You've Come a Long Way Baby

Better than I expected but second half especially pretty shite. Love island can get in the bin.

Not my cup of tea.

Too repetitive and it said the F word a lot in one song.

too repetitive for my taste

I think this is a good album when you already know it. It's not a, "I'm gonna go on a long drive and listen to this," but more of a, "This is an album I grew up listening to and have fond memories associated with it." Like I wouldn't choose to listen to it but I'm glad that I did.

Pioneering but the style wasn’t for me

Just no.

It's okay but Jesus Christ, the repetition is enough to drive one insane. I'm the kind of guy that, if you tell me that Fatboy Slim is Fucking in Heaven, it might go in one ear and out the other. Tell me a second time and it's still possible I will miss it. Tell me three times and I've got it, no need to belabor the point. Tell me 200 times in a row and it will make my head explode. Literally. I enjoy this in very small doses but that's about it. 2 stars.

Dunno

2+

Sometimes an album grows on you the more you listen to it. This is not one of those times.

Very different type of music but enjoyed the energy of the album at the start (got a bit sick of it towards the end as listened to it nonstop). I liked how every song has its own twist on a normal beat, for example in Gangsta trippin there was a part of the song with a Ukulele in the background which I liked. Very electric and high energy album. Would enjoy some of the songs in certain situations but some of them were just not good. 2.5 STARS

Interesting synths and vocals starting in Right Here Right Now, kinda a vibe👌. Okie vibing, just saw a floofer too. Hold up it’s 5 minutes?? Hmmm not vibing at minute 1:50 and so. …it’s good but repetitive. Love the violin parts though. I dig the flow of the music. Resisting the urge to skip the last minute… Rockefeller Skank: had no idea what they were saying, looked at lyrics 😂 Loving the groove of the rythme. Noticing a theme of repetition… okie it’s literally all the same lyrics, imma skip ahead and see if there is a beat change. Interesting shift at minute 4 some matrix stuff. Minute 5: intrusive thoughts be like.

The electronic style of this album isn’t really my thing but it had a really good energy to it. The Rockafeller Skank is my fav.

1.5 Some of the songs are lowkey and almost a jam. Some gets or are boring. Some of the songs are horrible. Some parts of the songs are really good, some parts of the songs are really bad. Praise you is a fine song. Also his most popular in fact. Not my type of album. To much… techno?

I don’t feel good and this album gave me a headache but I feel like if I felt good this would be fun and jez me up. So I don’t know what to think, 2.5/5

Even though I am not a huge fan of electronic music, I was very much looking forward to this album. I remember his hit songs and the cool music videos when I was younger. However I don't think the music holds up all that well. The samples being repeated over and over and over and over is annoying. I don't think it is quite deserving of a one as I usually reserved those that I had to skip songs or shut off immediately. Barely passing grade.

Interesting but too repetitive for me, and not in a good way. Too punk for me I guess.

Irriterende med de digitale effektene, spesielt Rockafeller Skank. Både effektene midt i og når den bytter stereoside i begynnelsen. Slitsomt lydbilde generelt, men deler av det var kult.

This is one of those albums that made sense to some people at a certain time. It got huge air play for the couple of catchy songs it has, but overall, the album is boring and the two songs are played out.

I’d almost completely written this album off, then Praise You came on and that twang of nostalgia bumped this album up to a 2.

Hip hop samples without the hip hop. Not coming back to this.

Nobody starts a party like Fatboy but you spend almost all this album wanting to play the singles versions as they are much better

1/2

Nadal nie rozumiem muzyki elektronicznej, dzisiaj trafilo na big beat z drugiego studyjnego albumu pana Fatboya Slima, czyli elektronicznego czlowieka orkiestry z wysp, o ile jakos kojarze sama postac, czy niektore utwory z tej plyty tak nigdy nie sluchalem go wczesniej, nic dziwnego, bo przeciez elektonika z 98, wiec mocno samplowane orkiestrowe skreczowanie i multum dziwnych dzwiekow skompilowane w ponad godzinnym materiale, jesli dwa pierwsze utwory gdzies mi sie obily o uszy, to im dalej w plyte tym bardziej obskurne duze bity sie robily, no moze poza przed ostatnim utworem praise you, ktory rowniez zachacza o mainstream, ale tak czy inaczej odsluch raczej wymeczony, za malo pozytywnych zaskoczen na rzecz katowania dziwnoscia, gdyby jeszcze bardziej basowe to bylo granie, to pomyslalbym ze jestem na totrurach erwinowskich, gdy odpali swoja diabelska muzyke w samochodzie, na plejke elektrykowa dodam otwierajacego right here right now, ktory nie wiem czemu kojarzy mi sie z wczesnym jutubem lub jakimis reklamami

Praise You is fun. There are not many other fun moments.

way too repetitive

esencial del Dance music a final de los 90, nunca lo había escuchado pero nada que llame en gran manera mi atención. Prodigy es mil veces mejor que esto.

