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)
Genre	Big beat
Length	61:57
Label	Skint Records (UK) Astralwerks (US)
Producer(s)	Fatboy Slim
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Robert Christgau (3 stars) link NME (8/10) link Rolling Stone (RS 799) Q (October 1998)
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 for explicit lyrics because of the third song "Fucking In Heaven" (titled simply "In Heaven" on the North American edition of the album) which has DJ Freddy Fresh repeating the word "fucking" 108 times. The track was re-named and re-edited to "'Illin in Heaven" for the clean version of the record. Another censorship issue the album faced, was the UK album cover, which featured an obese man, which was changed for the American release.

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 1 Track listing 1.1 Bonus disc 2 Singles 3 External links

[edit] Track listing

1. "Right Here, Right Now" (Fatboy Slim/Peters/Walsh) – 6:27
2. "The Rockafeller Skank" (Barry/Fatboy Slim/Terry) – 6:53
3. "Fucking In Heaven" (Fatboy Slim) – 3:54 (3:47 Edited Version) (North American title: "In Heaven")
4. "Gangster Tripping" (Davis/Dust Junkys/Fatboy Slim) – 5:20
5. "Build It Up - Tear It Down" (Fatboy Slim) – 5:05
6. "Kalifornia" (Fatboy Slim/Mr. Natural) – 5:53
7. "Soul Surfing" (Fatboy Slim/Nelson/Smith) – 4:56
8. "You're Not from Brighton" (Fatboy Slim) – 5:20
9. "Praise You" (Fatboy Slim/Yarbrough) – 5:23
10. "Love Island" (Fatboy Slim) – 5:18
11. "Acid 8000" (Fatboy Slim) – 7:28

[edit] Bonus disc

1. "Everybody Loves a Carnival (Radio Edit)"
2. "Michael Jackson"
3. "Next to Nothing"
4. "Es Paradis"

[edit] Singles

• "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

[edit] External links

• You've Come a Long Way, Baby at MusicBrainz