Fatboy Slim Singles Poll

bird of prey is the least annoying one.

funk soul brova!

x-post Really? Depends a lot on how you feel about Jim Morrison I suppose.

Everybody Needs a 303 for me. "I prefer the early material" is not something you should say about Fatboy Slim (or indeed anyone), is it, but that's just the way I feel.

it's basically all junk after 1998

^^ in b4 'posts very much in character'

looking fwd to your Scooter singles poll

I still think "Everybody Needs a 303" is one of the greatest tracks ever recorded.

I voted for RHRN, though I might not have if the video wasn't so excellent.

Looking at that, it's not just that fashion left him behind. The first nine are all great. And those after are not. I vote Santa Cruz.

Dan OTM

"Slash Dot Slash" gets way too little love.

It is a difficult choice between 303 and santa cruz. Better living though chemistry was an awesome album. The later stuff pretty much sucked though.

i like "demons", but mainly for macy gray

should've stuck to remixes norm

he didn't do that many good remixes really

yeah gotta say much slimmer pickings than the chem bros list.

santa cruz. weirdly, around the same time i wrote a song that sounded very like it -- only without having heard it.

luckily, my song was only ever heard by about 20 people, thus saving me the potential embarrassment of a lengthy court case etc. whew, eh?

DO NOT VOTE FOR MACY GRAY

voted for "Going out of My Head"

Santa Cruz. His only mistake was in not retiring the name after two albums, like every other band or alias he ever touched. The second album is in no way an embarrassing drop-off from the first, just a broader, more populist approach; after that he should have walked away and done something else.

Other than The Space Cowboy.

The "Brimful of Asha" remix is the track that will put him in fucking heaven. Absent that, "The Rockafeller Skank."

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How the fuck did I miss this poll????

I can't believe how much hate his last two albums get. I blast my copy of Palookaville with pride and vote for "Wonderful Night."

Good result

Gangster Trippin deserved a vote

Right winner

I would've gone with "Weapon of Choice" just because I used to love the video.

new single?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlAEQKRZNKE

easily his worst single in 18 years

That’s impressive

He hasn't really done many singles in 18 years

Those Why Try Harder singles are great though. The moment in That Old Pair of Jeans when it explodes into panorama...

He hasn't really done many singles in 18 years

But nearly all of them are pretty good and fun!

my son loves Fatboy Slim and this repeats the same phrase a lot of time so he and I will enjoy it. we are not very particular about our Fatboy Slim

maybe I'm imagining things but I kinda wonder if You've Come a Long Way, Baby was a big influence on a certain pocket of online culture. its got that YouTube poop/shitposting vibe to it before that was really a thing. in more serious spaces this became like what dubstep is. idk I'm fascinated by how utterly braindead it is

I have actually seen the 'This is Bra-arB-Bra-arB-Br' edit during the phone convo between RHRH and Rockafeller Skank called YTP-esque!

it's not braindead!

otm

yeah that bit is so memorable and a ton of people had this CD I do wonder if a bunch of teens who would later make YTPs were subconsciously influenced by it. I can actually clearly remember the first time hearing that and thinking "why would you loop that? is he making fun of himself?" and then later thinking "ahh that's kinda catchy"

it's not braindead!

well the last two tracks have a "but seriously..." vibe to them. everything before that does sound kind of demented to my ears with the exception of "Right Here, Right Now" which still goes astonishingly hard

If they had a ...But Seriously vibe to them then that'd be the most demented thing of all

(Those last two tracks are as relatively close to tracky as it gets agreed, which seems weird to think about in the context of a tune that goes 'if this don't make your booty move your booty must be dead'. might just be the noise-drone ending which suggests his love of the Chem Bros ran a bit deeper than advertised, or Love Island's main riff being identical to the end of Song for Lindy albeit without the unexpected bittersweetness)

stuff the ytp-making teens i knew were listening to a lot of, from memory: mf doom, kanye, daft punk, the avalanches, aphex twin, boards of canada, pretty much any video game soundtrack

not fatboy slim

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TWVYQc78B8

you think that "praise you" sounds demented?

xps Ok I didn't mention it (well you can imagine what "This guy kicks ass" was changed to) but the radio skit - independently of me seeing its YTP qualities alluded to - does feature on an old friend's YTP.

Fatboy is definitely in the sphere I think, obv knowing this pooper himself. It might just be a certain area of the community tho idk. Like I doubt Chris Morris references are as widespread as they are in the part I've ended up being exposed to in later years.

i don't think i understand what you guys are talking about but i heard this record when i was 8, which i think is probably the right age to hear it for the first time lol

well, yeah. stretching that vocal sample out for like 30 seconds in the beginning, the loud crashing drums, the repetitiveness...granted its less demented than the previous 7 tracks

stuff the ytp-making teens i knew were listening to a lot of, from memory: mf doom, kanye, daft punk, the avalanches, aphex twin, boards of canada, pretty much any video game soundtrack

this album pre-dates a lot of this stuff, or at least when they became popular amongst the online generation. maybe I was too young but I thought Homework was big amongst DJs and clubbers, Discovery was the one people who spent a lot of time posting on message boards liked

one thing I do remember in online discussion was a lot of talk about Palookaville, iirc basically everyone hated it, but I did get the impression that they all knew this album at least

I got all the Fatboy albums except YCALWB* for either my 8th or 9th birthdays

*because my mum already had it

my Youtube account is autoplaying Fatboy Slim videos now...I remember catching Praise You exactly one time as a kid, I remember the concept and I remember exactly how the main dancer looked but I did not recall how low quality the video looked. I guess that's how everything on TV looked back then. The Weapon of Choice video on the other hand I remmeber being stunned by how good it looked