Reviews (page 3 of 8)
Yeah, I’d totally dance like crazy to this in the club
I was 11 years old, when Brian, the slightly unhinged kid who sat next to me in class in primary school, asked me if I listened to the Prodigy. When I said I'd heard of them but not given them a listen yet, he started going on about the song "Poison", giving me a not-far-off impression of the weird vocals that made the song so distinctive. It was enough to convince me. The Prodigy never felt safe. They were always edgy to the point of scary. There was a serious darkness to everything they came out with, almost like the music equivalent of a horror movie. Liam Howlett is a genius. I've spent entirely too much time watching videos dissecting entire Prodigy albums, breaking down the samples that make up each song. And it's nuts. To have that vision, to piecemeal this alien-sounding music together, out of bits and bobs of funk, soul, hip hop, rock, jazz, clips from TV and movies... I can never get my head around it. Their music had an energy and belief in itself that that brought all of those madcap samples together to make something pretty unique and special. I think what worked so well for the Prodigy was that, even though we're firmly in the ground of electronica here, the songs often feel like they're coming from an underground punk rock band. It has that same energy and rawness from punk that wasn't common in dance music back then. Besides that, it's Liam's massive constructed beats that elevate things. They kick in at just the right moment, they drive things forward, and they're always HUGE. The middle section of the album is epic. "Voodoo People" to "Poison" to "No Good". "Voodoo People" brings jazz flute, Nirvana, Led Zeppelin and rave beats together. "No Good" is, right now, the perfect Xmas Eve soundtrack. It might not be Christmassy, but it's a great one to clean the house to, in preparation of visitors. Then there's "Poison", the song that got me here in the first place. That unnerving, jangly melody (if you can even call it that), the disturbing pitch-shifting vocal effects making Maxim's voice sound terrifying, and then that booming bass as the beat drops. It's as scary sounding as it is amazing. One of those songs that defies proper description. "Skylined" is a sign of what was to come later with the likes of "Mindfields" and "Climbatize". Hard to believe that "No Good" and this song are on the same album, or even that they're by the same band! It's a mature, cinematic soundscape, something you could imagine scoring a European arthouse movie set in Germany. My classmate in primary school was a bit of a wilding. His dad was in the army, away from home, his brother was in and out of prison, and he was acting up as a result. He'd shave his head bald one day for no reason, and start fights after school, just because he loved fighting. I had very little in common with him, but we ended up being mates for a while, because of the Prodigy. Music is the ultimate social leveller, and the Prodigy were making music that really connected groups of people from different circles, the jilted generation I guess you could say - which is a weird thing to get out of a song like "Poison".
the prodigy's always a fun time. idk. i'll zone out to any of their music.
Radical
There's something to be said about acts who were able to unite fans of dance music with those into heavier rock and metal. Acts like Nine Inch Nails, Ministry and Skinny Puppy had no qualms appealing to both, although they continued to follow conventional song structures for the most part. The Prodigy, however, managed to make a perfect record that could get both the metal kids headbanging and the club goers bopping: 'Music for the Jilted Generation'. For 1994, it was an impressive jolt in the arm for popular music. With much of the material moving past at breakneck speed, one can't help but listen with awe at Liam Howlett's impressive ability as an arranger and producer. It's clear that all tracks have been meticulously put together through samples, instruments and beat creation. The album may be a touch under 80 minutes long, but it's never boring. There's always something going on. There's few albums that can offer an adrenaline rush quite to the degree of this one, as there are only select few moments it lets up for you to breathe. One of the few moments of serenity is in the start of 'The Heat (The Energy)', but its only brief respite among tracks like 'Voodoo People', 'Full Throttle' and 'Poison'. This album knows how to keep you alert and ready for anything. 'Music for the Jilted Generation' is easily one of the most important records of the 90s. It brought rave music out of the clubs and into the mainstream, and helped define popular music for the remainder of the decade and into the 2000s. A very impressive effort. Best songs: Full Throttle, Voodoo People, Poison, Break & Enter, One Love, No Good (Start the Dance)
i was a little high while listening to this and yknow i actually think this is a perfect album for cannabis. Jilted is the perfect word for it dude like wtf does that mean sounds like when you flick a door stopper, j-jjj-j-jilted. really funny, really cool like a 8/10
Grimy and mechanical stuff for 90s warehouse parties. Or Sunday afternoons... Their Law is good and the macabre beat on Full Throttle is even better. Voodoo People has a nasty acid synth riff. The next few tracks stay in a darker place without anything too melodic until No Good (Start the Dance) which is decidedly more anthemic. Still plenty dark with the same energetic drum programming. 3 Kilos is something different, slower with some interesting chill flute samples. This is good stuff - but it's a long runtime and think I still prefer the more accessible Fat of the Land.
Really liked it! Some tracks are a bit too stretched, but nostalgia did its work. Nice.
Not the best album of them but when I get Prodigy I know it will be an amazing time Fun and energetic, great to listen while working 4/5
It’s difficult now to appreciate the scale of the moral panic that arose in response to early 90s rave culture in the uk. There were fulminating editorials in serious broadsheets, speeches in parliament and an authoritarian criminal justice bill where judges tried to come up with a legal definition of what constituted a rave so that it could be banned. The official definition turned out to be “music that includes sounds wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats” - gasp! The horror! The police enthusiastically adopted their new powers to dish out a good thrashing to people they saw as dirty hippies, confiscating or smashing up sound systems and throwing people in jail for the most trivial of offences. The Prodigy were one of the premier bands on the rave scene and this album is in part a response to the CJA with the refrain “Fuck ‘em and their law”. Musically this is solid dance music with good use of samples that don’t get in the way of the beats. Put on your best high court judges wig and robes and party on down to this one. Rave-tastic!
I remember liking The Fat of the Land the first time listening to it, but being a little more reserved listening to it for this project. The opposites happened for this one. Liking it quite a bit on a second listen. Will say that it does get a little less interesting/simpler later in the track list, but I do enjoy the dark vibe of it. I'll have to listen to it again and listen to The Fat of the Land again, but for right now, I think I prefer it.
For a fully instrumental + samples album, there was a lot of variation between the tracks. The main commonality being the high tempo looped beats that all seem to carry a high level of tension, like combat music in a sci-fi video game. For the first half of the album I was energized and I was particularly fond of Voodoo People. However the second half of the album kind of lagged behind for me, with 3 Kilos (a flute loop? Really?) and Claustrophobic Sting (literally just someone screaming) actively being annoying and distracting, which is not ideal for music without lyrics. Overall I am inclined to give it a 4/5 for that classic high energy "Doom" feeling, despite some detracting songs.
Super glad to have been introduced to this album. Great coding music.
It's been a long time since I listened to Music For The Jilted Generation and it's much better than I remembered. Definitely not the best that The Prodigy has to offer and a bit long-winded at points.
Really creative electronic dance music. Not as iconically stylized as FOTL but musically more interesting.
Nú er ég ekki ekki ýkja hrifinn af danstónlist og hér er ekki allt jafn skemmtilegt. En þarna eru svakalegir bangerar inn á milli og ekki nema örfá lög sem kveikja ekki á neinu hjá mér. Fyrstu þrjú eru meh... restin annað hvort solid eða snilld.
Had a day rave at my desk
I wish I could give this a 4.5. I'm not sure it's a 5, but 4 seems too low. Excellent techno vibes
Similar to Orbital’s Snivilisation, this was made in response to the anti-ravers 1994 Criminal Justice Bill but is so much cooler, punkier with way more swag, snarl and attitude that there is just no need for weedy wussy wussbag Snivilisation to be on here. Originally this was supposed to be a concept album with every song named after a different criminal offence but looks like they gave up after the opener Break & Enter because I guess Prodigy just aren’t brain boxes when it comes to proggy conceptual works. It is cool how they just gave up their trippy ragga influences on their first album and switch to something far grittier, harder-edge and authentic. There are some absolutely barnstorming rave tunes here, hitting a slight lull after album peak Voodoo People before a late album renaissance with No Good. A zero in terms of artwork but just as important and essential as Fat Of The Land.