Fine, not into this style of music. One track I recognized.

Fat boy slim is fucking in heaven - yung gravy could never

I feel like i want to eviscerate myself after this

Stress alligevel

Where to start? Didn’t like this at the time and I think it’s got worse over time. Sounds like a poor man’s attempt at David Holmes style soundtrack music (sorry Norman). It’s a no from me.

Two cool songs, surrounded by fuckin fuckin fuckin fuckin fuckin fuckin fuckin fuckin (in heaven, though, so that’s nice) druggy druggy druggy druggy druggy druggy druggy druggy druggy booty move your booty move your booty move in a bounce bounce bounce bounce bounce bounce house house house house house. Kind of an ordeal, but not the worst thing I ever heard, I guess.

some catchy riffs but it's basically one vulgar joke over an over

Sehr durchwachsen. Mischung aus ein paar guten Liedern und anderen Liedern wo man einfach nur weiterschalten will.

Gangster Trippin is nice. That's all I'm going to say about this.

Meh. Not my kind of music, though some of the tracks are good to keep moving when I do my power walks. Really liked « Praise You »!

A DJ set put down on an album. To me it is the kind of thing where you pick an individual tune out for dancing at a party, mixing it with other tunes. However listening to this as an album from start to finish does not work for me. In this connection I get stressed with all the sampling and scratching. Tedeous.

Mixed. Often find the repetition grating. Gangster Trippin is inspired, however. I particularly like the style change and implied key change connected with the vocal sample. Most of this album is on the edge of irritating for me amd most songs cross that line at some point where I want to hit the skip button. The unconventional structure of each song makes me want to stick with it anyway, though, because the changes are often rewarding.

i can see someone enjoying this but sadly its not for me

A repetição das batidas deve funcionar para as pistas, mas para mim, foi demasiadamente cansativo.

Apparemment ça s'appelle le big beat et apparemment j'aime pas trop ça (à part Praise You)

can see why the hits were the hits, rest is very repetitive filler

Great

Man, if these guys could JUST have shortened up some of these songs I would have loved it. But the endless 6-7 minute repeating is not going to do it for me. Song added to Playlist: Praise You

Mostly gross

Some blasts from the past that get you dancing for about 10 seconds, until the repetition kicks in. Overall, self obsession overtook any good tunes.

Another album of the 90s big-beat period but somewhat more infantile and self-indulgent than Chemical Brothers or Prodigy. Additionally struck me as more repetitive than the other artists and so the album just leaves me thinking that I could here something similar but better if I put on either Chemical Brothers or something crazier but similar (and therefore more interesting) if I put on Prodigy.

This album was more sound effects than music and some of it had a good beat. The vocals kept me from rating it higher.

The singles are fun but dated. As a whole this album is pretty much unlistenable though. It makes the Avalanches sound complex and meaningful. In Heaven? Smh. It's a shame because some of his sample choices are fantastic but there's a lot of filler. In a Spotify world, I wonder whether this album would ever happen.

You know, without having Christopher Walken to watch dance around and distract from this repetitive nonsense, it's just not worth it. 2 minutes of the same 10 seconds looping followed by a new 2 minute 10 second loop...repeat. I can't even figure out when a person would listen to this? Rave? Tripping? Homework? Work? Fishing? Camping? Warming up for a basketball game? Nah, it doesn't fit anywhere because it's just annoying repetition. As is this review. Purposefully repetitive.

Meh.

I'm confused. Is he fat or slim?

Only for the nostalgia. I was there in Brighton when this all kicked off. It was fun. Big fun. But it’s not a record that holds it’s quality. Disposable.

Have to admit to being somewhat disappointed on listening to this for the first time in many years. I now find it quite dated and repetitive. Maybe a result of overplaying over the years. In contrast, DJ Shadow's Endtroducing ... (an album of similar style and vintage) still sounds fresh and interesting.

One or two tracks that I've become ingrained to but otherwise not my thing particularly.

In which an Atari ST soundtracks adverts.

Didn't make it through. Timing wasn't great.

