Fatboy Slim - LateNightTales

Spend a late night with Fatboy Slim and a collection of his most treasured records as Multi platinum and Grammy Award winning artist Norman Cook (aka Fatboy Slim) releases his eagerly anticipated LateNightTales mix album.
Carefully minded from his own expansive vinyl collection, LateNightTales digs deep into a collection of classics and rarities that have help shape the music of the world's biggest DJ/producer. Features Fat Boy Slim's exclusive cover of Kraftwerk's "Radioactivity," plus a late night tale from Bootsy Collins. Product Description

A Fantastic Compilation

This is one of the best compilations to come out of the Late Night Series. What a fellow reviewer failed to realize prior to purchasing this cd was that the Late Night Tales/Another Late Night series are compilation albums of work done by other artists, with an occasional track or two from the featured artist compiling the album, nothing more, nothing less. They are not original work, but a series of songs put together by the artist that he/she finds influencial, or simply finds groovy. However, that is by no means a bad thing. These Late Night Tales albums are some of the best "mixed tapes" I have ever had the pleasure to listen.

That being said, Fatboy Slim put together a great album here. The vibe of this album: smooth, cool, upbeat, groovy, silly, and mellow. With a mix of rock, reggae, classical, calypso, international, 60s pop, and unique gems (Robert Mitchum singing!), I really think you'll enjoy this album. The only track I find a strange choice is Bootsy Colllins' "Everything is Everything". But that's the only track of 21 that I didn't like.

Listen to the samples, and I'm sure you'll agree this album is most enjoyable. Other personal favorites of the Late Night Tales/ Another Late Nite collections are compilations from Air, Belle & Sebastian, The Flaming Lips, and Nouvelle Vague. I have discovered many new artists thanks to Late Night Tales/ Another Late Night. June 26, 2008

Compilation tape unextraordinaire

In the liner notes, which are clearly printed twice on this disc, Fatboy himself (aka Norman Cook) explains that over the years friends and lovers have given him compilation tapes which have helped expand his musical horizons. What we have here on "Late Night Tales" is a dead-on compilation of a variety of artists, much like most of Fatboy's canon to this point (the disc was first out in 2007), but the giant difference with "Late Night Tales" being that Fatboy DIDN'T put his personal mixing touches on the songs; the stuff that normally helps a radio-play song rocket into the Fatboy-party-song-atmosphere. No, here we have a straight-forward compilation of tunes, just like the tapes you and I used to put together. Fatboy does not try to hide this fact, as I mentioned earlier, he says so in his notes, but still, for Fatboy to put his name on this disc and tout it as a Fatboy Slim disc is deceiving somewhat. Can't recommend this one, except for the fact that it's a semi-interesting collection of somewhat forgotten hits. May 8, 2008

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