This is one of those bands I always really liked. Probably helps that they are an electronica punk band. WTF! Amazing. I am unsure of which album is best or what order they should be in or anything like that because what happens is I end up with favorite songs all over the place and a few that are less interesting kind of fill in the gaps. Nevertheless The Prodigy, for me, has always been a favorite and this album is no less worthy than any other and damn...
Energetic and hypnotic, always had a soft spot for the Prodigy, possibly a little too long but otherwise an excellent album
Enjoyed this a lot more than I expected.
Ngl, uwielbiam The Prodigy. Ich energia i brzmienie nie mają sobie podobnych na scenie. "Jilted Generation" nie ma może aż takiego hitowego potencjału jak "The Fat of the Land", ale "Voodoo People" czy "No Good" to wciąż klasyki. Uwielbiam The Prodigy za to, że oni się nie pierdolą w tańcu, tylko cisną swój styl i robią to na topowym poziomie na każdej płycie. Tempo, energia, wykorzystanie sampli przedmiotów (samochód wyścigowy, szkło), mega szybkie, wysoko strojone bębny - bardzo charakterystyczny styl, nie do podrobienia. Album, który ugruntował pozycję Prodigy oraz rave'owego brzmienia w ogóle. Wpływ tego zespołu na elektronikę, techno i ciężkie klubowe brzmienie jest nie do przecenienia.
This was Full Throttle!
This is exactly the kind of album I was hoping to get with this generator. I understand now why some (typically older) people call Electro music a bunch of alarms and random sounds - this is exactly what this album contains. But, they're able to make it sound coherent and give it musicality. If anything, it proves that any sound can be music if built around it. Is it good? Sure, it's a vibe. Do I like it? Yes. I think it's well arranged, and interesting to listen to. It's definitely influential. However, only giving it 4 stars because I don't think I'll be listening to it more often, despite it working really well.
4.5
Nonstop banging rave music, best dealt with a dust mask full of Vicks Vaporub and let the beats take you away, because you're never going home again... at least the person you were before isn't
I wasn't going into this without much expectations. I judged the book by it's cover which I already know is bad but wow this blew me away. Great electronic beats, even if the song started out slow, I always had a fun time during the middle and ending sections. I never heard of this band before but it seems they were very popular in the 90s and helped to cultivate this variety of electronic music. Reminds me of The Matrix.
It's cool for a track or two, but then it all blends together. None of them stand out enough to reach out and grab your attention.
RIP Keith Flint
the proddler
Industrial beats for the disenfranchised
++: Intro, Full Throttle, Voodoo People, Speedway (Theme From Fastlane), The Heat (The Energy), The Narcotic Suite: 3 Kilos +: Their Law, Poison, No Good (Start the Dance), One Love (Edit), The Narcotic Suite: Claustrophobic Sting +-: Break & Enter, The Narcotic Suite: Skylined 7,9/10
So few albums on this list that represent a sound I’d consider to be important to me past the year 2000 (non-Burial bass music or anything EDM). We may not have many of those, but we do get a second Prodigy album. While not as polished as its flawless follow-up Fat Of The Land, Music For The Jilted Generation is still very electric, albeit a bit drawn out. This albums signature sound may not be the breakbeats, but the reverb-washed acid saw synth on “Their Law” and “Voodoo People”. What a gritty, visceral lead. “Voodoo People” in particular is masterful; I recommend Pendulum’s remix of this song, and Pendulum in general as a group that carried the torch after the Prodigy’s height of fame. The programmed percussion choices on “Full Throttle” were so ahead of their time, I hear stuff like this on new spotify playlists to this day. I’ve always thought of “Speedway” to be an interesting mixup in the track listing - it’s much more melodic and trancey than the rest of the album. Last, that drum sample breakbeat on “Poison” is unreal. What a great pocket, what a great beat to build around, with that aforementioned saw lead showing back up too. The only problem with this project is that it’s too long - some tracks stay past their welcome. Outside of that, The Prodigy locked in on this one. 4/5
Ngl, this was a fun listen. this might be my favorite Drum and Bass album
Already very familiar with this album. Not a rave guy at all, but man this album is an absolute blast front to back.
This album fucks
I actually LOVED this. It’s probably my favorite of the electronic albums we’ve had so far. I loved the energy and the diversity of music genres in the samples. The hip hop percussion in “Poison” was fun, and even the (gasp) metal-sounding track ”Their Law” was enjoyable to me. *Fav tracks: Break & Enter; Poison*
“The Voodoo, who do what you don't dare do, people!!”. I have been hearing that sampled in songs, and the song itself covered in general for the better part of my entire life. “Voodoo People” is such a critically important song in the history of Electronica, and I’m very happy to be listening to the album it stemmed from. The Nirvana sample also really helps make it something truly special. Now, I’m not the most familiar with this album as a whole, but The Fat of the Land is perhaps my favorite Electronica album of all time, right on top with Justice. So, both of those albums are going to get 5 stars from me no questions asked. While this album is still absolutely fire in its own right, I can see how The Fat of the Land eventually came into being by listening to earlier The Prodigy music like this. It’s hard rating it fairly for that reason, knowing just how good the other album is, and how important it is to me. Still though, this is The Prodigy we’re talking about here, and despite sounding a bit more dated overall, this is still an outstanding piece of history that made my day go by in the blink of an eye. No duds, all bangers, high marks. You know the drill. It may not have a crab, but the album art is still pretty cool, if not creepy as shit. 🦀🦀
90s tech house vibes; the unexpected flute solo on 3 kilos was delightful
It still goes hard
This has more variety and depth than I remember. I always recall thinking that there was a little too much of the same and a distinct lack of bass and depth to songs, but actually there's more there in this listen alongside the classics. 3 kilos gave me bonobo/Quantic vibes (which is a winner). I got introduced to The Prodigy at the time of Fat of the Land, and that will always be the zenith for me. This is a close second.
4-
I listened to this album a lot in my teens and the trajectory from here to The Fat Of The Land is one of the greatest in British music, period. This album is a tribute to the rave scene while Liam Howlett desperately pulled the band towards more progressive punk fusion. Strong themes of rebellion and defiance sit as a response to the government at the time making moves to curtail the growing underground scene. But it was more than a punk attitude starting to spill over into their well-drilled big beat electronica; from the guitars on Their Law provided by Pop Will Eat Itself to the Nirvana and Led Zeppelin samples on Voodoo People, the band was preparing to lurch directly into the mainstream with their high-octane blend of synths, samples and rock'n'roll. With 'Jilted', they were on the precipice but not quite fully formed. While this album is a masterclass in sampling and downright nasty beats, after a knockout first half, culminating with the superb centrepiece of 'Poison', it begins to sag a little. I had hoped to live my life never hearing the dire 'One Love' again (terrifyingly an edited version of a much longer original) and I also tend to skip No Good (Start The Dance) but the closing three-track 'Narcotic Suite' bring back some experimental flair to the album and demonstrate Liam's lingering loyalty to his synths. It would soon be bettered by its successor, propelling The Prodigy to new heights of greatness and popularity and making a superstar of the late, great Keith Flint.