I remember when this album came out in the 90's and there was literally no escape from the catchy singles "Rockafeller Skank" and "Praise You". The other tracks are fine but I found a lot of it to be repetitive - most of the songs literally repeat the same phrase over and over. I need more drugs to enjoy this.

Another electronic album... the famous songs are worth it, but it is so much longer than it should be.

It’s an ok album. Mostly an alt electronic album that starts with a couple hits that are solid. After that it becomes a dj style chanting album. In heaven is a pretty bad song. Overall the album is middling only due to the two good songs. 4.6/10

This is fairground music. You listen to it on the dodgems or you listen to it at the ice rink. And its fine and it has its place but fundamentally, Norman has a wicked record collection and he knows which ones to sample - but since the originals give you the same vibes, oftentimes, as these remakes and you start to wonder - why don’t I just listen to the original songs instead and enjoy some real skill and artistry?

Never got it, still don't.

Old boy writes a pile of great hooks but hasn't a clue how to expand or develop them making the stand alone listening experience really boring and hugely repetitive. Lazy.

ugh I knew this album would be in here somewhere. Been dreading it for months. It's basically an hour of ps1 advertising jingles. Bog UK techno. Sounded like 1 or 2 beats dragged out for an hour. ugh. 2/5.

The songs felt very… formulaic. Introduce a theme, beat it to near death. And just when you think it was over… they’ll beat it some more. A lot of the songs were definitely at least a minute or 90 seconds too long. I knew the two big songs from it, and Kalifornia was good, too. But man, use the edit button, there, FS.

I generally liked the grooves/samples, but he has a tendency to throw in annoying sounds (like repeating the same sound rapidly over and over forever) or using really annoying effects (like in Kalifornia and Soul Surfing). I'll call it a 2 because I didn't mind hearing it and generally liked the grooves, but I don't have much of an urge to hear it again. But, not gonna lie, in Acid 8000 "If this don't make your booty move your booty must be dead" made me laugh and I was definitely bopping to that song. I'll leave it a mystery whether my booty moved.

hiphop 👎

Hepsini dinlemedim ama 2lik bu album

Not even a heart dose of nostalgia can help this one from running out of puff too early and out staying its welcome. I don't think many albums are so rooted in their particular era as this, but now I wonder what we were all thinking? Norman Cook has a coffee takeout place down by the lagoon in Hove, and he personally served me at the kiosk a few months back. I didn't recognise him.

OMG I can’t believe this was 100% my favourite music and a top-5 artist. The reason I was a DJ. I can make the argument that his earlier stuff was better (and sure, Everybody Loves a 303 was head and shoulders better than this), but wow. It’s amazing how much your taste can change over 20 years. And yeah, this album fucking sucks. Wow. I can’t believe how bad. But the two popular tracks are what they are, and they’re not bad after all is said and done. So two stars.

2.5

Wish there were more lyrics

Meh

This earns 2 stars solely for "Praise You" because "The Rockafeller Skank" was a fun flashback for only about 60 seconds, and I don't ever need to hear anything else from this album.

Only ever felt the commercially released tracks is what makes the album. Even a listen through now still not feeling the rest.

I'd heard The Rockafeller Skank before (Funk Soul Brother) but didn't know who sang it. I see how it's iconic of a time/era, but I didn't care for it. Essentially zero chance I'd listen again.

More laid back lyrics/beat Don’t really like it 2/5 Songs from the album get repetitive fast

it was really weird, some of the songs were really competitive and just not good, others were just boring. but some songs were nice 👍

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Het weekend leek al een paar dagen eerder begonnen maar na de hitjes was het voor mij wel klaar.

the singles take me straight back to the 90s but that's probably where they belong. As an album listen its grating.

Listened to this quite a lot back in the day, but it really hasn't aged well. Sounds like someone made it on a PlayStation. Just a bit silly really

Some songs are good

Not a personal favourite. Some good songs but also some very irritating ones.

Definitely not my thing

Cheesy.

Artists like this need to shorten their songs. This was almost 2 hours and 19 songs. Each song was the same refrain repeated over and over again. I mean musically it's good, but so goddamn repetitive. Cut 'em in half or write some fucking lyrics, for God's sake!

Feels like this used to be good and hasn't aged well.

not for me

RIGHT ABOUT NOW. Continuing the trend of learning where random one/two hit wonders are. Overall music loops>vocal loops

Two Fatboy Slim albums in one week...oof. Couldn’t finish either.

i dont like it

I tried, I really did, wasn't Fatboy Slim the epitome of cool? Barely made it past the 3rd track before I had had enough. Catchy in places but mostly banal dirge.

