Palookaville
- Fatboy Slim
- Band Name: Fatboy Slim
- Record Label: Astralwerks
- Release Date: Oct 5, 2004
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80Palookaville is every bit as rewarding an experience when taken as a cohesive unit as the best songs are when taken individually.
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76The last few numbers droop, and as a whole, the record sinks a little from the weight of all that goddamn goodwill. [#12, p.98]
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75Palookaville will surprise you.
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75As usual, his willingness to please gives the disc its fast-food kick. [Oct 2004, p.113]
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Palookaville could stand one more trimming pass, but it gives Cook's canon the needed depth.
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60Even the songs that rise above the simple looped-beat formula don’t have much to offer.
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60That gloriously stupid clod-hopping mash-up formula remains. [Nov 2004, p.99]
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60Essentially, Fatboy Slim is doing little more than repeating his past, but the quality here doesn't suffer for that. [Nov 2004, p.120]
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Offers yet more fun funk/blues-rock mashups for unpretentious gatherings of all sorts. [Nov 2004, p.156]
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60It's not enough this time around, though, simply to tack on computer-generated beats. Luckily, the "live" half suggests that he knows this and is addressing the problem.
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60Halfway between a fraternity kegger and a housewarming party.
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His party jams... feel half-cocked, like Cook can't quite commit to the moment. [8 Oct 2004, p.114]
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50The paucity of innovative ideas, reliance on old recipes and directionless experimenting make for a fairly tasteless repaste.
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46Slim still loves blabbing repetition and dropping yapping vocal samples into the gobs of the dull, and this helps make Palookaville less a reformation than merely his latest and quite bland big beat manifesto.
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The parallels with The Prodigy’s similarly dreadful Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned abound, but the difference here is where The Prodigy’s album was just offensively bad at every corner, here Norman Cook seems to be striving to make the most mediocre album humanly possible.
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40While there's some inspired moments, much should've been discarded on son Woody's bedroom floor. [Oct 2004, p.104]
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40Cook's dance music has seen better days. [Oct 2004, p.115]
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40The big idea of real instruments and real people is a step backwards. [Oct 2004, p.102]
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Fatboy hasn't stopped pandering to his core crowd of fun-loving jalapeno-poppers. [14 Oct 2004, p.99]
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Palookaville's highlights promise the sweat and smiles that have become Fatboy Slim's stock in trade, but its surprisingly dull lulls offer nothing more promising than a blank expression.
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Doomed to lurk unplayed at the back of your collection. [2 Oct 2004, p.64]
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His... worst album to date. [#7]
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Succinctly, it's a crap record.
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30Songs too slow to dance to and too annoyingly repetitive for passive listening.
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andreil10This is going to be seen as a landmark album in the future, nearly every track is a gem.
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Michael8
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JimboJones9Surprisingly Amazing, especially good when you're intoxicated