Generational run of tracks in the middle of the album. Could even be 5 star
Pivotal album
Didn’t like it as much as fat of the land but still good
HELL YEAH. Favorite track: No Good (Start the Dance)
83% Best: Their Law; Speedway (Theme from Fastlane); Poison; 3 Kilos Must-Hear? Sure
"My mind is glowing!" Another 1990s stone-cold classic.
failed an exam today
It’s good, but not unlike the Grateful Dead, a band/genre at the other end of the spectrum, it’s probably a lot better in an altered state of mind. I enjoy listening to this at times but the repetitive nature that is inherent to the genre starts to wear on me.
Haven't heard this in a few decades, but it's about as good as I remember it. Didn't realize how much of this record made it onto the Hackers soundtrack. For a style that I rarely choose to listen to on my own, this is a record that I never mind listening to. 3.5/5
RIP Keith Flint
Coming between Experience and Fat of the Land, and it does mark an exact midpoint between the two. You still have the squelchy ravey beats from the first album, allied to the industrial sounds of the third. But it's far from an ugly hybrid or chimera, this stands well in its own right. There's enough to dance to, and enough for the chin-stroking head nodders as well. Excellent.
1994 als wütende Antwort auf das britische Verbot von Raves veröffentlicht, ist dieses Album ein rebellischer Mix aus Breakbeat, Techno und Punk-Attitüde. Tracks wie „Voodoo People“ und „No Good (Start the Dance)“ sind energiegeladen und ikonisch, doch hören wir Zuviel Wut und zu wenig Genialität.
That was fun. Good workout music. This thumped. Solid.
Não me aborreceu, adoro concertos dos The Prodigy e isto dá-me energia! Sorry not sorry
I thought I’d skip through this album at first. In Serbia, this kind of music usually carries the stigma that you must be completely drugged out to listen to it. I still remember once when my mom overheard me playing a soft techno playlist — she lost it and wanted me tested right away. To her defense, I was acting crazy in my teens, but I never touched drugs. Fast forward to my exchange year in Denmark, where I discovered the underground club scene. That experience completely changed how I hear electronic music. It made me feel free and liberated — like my body could move however it wanted and nobody would care. Maybe some people were really on something, but I think a lot of them also just went to feel something and move. Listening to this album gave me another layer of appreciation for the genre. I enjoyed it — even my 3-year-old did, falling asleep to one of the tracks. The Prodigy really did create history in music, and this album proves why.
I’ve never listened to prodigy but this me ready to workout.
A flagpole for mid-90s techno/hard-core. Does an excellent job of capturing a moment in politically charged times in the UK, delivers high level technique and execution, and most importantly makes you want to dance.
I can feel how this is influential on what would follow. Feels like proto-techno.
The Prodigy is one of a few bands that brought some of the punks and hardcore kids over towards techno. I like others like Aphex Twin and Amon Tobin more, but The Prodigy was definitely more universal. For me, that was still more Fat of the Land (1997) than Music for the Jilted (1994). This has some of the metal guitars and samples that would get me later, but it didn’t feel as fully-formed yet. Still a good listen for a genre that I barely listen to.
Grjóthörð plata! Þaut um á hjólinu með attitúd í stíl☠️
OK
Enjoyed jamming to it at work. Enjoyed jamming to it driving home.
Fantastic album
Energetic fun.
Despite being a person who tends to dislike electronic music, this is quite a good album. Diverse sources on the tracks, so it's not super repetitive.
Old school techno
fucking sick if you cant get down to shit like you lowkey boring as fuck
I kinda like The Prodigy. This is a decent electrorock album to me.
While I definitely prefer Fat of the Land, I can't deny that there's a ton of bangers here. I think this one works better as a club album but FotL works better as a home listening experience.
I came to this album after Fat of the Land (which I think is an all around superior release), but it was clear that this “band” (essentially just one guy) was more than just some loops on a computer. Really challenged what electronic music could be. Really took me back listening to this.
Was this good? I'm not sure. Is it the kind of music I love to groove around the house to? 💯 4/5 stars.
A little long but otherwise awesome
Cool album cover. There are some pretty awesome sounding songs. I would've preferred if the songs had vocals but I understand that's not this kind of music. Sounded really nice when I listened on my JBL headphones.
Aside from the classics (Their Law, Poison, Voodoo People, No Good) there's plenty of good stuff here. Break & Enter, Full Throttle, Speedway, The Heat, all good tunes. Maybe dies off a little bit after No Good and some of the songs do go on for slightly too long, but excellent overall.
- feels great for working out - energic electronic music - a bit intense as background music while working
Liking this record is partly down to nostalgia, as this were one of the first records i owned on CD. But, it does stand the test of time much better than most other early nineties music, the production still sounds massive to me.
An earlier Prodigy album, and you can tell. A bit of a mixed bag for me. Some better and worse songs, but the songs are also a bit more of a mixed bag sonically than the last album we had, 'The Fat of the Land'. 'Voodoo People', 'Their Law', 'Poison', and '3 Kilos' stand out as the most noteworthy songs for me, and they're all quite different. While pretty decent overall, I find that it sounds a bit too much Break Beat, and Drum 'N Bass for me. Though I never thought I'd say it, it just feels a bit too much early 90s electronic music somehow. While I think this is not an incredible album, I still think it will get a weak 4 from me. There is more to discover here for me, and I overall enjoyed hearing this way more than some 3 star albums we've had.
Hooray, something slightly different! This album actually surprised me. I like The Prodigy, but the only song I knew going in was Voodoo People. That, combined with the fact that the album is as long as a movie, made me a bit hesitant at first. I needn't have worried, though. I found the whole album fun and great to have on in the background while working or working out. While it doesn't have as many hits as The Fat of the Land, I still found plenty of interesting songs. My favorite, of course, is Voodoo People. I think I’d only ever heard the radio edit before. Hearing the full version definitely brought a new depth to the song. I also enjoyed several other tracks, like Full Throttle. I'm pretty sure it uses the same "hey" sample as "Smack my Bitch Up". The album feels unapologetic, experimental, and raw in what it sets out to do. Sure, The Fat of the Land is more polished, but this was fun in a different kind of way
Sounds like the future of rock, I wonder where did it all go wrong
8/10 7it3 haxx0rz
Every Prodigy album is a pipe bomb (complimentary)
4/5
It’s no Fat of the Land but you can’t deny the influence it had.
Good stuff
Great
Would give it 4.5 if I could. Great album but need to be in the right mood.
Voodoo People - sound of my youth!
01) Intro - / 02) Break & Enter - 8,5 03) Their Law - 7,5 04) Full Throttle - 7,5 05) Voodoo People - 10,0 06) Speedway (Theme From Fastlane) - 7,0 07) The Heat (The Energy) - 7,0 08) Poison - 8,0 09) No Good (Start The Dance) - 10,0 10) One Love (Edit) - 9,0 11) The Narcotic Suite: 3 Kilos - 8,5 12) The Narcotic Suite: Skylined - 8,0 13) The Narcotic Suite: Claustrophobic Sting - 7,5 TOTAL: 8,21 (82/100) Current ranking: 145/563
It’s pretty good in all honesty and could be better than FOTL especially with tracks like voodoo people with its great nirvana sample. TP are probably the most unique band of the 90s with their almost new genre of music, although the rock-electronic blend isn’t built upon until later down the line it is certainly present in specific tracks. 8.5/10
I ended up enjoying this more than I thought I would. I’m glad it wasn’t just music sounding like it was made for The Matrix.
Turned my living room into an illegal warehouse party.
Awesome "gettin shit done" album.
Real Mortal Kombat type of stuff.
Context is important in music. Some things do not lend to casual listening as well as others. And electronica is a prime example. Often too repetitive for just listening, it benefits heavily from hearing it in the right context. Namely, when dancing. This album surprised me though by offering a bit more. At times quite cinematic.
Meget fed! Tror jeg foretrækker den her over den anden vi havde
This was great! I can only imagine it being crazy in '94.
