You've Come a Long Way Baby

Fatboy Slim is someone I’ve heard of. I think in 1998 it would have been impossible not to have heard of him or his music, as his music was everywhere. In fact, around that time, companies began licensing more real music for commercials, making it a new revenue stream for artists. Also, electronic music was really having its boom period during this time as it was fresh and new. This is the second album by Fatboy Slim. I reviewed his debut album, Better Living Through Chemistry, as my third album in this dumb journey. I gave it 3 stars, but I wasn’t blown away. I can already see there are three or four big hits off You’ve Come a Long Way Baby. Either he leveled up, or he got better representation by pushing his music out to the masses. Track 1 is Right Here, Right Now, which should not be confused with the Van Halen hit, Right Now, from 1991. This was the fourth single released off the album, and I can specifically remember a local news station using this song in a promo previewing their award-winning news coverage or some such nonsense. Not one of my favorite songs as I tend to get bored with it, but I was surprised to find out the song sampled a James Gang song. The James Gang was essentially a solo band built around Joe Walsh, but I guess Walsh didn’t want it to be all about him, so they named the band the James Gang. It’s a great band and better than Fatboy Slim. The song also samples Angela Bassett from the movie Strange Days. The song wasn’t released as a single in the U.S., which is weird because I know this song well enough to be tired of it. Track 2 is Rockafellar Skank, and you might know it as Right About Now the Funk Soul Brother, as that is repeated about 236,329 times. It was the first song released as a single, and it hit #1 on the U.S. Dance charts. Rolling Stone, a massive prisoner of the moment, announced it as one of the best dance songs of all time. I don’t think it’s so good as it kind of breaks down in the middle, then speeds up. This must have also been used in a bunch of ads or TV show promos, as I remember being bombarded with it. I’ll be interested to see if I enjoy a song I wasn’t already bombarded with from this album. Track 3 is In Heaven. And here we are. A song that was not released as a single. It says the F word about 2,749 times. I’m no prude, but ugh, enough. I know I've said many times I’m not a big lyrics guy, but I do think the human voice is an instrument that is needed to make a song truly great. Some instrumental songs prove the exception, but for the most part, I need more than some sample repeating, “Fatboy Slim is f**king in heaven” over and over again. I hate to say it, but I’d rather have more My Bloody Valentine in my life than this. Track 4 is Gangster Trippin.’ Is Fatboy Slim being disrespectful by not spelling it gangsta? I thought the hard R was anathema back then? Again, the same voice sample repeats one sentence over and over. It just gets boring. I think I’ll come back when something really interests me. By the by, this was a single off the album. Granted, it wasn’t played as much as the previous singles, but I thought I recognized it. Track 7 is Soul Surfing, and it’s someone yelling Jack it up, jack up over and over again over a swinging 60s beat. It’s not great. It’s not even making me chair dance. I’m actually getting some solid work done, whereas usually I have to stop listening after every song to work a little before continuing to listen. Fatboy Slim is just not my cup of tea. Track 8 is You’re Not from Brighton. The only reason anything caught my ear about this rather mediocre song was that there’s a whistle sound played 2,000 times that sounds exactly like the whistle in the Insane in the Membrane song by Cypress Hill. Track 9 is Praise You and this was the big song off the album. Not only did it hit the top of the charts in the U.S and all over the world, but the music video was great. The video was directed by Spike Jonze, a madman in his own right. It was shot in hidden video style with Jonze performing a dance to this song on the sidewalk in front of a movie theater, or at least I think it was a movie theater. It was pretty cool. I’ll admit, the video endeared me to this song. It’s fine. The thing with a lot of the songs on this record is that if these were songs written and performed by a group, I don’t think the album would be as big as it is. This album came along at exactly the right time in music history to become huge. If it were released today, I just don’t think it would have done half as well as it did. Maybe I’m too square to get it. It’s very possible. I’m not cool and will never be. I just know what I like. Track 10 is Love Island, and I’ll admit, I like the sound of the synth being used as the bass. I think it’s a synth. The keyboards in the background that are acting like strings are also pretty cool. This was not a single, so I’m not sure I’ve heard it. I like this song. I’m floored. It’s got me chair dancing too. And I know it’s not my Monster Energy because I forgot to drink one today. Track 11 is Acid 8000, and I think I like it even more than Love Island. In fact, it seems Love Island faded into Acid 8000. Though now we come in with the dumb drum and bass beat that is just overplayed. I like the sound of the synths in the song, though. The obligatory repeated line of the song is, “If this don’t make your booty move, your booty must be dead.” It’s got me moving, so I guess my booty isn’t dead. Which means the rest of the songs on this album aren’t great at moving booties. Okay, I had to give up on Acid 8000 about midway through as it was becoming unbearable. I won’t say I hate this album, but I just thought it was bland. It could be that we’ve come so far when it comes to dance music that this seems like what 80s rap seems like to a kid today, old and remedial. If you are a dance music fan, you should probably hear this album because it was the album for 1998-1999. Otherwise, you can skip it.

Something that would play at a home screen in a early-2000s video game about skating. I liked the 2nd half of the album more than the first. "Soul Surfing" is probably the one I like the most. Lots of repeating the same phrase over and over on most songs. It was ok.

I don't know how I feel about this honestly. It feels... okay? At some points? Certainly doesn't feel like I'd come back to any of the songs, but there are some highlights like "Praise You" and "The Rockafeller Skank". Even those don't really warrant them adding those to any of my playlists though...

