Weapon of Choice is a single by UK DJ Fatboy Slim, and is best known for it’s video directed by Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich – 1999, Adaptation – 2002). It features amazing dance moves by Christopher Walken. Shooting took place over 2 days in the lobby of a Marriott Hotel in Los Angeles shortly before Christmas in 2000.

This music video won 6 MTV Video Music awards: Breakthrough Video, Best Direction, Best Choreography, Best Art Direction, Best Editing, and Best Cinematography. It also won a Grammy for Best Short Form Music Video.

Weapon of Choice (featuring Bootsy Collins) first appeared on the Fatboy Slim album Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars, released in November 2000.

(You can also watch the video in HD on YouTube as embedding is disabled.)

Weapon of Choice

Artist: Fatboy Slim
Directors: Spike Jonez

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Lyrics:

Break, eject
Eject, eject
Break, eject
Eject, eject

Break, eject
Eject, eject
Break, eject
Eject, eject

‘For they catch ya Chainsmokin’ (Word)
‘For they catch ya Chainsmokin’ (Word)
‘For they catch ya Chainsmokin’ (Word)
‘For they catch ya Chainsmokin’ (Word)

‘For they catch ya Chainsmokin’ (Word)
‘For they catch ya Chainsmokin’ (Word)
‘For they catch ya Chainsmokin’ (Word)
‘For they catch ya Chainsmokin’ (Word)

‘For they catch ya, ‘For they catch ya,
‘For they catch ya, ‘For they catch ya,
‘For they catch ya, ‘For they catch ya,
‘For they catch ya, ‘For they catch ya,

Don’t be shocked by tone of my voice
Check out my new weapon, weapon of choice
Don’t be shocked by tone of my voice
Check out my new weapon, weapon of choice, yeah

Listen to the sound of my voice (aah…)
You can check it on out, it’s the weapon of choice, yeah

Don’t be shocked by the tone of my voice (aah…)
It’s the new weapon, the weapon of choice

You can blow with this
Or you can blow with that
You can blow with this
Or you can blow with that
Or you can blow with this
Or you can blow with that
Or you can blow with us

You can blow with this
Or you can blow with that
You can blow with this
Or you can blow with that
You can blow with…

Walk without rhythm, it won’t attract the worm
Walk without rhythm, and it won’t attract the worm
Walk without rhythm, and it won’t attract the worm
if you walk without rhythm (uh), you never learn, yeah

Don’t be shocked by the tone of my voice
Check out my new weapon, weapon of choice

Don’t be shocked by the tone of my voice
Check out my new weapon, weapon of choice

(Can’t forget to load it)
Before they catch ya Chainsmokin’
(Can’t forget to load it)
Before they catch ya Chainsmokin’
(Can’t forget to load it)
Before they catch ya Chainsmokin’
(Can’t forget to load it)
Before they catch ya Chainsmokin’

You can go with this
You can go with that
You can go with this
Or you can go with that
Or you can go with this
Or you can go with that
Or you can go with us

You can go with this
You can go with that
You can go with this
Or you can go with that
Or you can go with…

Organically grown
Through the hemisphere I roam
To make love to the angels of light, yeah
and my girl
I guess you just don’t understand
It’s gone beyond bein’ a man
As I drift off into the night
I’m in flight

Break, eject
Eject, eject
Break, eject
Eject, eject

Break, eject
Eject, eject
Eject, eject
Eject, eject

Break, eject
Eject, eject
Break, eject
Eject, eject

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Through the course of tonight’s DJ stylings, the crowd will only be treated to four actual Fatboy Slim songs. At a less dance-centric festival this might have been a problem, but here at the banks of Loch Ness every minute is lapped up just as eagerly as the last.

Mr Cook, of course, inadvertently began the festival as a one-day event in 2006, and he looks every inch the proud dad as the first building strains of ‘Right Here, Right Now’ wash over the crowd. Wallflowers this audience are not - or maybe it’s just impossible not to move in the midst of this nostalgic number from 1999.

The rest of the set is clever, sharp and fast-moving. Cook doesn’t rely on well-known samples for his sound; he simply mixes and creates beats that are made for dancing. That’s not to say he doesn’t tease a little bit, though: the crowd are ecstatic when the main riff from Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ ‘Heads Will Roll’ is played out, but it’s stripped back straight away in a truly tantalising moment. Former hit ‘Weapon of Choice’ is given a slightly slower, more mumbling remix, inspiring many in the crowd to attempt Christopher Walken’s legendary dance from its video.

As will happen so many times over the course of this weekend, it’s a Queen song that becomes the most memorable. ‘We Will Rock You’ starts up and the ever-dancing fans catch on straight away, only to be in for a pleasant surprise as Cook’s video display in the background directs the crowd to sing “we will we will… RockNess!” A fantastic statement for the opening night of the festival, and as we look up at the stage we see that no one’s smile is as big as Norman Cook’s himself. A proud dad, indeed.