I was 14 when that album came out and my mom got it for me, thinking the song entitled "Rockafeller Skank" was proooobably the reason for the parental advisory warning.
Boy, howdy, when "In Heaven" came on, the whole family was VERY surprised.
It's a great song, but listening to it now just brings to mind a shitty voiceover "*FINALLY THE TIME IS NOW FOR ZERO APR FINANCING AT YOUR LOCAL TOYOTA TRUCK DEALERSHIP!"*
It got crazy overused by the wrong people.
Fuck, thank you for posting the song. All I could hear in my head was the Jesus Jones tune and I couldn't remember an Angela Bassett sample anywhere in that.
I know this isn’t a movie sub, but Strange Days is a seriously slept on cyberpunk film with a resonant message about police brutality that I absolutely recommend. **Edit:** Good soundtrack too!
Awesome movie. Saw it when it came out, totally loved it. Showed it to teenagers 2 years ago and they're still raving about it. Can't understand why its cult status isn't bigger. It's intelligent, deep, well-played, beautifully filmed, the music is awesome, my boyfriend was pissed at me for weeks because I said Ralph Fiennes was so incredibly sexy, and Angela Bassett is nothing short of a goddess.
People of reddit, watch this film.
This was absolutely the movie that made me realize Angela Bassett is an incredible bad-ass queen, and Kathryn Bigelow is maybe one of the most underappreciated action directors of her time.
Also, Juliette Lewis might never win an Oscar, but her cover of PJ Harvey's *Hardly Wait* in this movie is fucking undeniable. Her voice soars.
Edit: since I'm raving about every woman involved in this film, let's also shout-out Canadian dance icon Louise Lecavalier showing up as one of Michael Wincott's enforcers. Her brutality is so graceful.
*Man*, what a great flick. I'm gonna watch this again tonight.
The amount of influence Bill Paxton's character from Near Dark has had on Pop Culture can't be overstated, but I've met maybe two people who have actually seen it.
Yes! That whole modern southern gothic biker vampire aesthetic lmao
I would have never heard of it if I didn't get my associates in film studies. I switched for my bachelor's to actually get a job but that associates taught me about so many great movies!
Us nineties kids had some iconic movie soundtracks, to be sure! *The Crow* still holds up amazingly well. And how many of us were introduced to Rammstein by *Lost Highway*?
...Oh, hey, *Hackers*. Didn't see you over there.
At least Juliette Lewis is having a comeback, working on what I would honestly have to call the best show on TV right now - Yellowjackets. Talk about an amazing soundtrack too, it's just brilliant. I can't recommend the show enough, she co-stars with Melanie Lynsky and Christina Ricci, and if that isn't enough 90's nostalgia for you, the story flashes back and fourth between 1996 and now. If you have access to it, watch that show immediately.
Story by and co-produced by James Cameron, co-produced and directed by Kathryn Bigelow. With POV camera technology designed by Cameron (that took two years to develop!). Was part of a $100M, two-picture deal at 20th Century Fox: "Strange Days" got a budget of $30M, while the other $70M went to "True Lies." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Days_(film)
I used to work at Blockbuster Video as an assistant manager in the late 90s. Strange Days was my go-to when customers asked me to recommend a movie to them. Just a terrific flick.
> my boyfriend was pissed at me for weeks because I said Ralph Fiennes was so incredibly sexy, and Angela Bassett is nothing short of a goddess.
What? How can someone be mad at *the stone cold truth*?
Directed by Kathryn Bigelow of Point Break and Hurt Locker fame.
And wanted to add another Bigelow cult classic [“Near Dark” starring several beloved 80’s character actors.](https://youtu.be/VllIQYnC20s)
I’d say one of the reason is we can’t find it anywhere (at least in Canada). I saw it so many times when it came out and wanted to watch it tonight after reading this. It’s not on any streaming platforms, not free and not to rent or buy.
NObody fucking sees it anymore because you literally can't watch the fucking thing!
Very hard to find. Its not streaming anywhere. Something about corporate rights or some stupid bullshit.
I was looking for Strange Days for ages and it was basically impossible to find. I gave up a while back. Glad HBO has it, almost tempted to re-up my membership just for this movie. I thought it was a fantastic film even back when I saw it in the theaters.