Meh. I grew up in the late 80's and 90's, and I precisely remember when this album came out and propelled Fatboy Slim everywhere. I kinda liked the singles, but when I listened to the whole album at the time, I was left unimpressed. Not to brag, but I was drifting away from "mainstream" music at the time, and I found so many mind-blowing small artists and indie records that this just didn't make it. Almost 30 years later, my feelings about it haven't changed. Bigbeat mainstream idm/soft techno, in the vein of Prodigy, but less agressive, or Chemical Brothers, but less bombastic. It's a fun take at first, mixing old tunes, classic Detroit techno from the 80's/early 90's, 70's disco, but it sometimes feels like Fatboy threw everything at the wall to see what sticks, and by the end, the record overstay its welcome, and I felt kinda relieved when it ended. Overall a solid effort, , sure, but in no way an "essential album". On a personnal note : it's the fifth day in a row I'm suggested a mediocre or plain bad album that cannot be considered an essential listen. I'm wondering who is curating this list and what are the vetting processes.

I imagine this would sound awesome if you were picking out your signature pukka shell necklace or hitting a bong in your friends basement for the first time ever. In 2026 it’s pretty trite.

Super nostalgic for the opening track, it almost transports me to when I like 8, rest of the album isn't as great but it's fun enough to get a middling rating within the context of rating the entire thing

Not aged well

Got pretty old pretty fast

So got a small story here, somewhat related, i went to a festival a few years back with a killer lineup and it was strong throughout the day with the penultimate band (Ballpark Music) basically sending it out with a bang, and then this lad comes out as the big international name for the closer and plays the most heavily edited versions of his own music and sends *in my opinion* the festival out with a whimper. Now i rarely like “DJ” music and that was truly no exception, so im sure others enjoyed it, but it left a sour taste in my mouth. So now i finally listen to this and man its about what i expected, some decent stuff here and there, catchy for sure but mostly stuff thats just not up my alley. Standouts are the intro track and praise you.

2/5 - Sometimes this is catchy. Sometimes it makes me want to put a drill against my head. The latter times outweigh the former.

I think it was kind of mid. One of the suprising thing was that one of the songs had a slow reverb to it which felt so weird, in fact many of them had this weird thing where I felt like the album was trying to do too much and was just weirded out. The only song I did enjoy was because it felt normal. Also HOLY MOLY the songs are long, I think the average is like 6 minutes

Terrible. Not my thing. One or two ok songs.

Nice

Favourite Songs: Praise You

This doesn’t deserve a 3.3 more of a 2.8 in my opinion

None of these songs should be as long as they are. Feel like they are just made for needles drops in movies, just drop in the 30 seconds for a particular scene, the rest of the song is just taking up space.

Stadium intro staple, Right Here, Right Now leads off. I wonder how Fatboy Slim feels about being in basically every NBA team's intro...probably rich. Three massive hits and a bunch of songs no one listens to...and two of the hits are done in the first two songs. Rockafeller Skank sucks. In Heaven is terrible. The repetition of the words in these songs is the worst part. It reminds me of the Limp Bizkit song where he says fuck 1,000 times...I get it, you used a cuss word over and over again, very edgy. Gangster Trippin had a moment too...I vaguely remember it in something...a commercial or movie trailer or something. The six words repeating for the entire song maybe works when your out of your mind on E, but it makes it hard to listen to this in any other context. Where are all the kids with pacifiers? That being said, Kalifornia is one of more tolerable tracks. Praise You is awful too. This album was insufferable when it came out and it's insufferable now. I can't believe this got so popular. The Move It, Move It guys heard Love Island and had an idea. I also think it has a sample of King Hippo's voice from Mike Tyson's Punch Out. Acid 8000 sounds like 8 bit video game music.

I like techno in general, so I'm used to listening to some relatively repetitive music. This is extremely repetitive. It's impressive what he was able to do with such rudimentary equipment - the quality of the recording is top rate, but the music itself is extremely tiring.

Praise you is decent, the rest feels like he’s hit the duplicate sample button on his DAW over and over again until it hits 5 minutes

Some fun stuff on here, some nostalgia here. But overall, not my thing. Just a bunch of noise sometimes

weak sauce

Isfuckingisfucjingisfucjingisfucjo 2.5

i mean. sure. whatever. "right here" (and its music vid {and the various advertisements it scored [it cannot be understated just how much this fucking genre was propped up by the choices of temp writers and their "4 quadrant + racial taxonomy hitting" music choices |was there ever an ethical way to make big beat? i couldn't tell you. prodigy were actual rockers. handsome boy modeling school were actual beatmakers. <a lot of it feels like Mostly overglorified exercises in racially dubious plunderphonics that "happened" cause of the post-nirvana/oasis beating madchester into the dirt + post-britpop bubble burst + pre-strokes + trance era tiesto EDM interregnum /tl;dr the thing that gave ok computer a leg up/> maybe it's like being a pop rapper. hard to win respect. another quick fuck you to moby|]}), "praise you," and "rockafeller" (just fine imo) are classics. like i said. despite my big beat misgivings he makes it happen on occasion. SOME of the album cuts ("fucking in heaven", "you're not from brighton", "are we having fun yet") are nice. good in the "fun yet" case. the drums take a lot out of the rest; it's failure to iterate. personally i need futuristic skater graffiti (jungle always sounds like the future ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯) for this stuff to click. looking forward to chopping the kalifornia samples into a MASSIVE™️ (please. god. tell me there's remixes. i'm so tired of those fucking drums {remixes were mid}) rave tune. also. letting you guys know his government name's NORMAN COOK. norman cook? intermittently. 2.4-3.2. quick shoutout to whosampled; best of luck with the IDF funding.

This guy comes up with one sentence and repeats it for 4 minutes straight. A couple catchy ones, but gets old

I have an irrational dislike of Fatboy Slim, and listening to this didn't change that. I think it's just totally lacking in edge, wayyy too happy go lucky for me when it comes to dance music.

4/10 I know repetition is an essential part of music, but SURELY there's a limit. That being said there are some good moments, but overall not for me.

