Reviews (page 3 of 9)
It’s a no
I think the one other prodigy album was plenty of prodigy
I want to rate it a 1.5 because it doesn’t deserve a 2 but it’s better than a 1. Unfortunately I don’t have that option so 2 it is for intrigue but music that lasts way too long and is far too repetitive.
i had only listened to some songs before, but its a really good album
So the only real criticism I have towards this album is that it’s not “the fat of the land”. Like there’s a few skips on this album but very few. The big stand out for this album are “poison”, “their law”, “one love”, and “no good”. There’s so much creativity and energy in these tracks. While also being really infectious. Which I think a lot of the time can be overwhelming or exhausting, but this album just flows so perfectly that it feels natural and not like over the top and desperate like some electronic dance music can come across. Honestly this album sounds like it came straight out of an alien rave, and I don’t mean that in a clichéd way, like it’s very original and just so much fucking fun.
Although I have often felt jolted myself, I found no comfort in this music. I do not judge you if you do, though. Or maybe the intent was not to provide comfort, but to remind you over and over again that you were jilted? One way or another, I care not for this genre.
78 minutes of psychedelic dance music was interesting but not entertaining. I can’t believe it was through kindness that they left two minutes of empty space on the cd.
I knew Prodigy would be on this list sooner or later. Glad to get it out of the way.
All 3 of their albums from the 1990s are absolute masterpieces. So many original ideas here. Often imitated, never replicated. An album that remembers that music is meant to be enjoyed, best with excellent production and cool polyrhythmic vibes, and not coolly observed from a distance with pretentious lyrical propaganda. Everything on here are absolute bangers that have become standards across the dance and electronic sub-genres. Hell, even classical musicians dig covering tracks like "Voodoo People". Remember when music was fun? One of the albums that David Bowie loved and that influenced his 1995 "OUTSIDE" album.
No sé que acabo de escuchar, no me gustó pero porque no es mi estilo, no quita que lo valore y que me parezca una genialidad.
This is the 2nd album from The Prodigy I've been given for this listening project. Which begs the question: who did The Prodigy blow to get on this list?
Ne volim ovaj album, ne paše mi. Nema do Fat of the Land kad je o njemu riječ. Ovaj album mi zvuči kao ono što i jest: vježbica za legendarni album koji će vječno biti hit. 2/5, 4/10
fine but overwhelming electronic punkish tunes
Ganz cool. War heute aber nicht meins. FAT Land ist auch wesentlich krasser.
Altes Prodigy war so cool?!
I'm not sure how well this album has stood the test of time, having been released at a particular point in UK political history. But many of the individual tracks are pretty rousing dance music, and not something I'd probably play too often. The album is far too long.
Woopwoop
I think an argument can be made that Prodigy brought this style of music to a broader audience. I was already into this style at the time so was happy to add them to my mix but I know for others Prodigy is their touchstone for this style.
Feels like it could be the soundtrack for a racing game/movie. Not really my vibe but it had some fun parts.
Of all the albums I haven’t listened to, this one might be the most embarrassing to admit – I have four Prodigy CDs and one of them is Music for the Jilted Generation. Highlights: Break & Enter, Their Law, Voodoo People, Speedway (Theme from Fastlane), No Good (Start the Dance), Skylined, Claustrophobic Sting
Not yet _those_ famous The Prodigy you could hear blasting from every window in the neighbourhood back in the day. Pretty mid comparing to what came next.
It's good electronic Euro-rave music, I like the beats, and I like the composition, but no matter how good it is, listening to rave music in the afternoon at home with no drugs is just not how this was intended to be listened to. I should be in a south london warehouse on a cocktail of drugs that will kill me by 29 hoping to catch the eye of the twink in fishnets. Still a great album, but just not the mood or timing for it.
Not my fave Prodigy album but still enjoyed it.
No standouts
Better than I expected but not something I’d revisit.
anstrengend
Electric club music. The only possible way this can be enjoyed is if you’re on LSD. Even then, it’s not worth it.
TBC. Cool stuff, just can't have this blasting during a day of calls.
This isn't a genre I listen to normally but I thought it was a fantastic album! High energy and fun. Four stars.
This was fine for what it is, but once again it feels a lot longer than it needs to be. There are some solid moments, but the length drags it down. “Their Law” is the standout track for me.
Electronic music is often a relentless drone of sameness. Which is perfect for the club. Or for those times you want to focus and let the music exist in the background. The music on this record create a propulsive sense of anxiety.
I liked this album a lot more than I thought I would. Lots of interesting sounds!!
Not sure how this album is distinguishable from any other electronica album.
absolute cinema.
This was pretty cool, not anything like what I've heard before. That being said, I felt like some song and the album as a whole dragged a bit. This probably wouldn't be as much of an issue if I was listening to this in a context more suited for it.
I'm a very big fan of instrumentals it seems, and I absolutely loved grimy/industrial tone this album had throughout. Excellent background music!
Even for today this album feels so special, experimental, and unique. Literally dancing the whole way. Only thing I don't like is the album cover it isn't the vibe ...
fun matrix music
Some great stuff here Vibed tf out
78 minutes of beats to ice skate uphill to
I LOVE YOU STEVIE NICKS
In a club, on drugs, in the mid-90s, in Britain, this sounded good. Does that make it actually good?
Bracing electronic, done at a very high level. It may be a little too rigorous for me, but I respect it and found myself nodding and tapping along.
I like the Prodigy, in that it means I like the couple of The Prodigy songs that used to be on TV or radio. None of which were on this record. But it's still the same recipe, electronic music that metal heads would dig.
Not for me
Solid. A bit weird at the end and not wholly the vibe I like from this genre, but I enjoyed overall!
This is not my jam. Songs are much to similar to each other.
absolutely not.
Rave music which goes on for a bit too long
10 stars!
Dark, grimy, filled with rage. Sometimes makes you feel like you're on speed, or so I imagine. "Their Law" and "Voodoo People" are among the Prodigy's finest, the former being my favorite track by them for years.
- Not for me - Unless I'm in the gym - All the songs pretty much sound the same
Tedious and offputting. Not the *worst* electronica I've head, but that's about as much praise as I can give it. I sort of liked "3 Kilos" with the flute loop. Saved it from being a 1.
An influential and creative electronic masterpiece. I love everything going on in this album. Every song feels like it has its own place in the album and without it the album would feel incomplete. 8.5/10, Favorite Song: Voodoo People
Brilliant 90s DnB album. Some belters on here, some not as good, but overall thoroughly enjoyable.
Good
4+/5
I’m on album 815 and I’m increasingly confident no one in the entire history of music has ever made a good album that is over 1 hour long. If I’m ever given dictatorial powers, I will be sending to the gulag any artist that refuses to edit down to a tight 35 mins
Lots of repetitive drum beats that went on for far too long.
