You've Come a Long Way, Baby 
Fatboy Slim
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- Release Date: 10/20/1998
- Sales Rank: 57,411
- Label: ASTRALWERKS
- UPC: 017046624725
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You've Come a Long Way, Baby
| 1 | Right Here, Right Now 6:27 |
| 2 | The Rockafeller Skank 6:53 |
| 3 | In Heaven 3:54 |
| 4 | Gangster Tripping 5:20 |
| 5 | Build It Up -- Tear It Down 5:05 |
| 6 | Kalifornia 5:53 |
| 7 | Soul Surfing 4:56 |
| 8 | You're Not from Brighton 5:20 |
| 9 | Praise You 5:23 |
| 10 | Love Island 5:18 |
| 11 | Acid 8000 7:28 |
About this Artist
Editorial Reviews
With his second album as Fatboy Slim, Housemartins bassist-turned-electronicat Norman Cook became the only genuine pop star to emerge from the Great Electronica Hype of the late '90s. His debut brought some success, thanks to "Going Out of My Head," a monstrously funky vamp looped around a sample of the Who's "I Can't Explain." But even that was just a warm-up for the shamelessly hedonistic block-rockin' single "The Rockafeller Skank" -- and the fun-at-all-costs album it rode in on. Swiping samples from all over the hip-hop, house, techno, and funk pantheons, Fatboy's big-beat blowouts replaced those of the Chemical Brothers and Prodigy as the party jams of choice for the techno-curious. "Gangsta Trippin'" turns a pastiche of old-school rap into a sampledelic head rush, while the campy soul number "Praise You" sends Sly Stone orbiting around the sun. Cook's music may sometimes seem intentionally -- even gleefully -- cheesy in the decadent disco tradition of KC & the Sunshine Band, but its freaky frivolity is a fresh take on the self-important world of electronica. Jon Dolan, Barnes & Noble
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