Techno odd

Not my thing, electronic is too busy for me. Didn't finish.

Praise You is the only good song on the whole album sure, but it's a great song.

Nearly every track on this album is 5+minutes but only a few are worth being that long.

DJs and EDM just aren't my thing

Probably an unpopular opinion but 11 songs each having basically a single lyric is relatively unimpressive.

na het derde nummer begon het echt allemaal hetzelfde te klinken. niet mijn ding

Damn, this is actually pretty annoying. Overly repetitive, songs don't progress much, gets tiresome quickly. Another miss for Dimery on this one, to no surprise.

Not really my vibe atm, praise you will always be iconic though! Think i need to relisten to this another time

Started out a vibe, got boring fairly quick

I love ultra repetitive beats and computer noises! Oh wait, I don’t ….

Repetitive. Not bad, just repetitive.

Medio choto, no para de repetir la misma frase en varios temas

Few decent tracks, but mostly slop

This is like a mix of an adult swim intro and the beastie boys except instead of rapping they’re repeating the same thing for 6 minutes straight until it gets to the next song. Praise you was the only song I might consider listening to again.

I don’t do the right kind of substances to enjoy this album.

I mean a little repetitive no? I wanted to like this more but it just sounds a bit corny. I’m sure I would’ve loved this in 1998 tho.

Ughhhhhhhh sooooo boring!

#86/1001 🇬🇧 It's been a long time since i last listened to this. I was a constant on the CD player, pre nights out. Can't say that i ever loved it but there are some brilliant moments that would really sound amazing in a packed club in isolation. Listening back, i can totally appreciate the craft that has gone into creating the record, putting together all the samples and building the sound. Unfortunately it grates on me after a while and an hour in, i'm sick of listening. Some of the "best" tracks have been played to death in adverts, montages etc so it just got painful to endure sadly. Best Tracks:

Yes, it's more pop-oriented EDM but it's still EDM so annoying af.

Damn, I thought this was going to be good, it wasn't. It was repetative, egotistical and boring. It sounded like the 90's and should stay there.

Praise You is a guilty pleasure of sorts but the rest of this album is repetitive, boring and feels like baby's first beats in a way. 3/10

No me gustó mucho este jaja no niego que es peculiar pero no aguante el escucharlo

muy medio pelo, no banco la repeticion estupida de una sola oracion

Liked a couple of the songs a good amount, generally like the DJ sample heavy stuff, but some of the songs were too abrasive for me. And too looped. There's a fine line for me, and this was on the wrong side of it.

def not my thing but not awful just also insanely repetitive and kind of tweaky

It made me dance in my chair but not my kinda music. It's interesting, but not good? Or good but not interesting?

Ok, but gets a bit boring 2/5

Not my thing

Praise You has been one of my favorite songs for nearly three decades, but listening to it in the context of this album makes its success feel more like an accident than a work of genius. Each one of these tracks employs exactly the same tricks over and over again... riffing off of a vocal sample or two and a bit of music... each track going through the same progressions as the one before. Praise You is still a massive success, but I'll gladly bin the rest of this.

Icl, it got waaaay too repetitive and annoying. Despite that it does have some proper tunes. Praise You was my fav song of the album with The Rockafeller Skank and Gangster Tripping (my fav first listen) as my other highlights.

Favorite songs: The Rockafeller Skank, Praise You

Epuisant.

It is It is It is just It is It is just It is just It is just a little bit really goddamn repetitive It is It is It's not a 1 because Praise You is a stellar song on its own and because I think if you were at a live DJ set this would be what you'd want..but as an album to sit and do some work with headphones on it absolutely is not. That's not Cook's fault. However. Also what the fuck is up with in Heaven?

The songs are too long and repetitive. Praise You sure did have a moment, didn’t it?

Best Song: Praise You I didn't like this is the late 90s and I don't like this now. It is repetitive and boring. Each song seems to pick one line of dialogue and then repeat it over, and over, and over, and over, and over for five minutes. I spent most of the time listening to this going back and forth whether this should have been included on the 1001. It does tell a story of sorts of the music scene in 1998 in a post grunge, pre-boy band/Brittney, Christina, P!nk era but, at the same time, this is feels like a one hit wonder album to me. In other words, I don't really think Fatboy Slim made a huge impact to music outside of having that 'Praise You' song. Maybe I'm wrong and all the Slim heads will come out of the walls and correct me. 2/5.

niet voor mij

Davon kennt man natürlich ein paar Sachen. Ist und war aber nie meine Musik. Ein oder maximal zwei Songs auf einer Party hätte durchaus seine Berechtigung, aber als Album nur unter Schmerz hörbar. Der gleiche Satz immer wieder, manchmal innerhalb von 4 Sekunden 10 mal. 🙄 Aber the rockafellar skank und praise you sind wirklich eingängige Klassiker bei denen man einfach zumindest mitwippen muss. Deshalb noch zwei Sterne und ein Song bei einer Party von mir aus.

Not my music

1.75 - Praise You is very good. Most everything else is too repetitive, but I liked this a lot more than The Chemical Brothers.

whatecer

Fat boy slims you’ve come a long way baby is an interesting album. Not what I excepted, had always heard of him but never listened. I expected a pop rock sort of like the new radicals, not moby!?

Always quite liked Praise You back in the nineties, but a whole album of this style of music was just a bit too long and repetitive for me.

Although not my thing at all, individual tracks were listenable, if not a tad repetitive. However, a whole album was too much for me.

Ok you’re not from brighten and praise you are bangers. Your not from brighten sounds like it should be the opener for an 2000s romcom. Overall each song on the album has repeating sounds and short lyrics that also repeat making it VERY annoying.

Cool samples but not quite my style

There must be an audience for this, but it is not me.