Bought this album on the day it came out and it was quite important to my musical tastes developing as a teenager. I've overplayed it so haven't listened to it for years. It holds up well. The opening Break & Enter is a brilliant assault on the senses with a great riff. The album flows with a high energy and intensity, but on revisiting it is is too long (78 minutes). The second quarter (apart from Voodoo People) could be missed out as it doesn't really add anything to the album. The singles are all great, and the fourth quarter 'The Narcotic Suite' is The Prodigy at their most musically adventurous. They would never reach these heights again (I don't rate their overpolished follow up Fat of the Land).
Not as good as Fat of the Land but still awesome
This album spurred a kitchen rave with me and my toddler, and was also a great backdrop to spur me on to do work. Would listen again when I need to be revved up. The album started making me feel a little anxious towards the end though and it gets a little samey, but a gem all the same
3.8 2x catch up week of 5/15 over 2-3 days
I was a little young for the rave scene, as this came out when I was 14. This album certainly makes me nostalgic for something I never got to participate in. I wasn't listening to this type of music in 1994, but these days, I'm always looking for a high electronic music without unnecessary lyrics. For that reason, this is a far better album than Fat of the Land for me. This is definitely going into my personal collection
The sound of early adolescence.
Just a little bit nostalgic and very listenable
7/10
Full Throttle // Voodoo People // No Good // 3 Kilos // 3.5/5
this goes hard.
Has some weak songs which make the length and repetitiveness get to me, but when it's good it's excellent
So close to a 5 but just misses out due to an average back straight.
Red pill or blue pill? Red pill or blue pill? Such decisions.
3.7 I quite enjoyed that. Only ever really absorbed Fat of the Land by these guys. That was admittedly better than I expected, but it does suffer from a lot of bloat. For every good, drawn out song (Break & Enter, Full Throttle), there's an equal number of slightly tedious drawn out songs (Their Law, One Love). Trim the fat and this is a fantastic rave album. Still, credit due to this being released so early on.
Classic, soms wat eentonig of langdradig maar over het algemeen interessant, natuurlijk goede beats en goede productie, 7.8/10
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I feel like I’m storming a midnight zombie rave.
My initial reaction was shock that there are two Prodigy albums in the 1001. The first few tracks had me even more irritated - here's that same Prodigy beat in every song. I started thinking maybe they're great when you're at a rave stoned out of your mind but listening on a Sunday morning? Not so much. Well, then I found myself listening over the course of much of the day and it grew on me every time I listened. I was listening while working, and before I knew it I was grooving with the whole album. And THIS is why I think it's so essential to give albums on the 1001 more than one or two listens. Who would think this one was a grower? Favorite tracks: Their Law, Voodoo People, Poison (really great groove), The Narcotic Suite: 3 Kilos & Skylined.
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Good.
Dang this project is really giving me a much stronger appreciation for EDM. Who knew
VOODOO PEOPLE
Heavy guitar riffs over breakbeats? Vaguely evil synths over distorted hardcore basslines? This albums got it all. I thoroughly enjoyed this one from start to finish with the exception of “One Love” which I feel should have been omitted from the record entirely, man was that a real vibe killer. I do feel like the flute work on the track “3 Kilos” deserves a shoutout. It’s like if the dude from Jethro Tull was rolling on molly at 3am in an abandoned warehouse rave, exceptional stuff. I really like this record, I’m glad I was exposed to it from this list. 4*
Loud, high energy and relentless rave/techno. I really liked Their Law, Voodoo People and No Good. But a whole album of 5-8 minute tracks is a bit difficult to slog through, especially when the music is so repetitive.
Aged well, still good today.
I'm torn if I wanna give this a 5. I never listened to them seriously before and this ruled. I'll come back to this.
Love fat of the land so I was excited to check this out and am happy to report it’s great
Never been to a rave and probably wouldn’t enjoy it. But I enjoyed this.
I thought I would like The Fat of the Land more than this but I'm glad I changed my mind. Phenomenal.
Bleep bloop
Hard electronica. Industrial elements, hard beats. I kind of dig it, like the soundtrack of a cool 2000s action movie. Would make excellent exercise or running music. Expected this to be much noisier. Wakes you up.
Rating: 7.5/10 A lot of bangers and fun songs on here. Definitely more musically versatile and interesting than a lot of the other electronic albums on the list.
woah my brain feels like it's been washed
# Album Name: Music For The Jilted Generation # Artist: The Prodigy # Rating: 4/5 # Comments: Very mixed feelings on this one. Ive seen the prodigy live several times. And they are fucking great. Bags of energy. Theres some really good songs on this album too like Law, Voodoo people, poison, no good and one love. But on the other hand its nearly 80 minutes fucking long. I mean, you got to be dropping a few E's to listen to an album like this for 80 mins. I mean if i was, it would probably be great. Either than or doing a kettlebell session. I was torn between a 3 and 4. Id give this a 3.5 if i could. Benefit of the doubt is a 4. # Top Tunes: Law, Voodoo people, poison, no good and one love. # Would I listen to it again? Yes.
Fuck yeah, intro en dan vooral het eerste nummer zet meteen de toon van wat je van dit album moet verwachten. Namelijk een soort fuck you HYPE album. Holy shit, soms vergeet je het maar Voodoo People SLOOPT! Sowieso, dit album is dikke acid, dikke elektro vibes, LOVE dit! Denk dat ik dit album zelfs iets beter vind dan Fat of the land, dit album is veel meer chaos en DnB terwijl het andere album meer gepolijst voelt? Dus: chaotisch album, lekker veel 303s, dikke acid synths en moddervette drums. Het enige wat het van de 5 sterren weghoudt is toch een beetje de matige troep die er tussen zit soms, maar zeker een album dat je moet luisteren voor je dood gaat! FAVO: Break & Enter, Voodoo People, Speedway, No good, One love, Claustrophobic Sting
Coming from my very limited industrial rave music knowledge: no band was able to so well blend dance house music with that absolute guttural sludge like The Prodigy. This is dirty, it is dated, and it is a very niche music. However, it is also addictive and an absolute riot. It warrants that the volume be increased, that you give it a chance and feel it. It is infectious and at its best it is euphoric.
4.5
After the banality of Limp Bizkit yesterday this was a welcome relief
i want to goth dance under a bridge to this
legitimately sick for 1994
Opening tracks were killer, very dark and industrial with punk elements. End of album becomes brighter and poppier and was less of a fan. But the energy was intense, peak 90s electronic music.
Really good, I prefer Fat of the Land but this has a great variety of sounds and style
Guess I'm a jilted generation, cause this is for me.
Oof, such a banger!
Nowhere near as good as Fat of the Land, but as far as Electronic music goes, this is still pretty good. Mid 4.
Really dug this. But I still subscribe to my theory that it takes something really special for an album to justify being over 50 minutes long. It does start to become diminishing returns the longer it goes. 4/5
Another one that's better than Daft Punk
My first impression of this genre and it's amazing
Yes it's too long but everything about is great, from the killer singles to the ambient tracks to the great oil painting adorning the inner sleeve (Castlemorton crusty types outwit the plods en route to a humungus rave). Their most consistent album.
Yep, jolly good. Haven’t heard most of this before but it stands up with the Prodigy content i know and love.
🐜
I remember when these guys debuted. I thought they were so avant garde. Now the music feels somewhat primitive...still, it is a wild album and I enjoyed almost every single track.
Not the best. I like mid-career Prodigy more. And late really. This is a bit rave-y for me. Poison is nice though and a few others.
3,5
Enjoyed it far more then I thought I would
Nice album. Definitely not best that The Prodigy has to offer but still good piece of electronic music.
