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Fatboy Slim - Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars Audio CD

A fair review of the Fatboy Slim "Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Fatboy Slim reviews here, or go back to the Fatboy Slim tabs.

Fatboy Slim Band: Fatboy Slim
Title: Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars
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Release Date: 2000-11-07
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Talking 'Bout My Baby 2: Star 69 3: Sunset (Bird of Prey) 4: Love Life (feat. Macy Gray) 5: Ya Mama 6: Mad Flava 7: Retox 8: Weapon of Choice (feat. Bootsy Collins) 9: Drop The Hate 10: Star 69 11: Demons (feat. Macy Gray) 12: Song For Shelter (feat. Roland Clark)

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Don't Expect Hip Hop & You'll Be Fine...
Well, to all you that don't know Norman Cook, AKA Fatboy Slim is in fact a dance artist who produces dance music, don't go into this album expecting anything different. Reading all these reviews, you've got a whole buncha people bashing on this CD because it's a dance album. Mr. Cook is a genious and his singles time & time again are proven not only to be sucessful, but also timeless(aside from the tracks that the top 40 radio DJs get ahold of and cram down our throats a zillion times until we never wanna hear 'em again. . . Thanks for that by the way, you're doing the world a great service). As far as not understanding "Star 69",; what is there to understand. "Star 69" was made for one reason & one reason only, to make you shake your butt. If you're looking for meaning in music, go listen to Yanni, or Enya, or Celine Dion, only listen to Fatboy if you wanna boogie to the MFin' oogie. As far as the guy bashin' "Bird Of Prey", it's Jim Morrison dude; what more do you need. For those of you who don't know musicians outside of the Backseat Boys, Jim's the lead singer from The Doors, & one of the few truely brilliant musicians of ours any other generation. . . ever. Basically I'll put it like this, don't bash on the man because you're to sheltered to understand good music unless it's played for you twice every hour on the hour on the radio or MTV. Cook's music'll be around alot longer than any one of your 1 hit wonder's out there. Just because Norman makes his own music, & not from some mold given to him by some slimey record executive doesn't mean his music is bad. If you don't get it fine, but don't bash on something just because you're to shallow or close minded to understand. Open your ears and give it a shot, your brain will thank you.


The best fatboy slim!
I reckon this is the BEST fatboy slim cd, mainly because it has weapon of choice! It's a great dance track, infact, most of them are! (the video clip to weapon of choice is great too!) five stars!.


Bird of Prey track
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The lyrics were actually written in 1969 by Jim Morrison, lead singer for The Doors, and the vocals in the FatBoy Slim version are Jim's vocals dubbed in. While reading reviews for this album, I read one reviewer who commented that "Bird of Prey" is a song that "crys loudly and pretentiously for attention (and airplay). . . The track was never released by The Doors (until their recent box set). It was written by Jim himself (with no help from the band) and included acapella on his underground "Rock is Dead" opera album, which was released in very limited quality overseas and is practically impossible to find in its original version today.

The "Rock is Dead" album criticized the very foundation of modern commercial radio and "pop rock music," at least in the way Jim saw it in the late 1960s. . . It is ironic that the reviewer perceived the lyrics to "Bird of Prey" as an attempt to sellout, when actually the roots of the track were rooted in self-awareness, philosophy and Jim's perception of big record labels/execs killing rock and roll by stifling musicians' creativity.

To my knowledge, no attempt was ever made at releasing this track to any studio.

The reviewer also writes, "Pretending to be cerebral is a very bad thing. " Indeed.


Get It For Weapon Of Choice
In fact, it's the only song that's really good. The best song on this album is 'Weapon Of Choice'. The others are okay, but nothing to go nuts over. Weapon Of Choice is the real great song that makes you want to dance and do stuff. Also the music video for it is simply hilarious.


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