Fatboy Slim – Better Living Through Chemistry (20th Anniversary Edition) (Vinyl)
Fatboy Slim's 1996 debut, Better Living Through Chemistry, plays off of familiar riffs and beats, mixing disparate ideas into a stew that’s at once familiar and new. For example, take the album’s biggest hit: “Going Out of My Head.”Here, Cook places Pete Townshend’s guitar riff from “I Can’t Explain” against a pounding drum beat, record scratches and Yvonne Elliman singing the chorus of Townsend’s song – minus, of course, the title itself. It’s turns something familiar into a pretty instantaneous groove.
The loud bombast of dubstep or the hazy production of trap are light years away; the drum programming sounds almost primitive and you can practically see Fatboy Slim manipulating the records as you hear the music, but it still holds it’s own.
The album’s appended with a generous selection of bonus tracks. Some are familiar – the US-only cuts “Michael Jackson” and “Next to Nothing” – and some are new to all but the hardcore fan. All in all, it fits the bill of what you’d expect from a re-release of this kind. For fans of dance music, and especially people who remember Fatboy Slim’s late 90s/early 2000s heyday, Better Living Through Chemistry remains a great listen.
2 x Vinyl, Deluxe Edition, Reissue, 180g
Tracklist:
A1 Song For Lindy
A2 10th & Crenshaw
A3 Give The Po' Man A Break
B1 Going Out Of My Head
B2 Everybody Needs A 303
B3 First Down
C1 The Weekend Starts Here
C2 The Sound Of Milwaukee
D1 Santa Cruz
D2 Punk To Funk
D3 Crenshaw Siren Beats
Fatboy Slim's 1996 debut, Better Living Through Chemistry, plays off of familiar riffs and beats, mixing disparate ideas into a stew that’s at once familiar and new. For example, take the album’s biggest hit: “Going Out of My Head.”Here, Cook places Pete Townshend’s guitar riff from “I Can’t Explain” against a pounding drum beat, record scratches and Yvonne Elliman singing the chorus of Townsend’s song – minus, of course, the title itself. It’s turns something familiar into a pretty instantaneous groove.
The loud bombast of dubstep or the hazy production of trap are light years away; the drum programming sounds almost primitive and you can practically see Fatboy Slim manipulating the records as you hear the music, but it still holds it’s own.
The album’s appended with a generous selection of bonus tracks. Some are familiar – the US-only cuts “Michael Jackson” and “Next to Nothing” – and some are new to all but the hardcore fan. All in all, it fits the bill of what you’d expect from a re-release of this kind. For fans of dance music, and especially people who remember Fatboy Slim’s late 90s/early 2000s heyday, Better Living Through Chemistry remains a great listen.
2 x Vinyl, Deluxe Edition, Reissue, 180g
Tracklist:
A1 Song For Lindy
A2 10th & Crenshaw
A3 Give The Po' Man A Break
B1 Going Out Of My Head
B2 Everybody Needs A 303
B3 First Down
C1 The Weekend Starts Here
C2 The Sound Of Milwaukee
D1 Santa Cruz
D2 Punk To Funk
D3 Crenshaw Siren Beats
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