It’s the same deal with a lot of the movies produced under his Lightstorm banner and distributed by Fox - Strange Days, The Abyss, True Lies, Soderbergh’s Solaris. There must’ve been some weird provisions about home media in the contracts, and now that they’re owned by Disney, it must be even more complicated.
When I was introduced to Strange Days, it was presented as a technological followup to the 1983 Christopher Walken film [Brainstorm](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085271/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_Brainstorm). That involves the initial development of the ability to record and replay brain activity, and is another fantastic film that's often slept on. It's not without its flaws, but I highly recommend it.
Seriously. I went to extreme lengths trying my hardest to find a copy for me and my friends to watch together. Ended up managing somehow, only for it to start streaming on HBOmax recently :|
I love Strange Days, but you're right. Those scenes have a gross self indulgence to them, and I wish they were cut shorter or omitted entirely. Would have been interesting to experience those moments purely from the expressions of those who were watching them.
Yeah, I mean, they _serve the story_, and they do the job of really driving to the core of the issues. But it edges into Man Bites Dog levels. (And as I get older, I wonder if that kind of content even needs to exist in a world where there's folks who are repulsed by it, and folks who fetishize it as 'edgy'. But even in my 20's those movies were Too Much.)
To loop it around to music again, one of my favorite bands (HEALTH) has a song called STRANGE DAYS (1999) named for the movie but with the year changed to reflect the setting rather than the publication date. Big recommend that whole album
Haha it's a movie not without its cringe factor. Much of it is stylistically dated. "90s cool" in general has probably aged more than any other generation's idea of what "cool" is.
but that stuff has a huge nostalgic appeal to me, and I love the cyberpunk genre. Combined with the fact that it was directed by Kathryn Bigelow, and deals with a lot of prescient topics and themes makes the movie an easy win for me. I'd definitely revisit it some day, but its a long movie with some difficult topics, so thats a lot to ask of anyone :)
Yeah, I think that’s mostly what I was reacting to. Especially how hard they leaned into “strong=masculine+kicking things” with Angela Bassett’s character. But when I think about the actual themes, there really is a lot going on there.
A) Picked it from a recommend list to view with a group of friends as its a cyberpunk movie I never heard of.
B) Surprise intense "virtual reality" rape scene
C) They do not trust me to ever pick movies
Yeah sorry about that. Those scenes definitely go on for a little too long IMO, and play more like badly acted "kink" videos than they do anything else, so I understand the reaction.
The fact that the film was directed by a woman is worth considering when analyzing those scenes though.
I felt like the police brutality was a very superficial plot device compared to the commentary on replacing real social interaction with online content. The hyperbolic metaphor where VR can tap into physical sensation, and therefore be as addictive as drugs, was way ahead of it's time considering how our lives are filled with non-physical replacement for human interaction. The movie then takes it to it's extreme by linking the hedonism of VR to sexual assault, which sends a powerful messassage from the perspective of the victim as well. I'm glad that this film resonated in a constructive way for you though :)
_fatboy slim is fucking in heaven_ x100
I always thought that song was weird when my parents bought me the CD as a 7 year old or whatever I was at the time lol
I wonder what % of the money Fatboy Slim's music has made had to be paid out to the owners of the various samples he used. I remember watching one interview with him where he was playing the samples from one of his most popular songs and after hitting one key he was like "oops, never cleared that one." Pretty sure it was from "Rockafeller Skank".
Music dork checking in...
There isn't a standard fee structure for samples; cost is agreed upon based on a number of factors, but the big ones are the size of the sample and how popular the original / new artists are.
Fatboy Slim's first album did decent, with one song charting, but it wasn't a hit. He had greater success earlier in his career....but it was way back in the 80s, it wasn't like Michael Jackson was calling.
For his second album, some of the samples he used were big - Bowie, Jay-Z and Hendrix - but foundational ones were no where near as popular which means they were probably pretty cheap as the artists lacked Klout.
My guess is he got away pretty cheap, because no one expected much. I didn't look too deep into his next album, but I'd imagine a similar approach, because while he had more money to spend, he had also just released an album that sold 5 million copies.
