Song · Fatboy Slim
“Right Here Right Now” by Fatboy Slim
From the album You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby (1998)
“Right Here Right Now” by Fatboy Slim appears on 3 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 1999 and 2024. It was first released in 1998 on the album You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby. Its best result is #23 on the Triple J Hottest 100 of 1999. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #178 alternative song of 1999.
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Fatboy Slim stitched "Right Here, Right Now" together from two borrowed pieces: a stretch of the James Gang's "Ashes, the Rain & I" from their 1970 album James Gang Rides Again, and a line of Angela Bassett's dialogue from the 1995 thriller Strange Days. It came out in April 1999 as the fourth single from You've Come a Long Way, Baby, the British big beat man's second album, with Joe Walsh and Dale Peters sharing the writing credit and Simon Thornton engineering and mixing.
It went to number 2 in the UK and made the top 40 everywhere from Iceland to New Zealand, and ads for Adidas and Nissan spread it across Europe. In a Mixmag readers' poll it later came in 10th among the best dance records ever made.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 23 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 1999 | 100 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 712 | The Current | The Current's 893 Essential Songs of the '90s | 893 |
| 2024 | 588 | KEXP | The Best Opening Tracks of All Time | 738 |
Also listed as: Right Here, Right Now.
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