Palookaville (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Palookaville
Type = Album
Artist = Fatboy Slim


Released = October 4, 2004 (UK)
October 5, 2004 (US)
Recorded =
Genre = Big beat
Length =
Label = Skint (UK)
BRASSIC29LP (LP)
BRASSIC29CD (CD)
Astralwerks (US) ASW 64748
Producer = Fatboy Slim, Simon Thornton
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:w2ja7ip5g71r link]
*"The Guardian" Rating|3|5 [http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/reviews/story/0,11712,1316476,00.html 1 Oct 2004]
*Pitchfork Media (4.6/10) [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/17678/Fatboy_Slim_Palookaville 6 Oct 2004]
*Q Rating|3|5
*Robert Christgau Rating-Christgau|cut [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=fatboy+slim link]
*"Rolling Stone" Rating|2|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/_/id/6422157 22 Sep 2004]
Last album = "My Game"
(2002)
This album = "Palookaville"
(2004)
Next album = "Here Lies Love"
(2009)

"Palookaville" is an album by Fatboy Slim, released in autumn 2004. It was also a temporary name of Brighton and Hove Albion F.C.'s Withdean Stadium, due to their sponsorship deal with Skint Records.

The album, being the first Fatboy Slim album released in four years, represented a significant shift in style for Cook, with a reduction in the traditional Fatboy Slim reliance on vocal loops, and the introduction of real instruments (Cook himself returns to his Housemartins roots by contributing live bass on some tracks, with engineer/mixer/executive producer Simon Thornton also adding guitar) and more conventional song structures. More "traditional" Fatboy Slim tracks such as "Jin Go Lo Ba" co-exist with full-length vocal tracks such as a rendition of the Steve Miller Band's "The Joker". There are also many more vocal collaborations, including with the rapper Lateef and Brighton-based band Johnny Quality.

Track listing

#"Don't Let The Man Get You Down" (Cook/Emmerson) - 4:01
#"Slash Dot Dash" (Cook) - 2:53
#"Wonderful Night", featuring Lateef (Cook/Deaumont) - 4:46
#"Long Way From Home", featuring Johnny Quality (Cook/Moody) - 4:44
#"Put It Back Together", featuring Damon Albarn (Cook/Albarn) - 4:36
#"Mi Bebé Masoquista" (Cook/Silverstein/Settle) - 4:26
#"Push and Shove", featuring Justin Robertson and [http://www.sharonwoolf.com/ Sharon Woolf] (Cook/Robertson) - 4:27
#"North West Three" (Cook/Martyn) - 4:30
#"The Journey", featuring Lateef (Cook/Deaumont) - 4:36
#"Jin Go Lo Ba" (Olatunji) - 4:40
#"Song For Chesh" (Cook) - 4:19
#"The Joker", featuring Bootsy Collins (Miller/Ertegün/Curtis) - 5:21

ingles

* "Slash Dot Dash" 2004 - UK #12
* "Wonderful Night" 2004 - UK #51
* "The Joker" 2005 - UK #32
* "Don't Let the Man Get You Down" 2005 - UK #153