Better Living Through Chemistry (album)

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Better Living Through Chemistry
Better Living Through Chemistry cover
Studio album by Fatboy Slim
Released 16 September 1996
Genre Big Beat, Breakbeat
Length 57:47 (UK)
70:52 (USA)
Label Skint Records
Producer Fatboy Slim
Professional reviews
Fatboy Slim chronology
Better Living Through Chemistry
(1996)		 On the Floor at the Boutique
(1998)

Better Living Through Chemistry is the first album by Fatboy Slim. It was released in 1996. It has the same name as the DuPont advertising slogan "Better Living Through Chemistry".

The founder of Skint Records, Damian Harris, has described the album as having been 'more of a compilation than an album', as some of the tracks had been recorded some time previous to its release, due to Norman Cook's other musical projects.

The album cover features the image of a 3.5-inch floppy disk, paying homage to "Blue Monday" by New Order (which featured a 5.25-inch disk).

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Song for Lindy" (Fatboy Slim) – 4:50
  2. "Santa Cruz" (Fatboy Slim) – 7:30
  3. "Going out of My Head" (Fatboy Slim, Townshend) – 5:14
  4. "The Weekend Starts Here" (Fatboy Slim, Mohammed) – 6:41
  5. "Everybody Needs a 303" (Fatboy Slim, Starr) – 5:49
  6. "Give the Po' Man a Break" (Fatboy Slim) – 5:50
  7. "10th & Crenshaw" (Fatboy Slim) – 4:20
  8. "First Down" (Fatboy Slim) – 6:18
  9. "Punk to Funk" (Fatboy Slim, Mansfield) – 4:57
  10. "The Sound of Milwaukee" (Fatboy Slim) – 6:18
  1. "Michael Jackson" (Fatboy Slim, Negativland) – 5:49
  2. "Next to Nothing" (Fatboy Slim) – 7:16
  • Japanese bonus track (instead of "Michael Jackson"):
  1. "Es Paradis" – 5:44
  • Vinyl only LP release bonus track:
  1. "Crenshaw Siren Beats" (Fatboy Slim) (reprise of 10th and Crenshaw) – 2:50
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