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>> Make your own copy of "The Rockafeller Skank" by Fatboy Slim! When you're done, you too can be a "big-beat collage artist!" It's easy, and fun! Get your place in the fast-expanding growth industry of "dance music!"

Step 1: Take the melody from the Just Brothers' "Sliced Tomatoes." It's all that!

Step 2: Pinch the guitar bridge from The John Barry Seven's "Beat Girl." If it's good enough for James Bond, amigo, it's good enough for Norman Cook!

Step 3: Take some twang from the master himself -- Duane Eddy. His "Moovin' 'n 'Groovin" is almost a hang-ten, dude. If you use less than ten seconds or whatnot, you don't even have to credit him! Copyright Nazis must die!

Step 4:: Last step: the vocal. Appropriate Lord Finesse's intro to the Vinyl Dogs' "Vinyl Dogs Vibe." Never mind the lawsuits; here's your sex pistol! Right about now, funk-soul collage brother!

(I must hasten to add that knowing where all these tracks came doesn't detract from my enjoyment of what remains the best goddamned party song ever. How did he ever think to put all these elements together? Go, Fats!)
posted by Geoff Carter at 5:52 PM