Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars is the third studio album by British big beat

Big beat

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 artist Fatboy Slim

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, released in 2000. It features Macy Gray

Macy Gray

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, Ashley Slater

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, Bootsy Collins

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, Roland Clark

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, Jim Morrison

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, and Roger Sanchez

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 as guest contributors. The album's title is an allusion to the Oscar Wilde

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 quote "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars", a line spoken by Lord Darlington

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 in Lady Windermere's Fan

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Track listing

Note: On the iTunes release, "Talking 'bout my Baby (Reprise)" is separated from "Song for Shelter", making the track times 9:00 and 2:26 respectively.

Edited version

An edited version also exists, which removes "Star 69" (due to the song's multiple use of the word "fuck"), and removes the song's reprise at the end in "Song for Shelter".