So much repetition and just looped sound effects not my cup of tea at all.

Estaría escuchable si no fueran 6 minutos repitiendo las misma 3 frases. ¿Puedes hacer una canción repetitiva y que sea disfrutable escucharla? Si, pero no repitas "fatboy slim is fucking in heaven" 41 veces en 3 minutos.

repetitive. too simplistic. some kind of grating.

fun but not my thing

There are a few really good tracks on here, but not sure I'd ever find myself listening to it all the way through again. It gets a little repetitive for me. Highlights: "Praise You" and "Soul Surfing"

Like with previous electronic albums the repetition is grating. The runtime could have been cut by half. It is relatively fun and works as background music for gaming.

I guess this is probably ok for a dance club, but I didn't enjoy it that much. Not my favourite kind of music. Too long and pretty repetitive. "Praise you" is the track I enjoyed the most.

Meh

Telling that I got both this one and the Chemical Brothers in the same week. Listening to them together -- Fatboy Slim is a pale, pale pretender to what some of the more interesting EDM is. While the Chemical Brothers were more focused on creating soundscapes around the samples they chose, FS simply bangs that sample into your brain again and again. Now, if you're rolling on molly and you just wanna dance, I guess this would be a decent listen -- but just normally? Nah.

Like I don’t hate the album but i don’t know, it sounds like a Fat Boy Slim album

Definitely not my favourite album. I found a lot of the songs really didn't jive with me, and they were also too long.

I’m a very lyric heavy person, and find myself needing them to really enjoy most songs so this wasn’t for me. Kept half dancing to this though so I can for sure say I do see the appeal. In the club or perhaps in a movie/tv scene I would enjoy this a lot more. But not what I’m looking for, so not for me. Which is how I’m ranking these.

eehm not really my type but has some good ones

Ett par bra låtar men i övrigt svag

Gav kanske inte det här albumet en ärlig chans?

Liked: In Heaven, Kalifornia, Praise You Disliked: Rockafeller Skank

Repetitive ... (Repetitive). Not just the "lyrics" but the beats are also repetitive. Some of them sound good for about 10 seconds. Then repeat. Most of the tracks are also annoying. Praise You is actually decent, and it raises the score up to 2. Barely.

i did not particularly like the songs to begin with but then he did the same thing like 10 more times

I came into this wanting to defend it more, as I do like fun weird electronic music, but some parts were legitimately very unpleasant and annoying. I did find the Heaven song funny though

It is wild that an album can have Right Here/Right Now, Rockafeller Skank, and Praise You, but also so much complete dreck. The following tracks stink so much they're bringing the score down to a 2: In Heaven Build It Up, Tear It Down Kalifornia Acid 8000

Repetitive, like most EDM I guess. There were interesting things here, but nothing that I wanted to hear repeated as nauseam.

These tracks are joyous and fun. I love the inventive samples and hooks created with them. They are also too long for my taste. With only the shortest track at just under four minutes, and many in excess of six, I find myself really hyped at the start of every new song because I'd started to check out with the repetition of the previous. When I have the album playing in the background I'm digging on it. The Rockafeller Skank Praise You

I’ve heard of fat boy slim and I’ve heard a few songs but not this whole album. I’m not a fan of electronic music at all. This album cover is great. Right Here Right Now: 6.5/10 Sounds like a big song. Great album opener. The Rockafeller Skank: 6.4/10 Iconic song. Fucking in Heaven: 6.2/10 Really nothing to this song. Gangster Trippin: 5.4/10 Pretty boring. Build it up, Tear it down: 5.8/10 I like the build it up, tear it down part with the guitar. Kalifornia: 6/10 Cool sounding Soul Surfing: 5.2/10 You’re not from Brighton: 5/10 Praise You: 6.6/10 Good piano. Best song on the album. Love Island: 5.6/10 Interesting intro. Acid 8000: 5/10 Very long song.

One of the best electronic albums I have listened to. I knew a few songs with "Praise You" being an absolute bop- shoutout to the "Michael Jordan to the Max" documentary. However like every electronic album, I am so sick of the sound by the end and want it off. I don't know why all these albums have to be a hour long. Why! 2.5/5- going down to 2 for length

Ok

Not my favorite but recognized some classes on here.

I understand why people like "Rockerfeller Skank" and "Praise You." I found myself enjoying this as music to work to, here and there, but it's also SO tedious and repetitious. All Sound Same can be fine if you really like the sound, but I don't, especially. And "Fucking in Heaven" was terrible.

A 90's dance record with a lot of noise and a few too many speaky intros. There were a couple classic songs on the record (The Rockefeller Skank and Praise You) which I recognized, but overall it was a wash of sound and dance beats that I couldn't really get into. Now I'm not an EDM fan by any stretch, but this album felt stuck in its time, echoing contemporaries Run DMC and The Beastie Boys at times, but overall just feeling like a 90s record that I couldn't get into 30 years later. 4/10

ça va pas vraiment ce que j'ecoute mais ça va, mais ça ne me touche pas plus que ça

Well, they do have that one song… but the rest is unremarkable

Fatboy Slim will always remind me of Derry girls Started off strong but every song is just soooo repetitive I had to skip most of them towards the end The hits are great and there's a reason they're popular, but I don't think that should justify this album being classed as one of the best of all time

Ihan hyviä sinkut levyltä, mutta ei iske kyllä kokonaisuutena. 2/5.

Rhythms were fun but it was way too repetitive. I wanted to like it but the number of times it just said "f***" over and over without any real musicality didn't do much for me.

