History Music / FatboySlim

* BreakupBreakout: Although The Housemartins had a strong cult following and did have a UK #1 hit with a cover of "Caravan of Love", Music/FatboySlim is still far more internationally known than his former band.
** The rest of the Housemartins also broke out as Music/TheBeautifulSouth.

* NotableMusicVideos: Most notably the ParodyOfEvolution "Right Here Right Now", the fictional community dance troupe of "Praise You" (the leader of which is a disguised [[CreatorCameo Spike Jonze, the video's director]]) at a mall, and "Weapon Of Choice" featuring ChristopherWalken dancing in a hotel lobby.

-->''You can go with this, or you can go with that, or you can go with this, or you can go with that... Or you can go with us.''

* NotableMusicVideos: Most notably the ParodyOfEvolution "Right Here Right Now", the fictional community dance troupe of "Praise You" (the leader of which [[LiteraryAgentHypothesis might be a disguised]] [[CreatorCameo Spike Jonze, the video's director]]) at a mall, and "Weapon Of Choice" featuring ChristopherWalken dancing in a hotel lobby.

* BreakupBreakout: Although The Housemartins had a strong cult following and did have a UK #1 hit with a cover of "Caravan of Love", FatboySlim is still far more internationally known than his former band.

* CoverDrop: "Right Here Right Now" culminates in the fat guy from the ''You've Come A Long Way Baby'' cover.

* AlbumTitleDrop: "Weapon Of Choice" from the album ''Halfway Between The Gutter And The Stars''.

* CoverVersion: The Joker by the Steve Miller Band.

* NotableMusicVideos: Most notably "Praise You", featuring a fictional community dance troupe (the leader of which [[LiteraryAgentHypothesis might be a disguised]] Spike Jonze, the video's director) at a mall, and "Weapon Of Choice" featuring ChristopherWalken dancing in a hotel lobby.

->''"Ri-ri-ri-ri-ri-ri-ri-ri-ght about now, the funk soul brother,

Quentin Leo Cook, better known as Norman Cook, and even better known as '''Fatboy Slim''', was born on July 31st 1963, and is considered one of the most familiar faces in the British electronic music scene. He originally gained fame in the 1980's as the bass player for indie rock band The Housemartins, a band known for their Christian-Marxist beliefs and the singles "Happy Hour" and "Caravan of Love".

* DreadfulMusician: Before he was a famous DJ he was the bass player in the Housemartins and, on his own account, a terrible bass player. The recorded evidence suggests that he was fine, but no virtuoso. This trope is averted with his DJing, obviously.

* TerribleMusician: Before he was a famous DJ he was the bass player in the Housemartins and, on his own account, a terrible bass player. The recorded evidence suggests that he was fine, but no virtuoso. This trope is averted with his DJing, obviously.

* AmenBreak: The song "Michael Jackson". This is an interesting case, as the song doesn't sample directly from the Amen Break, but rather samples Music/{{NWA}}'s sampling of the break in "Straight Outta Compton".

Quentin Leo Cook, better known as Norman Cook, and even better known as Fatboy Slim, was born on July 31st 1963, and is considered one of the most familiar faces in the British electronic music scene. He originally gained fame in the 1980's as the bass player for indie rock band The Housemartins, a band known for their Christian-Marxist beliefs and the singles "Happy Hour" and "Caravan of Love".

** The rest of the Housemartins also broke out as TheBeautifulSouth.

* AmenBreak: The song "Michael Jackson". This is an interesting case, as the song doesn't sample directly from the Amen Break, but rather samples Music/{{NWA}}'s "Straight Outta Compton", which samples the Amen Break.

* ShoutOut: Believe it or not, to ''{{Dune}}''

* OneHitWonder: In the United States, his only Top 40 entry is "Praise You". Most of his other worldwide hits managed to break the Modern Rock Tracks chart, however. "The Rockefeller Skank" does seem just as well known in the U.S.

* StupidStatementDanceMix: His entire career is basically made out of making these. Right Here, Right Now takes the titular vocals from Film/StrangeDays. His remix of Mike and Charlie's "I Get Live" is one of a [[WuTangClan Method Man]] interview. Drop the Hate remixes an old pastor's sermon. We could go on all night.

** Played with in "Eat, Sleep, Rave, Repeat." Although the main chorus is is a TitleOnlyChorus, the rest of the song is a giant stream of conscious rant about a MushroomSamba.

* StupidStatementDanceMix: Right Here, Right Now takes the titular vocals from Film/StrangeDays. His remix of Mike and Charlie's "I Get Live" is one of a [[WuTangClan Method Man]] interview. Drop the Hate remixes an old pastor's sermon. We could go on all night.
** His entire career is basically made out of making these.

** Palookaville did undergo a shift in style, however, towards a much more relaxed/chilled out sound, with less reliance on the active, high energy tracks that defined his older albums. While he is not working on an album at the moment, he does plan on making a new one eventually, so we'll have to see what style he goes with on that one....

* OneHitWonder: In the United States, his only Top 40 entry is "Praise You". Most of his other worldwide hits managed to break the Modern Rock Tracks chart, however.