Driving down the motorway at 8 in the morning listening to this. Thoroughly enjoyed it! Not my regular jam but really enjoyed it.
Definitely not quite The Fat of the Land, but still a really interesting electronic record.
More EDM! Yeah this was fine. Just like the other Prodigy album on here. But nothing amazing. Average.
Given how big they were in the late 90's (scoring UK number hits with Firestarter and Breathe), it strikes me as strange how they didn't manage to follow up Far of the Land properly. The follow up was seven years later and I had completely lost interest in The Prodigy at that point though even then Jilted Generation was only a decade earlier. My brother isn't really into music and only has a handful of CDs in his car, one of which is The Prodigy's singles collection. This with Poison, Voodoo People and No Good (Start the Dance) was their best album.
I work in Accounts Receivable. That’s not exciting. I don’t hate it, there’s just nothing really sexy about nagging clients about money they owe, or asking when they can give the next money, or why they paid $1,590.00 on an invoice when the invoice was $1,600.00 for only you to realize your bank sometimes charges a $10.00 wire fee for overseas charges. Anyway, I listened to this album while I was doing the tedious task of taking notes on our latest aging report while listening to The (fucking) Prodigy’s Music for a Jilted Generation! There’s no (fucking) nor ! in The Prodigy’s band name, but it felt right. Under the wrong circumstances, electronic music can also seem tedious and pointless, like updating an aging report for an accounts receivable job. But when I zoned back in to The Prodigy’s music, I wasn’t just doing my AR job, I was doing my AR job in the Matrix! I was logging which clients needed a follow up message and which clients need to be send to our collection lawyers to save Morpheus with Trinity! I was Run Lola Run! Doing running (I honestly saw Run Lola Run a long time ago on a DVD I own and don’t recall the plot specifically but I remember running and electronic music). I don’t know who is jilted in this generation but I have to imagine The Prodigy is going to unjilt you by the end of this album
No. 383/1001 Intro NR Break & Enter 2/5 Their Law 2/5 Full Throttle 2/5 Voodoo People 2/5 Speedway 2/5 The Heat 2/5 Poison 2/5 No Good 3/5 One Love 3/5 3 Kilos 3/5 Skylined 2/5 Claustrophobic Sting 1/5 Average: 2,17 Just not something I personally enjoyed.
2 is being kind. Easily could be a 1.
L'effet ''nostalgie'' de Fat of The Land n'y est pas pour celui-ci.
Un autre calvaire. D'un point de vue fonctionnaliste, ça atteint son but je présume. Ça fait plaisir dans les raves, et ça fait plaisir aux poudrés pour se pomper dans leur tour à bureau ou dans leur cross-fit. J'ai moi-même testé en le mettant pour gravir la côte Lacombe à vélo, ça a dû augmenter ma performance d'un bon 8 secondes. Mieux que Fat of the Land à mon sens, mais je suis peut-être juste de meilleure humeur que la semaine passée.
Jeanjean a déjà fait le commentaire. Sans l’aspect nostalgie, c’est rough! En plus moins de voix comparé aux tubes suf l’album d’avant.
Cue the Grinch: hate, hate, hate, loathe entirely. What a waste of listening time. 0/5
The good old punki punki
Not at all what I was expecting but I also don't know what I was expecting. It's interesting. It's lively. It's enjoyable. I just don't have a playlist to put it in really. I like the guitar. Oh that's that one tiktok sound. Interesting. I do really like this I'm gonna save the album for when I just want some noise. Wait yeah I really like this. Yeah big fan very dynamic very interesting very vibey. Favourite: No Good (Start The Dance) Least favourite: Intro
Anxiety inducing
This felt very much like trance music
Kuuntelin tosi pintapuolisesti kelaillen. Levoton, koliseva, konemainen. Ufomainen. 👽 Vois ehkä toimii jossain juostessa? Mut ei kyl mun kuppi teetä. Ei silti paskinkaan.
Were it 20 minutes shorter it would've been a perfect 5/5. There is such a thing as too much of something good. It's a legendary electronic album and one of the most influential too (done by one guy mostly), with a lot of legendary songs, but unfortunately, by the end you feel a little exhausted (and not in a good way). 4/5
Ei tällaista kone paskaa voi kuunnella
Glass breaking sample on Break & Enter is hilarious. But if we're being serious, astonishing record (first half is better tho) Fuck it, even tho Full Throttle drags it down, it's still soooo good.
If I could give this 10 stars, I would. One of my favourite albums. Bangers all the way through.
This really upset my dog.
If you don't like this album I don't think we can be friends
Only allowed to listen to 3 music videos w/o subscription. Wasn't allowed to go back and choose another source.
This was far too much.
lol wow. No thanks. Kinda disappointed there isn't a -1 rating.
Not my preference. Sounds like it should be menu music for some obscure PS1 racing game. I get how this might have been new in the mid 90s for electronic rock/rave music.
I liked it but it didn’t really grab me at all. Interesting that there were little to. I lyrics I don’t know how I never noticed that on their songs from this era before.
7/10
I didn't love this as much as I thought I would as a prodigy ultra. Prefer Invaders.
Better with lasers
3+ Stars (9/15)
Best prodigy album ? I listened to it non stop as a kid and even now 30 years later it still fills me with joy.
It’s good background techno but nothing stands out compared to Fat of the Land. Not sure this needed to be on the list. Enjoyed it for what it was.
Very good, I like the weight and combativeness of this album. It's also fun af.
This is fine as far as electronics goes, I just don't especially enjoy it.
Baustelle, Gerstetten, Deutschland. Joa, immernoch hörbar.
One of the great British albums
Well done but sometimes techno sounds fascistic to me and this was one of those times.
The second and last Prodigy album in this collection for me (chronologically the first, though), and while I wasn't sure with "Fat of the Land" whether the collection really needed two of their albums, I'm glad they included this one too. I'm really impressed at the edginess and relentlessly strong beats/rhythms of most tracks, especially in the first half of the album; they might have been big in the rave scene in the UK, but this album hits a lot harder than a lot of their contemporaries. And I also like the seething anger/rage against the UK Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 (most obvious in "Their law" but pushing through many of the songs, and rightly so given the disturbing license of that law to police based purely on lifestyle (sadly not isolated to the UK, or the 90s)), even if Liam Howlett later disavowed any political undercurrent. My favorites were probably "Break & Enter", "Voodoo people" and the very familiar "Poison", but a solid album throughout, and some great samples interspersed as well.
fun rave music--really gets you moving! As an album, it could have used a tighter edit.
