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...anachronistic, but the Beautiful South's focus is clear. The band has three vocalists for the four instrumentalists, allowing for spectacular vocal range and clever bantering among singers. Still, there are signs of experimental distortion: spectacular songs like "Half-Hearted Get" show the expert hand of Norman Cook, a.k.a. Fatboy Slim, credited with "open groove surgery." Critics have often described Heaton's lyrics as bitter and cynical (the band's previous female vocalist reputedly left because of one of the lyrics). But on Painting it Red, Heaton comes across as a defender of true love, even if he rarely sinks...

Author: By Arts Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Albums | 11/17/2000 | See Source »

...week's list of musical annoyances, people have been putting up songs on the Internet claiming to be tracks from advance copies of upcoming albums. On Napster now, you can find songs claiming to be from the upcoming U2 album All That You Can't Leave Behind or from Fatboy Slim's Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars, but a quick listen shows them to be nothing but songs by random groups trying to get more people to listen to their own work. Which only goes to show, you really should buy the albums...

Author: By Daryl Sng, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In the Mix, Happenings: commentary | 10/20/2000 | See Source »

...favorite bands, the Beautiful South, are in town this upcoming week. They're playing Avalon on October 22, to be precise. It's always a source of mystery to me that the Housemartins broke up and spawned such disparate sounds as the Beautiful South's masterful ironic pop and Fatboy Slim's. More famous bands coming into town are: Hootie and the Blowfish (October 25, Avalon), Ani DiFranco (October 26-27, Orpheum) and, inevitably, the Squirrel Nut Zippers (October 27, the Roxy...

Author: By Daryl Sng, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In the Mix, Happenings: commentary | 10/20/2000 | See Source »

...Tong had meant to increase his profile with his series of DJ sets, he had both succeeded and failed. He may not have been at his best, but the masses could certainly do with a better appreciation of house. Club-oriented dance acts like Fatboy Slim, Prodigy and the Chemical Brothers have successfully crossed over into the mainstream. Maybe this time it's the turn of a DJ to become a superstar...

Author: By Adrian Foo, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: That Tong Tong Tong | 10/13/2000 | See Source »

...Song sample source of the week: the Just Brothers' "Sliced Tomatoes," which forms most of the guitar line of Fatboy Slim's "The Rockafeller Skank...

Author: By Daryl Sng, | Title: In the Mix | 10/6/2000 | See Source »

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