Some all time favourites on this album. I feel bad giving it a four, but having listened to it in the office it nearly works but not entirely accross the runtime. I know that its great in the club, or in the car, but compared to some other 5s I've given that just always work I felt that particularly the last two tracks of the Narcotic Suite put this out of this group.
Played this to death in the 90s; it was like revisiting an old friend. Plus Bowie loved it, so….
Awesome
Pretty good to help stay awake on a dark afternoon
No bitches we’re smacked up in the making of this album
Probably more of a 3.5, but this makes me want to get drunk and run around
3.5☆/5 09.14.2024
Really enjoyed this album, quite intense after a morning coffee
Classic 90s rave sound
Awesome
In the 90s I hated dance music I listened to rock/metal then Grunge then indie/Britpop and always dismissed dance music then The Prodigy came along with this album and live show and I loved it. This is probably my favourite Prodigy album all tracks are good but the hits Voodoo People, Poison, Their Law & (No Good) Start The Dance are the highlights.
-it’s like Aphex Twin if he spent his nights doing coke and molly in Manchester. This is very solid rave music that made me bop my head and want to get up and dance while doing my psychology homework. Lots of variety -Favorites are Break & Enter, Voodoo People, 3 Kilos, and Skylined
Þó svo að ég hlusti vanalega ekki á svona tæknidansiballatónlist þá finnst mér mjög gaman að hlusta á Prodigy. Það er eitthvað sem gerir tónlistina þeirra þannig að maður kemst í blússandi stuð. Þetta er bara virkilega vel gerð tónlist.
Auténtico terrorismo sonoro, este disco nació como respuesta a la represión de las fiestas rave en Gran Bretaña a mediados de los 90. Su sonido 'techno breakbeat' es más sucio que el de los trabajos precedentes del grupo. Nada más comenzar, los cristales estallando y auténticos aullidos que resuenan en "Break & Enter" anticipan lo que vamos a encontrar. Pura energía. Son excelentes los cuatro singles que se extrajeron del disco: "Voodoo People" (con el vudú como vehículo de rebeldía a través del poder oscuro que hay dentro de cada uno), "Poison" (en torno a al poder interior que, 'como veneno', impulsa al protagonista de la historia), "No Good (Start the Dance)" (himno empoderador que anima a la autosuficiencia y el rechazo de relaciones tóxicas) y "One Love" (sobre la música como un espacio intemporal y universal donde unirse y celebrar experiencias humanas compartidas).
Pretty dated now but has its place
A great electronic album. A different track each time. 7/10
Ik heb deze meerdere keren geluisterd, da's toch al heel wat voor Eric-muziek. Het heeft genoeg interessante muzikale haakjes voor het oor om aan vast te blijven zitten. Afwisseling, wat rariteiten, een hitje en (ook heel wat waard in dit genre) afwezigheid van storende elementen. Ik kon deze goed hebben. Voor de record, ik heb heb hier verder een enkel gevoel van nostalgie bij. Muzikaal was ik destijds echt met andere dingen bezig.
Proper party music. First real listen to The Prodigy and it didn't disappoint - first half of the album was absolutely excellent, notably "Voodoo People" and "Full Throttle". Think the latter side was intended to be more pure dance, and that's fine but for me takes it down a bit. 3.85 all in all.
had this on while working, productivity through the roof, listened again while cycling, good to motivate! really like 3 kilos
The album cover was scary but I enjoyed the music way more than I thought I would..
Are you ready for mid 90s inventive music?
Being as this is, The Prodigy's second album, and one preceding arguably the breakthrough Fat of The Land, this album had a rawer, darker feel too it. Indeed, Keith Flint (RIP) had yet to take up vocals with the group and this does feel a little more 'underground'. Still, some good beats on here.
Great 90s amped up techno that hit mainstream with their next album. I prefer this one, it has a lot of range, from "Full Throttle" to the more chill "3 Kilos". There's some creative use of samples, like glass breaking in "Break & Enter", and fun elements like the studio chatter before "Poison". Fuck's sake, I'm trying to write this fucking tune!
Perfectly aggro drum & bass meets techno. High energy and chaotic as it should be. Techno should have a punk-music-outlaw-edge to it and this does not disappoint.
I drank three espressos and got a months worth of work done while listening to this!!!!
Great album
Bra skole musikk, overraskende nok
Techno hardcore. Estresante. Venga, un 4 por aumentar el ritmo cardiaco.
"fat of the land" is the album that should be on the list, but this was a good listen.
Histórico e revolucionário
kapinallinen akti, haistakaakoon paskakoon lait ja säännökset..me niitä emme tottele.. voitte sitten tuta seuraukset myös, seuraava albumi the prodigy at folsom prison hehheh... tosiaan kyseinen genre ja biisien pituus hämää näin kuunnellessa.. hyvä albumi ehkäpä maaailman ennätys grindaukseen... jos ei robotilla olisi tuhkaa keuhkoissa niin voisi. edeltäkävijöitä kuitenkin, preliminäärinen tuotos genreihin joita tulee kuunneltua kasuaalisti enemmänkin...magik people voodoo people...
Way better than expected. Listened to it mountain biking which definitely helped the enjoyment factor
From my understanding, this is a hardcore breakbeat album from a UK electronic dance group that is considered a pioneer of the big beat subgenre. That much is evident early on from "Break + Enter" with how hard the beat goes amidst synthesizer loops and samples of breaking glass. A lot of this album goes pretty dark with the sampling and beat intensity, to the point where it's closer to industrial than dance. That said, the 78-minute runtime is pretty daunting and requires being in a certain mindset. If you're into heavy rave music, then check it out.
Sublime dance album. I tend to agree with Bowie, who apparently said of it "An amazing record, it impressed me quite a lot." Favourite track: No Good (Start the Dance)
God so Dirty and Grimey and just so fun to dance to. I can't help but bop my head at the sound of this album and just be hype at the electric sounds. This is a club hit and I have heard so many remixes of these songs over the years that revisiting the raws feels just as good. Voodoo people being the stand out here and what a song it is just raw and visceral. It does get kinda samey in the middle which brings it down a bit songs like The heat. The break Beats of Poison is incredibe and breaks up that samey tone. We literally see the influences that this album had on the late 90s especially with daft punk. I mean this is just Homework the prequel so classwork if you will. I will always appreciate what this album did for the culture. Lets start the dance :)
Þessi fkn plata. Snilld frá upphafi til enda. Finnst samt eins og þetta sé mögulega "you had to be there" dæmi. Það tók ekki nema ca 6 tíma að ná "I got the poison, I got the remedy, I got the poison, the rythmical remedy" úr hausnum á mér!
Rad
An assault on my ear drums. Great rhythms and layers of build up. Brooding and menacing at times.
Solid 4/5 for me. Volume up to 11, dancing like a nutter and smiling, pretty much the way I did 30 years ago when first hearing it. An album that pointed the way for me to another musical avenue to explore and enjoy!
4/5. This is a solid collection of heavy electronic songs with songs that can sometimes be annoying after a bit but it's mostly banger after banger. Just foot-tapping goodness and slick and wet beats driving each song. I imagine a dank and sweaty basement with 50 people crammed raving to this. So yeah, it goes hard.
Funny to think that this album is considered EDM. 1994 went harder than 2024.
The Prodigy fights for our rights to party in this rebellious relic of rave culture's heyday.
Powerful; got my body moving!
Really fun electronic album, good from start to finish.
Pleasant memories! The Narcotic Suite raises the score.
Für mich ohne Zusatzstoffe derzeit nicht verwertbar. Trotzdem sehr cool - insbesondere zum Tanzen.
Goated dance album. There were some songs that I wasn't that fond of such as Break & Enter but overall good dance album
I'm not exactly the clubbing type, but this was nice background working music.
