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 "######ing 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 ######ing 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.
With my 6th pick, and now with a team name, Better Late Than Never takes, in the Soundtrack category, House of 1000 Corpses.
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"House of 1000 Corpses" soundtrack for the movie House of 1000 Corpses directed by Rob Zombie. It features artists such as Buck Owens, Helen Kane, The Ramones, Lionel Richie, Slim Whitman, Trina, Scott Humphrey and Rob Zombie himself along with numerous instrumentals and audio samples taken from the movie.
I find the soundbites from the movie really add to the soundtrack. They really set the mood for the songs.
Track listing
1. "Howdy Folks" :31
2. "House of 1000 Corpses" (Rob Zombie) 3:43
3. "Saddle Up the Mule" :17
4. "Everybody Scream" (Theme from Dr. Wolfenstein's Creature Double Feature Show) (Rob Zombie) 2:36
5. "Stuck in the Mud" 1:16
6. "Holy Miss Moley" :16
7. "Who's Gonna Mow Your Grass?" (Buck Owens) 2:19
8. "Run, Rabbit, Run" (Rob Zombie) 3:01
9. "Into the Pit" 1:21
10. "Something for You Men" :20
11. "I Wanna Be Loved by You" (Helen Kane) 2:47
12. " Liquor" (Rob Zombie) 4:57
13. "Scarecrow Attack" 2:12
14. "My Baby Boy" :14
15. "Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue" (The Ramones) 1:34
16. "Investigation and the Smokehouse" :35
17. "Bigger the Cushion" 2:26
18. "I Remember You" (Slim Whitman) 2:03
19. "Drive Out the Rabbit" :13
20. "Mary's Escape" 1:19
21. "Little Piggy" (Rob Zombie) 3:54
22. "Ain't the Only Thing Tasty" :26
23. "Dr. Satan" :19
24. "Brick House 2003" (Rob Zombie (Featuring Lionel Richie & Trina)) 3:48
25. "To the House" 2:29
With our 6th selection, Anal Bum Cover chooses No Fences by Garth Brooks in the Folk/Blues/World/etc category.
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No Fences was released on August 27, 1990, and is Americancountry music artist Garth Brooks' second album. It reached #1 on the Billboard country music charts and #3 on Billboard's pop chart, and is Brooks' best-selling album to date, with global sales of over 20 million copies (approximately 16 million in the U.S. through 2006.)
Some of Brooks most famous songs appear on No Fences, including: "The Thunder Rolls" (CMA's 1991 Video of the Year), "Friends in Low Places" (Academy of Country Music's 1990 Single of the Year), "Unanswered Prayers" and "Two of a Kind, Workin' on a Full House". A cover version of The Fleetwoods' "Mr. Blue" appears on the album. The album itself was named Album of the Year by the ACM in 1990. It reached Number 1 on the British country music charts (earning Brooks his first gold album in that country) and remained charted for over five years.
The album produced five Top-10 singles, including four #1's ("Friends In Low Places", "The Thunder Rolls", "Unanswered Prayers", "Two Of A Kind (Working On A Full House)")
First off, I'm going to move Eight Arms to Hold You to the Wildcard category.
With my next pick, in the 1997-1999 category...
Follow the Leader, by KoЯn!
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Album Information
Follow the Leader is generally recognized as their breakthrough album, and the album that ultimately ushered nu metal and re-ushered heavy metal into the mainstream. With more than 5 million copies sold in the U.S. and 4 million copies sold out of the U.S., it is their best selling album.
The album features numerous guest vocalists, including Ice Cube on "Children of the Korn", Tre Hardson of The Pharcyde on "Cameltosis" and Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst on "All in the Family". Actor Cheech Marin provides vocals on "Earache My Eye", a cover of the song from the Cheech and Chong movie Up in Smoke, with the rest of the band trading instruments for the song.