In a world awash in grunge, The Prodigy were doing something brand new. Aggressive. Industrial. Fast. NuMetal and Electronic. Nine inch nails meets aphex twins. Solid.
Admittedly I was in a pretty bad mood when I finished this, but this is really something else. I feel like it’s kind of better than The Fat of the Land in like every way. I think there’s a lot of cool experimentation with sounds, they were really all over the place. It was also perfect hype music for me going into my AP test today. Just an absolute blast from start to finish. Favorites: Break & Enter, Voodoo People, Poison
The voodoo who do what you don't dare do people.. RIP Keith, much love to The Prodigy always.
Based on the album art I was expecting metal, but was delighted to get electric, it was a good album to listen to while doing chores, none of the songs stood out much but it was a pleasant experience.
Quite different from The Fat Of The Land, but I like it all the same, sometimes even more. It's still raw and primitive by some aspects (a bit of editing would have helped, especially since it's such a long album), but it's formidably dark, abrasive and unrelenting, bordering on industrial territory. The aggressive and energetic beats make for perfect clubbing music. Both a pure product of the 90s and a record that was way ahead of its time, it clearly opened up a lot of new possibilities. Not something I listen very often, since I seldom hang out in abandoned warehouses with leather-clad cyberpunks - but it's still an excellent electro album. Even the cover art is a perfect fit for the music, screaming of pain and urban alienation. 8/10
Mais quel album électro ! On ressent de la Dance, de la techno, des beats typés house et parfois un peu de métal. C'est brut et malgré les années ça n'a pas vieilli et cela reste moderne. Une belle découverte pour moi même si je connaissais certains morceaux mais je n'avais jamais écouté l'album entièrement. J'aime bien... mais je ne suis pas fan et je ne réécouterai pas cet album, je m'en tiendrai donc à 3 étoiles.
I was still deep into metal and its many branches when this claustrophobic, seriously dark record came out. It shook a lot of my certainties and opened up a whole new set of possibilities for me. It felt like a hidden bomb at the time, but I know it hit just as hard for everyone around me who crossed paths with it. It’s also a radical turn after their first, much more dance oriented album… « I’ve decided to take my work back underground… ». Even if it’s clearly the next record that turned them into electro-punk icons and cemented their live reputation, Music for the Jilted Generation had a much bigger impact on me and still feels like a key milestone in more “traditional” electronic music. 32 years later, it only sounds … slightly dated… 😂
party mix
Jesus why is there so much Prodigy on this list
Yeah, can see why this one made the list.
My wife hated this. I did not.
"When Liam Howlett arrived at the cutting room for the final stage of the album's production, he realised that all the tracks he had planned would not fit onto a CD." -Wikipedia Never have I been more appreciative of the size limitations of CDs.
This was tough getting all the way through Will I listen to again: 0%
Well, well.. the Prodigy…always reminds me of some of the worst trips I had on various substances. Some songs are not bad, but I stopped doing drugs though…2 stars!
Álbum de electrónica de los 90s Es extraño pero me parece que sus melodías provocan una sensación de adrenalina combinado con ira, desencadenan por medio de sonidos poco convencionales emociones fuertes No lo escucharía regularmente pero si merece relisten Poison es mi recomendación del álbum
I knew as soon as I saw the cover to this album I wasn't going to like it. 3 kilos was the one track I could listen to in its entirety and I enjoyed the flute.
Hectique
This album came along at the right time in my life and also during a very stressful work week! It doesn't quite hit the heights of "The Fat of the Land" album. But it's still awesome! Almost a 5 but not quite.
I guess I'm not techno-ly part of the jilted generation, but this album still speaks to me and I absolutely fucking love The Prodigy! Fat of the Land is my favourite album, but this is still full of great dirty electronica beats - perfect 'get shit done' music. Glad I have a little privacy barricade for the bottom of my office door so no one can see in - because I had myself a little one person silent rave (sorry/not sorry to the gallery downstairs who could probably here me jumping around!)
I wasn't in the mood of this techno/breakbeat album although I appreciate its freshness. It was also very long with over 70 minutes.
Insanely good, should've listened to a full album from them waaayyy sooner. 8/10
Hard rock. Music is strange, can’t hear the lyrics over the screaming and music.
Oh intro, you are everything to me. By all means I shouldn't like Prodigy. It has all of the elements of what to me is not good music. Long tracks. No lyrics. Just that feeling of experiencing something rather than sitting down to listen to music. And yet, "Break & Enter" is such a surreal song. It transports the listener to this dystopian, technological future. It's not just sound. It's immersion. Their law is an almost 7 minute song that you can see took a village to make or was accidentally perfect. It has such a visceral homemade vibe. You can see someone tweaked with it until they got it just right. Full throttle falls just a bit flat for me. Beautiful use of goats though. Voodoo people is okay. When I die please someone play Poison before I go. No Good, alternatively I owe my life to. Could've gone without One Love, but oh well. 3 kilos is cool. Skylined was good, but couldn't be great. Claustrophobic sting on the other hand is so good it makes you wish this never ended. Masterpiece all around.
HISTORICAL MEGALITH of an album // not just defining for ebm / hardcore, but for the exact psychic weather of the mid-90s: soundtrack to post-rave comedown- optimism curdling into paranoia berlin wall aftermath, bosnia, rwanda, end of peace-and-unity rhetoric underground dance scenes splintering fast, no shared center anymore jungle going mainstream, four-to-the-floor mutating into harder, uglier forms drugs darker, weed heavier, “dark” and “darkside” becoming everyday language shift from party bravado to gothic intensity across music culture (cypress hill —> wu-tang) this album is precision-tooled for that moment // total divestment of cool or subtlety, all teeth and nerve endings // hardcore tempos, breakbeats, distortion, everything on the surface // disaffection expressed as a collective uugghh rather than theory or politics // their law isn’t nuanced, but it doesn’t need to be // start the dance (no good) shows how close the mainstream and underground already were // paranoia as rhythm, anger as propulsion // no skips, every track hits // poison and one love are core texts // pure gritted-teeth energy, which informs my personal visual language to this day
I'm not sure why but this just did not click for me I like electronic music and I like a few singles by The Prodigy but nothing on this album sunk hooks into me
Meh. When they say "fuck em, and their law" it's hard to say whether this is ironic or not. I have a hard time with this earnestness and simplemindedness. Maybe I'm missing the point. It's sad post-Nazi dance music as far as I can tell. Ring ring, 1970s Berlin wants it's decadence back. I didn't choose this stuff. I have to admit, though, if you just want to zone out to something mechanical, this does the trick.