I may have heard of Prodigy before, but never listened to them. Avant-garde... odd... not sure how to describe it. Moody, electric. I liked it in a way.
Honestly really enjoyable and a big surprise for me. This was a good electronic album.
Have a soft spot for this one from my raving days. Prodigy managed to go back underground a bit more with this one, very influential, great album to get ya pumped!
Song: No Good (Start The Dance) I was not expecting to like this song much at all, considering my feelings about Fatboy Slim earlier this week. But it was, surprisingly, a much more enjoyable listen. The instrumental was more layered and had more going on. I liked a lot of the different sections of the song, despite the repetition. The vocals blended well with the instrumentals, and just added another interesting texture. Overall, while I still felt mostly that I'd heard nearly the whole song once I got about halfway through, it kept me invested with some shifts and new rhythms near the end. Definitely feels like music to move to, whether that's dancing or maybe running. This feels like it could be a good running song. All in all, this was a pretty fun listen, and I'd listen to it again.
Good dance tracks, you can picture this in the Blade nightclub
My kinda dance music: squelchy bass, aggressive guitars, frenetic beats, spacey synths, and bleepy bloopy hooks. Some of The Prodigy's best tracks are on this album. A few others sorta feel like filler, but I never got bored. 3.5 / 4
Définitivement plus aimé que The Fat of the Land. Bien qu'il y aille toujours une influence big beat présente, les sons plus techno/trans (selon wikipedia) sont vraiment plus mon genre. Je dirais que c'est quand même un style auquel je dois m'habituer, mais il n'y a pas vraiment de pièces que je n'ai pas aimé. C'était bon du début à la fin. 8/10
Has the feeling of an epic story taking place in "another world". I didn't personally enjoy it very much but it is a journey through and through. I may refer back to it for dance music.
absolutely chuffed to have this one just am absolutely buzzing over this innit
Lots of grungy energy in here, plenty of fun to be had.
Timeless, a good bunch of the tracks are still being played at festivals and raves around the world 30 years after release.
Besides the occasional overuse of a really irritating sample (looking at you, broken glass), this album has a lot to love if you're into electronic music. 8 minute long songs with themes that build and layer on top of each other for a payoff that makes you wanna move. Several songs from this album would be on a playlist if I ever were to host a dance party. Favorite tracks: Full Throttle, Speedway, No Good (Start the Dance)
I mean, it's prodigy.
The album where The Prodigy (mostly) abandoned their early techno sound and invited the punk rock kids into the clubs. For album from angry ravers, this album holds up surprisingly well, nearly 30 years on.
I don't listen to techno music much. But when I do, whether at a club, rave, or finding some playlist to throw, it's almost always repetitive and has almost no substance, serving as nothing more than a "sound" I'm in the mood for while I dance, socialize, or study to. But this is one of those albums that teach me something new about the genre, and it throws me off every time. Fat of the Land was one of my gateway albums to electronic music. And just like Fat of the Land, it incorporates the styles of hardcore punk and metal to pull in those rock-oriented audiences. But this one is not as accessible. That's not a bad thing though. This record is very focused on what it aims to do. And primarily to me, it makes techno colorful and engaging. Tracks are long but never repetitive, centering around a theme but throwing in all sorts of twists and turns. You know something's right when I can actually stand a whole double album of it. It starts to trade industrial for funk by the time we get to "No Good" which is actually a nice break from the intense hard beats of the rest of the album. Almost no forgettable tracks, and lots that leave an impression. Good job Prodigy for making me like techno more.
Good work music. Solid beats.
Big beat is perhaps the boppiest subgenre of electronic music. It may be repetitive, but the loud and explosive sounds of it is interesting enough for me to stay.
Was so happy seeing this come up, a true classic, loved this one for 10 years. For me though, fat of the land clears, even if this has more of an arcade-y appeal. Favourites here remain the singles, which are among the prodigy's best.
I've been wanting to get into 90s techno for a while, this is a good a place to start as any. Great mash of genres, loved all the metal bits. Very hypnotizing album, this sort of stuff is great to listen to while doing repetitive manual labour.
I'll be honest, I don't know a whole lot about EDM. I've never been into it that much. I enjoy it when I hear it and that's kind of it. This was pretty good though. Music For The Jilted Generation sounds like it was for the jilted. It's fast and occasionally harsh. No better example is the song Their Law, a fast and heavy guitar-laden track. The use of breakbeats is prevalent throughout this album, which combined with its fast-paced nature, makes for a very unique sound. This album can be a little weird at points, especially with some of the beats and samples used. These moments kind of work though because the songs embrace this abrasiveness and it amplifies the oddness. Past the halfway point, tracks begin to slow down and be a bit more odd than in the first half though. Especially the tracks One Love (Edit) and No Good (Start the Dance). However, the last three tracks do pull off this stylistic switch well. 3 Kilos might be the most laid-back track but it works as a bit of a break before the end. Skylined is more than 3 Kilos, but a bit faster, a bit heavier, and a bit more abrasive. Claustrophobic Sting serves as a melancholy finisher that's a bit eerie, and it works. Overall, this album was a bit flawed and it kind of lost momentum near the middle, but this was a very fun and fast-paced record. I'd be happy to give it 7/10.
I've only heard of The Prodigy through their collaboration with Tom Morello. This is not my usual vibe but I honestly dig it.
So good for how weird it is. I would never expect an electronic album like this to be this good. Especially the back half.
I absolutely love big beat, so this was a meatball tossed directly down the middle of the plate. The songs are huge and long as fun as fuck, and Prodigy's sample-work is masterful. Even if a track starts out only *alright*, these guys no how to pull some of the greatest vocal samples of all time to elevate anything they touch into pure bliss. While I prefer the Brothers in terms of the genre's classics, this is excellent. I only wish that big beat came back any time soon. It's time for the genre revival. A raving, neon green 4/5.
The Prodigy, apparently not to be confused with the rapper "Prodigy," is an energetic D'n'B collective. Points out of the gate for an unsettling album cover. I like the play on words with Break & Enter, which features a beat composed largely of traditional pounding drum and bass centered around a sample of a breaking window. This seems like pre-dubstep given the bass warble. Very cleverly arranged, particularly the distorted vocal sample; however, it makes use of some kind of hockey stop'n'go tempo manipulation. Hard to tell, but I think I took the red pill. As far as music for writing software to goes, this is that good kush. Their Law features a heavy metal riff infused DmB jam that keeps things bobbing start to finish. Need some water after those last three songs. Thankfully The Heat (The Energy) opens up to give me a chance to breath. Unexpected psych laced electro warble to pick up the back half of the album. The dominating sample on Claustrophobic Sting is the thing of nightmares. I'm deeply unsettled. Overall, I'm into this album for what it is. Trancey and psych infused drum n' bass that keeps the floor moving. I think that there is a decent amount of variation across the album and individual songs, while long, have enough elements and progression to keep them from feeling stale. Its not my absolute favorite from this genre, but I enjoy it and will likely come back for more 4 / 5.
Light 8
Techno hardcore. Estresante. Venga, un 4 por aumentar el ritmo cardiaco.
Jeg aner ikke hvorfor, men jeg digger The Prodigy. Det er slitsomt å høre på, men det gjør ingenting. Nytes best på tinnitus-nivå? Jeg sparer 5/5 til Fat of the Land som jeg synes er bedre. Mitt største tap konsertmessig er når de avlyste konserten sin på Pstereo 2019.
Love the aggressive sounds, but the album is easily 20 minutes too long. FS: Break & Enter, Full Throttle, No Good, Claustrophobic
Love the energy and love Voodoo people. Makes me want to mosh pit more than anything
Oh ik had nog nooit naar een heel the prodigy album geluisterd maar wel echt leuk!
