Better Living Through Chemistry Music Cd

Fatboy Slim - Better Living Through Chemistry

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Better Living Through Chemistry      Artist : Fatboy Slim      List Price : $15.98 USD        Your Price : $13.99 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 1997-09-23      Studio : Astralwerks      Label : Astralwerks      Avg. Customer Rating : (62 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Better Living Through Chemistry      a good dance album      Rating:      This is Fatboy Slim's first american debut, before he made it big. It's a good solid techo/dance album and can make anybody move around at your next party. It's full of samples and funky beats.     Customer Reviews for Better Living Through Chemistry Cd      Musically weak - later work is far stronger      Rating:      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.