Reviews (page 4 of 9)
Some catchy tracks here and there, but goes on too long for my liking. Would have released the Narcotic Suite as a separate EP or something to cut down on the length if it were me.
That's not my taste in music - But ok
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.
Back in the mid-90s, The Prodigy became one of a very small handful of Dance acts it was acceptable to like for us Metal and Grunge kids. This album is good, but doesn't contain the bangers that we all remember. It always amuses me when Yanks start talking about 'EDM' likes it's some new phenomena, when the rest of the world has been dealing with the, largely shite, genre for decades. In the 90s, cutesy and one off rave tracks were constantly stinking up the charts, building upon the admittedly worse fare released in the 80s. You couldn't turn on the radio or any chart music show without getting some slop. The Prodigy blew all of that away, giving people with discerning taste something to latch onto. The had edge, smarts, cred. They made actual music, not just bleeps with a beat and a recurring lyric. Still, this is an album I struggle to get through in full. Too big. Not enough great songs to sustain itself. But plenty of good stuff.
Really creative electronic dance music. Not as iconically stylized as FOTL but musically more interesting.
If this is what the generation is listening to, I’d dump them too.
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
OH GREAT! MORE ENGLISH ELECTRONIC!
I need an album to speak to me again,..,,..it's been so long
Pleas... just give me something that makes me feel alive
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
Not really floating my boat not sure what it’s about maybe I’m missing something.
It’s no Fat of the Land I really like Voodoo People though
Maybe it's because I was listening to this at 4AM but this is horrible. The weird train whistle and breaking plate sound effects are like someone discovered the shitty sound effects mode on their keyboard. And it went on for 8+ minutes!! And that's only the first real track. The rest of the tracks are similarly long, use unnecessary sound effects and are way too repetitive. How this made the list is beyond me. This might be music I'd choose to torture someone.
It's electronic, but more like for a rave. Not for me.
Lowkey defiant.
1.5
0.5
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I like The Prodigy more than should be expected. 3.5 stars
I'm sure this style appeals to someone, just not me. At least The Fat of the Land had some vocal hooks to break up the monotony, but this is like an hour and a half of getting a tooth drilled at the dentist. I find it super exhausting, it's super dated and it overstays its welcome by a good hour. 0.5 stars.
1.5
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.
Has some sick beats - but miss the vocals from the other album
7/10
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...
Good bopping beats
Genius
It was ok, thought it would be better considering the hype
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.
Eh
2.17
Interesting not sure how I've never seen this album or heard any of it. Its mostly standard dance stuff, but it feels quite authentic and organic, not as soulless as some of this dance shit that came out later in the 90s. However I feel like quite a few of the songs are made worse by a singular goofy vocal sample or something like there's loads of vocal yelling samples which just make it a lot more unserious. The sampling is obviously great, and I think they're great at finding a sample and basing a song around it, and I think a few of the songs have added vocal parts from them which make them better. Was pleased to recognise the Nirvana sample on the Voodoo People song, and I think the Prodigy tend to chose more rock-based samples than most groups at the time who probably didn't want to be associated with that stuff. The synths parts on this are good as well. I feel like a downside of all sample-based looping music is that it can feel quite boring and repetitive, especially as quite a lot of these are really long, but its mostly alright. Probably on par with the other Prodigy album, maybe a little worse. Favourite songs: break and enter, their law, full throttle, voodoo people, poison, no good (start the dance). Overall around 6/10
Classic
I like the two popular songs that The Prodigy has, but this album was a little bit meh. I think I enjoyed that kind of music a bit more when I was younger, but now it's just a bit too repetitive and there are just sounds here and there. Voodoo People is good, but that's pretty much it. Overall, a bit meh-feeling.
Good album but don't see listening to it often unless I'm out at the club!
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.
Not for me.
