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“Going Out of My Head” by Fatboy Slim
From the album Better Living Through Chemistry (1996)
“Going Out of My Head” by Fatboy Slim appears on 6 radio countdowns from 5 stations between 1997 and 2021. It was first released in 1996 on the album Better Living Through Chemistry. Its best result is #83 on the 91X Top 91 Songs of 1998. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #368 alternative song of 1998 and #4,719 alternative song of all time.
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"Going Out of My Head" comes off Better Living Through Chemistry, the 1996 debut album from Fatboy Slim, and it's big beat at its most gleefully light-fingered. The track is stitched together from other people's records: a guitar riff snatched from Yvonne Elliman's cover of the Who's "I Can't Explain", and drums lifted from Led Zeppelin's "The Crunge". The writing credit reads Norman Cook and Pete Townshend.
Mostly instrumental, it shuffles and stomps under a single sampled voice looping about losing its mind, while space-age sound effects zip across the top. Fatboy Slim produced it himself with Simon Thornton engineering, and in April 1997 it became the album's last single, sharing a double A-side with "Michael Jackson". Hollywood came calling too: it turned up in The Jackal and Like Mike.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 87 | Live 105 San Francisco, CA | Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1997 | 105 |
| 1998 | 83 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 1998 | 91 |
| 1998 | 94 | 107.7 The End Seattle, WA | The End Top 107 Songs of 1998 | 107 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 841 | Q101 | Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 1017 |
| 1999 | 508 | 107.7 The End | The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 1077 |
| 2021 | 792 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '90s | 908 |
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