Track Listings (12) - Disc #1| All Artists: Fatboy Slim Title: Better Living Through Chemistry Members Wishing: 0 Total Copies: 0 Label: Astralwerks Original Release Date: 9/23/1997 Release Date: 9/23/1997 Genres: Dance & Electronic, Pop Styles: Electronica, Big Beat, Trip-Hop, Dance Pop Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 017046620321 |
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 | Fatboy Slim Better Living Through Chemistry Genres: Dance & Electronic, Pop
U.S. debut for the first album by this ex-Housemartins and ex-Beats International instrumental act with two bonus cuts, 'Michael Jackson' and 'Next To Nothing', both previously only available as B-sides on the U.K. CD s... more » |
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Album Description U.S. debut for the first album by this ex-Housemartins and ex-Beats International instrumental act with two bonus cuts, 'Michael Jackson' and 'Next To Nothing', both previously only available as B-sides on the U.K. CD single for 'Going Out My Head'. 12 tracks total, also featuring 'Going Out Of My Head', 'Song For Lindy' and 'Everybody Needs A 303'. The album's full title is 'Better Living Through Chemistry'. 1997 Astralwerks release. Similar CDs
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Member CD Reviews B. Jason O. (panicBoy) from MANCHESTER, NH Reviewed on 4/20/2007... The funk/soul brother, before he became the funk/soul brother. "Going Out Of My Head" has to be the big cut off this one.  Matt F. from LE CLAIRE, IA Reviewed on 8/20/2006... Seriously thumpin' beats.
CD ReviewsClassic Slim Heeth | Rochester, NY | 03/29/2005 (4 out of 5 stars) "Within the musical niche he's creating, he did a very good job. This was Norman's first big album, and I think he solidified his style with it. The sound of Better Living through Chemistry is synth-rock house with a very American, westward-looking feel to it. This album is for those who want thumping, rock-oriented, synthetic, energized, and inherently loud music. For people who criticize great tunes like "Everybody Needs a 303" and "Give the Po' Man a Break" as repetitive, I say that they're not listening to the way the song is developing over time. My favorite track is "Santa Cruz." It conjures great imagery and contains one of the longest and best builds I've ever heard from a song." Musically weak - later work is far stronger S. B. Gould | Mid West, USA | 01/14/2007 (2 out of 5 stars) "Having really enjoyed 'You've come a long way baby' - one of my favorite albums - I had high hopes for this work, after all, they are just a year or two apart. Oh, was I disappointed.
Perhaps if one were thrashing around at a rave party while out of their gourd on X, then this album would sound a little better, but stone cold sober I really had a hard time with this ensemble. The constant looped samples just repeat and repeat seemingly, in some instances, for ever. I see this album almost as a test case for Cook's later - and musically far better - work. One can really see the roots here of how this style and sound was massaged and refined into something much more musically coherent with 'You've come a long way baby'. Song For Lindy stands out as one of the more tolerable tracks along with Going Out of My Head, Everybody Needs a 303 and Michael Jackson. The guitar riff in Santa Cruz never seems to stop and gives me a headache while the lyrics in Give a Po' Man a Break could do exactly that. The rest of the tracks are evidently an exercise in how to use a sequencer and are apparently written to cram as many repeated samples into each song as possible. I really wanted to like this album, but it offers little of redeeming quality; quite simply it's dull. Ultimately, there is just not enough here to warrant its purchase." |