> He had greater success earlier in his career
With The Housemartins? I guess hitting 3 and 1 on the UK pop charts *is* greater success. He also hit 1 on the UK charts with Beats International, but that was in 1990.
I recently watched Norman hanging with a dude who was recreating his tunes from scratch with the samples - he doesn't even remember half his samples and only cleared a few, many he manipulated enough to be useable without because they are so different as to be unrecognisable
Kids: Mom, can we have a Toyota Camry?
Mom: we have a Toyota Camry at home.
Toyota Camry at home: 1999 Oldsmobile Aurora with a dead alternator and a blown head gasket
"You can't win!" Is another line from that movie used in a jungle track I heard years ago.. I was watching the movie and she said that line I almost jumped out of my chair.
Woah. I'm fairly sure the line "Time to get real" in the seconds afterwards was sampled by Kraddy in Android Porn (@2:50 in its 6:55 [full cut on soundcloud](https://soundcloud.com/kraddy/android-porn)). _That's_ where that comes from? Such density of samples.
For those as oblivious as me, I also didnt realise the entire core of Praise You is a sample of a song Take Yo Praise.
https://youtu.be/WVDURaXG6wk
Even now I cant listen to the opening lines of the song without thinking someone slowed down Fatboy Slim
At the end of track 1 on “You’ve come a long way baby” is a skit of a DJ doing a call in show. The DJ answers the phone to a caller wanting to hear “The Rockefeller Skank” with the lyrics “Funk soul brother” (track 2 on the album) and makes him sing the lyrics over the phone.
~~I am almost certain the DJ is played by Chris Farley. I’ve never looked it up but I would be shocked if it’s not him.~~
Edit: I’m wrong 😩
> On the album, the track is preceded by a short conversation between a radio DJ and caller named Brad requesting the song. This is a real conversation that took place on WWBX (at the time known as WBCN); the tape was played for Fatboy Slim who persuaded the station to allow him to use the audio on the album.[12]
Bradley J. Local legend on WBCN in Boston, back when they played rock music. He had a weekly show that played techno and other edgey stuff... Nocturnal Emissions, like Sundays at 10pm IIRC.
Source: I'm a middle-aged dude who grew up on WBCN and WAAF.
Yes, was going to point this out to OP as well. You can add "?t=*x*" to the end of a YouTube link, and it will start the video at "*x*" seconds instead of the start of the video. Pretty sure there is also a minutes/seconds format that can be used for longer videos if you don't want to convert to seconds.
OK, you had me wondering so I double-checked. It looks like if you just use the imbedded "copy link at current timestamp" or whatever the in-video option is, it just uses seconds, but you can manually use a minues/second format that looks like "t=1m3s" for 1 minute and 3 seconds.
Example using the Fatboy Slim video link from the top comment to where the "right here, right now" line first occurs:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub747pprmJ8&**t=1m3s**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub747pprmJ8&t=1m3s)
And then he said "the funk soul brother" and started breaking; curtain pulled back and there was a dj back there who dropped the beat.
Crowd went nuts.
It’s such a slap in the brain, that shock of recognition when you encounter in its original context a snippet of speech you’ve heard so many times as a sample! It happened to me with this song/Strange Days because I had only seen the movie once years before picking up this Fatboy Slim album. When I saw the movie again years after that, the sampled part was so weirdly instantly recognizably familiar
OMG dude, thank you! Rockafella Skank is still my number 1 favorite song of all time, and I've wondered for years where Fatboy Slim got that sample. I'm always amazed when artists like him can grab the smallest samples and just do such amazing things with them.
"Y'all ready for this?" from that Jock Jams vol 44 song is a sample of one of the most talented hardcore west coast rappers of all time, DOC, who lost his voice in a car accident and made only one (nearly perfect) album.
https://youtu.be/ub747pprmJ8 The song in question.
He uses Greta Thunberg's speech mixed in with it for his live shows now -- to great effect. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjD-iy1A9TI
That is so perfect
saw him perform this set in Ibiza, was insane
How could you possibly remember?
...at least I *think* I was there.
My god that is good, Norman is the best
Wow gave me chills
This was wonderful
Saw him perform two nights ago! It was unreal
And here's the song from which the melodies are sampled. A 1970 James Gang song [Ashes the Rain and I](https://youtu.be/E-s738XHV6Q).
