FATBOY SLIM - Why Try Harder (Skint)

Fatboy Slim got rich quicker than almost any other pop figure of the last decade: Q magazine reported that he made £7 million betweenmid1998 and early 1999.

He vanished almost as rapidly, with his last album, 2004’s Palookaville.

This greatest hits collection illustrates why his success was so spectacular, yet so fleeting. Ultra-hedonistic and full of thumping hooks that wear thin as swiftly as they hit home, it’s so strongly tied to the late 1990s English dance culture that it’s hard to listen to it today on its own terms.

The tracklisting could have been more judicious, too: his brilliant ...