You've Come A Long Way Baby [PA] - Fatboy Slim > Reviews

Advantages: Will have you jumping around
Disadvantages: Not very long

Chances are you’ve heard most of the songs on this album, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t have a home in your collection. The album is not particularly (61min59) and has only 11 tracks, but does have the well known tracks ‘Right Here, Right Now’ (from the Addidas advert), ‘The Rockafella’s Skank’, ‘Gangsta Trippin’ and ‘Praise You’. Chances are, if you like this tracks, then you’d like the rest (even if there are only a few more). This is definitely ... Read review

Advantages: 80% of the Songs are Great
Disadvantages: None

A lot of the more snooty folks in the techno/dance/electronic scene have taken to dismissing Fatboy Slim, because he's hit modern rock radio, movie soundtracks, MTV, and Billboard charts. Apparently they've decided to ignore this album in favor of more "intelligent", more underground artists. Well, it's their loss. "The Rockafeller Skank" was the one of the singles of 1998, hands down. It's easily a classic of the big-beat genre. "Praise You" ... Read review

Advantages: every track sounds good
Disadvantages: not applicable

You've Come A Long Way Baby is a tremendous album and at the time of it's release it was a fresh new sound which everybody fell in love with. The album has a respectable 11 tracks all of which sound great and are hits within their own rite and from listening to these tracks you can also tell that cook has delved deep into his record collection and put many fantastic samples to use. The album kick starts with the great Right Here, Right Now this ... Read review

Advantages: some amazing dance tunes
Disadvantages: some tunes you can easily bored of

fatboy slim has done some amazing tunes in his time, most of them you will have heard on the radio songs such as rockerfella skank and praise you. fatboy slims album youve come along way baby starts off with the song called right here right now. im sure youve heard it before i starts off really calm and soothing and escalades into an amazing dance tune its not too loud and off putting but it has got a lot of quite loud drumming its such an amazing ... Read review

Advantages: Most of the songs are above average
Disadvantages: If you're not a big beat or dance fan you won't like it

Mr Zoe Ball knows how to do a good tune. I'll give him that. You should be able to tell from the vast amount of singles he's managed to pull off from this, namely Praise You, Rockafellar Skank, Gangsta Trippin', Right Here Right Now. There isn't really a bad song on this album. They're all listenable for sure. If you are a fan of the big beat style you should buy this. May Fat Boy Slim continue to make more albums like this. Like most albums from ... Read review

Advantages: Top Tunes
Disadvantages: some is great to dance to BUT dull to listen to

How to judge a dance record is a moot point, since dance music is meant to be constantly changing meaning that a record made in 98 must automatically be out of date. Well I don't know whether this would still be appreciated at a club but at a party or listening on your own stereo this is still a good (but not great) record. The songs we all know "Right hee, right now", Rockafellar Skank, gangster tripping and No#1 Praise You are all present and ... Read review

Advantages: Some stunning dance floor grooves
Disadvantages: Showing it's age a bit now

This album released in 1998 still sounds pretty good.......and come on......that's not bad going for an artist whose music is on leading edge of pop-dance. But you have to admit it, fatboy has more competition nowadays not least from the brilliant Moby album. Whilst I loved the Fatboy album when it first came out I've got to say that quite a few of the songs seem old-hat now (eg, F**king in heaven, Kalifornia, soul surfing, you're not from Brighton) But, ... Read review

Advantages: GREAT SOUNDS
Disadvantages: NONE

I HAVE NEVER REALLY BEEN A BIG FAN OF THE LATEST DANCE MUSIC BUT I THOUGHT THAT I WOULD BUY THIS ALBUM AS IT WAS ON OFFER AT THE TIME AND I HAD ENJOYED SOME OF THE MUSIC THAT I HAD HEARD FROM FATBOY SLIM SO I THOUGHT I WOULD GIVE IT A TRY. I WAS PLEASANLY SUPRISED. EACH TRACK IS VERY LONG WHICH MEANS THAT IT REALLY IS GREAT VALUE FOR THE MONEY. EACH TRACK IS COMPLETLEY DIFFERENT AND I FOUBD THAT I COULD RECOGNISE MANY OF THE TRACKS. THE ALBUM CONTAINS ... Read review

Advantages: Right Here
Disadvantages: Fatboy slim is ***** in heaven

Norman Cook is a legend! In other ways to other producers though, he is a chart dance producer, what I mean by that is in his guise as fatboy slim he doesn’t make tracks for the dance floor but for the radio and charts. Although his tunes are sometimes droped in clubs I don’t think that is what he is about. Right here right now is a classic example of chart success mixed with a ripp you up dance floor hit. A track which also became the background ... Read review

Advantages: Anothe big phat one
Disadvantages: none

As the big guy on the cover states on his T-Shirt on the cover "I'm Number One So Why Try Harder". I knew a lot of the tunes before I bought the album, either from TV advertising or from the pub jukebox, so it was a must buy from the day it came out. The Rockerfeller Skank and Praise You with the excellent Spike ("Being John Malkovic") Jonze video and the wonderful F***ing in Heaven this is another must have album from Normans mixing desk. It's ... Read review

Advantages: great dance album
Disadvantages: it's a dance album (!)

Fat Boy Slim aka Norman Cook became a household name after releasing "The Rockafellar Skank" and then this album. It's an absolute must for all dance fans, but that's about the limit of it's appeal. There's little variation, but then again it's dance music and there's not supposed to be. The highlight for me is the single "Right Here Right Now", another track helping dance music to reach the masses. That's basically what this album is, a more mainstream ... Read review

Advantages: Originality
Disadvantages: None really

You only have to look at the album cover to see what a hit 'You've Come A Long Way, Baby' has been. No less than 4 hits have been successes in the UK singles chart. These are 'Right Here, Right Now', 'The Rocafeller Skank' (that 'Right about now, the funk soul brother' one), 'Gangster Tripping' and 'Praise You (the one with the excellent video in the shopping centre). There is one 'naughty track' entitled 'F***ing in Heaven' which sort of repeats ... Read review