“Praise You” by Fatboy Slim

"Praise You" was the third single from Fatboy Slim's second album, You've Come a Long Way, Baby, and it's big beat with its heart on its sleeve. Norman Cook produced it himself, with Simon Thornton engineering and mixing, and he shares the writing credit with Camille Yarbrough.

It builds the way the best of Cook's tracks do: a warm, rolling groove, a joyful vocal hook repeated until it becomes a chant, and beats that stutter, drop out and slam back in, so the whole thing feels like a party that keeps restarting just to prove it can. It's goofy and genuinely moving at once, a hymn dressed up as a block party.

British and Icelandic buyers sent it all the way to the top, Canada took it to number four and Ireland to number six, and while American listeners stopped it at number 36, it had sold more than 150,000 copies there as of 1999.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.