Unfortunately, this was a club banger
bad
European club music but wack (bad wack). 3/5
1990s London underground rave
Definitely prefer the follow-up but this was pretty strong
8.5/10
Fun, aggressive electronica
The Prodigy wouldn’t really land for me until Fat Of The Land, but there’s a few classic tracks on this one. A great indication of what they’d go on to master, but these tracks sound a bit basic in comparison to the rest of their stuff.
If I’m in a really bad mood I don’t get how people consider this music. If I’m in a good mood I realize not everything is meant for me and turn it off.
lots of fun sounds going on here. lots of silly melodies and awesome moments. would prob go crazy in the club. my fav was Break & Enter
This album was a 1 and a 4 at the same time (long,sometimes annoying, fun sounds). I liked it when I wasn't focusing on the individual tracks, so the overall album gets a 3. The album art rules.
I enjoyed this a lot. Tracks like “Their Law” make me think that this style is what would happen if dubstep turned to the light side of the force.
I took absolutely no time for me to get sick of the glass breaking sound effect. Maybe it took even less time for me to get tired it the percussion. Maybe there’s a “jilted generation” to whom this appeals. But my guess is the guy was (is?) just an incel.
This was not the album for me at all. Except Poison. Something about Poison really hit at work and the experience was good enough to warrant one whole extra star
A full album of the club scene from Blade. This didn’t strike me as the type of music I’d be into, but something about it kept me hooked for two listens. It all kinda blended together into one song for me, which worked to its benefit for whatever reason. One of my favorites from the past few weeks for sure. 4-4.5, but I could see it jumping up to a 5 after another listen
I'm really worried how many more albums like this there are on the list... I'm tired, boss.
I enjoyed this way more than I expected to. Tragically, it is 78 minutes long and I cannot abide such things. 2.5, rounding up.
what a sonically harsh way to learn that I’m not the jilted generation
In a rave setting this would be a 5/5. As an album though it doesn't do it for me.
4 minutes into the first song and I can tell this isnt my style of music. Not bad, but not for me. We will see what happens. Music wasnt bad per se, just not my style at all. Not a fan
fun i liked it good for busy work
Totally understand why this is on the list and I quite enjoyed it without ever really getting in to it properly. Maybe it's one I'll come back to some time. Not sure.
Nog nooit een hele Prodigy plaat geluisterd. De energie van de hits is leuk, maar 45 min is teveel. Te veel herhaling en eentonig en uiteindelijk te weinig spannend
I’ve heard remixes of voodoo people but never the original in its entirety. I understand why it’s a classic. Probably never would have gone to seen prodigy in the early 90s if I was in my 20s then, and as much as I love electronic music, but it’s a cool look back on the early stages of edm and what songs were going to influence its development.
Found it an enjoyable listen but quite bloated
Liked this a lot but preferred fat of the land. Poison and voodoo people both great, felt like the middle few tracks were the strongest
This is the first album I genuinely cannot listen to all the way through. This feels like the gateway into modern day EDM and I strongly dislike EDM.
don’t love the breaking glass, screaming, or fast pace… quite stress-inducing, but I suppose these are good for movie soundtracks
Album #50 The Prodigy: Music For The Jilted Generation Though I am a very big fan of one massive wave/movement of music that came out of the United Kingdom in the 90s, that being Britpop, I have related all that much to its rival movement, which is the electronica buzz. Whereas Britpop is a reimbracing of traditional British rock and pop music, electronic music instead attempted to establish a new sound, one movement looking to the past, and the other to the future. Ironically, when it comes to electronic music, the future (or the present) never was able to eclipse its roots. Whereas the 90s had artists like Aphex Twin, Air, The Chemical Brothers, and The Prodigy, nowadays we have dross EDM by the likes of Alan Walker, TheFatRat, and Vikkstar123. Maybe that is why I have never been into electronic music; I have always associated it with Roblox montage videos, or more favourably, the Rocket League soundtrack. Interestingly, Music For The Jilted Generation also gave me video game vibes, but moreso old school 90s game vibes, like Sonic or Marvel vs Capcom. I definitely do prefer this album to what I’ve heard of contemporary electronic music, and it probably is the best electronic album that I’ve received from this list so far, as it is far more interesting than Haunted Dancehall and Smoker’s Delight. Though it does have something in common with those albums, which is that it goes on for far too long, like seemingly every '90s album. The length didn’t bother me too much, however, as I decided to boot up some Rocket League while listening to this thing, so it all felt pretty natural. A song like Voodoo People, while good, definitely went on to influence some pretty dire and obnoxious EDM that your little cousin would play from his tablet. I think for an electronic album, this was actually pretty good, but I wouldn’t be too eager to return to most of it. Best Songs: No Good (Start The Dance), 3 Kilos, Voodoo People Worst Song: One Love Score out of 10: 6
Not quite I was expecting from the album cover...
It was a ride. At first, it felt like a tedious record. But then, I was "dancing" to the music. Nice record.
This kinda hits
People in the mid 90s probably felt like cool people listening to this on CD for the first time. 4/10
4.33
Very naively hadn't appreciated just how much this album has influenced the dance music I listen to today. Absolute belters. Full Throttle in particular took me back to festivals from my late teens.
A good listen! I actually enjoyed this one better than the one with the crab on the cover. Maybe I’ll revisit that and compare. Some tracks on this were better than others, but most of the time I was nodding my head in a bit of a trance, which is something I look for in electronic music. I know sitting at my desk working is not the ideal mode for this kind of thing, but somehow it worked really well. Must-listen #288.
Grew on me as it went on. Didn’t fit well with walking alone at night, a bit basic retrospectively but I see how this feeds into dnb and jungle as precursor. Samples are weird and uncanny a bit creepy, beats are schizophrenic and the whole effect is unsettling. It’s well done, clearly builds on kraftwerk’s qualities
Super new to me. Pretty solid. Would add to my collection
J'ai pas aimé l'album, c'est vraiment pas mon style de musique d'origine et le projet part dans une direction experimentale pas forcément cohérente et en rapport avec ce que j'aime. Bref c'est pas trop mon truc
Not my music at all. I liked maybe one song, but one album? Way too much. 4 / 10
First part is just banger after banger. It's more than just dance or electronic music, it feels bigger. Second party sounds like excellent music to kill aliens to.
