It isn't bad. It's of it's time. The hits are good and the rest are fine.
Good but not great electronic album
It's fine. I imagine I would've liked this more when I was in high school. It's certainly no "Discovery" or "Since I Left You," but it's fine. Speaking of, why is the former not on this list?
The 4 hits from the album still stand the test of time. The other tracks are kind of repetitive and dull. And the Praise You music video is still a work of genius from Spike Jonze.
I forget how repetitive this record is. Incredible innovation for its time.
3.25
I was obsessed with finding the opening track as a child (in a Spotify free world), although that has dated quite a bit now. Some really obnoxious stuff on here - always hated some of the more popular tracks - but a lot of hits on one record so an extra star for that.
Interesting case of an album that was groundbreaking and unique at its time of release, but just has not aged well. It sounds old and simple. Electronic music has come a long way since this came out. There are still a couple bangers on here, but even those are pretty nostalgia driven.
not my fave but it was fun to listen to and funky and groovy
Fatboy Slim’s 1998 breakthrough, *You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby*, is a monumental work of Big Beat that undeniably helped define and soundtrack a generation, launching huge, iconic singles like “The Rockafeller Skank” and “Praise You” that perfectly captured the hedonistic spirit of the late '90s. However, despite its cultural impact and flawless energy on the standout tracks, the album ultimately suffers from a degree of thematic and sonic repetition, relying heavily on the same foundational loop-and-sample formula which causes some of the deeper cuts to feel like variations on a theme rather than distinct, compelling ideas.
Fucking in heaven
Banger macht sehr viel Spaß irgendwann bisschen repetitiv aber schon sehr cool
This album has the hits "Praise You", "Right Here, Right Now" and "Rockafeller Skank" which are great and carry this album. The other tracks aren't bad but not particularly memorable. As a result, I would probably choose to listen to just the tracks I like rather than the album as a whole.
This album took me a while to get into, to me it had a stronger back half. Enjoyable but isn’t going to be one I would probably re-listen to.
Fun album, reminds of my fist year of Uni. Great tunes and the videos are what really cemented these for me at the time. So many bangers…not an album I’ll listen to often but always love it when I do
3.5
Ohh yeah I did like actually! Lots of classics on.
A damn good start and good ending stretch to this album is killed by a hit or miss middle
Aight
Interesting experiments with electronic and pop music, tiring after a while
Always happy to find more instrumental albums for work! Nothing super interesting tbh and a lot of the 90s era hip hop sounds have dated a lil imo, but it’s still a nice groovy background listen while trying to stay focused
I didn't know Fatboy Slim was chill like that
Fun
Some good parts but very repetitive. Could’ve been half as long.
Enjoyed it much more than I expected to. Obviously the hits are hits for a reason but I was surprised by the quality of the other tracks too. Not one I’ll revisit too often but a positive experience nonetheless
This album was pretty repetitive but it did have some good tracks. Standout tracks: Right Here Right Now, Fucking In Heaven, Praise You
The Herr Fatboy Slim Shady mit sim pionier werk an album! So Art vo Albe hani erhofft bide 1001, ned wills absolute bangers sind, sondern will so Albe doch d zuekunft i verschidne genres prägt hend. Spassig zum lose, doch ide hütige ziit classy biz veraltet. Ich Gsehn de Fatboy aber mit sine retro synthies I sinere garage sites, chli umeexperimentiere und das Album us em ärmel schüttle. Dadefür biz abgrundeti 3 Fatboy Skinnyjeans
Stupidboy intelligent, Oftmals es bar classy tracks vu ihm ghört aber mir na nie ziit gnah für die fatboy. Isch gmüeltich, sicher au neui richtige ihgschlage mit dem style. Aber isch ez au nöd musikalisch mega schön für mich. 3 mal s(ch)lim inegrätsche vu mir
Solid electronic music, but not the type I like personally. Favorite was Acid 8000.
It's good, and the hits are awesome. But the album as a whole is quite repetitive
Fun 90's electronic music.