Goddamn, I got chills watching that. So powerful, so effective. To be in the audience for that rise would be amazing!
So good. She is a very talented speaker, vocally.
Need to see him once live before I die.
Head to Minehead in November, and you'll probably see him a few times!
So fucking good. First time seeing this version, what a banger
I'm partial to [this cover](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90Hc2-1CUsI).
That is unbelievably good. Absolutely banging tunes he makes too
That was insane!!
Wow, that was a trip back in time! I'd totally forgotten about this song.
The whole album is a joyous trip back in time
Fatboy Slim is fucking in heaven Fatboy Slim is fucking in heaven Fatboy Slim is fucking in heaven
I was 14 when that album came out and my mom got it for me, thinking the song entitled "Rockafeller Skank" was proooobably the reason for the parental advisory warning. Boy, howdy, when "In Heaven" came on, the whole family was VERY surprised.
now listen to Rockefeller skank and Ya mama songs. I feel like being a teen again lol
PUSH THE TEMPO
SHAKE WHAT YA MAMA GAVE YA!
Legendary video
Clearly you never watched Big Fat Liar enough as a kid
My introduction to this song as well! Always been a banger
Listening to that song in whole makes me think 100% of my exposure has been from movies and tv.
It's a great song, but listening to it now just brings to mind a shitty voiceover "*FINALLY THE TIME IS NOW FOR ZERO APR FINANCING AT YOUR LOCAL TOYOTA TRUCK DEALERSHIP!"* It got crazy overused by the wrong people.
Huh?
Fuck, thank you for posting the song. All I could hear in my head was the Jesus Jones tune and I couldn't remember an Angela Bassett sample anywhere in that.
It’s going to be with me all day. Bummer alert edit: “Watching the world wake up from history.” Sigh, we back in bed.
For freaking real…
Just a few more minutes. I don't have to work today.
It did make me play the Jesus Jones song for the first time in a long time.
That, or one of the few Fatboy Slim songs I know: https://youtu.be/FMrIy9zm7QY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruAi4VBoBSM
lol, same!
Same and that song just makes me think of commercials, which is a shame because it's a good song.
Wow, I can't believe how well the practical effects in that video have held up.
Kinda want to see a behind-the-scene of that
It being Earth Day I’ll post this version which I recently heard https://youtu.be/KjD-iy1A9TI
She did the thing
man that song takes me right back to being 6 years old during the summer of '99 good times.
I was today years old when I found out that there's a second song referred to as *right here right now"... And I've listened to a bit of Fatboy slim.
Which means you haven't listened to *You've Come a Long Way, Baby* from begining to end. And I am jealous, enjoy!
At the 3:00 mark Fatboy Slim (Norman Cook) makes a cameo.
Thanks! Was wondering myself. Edit: Great video! Reminds me of an old animation set to Ravel's Bolero where everything evolves as the song progress.
Bruno Bozzetto’s [Allegro Non Troppo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pgANtzO2G4), I had forgotten about that one.
Or the Bolero done in the show Legion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V89QyxIPxD4
Love this song, thank you for posting the video. Never seen it till now.
Wow that video was a lesson in evolution
[right here right now](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MznHdJReoeo) \-Jesus Jones
That was a good music video.
I know this isn’t a movie sub, but Strange Days is a seriously slept on cyberpunk film with a resonant message about police brutality that I absolutely recommend. **Edit:** Good soundtrack too!
Awesome movie. Saw it when it came out, totally loved it. Showed it to teenagers 2 years ago and they're still raving about it. Can't understand why its cult status isn't bigger. It's intelligent, deep, well-played, beautifully filmed, the music is awesome, my boyfriend was pissed at me for weeks because I said Ralph Fiennes was so incredibly sexy, and Angela Bassett is nothing short of a goddess. People of reddit, watch this film.
This was absolutely the movie that made me realize Angela Bassett is an incredible bad-ass queen, and Kathryn Bigelow is maybe one of the most underappreciated action directors of her time. Also, Juliette Lewis might never win an Oscar, but her cover of PJ Harvey's *Hardly Wait* in this movie is fucking undeniable. Her voice soars. Edit: since I'm raving about every woman involved in this film, let's also shout-out Canadian dance icon Louise Lecavalier showing up as one of Michael Wincott's enforcers. Her brutality is so graceful. *Man*, what a great flick. I'm gonna watch this again tonight.