It’s a 2.9 — but I recognize songs like voodoo magic but unsure where from 2
Jesus… what a ride this album is. I’m not going to sit here and pretend I have an all knowing knowledge as to why this album is such a landmark release. The Prodigy came into mainstream attention when I was far too young to understand what exactly it was they were doing other than: “jesus… this stuff is crazy”. As an adult, though, after really sitting down and giving this a serious listen I can confidently say: this is about as punk rock as an electronic/rave album gets. And I kind of love it, to be honest. Musically, The Prodigy are effortlessly blending heavy rave elements with some impressive, almost prog-in-nature electronica; layered with an unfiltered attitude directly aimed at a sweeping criminal justice bill. And it’s quite direct about it through some expert use of vocal samples beside the instrumentals that take up virtually the entire tracklist. I mean - this is a messy album. But it’s by design. Fast hooks, hard hitting beats, angry production. The Prodigy are so unapologetic in what they wanted this album to be that even if this isn’t totally your thing, on some level you gotta respect it. It quickly went from a 3 to a 4 for me. Not only do they manage to keep the momentum up for the full hour and twenty minutes here, they do it with serious conviction. 4/5
Demasiado repetitivo. Aburrido
This was a good listen for the most part. Started out strong, some middle bits I wasn't sure of and can be a little repetitive at times (though that is common for the genre). The songs I liked are generally the faster tempo ones as I felt a lot more happened musically in those. Some of my favourites are Break and Enter, Their Law (which provided a great heavy guitar riff which I didn't expect), Full Throttle, and Voodoo People. I'm fortunate enough to say I've seen The Prodigy live twice (both times with the late Keith Flint) and they really were an experience. Great gigs. The only real downside to this album is it's length (which on it's own isn't a problem but due to the repetitive nature I think it's too long).
Just does not interest me at all unfortunately
Beats to take down the system to. 8/10
Decent overall.
Cool dark edm vibes.
This was fine for working out. Anything outside of that or a dance party it'd get pretty annoying. Consider me jilted.
I remember a pal bringing this record to a party after we’d heard fire starter and everyone being thoroughly disappointed that it wasn’t on there. In fact outside of a copy of singles it just proper dance music. It’s very solidly done but nothing in the way of tunes if that’s what you’re looking for
This band has some decent songs, but not on this album. Makes me wonder why this album was picked. Strange.
Favorite Track: No Good
~*~*~ urge to start gloving intensifies ~*~*~
This would have been the result if Ross from Friends had a band. A bunch of random sounds set to a house beat. “Jilted” is a perfect album title. Couldn’t get past the first couple songs.
not the Prodigy I listened to back in the day - this album was horrid for me - didn't like even 1 song.
Just not a fan of electronica. Soulless & boring.
This is like going to the dentist. The anxiety grows as the appointment nears, until it's the dreaded day of. Walking in the door and hearing all the drills and machines spikes my energy level immediately into uncomfortable territory. The smells hit me as I lie in the chair, and when the first shot goes in, I can hear my pulse in my ear and feel it in my chest. It's relentless, exhausting. I can't tell if it pushes me forward or keeps me stuck in place.
Some thrills (Poison which is a of a mission statement for the album) interrupt unrelenting banality. A bit of a one trick pony. Maybe you had to be there. I wasn't. And we are not. Trying to imagine just throwing this on. Perhaps that misses the point. Still - I feel like there is a great EP buried within the neverending beat. Walking on a snowy morning - not the ideal soundtrack. Happy it's over.
**In-Depth Review: *Music For The Jilted Generation* by The Prodigy** Released in 1994, *Music For The Jilted Generation* is the second studio album by The Prodigy and a landmark in electronic music history. It’s a chaotic, genre-blending manifesto that fused rave, punk, industrial, and hip-hop into a relentless sonic assault. Below is a detailed breakdown of the album across key dimensions: --- ### 🎧 **Music & Production** Liam Howlett’s production is the album’s backbone—dense, layered, and aggressive. The beats are heavy, the synths are distorted, and the textures are gritty. Tracks like *Poison* and *Voodoo People* are built on juggernaut breakbeats and distorted riffs, while *The Narcotic Suite* (a three-part ambient techno experiment) shows a more cerebral side. - **Standout production moments**: - *Break & Enter* – features the sound of shattering glass and a hypnotic, looping structure. - *3 Kilos* – a downtempo, flute-laced track that feels like a psychedelic comedown. - *Claustrophobic Sting* – a sci-fi inspired closer that leaves the listener disoriented. > “The magic of the Prodigy lies in these staccato, concentrated bursts of noise and energy…” --- ### 🎤 **Lyrics & Themes** While not lyrically dense in a traditional sense, the album is thematically rich. It’s a rebellion against the UK’s Criminal Justice Act, which criminalized outdoor raves. The phrase *“Fuck ’em and their law”* from *Their Law* (featuring Pop Will Eat Itself) is a direct protest. - **Themes**: - Anti-authoritarianism - Rave culture vs. state control - Escapism and altered states - Urban alienation Maxim Reality’s vocal contributions, especially on *Poison*, are minimal but impactful—more like chants or mantras than verses. The lyrics are functional, designed to energize rather than introspect. --- ### 🧠 **Influence & Legacy** This album is often cited as a turning point in electronic music, bridging the gap between underground rave and mainstream rock. It influenced everything from big beat (The Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim) to nu-metal and industrial rock. > “It brought people together and captured imaginations… a unifying and startling brilliant album” David Bowie named it one of his favorite albums of the '90s, and it’s frequently listed among the greatest electronic albums ever made. --- ### ✅ **Pros** - **Innovative fusion** of rave, punk, and industrial sounds - **Raw energy** that still feels vital decades later - **Production mastery** – Howlett’s layering and sound design are ahead of their time - **Cultural impact** – a defining document of '90s counterculture - **Dynamic pacing** – from adrenaline rush to ambient comedown --- ### ❌ **Cons** - **Overlong** – at 78 minutes, some tracks feel like filler or overstay their welcome - **Repetitive structures** – loop-based tracks can wear thin without melodic variation - **Lack of emotional depth** – more visceral than vulnerable - **Not for casual listening** – demands volume, mood, and attention --- ### 🏁 **Final Verdict** *Music For The Jilted Generation* is not just an album—it’s a weaponized soundtrack for a generation that felt betrayed by the system. It’s messy, confrontational, and occasionally excessive, but that’s precisely the point. It’s not perfect, but it’s essential. **Rating: 9/10** A flawed masterpiece that redefined what electronic music could be—angry, political, and unapologetically loud.
Why do I always think Prodigy is going to be rage metal? This album is cool and seems ahead of its time. I didn’t love Voodoo, but the rest of the album was a bop.
Tolerable background noise
Some robust and highly listenable electronica here, if that's the kind of thing you're into. Even if you're not, it provides some decent background music as you go about your daily business. "Claustrophobic Sting" gets a little crazy and irritating at the end, but otherwise, this is mostly harmless.
Otro disco que no pienso escuchar. Ya tuve bastante de joven odiando a esta gente gritona. Lo he escuchado a medias. Es insoportable estando sobrio. Musicalmente es un insulto.