Missing a few points that they would hammer away at their follow-up. Definitely feel like I'm crawling through the London sewer system at 3 am looking for shiny coins, however.
I have many a story from my Step-Mum of clubbing where this band's music is heavily involved. Don't usually listen to drum and bass but hard to say I didn't enjoy myself listening to this.
This was a pretty fun album. I enjoy techno quite a bit lately, especially with the clear metal influence that this one had. The songs were a bit repetitive, but that's just the nature of the genre. I would love to see a lot of this mixed into modern sets. Could definitely see myself enjoying this in a warehouse or stage on the edge of the woods at 3am. 8/10
Una especie de techno medio beat music, progre con un tire al rave. No estaba para escuchar esto pero me sorprendio para buena. Los arreglos son muy acertados y no cansa en ser escuchado nunca 8/10.
Quite an album cover. The intro was cute but for some reason Break & Enter grated on me a little. But it wasn't long before I was swept up in the forward motion through interesting soundscapes and digging the energy of these tracks. Perfect background music for working, working out, hanging out. I'm happy to have heard this album -- it's going into rotation and I'll be exploring what else The Prodigy has to offer.
hyper funk? Groovy post punk dance music? Whatever you call it, much more interesting than I was expecting. 4 stars.
Con "Voodoo people" y "Poison" es suficiente para darle 3 estrellas, el resto no está mal pero no sé si al volver a oírlo subirá mi opinión. Añado "Their law", "Full throttle", "No good" o "Claustrophobic sting". Mejor de lo que recordaba. Creo que se merece 4 estrellas por mi parte. No lo dejéis pasar si no lo habéis oído nunca.
It’s strange that Liam later said this was never meant to be political in the first place when much of its power comes from the context of the Criminal Justice Bill which threatened to criminalise rave culture. It’s what gives the album its focus and energy and elevates the record from mere beeps and whistles.
Great album I really enjoyed the production
Very very fun and so deeply in the 90s! Feels like a heist movie and a car chase simultaneously on some tracks. And yet, such hypnotising alluring beats and gorgeous drums cut through the cheese to leave me with the best breakbeat album I've ever heard.
Would have been a five if the songs were all 2 minutes shorter.
I'm more of a prodigy fan today than ever
7/10 I guess this is good? not really an EDM guy so I can’t speak for how good this is I guess it’s enjoyable, and the production was sometimes creative but ultimately, rave electronica just sounds kind of annoying
Of eerder 3,5? Herbeluisteren
As Kyle said, caffeine for your eardrums
Music for the Jilted Generation is the second album by English electronic music group the Prodigy. This techno album was seen as a response to the rave scene in Britain being stunted by the laws and police cracking down on it. The album received critical acclaim for containing great techno music that was "harder" than anything the group had recorded before. I enjoyed this early EDM music and felt nostalgic for a time period that I wasn't even alive for yet.
This is one of my partner’s favourite bands so I was a little familiar already. Really liked the “vibe” of this, would definitely enjoy it in a live setting, but not something I’d listen to on the day-day-day as I’m not huge on electronic unless it’s in a club/at a gig or party.
I was actually quite impressed compared to their follow up to this, but it had a bit more substance in my mind.
Aggro. Fast. Heavy. Music made for taking Adderall and rollerblading and hacking all day.
не совсем мое, но годнота есть
Pretty awesome
better than I thought! moves well. Idk if its techno or what genre but ye
Definitely had influence on every action movie soundtrack after this. Cool sounds.
This definitely isn't as good as the fat of the land, which I need to listen to again to see if it still deserves my surprised 5 star because I don't remember it a whole bunch, but it's still about as good as big beat rave edm gets. It gets you hyped, then you get exhausted of it by the halfway point, then eventually you just start vibing. It sounds like ass if you listen to it any other way besides as loud as possible though. Voodoo people was my fav and is also another fun origin of a tik tok sound.
hell yea voodoo people. also poison is jammin. nearly a 5
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Not a superfan of rave music and The Prodigy in particular - it seems like they are playing the same track over and over at slightly varying speeds - but some times it works and I can appreciate it so overall still a reasonably strong electronic album. 7/10 = 4 stars
Definitely good: Start the dance!
Prodigy getting back to its digital roots. Only the best in digital doots, bweeps, and dial-up connection tones. Infectious as hell, and impossible to not move to. Good stuff from the golden age of rave.
Yeah pretty good
Another one of those albums (and bands) that I rate highly because of the impact it made on me when I first heard it. It still holds up today - hell it sounds like a greatest hits collection. If you listen to this and don't want to dance (or at least bob your head once in a while) you are likely a robot and not a human.
Frenetic breakbeats. Samples from metal songs and TV shows. The first side is a little bit monotonous for my tastes. The second side has some great variety.
Forgot that 'Voodoo People' was on this album, and the moment I heard it I was instantly taken back to a classic old skool YouTube video featuring the Pendulum remix. If 'see you tonight geez' and 'oh-five V6 Clio Twin Turbo' ring any bells, you know what I'm referring to. That video seems today to be a relic of an era when a sizeable proportion of UK youth culture could be summed up as "'avin' it large", and there's the same frantic, sweaty urgency around having a phreaky good time on MFTGJ. The Prodigy always were the most rock oriented of the dance acts, which helped me to enjoy it. I listened to MFTJG whilst driving, and I recommend you do too. This is the perfect, pulsing, insistent beat for a spot of dromoscopy. Luvverly!
"Music for the Jilted Generation" is the second studio album by the English electronic band The Prodigy. At this point, The Prodigy consisted of Liam Howlett (synthesizers, keyboards, drum machine, mixing, engineering) and Maxim Reality (vocals, writer). Their electronic music uses elements of rave, techno, breakbeat techno and hardcore techno. I'd have to really dig in to find exactly what the differences between those styles are but this music is fast paced with a variety of samples, noises, synth sounds and different beats. No lead singers...that would come. It is quite interesting I must say. Although denied by Howlett, the title and some of of the songs are thought to be directed at the corruption of the UK rave scene by the mainstream and the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 00 unlicensed rave parties. The album was nominated for UK 1994 Mercury Prize (best UK album). The first song to catch my attention was "Break & Enter" with its fast drum beats, sounds of glass breaking and ominous keyboards. It morphs into more of a dance beat. Nice keyboard chorus. The third single "Voodoo People" begins a spacey guitar using Nirvana's "Very Ape." The drum beat sounded like The Prodigy I would hear on their next album. It samples Johnny Pate's "You're Starting Too Fast." The fourth single "Poison" has mechanical sounding keyboards, other weird keyboard sounds, someone yelling "ya" throughout, someone saying they have the poison and the remedy and changing dance beats. A lot going on. Cool sounding song. The second single "No Good (Start the Dance)" had lasers sounds starting it off. The fast pace continues. Vocal samples of Kelly Charles' "No Good for Me." This song reminded me of some of the DJ sets I've seen at Perry's Tent at Lollapalooza...very repetitive, very techno. The techno continues on their first single "One Love," a very similar style to the previous song. Repetitive and weird keys, a Prodigy-sounding drumbeat. I would have said initially that this sounded of its place and time in the 90's and I think it still does but I do hear a lot of this in today's EDM. I was expecting more "Firestarter" type songs. Some pretty serious techno. It does suffer from the CD era clocking in at a long 118 minutes.
rimelig ok
Banger.
Solid fucking rave music. Please listen with caution: this shit will blow your balls off!
Timo 12v olis vielä antanut heittämällä 5 tähteä, mutta Timo 39v ei. Edelleenkin varsin hyvälevy ja kuuntelee enemmän kuin mielellään, mutta kirkkain tähtiluokka jää kyllä saavuttamatta.