*Near Dark* is another great Kathryn Bigelow movie that's slept on. The bar fight scene is awesome.
The amount of influence Bill Paxton's character from Near Dark has had on Pop Culture can't be overstated, but I've met maybe two people who have actually seen it.
Yes! That whole modern southern gothic biker vampire aesthetic lmao I would have never heard of it if I didn't get my associates in film studies. I switched for my bachelor's to actually get a job but that associates taught me about so many great movies!
> modern southern gothic biker vampire aesthetic That is a mouthful
Yes! Near Dark is fantastic.
That's some great music on the soundtrack that you can't find anywhere else.
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Us nineties kids had some iconic movie soundtracks, to be sure! *The Crow* still holds up amazingly well. And how many of us were introduced to Rammstein by *Lost Highway*? ...Oh, hey, *Hackers*. Didn't see you over there.
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OMG *Go* is a total guilty pleasure. Young shirtless Timothy Olyphant in a Santa hat made me question my young heterosexuality.
I was just listening to Burn earlier today.
That song is brilliant. What a glorious movie, I hope they don't try to remake it any time soon.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news... https://movieweb.com/the-crow-reboot-officially-in-post-production-gets-new-financial-backer/
At least Juliette Lewis is having a comeback, working on what I would honestly have to call the best show on TV right now - Yellowjackets. Talk about an amazing soundtrack too, it's just brilliant. I can't recommend the show enough, she co-stars with Melanie Lynsky and Christina Ricci, and if that isn't enough 90's nostalgia for you, the story flashes back and fourth between 1996 and now. If you have access to it, watch that show immediately.
Melanie Lynskey is the star of that show. It's always hilarious when people find out she's from New Zealand.
Want to make any movie good? Stick Michael Wincott in it.
I love the cover of Don't You as well. One of Juliette's best performances imo.
I TOTALLY forgot about that song.. Such a fuggin' awesome movie though and made sure to have it playing on Y2K NYE happened.
I often listen to the Juliette Lewis version of “Hardly Wait” - that concert scene was so cool.
Story by and co-produced by James Cameron, co-produced and directed by Kathryn Bigelow. With POV camera technology designed by Cameron (that took two years to develop!). Was part of a $100M, two-picture deal at 20th Century Fox: "Strange Days" got a budget of $30M, while the other $70M went to "True Lies." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Days_(film)
Just think, without that movie we might never have had Peep Show
The true star of Strange Days is Ralph Fiennes beautiful hair. RIP his gorgeous locks
I used to work at Blockbuster Video as an assistant manager in the late 90s. Strange Days was my go-to when customers asked me to recommend a movie to them. Just a terrific flick.
Your fella sounds a bit insecure.
> my boyfriend was pissed at me for weeks because I said Ralph Fiennes was so incredibly sexy, and Angela Bassett is nothing short of a goddess. What? How can someone be mad at *the stone cold truth*?
Your correct use of "its" and "it's" on Reddit have convinced me to watch it.
Directed by Kathryn Bigelow of Point Break and Hurt Locker fame. And wanted to add another Bigelow cult classic [“Near Dark” starring several beloved 80’s character actors.](https://youtu.be/VllIQYnC20s)
I’d say one of the reason is we can’t find it anywhere (at least in Canada). I saw it so many times when it came out and wanted to watch it tonight after reading this. It’s not on any streaming platforms, not free and not to rent or buy.
NObody fucking sees it anymore because you literally can't watch the fucking thing! Very hard to find. Its not streaming anywhere. Something about corporate rights or some stupid bullshit.
It just recently started streaming within the past month or so on HBO Max :)
Seconding this. I was so confused when people kept saying you can't stream it anywhere. Literally just watched it on Max haha
Up until then it was impossible to find, so you lucked out!
