Fatboy Slim

Vinyl junkie Norman Cook helped bring mainstream awareness to electronica with this 1998 release. Thanks to the two hits "The Rockafeller Skank" and "Praise You," Fatboy hit the top of the charts with his infectious Big Beat themes that gave us no choice but to sing along. Cue this one up at your next High School basketball game and you'll surely get everyone pumped!

The ascendancy of Norman Cook – in the guise of Fatboy Slim – has to amuse anyone for
whom techno's countless variants constitute one corner of the musical universe rather
than a brave new world. The Housemartins bassist turned DJ'ing mix master has been
collaging up silly pop songs since Beats International's excellent 1990 album, Let Them Eat
Bingo. The way the dance world's bigbeat partisans cheer him, though, you'd th... More >

Proving what all pop pros know--that obvious is harder than subtle ("The Rockafeller Skank," "In Heaven") (Grade - ***)