Right here, right now - 4 The Rockafeller skank - 4 In heaven - 3 Gangster trippin - 4 Build it up, tear it down - 2 Kalifornia - 2 Soul surfing - 2 You're not from Brighton - 2 Praise you - 3 Love island - 1 Acid 8000 - 1

Meh. This music sounds like DnB candy. I think people get pissed off at Passion Pit for the same reason, but I love Passion Pit. Whenever I want to hear electronic style music, I want to hear something a little more exciting than this. I want techno, i want crazy synths, I want minimalist stuff; the hip-hoppy DJ scratches here feel kinda corny even though they’re well done. I don’t like the sample selection like this is some little big planet ass music

2/5. I am admittedly not the most familiar with Big Beat as a genre. I basically only previously knew the Prodigy with the crab album (fat of the land.) Fatboy Slim was another one of the large artists in that scene, and he was up there with the prodigy as one of the few big beat artists to make a splash in the U.S.. as for this album it’s some sample-heavy danceable electronic music. A lot of the songs I started off thinking “this is kinda catchy.” But then the biggest flaw of this album for me rears its head, and it’s that every song on here is just a minute or two too long which turns it into a slog to get through.

Alright I guess...not in the mood, doesn't land.

Insanely repetitive. I thought the other reviews were exaggerating, boy was I wrong.

Meh, hi ha un parell de temazos però molta palla pel mig. Millor tema de fatboy és Weapon of Choice que no és d'aquest àlbum

It is what it is - dance club music with tons of beats based on snippets of melodies and alliterative chants. It would be fun w a crowd that wants to get wild, but as an album I need to listen to before I die, it doesn’t cut it.

Repetitive repetitive repetitive repetitive repetitive repetitive repetitive repetitive and so forth and so on

Got a few bangers on it but I just can’t really get into it as an album

Bouncy, fun to listen to Great use of samples, but sometimess they feel repetitive or overused. I think if somone wanted to listen to a production album, Endtroducing... would be a better option, but this is better for a "good time" These songs are either heat or very annoying, mostly the latter unfortunately. I feel like I'll listen through 15 minutes of trash for 30 minutes of great production

Interesting and mildly entertaining in the background.

Mah non il mio genere noioso

couldnt make it through but heres a few stars for technical prowess and cultural impact

This was ok. I knew Rockefeller Skank and Praise You. They make me think of the late 90’s. The songs were too long.

o álbum é muito bem feito, mas eu não gosto de música eletrônica, então não importa o quão bom ele seja eu não consigo gostar, escutar esse álbum por uma hora foi tortura pra mim

I'm personally not a fan of the whole big beat/house genre of music. I get that the point of it is to be repetitive and danceable, but for someone like me who is not big into the whole dance club scene, I don't really understand music like this and it becomes more along the lines of background music for me. I did recognize a few of the samples though. Thought it was cool that they sampled a James Gang song on "Right Here, Right Now".

El disco no es malo en sí, pero escucharlo de corrido cansa. Es hartante que utilice siempre el mismo recurso de repetir palabras o una frase durante 5' y 1/2 con una base de fondo. Creo que casi el 100% de los temas, andarían bien escuchados individualmente.

Very very very very very very very repetitive. "praise you" still slaps tho

smorilo me ovo

J'me rappelle de quand c'était nouveau et innovateur. C'était pas ben bon non plus à cette époque. 2.49 étoiles

It gets pretty damn monotonous pretty damn quickly....and there's a song absolutely littered with f-bombs. At least we got a couple radio hits on this one. What puts this above/below the OTHER Fatboy Slim album (if there's not more) on this list. 1,001 is a big number - not sure why the author/editor has so many multiple 'meh' albums by so many artists.

Man, I did not know that this album was going to feel as long as it did. I've spoken before of the problems with a "CD" first outlook when creating music. This is a perfect example of that, it just felt like it was too long too many long repetitive songs. The few I remembered were a welcome respite from the rest of the album.

Yeah not my style lets repeat the same phrase 50 times in a song and have some noise in the back. 2/5

Too repetitive and juvenile. Out of my wheelhouse for sure.

Not my style but quite entertaining

I liked it but I will not listen to it again.

la imagen lo describe bien. creo que hay una con melodía, que no estaría mal si no se repitiera 1000 veces

better than the other one

Meh

its fine. its a dance album. i get it. 2.5

Oh no. I had to live through this balls at the time, and everyone loving it. You could not go anywhere or do anything in the late 90s without a song from this album invading your personal space without consent. If it wasn't ol' saggy britches boning Zoe Ball and her gushing all about it, it was on the radio, and if it wasn't on the radio it was in your face at school, in the shop, blasting from the cars of steeks. And it was terrible. The summit and nadir of everything dance music had been steaming towards. So yes, it's wall to wall hits. The only good one is if course Right Here Right Now. By the very nature of the genre, each track only has about 1 minute of material, so you can get through the whole album in about twelve minutes and get the same effect as if you had listened to the whole thing.

Would rate it 2.5 if I could. Liked the way he used the samples, fun album, good listen, just not my genre.

Maybe it was years of sitting through shitty corporate presentations which (seemingly contractually) used "right here right now" as an introduction to unsuccessfully try & get people excited.....maybe it was the appalling vocal repetition in some songs (especially during 'farking in heaven'), but this was pure punishment in parts. Feels like Fatboy is a "small dose" artist +1 star awarded for the nerd cred - album produced on an oldskool Atari ST

It's alright, on the wrong side of repetetive sample dance stuff. Rockafeller skank brings up bad memories

Very repetetive, helped me study though

The 2nd album I ever bought with my own money. Rockafella Skank was on Fifa 99 and I thought it was the coolest thing ever. It’s still a banger. Right Here Right Now and Praise You also great The rest is hot garbage. I’m giving a generous 2 just because I like those three songs.

Klarte å høyre gjennom, men siste låtane var jo heilt sjukt vonde å høyre på. 2 fordi det var ganske fett i starten.