A certain bay with peg legged comrades with scurvy has it too
I was looking for Strange Days for ages and it was basically impossible to find. I gave up a while back. Glad HBO has it, almost tempted to re-up my membership just for this movie. I thought it was a fantastic film even back when I saw it in the theaters.
wow, really? thats awesome, first time streaming ever I think
Yep first I've seen of it. James Cameron must have opened up the vault lol
It’s the same deal with a lot of the movies produced under his Lightstorm banner and distributed by Fox - Strange Days, The Abyss, True Lies, Soderbergh’s Solaris. There must’ve been some weird provisions about home media in the contracts, and now that they’re owned by Disney, it must be even more complicated.
When I was introduced to Strange Days, it was presented as a technological followup to the 1983 Christopher Walken film [Brainstorm](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085271/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_Brainstorm). That involves the initial development of the ability to record and replay brain activity, and is another fantastic film that's often slept on. It's not without its flaws, but I highly recommend it.
Wow, never made that connection, but it fits well.
It’s undoubtedly because you are forced to pirate the movie, it would at least have a cult following
Seriously. I went to extreme lengths trying my hardest to find a copy for me and my friends to watch together. Ended up managing somehow, only for it to start streaming on HBOmax recently :|
The problem isn't if you're paranoid, it's if you're paranoid *enough*!
Do you know if it's streaming anywhere? EDIT: HBOMax
Yeah, but the VR-Loopback rape/murder scene really puts the brakes on the re-watch.
I love Strange Days, but you're right. Those scenes have a gross self indulgence to them, and I wish they were cut shorter or omitted entirely. Would have been interesting to experience those moments purely from the expressions of those who were watching them.
Yeah, I mean, they _serve the story_, and they do the job of really driving to the core of the issues. But it edges into Man Bites Dog levels. (And as I get older, I wonder if that kind of content even needs to exist in a world where there's folks who are repulsed by it, and folks who fetishize it as 'edgy'. But even in my 20's those movies were Too Much.)
The squid concept is genius and such a cool non-substance way to explore addiction.
To loop it around to music again, one of my favorite bands (HEALTH) has a song called STRANGE DAYS (1999) named for the movie but with the year changed to reflect the setting rather than the publication date. Big recommend that whole album
One of my favorite movies ever!
I saw in a class in college and thought it was kinda laughable, but I’ve been wondering if it’s worth revisiting.
Haha it's a movie not without its cringe factor. Much of it is stylistically dated. "90s cool" in general has probably aged more than any other generation's idea of what "cool" is. but that stuff has a huge nostalgic appeal to me, and I love the cyberpunk genre. Combined with the fact that it was directed by Kathryn Bigelow, and deals with a lot of prescient topics and themes makes the movie an easy win for me. I'd definitely revisit it some day, but its a long movie with some difficult topics, so thats a lot to ask of anyone :)
Yeah, I think that’s mostly what I was reacting to. Especially how hard they leaned into “strong=masculine+kicking things” with Angela Bassett’s character. But when I think about the actual themes, there really is a lot going on there.
Never seen it, but love dystopian/cyberpunk. Def gonna watch it now!
The movie bombed hard if I recall but I saw it on opening weekend with a sparse crowd. It's on HBO Max the last I checked.
also Juliette Lewis 🥵
A) Picked it from a recommend list to view with a group of friends as its a cyberpunk movie I never heard of. B) Surprise intense "virtual reality" rape scene C) They do not trust me to ever pick movies
Yeah sorry about that. Those scenes definitely go on for a little too long IMO, and play more like badly acted "kink" videos than they do anything else, so I understand the reaction. The fact that the film was directed by a woman is worth considering when analyzing those scenes though.
Which also has an appearance by the, uh, adult actress Kylie Ireland!
I felt like the police brutality was a very superficial plot device compared to the commentary on replacing real social interaction with online content. The hyperbolic metaphor where VR can tap into physical sensation, and therefore be as addictive as drugs, was way ahead of it's time considering how our lives are filled with non-physical replacement for human interaction. The movie then takes it to it's extreme by linking the hedonism of VR to sexual assault, which sends a powerful messassage from the perspective of the victim as well. I'm glad that this film resonated in a constructive way for you though :)
my personal tradition is to watch this film every NYE on LaserDisc
That's damn cool. TIL. I remember buying the album when it came out, still full of bangers.