So I think this is one of those projects that has great ideas, and I can see why people would enjoy it. For me, though, it's just not engaging enough. I don't mind repetition, but some of the ideas here just don't get the fully baked treatment that others do. It's not super consistent as a whole.
90s sample-based dance music. Not bad and some classics on here, but I can’t see myself listening to the album again.
Right here Right now Right here Right now Right here Right now Right here Right now Right here Right now
Fun and accessible
Oh weh, 1998. So lange ist das schon her...? Nicht mein Genre, aber 4 gute Songs gibt es. Wem (wie mir) der Opener Right Here, Right Now gefällt, dem empfehle ich, mal Ashes The Rain And I von James Gang anzuhören.
Liked it more than I thought I would. I'm not a huge electronic music fan but there is stuff that is fun and catchy.
I hated this when it came out. Now that is probably because I was a snotty teenager on the other side of the rock vs. dance separation that existed throughout the 90s. A quarter of a century later I can appreciate it more, but it's still overly repetitive. It will probably be a long time before I listen again.
Not a record I would normally listen to, but I quite liked it
Elektronika, której nie trawię. Był taki czas, kiedy trzy hity z tej płyty leciały wszędzie. Mogę je przesłuchać, uszy mi nie odpadną, ale czy to naprawdę jest muzyka najwyższej jakości? Powtarzalna i odtwórcza? 5/10
This was a fun listen but didn't actually want to listen again
1) major nostalgia 2) great choice for AM workout! love the generator today.
3 stars
Pretty good, not totally my thing but it wasn't a bad listen at all. Makes me want to take up breakdancing!
3 - I loved this album when it came out and I still love it today. This is classic late 90s big beat techno. Lots of bangers on this album but also this not going to be an album for everyone.
Just okay... outside of the three really popular tracks, one of which isn't even all that great, there's maybe one or two more tracks worth listening to. 5/10
I’m not well versed in electronic music. This seemed kinda bland. That one song I only remember because it was the song Rachael Leigh Cook had her dance battle at prom in She’s All that. This will be a neutral score as the music wasn’t great, but I was reminded fondly of Cook and her uncanny ability to choose the worst movies to act in.
Not gonna lie, I kind of enjoyed this album. EDM was never my gig, but sometimes it fills a need. This is one I’d go back to if that itch needed a good scratch. Except for the “fucking” song. Stupid.
Sort of amusing for a single listen, but it would get quickly annoying to listen to this multiple times.
3.5
osea bien pero medio repetitivo
Ich glaube wenn man darauf Lust hat macht das richtig Spaß
As much as I'm not a fan of electronic music, Fatboy Slim has a couple of iconic tracks under his belt that I love. This album demonstrates that he can make incredibly catchy music... but not necessarily that he always does. This album consists entirely of repetitive loopy songs with occasional interludes and minor additions to the loops. The problem with this style is that for the songs not to sound boring, the loops need to be really good. This album achieves this... with various degrees of success. And here's the issue: The average song length here is over 5.5 minutes, which is on a longer side for dance music. I don't mind The Rockafeller Skank begin almost 7 minutes long, because it's fun as hell, but there are some tracks here that are not that good (In Heaven, You're Not From Brighton, Acid 8000), so instead they feel like an overly long slog. You've Come a Long Way, Baby is definitely of its time, but it has its charm and the songs mostly range from fine to incredibly fun. 7/10
Some memorable songs like right here, right now, the rockafeller skank and praise you The rest of the album is easily forgettable 3.5
hits are good, some of the other ones aren't working as hard yk
Nostalgic 90’s electronic mood (not vibe). A bit too repetitive without much build to be better than it is
All in all, it's a fun listen.
Would have been a 4 if it weren't for the high repetition of lyrics
Good tunes but overplayed on my end. Great FIFA 99 menu music on the PC.
Blast from the past. 3.5 stars
Went into this knowing nothing and some of the songs were so fun!! Didn’t love the middle section of the album but I definitely see its merit as an electronic/dance-pop album from the 90s
the mixing is so cool but my brain is so numb
The three songs on here you know, you know. The rest just doesn’t seem to carry the age as well I give an extra star just because at the time it was something, but now it just feels a little grating.