Interesting Bass n drum loops
9/10 16.01.2026
It was hard to be unaware of this at the time and I was a "No Good" fan, but the album wasn't anything I felt attracted to buy, it seemed more something to hear in a club than in the bedroom. Whilst I somewhat still hold to that, and wouldn't necessarily choose to listen to it, the album is a good, enjoyable listen, whilst being very long (although I wouldn't know what to drop or cut).
I feel like I am in a late 90s/early 00s movie montage. This is not a complaint.
Fuck yes mate
Genre defining. Era defining. It’s long, it’s dirty, it’s repetitive, its bass lines and beats are designed for maximum raving. The most 90’s of albums.
wow I hated this
Not something I would listen to every day and it is probably a lot better rolling on X. Was good for a workout album though.
Honestly didn’t hate it as much as I expected to given the industrial sound. Can see myself vibing to this at a rave in Denmark or something
This explains why so many people hate New Wave.
It has been a long time since I listened to "Music For The Jilted Generation" from start to finish. Both of my sons are huge fans, so a few years back, I was fairly familiar with the band, I didn't really have a choice! Re-visiting it now, my opinion remains unchanged: it’s just 'OK'. It lacks the immediate impact and shock of "The Fat Of The Land". On paper, it has all the elements I usually enjoy: it's loud, throbbing basslines, driving processed beats, and sharp electronic textures, but for some reason, they fail to spark. While it captivates others, it just doesn't excite or engage me. Ultimately, the album lacks the variety and surprise I expect from a band marketed as 'dangerous' and 'exciting'. After a few tracks, the novelty wears thin, and at 78 minutes, it is far too long to sustain my interest. It does, however, have a fantastic album cover! Two stars. 1 "Intro" (3/5) 2 "Break & Enter" (3/5) 3 "Their Law" (featuring Pop Will Eat Itself) (2/5) 4 "Full Throttle" (1/5) 5 "Voodoo People" (3/5) 6 "Speedway (Theme From Fastlane)" (3/5) 7 "The Heat (The Energy)" (2/5) 8 "Poison" (2/5) 9 "No Good (Start the Dance)" (4/5) 10 "One Love (Edit)" (2/5) 11 "The Narcotic Suite: 3 Kilos" (2/5) 12 "The Narcotic Suite: Skylined" (2/5) 13 "The Narcotic Suite: Claustrophobic Sting" (3/5) Total - 32 Sum - 2.46 212/1001 119/212 albums reviewed were new to me.
I did not expect to like this, but it won me over by track 3.
Pretty good, goes on a bit too long and again probably benefits from being listened to in a different context
Excellent !
"Music for the Jilted Generation" by The Prodigy is an album with a lot of personal history for me. I was introduced to the CD by a friend back in 1994, at a time when we were stubborn metal-fan kids and anything that was not metal was automatically dismissed as garbage. This record, however, hit differently. The mix of hardcore and breakbeat elements with metal-style guitar samples matched the vibe perfectly - essentially electronic punk. While I had not listened to the album in years, I am glad my "1001 Albums" journey brought it back into rotation. I am also grateful I got to see The Prodigy live in 2015, especially knowing that a few years later, in 2019, Keith Flint took his own life, even though at the time of this record he was "only" the dancer. "No Good" is easily the most iconic track on the album, followed closely by "Poison". If I remember correctly, both later appeared on compilations like Bravo Hits, which probably played a big role in the band's commercial success. All in all, it is a great record, and given how much personal history it carries for me, my rating is almost certainly biased.
7 / 10
A problem I have with some electronic music is the repetitiveness of the songs, however with The Prodigy they do a great job of using so many different sounds to make a great album.
The sound of dial up internet for 70 odd minutes is not for me.
Ah, the Prodigy - the techno music of my youth. I have an album or two of theirs, but not this one, although I did recognize a few songs. Overall, this one was kinda meh for me - not as energetic or hooky as I remember some of their other music being. - Heard before? Not in its entirety. - Will I listen again? Not this album. - Does it inspire me to listen to more of this artist? Not really, except to remind me to revisit some music I already have.
Not my favorite genre. Did briefly get my booty moving so there's something magical going on here.
Their first album is better, but the singles and the remixes of the singles from the first album are even better than that. Experience would be a better substitution for this record on this list even if it's less varied in tone - this seems like they were trying to show that they were more than just a rave/dance outfit. The tracks on this one seem like they are watered down compared to both Experience and the next record, Fat of the Land. More of an industrial influence, particularly on the track "Their Law" which features PWEI. The tempo finally picks up by the 4th track, Full Throttle, but until Voodoo People there aren't any good riffs. Poison busts out a downtempo big beat groove and is a standout track. 3 Kilos is another downtempo track this time with a mystical, funky vibe. Overall, not a bad record, it's just not quite as good as their other early ones.
Worst thing I ever heard
I found the title of the album fully descriptive of how I felt after listening to it.
I was not a huge fan of this one to be honest. I really don’t like the electronic style of music, but I do see how it may have been influential and something people hadn’t heard before. I thought it was definitely unique, but definitely not something I would listen to on my own.
Hele ervaring vond t wel vet
Lekker techno achtste rock beetje horror film achting ja eens Flo! Ik vond het ook echt Nice en totaal anders dan andere metal achtste schreeuw muziek van lage kwaliteit uit zelfde tijd
Fun fast paced electronica. I would throw this onto the listening rotation again.
When I tell you I dissociated listening to this I mean it… hardest album to get through!
I didn’t know what to think here
Ohhhhhhh guys…
I do like this band but not my favorite album from them. Probably would be better if it were in a loud, club-like environment
I kinda fuck with it. Some songs are a bit too intense for me though and the cover scared me off a little bit. Stand-outs - Voodoo People - One Love
better than offspring/good instrumentals and some good beats
Not one for driving tunes, bits of songs go on a bit too long for me
This was really good! Much more obviously club music than the other albums of theirs I've listened to. "Break & Enter" "Their Law" "Voodoo People" and "Poison" were faves on here.
Such a fun album
This just isn’t for me. Not even for background music as it is a little too chaotic.
Interesting. 3 *
Big fan so it's an automatic 5. No Good is my favorite Prodigy song, plus there's a lot of other bangers here. I was pretty stoked and elated when the album popped up, great surprise to see an old favorite!
Cut to under an hour it would have been a 4/5. It just goes too long.
One of dance music’s defining albums
Nope. Felt like I was trapped playing a terrible arcade game
Weird soundtrack to 3 ft of snow removal, bit I pushed through
get jilted babyyyyyyy.
