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- Artist: Fatboy Slim
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- Release Date: 1996
- Genre: Electronica
Review
Fatboy Slim is one of DJ Norman Cook's many aliases, and has proven to be his most popular and successful yet. Although he consistently racks up dance hits in his native England (each under a different surname), he didn't achieve global success until the re-release of Better Living Through Chemistry in 1997. On the insistence of his friends the Chemical Brothers, Cook released the track "Going out of My Head" as the album's first single. Due to its popular video and instantly catchy sample from the Who classic "I Can't Explain," Cook earned his first U.S. hit. Another unlikely sample used to great effect was featured in the track "Michael Jackson," which used a snippet of Negativland's "Negativland." "The Weekend Starts Here" is similar to the Beastie Boys' funk instrumentals, featuring distant organ and lazy harmonica blowing (which sounds an awful lot like the harmonica phrase at the beginning of Black Sabbath's "The Wizard"). Recommended to those who can't get enough of the popular technoid-sampled alternative dance style of the late '90s. ~ Greg Prato, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Song for Lindy | Fatboy Slim | Fatboy Slim | (4:50) |
| Santa Cruz | Fatboy Slim | Fatboy Slim | (7:30) |
| Going Out of My Head | Pete Townshend, Fatboy Slim | Fatboy Slim | (5:14) |
| The Weekend Starts Here | Fatboy Slim | Fatboy Slim | (6:41) |
| Everybody Needs a 303 | Edwin Starr, Fatboy Slim | Fatboy Slim | (5:49) |
| Give the Po' Man a Break | Fatboy Slim | Fatboy Slim | (5:50) |
| 10th & Crenshaw | Fatboy Slim | Fatboy Slim | (4:20) |
| First Down | Fatboy Slim | Fatboy Slim | (6:18) |
| Punk to Funk | Fatboy Slim | Fatboy Slim | (4:57) |
| The Sound of Milwaukee | Fatboy Slim | Fatboy Slim | (6:18) |
| Michael Jackson | Negativland, Fatboy Slim | Fatboy Slim | (5:49) |
| Next to Nothing | Fatboy Slim | Fatboy Slim | (7:16) |