So repetitive

I will NEVER enjoy electronic music. It is all just ear rape over and over. I came into this with an open mind thinking maybe it will change my mind on electronic music but it didnt. There was some good moments here and there but very time you think its about to get good it starts to slow down or distort. It made my ears bleed.

Not ANOTHER Fatboy Slim album 😭

Of course this is on the list. I didn't understand how it was popular when it came out, still don't understand it now. Boring, repetitive, and unimaginative.

Jesus fucking Christ end a god damn song. Can someone tell me where it is and when? Maybe if he said it just a few more times in his first song I would know. Make it Fucking Fucking Fucking Fucking Fucking Stop Favorite song was Rockafeller Stank but it’s really like a would you rather stab a fork or a knife in your eye type of situation

so evil

Boring

Soulless

So boring and repetitive. Probably for some people is the peak in the genre, but for an outsider, this was a torture to go through....sorry

Other than Praise You, I didn't find anything to like about this album.

It's so hard for me to rate dance music - it triggers a lizard brain mixed response of revulsion and boredom. This must be good by the standards of people who like dance music, but I just can't see it. Fun video, though.

Amateurish crap

2/10 - I can understand that some people love this genre and that all genres should be part of a list of 1001+ albums. This is not a style I like in the least.

How many times can one phrase be repeated in a song? Ask Fatboy Slim, because he’d just tell you it’s not enough.

Fatboy Slim’s You've Come a Long Way, Baby is an album where cultural legacy appears to outweigh the actual listening experience, resulting in a project that has not aged well. While "Right Here, Right Now" offers an iconic opening, the momentum quickly fades as "The Rockafeller Skank" becomes repetitive and tracks like "In Heaven" prove difficult to endure. There are brief moments of technical interest found in the boom-bap elements of "Gangster Trippin" and the old-school hip-hop influences of "You’re Not from Brighton," yet even these highlights are weighed down by overlong runtimes and questionable mixing. Relying heavily on samples to provide a "vibe" rather than cohesive structure, the album ultimately feels skippable and dated.

No thank you

No thats okay

No. Just, no. There is no way on God’s green Earth I am listening to this crap. Repetitive, pretentious and irritating. Life is too short.

im sorry mr fatboy slim but this was really boring

strange nothing positive

Yes they have, a long way to the demise of creative music that comes from the soul.

I did think before I listened to this that I was going to enjoy it and it would be at least a 4. How wrong I was. Listening to songs in isolation or in the context of a night out or at an open air event a I have definitely enjoyed. Listening to the whole album from start to finish in a single sitting or two, I have a different view. Complete torture, repetitive twaddle, just a bunch of sounds either repeated, slowed down, put through a phaser or some other sound modification system. Save it for Brighton beach, not on my hifi!

15. 팻보이 슬림 - 윱 컴 어 롱 웨이 베이비 총 11곡 수록, 1시간 2분 프레이즈 유는 참 좋지... 그러나 그뿐이다 그때는 뭐 굉장했겠지만 이제는 좀 식상한거같음 그랬네용 한줄평: 아아 시대의 흐름이여 취향: ★★☆☆☆ 재방문: ★☆☆☆☆

should've made it FASTboy slim

ну крайне так себе

I get why this is considered essential, but it just doesn’t work for me. 𝘠𝘰𝘶’𝘷𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘢 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘞𝘢𝘺, 𝘉𝘢𝘣𝘺 relies a lot on the same kinds of loops and big beats, and after a while it starts to wear me down. A few tracks are fun at first, but over a full album it feels repetitive and kind of annoying. I can see why people like it, just not something I’d want to sit through again.

For me this ia absolutely 1 star or F- garbage.

Niet mijn ding.

Canciones completamente monótonas casi lineales, muy extensas, no añaden variedad armónica o rítmica durante la canción, solo ligeras variaciones en sonidos. Comprendo que el álbum es de un DJ, y que como tal, debe tener canciones más o menos de este estilo, a pesar de ello, son muy extensas sus canciones, no ofrecen novedad musical. La única canción que levemente puedo rescatar es 'Praise You', aunque sigue siendo muy extensa.

favs: praise you rating 0.5/5

Muy de fondo

its totally not my vibe, the only song i slightly liked was „praise you” and „right here right now” wasnt that bad, but overall i dont like the repetitive lyrics and weird beats/noises (even though i think the production is really creative) also idk but the cover is throwing me off lol not really my genre, i think after this one im sorry for giving yesterdays ella fitzgerald only 2 stars :P

Plz stop

I am having a hard time coming up with adjectives to describe these crap albums that keep popping up on this list. At some point, I'll go back and see what my average scores have been, but I'm guessing it's low. I listen to a lot of music across many genres, and I feel like I am not getting the best of any of those. This exercise is becoming tedious and the opposite of what I was hoping for. Give me some cool music that I have not heard and that I should before I die!

