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Rockafeller Skank

Certain Songs #435: Fatboy Slim – “The Rockafeller Skank”

January 29, 2016 by Jim Connelly

fatboy slim Album: You’ve Come A Long Way, Baby
Year: 1998

Heh. One thing is for sure: if you have a problem with repetition, you probably can’t stand “The Rockafeller Skank,” which repeats its only — sampled, natch, cos no actual human could sing it — verse dozens, hundreds, millions of times.

Check its Google Play lyrics page to see what I mean.

That repetition meant that half of the people who loved “The Rockafeller Skank” as a novelty song; the other half loved it as a disruptive piece of art and the third half loved it as both!

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Filed Under: Certain Songs Tagged With: Baby, Fatboy Slim, Rockafeller Skank, You've Come a Long Way

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