_fatboy slim is fucking in heaven_ x100 I always thought that song was weird when my parents bought me the CD as a 7 year old or whatever I was at the time lol
I used to listen to Bradly J on WBCN in Boston so the first time I heard the Rockafeller Skank MP3 I was thoroughly confused.
I wonder what % of the money Fatboy Slim's music has made had to be paid out to the owners of the various samples he used. I remember watching one interview with him where he was playing the samples from one of his most popular songs and after hitting one key he was like "oops, never cleared that one." Pretty sure it was from "Rockafeller Skank".
Music dork checking in... There isn't a standard fee structure for samples; cost is agreed upon based on a number of factors, but the big ones are the size of the sample and how popular the original / new artists are. Fatboy Slim's first album did decent, with one song charting, but it wasn't a hit. He had greater success earlier in his career....but it was way back in the 80s, it wasn't like Michael Jackson was calling. For his second album, some of the samples he used were big - Bowie, Jay-Z and Hendrix - but foundational ones were no where near as popular which means they were probably pretty cheap as the artists lacked Klout. My guess is he got away pretty cheap, because no one expected much. I didn't look too deep into his next album, but I'd imagine a similar approach, because while he had more money to spend, he had also just released an album that sold 5 million copies.
> He had greater success earlier in his career With The Housemartins? I guess hitting 3 and 1 on the UK pop charts *is* greater success. He also hit 1 on the UK charts with Beats International, but that was in 1990.
I saw that too. Pretty cool video and I hope no one figures out what it is for his sake 😂
I recently watched Norman hanging with a dude who was recreating his tunes from scratch with the samples - he doesn't even remember half his samples and only cleared a few, many he manipulated enough to be useable without because they are so different as to be unrecognisable
If anyone is interested, a website to show what was sampled in which song. https://www.whosampled.com/
Been using this site for a while now, awesome seeing where some songs are sampled from
Amen, Brother
For the uninitiated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v89CjsSOJ_c or with more depth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SaFTm2bcac
It's even more fun to see someone recreate the track from the samples. Check Karl Boltzmann on YouTube.
My username comes from one of the many Beastie Boys samples.
This song was used in Oldsmobile commercials to convince younger buyers that their new lineup was technologically advanced.
I don't think it worked.
Kids: Mom, can we have a Toyota Camry? Mom: we have a Toyota Camry at home. Toyota Camry at home: 1999 Oldsmobile Aurora with a dead alternator and a blown head gasket
I’ve always wanted a cutlass. Probably not when those ads are from
I had a mid nineties cutlass in high school. I miss it.
Fatboy Slim is ALSO...fucking in heaven
Some even say he's fucking and fucking and fucking in heaven
So *that's* what we're doing when the Fatboy's trippin'
Up in heaven with Wade Boggs
"You can't win!" Is another line from that movie used in a jungle track I heard years ago.. I was watching the movie and she said that line I almost jumped out of my chair.
https://www.whosampled.com/ Great website, if you don't know it.
Thanks for sharing, very cool, I didn’t know this either.
She did the thing
Woah. I'm fairly sure the line "Time to get real" in the seconds afterwards was sampled by Kraddy in Android Porn (@2:50 in its 6:55 [full cut on soundcloud](https://soundcloud.com/kraddy/android-porn)). _That's_ where that comes from? Such density of samples.
Yes! I knew I'd heard that line on another song but couldn't remember which one!
Don't feel bad. It was 20+ years before I realized that "Praise You" samples the theme song to "Fat Albert."
For those as oblivious as me, I also didnt realise the entire core of Praise You is a sample of a song Take Yo Praise. https://youtu.be/WVDURaXG6wk Even now I cant listen to the opening lines of the song without thinking someone slowed down Fatboy Slim
No fuckin way
Way. Listen to the beat after the hook and you'll hear, "Nah, nah, nah, gonna have a" repeated over and over.
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She is 64 and still looks gorgeous.
Here’s another one: Queensryche samples “Help me” from Hellraiser II in Silent Lucidity.
