The Friday Canon: NORMAN COOK

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Our Quentin has been a busy boy over the last twenty years. Three bands, a grillion pseudonyms and twenty-eight UK Top 40 hits later - behold! It's the salad of all the Cooks. Pick your favourite NINE over his oeuvre!

[Poll #1048009]
T-Rex (link)
=1. 20th Century Boy
=1. Get It On
3. Children Of The Revolution
4. Metal Guru
5. Ride A White Swan
6. Jeepster
7. Telegram Sam
8. Hot Love
9. Solid Gold Easy Action
10. Debora

Comments

[ultraruby.livejournal.com]

What about Magic Carpet Ride buy the Mighty Dub Katz? That's my favourite favourite of his, I think.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Bugger, I thought I'd checked for that one on everyhit. That is indeed a good tune!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Fatboy Slim: not as obnoxious as I sometimes assume but the amazing:grim ratio of the singles is further tipped towards the latter than I expected (b/c of all the latter-day old man dance obv) ('Right Here Right Now' is my BIG BEAT JAM 4EVA though)

Freakpower: eh, that one song I've heard is OK I guess

Pizzaman: I love one of these but I can't remember which one! Ticked them all as I have many ticks to spare

Beats Int: yeah obv

Housemartins: never heard

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

thought u would prefer 'In And Out Of My Life' by OnePhatDeeva to 'Right Here Right Now'

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I have never heard or indeed heard OF it though!

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

it was a big hit shortly after 'right here right now' - you'll know it when you hear it. it was a bootleg of Adeva singing over a loop of the Fatboy track but with a housey 4/4 instead of the breakbeat

[martinv.livejournal.com]

Mighty Dub Katz must be included! Post-Housemartins, very patchy output I reckon. That and Dub Be Good To Me are about the only true classics although plenty of passable/ok Fatboy Slim tracks.

Quentrivia

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

Fatboy Slim has many great album tracks and b-sides. 'Everybody Loves A Carnival', the remix of '...303' is another fave. I still think 'Weapon Of Choice' is fab but that's just me eh.

Mighty Dub Katz stuff was pretty good - I should upload 'Ghetto Girl' - it's totally Betty Boo.

Freakpower's 'No Way' is basically a Fatboy Slim track with that bald dude singing - he namechecks Felix Da Housecat on it which is nice. Honourable tick.

Pizzaman's fourth single 'Hello Honky Tonks' used the Goodmen 'Give It Up' drumbeat. The FIFTH single 'Gotta Man' is also GREAT - you can actually download a Pizzaman ALBUM on bleep.com because they carry Loaded Records stuff :)

ZOE BALL killed Fatboy Slim - damn you Zoe!

Re: Quentrivia

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Is she the Yoko?

Re: Quentrivia

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

dear lawyers, zoe ball did not kill fatboy slim

Re: Quentrivia

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

it's OK, Fatboy Slim not actually a real person phew

S-S-S-S-Stuttering

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Is FBS the most recognisable remixer ever, purely for that j-j-j-j-j-juddering effect?

Badda Badda Schwing

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

What is this? Given the time it was released it should have been enormous but I have NO MEMORY of it.

Re: Badda Badda Schwing

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

it was more a Freddie Fresh thing hence low placing. don't think i ever heard it myself.

Re: Badda Badda Schwing

[ninebelow.livejournal.com]

I don't remember FBS's name being associated with it at all. It was received as just another middling slice of Brighton big beat.

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

Obvs 'Dub Be Good To Me' and 'Turn On Tune In Cop Out' are his finest moments. I only ticked 8. I don't like the others, or haven't heard them. In particular, I have always despised 'Praise You'.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I really liked the Rockafeller Skank when it came out, and thought Gangsta Trippin was ok, so I bought the album. I was quite miffed that the rest of it wasn't up to much and Praise You pissed me off immensely as it got played ALL THE EFFING TIME.

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

Actually, I quite liked the album. Probably because I spent a drunken weekend in Brighton (still my only visit to that city) listening to it before anyone in London really had a clue who Fatboy Slim was. I really liked the middle section of the album - 'Build It Up, Tear It Down', 'Kalifornia', 'Soul Surfing' and 'You're Not From Brighton', but then he went and ruined it by following those four with 'Praise You'.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

You're Not From Brighton is my favourite track off that LP

Fatboy Slim - The Joker (2005)

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

biggest discrepancy ever between song quality and video quality?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgk9ouBuj-4

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Surprised myself by only getting 7 must-ticks, this would obviously have been rectified if we'd had Renegade Master or Brimful of Asha or his AMAZING Bring the Noise/Higher States of Consciousness (which I'm aware was never actually released, just sayin')

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

In the end I stuck to stuff on everyhit that actually namechecked Norman in one form or another - Wildchild, Cornershop & Wink just say 'remix' on them, not who that remix is by.

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Ah no I'm not having a go, just musing on the enigma in an camo cap that is N. Cook...

Another write in tick for...

[mcarratala.livejournal.com]

Magic Carpet Ride. I seem to remember other decent things in the pre-Rockerfeller Skank days under various names that were not hits, but the 90s are a bit of a blur anyway...