I could MAYBE see this being interesting if I was in a club with lights flashing surrounded by people on drugs. But, I have/will never be in that situation so I found this repetitive and boring.

Ass

I have a great idea for an album, let’s make every song repeat the same line over and over again. Yeah, I know this type of music is more meant for the beat than the lyrics, but its hard to ignore how annoyingly repetitive it is.

lebenslust beim Hören verloren

I aint listening to a DJ album bro

I despise Praise You with all my guts

- 80's synth but modern beats. it's like i'm on acid. funk elements , i hated it, ngl.

Lose brate bas lose

1/5 didn’t listen but also cldnt get into it

I'd only known Fatboy Slim from the song "Wonderful Night" which does not appear on this album. That particular song was featured in a Dance Dance Revolution game and got a lot of play in my household because it was a song with easy choreography and a steady beat, but I never really enjoyed listening to it due to its repetition. After listening to this album, that appears to be Fatboy Slim's modus operandi. The repetition of the spoken lyrics is unbearable at times and for that reason, I think this album could be used as a form of aural torture. "Kalifornia" is bearable, largely because I couldn't understand what the robotic voice was saying and therefore couldn't get annoyed by hearing the same phrase over and over. I really didn't want to finish listening to this even after the first song (I did though, for the sake of this project). Hated it.

bad

i was gonna give this a generous 2, but it just kept on getting worse. my ears were lowkey bleeding at the end

Albums like this really put me in a position of having to consider what this project is and why I've chosen to take part. Albums you must hear before you die. I think that "must" shadows a lot of my listening; I want to approach with an open mind, but that imperative throws me off, closes my mind to an extent. A person who endeavors to listen to this entire list will have a pretty good understanding of the musical culture of the later half of the 20th century but is it all essential? I now have almost the entirety of recorded music history available to me, do I really NEED to hear most of this stuff before I die? It really complicates assigning a rating, and I think I've vacillated wildly on my motivations for certain ratings. Do I rate an album for it's merit as an essential, needs must album? Do I rate on my personal satisfaction? On perceived artist achievement? As for Fat Boy Slim, this is music for dancing, and its very successful at being that. This is 5/5 for dance-ability. Is it something I ever care to seek out again? No, 0 stars for that. Is it something essential that everyone should listen to before they die? Hardly, but good luck finding someone who hasn't heard it. If you're interested in the history of advertising, you should probably dive into Fatboy Slim.

Poop

Sorry I'm just not a fan of his or this type of music.

Shit, this is terrible. This album is like when a kid gets a new toy and just keeps hitting that same button as fast as he can to make the same noise over and over and all of the adults in the room are at their wits end. Fatboy Slim is fucking in heaven, Fatboy Slim is fucking in heaven, Fatboy Slim is fucking in heaven....etc, etc. All the samples are just repeated so fucking often, it's obnoxious. Gangster Trippin' is a perfect example "What we're doin, when a, what we're doin when a, what we're doing when a..." Shut the fuck up. I was gonna give this a 2 because Right Here, Right Now is some cool 90s nostalgia and so is Praise You but I just can't. This was so hard to listen to, I couldn't stand it. Like the fat guy on the front cover, this is a 1.

No thanks

Annoying as hell. I tolerated it during my 25 minute commute - hung it up - and refuse to ever go back. Curse everyone involved with the production of this trash. 1/5

2.9/10 Not for me

Dance en elektronica echt niet mijn ding. 1x luisteren en nooit meer

Weird

Насолоджуватись цим я не можу, проте це й не найгірше, що я слухала.

- Dj music - focuses on sounds and noises - no real lyrics

I don't particularly care for DJ/techno music. This seems pretty catchy and fun. Some of the songs seem a bit too long and way too repetitive. Okay, it went from catchy and fun to repetitive and boring. I guess Fatboy Slim is not for me. I can see why people like this music but it is annoying as hell to me in large doses. I could not get through this whole album.

DNF

More like Fat Boy Shit.