The album begins on track 13, following 12 tracks of silence. The reason, as mentioned in an interview with Metal Hammer UK around the time of release, was that Jonathan Davis did not like the fact that the album would have ended on the thirteenth track (due to superstition), so they preferred to start that album on that track instead. An alternate explanation for the reason the song started on the 13 track is that the first 12 tracks were 5 seconds of silence each adding up to one minute of silence in honor of Justin a young fan of the band that died of cancer. Justin also has a song on the CD named after him.
The album cover was drawn by Spawn comic artist Todd McFarlane.
On the Deuce(Asylum) DVD, the band stated that all they ever did while recording the album was drink constantly and party every day and night. Munky admits that at one point, the band had spent around or over $27,000 on alcoholic drinks.
This is the last Korn album where Head is credited with providing backing vocals.
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Reception
Rolling Stone (5/13/99, p.66) - Included in Rolling Stone's "Essential Recordings of the 90's."
Rolling Stone (9/3/98, pp.97-98) - 4 Stars (out of 5) - "...true to an older, vital hard-rock tradition of cleansing brutality and transcendent guitar choler--Blue Cheer's 1968 Vincebus Eruptum; early Metallica and very early Black Sabbath....their best album..."
Spin (10/98, pp.135-136) - 7 (out of 10) - "When Rage Against The Machine, the band Korn most resembles, borrow from hip-hop, it's a multicultural gesture that rocks like Everest. But Korn are, ahem, post-p.c.: They See foul-mouthed, brawling rappers as expressing Ultimate Taboos, and they feel right at home."
Follow the Leader has sold over 5 million copies in America by the RIAA count. It is featured in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.
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Track Listing
13. "It's On!" – 4:28
14. "Freak on a Leash" – 4:15
15. "Got the Life" – 3:45
16. "Dead Bodies Everywhere" – 4:44
17. "Children of the Korn" (featuring: Ice Cube) – 3:52
18. "B.B.K." – 3:56
19. "Pretty" – 4:12
20. "All in the Family" (featuring: Fred Durst) – 4:49
21. "Reclaim My Place" – 4:33
22. "Justin" – 4:17
23. "Seed" – 5:54
24. "Cameltosis" – 4:38
25. "My Gift to You" – 15:40
As I have a little time in my hands, I thought I'd spend some commenting some of the picks made. After all, I think most of us would propably like to get at least some feedback, and one should always give some to get some.
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I select in the 2000-2002 category, THE MOON & ANTARCTICA, by MODEST MOUSE (2000)
You actually managed to steal a pick here, and in the same category even. This is one of those bands where I go "usually I don't listen to this stuff, but when it's this good, there's just no arguing. I've played this to quite a few of my friends (Modest Mouse is not very well known here in Finland), most of whom shudder at the thought of anything with an "emo" label on it. However, Modest Mouse can convert people.
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I will take with my next pick, On a Clear Night by Missy Higgins, in the category 06-08.
Thoughts?
Since you specifically asked for it; not the kind of music I usually listen to, but good. Most of the vids you linked didn't work, but I checked some out and those were some pretty good lyrics, although the subjects were not terribly original. Good stuff, but a little generic to my ears.
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The British Invasion are pleased to pick, in the electronica category: You've Come a Long Way, Baby
by Fatboy Slim
Another "I don't usually listen to this stuf, but..." Fatboy Slim has some of the most awesomely nonsensical videos. My personal favourite is the classic "Weapon of choice". The song gets extra points for Dune-quotes. "Walk without rhythm, it won't attract the worm", eh Gets my smiling every time. Christpher Walken rules.
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With my next pick, in the 1997-1999 category... Follow the Leader, by Korn!
This one is attached to a little story of "music and emotional pragmatism". When I was divorced, I felt the need for something aggressive s*** to blast at extreme volumes. However, I didn't want to waste what I'd consider a good album by linking it to those rather extreme times/emotions, so I walked into the closest record store and picked off something that I knew was okay but I could just get rid of later on, and not look behind. Since I'm telling this here, you can guess that this was the album I bought. (I did sell it, and no I don't miss it. I still think it's okay, but not something I'd have listened to that much otherwise.)