Had some of the wackiest sampling I've ever heard in an electronic album, so much fun to listen to and I was head bopping and vibing the entire time, this was a fantastic way to start off the year
I feel like I need one of those party light things that spin around to get the full experience of this album. I sadly don't have one of those but I had plenty of fun messing around with a flashlight on my car keys in the dark while listening to this. This is my kind of EDM right here. Maximum funny sounds with the feel of the soundtrack to an early 2000s flash game like The World's Hardest Game or something similar. Normally I'm not huge on EDM for the length of the songs, but this manages to hold my attention much better than a lot of what I've heard.
What can I say…90’s electronic music. Not really my vibe, need to really be in the mood for this. Although I do remember dancing to some of these tracks at the club. Gave it a 3 as they did influence the EDM scene.
Not my fav Prodigy album (Experience is the best!!) but this one is good.
Good album. I probably haven’t listened to this album all the way through in a very long time.
I was brought up on Fat of the Land and hadn’t ever listened to this in full. Some heaters (Break and Enter, No Good, obvs Voodoo People) but also some shite in between. Probably won’t listen to it in full again
Very cool music that almost convinces me to like the genre
This is energizing I am not a typical listener of Electronic Music so it raises questions for me about when this is being listened to by most people (outside of certain contexts) That being said, that is not a criticism, it just made me think. I couldn't listen to this while cleaning the apartment per se, but it might make for a nice pick me up first thing in the morning
The Prodigy always makes me feel like I’m playing laser tag or in an action film. I get in the zone, but a little overstimulated.
I’m sure the jilted generation enjoyed this a lot more than I did
Clattering drums. Whooping vocal loops. Gritty samples. Each component is jagged and demanding attention, not sharing the focus. Everything is too high in the mix. A tiring, tiresome listen
Yeah, I’d totally dance like crazy to this in the club
Still awesome!
Such a harsh electronic sound. I was a metal kid, but this won me over back in the 90s. The generator gave me "The fat of the land" last week, and hearing the two albums almost back to back, it's incredible how much happened to their sound over the 3 years.
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".
I first started listening to this and thought... "people like this?" the more I listened though i get it. I would not listen to this all the time but I found it enjoyable and the energy was great. Feel like this would serve better for a movie score, a video game or a commercial than an album I would likely put on but whatever. Lastly, this cover art is atrocious.
the prodigy's always a fun time. idk. i'll zone out to any of their music.
not bad. hard-hitting electronic breakbeats and occasionally interesting musical motifs and samples, but the filler tracks are grating and the overall sound is super dated. not my favorite artist or genre despite how often it seems to appear on this list, but at least the singles are solid. favorites: voodoo people, no good (start the dance)
Radical
As much as I love prodigy and enjoyed it as a college kid, no electronica album shall be in top any album best of.
Dark timbre scary rave bangers with plague levels of infectious energy and huge bombastic beats.
So The Fat Of The Land isn't what all The Prodigy is like? That's too bad.
Started around 8 T1 intro T2 edm Did not finish T3 edm Going to hendells messiah tonight so I’ve been listening to some of that during the day and I just feel ridiculous going away from that to listen to an early edm album. Might not get all the way through this one today.
Theoretically, Liam Howlett’s toughened-up breakbeats and rave-punk snarl should separate this from the anonymous 90s electronica pile. In practice, the edge mostly masks the bloat. “Their Law” slams plenty hard, with percussion sharp enough to draw blood, but its nearly seven-minute sprawl proves stamina isn’t the same as momentum. “3 Kilos” sways on a humid, tropical breeze that almost feels like fun until you realize you’re trapped in the loop-repeat loop-repeat loop. There’s a brutalist idea of dance music in here somewhere—less ecstasy, more homework—but the long haul feels longer than it’s worth.
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)
not for me
este é um caso difícil para mim. É um projeto diferente do que eu costumo escutar, o que pode ser ótimo, mas não vejo explorando o "replay".
Inject voodoo people straight into my veins
Can see the groundbreaking nature of it but not melodic enough house for me.
Wyśmienite i szybkie. 5
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
The Prodigy are like the metal of electronic music. And as much as I love metal, this album just doesn't quite to it for me. I do love The Fat of the Land, that one has so much interesting stuff going on that makes it more diverse and overall enjoyable. This one is not only so much longer, but completely lacks the diversity and pacing that it needs. Just an hour and a quarter of pure, uncut hard breakbeat. It needs more breaks and softer moments, especially considering its length.
Not at all into this genre. But am loving this. No insight, just turns me on.
A bit too much for my poor brain!
very boring
Good for inducing a headache.
pass
I’d prefer not to
Voodoo People is a great song, and there were a couple other uptempo songs that made me wanna move. Every other song was midtempo and repetitive as hell.
Electronica, drum and bass
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.
I appreciate the never-ending, hard energy, and I’m sure this was very important for inspiring electronic acts I enjoy like Squarepusher, but I could use a change of pace here and there in some way, sound wise.
Eh. This one’s not for me
Im frivken jiltered
Look, I understand the influence The Prodigy had on music. But they're still an electronic group and it's just not really for me. Lots of electronic music sounds repetitive and these tracks, while well produced, are no exception.
As far as electronica goes, this is varied and has a lot of really cool moments. Unfortunately, it's about 35 minutes too long. I get that dance tunes have to be a certain length (long), but maybe they could've split this into two albums to make for a better listening experience. That said, this was not intended to be listened to as an album but rather to be played inside a club, so I can understand their decision to keep the whole thing. 3.0/5.0: Good
from the cover i expected hard rock or nu metal not rave music. as far as electronica goes this was pretty good. in my opinion, this type of music doesnt lend itself well to a full album listen.