I remember The Prodigy blowing up in the 90s with Firestarter, Breathe, and the funny, but controversial, Smack My B**ch Up. As singles on MTV, I could enjoy their music about once every couple of days. After listening to The Prodigy’s Music For A Jilted Generation, I’ve discovered it’s not my generation. The Prodigy described their music as electronic punk and I think that’s an apt description. This album didn’t have the songs I remember from MTV, but it was an important album at the time in the United Kingdom and for rave music. Around this time in the 90s, the U.K. passed a law called The Criminal Justice Act, which was supposed to help stop all the illegal, unlicensed raves tin that country. The Prodigy had been looked at as being a part of that scene. Music For a Jilted Generation was written as a response to the new law, which can clearly be heard in the song, Their Law, as the refrain “F**k ‘em and their law” can be heard throughout. I like that, but later The Prodigy kind of backed away from their rabblerousing ways, saying the album wasn’t meant to be a political statement. That's not punk rock. So, what about the music? You know me, I love a good song you can dance to. These songs sound more like what you’d listen to if you were on methamphetamines. Most of the music just made me anxious and feel jumpy. I’m just not a rave guy, I guess. There were four singles released off the album, and I recognized one of them called, One Love. I’m sure I heard a couple of the others, but I wasn’t a raver in those days, so they could have slipped past me. If you like The Prodigy’s other stuff or you’re a raver from way back, I’m sure this album is an all-timer for you. As for me, I could have made it two lifetimes without hearing this frenetic, jumble of beats and weird sounds.
Always happy to have something that reminds me of Hackers to start the day.
Too heavy
This was Full Throttle!
Probably my first unexpected five out of five stars. This truly is the sound of the 90s when it comes to electronic dance music.
Not for me, dog
Listening to this while working, and found it annoying with its repetition and even distracting.
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.
0/5 didn’t rly listen just briefly decided i wld not enjoy it and didn’t listen so until i get around to rly listening if i even want to i this is subject to change
I didn't think I would enjoy this album, not really when I started listening to it. But, as the songs went on, I have enjoyed it more and more and, to be honest, I don't think it's bad at all. This is not an album I would eventually want to listen to, but I (kind of) liked it. It's basic in some aspects with some interesting textures sometimes; some songs are more atmospheric, but without losing the very industrial essence and aggressive beats that give this album some sonic consistency and power (even if it lacks of being more interesting to make me want to listen to the more than an hour that it consists of again). So, even if it's far from being something good for me to really like it, I won't say it's bad. But it's not my style at all, for sure.
4.5
They are good at the club and hype beat for sure. However, after an hour it sounds all pretty similar.
Club music not the best not the worst
I thought this was fantastic. Again, whiplash from previous albums but so worth it. Better than Fat of the Land (but not by much). Yes the length is a drawback but they do so, so much with every track and with the album as a whole. So much energy, so much variety. I am really, really impressed. Well done chaps.
in terms of electronica style music, they are top of the game. interesting beats, driving sounds, & mix of vocals. but this was way too long. I enjoyed Fat of the Land much more.
I'm sure this was cool if you were there
I'm not dressed appropriately for listening to incredibly energetic electronica from 1994. I need a necklace that's just several colorful plastic pacifiers on a string, and one of those felt Cat In The Hat-style hats. For atmospheric reasons, you understand.
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 really like most of The Fat of the Land, but this Prodigy album was a pretty uninteresting slog to get through. A few good moments but not too impressed. 2/5
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.
Started off a little rough but then I realised it was an electronica album and that’s kinda half the point of it so I switched my mindset and by the end I was enjoying it a bit :) . Would be THE definition of the genre lmao
This was not a special electronic album. Apart from the Speedway song, it seemed to lack the eagerness to really speak to me.
MORTAL KOMBAAAAAAAAAAt
La question qui se pose vraiment ici : si j'ai besoin d'écouter deux albums de Prodigy avant de mourir, combien d'albums d'Evan Joanness dois-je écouter avant qu'on me sacre la paix?
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.
Fat of the land is so much better
Pretty one trick pony to listen to for an entire hour but I enjoyed the ride. I think I'm supposed to be hearing this while on ecstasy 30 years ago and not at home now. So I don't know. It wasn't obnoxious but didn't speak to me either.
Was expecting this one to not reach the highs of FotL but aside from a brief lull prior to The Narctoic Suite (last 3 tracts) this is non stop awesome
I don’t mind techno or house music, and this was a decent listen overall. It works well as background music while you’re doing something else, with enough energy to keep you moving but not enough to fully grab your attention. Like a lot of techno albums, though, it all kind of blended together after a while. The beats and textures were cool, but nothing really stood out or stuck with me once it was over. It’s consistent, just not particularly memorable. Music for the Jilted Generation is fine for what it is. It has that 90s rave energy and solid production, but it’s more of a mood piece than something I’d actively want to come back to.
