Album Description: Japanese edition of the 1998 & second album by Norman Cooke (a.k.a. Fatboy Slim) featuring 'The World Went Down' added as a bonus track, completely different artwork than the U.S.release & the hit singles 'The Rockafeller Skank' & 'Gangster Tripping'. 12 tracks total. A Skint Records release. The full title is 'You've Come A Long Way, Baby'.
Amazon.com: Norman Cook's bubble-gum techno songs--put out under a variety of guises over the years, including Pizzaman and Freak Power--are essential staples on any international dance floor. Fatboy Slim, however, is the former Housemartin's most successful incarnation, launching a Top 40 crossover hit and popular advertising jingle with last year's 'Going out of My Head.' You've Come a Long Way, Baby picks up where the smash single left off, cheekily pairing acidic synthesizers and drum machines with big, dumb vocal samples. It takes considerable effort sitting through an entire album of these energized tunes, but taken in small doses, songs like 'The Rockafeller Skank' and 'Soul Surfing' are like rays of sunshine. --Aidin Vaziri
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Rating: - Everywhere Everywhere...is Fatboy Slim
The breakthrough album and zeneth of Fatboy Slim's Career. Tracks that integrated within all that was pop culture during the late 90's. From Adidas advertisements to the opening credits of clubber's cult classic, Human Traffic. Fatboy Slim was it...for a short but sweet time that rounded off the 20th century. He blew the sand off of Brighton Beach, and turned down Madonna when she asked him to collaborate on an album with her. Nice.
Some tracks are annoying, but I still have three or four tracks that I listen to fairly regularly. If for some bizarre reason, you don't have this album already, it is a worthy addition if you can find it cheap. I have the import as the US had to co-release an edited version (Clean...as Amazon likes to put it) before we were permitted to be exposed to Fatboy's dirty mouth. You would not be missing anything special by picking up the 11 track US release. Whether you ... Read More
Rating: - Loop The Loops
Most humans thrive on routine. It's not just the steady comfort of familiarity, it's also the drive of habituation, the power behind the incessant. From heartbeats to sunsets, coffee to cigarettes, and morning rituals to bedtime habits, many of us find something altogether soothing about certainty. Even those who like to mix it up can't deny that there are specific drives that require a sort of pounding regularity. Hell, just take a look at the basic mechanism of sex.
Fatboy Slim co-opts this need with glaring glee. In fact, if taken in those terms, each of his songs on this album could be seen, on some level, as the melodic approximation of sex. He changes things around occasionally, and usually with a finesse that amps the friction, but for the most part the songs operate with a happy repetition of a thrumming big beat. This isn't love-making as a slow dance; this is head-banging, foot-stomping ... Read More
Rating: - New to electronic? Start here!
Fatboy Slim is easily one the most known artist in electronic, and for all the best reasons possible. Fatboy Slim creates great music for the mainstream, at the same time attracting critical acclaim and respect from people who actually have decent taste in music (as long as you aren't a MTV poser who likes The Rockafeller Skank for no reason, you know, the type that like just one song and don't even know who it is).
You've probally heard the Rockafeller Skank (Right about now, the funk soul brother), but everything else is just as good. Fatboy Slim's music is cool and all, but I don't think it's for everybody. A couple of harsh noises also pop out in places (careful of your eardrums on The Rockafeller Skank, there's a harsh buzzing noise after the tempo slows down, Kalifornia can also blow out your ears if your not careful). So it's not as mainstream as some people say, even though at least three songs ... Read More
Rating: - The songs are better than just the the pure dance grooves
I am a rock fan and do not care for dance music.
The songs on here that more resemble conventional song structure, with lyrics, are what "float my boat" as opposed to the more synthasized, groove oriented tracks.
"Rockefeller Skank" and "Praise you" are the clear highlights
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