YMMV / Fatboy Slim

• Awesome Music:
  • "Right Here, Right Now" and "The Rockafeller Skank" from his second album, You've Come A Long Way Baby.
  • "First Down" from the first album, taking a Fela Kuti tune and making even more energetic. Saying it's toe-tapping doesn't do it justice.
  • His remix of Pierre Henry's "Psyche Rock". There's a damn good reason the Futurama theme is based off of it.
• Fridge Brilliance: The meaning of the title "Weapon of Choice". It's not "choice of a weapon". It's "choice is the weapon".
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: "Because We Can" seems to be strangely popular in Japan for reasons unknown.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: "Weapon of Choice" contains some references to Dune, and its music video famously featured Christopher Walken dancing around in an empty building and levitating in the air. In 2022, Walken was cast as Emperor Shaddam IV in Denis Villeneuve's Dune: Part Two.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • DON IS A RACIST.^note It was one of the phrases shown in the music video for "Don't Let The Man Get You Down".
  • The music video for "Weapon of Choice".
• Nightmare Fuel: The end of the video for "Wonderful Night", where Rapper Lateef turns into a werewolf!
• Refrain from Assuming: Several of his songs have popular incorrect titles taken from their most prominent samples; "The Rockafeller Skank" is routinely mislabeled as "Funk Soul Brother", "Ya Mama" as "Push the Tempo", "Star 69" as "What the Fuck", etc.
• Sampled Up: Most of his hits contain prominent samples from songs that remain about as obscure as they were when he sampled them. In 2001, he even released a special compliation album, A Break from the Norm, featuring the original songs sampled in his biggest hits (for example, "Take Yo' Praise" by Camille Yarbrough, as sampled in "Praise You").

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