This thing is too repetitive for an hour long run time. Bailed after 30 minutes. Should’ve quit sooner 😒

Defiant not a lyrically strong album. Mostly beats. It felt like a party album. Reminds me of the 90s. Did not save any songs, and probably would not reach for this album again.

blah

Absolutely mind numbing. Just as bad as when it was originally released. Unforgivable that this is an hour long.

Proprio non cosa mia, beat fighi ma la maggior parte delle canzoni era praticamente sempre la stessa frase ripetuta e non c'era neanche un accenno di melodia o simili. Pass

no. y encima son todas larguísimas me muero siete minutos de esto son infumables

Not for me

Another one that I have to assume the author wants everyone to listen to only to make sure we all know this album is complete trash. Somehow this is over an hour long. Each song has one idea that is then somehow stretched to 4 minutes each.

When an album contains not one but *two* entries from my "Most Hated Songs Of All Time" list, it's already going to start out behind the eight ball. The rest of this record is the same shtick, with tracks that repeat a vocal sample ad nauseum (while Fatboy Slim congratulates himself along the way). This copy-and-paste stuff might have seemed revolutionary at the time but it has since been eclipsed by others who took sampling to new heights, leaving kindergarten stuff like this in the dust. (Hell, Double Dee and Steinski did more with razor blades and tape than Fatty Boy could ever do with a computer.)

Oh no, another ‘90s DJ album that doesn’t need to be on this list. It’s ok and good for dancing but it’s musically lacking. There’s no way that this should be essential listening.

It's just noice to me.

Repetitive in a way I can only describe as relentless... oppressive even. I was on the cusp of losing my shit from the amount of times I had to hear the phrase "Fatboy Slim is fucking in heaven." Even the big hit songs from the album have been so overplayed that they offered very little reprieve from the agony.

Praise You and Rockefeller Skank are all I really cared about. I did a lot of skipping because of how boring and obnoxious some songs got, lik In Heaven and Kalifornia.

I've at least heard something from this album before. Right Here, Right Now - 4/10. Meh. Repetitive and not appealing to me. Rockafeller Skank - 5/10. I actually recognize this one, too. It's OK, but the middle part (where it went super slow and distorted) was unpleasantly weird. In Heaven - 0/10. Deeply unpleasant. Gangster Trippin - 4/10. Meh. Build it Up, Tear it Down - 4/10. Meh. Kalifornia - 1/10. Unpleasant. Soul Surfing - 1/10. Not to my taste. Not fun in any way. You're Not From Brighton - 3/10. Better than many of the tracks on this album, not that that takes much. Praise You - 5/10. Decent. Still things that just grate on me (long holds that feel like a CD skipping), though. Are We Having Fun Yet? - 2/10. Much like the rest of this album. Acid 8000 - 2/10. Again, unpleasant and repetitive. Overall Rating - 1.41/5 (2.81/10). Unpleasant and repetitive. Unpleasant and Repetitive. Unpleasant and Repetitive.

Ugh, couldn't stand it then can't stand it now...

what.

strong in some areas but it's hard for me to listen to something so repetitive and lengthy

not my cup of tea non ho apprezzato nulla capisco per gli amanti del genere che sia qualcosa ma veramente ero disturbato dalla continua ripetizione

Hated it in the 90s, hate it even more today as I thought it would never again cross my ears.

Absolute nightmare! It was like a terrible mashup of Primus and Moby. I couldn’t listen to a single song all the way through.

dj trash

First two songs are good the rest are shit

Perhaps it's just not the genre for me, but I found this repetitive to the point of insanity. I can see the appeal from a clubbing standpoint, but otherwise it just grated on me. Rockefeller Skank and Praise You I was familiar with, but felt a lot of the songs were just too long with not enough to keep it interesting.

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

Unlistenable after 1999

Why would this crap be on the list? 0.00

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

More tecno shit. Wow this shit sucks

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

Soooo repetitive

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

que terror sonoro

Not good 1.5

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

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

Right about now The guns in my mouth

Bleh

Vaffanculooo

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

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

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

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

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

No

Outhärdligt.

Has dated terribly.

Hot garbage

.5 for me….

No es lo mío.

There are (obviously) a couple of big tunes on here but the rest is so much filler. Wouldn't go back to the full album again by any means.

Absolutely terrible

Garbage

Meh

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Meh

Trop expérimental pour moi Quelques bonnes instru mais j'ai du mal

I don't like it.