This is so close to something I'd love. The rhythms and beats are so intriguing to me, but the aesthetic and sounds just slightly miss the mark. My favorites are speedway and one love. They just have so many layers. This type of EDM clicks with me way more when the sounds are more lush and layered. I can appreciate how stripped back and industrial most of this record is, it's just not my favorite.
This album is interesting. It's like dance mixed with metal which seems like at the time of release it would have been a perfect intersection of interests for a niche group of people. Maybe that's the jilted generation. I like the lo-fi sound but my problem with dance music is it's going to be the best if you're actually dancing to it. It's not so good to me if I'm just listening to it casually. I didn't dislike it but I probably won't ever throw it on.
Its so hard for me to get into band. It just very much feels like a specific part of the nineties. I feel like I'm just watching The Matrix: Reloaded the entire time this on. But it is really cool. Its kind of the beginning of what is now EDM. Which admittedly, I don't know a ton about. My only real knock is that the drums sound very 90s drum machine.
RIP Keith Flint
Uhh... it's fine I guess. I'm sure this would hit if I took some molly in a race at an anime convention, but instead I listened to maybe half the album sober in my living room. Sounds nice, I can see how someone would like this, I'm just not even close to being the target audience for it. Cool album cover tho.
One of the most tedious albums I’ve ever heard. Not really bad per se, but man is it flirting with a 1.
Not sure this one aged well at all!
I thought I would like this. There are several Prodigy songs I like but it turns out they are grim the next album. This was proper mid 90s rave music. It went on and on and didn't do anything positive for me.
Not my jam but ya gotta respect these guys.
the proddler
Not good. Songs are very repeptitive with little substance. Only good thing to say is the music would work for crumping. 0/10 I couldn't finish the album
like a better version of fat boy slim, this was awesome, we all need a bit of this in life. best tracks: voodoo people, no good (start the dance)
Some really good stuff but I did have to pause for a while halfway through because it got a little grating. Was very excited to finish it off though once I was in the mood again
First time listening to this album. I like it, but maybe not a keeper
Not for me really
Industrial beats for the disenfranchised
Amazing, similar to massive attack but harder
Like Fat of Land better. Dance, background music.
Hard-hitting music. Makes you feel so pumped, you believe you can do anything (but in a violent way). Better than their debut, but not as good as the follow-up. Key tracks: Voodoo People Poison
havent had a British Electronica album in awhile and I wish it stayed that way. Its okay, I think this is a weaker entry for Prodigy, this definitely couldve been passed over. It hits all the earmarks of the genre but doesnt really set itself apart.
Pretty boring to my ears. I’m more of a Fat of the Land man
2.5 - some songs were interesting.
++: 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
i rated the other Prodigy album a 3 but it had some decent, memorable tracks and a really cool picture of a crab on the cover. here on Music for the Jilted Generation we have 78 minutes of forgettable techno and no crab. instead you get (if you bother to go look it up) a dumb inner sleeve painting of a guy flipping off the thought police from the other side of an indiana jones rope bridge
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
I know this is seen as The Prodigy's best album, and it does have some incredible traps - Their Law, Poison and Voodoo People (although Pendulum's excellent remix o the latter has taken it over in my brain as the definitive version). However, I find the album is a bit too long, and find a number of the tracks not named above do drag a bit. Overall, I much prefer Fat of the Land and Invaders Must Die. 6/10
Not as interesting as their later work. Two Stone cold classics on here with Voodoo People and No Good though. I hope this breakbeat music comes back someday, I loved it when I was a kid.
I'm divided on this. Generally, I like their later work but there's a bit of a je ne sais quoi that's missing from this. It's 2.5 stars for me, rounded up
I found this .... crushingly boring.
Very familiar with this album and listened to it a bunch, happy to dive into it again. I'd probably go with 3.5 stars for this album. I think this album is best as background noise when you're doing something like working, or probably dancing at a party or something. It's good stuff, but a lot of the songs are kind of long without much reason as they get a little repetitive since there's not too much changing up in the song. But still, good album!
Krasse Stimmung und wild aber iwie nicht ganz mein Ding
Already very familiar with this album. Not a rave guy at all, but man this album is an absolute blast front to back.
