Fatboy Slim Songs Ranked

Norman Quentin Cook (born 31 July 1963), also known by his stage name Fatboy Slim, is an English musician, DJ, and record producer who helped to popularise the big beat genre in the 1990s. In the 1980s, Cook was the bassist for the Hull-based indie rock band the Housemartins, who achieved a UK number-one single with their a cappella cover of “Caravan of Love”. After the Housemartins split, Cook formed the electronic band Beats International in Brighton, who produced the number-one single “Dub Be Good to Me”. He then played in Freak Power, Pizzaman, and the Mighty Dub Katz with moderate success. In 1996, Cook adopted the name Fatboy Slim and released Better Living Through Chemistry to critical acclaim. Follow-up albums You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby, Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars, and Palookaville, as well as singles such as “The Rockafeller Skank”, “Praise You”, “Right Here, Right Now”, “Weapon of Choice”, and “Wonderful Night”, achieved commercial and critical success. In 2008, Cook formed the Brighton Port Authority with David Byrne. He has been responsible for successful remixes for Cornershop, the Beastie Boys, A Tribe Called Quest, Groove Armada, and Wildchild. In 2010, in partnership with Byrne, he released the concept album Here Lies Love. Cook holds the Guinness World Record for most top-40 hits under different names. As a solo act, he has won nine MTV Video Music Awards and two Brit Awards. Here are all of Fatboy Slim’s songs ranked.

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12. Acid 8000 (You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby, 1998)

“This album doesn’t try to be deep. It doesn’t try to be brooding or dark (which I can totally appreciate in an album every now and again). It’s direct, straight-forward party music. Every song on the album is designed to get you moving, and this is one of the many things it does very well.”

11. Psyche Rock (Fatboy Slim Malpaso Mix) (Psyche Rock, 2010)

“Man, Fatboy Slim did such a tremendous job of preserving so many aspects of the original song, not just taking the chord progression and redoing everything else like most modern remixes. I loved it 10 years ago, and still love it today.”

10. Going Out of My Head (Better Living Through Chemistry, 1996)

“The Song Going Out of My Head is also excellent and very upbeat. It shows Fatboy’s diversity where he incorporates more rock samples and guitars in this song but still maintains it’s club feel.”

9. That Old Pair of Jeans (The Greatest Hits – Why Try Harder, 2006)

“Fatboy Slim unlike a lot of dance music artists is able to cross many music barriers unscathed, and appeal to a variety of people without losing his “realness” to his own music. On a personal level, he is the one main reason I started listening to dance music in addition to my earlier choice of mostly Hip Hop. The interesting thing about Fatboy Slim is he is always evolving and changing and his fans seem to change with him.”

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8. Wonderful Night (Palookaville, 2004)

“”Wonderful Night” is the name of a song by Fatboy Slim from his album Palookaville. It features Lateef the Truth Speaker on the vocal track. The song is often played at Staples Center immediately after Los Angeles Clippers home wins and at Madison Square Garden during the second half of New York Knicks games.”

7. Brimful of Asha (Brimful of Asha, 1997)

“I like this version better than the original, just the pace and vocals making the song a bit faster adds an extra flavor of awesomeness.”

6. Ya Mama (Charlie’s Angels, 2000)

“Well, it does what it sets out to – push the tempo. Remember that video? You just stop whatever you’re doin’ when this comes on and move like an idiot because it’s totally alright!”

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5.Gangster Tripping (You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby, 1998)

“This song is what gangsta rap sounds like to Norman Cook when he’s on acid. It becomes a silly circus-like show that makes him giggle with funky glee.”

4. Weapon of Choice (Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars, 2000)

“The lyric “walk without rhythm, it won’t attract the worm” is likely inspired by the classic sci-fi novel “Dune” in which there are giant worms on a desert planet which will attack you unless you walk without a rhythm, so that they can’t tell you are there.”

3. Praise You (You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby, 1998)

“The 1990s was a bizarre decade in terms of popular music taste. These days rock fans are inclined to look back nostalgically at a time when bands like Nirvana, The Smashing Pumpkins and Soundgarden actually had hits. It now seems almost incredible that a band as off-beat as The Breeders once put “Cannonball” on the charts. Yet as much angry rock as there was to be heard, the charts were dominated by dance-pop. Remember Ace of Base and M People? Most of this light house music was dreadful, but occasionally something worthwhile emerged from all the dreck. The happy, infectiously catchy “Praise You” was one such example.”

2. Right Here, Right Now

“One of the earliest origins of the ‘drop’ that caused a later revitalizing in Dubstep a decade later. Rather than used as a shoe-in gimmick, ‘Right Here, Right Now’ was engrained within it, the earth-shattering bass on bass brought upon a new flavor in music that used repetition with purpose. The beat, brought upon by harmonizing synths and bombastic drums, is one that nestles into the ears of those who come in contact, a late night in a rave was the perfect place for this apocalyptic anthem.”

1. The Rockafeller Skank (You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby, 1998)

“The Rockafeller Skank” quickly asserts its dominance, offering up slices of the past through Surf Rock, crackling vocal sections, and distorted beat switches, mashing into a free-for-all of Dance music that’s relentlessly enjoyable. It may go long and divulge into some truly absurd speed dynamics, but the track itself offers up enough variety to dispel any stubborn fan into tapped toes and nodding heads.”