Ei petä.
7/10 what if the Chemical Brothers went to a rave
Aquí encara eren uns punkis raveros amb molt malla llet i moltes idees. Electrònica gairebé pura, però feta amb mala sang -en el millor sentit de la paraula- i uns tons polítics i contemporanis que la fan encara més interessant
I finally get around to the third of the big beat three. The UK dance scene in the 90's was exploding with fantastic new sounds, but The Prodigy had perhaps the edgiest and rawest sounds. Pulling from techno, breakbeat, and acid subgenres of electronic music, this album fed into the rising popularity of drum and bass, which would build on breakbeat and take the UK by storm for their fast rhythms and infectious grooves. Music for the Jilted Generation would be at the forefront of it all. Songs like "Their Law" are almost reminiscent of hardcore punk, layering distorted guitar and aggressive vocals ("fuck em and their law") give The Prodigy's sound a distinct edge. I'll also add that they sound incredibly cool, moreso than their big beat contemporaries. What can I say, I'm a sucker for genuinely great albums that also prove themselves to be landmark releases in music history.
A lot of these songs are progressive, DJ-friendly tracks with long intros and outros so they can transition slowly between songs, but "DJ-friendly" often means less palatable for casual listeners. If you're willing to go with the flow, there's a lot to like here (see "Break & Enter," which has some truly fantastic bits in the middle). For the less patient, tracks like "Voodoo People" and "No Good (Start the Dance)" get to the point more quickly. Other highlights include "Poison" (which reminded me that I really need to find a copy of the Pump Panel Reconstruction Remix of New Order's "Confusion," which many will recognize from the blood rave in "Blade"), "One Love," and "3 Kilos" (which sounds like the bastard child of "Low Rider" and an acid trip). It's not as good as "Fat of the Land," but it's still a solid offering by the Prodigy.
Rating: 8/10 Best songs: Vodoo people, Poison, No good, 3 kilos
good for background music
Mechanical industrial and great. Sounds very early and experimental
Breakbeat with a side of industrial derangement. Arguably a little too long, but it starts and ends strong.
Voodoo People!!
Solid 3.5, but for nostalgia reasons it definitely rounds up to a 4.
Ah yes, music for the Jilted Generation indeed.
Masterful but too much fat.
Neon Tokyo and speed. Драки и что-то от Матрицы (?) Понравились the heat, no good, 3 kilos Мрачный, жутковатый
Decent
Great industrial drum and bass
Interesting, mostly one man band. Loopy, I could see myself capable of producing this. Should listen again and take some inspiration. Poison, Voodoo Trippy trance.
Such a fun album. I definitely need to be in the right mood, but it’s fun as hell.
Which generation is the jilted one? The Prodigy are Gen Xers, and that was probably their main audience for this album, though by the follow-up they probably started to capture a lot of Millenials with “Firestarter” hitting big on MTV. That follow-up (“The Fat of the Land”) was my main exposure to The Prodigy, and thanks to that video I’ve always associated the group with Keith Flint, but it turns out he was a dancer for the group that they wound up using as a singer on a few tracks. However, Liam Howlett is much more responsible for The Prodigy’s music. And without Flint, “Music for the Jilted Generation” is a much better album. “No Good (Start the Dance)” was the only one that really bothered me, and the rest were all between tolerable and quality breakbeat. So was Gen X jilted? Growing up through Reaganomics and Thatcherism could do that, I guess. But then the Cold War ended and I thought there was some hope about the direction of the world in the 90s. In England, the anti-rave, civil liberty restricting Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 made for a pretty jilted countercultural scene and may have provoked The Prodigy. But beyond that, what was it that made both sides of the Atlantic so jilted in the mid-90s, unleashing grunge and then later rap rock, rage rock, nu metal, and emo? By the time you get to 2000, there seems to be so much discontent and rage in the culture. And then 9/11 happened and you would think it would have gotten worse. That Gen Z and Gen Alpha would be even more jilted. But instead there was a pop resurgence as culture got less enraged and more vapid. With all that’s happened in the last 25 years, we really ought to be more jilted.
This is a very good techno album. I’m sure many people put this album on in the mid-1990s, popped E, and had a grand old time letting some random dude massage their scalp because it felt great. My biggest takeaway is that all I can think about during Break And Enter is the dude working the vacuum in this video: https://www.reddit.com/r/toptalent/comments/vq7zl6/dj_spin_that_shit/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf I’m not sure if this album will go in my library, like all other 4+’s, because techno isn’t really my jam, but the rating is deserving nonetheless.
Oh yeah! Not heard a full prodigy album before. Got me going. Like most dance albums, trailed off a bit towards the end.
6/14/2022 - ALBUM #138 Today's Album: "Music for the Jilted Generation" by The Prodigy - Wow what a really fucking unique sound this album has. Stemming from the electronic dance sounds we heard on The Chemical Brothers' and Daft Punk's Records, This album takes those electronic loops and eclectic samples and twists them into the really twisted picture of society. The title isn't wrong when it claims that this is music for a generation that's pissed off with the ways of the past, with songs like The Law and Break & Enter emphasizing this idea of disregarding societies norms. The big problem I have had with electronic dance music so far is that a lot of the loops can get pretty repetitive and lose their charm quickly, but key production choices set this album apart a bit. The sound of the album is pretty awesome, with invasive samples of industrial sounds and the way the sounds are staged give them this echo that makes it feel so cold and inorganic. Each song sort of feels like it could be the background music in some crazy gun fight or car chase in a blockbuster movie, but the picture I get clearest in my mind is an absolutely insane dance floor. This music is the perfect thing to get a crowd of people on their feet and hyped, with a ton of really great instrumental builds and they often introduce instrumental lines that sound really pleasing to the ear and contrast with the really dark industrial beats that are constantly building. The drum machine work and general sampling throughout the project is next level and I think if any album was going to help me make the jump from simple loops like Daft Punk's Homework into more drugged out and insane EDM, there is no better transition album than this one. The way things build just leaves me kind of speechless, as it quickly goes from a pretty standard beat to something that is so chaotic it is hard to follow anything. With that, though, the mix of this record is absolutely masterful, as all of these noises feel balanced so so well. No sounds really became obnoxious despite how invasive they are because they are placed perfectly in the back of the mix. The track Voodoo People is one that I have definitely heard before and it sums up a lot about what makes this album great. In one part alone, I hear a blaring synth lead, string accompaniment, a distorted flute, a sample of a pastor, and about 10 other auxiliary effects to build the dark atmosphere that makes this album amazing. Overall, this is a really great EDM album that has opened my eyes to the darker and more chaotic side of EDM, while still being really accessible and fun. Give this one a listen if you want some bomb ass music to dance to on a really energetic night or maybe just something to play while playing an intense fps game. Highlights: Break & Enter, Full Throttle, Voodoo People, No Good (Start the Dance), 3 Kilos Score: 7.5/10 The best EDM album so far
Usually I'd say 1hr 29m is a bit much for a studio album but this works. The high energy is engrossing. Would listen to this again
That was a fun trip down memory lane yet the album still sounds good despite it being so of the era. Liam Howlett’s mastery of production is uncanny here and most of the songs, especially on Side A, are total bangers. It starts to wane a little in energy after No Good, but theyre actually good tracks still - albeit not the classic pounding of the first half. Good stuff.
As an album not actually all that great, first few tracks just electronica, however the stand outs of voodoo people and start the dance are just so good. Also helped dance music become the sound of the 90s so super influential.
I really enjoyed this album. It was strange in a good way. Every song just sounded like boss music to some retro video game.
needs more 70s PSA cat gibberish
Quite enjoy The Prodigy. You do have to be in the right mood though. Found myself bouncing to most of this. Love me some 90s dance music!