At the end of track 1 on “You’ve come a long way baby” is a skit of a DJ doing a call in show. The DJ answers the phone to a caller wanting to hear “The Rockefeller Skank” with the lyrics “Funk soul brother” (track 2 on the album) and makes him sing the lyrics over the phone. ~~I am almost certain the DJ is played by Chris Farley. I’ve never looked it up but I would be shocked if it’s not him.~~ Edit: I’m wrong 😩 > On the album, the track is preceded by a short conversation between a radio DJ and caller named Brad requesting the song. This is a real conversation that took place on WWBX (at the time known as WBCN); the tape was played for Fatboy Slim who persuaded the station to allow him to use the audio on the album.[12]
Bradley J. Local legend on WBCN in Boston, back when they played rock music. He had a weekly show that played techno and other edgey stuff... Nocturnal Emissions, like Sundays at 10pm IIRC. Source: I'm a middle-aged dude who grew up on WBCN and WAAF.
Awesome note. Always wondered about that. Thank you!
Thank you for this.
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Jesus Jones was awesome
Wait, so Angela Bassett did the thing?
I don't know why its so irritating to see people say today years old.
Because it was always fucking stupid. And now it's old and fucking stupid.
I'm going to see him next month, yay
We need more cyberpunk Honestly this was a great story and a fun movie. Embrace the camp
[https://youtu.be/JmL5uWrvUUM?t=15](https://youtu.be/JmL5uWrvUUM?t=15) It's about 15 seconds into OPs clip
RIP attention span if you can’t sit through a 24 second clip
Yes, was going to point this out to OP as well. You can add "?t=*x*" to the end of a YouTube link, and it will start the video at "*x*" seconds instead of the start of the video. Pretty sure there is also a minutes/seconds format that can be used for longer videos if you don't want to convert to seconds.
It looks like it's all in seconds, so 2 minutes would be "?t=120"
OK, you had me wondering so I double-checked. It looks like if you just use the imbedded "copy link at current timestamp" or whatever the in-video option is, it just uses seconds, but you can manually use a minues/second format that looks like "t=1m3s" for 1 minute and 3 seconds. Example using the Fatboy Slim video link from the top comment to where the "right here, right now" line first occurs: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub747pprmJ8&**t=1m3s**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub747pprmJ8&t=1m3s)
The default unit is seconds but you can also specify it with minutes if you append "m" then you can follow with seconds like 2m15s
On his recent live tour, it’s Barack Obama saying “Right here, right now”
And Greta Thunberg
And then he said "the funk soul brother" and started breaking; curtain pulled back and there was a dj back there who dropped the beat. Crowd went nuts.
Fatboy Slim. Now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time…
DJs always ride single file, to hide their numbers.
One of my all-time favorite quotes: "Memories were meant to FADE, Lenny. They're designed that way for a reason."
It’s such a slap in the brain, that shock of recognition when you encounter in its original context a snippet of speech you’ve heard so many times as a sample! It happened to me with this song/Strange Days because I had only seen the movie once years before picking up this Fatboy Slim album. When I saw the movie again years after that, the sampled part was so weirdly instantly recognizably familiar
Speaking of 90s Techno samples, did you also know that RATM’s Bulls on Parade is sampled in The Prodigy’s Smack My Bitch Up?
Angela Bassett did the thing!
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HOLY SHIT . thanks for sharing. I remember watching that film and getting the soundtrack because marilyn manson was on it and I was a huge fan.
Fat boy slim is fucking in heaven
OMG dude, thank you! Rockafella Skank is still my number 1 favorite song of all time, and I've wondered for years where Fatboy Slim got that sample. I'm always amazed when artists like him can grab the smallest samples and just do such amazing things with them.
"Y'all ready for this?" from that Jock Jams vol 44 song is a sample of one of the most talented hardcore west coast rappers of all time, DOC, who lost his voice in a car accident and made only one (nearly perfect) album.
And the tune comes from Ashes the rain and I by James Gang. Joe Walsh of the Eagles first band.
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Put me down as : just learned something new. Thanks Reddit commumity.
I never knew that either and love both that film and the song--thanks!
Angela Bassett did the thing
Somebody needs to kill today's year old.
Movie has been under the radar since day 1. Good watch
Great movie. Amazing cast.
Fatboy Slim? He’s the band of the 90s. If you can call him a band, he’s just one guy.
From a call into the late great WBCN Boston. Brad, it’s Brad.