Schwankt zwischen guter Partymusik und absolutem Schrott, hat aber irgendwie Spaß gemacht. Vielleicht ist es so schlecht, dass es schon wieder gut ist.
A fun dance/electro album that goes on for way too long and meanders on the same loops far too often. 7.5/10
The hits on here are very good (albeit a bit repetitive) and the other tracks are generally good. A groundbreaking album but not necessarily a top listen. 3.2/5 -> 3/5
A precursor to modern EDM, the techno stuff of the 90's was often repetitive but damn if it wasn't catchy. A whole album of repetitive songs is a bit much but there's still lots to appreciate here.
Slughtly hard to rate. The hits are catchy but so familiar, the album tracks are not very interesting.
Ret fan men ikke lige mit jam i længden 3,4
USED TO DANCE AROUND TO THIS ONE IN THE KITCHEN AS A BABY. GOOD SHIT. THE BANGERS BANG BUT LOOKING AT IT AS A WHOLR ALBUM IT CAN GET REPETITIVE AS FUCK. 3/5
There are a couple of "hits" on this record but overall it didn't do all that much for me.
A good fun album, I seem to remember it being pretty unique at the time. Anyway, I quite enjoyed Right Here Right Now and Rockafeller Skank. Fave from today is You're Not from Brighton.
Not my taste but a couple of good tracks
Full of hits. Sounds like high school. Not too shabby.
мемно (диджей ебан)
Some good but a lot of meh
Some good, some bad. Some of it is just repetitive.
Deserves its place here - despite being 26 years old, you hear snatches of this album all over the place, and it still sounds good. Whilst it might be a tad unimaginative to use Right Here, Right Now to introduce YET ANOTHER live TV event (ahem, Sky Sports and BBC) it does, still, create a sense of excitement I suppose. Praise You is a really great track and I remember loving the video. The singles are all strong tracks, helped no doubt by Norm being a bass player. The other tracks are very repetitive though, as lots of reviewers have said, and a couple (Love Island!) were pretty unlistenable. But I like the overall sound he created from the vocal excerpts, soul vibes, basslines and great rhythms. PS just listened to Take Yo' Praise by Camille Yarborough (which the sample comes from). Now that's a bassline.
Some classic bangers but found the rest a bit uninspiring.
Good if you’re frantically cleaning your home, at a 90s rave, coding, or a 90s teen romcom soundtrack…and not much else
Creative, dated
The nostalgia is understandable, but this album isn’t my flavour. Have obvious stand outs, but overall very indifferent to the sounds produced here.
I like the two hits on this, but electronic is not my thing in general.
elst þokkalega vel. alls ekki leiðinlegt. efast um að ég muni nokkurn tíma hlusta á þetta aftur.
+++ rockafeller skank, kalifornia --- in heaven, praise you very mixed feelings about this one. i dont hate anything, and the songs i like i LOVE, but the ones i don’t i feel purely indifferent towards. in heaven grates a bit. the backing track sounds like the loop of an annoying toy, but the songs that lean away from strings and more towards the d+b or electronic side of things are utterly fantastic. praise you, despite being the most famous track from this and the only one i had heard before, is honestly kind of lacklustre next to everything else in my opinion.
The singles are very very good. At times it feels like the album tracks are just filler until we get to another single. A lot of the album tracks are a bit bloated and you could probably cut a good 90 seconds out of all of them. Maybe at that time to Praise You and let it last an hour. Or cut the album down to 40 mins and keep all the good bits and we'd have a 5*.
Day 0004/1001 of One Album a Day My favourite songs from this album will always have a special place in my heart as I have loved them since I was a child, but I have to say the rest of the album was quite dissapointing and forgettable. Also have no idea why some of the tracks are as long as they are, they drag on and the album as a whole really started to bore me in its latter stages. I like though how if you search this album into Reddit to top posts are all talking about how the fat obese smoker on the cover is unidentified to this day as opposed to any reviews of the album itself lol Fav tracks: Right Here, Right Now / The Rockafeller Skank / Gangster Trippin' / Praise You Bad tracks: Kalifornia / Acid 8000
Kind of insane all these hits came from this album. That being said, every song is a minute and a half to long
Lubię elektronikę, ale ten album tak sobie płynął i nie ruszył mnie jakoś specjalnie, w dodatku według mnie bardzo czuć upływ czasu. 3/5 głównie z powodu klasyków: Praise you, right here right now
Hype music. Workout? Heard at stadiums.
