Late Night Tales (2007)

Product Summary Label: Thrive Records UPC: 00651249077928 Release Date: 10/9/2007 Buy.com Sku: 205600392 Item#: M3S72D Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Spanish Stroll - (with Mink DeVille) ~ Fatboy Slim 2. Roadrunner - (with The Modern Lovers) ~ Fatboy Slim 3. I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass - (with Nick Lowe) ~ Fatboy Slim 4. Midnight Riders - (with Paul Davidson) ~ Fatboy Slim 5. Express Yourself - (with Hopeton Lewis) ~ Fatboy Slim 6. Monkey Spanner - (with Dave & Ansel Collins) ~ Fatboy Slim 7. Ire Fellings (Leggo Skanga) - (with Rupie Edwards) ~ Fatboy Slim 8. Three Piece Suit - (with Trinity) ~ Fatboy Slim 9. Wish I Didn't Miss You - (with Angie Stone) ~ Fatboy Slim 10. I Can Dig It Baby - (with Little Beaver) ~ Fatboy Slim 11. Your Kiss Is Sweet - (with Syreeta) ~ Fatboy Slim 12. Brother Where Are You? - (with Oscar Brown Jr.) ~ Fatboy Slim 13. Linus and Lucy - (with Vince Guaraldi Trio) ~ Fatboy Slim 14. Just Dropped in (To See What Condition My Condition Is in) - (with Kenny Rogers & The First Edition) ~ Fatboy Slim 15. Don't Lay Your Funky Trip On Me ~ Fatboy Slim 16. Radioactivity ~ Fatboy Slim 17. Who Loves the Sun - (with The Velvet Underground) ~ Fatboy Slim 18. Satisfied 'N' Tickled Too - (with Taj Mahal) ~ Fatboy Slim 19. My World - (with Sly & The Family Stone) ~ Fatboy Slim 20. Everything Is Everything - (with Bootsy Collins) ~ Fatboy Slim 21. Radioactivity - (Late Night Mix) ~ Fatboy Slim   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Personnel: Myriam Tisler, Taj Mahal (vocals). Liner Note Author: Norman Cook. Reader: Bootsy Collins. Arranger: Stevie Wonder. Issued in 2007, this installment of the eclectic, artist-selected LATE NIGHT TALES series presents an unpredictable mix by Norman Cook, best known by his nom de techno, Fatboy Slim. Although Cook's own music is tailor-made for the club, these tracks sometimes fall into rock and even jazz territory, as evinced by the Modern Lovers' jangly number "Roadrunner" and the Vince Guaraldi Trio's jaunty cartoon theme, "Linus and Lucy," respectively. The cherry on top of this fun, dynamic compilation is the propulsive "Radioactivity," Slim's fairly faithful take on the Kraftwerk classic. Sampladelic novelty hits and big-beat productions tossed aside, Norman Cook has been an inveterate DJ, crate-digger, and music lover since the early '80s -- long before he picked up a bass to join the Housemartins or first began joyfully plundering the music of the past for chart action in the present. His volume in the LateNightTales series may not fully reflect the music sampled by his various projects -- Beats International, Freak Power, Pizzaman, and finally Fatboy Slim -- but it definitely displays a rich knowledge of British music culture from the '60s and '70s. While '70s new wave and pub rock chestnuts begin the set (led by Mink DeVille and Nick Lowe), Cook detours into roots reggae for four tracks and hits American soul/funk for a time before wrapping up with Bootsy Collins' "Everything Is Everything" -- not a cover of the Donny Hathaway classic but a poem written by Paul Heaton (friend to Cook from their days in the Housemartins). Overall, Cook digs pretty deep for this set. Even Jonathan Richman's famous "Roadrunner" is heard here in an earlier version, and Cook mastered all of these directly from his original vinyl (which somehow gives Nick Lowe's familiar "I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass" a surprising similarity to Steve Miller Band). The only new track is naturally by Fatboy Slim himself, a relatively faithful cover of Kraftwerk's "Radioactivity" with vocals supplied by the woman from Cook's favorite record shop. ~ John Bush Producer: Kenny Rogers; Fatboy Slim; Ivan Matias; Jack Nitzsche; Jimmy Bowen; Luchi DeJesus; Mike Post; Andrea Martin; Nick Lowe; Simon Thornton; Sly Stone; Stevie Wonder; Taj Mahal; Norman Cook (Compilation)   Technical Info Release Date : 10/09/2007 Original Release Date : 2007 Catalog ID : 90779 Label : Thrive Records Number of Discs : 1 Runtime : 64m : 25s Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00651249077928    Related Videos Wait for Me: Moby Daft Punk - Harder Better...