You've Come a Long Way, Baby
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| Studio album by Fatboy Slim | ||||
| Released | 19 October 1998 | |||
| Studio | The House of Love (Brighton, England) |
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| Genre | Big beat | |||
| Length | 61:59 | |||
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| Producer | Norman Cook | |||
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North American version
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| AllMusic |  |
| The Austin Chronicle |  |
| Encyclopedia of Popular Music | |
| Entertainment Weekly | B+ |
| NME | 8/10 |
| Pitchfork Media | 8.2/10 |
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| Rolling Stone | |
| Select | 5/5 |
| Spin | 8/10 |
You've Come a Long Way, Baby is the second studio album by the English big beat producer Fatboy Slim, released on 19 October 1998 by Skint Records internationally and by Astralwerks in the United States and Canada. The album was recorded at Fatboy Slim's home studio The House of Love in Brighton, England.
The album was a critical and commercial success, containing four top ten singles. The album peaked at number one on the UK albums chart, number one in New Zealand, number two in Australia, and number thirty-four on the US Billboard 200. Four singles were released from the album: "The Rockafeller Skank", "Gangster Tripping", "Praise You", and "Right Here, Right Now", each of which reached the top 10 in the UK Singles Chart. "Build It Up – Tear It Down" was also released as a promo, but not as a commercial single. The four singles from the album brought Fatboy Slim an international profile and You've Come a Long Way, Baby was described as his 'global break-through album'. Its success earned him a Brit Award in 1999.
You've Come a Long Way, Baby was recorded entirely using Atari ST computer, Creator software and floppy disks. The album faced issues regarding the use of profanity, most notably on the track "Fucking in Heaven" (renamed "In Heaven" in North America, and "Illin in Heaven" on the censored version), where the word 'fucking' is spoken 108 times by Freddy Fresh. The word "shit" is used in "Gangster Tripping" 57 times, which makes a total of 165 profanities. Because of this, the album was given a Parental Advisory sticker. It is possible that the repeated use of "druggy" in "Kalifornia" also required the sticker, which is not limited to simply profanity but also to drug references.
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