With my next pick, my choice in the Pop Category is The Beatles' Revolver.
The Beatles are my favorite band and so I could have made a number of picks in this category but "Revolver" is probably my favourite Beatles album. IMHO they were at the height of their powers as a band with this one.
1. "That's Me in the Bar" (Croce, David Curtis) – 3:54
2. "Sign on the Line" (Croce, Ramsey McClean) – 2:53
3. "She's Waiting for Me" – 2:47
4. "Checkin' In" – 2:34
5. "Music Box" – 2:49
6. "Callin' Home" – 2:10
7. "Night Out on the Town" – 3:17
8. "Pass Me By" – 2:38
9. "I Meant What I Said" – 3:50
10. "Maybe I'm to Blame" – 2:14
11. "I Confess" – 3:14
12. "Some People Call It Love" – 4:15
I don't know a lot about this category, I only have a few CDs that would fit here. But this is one disk that I slide into the player every so often when I'm just looking to chill out, and one I won't hesitate to put on when others are around. So I guess it just comes down to... I like it. (and yes, it is Jim Croce's son)
Some People Call It Love
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I'll take that as a self-imposed AK and make my pick shortly unless there are objections.
I don't think apologies are necessary Sowa!
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Vocals-Vin Dombroski (Sponge)
Guitar-Chris DeGarmo (Queensryche)
Bass-Mike Inez (Alice In Chains)
Drums-Sean Kinney (Alice In Chains)
This was a one shot deal, but it is a very solid record IMO. Just a great, straight forward rock record.
No youtube, nobody owns this but me evidently!
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I believe I can go ahead and make a pick now. I'm pretty much into classic 80's pop, which was simply the ultimate era in pop music. I went through everything I had from Madonna to Frankie Goes to Hollywood and Police to Duran Duran. I can honestly stand up and say that this is as close to a perfect pop album I have ever heard. And it's made in Finland. Go figure.
The 7th round pick for team Twist/Shout shall be Nimeni on Dingo (My name is Dingo) by Dingo (1984) in the Pop category.
In the mid-80's Finland there was one band above all: Dingo. In a timespan of a couple of years they sold a ridiculous amount of albums, broke every type of record imaginable, caused so much teenage hysteria that nothing will ever come close again (quite comparable to the Beatlemania in many aspects) and somewhere between all that they managed to create some rather amazing pop-rock tunes. They had pretty much the perfect blend of glam-rock, eighties stadium pop and melancholy stories of love and loss, topped with a vocalist with a quite unique, emotional voice. (Many hated it though )
You will be hard pressed to find a Finn over the age of six that doesn't know some of these songs. You will propably not find a single Finn between the ages of 30-40 that can't sing along to the biggest hits on this album.
These guys were great. Had it not been for the language barrier, I have no doubt they would've been an international megahit. (You might notice a similarity to Europe's Final Countdown, which came from Sweden a year after this album.)
In the Live Album category, I'm going with the 1985 Iron Maiden release, Live After Death. Recorded primarily at the Long Beach Arena in March 1985, Live After Death, captures the groundbreaking roadshow that was the 193 show over 13 month World Slavery Tour. Easily one of the top 3 live metal records ever released.
The Trooper (goddamn classic)
Rime Of The Ancient Mariner Part1
Rime Of The Ancient Mariner Part2 (see epic glory at the 4min mark)
Nice one liamenator! That's the one album of theirs I have.
I think habernac got skipped somehow. He normally follows Bobblehead, who picked last Tuesday the 23rd at 9:01am.
habernac, rogermexico, Sowa, Prototype are in the brackets now AFAIK.
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Gets my smiling every time. Christpher Walken rules. 
