You've Come a Long Way, Baby
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| You've Come a Long Way, Baby | ||
| Studio album by Fatboy Slim | ||
| Released | 19 October 1998 (UK) 20 October 1998 (US) |
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| Genre | Big beat | |
| Length | 61:57 | |
| Label | Skint Records (UK) Astralwerks (US) |
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| Producer(s) | Fatboy Slim | |
| Professional reviews | ||
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| Fatboy Slim chronology | ||
| On the Floor at the Boutique (1998) |
You've Come a Long Way, Baby (1998) |
Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars (2000) |
| Alternate cover | ||
| North American cover | ||
You've Come a Long Way, Baby is the second studio album by Fatboy Slim and was released in 1998. The most popular track on the album was "The Rockafeller Skank" (also referred to as "The Funk Soul Brother", from one of the only lines in the song). A common mondegreen, or mishearing, of this line was "The Funk's Your Brother".
The album has a Parental Advisory because of the third track "Fucking In Heaven" (titled simply "In Heaven" on the North American edition of the album) which has DJ Freddy Fresh repeating the words "Fatboy Slim Is Fucking In Heaven" 108 times. The track was re-named and re-edited to "'Illin in Heaven" for the clean version of the record. The UK album cover, which featured an obese man, was changed for the American release to a cover featuring shelves of vinyl records.
In 2000 Q magazine placed You've Come a Long Way, Baby at number 81 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever.
Contents |
- "Right Here, Right Now" (Fatboy Slim/Peters/Walsh) – 6:27
- "The Rockafeller Skank" (Barry/Fatboy Slim/Terry) – 6:53
- "Fucking in Heaven" (Fatboy Slim) – 3:54 (3:47 Edited Version) (North American title: "In Heaven")
- "Gangster Trippin" (Davis/Dust Junkys/Fatboy Slim) – 5:20
- "Build It Up - Tear It Down" (Fatboy Slim) – 5:05
- "Kalifornia" (Fatboy Slim/Mr. Natural) – 5:53
- "Soul Surfing" (Fatboy Slim/Nelson/Smith) – 4:56
- "You're Not from Brighton" (Fatboy Slim) – 5:20
- "Praise You" (Fatboy Slim/Yarbrough) – 5:23
- "Love Island" (Fatboy Slim) – 5:18
- "Acid 8000" (Fatboy Slim) – 7:28
- "Everybody Loves a Carnival (Radio Edit)"
- "Michael Jackson"
- "Next to Nothing"
- "Es Paradis"
- "The Rockafeller Skank" (18 June 1998) - #6 UK
- "Gangster Trippin" (5 October 1998) - #3 UK
- "Praise You" (4 January 1999) - #1 UK
- "Right Here Right Now" (19 April 1999) - #2 UK