Fatboy Slim fucking in heaven is my personal Pearl Harbor. This album sounds like if a white dude took a great funk record, a few Viagra, too much acid, and then asked himself "how can I make this album suck?"

Ryan: [Sees that You’ve Come a Long Way Baby by Fatboy Slim is on the 1001 albums to listen to before you die list] Maybe we're being Punk'd! Sharpay: What? Ryan: Maybe we're being filmed right now. Maybe we'll get to meet Ashton! Sharpay: Oh, shut up, Ryan!

Really hard to take this album seriously. Interesting melodies and beats are completely lost to repetition. Maybe it’s cool at the club, but it’s not for listening enjoyment. Ultimately, the only tracks worth the price of andmission are Rockafeller Skank and Praise You, both of which are far too long.

Was a brave girl about this one and finished the whole thing, and: absolutely not. Repetitive. October 19, 1988. Big beat/techno. British/English. 11 tracks. 62:00 runtime.

5 for the album cover, 1 for the album.

probably banged in 1999, but does not hold up

I struggled. I've read more overblown and abstract reviews from my fellow reviewers that really captured the sentiment of how this felt to (re-)listen to, even if I didn't understand their words.

Overplayed at the time, no surprises here

Nah. Pass. Not my flavor of EDM.

not for me, didn’t make it through

Terrible. Each song need only be 30 seconds long as they constant loop for the rest. Sounded like a toddler who's drunk to much orange squash, very repetitive and annoying

Favorit

I don't see the appeal. Too repetitive

Repetitive and annoying. Never really got the hype. Maybe I need to be drunk or high. The only song I can somewhat stand is Praise You.

It was bad, I feel asleep in the middle of the album and woke up for last two tracks. My brain told me it was as bad when I was asleep though.

Unknown band to me. Too much repetitive sound and vulgarity for my taste. Poor album.

Crap. I thought vocals would help, they don't. It's now not just dull but also bloody irritating

No.

DISLIKE!

This feels like a GTA OST album. I could see how this could be lauded in its specific niche, but it's not for me. Or probably just not right now.

Disgusting

Enough of the overly long electronica records already - I’ve already come a long way baby!

Don’t like. I’m sure this slapped in the 90s though

I thought it was a couple of songs repeat.

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Daft Punk if they were shit?

First two tracks are classics. Generally, this is a genre I have little interest in, but those are undeniable. I feel there isn't much variation to the album, but then it was fairly pioneering in its approach, so perhaps that makes sense. The intro to Track 1 may be one of the strongest I've heard. Not for me

I get the craft and movement but very hard to listen to. Not my thing.

I don't like this

The first song started out okay but the rest of the album got more and more grating to listen to, last few songs got a bit better, 1.5/5.

2/10

I'm expected to listen to this shit for over an hour???? This album is all of the worst stereotypes associated with electronic music. Way too long, entirely repetitive sounds within and across tracks, nonsensical samples that add no value at all...Dimery could have cut out about 50 other UK electronica albums from this exercise and used this album as the sole representation of how shit the genre is

Did not like this at all. Does nothing new, very boring album overall

Nah

CAN YOU REALLY CALL IT MUSIC ???

хуйня

Terribile

Not for me :(

This album is a medieval torture method

Really didn’t enjoy this one, despite the two familiar tracks. Those were the only ones I at all enjoyed. Everything else: skip, skip, skip, after listening for about two minutes to each track. Dull, super repetitive, and annoying. The music doesn’t offer much of interest, beauty, or profundity to the listener.

horrible.

Изнасилование ушей

Perhaps I needed some chemical enhancement to appreciate this. Perhaps it was the wrong thing to listen to after completing three weeks work without a break. It certainly did nothing to relax me. So repetitive, and repetition can be good (see Philip Glass) but the trick is to repeat things just enough. This goes beyond that. I found the album mostly irritating, occasionally annoying. 1/5 only because I can't give it 0.

Another album in this list that sounds like a piss take - when they make jokes in TV shows about how easy this music is to make it sounds exactly like this

ass

Might have been a 2 star but I can't stand Praise You, the song my brother's played constantly that I hate the most. Making up some star debt from other UK DJs. music: hated. (⌐■_■)

"Cook had a habit of buying obscure vinyl records and sampling elements that he liked". So he stole other peoples music and this is what he did with that stolen music. I can understand why the original music was "obscure". This is depressingly repetitive. Oh and repeating the same worth over and over and over does not make a lyric. Oh and like mega corporations like to remind us "Piracy is not a victemless crime" In this case the victems were my ears and my sanity.

