Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars [Explicit Lyrics]

Fatboy Slim

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 7, 2000)
• Original Release Date: November 7, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics
• Label: Astralwerks
• ASIN: B00004Z30Z
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (85 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #42,948 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. Talking 'Bout My Baby

2. Star 69

3. Sunset (Bird of Prey)

4. Love Life (feat. Macy Gray)

5. Ya Mama

6. Mad Flava

7. Retox

8. Weapon of Choice (feat. Bootsy Collins)

9. Drop The Hate

10. Star 69

11. Demons (feat. Macy Gray)

12. Song For Shelter (feat. Roland Clark)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com's Best of 2000

Featuring house-music savvy and gospel-tinged samples among the big beats, Fatboy Slim's first record of the new millennium strays into meatier territory than the more pop-oriented material for which he's known. Importing help from the likes of Macy Gray and Bootsy Collins, as well as an irresistible, posthumous turn from Jim Morrison, Slim burns his colossal stamp on the dance/DJ landscape once again. --Matthew Cooke

Product Description

Exclusive Asian pressing of his 2000 album now includes a bonus 3 track VCD (viewable on most DVD players) which features three videos, 'Weapon Of Choice' (starring Christopher Walken), 'Sunset (Bird Of Prey)' & 'Ya Mama'. The first CD features 11 tracks (same as the US edition). --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Customer Reviews

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fatboy Slim mixes it up., June 2, 2001

By	Jonathan Stoddard Reiling (St. Albans, ME United States) - See all my reviews

First off, you must realize that Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars is not another "You've Come a Long Way, Baby" or "Better Living". Rather, Fatboy seems to be trying to take his music in a different direction by letting some more outside influence, especially funk, into it.

At first, I didn't like this CD. I wanted more tracks like "Praise You" and "Right Here, Right Now" and this CD didn't give them to me. However, after listening to it, really listening to it, I think this is fatboy slim's most intellegent and interesting work. It provides a different kind of music experience and I highly recommend it to anyone who is looking for the same.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Against all odds, Fatboy Slim pulls it off, February 3, 2001

By	"littleoldme" (Fort Collins, CO United States) - See all my reviews

Okay, here we go: "You've Come A Long Way, Baby" was easily one of the most entertaining albums I've ever heard. Filled with tons of fun party tracks and at least four classic anthems ("The Rockafeller Skank", "Right Here Right Now", "Gangster Tripping", and "Praise You"), it was THE pinnacle of big beat. However, there was no way for Fatboy Slim to create "You've Come A Long Way Baby II" without it sounding like a parody or weak imitator.

So instead, Mr. Norman Cook decided to delve into the realms of funk, gospel, and house - and it's incredible. There are some moments here that are very much big beat, such as "Ya Mama", but the album's real peaks are in the deeper dance tracks. "Weapon of Choice" is futuristic funk, "Drop The Hate" and "Song For Shelter" are wonderful house songs, and "Sunset (Bird Of Prey)" is a great trance tune from a non-trance artist. Even the Macy Gray tracks, which I was very skeptical about, are stellar.

So no, this doesn't stick to the Fatboy Slim blueprint, and that's a good thing. If you're willing to try something new, this is your album. I was very impressed - Fatboy Slim does it again.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bird of Prey track, December 6, 2005

By	petemcrunnel (houston, tx) - See all my reviews

While reading reviews for this album, I read one reviewer who commented that "Bird of Prey" is a song that "crys loudly and pretentiously for attention (and airplay)."

The lyrics were actually written in 1969 by Jim Morrison, lead singer for The Doors, and the vocals in the FatBoy Slim version are Jim's vocals dubbed in... The track was never released by The Doors (until their recent box set). It was written by Jim himself (with no help from the band) and included acapella on his underground "Rock is Dead" opera album, which was released in very limited quality overseas and is practically impossible to find in its original version today.

The "Rock is Dead" album criticized the very foundation of modern commercial radio and "pop rock music," at least in the way Jim saw it in the late 1960s... It is ironic that the reviewer perceived the lyrics to "Bird of Prey" as an attempt to sellout, when actually the roots of the track were rooted in self-awareness, philosophy and Jim's perception of big record labels/execs killing rock and roll by stifling musicians' creativity.

To my knowledge, no attempt was ever made at releasing this track to any studio.

The reviewer also writes, "Pretending to be cerebral is a very bad thing." Indeed.