The sound track to every ski town in the 90s. Some of the songs are good, some are bad. I wouldn’t want to listen to this often but it was fun for a little while

This is, quite simply, too much Fatboy Slim

Appreciate the significance, but sounds a bit basic to 2025 ears. 2.49 stars rounded back down to a flat deuce

Nice beats. But it is not for me

every song is really good for like the first minute and a half, then the same beat just loops about 200 more times making you completely sick of it

Das Album wurde im House of Love in Brighton aufgenommen. Fatboy Slim, britischer Produzent, verbindet auf diesem Werk tanzbare Breakbeats mit markanten Samplecollagen und Einflüssen aus Funk, Soul und Rock. Besonders bekannte Stücke wie „The Rockafeller Skank“, „Praise You“, „Right Here, Right Now“ und „Gangster Trippin“ zeigen die klare rhythmische Linie und die durchdachte Struktur der Songs. Die Produktion ist präzise, die Stücke behalten trotz vielfältiger Einflüsse ihre Erkennbarkeit. Das Album vermittelt den typischen Big‑Beat‑Charakter und wirkt konsequent stilistisch ausgerichtet. Hörenswert für Fans elektronischer Tanzmusik.

Algunes cançons memorables però no crec que sigui un àlbum per escoltar d'una tirada perquè a la mínima es fa molt repetitiu. El tornare a escoltar d'aquí un temps a veure que tal. Seria un 2'5

Alright, very dated now though

Not bad

Why do I suddenly feel inclined to wear frosted tips, a puka necklace, and pose aggressively above a fish eye lens?

idk man, i like fatboy slim, but this is not his finest work. 1.5 today

I dodnt expect to hate this so much. The samples are utterly grating

It's interesting, but that’s about it. Songs are repetative and the beat drops aren’t all that amusing. Felt that they were always going on longer than they should.

Thought I was going to enjoy this as I had fond memories from my yoof. Listening to it now though, the rose tinted spectacles of memories past quickly fell away. Some things are better left in the past...

I've heard so much about Fatboy Slim and how essential groundbreaking he was in his era in various documentaries, but I feel like no one really talks about him anymore. I've heard "Rockafeller Skank" and "Praise You" a lot, but I feel like it's always in the context of nostalgia. There's some cool sounds here, but so much of it is too redundant. Maybe that's the point? I dunno. I typically enjoy dance music and turntablism, but I can't grasp the appeal of Fatboy Slim. Just kinda boring and repetitive. J-j-j-ust kinda kinda kinda kinda boring and repetitive Just kinda boring and repetitive-tive-tive-tive just kinda boring and repetitive

Pretty good but got bored

Quite enjoyed but dragged on towards the end

It's obviously good music, but I found it irritating to listen to as an album. The songs by themselves can be fun, and dancing to them is great. It is just incredibly boring as an album.

Not a fan. Not bad by any means, but not for me. The hits are classics for obvious reason with praise you being my standout

Tämä genre ei vaan uppoa...

I find it really hard to comprehend that this is/was rave music

Just ok. I was hoping for more...

Head nodding turns to stomach turning on the fifteenth loop in all of these songs.

The first two minutes of every song were really delightful. But every song was much longer. I wanted to give this a higher score but I found myself excited for every song to end.

Two absolute bangers and a whole lot of shit Best Song: Right Here, Right Now Rating: 3.5/10 Stars: 2

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

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.

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.

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.

I like the two hits that’s all

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

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!

More than anything it is embarrassing that this exists.

Not really. Repetitive to annoyance.

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

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

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 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

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. ⭐⭐

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

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

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

Eh

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

*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

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.

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.

eh. not my thing

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"

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

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.

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

Mind numbingly repetitive

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

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.

CHECK IT OUT NOW FUNK SOUL BROTHA

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

Meh

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

Eh.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Not the worst, not my favorite. I loved the singles when they were released, wasn't much into the rest of the album. Not much has changed.

Not a huge fan, found it somewhat repetitive, my favourite song though was by far Soul Surfing. Final Ranking: Lyrics: 4/10 Instrumentals: 4/10 Originality: 3/10 Album Flow/Cohesion: 3/10 Vocals: 3/10 Didn't really enjoy it but I understand it is a significant album. Not my style and too repetitive.

Some catchy cool beats but it’s soooo repetitive… soooo repetitive

Kinda fun, but the repetition wore on me after a while. Still, I can see exactly why it blew up. Big, cheeky, and built for late-90s parties and festivals. A cultural moment, even if not one I’d revisit often.

I've heard the hits, everyone has. I was kind of curious to see how it will sound. A Lot of it sounds the same. 808 beats, samples.. some hooks. I mean, its good but its very a like.

Some 'bangers' on here but I find repetition really fucking irritiating, which is a massive problem when listening to this. Which are ya boy, fat or slim?!

This was the first album I ever bought! My mum was not happy that it had a song called 'Fucking in Heaven' on it but I was so innocent that I didn't know why it was bad beyond having a swear word in it. It was a nostalgic listen and interesting hearing it again now I can parse how it was constructed after decades of listening to music since I first heard it, BUT (and it's a big but) it's pretty dull overall tbh

not my style

Wheeeeeel never checked this. Its ok, kinda boring though, Slim’s style is nice but I get tired of it quickly. Still one of the better things this horrible list has recommended me though, overall boring experience.

mehhh

This album was…certainly something. The opening moments are pretty good, but like most songs on this album, it goes on too long. The only songs that I feel don’t go on too long are In Heaven and Praise You, which are also my favorites on the record. There was a section of this album in the middle where I wanted nothing more than for it to end. This lasted about 15 minutes, but Praise You swooped in to save the day. This album was meant to have individual songs played at parties and in clubs, not a full listen through. I honestly have no clue why it’s on this list. That being said, there are a few interesting moments. 2/5

No

Praise you was the only song I knew and liked. The rest sounded like it was a long outro song to the 90s.

