865. You've Come a Long Way Baby

You've Come a Long Way Baby
Fatboy Slim
1998

Tracks
1. Right Here Right Now
2. Rockafeller Skank
3. Fucking In Heaven
4. Gangster Trippin'
5. Build It Up Tear It Down
6. Kalifornia
7. Soul Surfing
8. You're Not From Brighton
9. Praise You
10. Love Island
11. Acid 8000

I think it is cruel to use a random picture of a fat guy for the cover of your album. The guy's just trying to attend the Fat People's Festival (that's really where he was, I swear) in peace. Imagine trying to get away with that in 2020.

This album contains the most popular Fatboy Slim tracks. I didn't expect to be as familiar with these songs as I was; this type of music has never really been my scene. Still, Fatboy Slim should get applause for this album. They managed to make dance music that can appeal to mass audiences outside of a club context. That's no easy feat.

It still gets wearing after awhile, but it's not nearly as repetitive as some of the other big beat albums we have had here.

RATING: 3/5

846. Fat of the Land

Fat of the Land
The Prodigy
1997

Tracks
1. Smack My Bitch Up
2. Breathe
3. Diesel Power
4. Funky Shit
5. Serial Thrilla
6. Mindfields
7. Narayan
8. Firestarter
9. Climbatize
10. Fuel My Fire

Well, I knew from the title of the first track that this album and I were fated to be fast friends. 

The difficult thing about willing yourself to write a post about every album on this List is that you really run out of things to say about genres you don't like. I can't express in any other way that I don't like electronic music. In words anyway. I am currently working on a scathing interpretive dance. 

Last Prodigy album had endurable stretches, this one really didn't.

RATING: 2/5

810. Better Living Through Chemistry

Better Living Through Chemistry
Fatboy Slim
1996

Tracks
1. Song For Lindy
2. Santa Cruz
3. Going Out Of My Head
4. Weekend Starts Here
5. Everybody Needs A 303
6. Give The Po' Man A Break
7. 10th And Crenshaw
8. First Down
9. Punk To Funk
10. Sound Of Milwaukee
11. Crenshaw Siren Beats

We had a previous electronic album on the List by the Chemical Brothers, Exit Planet Dust, which I think had pretty much the same aims as this one: create electronic music that can be played outside of raves and enjoyed by those not on pills. 

I suppose it worked, as Fatboy Slim is fairly well known. But this is not my favorite style of music, I just have a really hard time forming any kind of connection with it. Of course, the List doesn't care, and will continue to force electronica on me whether I like it or not. 

Decidedly not.

RATING: 2/5