"The Rockafeller Skank"

Fatboy Slim
(Astralwerks, 1998)

The triumph of obviousness. "The Rockafeller Skank" slave-drives every big, cheesy trick Norman Cook had picked up in a dozen years of rocking and clubbing: a ludicrously exaggerated beat, catchy bits stolen from a dozen other songs, the simplest chord progression in the book, the "French Kiss"/"Come On Eileen" breakdown and rev-up, and a sampled hook that's hammered through your skull, then stapled to each of your vertebrae and hot-glued onto your genitals. And just try not dancing to the goddamn thing.

-- Douglas Wolk