Palookaville (album)
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| Studio album by Fatboy Slim | ||||
| Released |
4 October 2004 (UK) 5 October 2004 (US) | |||
| Genre | Big beat, hip hop, alternative rock | |||
| Length | 53:27 | |||
| Label |
Skint (UK) BRASSIC29LP (LP) BRASSIC29CD (CD) Astralwerks (US) ASW 64748 | |||
| Producer | Fatboy Slim, Simon Thornton | |||
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| Singles from Palookaville | ||||
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| Professional ratings | |
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| Aggregate scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | (53/100)[1] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |    [2] |
| Entertainment Weekly | (C+)[3] |
| Stylus Magazine | (D−)[4] |
| Robert Christgau |  [5] |
| Pitchfork Media | (4.6/10)[6] |
| Rolling Stone | [7] |
| Q Magazine | [8] |
| The Guardian | [9] |
Palookaville is the fourth studio album by English big beat musician Fatboy Slim, released on 4 October 2004. It was also a temporary name of Brighton and Hove Albion F.C.'s Withdean Stadium, due to their sponsorship deal with Skint Records.
Background
The album, being the first Fatboy Slim album released in four years, represented a significant shift in style for Cook, with a reduction in the traditional Fatboy Slim reliance on vocal loops, and the introduction of real instruments (Cook himself returns to his Housemartins roots by contributing live bass on some tracks, with engineer/mixer/executive producer Simon Thornton also adding guitar) and more conventional song structures. More "traditional" Fatboy Slim tracks such as "Jin Go Lo Ba" co-exist with full-length vocal tracks such as a rendition of the Steve Miller Band's "The Joker" performed by Bootsy Collins. There are also many more vocal collaborations, including two with the rapper Lateef ("Wonderful Night" and "The Journey") and Brighton-based band Jonny Quality ("Long Way from Home").
Track listing
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length | |
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| 1. | "Don't Let the Man Get You Down" | Norman Cook, Les Emmerson | 4:01 | |
| 2. | "Slash Dot Dash" | Cook | 2:53 | |
| 3. | "Wonderful Night" (featuring Lateef) | Cook, Deaumont | 4:46 | |
| 4. | "Long Way from Home" (featuring Jonny Quality) | Cook, Sean Moody | 4:44 | |
| 5. | "Put It Back Together" (featuring Damon Albarn) | Cook, Damon Albarn | 4:36 | |
| 6. | "Mi Bebé Masoquista" | Cook, Shel Silverstein, Michael Settle | 4:26 | |
| 7. | "Push & Shove" (featuring Justin Robertson and Sharon Woolf) | Cook, Justin Robertson | 4:27 | |
| 8. | "North West Three" | Cook, Beverley Martyn | 4:30 | |
| 9. | "The Journey" (featuring Lateef) | Cook, Deaumont | 4:36 | |
| 10. | "Jin Go Lo Ba" | Babatunde Olatunji | 4:40 | |
| 11. | "Song for Chesh" | Cook | 4:19 | |
| 12. | "The Joker" (featuring Bootsy Collins) | Steve Miller, Ahmet Ertegün, Eddie Curtis | 5:21 |
References
- ↑ http://www.metacritic.com/music/palookaville
- ↑ David Jeffries. "Palookaville – Fatboy Slim". Allmusic. Retrieved 15 September 2011.
- ↑ His party jams... feel half-cocked, like Cook can't quite commit to the moment. [8 Oct 2004, p.114]
- ↑ http://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/fatboy-slim/palookaville.htm
- ↑ Robert Christgau. "Fatboy Slim". robertchristgau.com. Retrieved 15 September 2011.
- ↑ Johnny Loftus (5 October 2004). "Fatboy Slim: Palookaville". Pitchfork. Retrieved 15 September 2011.
- ↑ http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/palookaville-20040922
- ↑ Essentially, Fatboy Slim is doing little more than repeating his past, but the quality here doesn't suffer for that. [Nov 2004, p.120]
- ↑ Caroline Sullivan (1 October 2004). "Fatboy Slim, Palookaville". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 September 2011.
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