Halfway Between The Gutter And The Stars [PA] - Fatboy Slim > Reviews

Advantages: Great album
Disadvantages: Lose MACY GRAY!

...pull it off! Leaving him precisely halfway between somewhere and the top. ... Read review

Advantages: Some tracks
Disadvantages: Too many to list!!!

When I first got this album I was really excited. I'd got "you've come a long way baby" when it came out and loved it. It's really cool with some great tunes. But this is different and I don't think it's that good. Some of the tracks are really boring and you REALLY want them to finish. But the album has some really tracks but also some really terrible songs. If he spent more time on this album and took the rubbish tracks out and left the others ... Read review

Advantages: The collaborations with Macy Gray
Disadvantages: None

This is a much more satisfying record than Fatboy Slim's previous album. Whereas about a third of the songs on 'You've come a long way baby' simply sounded loud and repetitive, every track on 'Halfway between the gutter and the stars' is good. The loudness is still there, but a manifest hip-hop influence gives this album a much more relaxed over all groove. Reviews in magazines and at other web sites cite Norman Cook's marriage and fatherhood as ... Read review

Advantages: its good
Disadvantages: a couple of bad songs

...offering of the new millennium, Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars was his most ambitious project to date. Married life and impending fatherhood seemed to have made the original party animal grow up, and this was reflected in the new and improved sound--the banging floor-fillers being replaced by a more refined and adult sound, as he teamed up with Bootsy Collins and Macy Gray to bring a fantastic blend of funk and soul to the dance floor. His ... Read review

Advantages: multi-layered progression from last album
Disadvantages: might alienate pop-chart fans

With a whirlwind of worldwide success that seems to have taken him by surprise, Norman Cook had to bite the bullet and follow up the huge global sales of his second album. With a history of blowing it once he'd achieved a certain level of success, "Gutter & Stars" is an important album for him under his Fatboy Slim guise. Credit should be given for the relatively prompt release, where many artists take years tweaking follow-ups to triple platinum ... Read review

Advantages: A great mix of tracks, the likes of which you won't have heard before!
Disadvantages: Not one for the micro-systems - gimme BASS!

After producing so many excellent tracks, it seems amazing to me that Fatboy Slim can do it again - come up with yet another truly fresh, amazing type of music. Granted, you will be able hear that it?s Fatboy Slim, by the characteristic use of samples, fat bass-lines, sweeping analog synths and heavy, kicking beats that he has exemplified in his previous albums. But I think his new album takes all of this to a higher level. Rather than the busy, ... Read review

Advantages: A couple of marvellous singles
Disadvantages: Aside from those, it's just a monotonous racket.

...can be euphoric, exhilarating....blissful, even. Halfway Between The Gutter & The Stars just gave me a headache. I couldn't wait for it to be finally over. Buy the singles instead. ... Read review

Advantages: great sounding album
Disadvantages: you have to be a dedicated fan to enjoy this

This is, as the other reviews show, an album that's received mixed reactions. I have to say it really didn't strike me as fantastic when I first heard it. I borrowed a friend's copy and instantly liked Ya Mama more than the rest of the tracks on the album. I made no plans to buy it then and there, I wasn't that impressed. But, one night whilst bored and in need of a soundtrack I put the CD on and I suddenly got it. This is quite different to the ... Read review

Advantages: Some Good Songs in There
Disadvantages: The others are very poor

I've been a fan of Fatboy Slim since his first album. One of the major differences between this album and the previous ones is that this one contains a number of songs with a substantial amount of lyrics. Track 11, Song For Shelter, has lyrics that are downright vacant, and track 2, Star 69, contains probably the most annoying subset of the lyrics from Song For Shelter. The first track, Talking Bout My Baby, is mysteriously missing a beat and ... Read review

Advantages: How can this one man conjure up such good music?
Disadvantages: None

Fatboy Slim has an accentric musical style, which is evident on this CD. The only flaw is that some of the songs are both repetitive and long, which is great for a party but kind of annoying if your listening by yourself. The real highlights (And I hate to say this) are the two songs featuring Macy Gray. Love Life is nice and funky, and Demons is a gospel styled song that is very interesting. More highlights included Sunset (Bird Of Prey) which ... Read review

Advantages: Amazin diversity, Big Beat sounds with a nice use of Techno
Disadvantages: A little bit short, wish it was longer!!

...luv Fatboy Slims latest album, Halfway Between The Gutter & The Stars! ... Read review

Advantages: a few good songs (weapon of choice)
Disadvantages: really bad compared to his last album

After the great success of fatboy slims (aka Norman Cook) last album called 'Youve come a long way baby'which was a truly great album and was one of my top albums of the year and had alot of good songs on it which were popular and done very well in the charts ,the fatboy recently released his new album called 'Half way between the gutter and the stars' which when i first bought , thought it was a really bad album and nothing compared to his first ... Read review