Better Living Through Chemistry

Better Living Through Chemistry is Norman Cook before the ubiquity, 'Everybody Needs a 303' and a debut full of genuine invention rather than the formula he'd later run into the ground. It's the sound of a producer discovering big beat could be his, and the freshness is audible. It sits at seventy-seven because it's a first statement rather than a peak, and the bigger records came later, but the ideas that made him famous are all here in their original form.