When this hits, it sounds great. But man does this get repetitive and have some misses. For the genre and style it was doing a lot with some key songs.
There is definitely some nostalgia seeping through hearing the big singles from this album, as they were typically played everywhere back in the late nineties/early noughties. Objectively, it's OK but it's quite repetitive and it's not really an album I would choose to hear.
Mostly overplayed now, but Praise You still makes my playlists
I thought this album was a the best thing ever when it came out in the late 90s and I have listened to it more times than I can count. I still like it but my opinion has cooled somewhat over the years. Rating: 3
3.5
Not as repetitive or generic as some of the other electronic music in this list. But it's still not that great.
Check it out now, funk soul brother! aber "Built it up, Tear it down" für n Arsch. Geile Songs, aber auch viel Mist - 3 Sterne
Die Banger sind Banger, der Rest halt auch echt nicht. Songs der Playlist hinzugefügt: Keine
The singles are good and catchy (though they've definitely been played to death). The rest of the tracks are interesting from a technical standpoint, just oodles of samples cut and manipulated expertly. However, most of them seem twice as long as they need to be, and the vocal samples quickly get tiresome.
Not a bad album. It's not my go-to music style, but growing up and hearing these songs all the time, I recognize how influential this album was, and how it really broke barriers in the music industry.
Not quite thinking music but there are some boppy instrumentals. The more lyrical stuff like Praise You or Heaven, though, I don’t care for and take me out a bit. Other times, it’s a little too electronica even for my tastes. But ultimately a decent listen.
The three megahits (The Rockafeller Skank, Praise You, Right Here, Right Now) are good and bring back a lot of nostalgia (though I prefer their radio edit versions), but listening the whole album at one go is too much, because it is really very repetitive and exhausting overall. Some songs were really dumb (the Heaven song), too. I was leaning towards 2 but because of the hits I give it a 3.
It was good but dated. Nostalgia.
TBH, I totally forgot about him, but then I was like oh yeah. That guy. I can always dig a good DJ, but hard to look at it from a produced album. I like intuitive DJ performances.
7/10
Godt! Otto og jeg har en fest
Fint nok
Some good late 90s British electronic music (which isn't very common). Right Here Right Now, The Rockafella Skank, and Praise You are all huge songs that I grew up with. There are some songs that get a bit annoying/repetitive looping but that's to be expected. 6.5/10 (3.25/5)
3 Stars (8/15)
I was very familiar with one song, The Rockafeller Skank, from the movie She's All That.
It's a fun groove is you can handle the repetition.
You've Come a Long Way, Baby is the second studio album by Fatboy Slim, originally released in 1998. The recording story of this album is pretty interesting. Cook recorded and produced the album at his home studio in Brighton, known as the House of Love, using an Atari ST computer, Creator software, and floppy disks. Must've been such a pain in the ass to work with. The content on this album is fairly run-of-the-mill electronic music from that era. It's very sample-based which can get repetitive after a while. That being said, lots of the tracks are pretty groovy, especially on the latter half of the album. This type of electronic music isn't usually my vibe, but this absolutely belongs on this list as it is a very important recording in the history of electronic music (even if it hasn't aged very well). And man, check out that album cover! It's a shame they changed it for the US release.
Takes me back!
Highlights: Right Here Right Now, The Rockafeller Skank, Gangster Trippin', Praise You. In a nutshell: the great 1998 copy and paste job. At time of release, You've Come A Long Way Baby was a juggernaut. Retrospectively, you can tell Norman Cook (Fatboy Slim) found a winning formula after years of DJing and applied it hard throughout. Overall: 6/10
Has a couple bangers, but otherwise eh.