This was a good album, if you like industrial techno lol there are also better prodigy albums but it was still good!
High energy EDM. I like this better than their other album on the list, Fat of the land, which is generally considered to be their masterpiece. FOTL has some redundancy, this album doesn't. It has everything that makes FOTL good, and it doesn't have much of Keith Flint, which is a good thing to me. Favorite song: Poison.
Music for the Jilted Generation by The Prodigy is a brilliant dance record that makes you want to get up and move. It’s full of energy and attitude, capturing the sound of a generation discovering rave culture. There are some fantastic samples throughout, especially on No Good and Poison — pure nostalgia and the soundtrack to my clubbing youth. The only downside is that it can get a bit repetitive. The pounding drums and similar structures across tracks mean it lacks the variety of later Prodigy albums like The Fat of the Land or Invaders Must Die. Still, it’s an important and exciting record that helped define 90s dance music. Favourite track: Break and Enter — I love the sound of the glass smashing! Least favourite track: None really, but the album’s sameness can get a bit tiring by the end. Album artwork: A classic cover that perfectly matches the raw energy of the music.
10/10 - what an album, signature prodigy electronic sound with rave elements. so many good songs on this. Criminal that this has an average rating of 3... too many boomers here
It's not bad, just not for me
I personally didnt enjoy this album alot, because it is totally not my type of vibe. But what the album does it does good, there is just a bit to mich choas in it for me. Though some songs break this chaos in just the perfect way, and stray away from the monotomous of what hardcore music is.
Absolutely awesome album sooo hype
Not the hugest fan of electronic music but this did feature a song on a mixtape made for me in '94!
Enjoyed listening to it whilst working and had good beats. The album didn’t drag at all and production was good however the whole album felt quite samey. Favourite track: Their Law
This album fucks
In a nutshell: go hard and don't go home. Have I entered The Matrix? I feel like I've been pulled deep into an alternative space full of pleather clad humanoids. And this album is the boring four-to-the-floor breakbeat filled soundtrack. What it lacks in backbeat diversity makes up for in attitude and skill (performing this live would be a mammoth task). PS. spot the vocal grabs from films. Overall: 3/10
Shit
Even at the time of its release I remember this felt a little too aggro, techno music for mosh pits. Like if you had it on in the car, you’d be 20% more likely to get in an accident or road rage incident. :D Earlier I liked “Out of Space” a bunch - peppy, but fun. This is just A LOT of the same tone. Which might’ve worked for me a few years earlier but I had aged out of this vibe. I see Fat of the Land is also on here and cmon guys.
Now what on earth is THIS..? Absolutely not
Never my thing.
I love this album.
pretty cool. good for background music while doing work
this was pretty fun but i kind of grew tired of it partway through—i’m not really in the right mindset, i guess. each one of these would be amazing in the context of a film soundtrack i bet.
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
Love this album. His was the first album I ever heard that made me think electronic music could be angry, and subversive, and in your face. While not as song-perfect as Fat of the Land, this album slaps, as the kids say. 4.5 stars.
These beats were actually pretty great, and not just because I recognized the Nirvana sample! I still wish they had been doing a bit more with them (especially for an album that's nearly an hour and a half long), but this one kept me interested a lot better than any of the electronica albums to date. Maybe I'm finally starting to get it!
This is around the same quality as Fat of the Land for me. Coll production and some good songs for sure buy nothing I'd come back for
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.
I love electronic music but this isn’t their best album and sounds quite dated now.
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
Not for me
HELL YEAH. Favorite track: No Good (Start the Dance)
83% Best: Their Law; Speedway (Theme from Fastlane); Poison; 3 Kilos Must-Hear? Sure
fuck yes, another prodigy pick. this one compared to the last one is pure, pumping RAVE. it's so big and bassy it's almost scary. a good scary, mind you. techno tracks so aggressive you might feel like the music will shoot out of the speakers and beat you senseless. is it happy hardcore? is it metal? what even is this? it's such a sound so typical of the group, and yet it's also a sound that's uniquely by them and them alone. nobody else can do it like them. that's why this album is legendary to me.
That was not what I was expecting from the cover. That was one of my favorite electronic albums I've gotten on the project. I can see why they were referenced as the Godfathers of Rave. Rating: 4.8
"My mind is glowing!" Another 1990s stone-cold classic.
