You've Come A Long Way Baby

From the very first beat of Fatboy Slim\'s second album, we\'re confronted with a wall of sound every bit as impressive as the cover\'s floor-to-ceiling shelves of wax. Strings, sitar, and pummeling drums are just the beginning: Norman Cook\'s sampledelic bag of tricks includes rock \'n\' roll twang, backmasked guitars, hip-hop breaks, funk horns, acid bass, and more swear words than you could shake a stick at. That impish spirit helped him woo American audiences back when electronic music was still taboo, and it keeps his cheeky breakbeat escapades sounding vital years later.

Check out our album review of Artist's You've Come A Long Way, Baby on Rolling Stone.com.

Fatboy Slim's debut album, Better Living Through Chemistry, was one of the surprises of the big beat revolution of 1996 -- an eclectic blowout, all tracked to thunderous loops and masterminded by Norman Cook, a former member of the British pop band the Housemartins.