I bought this album in middle school and listened to it quite a bit back then. My musical tastes have come a long way, baby.
ahh oke I get it vill samples und nöd wüürkli lieder im konventionelle sinn die erste zwei lieder sind na funny gsi aber füre 1h? idk bro wie lang zieht sich rockafeller, es isch eig na cool aber fast 7 minute??? idk ich find sample rig öppis mega cools aber wenn halt eifach 4 min eifach s gliche wiederholt wird ohni twist, ohni öppis speziells, weiss nöd au wenns iwo durre öppis het, e gwüssi nostalgie wo iwie cool isch build it up, aka BOUNCE BOUMCE BOUNCE hani no geil gfunde habaha, da hets jz au die switches geh wo ich mier chli erhofft han soul surfing findi de eint beat sehr geil, aber sie passed nöd so recht für mich? you're not from brighton riiichtig geil entweder bini ufgwärmt oder di zweit hälfti isch um einiges besser, praise you iach super ok han jz würkli e gueti ziit gha, aber will ichs ganz ehrlich wahrsch niemeh wird lose, gits es guets 3
Some well known tunes, too repetitive for me (songs in itself).
Enjoyable listen. Obviously not my genre but def could listen to again.
Interesting to listen to the tracks outwith the single but don’t think they lift the record to anything above a 3 really, it’s good but didn’t blow me away on first listen, the nostalgia of Praise You and Rockefeller Skank hit hard though
I get the appeal, it's definitely got a beat and you can dance to it. The repetitiveness just gets to me, and that's why I can never get into techno. Still, I have to give this one props for having a couple huge hits that got way more airplay than I'd expect from this type of album back in the 90s.
This is #day78 of my #1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie challenge, and... right about now, the funk soul brother, check it out now, the funk soul brother! Clearly, You've Come A Long Way, Baby is a product of its era, an unmistakable slice of late '90s break/big-beat electronica with plenty of sampled vocals. Somehow, though, this album and Fatboy Slim himself passed me by in the early '00s, aside from the ubiquitous "The Rockafeller Skank." Back then, I was more into The Prodigy and Chemical Brothers, I believe. I also liked Moby's 18. It's a jam for the ladies and the superstars if you know what I mean. Listening to this record for the first time now, I found it to be a fun collection of tunes that takes you back in time. However, I'm not sure if I'd want to revisit it in full anytime soon. But hey, I've ticked it off this list before I kick the bucket, so that already counts, right? This is a strong 3 out of 5. Looking forward to #day79.
I can see this as a painstaking trawl through collected sound bites from a huge record collection, and assembled using a computer. But at the end of the day, it all sounds like a mish mash produced by a scratching DJ. As an album, the tracks all sound pretty samey, it's technically pretty accomplished but rather lacking in musicality and emotion. Probably fairly influential in club scenes at the time. I've played it twice now. Will I play it again? Most probably not.
This album is a double-edged sword, bringing a sense of bittersweet nostalgia. On one hand, it was really nice to revisit because I have a strong connection to it on a nostalgic level. The memories of my teenage years, living a carefree life and adapting easily to things, come flooding back. The album has some really cool parts that were enjoyable and fun at the time. However, there’s a flipside. Some tracks feel kind of sloppy, as if Fatboy Slim was still honing his production skills. I noticed this even when it first came out, but I was more accepting back then. Now, if I disconnect from the nostalgia, I find that this album hasn’t aged well. As I’ve grown older and my musical tastes have evolved, the flaws that were once minor annoyances have become stumbling blocks, making it harder to appreciate the album for what it’s meant to be.
Repetitive but not too bad ig
It was OK in its day and still.ok..
No siis kyllä, bileet saa tällä pystyyn. Hyvä meininki kyllä. Kansainvälisempi kuin brittitanssimusiikki usein (dupista on vain aavistus täällä, ainakin mun korvaan). Voi laittaa soimaan klubilla tai leffan soundtrackiksi (nykyään varmaan ennemmin jälkimmäinen).
