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"Everybody Needs A 303"

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 7 March 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

Weapon of Choice video

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 7 March 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

Mighty Dub Katz - Magic Carpet Ride (Fat Boy Slim Latin Ska Acid Breakbeat Mix)

with a close second... Pizzaman - Trippin On Sunshine

(if we're going with just stuff under the Fatboy Slim moniker, then I'll go with "Santa Cruz")

― rentboy (rentboy), Monday, 7 March 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)

(and of course he was knowingly taking notes from "Wilmot" - the original single was b/w "Son of Wilmot")

― rentboy (rentboy), Monday, 7 March 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

The video for "Weapon of Choice" is so great, it's really too bad that the song is so bland and forgettable.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 7 March 2005 15:24 (twenty years ago)

'Renegade Master' remix

― NRQ, Monday, 7 March 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

I think "Everybody Needs A 303" may be one of my 100 favorite songs of all time; it's definitely in the top 500.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 7 March 2005 15:30 (twenty years ago)

How about pick only none?

― M Carty (mj_c), Monday, 7 March 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

My kids love the new one with the kittens in the video. With the sound off. There you go.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 7 March 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

I Was listening to Better Living Through Chemistry this morning and it's kind of astonishing both how fantastic most of the songs on that album are and how poorly pretty much everything after the second album compares.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 7 March 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

You're Not From Brighton

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Monday, 7 March 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

(especially with 'She's A Bitch' or 'I'm A Slave 4 U' over it)

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Monday, 7 March 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

Is that a track name, or a reason why DJp doesn't like late FBS?

xpost TIMING!

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 7 March 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

first album's got it's fillers (Punk To Funk, The Sound Of Milwaukee) as much as the others for me, apart from Palookaville which is all filler and just incredibly bad.

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Monday, 7 March 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

as far as i'm concerned, he's always been about the singles, tho
it's just that his singles kinda got worse as he went along...
but i like the ATFC mix of The Joker quite a bit. more than I'd like to admit, actually.

― rentboy (rentboy), Monday, 7 March 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

I think I'm with DJP on this one, tho' for some reason, I nearly said 'Body Movin' (Remix).

Norman OPO would be 'Trippin' On Sunshine' naturally.

― BARMS, Monday, 7 March 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

Basically, I heard the third album once and it cauterized my brain with blandness. It was like he was completely focused on putting his good ideas into remixes and only put out the solo album to satisfy a contractual obligation.

Also, "The Rockefeller Skank" is the last bearable novelty song he recorded; I sensed danger when I heard "In Heaven" and sadly he didn't diappoint me in his quest to be absolutely shitty and irritating.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 7 March 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

SONG FOR SHELTER

by 100000x

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Monday, 7 March 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)

'Everybody needs a filter', if that's the name of the 'Everybody needs a 303' remix with the whistles. I love that track

― Robin Goad (rgoad), Monday, 7 March 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

i like the Carnival version best

the third album has it's moments

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Monday, 7 March 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

i have been enjoying big beat sounds recently (hey its easy backgound/working music)

- and found the FBS 'On the Floor..' mix to be somewhat ace.

and i like Demons with Macy Gray for my sins.

― mark e (mark e), Monday, 7 March 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

yes, that's right: 'Everybody Loves a Carnival' is the one i meant

― Robin Goad (rgoad), Monday, 7 March 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

For some reason, I really like the Fatboy's remix of Come With Us by the Chemicals. I also like the whole Southern Baptist sampling job he does on "Drop The Hate."

― Dan Alper (Kenyonthug), Monday, 7 March 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)

"Brimful of Asha" remix anyone? That song just sounds like summer to me.

― i am nervous (cochere), Monday, 7 March 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

It has to be "The Rockafeller Skank."

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 7 March 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

"There Is Always Something There To Remind Me"

― Ferlin Husky (noodle vague), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 01:37 (twenty years ago)

"Love Island"

― TayBridgeCatastrophe (TayBridge), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 01:51 (twenty years ago)

"Wonderful Night" (feat. Lateef)

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 01:59 (twenty years ago)

Love Island seconded.

― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 02:05 (twenty years ago)

santa cruz

― tipustiger, Tuesday, 8 March 2005 03:07 (twenty years ago)

Dub Be Good To Me.

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 03:22 (twenty years ago)

Song For Lindy

It was obvious that things would go drastically awry from the third album, because he's never gone past a second record with any group or name before: Housemartins: two albums and done. Beats Int.: two albums and done. Freak Power: two albums &c. (and one for Pizzaman - has he ever done an LP with any other moniker?) Instead of being able to happily use up all his ideas for one style and then go off and do something else, he's had to keep paying the mortgage by trying to eke out more music in one mode than he has the creativity for (resulting in e.g. The fucken Joker [though then again it's not like anything off the last two is in the same mode per se as the first album. More's the pity.])

― kit brash (kit brash), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 04:19 (twenty years ago)

"Right Here Right Now"

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 10:13 (twenty years ago)

i was going to pick 'Song For Lindy', i like it more than '40 Miles' AND 'Better Days' (where the piano comes from)

i actually like that Norman didn't stick with one act for too long - Fatboy Slim somehow became the guise where elements from all his other outfits converged (as dance music at the time was converging further also), i still think the third album is as good as the second, but most artists will struggle on a fourth album i'm now convinced (gonna start a thread on that).

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 10:21 (twenty years ago)

Prince's fourth album was Controversy.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

did you start that thread stevem? I can't find it. great fourth albums: Missy Elliott, Under Construction; Tori Amos, From The Choirgirl Hotel; PJ Harvey, To Bring You My Love; Britney Spears, In The Zone. Etc.

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

"Block Rockin' Beats"

― Ian Riese-Moraine and the Liverpudlian Scallies (Eastern Mantra), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

"Demons"

― a banana (alanbanana), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)

ten months pass...

"The Weekend Starts Here" ...nuff sedd

― doggyhead, Thursday, 26 January 2006 22:01 (nineteen years ago)

Am I allowed to suggest "Think For a Minute"? :)

Otherwise, I think I'll go for "Acid 8000", possibly because it sounds more like progressive techno than big beat.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 26 January 2006 22:08 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

i saw some fatboy slim concert on cable last nite. it was on a beach somewhere. it looked so fucking horrible.

― M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, 10 July 2008 21:40 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

horse meat disco fellas last night played this amazing jacking house track with the 'song for shelter' monologue over the top... could've just been the acapella over something else but it seemed a bit more in-sync than that and it wasn't the chems' mix. god it was fantastic.

― old chisel (haitch), Sunday, 12 July 2009 08:02 (sixteen years ago)

but to address thread: 'build it up, tear it down'

― old chisel (haitch), Sunday, 12 July 2009 08:11 (sixteen years ago)

nine years pass...

My answer to this is still "Everybody Needs a 303"

― brigadier pudding (DJP), Monday, 17 June 2019 19:18 (six years ago)

The whole first album is still fantastic.

― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 17 June 2019 20:43 (six years ago)

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