Better Living Through Chemistry (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Better Living Through Chemistry


Type = Album
Artist = Fatboy Slim
Released = 16 September 1996
Recorded =
Genre = Big Beat, Breakbeat, Trip-hop, Electronic
Length = 57:47 (UK)
70:52 (USA)
Label = Skint Records
Producer = Fatboy Slim
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=A7gq67uw080j0 link]
*Robert Christgau Rating-Christgau|hm2 [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=453&name=Fatboy+Slim link]
*"Rolling Stone" Rating|3|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/244435 RS 769]
Last album =
This album = "Better Living Through Chemistry"
(1996)
Next album = "On the Floor at the Boutique"
(1998)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Alternate cover
Type = studio


Lower caption = North American cover

"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).

Track listing

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