Just not my thing.

utter crap

Artiste inconnu. En fait non, j'avais déjà entendu 'Right Here, Right Now' sans vraiment l'apprécier. Et bien les morceaux qui suivent ne sont pas mieux. C'est terriblement répétitif et inintéressant. J'ai arrêté au 4eme. =>1/5

Not for me

no

Bof

I don't think this is really my thing but I do love praise you

I remember playing just dance to funky soul brother at my friend's house when I was 6, song goes hard I must commemorate Fatboy Slim's artistry, and give him props for his achievement of making the first song that was so bad I had to skip it, and then he made another on the same album Real rating is a 2, I just want to give him a 1 because Fatboy Slims is fucking in heaven

Check it out now, the funky smell brotha! Surf is up, dude! Barely listenable. Did I need to hear this before I die? 1.5

Chaotic noise!

Gave it 3 strikes but it struck out. Each of the first 3 tracks is a nothing burger or one or two sentences repeated over literally for the length of the track and set to club beats that are great if you’re high on coke and dancing your ass off, but of little value in the normal world.

I am impressed by Fatboy Slim, but I don't like it. It's a unique skill to make music the way he does. Still, he doesn't make music I like. It's also weird to hear albums like this here. I don't think the proper way to experience this music is by yourself, listening to it on a schedule. Maybe I would like it if I went to a show with other people. By itself, it's just repetitive.

yeah ngl i skimmed thru this in like 3 mins bc its just way too repetitive and aged like milk

Nope

There's a reason no one knows more than one or two Fatboy Slim songs

Gangster Trippin is great, the rest of it is so REPETITIVE

I remember in the dim distant days of yore, people saying that the music I liked gave them a headache. Well now it's my turn. To an extent you have to admire him for the fact that he has probably made more money out of the music he has produced from other people's music that he sampled, than they did from the original. But that doesn't mean that I have to find it easy to listen to. Sorry Norman, but it's a 1 from me.

As a kid I found F Boy Slim’s brand of DJ dance music lame and annoying. As an adult I feel the same. Maybe that’s a reflection on me. Either way, let’s keep it moving.

VERY REPETITIVE....TOO MUCH...

This is is playing in my cell in Guantanamo Bay. I know this is super objective but I just get so annoyed.

no.

I've occasionally heard clips from this album in short bits, either in passing or as background in something on TV, and they seemed fine. But I never realized how long and monotonous these songs are on the album. I will never put this on again; songs range from tiresomely annoying to outright maddening.

The use of repeated samples on this makes me wanna commit homicide 1/5

Could not finish it. There were maybe 2 songs that were ok; had a hard time listening to most of the others. 1/10

Horrible. Horrible. Horrible. Horrible. Tried listening to every song and couldn’t get through any of them. So repetitive that I’m sure I didn’t miss anything.

everything about this is wrong

REALLY repetitive. Not a good listen.

Sometimes, I miss drugs. Other times, I'm reminded of how annoying people on drugs really are.

Repetitive and annoying.

the songs remind me of when I had 45s that skipped and repeated the same phrase, over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over.

Fatboy shit

I wish the way was still being taken, so we didn't have to listen to the album... wasn't my taste in the '90s, isn't my taste today

90s techno pop. Terrible. Hope to not listen to it again

no.

Never really got Fatboy Slim. Just too blasted repetitive. Praise You is alright. An entire album of this is just not enjoyable. I don't see why this is on the list.

Review in the key of Moby. Who came first Fatboy Slim or Moby? Or are they the same person? I know they're not but they might as well be. It's the exact same shit. It's repetition. The beat is repetitive. The layout of each song is repetitive. The samples are overused and repeat the same part far too much. Every now you get a bit of a change up, but it's not enough of a change... Because seconds later, it's back to those repetitive parts because it's all just repetition. How does one get excited for this? Apart from maybe hearing parts of these songs in an action movie scene... I can picture movies like Crank... This music has nothing appealing to me. Maybe that it's all done by one person. For the most part. Anyways, this Moby album sounds like Fatboy Slim. Or is it the other way around.

Really? You think I'd wanna listen to this profanity spewing album? That would be a big fat NO!!

Poop.

What da hell

Repetition is the key to comedy, sadly this isn’t very funny. The highs are good, but the lows are a slog.

One of those sounds where I feel like you had to be there. Combine an unideal listening setting with a genre I'm generally disinterested in, and I don't think I'll be returning to this project.