Kind of pseudo-edm or like hip hop without the rap. Not really my thing.

Every song should be 50% shorter

Best listened to while doing other things.

the origin of dj-ing some classics there czuc ze stare niektore juz sluchalne

V repetitive, not for me

Nicht mein Stil

Like getting stuck talking to Colin from Accounts at a work networking conference. I attended out of politeness but found it boring and tiresome and couldn't wait to get away.

At least once a week, every week, I log on to see that a 90s British electronica album has been generated for me. They're all an hour-long, they're all filled with vocal loops consisting of like five words, and they're always the absolute lowpoint of my week. Please, I beg you, no more!

just found out fatboy slim isn’t fat and is english. so all that feels wrong

meh

Pretty r-repetitive I'd sa-sa-say. Tho it's a nice album. Prolly an average 2.50-3.00

Good fun. Not something to listen to a lot though imo. Too repetitive as I'm sure others have said

Dance/hiphop uit de 90-er jaren. Veel wel geinig, soms ook wel vervelend. Natuurlijk de bekende Rockafeller Skank. Dat was wel weer even herinneringen. Cowboy ook wel echt lachen, goed op gevibed. Radioactivity is ook wel viben zeg. Tot nu toe bevalt disc 2 mij een stuk meer. Oke, vanaf Tweakers Delight realiseer ik mij dat ik toch weer gematigd aan het irriteren ben.. Hmm, gematig gevoel. Echt wel viben af en toe en back to the 90s. Maar ook wel dooge ergerd. Zou zeggen 2.5 maar vind 3 echt teveel. Wordt een 2 tje dus.

Some bangers on here, but also the songs are incredibly long. Not sure if I could do this whole album back to back again.

Not a big fan of the repetitive beats. Meh.

Classic but looon ggggggggg

Meh

This feels like meme music - but when it was released was likely not the case. The songs / style are not for me - especially with the repetitive phrasing or lyrics. While the album art is iconic and the Parental Guidance logo is nostalgic, the music is not my preference. The song Praise You almost feels like an outlier from the overall sound, but a favorite.

It’s not terrible it’s pretty cool I just don’t fw this kind of music at all

Praise you goated, rest of album quite mid

not my cup of tea personally

Dated sound. Few ok tunes but overall poor

Bullshit. The music is not bad but 2 points less considering the guy is a complete jerk in real life. Fuck you, entitled piece of shit.

If every song was shorter, and F*cking in Heaven was removed, I might have enjoyed this. It was a tough listen with a couple of highlights.

I'm not prude, but the swearing was distracting. Not arty, not holistic, just like someone farted. Constantly.

Some iconic and fun singles (who doesn’t like Praise You?), but it’s not something that draws me in.

I'm not sure about this album.

A mixed bag. The singles still feel strong, Fucking in Heaven felt like a lad culture throwback, and then the others were between fun and forgettable. Love Island and Acid 8000 were pleasant surprises near the end.

This album came out when I was 16; a lot of people at school loved it; I the contrarian, therefore thought it was naff. My assumption was going into this listen that nostalgia would override my anti-Ibiza alcopop snobbery... this didn't really play out. I liked a lot of what was going on: Build it Up, Tear It Down and Soul Surfing are great. Love Island is an absolute banger. There are loads of great samples and layering, but it's also crass and a bit lightweight in places; the big hit singles can stay at the foam parties with the WKD.

To anyone under the age of 30. It’s probably hard to understand how big these songs were on release. An era where every dance song had to have a drop. It can be a bit tiring though when the same song has 3 drops. As can the over use of the same vocal sample “what we doin when the fat boy slippin’” “ right about now, with the funk soul brutha”. This was absolutely giving the masses what they wanted at the time. Thankfully the samples (sampling) is strong, as is the source material. Praise You is probably the pick of the bunch. If follows the same formula as the rest, but the main sample is extended allowing the song to breath. You’re not from Brighton / Love Island and Acid 8000 follow a different pattern influenced by the rave era. Only the last of those is strong though. I expected to enjoy this more. 2/5

I like the hits but it sounds dated and kind of annoying in anything but a small dose.

Annoying. 2/5 just for Right Here Right Now and Praise You, but they're still annoying though.

This album could be twenty minutes long and nothing would be lost. It’s not terrible, but it’s dull and incredibly repetitive. Its only strength lies in the quality of a handful of the samples, and that’s not enough for me to like this. It does bring back memories of clubbing at university though - Norman Cook was omnipresent in the late 90s, and some of this music really soundtracked my mid twenties so it’s not all bad.

LOL everyone on the planet knows Right Here Right Now. Fucking in Heaven is terrible. So repetitive. Repetitive. Repetitive. Soul Surfing just started and I am impatiently waiting for this album to be over.

This album has not aged well. I found it jarring and distracting rather than enjoyable

Epitome of 2000s dj music. Was ok

Ingenious? No. Unique? Somewhat. Too Long? Yes.

Ever since he debuted in the ‘90s, I have never been a fan of FBS. Figuring maybe decades later I’d change my mind, but I can say I stay firm in my stance. Electronic music just hits or it doesn’t for me, and when it is this repetitive with audio clips and such, I just find myself getting irritated as shit. I made it through most of the album, but eventually had to hit stop to save my sanity.

Strange mix of songs that I love and songs that I hate. Lot more that I didn't enjoy however.

The problem with repetitive music like this is if it's not done perfectly it's really annoying. There are a couple obvious boppers in here, but altogether I found the album obnoxious. He made some really catchy loops, but a four second loop for six straight minutes will get pretty annoying no matter what.

Quite the obsession with the “F” word.

