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The Greatest Hits: Why Try Harder (CD)

By: Fatboy Slim (Artist)

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Fatboy Slim Artist Snapshot:

Norman Cook's first foray into the music biz came as the bass player for 1980s U.K. pop/rock band the Housemartins, but once he got into the DJ world, he hung up his bass for good. As Fatboy Slim, he was at the forefront of the mid-'90s "big beat" movement. A reaction against the increasingly cerebral developments in electronica, big beat was pure body music, incorporating house production values, hip-hop samples, and simple, catchy hooks for what proved to be a highly successful approach. Along with the Chemical Brothers and the Prodigy, Slim was one of the few U.K. dance/electronic artists to break into the mainstream in the U.S., scoring huge with the smash singles "The Rockafeller Skank" and "Praise You." Cook would continue to be a force in dance music for years.

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DISC 1 for The Greatest Hits: Why Try Harder (CD) Album By Fatboy Slim (Artist)
1   Rockafeller Skank, The
2   Praise You
3   Brimful Of Asha - (Norman Cook remix, with Cornershop)
4   Weapon Of Choice
5   Gangster Trippin
6   I See You Baby - (Fatboy Slim remix, with 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
18   That Old Pair Of Jeans
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (p.106) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "This smartly compiled best-of showcases Cook's late Nineties hits; stupid fun bangers with whimsical, gratuitously repeated vocal samples; buoyant remixes...and a smidgen of moodier esoterica."
Q (p.123) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[G]athered together they sound like music from another planet entirely..."

Title Note

WHY TRY HARDER? marks a decade in the illustrious career of Norman Cook, aka Fatboy Slim. As one of the prime movers of the big-beat genre, Cook has arguably done more to popularize global dance music culture than any other artist. This collection highlights songs that have become not only club anthems but staples on mainstream radio, MTV, and throughout pop culture in general. Fatboy Slim's formula for chart-topping success is then all the more surprising since his tracks are not usually "songs" in the traditional sense--rather, they consist mostly of breakbeats and vocal samples from classic soul and R&B.

Tracks like "Rockafeller Skank" and "Praise You" are trademark Fatboy Slim--showcasing Cook's uncanny ability to weave samples as disparate as surf guitar and gospel vocals into a propulsive dance mix. If the entire collection featured such DJ-friendly material, it would make for a fine party album. But the song "Sunset (Bird Of Prey)" displays Cook's more contemplative side. Mixing a spectral Jim Morrison a cappella sample over ambient synth washes, the track is the emotive apogee of a triumphant career retrospective.

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