Meemiarvoltaan listan kärkeä: ykköshitti on ollut tuttu siitä lähtien kun kuulin sen "funksouraba". Keksitkö tarttuvamman hokeman?
Only know Fat Boy Slim for their hits. Album flowed well and was a lot more accessible than I thought it would be.
funky, a few good songs but there were a few that kind of blended in the background
I knew some of this was going to be recognizable. I didn't know it was going to be 3 songs right off the bat. I do like this. Understanding and familiarizing more beat-driven (electronic?) stuff has been a standout with this project for me. Also, the original cover is way better than the American one.
I don't hate it, but I'm really not into it either. It's just too repetitive and "dancey" for lack of a better (real?) term. I think I just don't like beats unless someone is rhyming over them.
Entertaining
Ah yes, Fatboy Slim. The man who inspired dozens of Brooklyn hipsters to drop out of art school and use their parents' money as a front to become a DJ. You can smell the sweat coming from now 40-something men with once-ironic mustaches as they dance with one arm in the air and the other arm DJ'ing while several 20-something girls surround him, aided by the drugs in their system and enamored at the genius of this person who is making the same phrase come out of the speakers at an intolerable decibel level. You know what? Another tattoo isn't a bad idea and we can post the whole thing on Flickr for the world to see. Fatboy Slim is fucking in heaven, but right now she is in fucking heaven. The attention her parents never gave her is now forgotten as she dances beside the mustached man on stage. Life is good. My college roommate loved this album and would play it quite often. I grew to not dislike this album and eventually the same phrase being repeated 983 times does get caught in your head. I always wondered why Fatboy Slim hates verses and/or hates using different words for a chorus just to throw a bit of a changeup. Nonetheless, when I think of electronica in the late 1990's I think of Fatboy Slim. I think of the same chorus repeated over and over. I think of pretty good beats and an overall interesting album that I would never put on unless there was a specific reason to or I wanted to go to American Eagle. I think this one has to be in the book because this is more mainstream techno. So, it is.
Meh. Not a big electronic music fan. This has some undeniable hits on it that can't be denied. So I suppose it has that going for it. Electronica just gets so repetitive.
I know some of these songs from 90’s alt rock, but the style isn’t for me.
Man, I really thought I was liking this. I thought I was being hypocritical that I enjoyed this over so many other electronic 90s albums, but I couldn't deny how great Rockafeller Skank or Praise You were. However, looking bsck on it made me realize how much of this opinion was built upon comfort. Sure, the other, lesser, tracks are okay, but do I really care? Especially enough to sit there and act like the album is better for them, running over an hour long? It's an okay album with some great tracks, but if you stick to the greatest hits records for Fatboy Slim, you will be missing very little. Luckily, this album has a good chunk of those hits, so there is something here to enjoy.
Goed album, maar naast de hits niet veel andere goeie nummers. 3.4
Not a big electronic/house fan, but even I liked a few of these!
Ich glaube wenn man darauf Lust hat macht das richtig Spaß
not really my thing, so i listened while working, and found it good background music for programming to
right about now the funk soul brother check it out now the funk soul brother right ab- 6/10
it wasn't bad, but an entire album? really?
I used to LOVE this album as a kid. Absolutely blew my mind when it came out. Very interesting to revisit it 27 years later. Because in hindsight it's actually...not as incredible as I was expecting. It's almost like entry level, pop electronica. The beats are quite surface level, far far too repetitive, each song should either be half the length or actually go somewhere else. The most interesting thing about this album is that the only song that actually excites me is Acid 8000, which is probably the only song I disliked as a kid. A totally different genre to the rest of the album. Bit of Acid house that comes out of nowhere and slaps hard. If I was 9 years old again this would be an easy 5*. As it is, tbh it's done well to get a 3*
God I love this era of electronic music so many iconic and important records here and Fatboy Slim may take the top of the list. In the songs that changed the era Praise you and Right Here Right Now these are invaluable. Where I see a shift is in the beat being samey for my taste even though I like house. I think slim was a bit too overzealous in this aspect and it hurts the enjoyment. I think this type of electronic was engaging and I wish it came back more. Slim is always better with lyrics