Long album for sure. Not necessarily for me, but still had interesting moments. Definitely moments where the album ran long in my opinion. 5.1/10

Fav: ayeyaiyai, they all seem so pretentious. Praise You is probably the most listenable.

I remember hearing some of these, but I'm just not a fan of this genre. It is nice to know that it is "the funk soul brother" and not "the funk's so rubber" even though it still doesn't make sense.

I’m sure what is being produced is very innovative, seems to be an interesting story behind it. Not really what I’m interested in, samples of samples of samples.

Very familiar with this album and while I love electronic music, this gets a little tedious. Fat Boy Slim uses the same trick over and over throughout the album. Very formulaic.

As a sweet soul brother of several years, I was dismayed to learn that this album was, in fact, a funk soul brother's album. I have never felt such discrimination in my life. I'm vaguely familiar with this album and artist. Me pappy played "Praise You" once and I've heard some of the other songs on this album through the radio. The Jet Set Radio soundtrack was the first-ever body of music that I listened to of my own accord, so I also have fond memories of the "big beat" genre. All this to say that "You've Come a Long Way, Baby" should have appealed to me much more than it actually did. I'm not entirely sure what the Jet Set Radio soundtrack has which this album lacks aside from a greater level of variety. Many of these songs feel "flat" to me, which is a criticism that is very hard to articulate. There's a lack of fidelity. The electronic tones don't have any depth. The music inches along at a snail's pace and moves at a near-constant tempo. Uhh, moving on. There are some good moments. The looping on Gangster Trippin as well as a few other songs works well when the samples quickly repeat at the many climactic moments of the album. "Right Here, Right Now" is also good - my favourite song on the album. String instruments continue to be my music-listening soft spot and the layered, percussion-heavy sound is very good. My biggest gripe is that this album is long long loooooooooong. I can respect this album for having a strong enough identity to do it's own thing for an hour straight, though I really need something to break the pace when I'm listening to an album which is of a constant high-energy. All of these songs being 5+ minutes is also a real dealbreaker. To me, the appeal of sample-heavy music rests in the ability to harness and retool a vast array of sounds, not the same pool of noises being repeated for longer than they're welcome. This musical style is very unique, of-the-time and worthy of immortalisation within the book, though I'm still curious to see the exact reasons of inclusion. Let's see. "Exceedingly immature". A figurehead of the late-90s resurgence in club music. Multiplatinum seller. An alternative to the drug-fuelled haze of house music. A classic within big beat music. I figured there'd be more to this album other than selling well and becoming a classic within it's genre, though these are good enough reasons for me.

By some coincidence I had an early housemate in Roxbury in the late 1990s who was a huge Housemartins fan. Still not sure why this was the case, he was otherwise into American indie, britpop, but especially swing music. Like BIG TIME into the swing scene, went to dance nights in Manhattan during the week, was in videos and photo shoots for I can’t remember. Anyhow, speaking of 1990s trends, big beat, eh? I always find it peculiar what gets left out of the 90s post-mortems, like the whole decade ended in April 1994 or when Bush had their first hit or whatever. Meanwhile, “music” was moving forward on its own with and without the help of the business. 1997 was supposed to be The Year, if not summer of Electronica - Dig Your Own Hole and especially Fat of the Land - but the sound did not cross over, at least, not as was planned. Instead, the next and following years, this rando Brit DJ pulled together a set of novelty “techno” songs and kaboom. None of this really ever clicked for me, it’s so close to being sublime, next-level stuff, but Cook stays in his lane. Which apparently was a very profitable one, jeezus. The best example, aside from the general sense “Praise You” is missing that little something extra but keeps it safe for 1000s of ad breaks to come, is the breakdown of “Rockafeller Skank”: as the vocal sample speeds up and the (big) beat drops out it starts taking on a rhythm of its own which then just...folds back into surf rock basis of the song. A better artist would’ve seized that and gone off in a different direction - Daft Punk created an entire set around this idea - but Cook is ultimately very staid, very predictable, focused on colouring inside the lines.

Repetition is only good when something bears repeating. Loops for loops’ sake. A great start then leads to getting lost in a succession of boring middle songs before Praise You saved me a bit toward the end. Mercifully little more to listen to after that. I’m sure I could bop to it with the right paraphernalia but it doesn’t lend itself to a quiet weekday evening listen.

3/10 neću ponovo slušati

It’s a dance record with lots of samples going on. Not my cup of tea in any way shape or form. I made it through one listen but at the halfway point I was checking to see if it was almost done. Nothing I would listen to again.

Started well and then it went down. It’s just not my kind of music.

Not for me at all. But I could understand why someone would like it 5/10

Good album but it got repetitive for me.

Die Songs sind oft teilweise gut aber switchen dann zu nem nervigen Part, dazu fucken die meisten Vocal Samples einfach nur ab. Bester: Praise You Schlechtester: Acid 8000

A 1-minute blast of FBS can be quite exciting. Perfect soundtrack to advertise your affordable hatchback. 5-mins is usually a fairly interesting listen (sample spotting, intriguing production, fun times etc.). 10 mins is getting wearing. Half an hour is way too much. What's that? Another big buildup and breakdown you say? Another frantic 16/4 drum climax? A full album? Utter overdose 💀

2/5 One point for "Right Here, Right Now" and one point for "Praise You." Really repetitive. Like, REALLY repetitive. Not bad if you just wanna dance in a club or something, but to listen to for enjoyment? It's not it.

IM GOING INSANE AAAAAAAAAAAGH

Repetitive certainly

I never could get into Fat Boy Slim

This was fun for a bit, but I was kind of ready to rip my hair out after an hour of it. I can completely understand being at a rave, but this doesn’t really work at home for me. Not that I like raves, either. Once again, another electronica album that’s not for me.