Sometimes I wonder how often I hafta keep in mind when an album was "made for." I mean, most times that sort of thing isn't very important at all; most albums are largely just collections of tunes. Maybe they have a central theme running through a song, but that's different than considering what they were "made for." An ambient album, for example, is made for empty spaces — something to keep the walls from being just plain white, y'know? And that's important to keep in mind, or else you'd listen to it and wonder why it's not going anywhere. Then you have albums like, that're made for clubs — or, more specifically, raves. This album, as it happens, was made as a response to the UK government at the time criminalizing raves ("their laws," as one song on the album refers to it). It's a piece of context that's ... not unimportant, though I'unno how much it matters to me? Like, the thing about this kind of music is that it's made to dance to, obviously. There are musical elements and a ton of thought put into this material, but you're not supposed to listen all **that** closely to it. You're supposed to hear this shit at the club and lose yourself to dance. And I get that, entirely. But that's not exactly how I like to listen to music, y'know? At least not for this Randomizer. I mean, sure, sure, there are plenty of albums I put on the energy and the beats; that's just a side effect of being as "melody first" as I am. With most of the albums I get from this Randomizer, I try (or I make some sort of effort, anyway) to actively focus on it. I want to take it seriously and figure out what I do or don't like about it. (And this is all putting aside the fact that I've never been to a club in my life.) This album was not made for focused listening. Not really. There's stuff going on, but nothing that's very engaging. And every song feels like it could have a full minute or two chopped out of it and nothing would be missing. Seriously, some songs have intros that could've been, like, ten minutes and instead run 30. It's crazy. It's not even that any of them are all that bad, necessarily, but .... jeez, they could stand to do a bit more, y'know? It makes me think back to 'The Fat Of The Land', which was the follow-up to this album but the one my group got first. On 'The Fat Of The Land', it doesn't feel like there's a second wasted. The songs are aggro as hell and bursting with energy. And they're interesting! I can still remember how a number of the songs go, even if the ones that jump straight into my head are the big singles. Compared to 'Music For The Jilted Generation', where when one ended it left my mind entirely. I mean, it just says something to me that 'The Fat Of The Land' is a full 22 minutes shorter than 'Music For The Jilted Generation' and is a much tighter album. And, y'know, 'The Fat Of The Land' was made for the same crowd as 'Music For The Jilted Generation'. Certainly it wasn't made for broader appeal, given that 'The Fat Of The Land' opens with a song titled "Smack My Bitch Up" (I don't mind; I know others do, a **lot**). But whatever it was or wasn't made for, the improvement in their craft is so obvious. 'Music For The Jilted Generation' wasn't the Prodigy's first rodeo, but in comparison it sure feels like it. It really does make me appreciate 'The Fat Of The Land' a lot more than I did, which both is and isn't exactly the best compliment for 'Music For The Jilted Generation'. But I've spent enough time going on about 'The Fat Of The Land'. Putting it aside, 'Music For The Jilted Generation' is ... fine. It's perfectly fine breakbeat dance music. It's just nothing I have the attention span for. It feels like a whole album of extended DJ mixes, and that's not really my jive. And this whole general brand of dance music isn't either, for that matter. My preferred shit is stuff like Daft Punk, Justice and (if he counts) Fatboy Slim, so ... maybe I'm not the best to judge this album. But, I'unno. If you're into the kind of dance music that uses the "Amen break," this should be right up your alley. You could maybe even hear it in a club or dance to it, like it was made for. But me ... eh. This ain't music for **my** generation.
Might be a bit too long for current standards, but fuck that. This shit goes Hard nonetheless (even if it might just be my unconditional love for 90s Electronica.) 4.5 bumped up to 5.
I’m at a 4.5 that I’ll bump up to a 5. Well, I’m still tired from moving around for a lot of that album, but in terms of pure musicality, this isn’t quite as good as “The Fat of the Land”. It’s composed about as strongly (with some great sample work throughout), but the energy of their follow-up isn’t as prevalent here, with a lot more lull spots in the instrumentation. There are tracks that could’ve been trimmed down here, which I can’t say for anything on “The Fat of the Land”. Instrumentally, a lot of the breakbeat standards are still here (and for 1994, probably a REALLY welcome shift from the poppier UK house tones of the time), but it’s combined early on with more of a metal / guitar-driven identity that slowly fades out over the course of the album, with a sort of sci-fi vibe substituting it in the latter half. I think there’s less beat drops here too? They’re still here, but they’re used to just transition in a sort of A to B, B to C, C to A, A to C, C to B sort of sense, as opposed to a stronger sense of constant progression that would keep each track fresh throughout. Again, “The Fat of the Land” does this better. It’s very hard not to compare the two, sorry. It’s easier to point out what this album doesn’t do as well in comparison, because otherwise, I’m not really sure I have that many active flaws with it. Yeah, it’s a little more stagnant at times, and not as “fresh” of a ball of energy as it could be throughout, but I’m still giving this a 4.5 bumped up to a 5 because I just fuck with this style of music enough that my little nitpicks aren’t affecting my enjoyment of this. It’s just not as good as its sequel, and that’s fine. It’s still REALLY good, especially if you have a taste for this style of music (sort of VGM-adjacent, as always) already. Overall, while 78 minutes is certainly a bit long (22 minutes longer than “The Fat of the Land”), since I allowed myself to zone out just a little more than I usually would for this one, it never felt as prevalent in terms of the length while I was in the moment. Granted, I’m feeling that length a little more now, after the fact, but time flies when you’re… I dunno, bopping your head along a lot? If you can find that space to sit in, those 78 minutes won’t feel as long, & they may even fly by. It’s a 4.5 that I’ll bump up to a 5, but I do understand the relatively big difference in ratings on the site (3.41 vs 3.07). It’s just not as good as its sequel, but it’s a good album in its own right, and its highest highs do feel pretty close to some of The Fat of the Land’s best tracks, ESPECIALLY “No Good (Start The Dance)”. I enjoyed it, at least.
Newgrounds gaming edge lord core makes me want to rave with sunglasses and my hoodie on
Really liked it! Some tracks are a bit too stretched, but nostalgia did its work. Nice.
Some good, but not for me necessarily
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
This is not for me
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.
interesting... makes me feel like im going crazy
Nine Inch Nails only has one album on the list and Prodigy has two. I know you could spend a lifetime pointing out problems with this list, so you'll have to excuse me. I don't even know if Nine Inch Nails deserves two albums on the list, but they certainly deserve it more than The Prodigy. The Prodigy deserve it more than The Verve. This album is fine.
Unique electronic sound, can't deny it, a little too intensive for my taste
Wtf? I’m being generous in my rating here.
I ought to be into this, but I am not. I fit the profile as an electronica-curious 90s kid. I get the role that they are supposed to have played in the evolution of the rave scene. But in practice, it feels kind of flat and tedious to me rather than dark or challenging. I think that to feel what this album is trying to make me feel, I would rather listen to NIN. They were a couple of moments. I enjoyed but to really love it. I think I would need to have been part of the scene.
Another electronic group that added sounds that weren't musical instruments which I found interesting. Too many songs with repetitive lyrics, repetitive sounds, and repeating musical lines, I'm just not that into this type of music. The first song, "Break and Enter" with its more than 8 minutes just depressed me. All their songs were entirely too long. Since all the songs sound a lot alike, I can hardly tell when one song ends and the next begins. I started to wonder why this was an album that had to be listened to unless it was to show the worst of electronic music? "Speedway" had me wanting to bang my head just to knock myself unconscious, and if I wanted to listen to car speeding noises, I would go take a drive. I knew I was in trouble when I started adding up the minutes of each song: 105.76. The best song of the album was "One Love" as it was the shortest song of the album. If I could rate this album with zero stars I would but then my vote wouldn't count, so I gave it a one star rating. There wasn't a single song that I liked and although I'm trying to experience a wider range of music this was one album I could have never listened to and been just fine with 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.
Rave party, yes! Casual listening, NO!
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