You've Come a Long Way, Baby

Infobox Album |
Name = You've Come a Long Way, Baby
Type = Studio album
Artist = Fatboy Slim

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|Album cover
Released = 12 October 1998 (UK)
20 October 1998 (US)
Recorded =
Genre = Big beat
Length = 61:57
67:11
Label = Skint Records (UK)
Astralwerks (US)
Producer = Fatboy Slim
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=A9d9sa9ygi23f link]
* Robert Christgau Rating-Christgau|hm3 [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=453&name=Fatboy+Slim link]
* Entertainment Weekly (B+) [http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,63754,00.html link]
* "NME" (8/10) [http://www.nme.com/reviews/234.htm link]
* "Rolling Stone" Rating|3|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/195341 RS 799]
* "Q" Rating|4|5 [http://www.q4music.com/nav?page=q4music.review.redirect&fixture_review=133492&resource=133492&fixture_artist=142845 October 1998]
Last album = "On the Floor at the Boutique"
(1998)
This album = "You've Come a Long Way, Baby"
(1998)
Next album = "Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars"
(2000)Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Alternate cover
Type = studio


Lower caption = North American cover

"You've Come a Long Way, Baby" is the second studio album by Fatboy Slim and was released in 1998.

The album has a Parental Advisory because of the third track "Fucking In Heaven" (titled simply "In Heaven" on the North American edition of the album) which has DJ Freddy Fresh repeating the words "Fatboy Slim Is Fucking In Heaven" 108 times. The track was re-named and re-edited to "'Illin in Heaven" for the clean version of the record. The UK album cover, which featured an obese man (identified in the CD inlay as Mark Johnson), was changed for the American release to a cover featuring shelves of vinyl records.

The title of the album is a marketing slogan for Virginia Slims cigarettes, similar to Fatboy Slim’s first album which borrowed DuPont’s Better Living Through Chemistry tagline for its title.

In 2000 "Q" magazine placed "You've Come a Long Way, Baby" at number 81 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever.

Track listing

# "Right Here, Right Now" (Fatboy Slim/Peters/Walsh) – 6:27
# "The Rockafeller Skank" (Barry/Fatboy Slim/Terry) – 6:53
# "Fucking In Heaven" (Fatboy Slim) – 3:54 (3:47 on edited version)
# "Gangster Tripping" (Davis/Dust Junkys/Fatboy Slim) – 5:20
# "Build It Up - Tear It Down" (Fatboy Slim) – 5:05
# "Kalifornia" (Fatboy Slim/Mr. Natural) – 5:53
# "Soul Surfing" (Fatboy Slim/Nelson/Smith) – 4:56
# "You're Not from Brighton" (Fatboy Slim) – 5:20
# "Praise You" (Fatboy Slim/Yarbrough) – 5:23
# "Love Island" (Fatboy Slim) – 5:18
# "Acid 8000" (Fatboy Slim) – 7:28

Australian Edition Bonus Track

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"How Could They Hear Us" (Fatboy Slim) - 5:07Japan and Australian versions of the album have a 12th track, extending the album's runtime accordingly.]

Japanese Edition Bonus Track

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"The World Went Down" – 6:41Japan and Australian versions of the album have a 12th track, extending the album's runtime accordingly.]

Bonus disc

# "Everybody Loves a Carnival" (Radio Edit)
# "Michael Jackson"
# "Next to Nothing"
# "Es Paradis"

Singles

* "The Rockafeller Skank" (June 18, 1998; UK #6; US #72)
* "Gangster Trippin" (October 5, 1998; UK #3)
* "Praise You" (January 4, 1999; UK #1; US #36)
* "Right Here Right Now" (April 19, 1999; UK #2)
* "Build It Up - Tear It Down" (1999; UK)

Notes

External links

*MusicBrainz release|id=6f829bf7-163b-49e5-84ba-fb44c2ad88e8|name=You've Come a Long Way, Baby

succession box
before = "I've Been Expecting You" by Robbie Williams
title = UK number one album
years = January 23, 1999 – February 19, 1999
after = "I've Been Expecting You" by Robbie Williams