Fatboy Slim

Fatboy Slim is one of the several alias by which Norman Cook known, he was born in Bromley, ENGLAND in 1963; when he was a young boy moved to Brighton to attend college and started DJing around the town, in the mid-'80s with Housemartins achieved big success in the U.K. Singles chart with the cover-song "Caravan Of Love"; in the first half of the '90s, Cook, with two more dance-oriented projects, Beats International and Freak Power returned in the top 10 of the British charts.

In 1995, Cook, started Fatboy Slim releasing, a year later, "Better Living Through Chemistry" which featured the hit "Santa Cruz" and his first U.S. Modern Rock top 30 single, "Going Out Of My Head".
Two years later appeared the international breakthrough effort, "You've Come A Long Way, Baby", the record rose to #1 on the U.K. Albums chart and reached the #34 slot on The Billboard Top 200 chart going platinum, while the explosive single "Praise You" peaked at #1 on the U.K. Pop Sales chart, smashed into the American Top 40 and shot to #2 on The Modern Rock Tracks chart; the album contained two more successful songs: the U.K. top 3 smash "Right Here, Right Now" and the Modern Rock top 40 hit, "The Rockafeller Skank".
In November of 2000, was issued Fatboy Slim's third album, "Halfway Between The Gutter And The Stars", which hit the top 10 in Britain and peaked at #51 on The Billboard 200 chart spawning the House-oriented single, "Star 69", plus the Modern Rock minor hit "Weapon Of Choice".
After a four year recording gap, Fatboy Slim returned in October 2004 with "Palookaville", the CD cracked the top 20 in Britain producing a couple of moderate hit in the cover of Steve Miller Band's "The Joker" and "Slash Dot Dash".

Fatboy Slim are back with a new single called "That Old Pair Of Jeans", the track is taken from the new ten-year retrospective compilation titled "The Greatest Hits: Why Try Harder".

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Better Living Through Chemistry

(1996)

1. Song For Lindy
2. Santa Cruz
3. Going Out Of My Head
4. The 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. The Sound Of Milwaukee
11. Michael Jackson
12. Next To Nothing

 

You've Come A Long Way, Baby

(1998)

1. Right Here, Right Now
2. The 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

 

Halfway Between The Gutter And The Stars

(2000)

1. Talking Bout My Baby
2. Star 69
3. Sunset (Bird Of Prey)
4. Love Life
5. Ya Mama
6. Mad Flava
7. Retox
8. Weapon Of Choice
9. Drop The Hate
10. Demons
11. Song For Shelter

 

Palookaville

(2004)

1. Don't Let The Man Get You Down
2. Slash Dot Dash
3. Wonderful Night
4. Long Way From Home
5. Put It Back Together
6. Mi Bebe Masoquista
7. Push And Shove
8. North West Three
9. The Journey
10. Jin Go Lo Ba
11. Song For Chesh
12. The Joker

 

The Greatest Hits
Why Try Harder

(2006)

1. Rockafeller Skank
2. Praise You
3. Brimful Of Asha [remix] —Cornershop—
4. Weapon Of Choice
5. Gangster Trippin'
6. I See You Baby [remix] —Groove Armada—
7. Wonderful Night
8. Right Here, Right Now
9. Going Out Of My Head
10. Sunset (Bird Of Prey)
11. Everybody Loves A Carnival
12. Don't Let The Man Get You Down
13. Demons
14. Sho Nuff
15. Slash Dot Dash
16. Santa Cruz
17. Champion Sound [NEW TRACK]
18. That Old Pair Of Jeans [NEW TRACK]

 

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