Sooooo fucking long. Eugh
failed an exam today
Interesting Electronica
Not for me. Why is this on this list?
Not my vibe at all
No good (start the dance) is a rave classic, other than that… I just prefer fat of the land, it’s got a tighter tracklist. The prodigy is the only rave music (an pretty much the only non rock music) that I was raised on but it just made me love the hits and stay eh on some of the other stuff 3/5
I've heard plenty of individual numbers from The Prodigy over the years, but listening to this marks my first full album experience with them—and I thought it was great! At first I assumed the onslaught of the hyperactive beats would wear me out after a track or two, but the artist managed to successfully switch things up enough throughout the entire work that I kept leaning in, wanting more. It was interesting to learn that this album was apparently a response to the UK's 1994 Criminal Justice Bill, which specifically targeted breakbeat electronica and other “rave” music. I had absolutely no idea that anyone ever dreamed of proposing legislation—let alone actually passing it—that specifically targets a genre of music and particular musical characteristics. It's temping to make a proclamation that this album may have singlehandedly created a sub-genre of science fiction and forecast a decade of musical experimentation—but that may be too bold, too ignorant. What is clear is that I definitely enjoyed it.
Not my jam, but fine for what it is. It's possible that this is even great for what it is as this was much easier to get through than I feared. 3.2
Kann in den Container für Elektroschrott!
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.
Not my favourite Prodigy album, and maybe a little overlong, but it still gets an easy five stars.
Not my music at all, struggled to get through the whole thing
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
Just ok. I like it better once Keith joins. It's too just techno in this mode. 2.75/5
Never actually listened to this fully before. Only for sure was aware of "Voodoo People" which is an electronic dance masterpiece. After a short intro you get "Break & Enter" which is a bold, dark yet very groovy statement. This should be a fun listen. So far interesting how this album so far does not seem to be mixed very loudly at all, I guess loudness wars haven't started yet at that point in time, the mix sounds very good. Edit: nevermind, this came out in '94, great year for music. My verdict is a strong 4.5/5.0 but on 1001albumsgenerator it will have to be 4 stars. Enjoyable ride, worth REVISIT. On the other hand might even give 5 stars but still strong 4.5 for me, no more, no less.
I wouldn’t call the album itself bad as much as the listening experience. Tough to just sit down and listen to looping electronic music over and over for almost an hour and a half. So the album itself was okay, though it’s such a generic sound now.
I'm listening to this while working, and as background music, it's pretty great. Not sure I would love it as an album I'd just sit down and listen to. Everything sort of blends together and it is fairly repetitive.
Not normally my genre but not bad
RIP Keith Flint
I like it fine, but doesn't deserve to be on this list especially considering 'The Fat of the Land' is also on here and is catchier and shorter.
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.
I wasn't sure what I was getting into when I started this one. Like many I suspect, my exposure to The Prodigy was primarily singles from the Fat of the Land: Firestarter, Smack My Bitch Up, Breathe. As the album continued, I started to understand. There's a lot of depth and variety to this album. So much more than many of The Prodigy's peers. Where some of those seem to have tracks for the sake of dividing up an otherwise homogenous album, this one is varied, layered, even subtle in places... you know, *interesting*.
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.
I love the prodigy and while not as good as Fat Of The Land, this is a great album. The thing I really love about this kind of music and the simple lyrics is they work often better than something that might be more specific. Fuck Their Law repeated gets you the same idea if they tried to hide it, and well, they were not trying to hide it.
Não me aborreceu, adoro concertos dos The Prodigy e isto dá-me energia! Sorry not sorry
Urgency baked into every track. Absolute banger for getting going, which I need. Spins: 1 Playlist Additions: - Their Law - Voodoo People - Poison - No Good (Start the Dance)
idk maybe I'm not jilted enough
Not my thing but something very engaging, energetic, distinct. A soundtrack to go nuts to.
2.5
Did not like
makes good background music
I have mixed feelings...it's techno, rave, alternative dance. It gets one pumped up. I think The Fat of the Land is their more popular album.
More doof doof than Fat of the land which is much more my speed. Find it really hard to get into anything as doofy as this
I haven't listened to much of Prodigy, but I really enjoyed this one. Some songs went on a little long which is why it's getting a 3 instead of 4
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.
Certainly this is interesting enough and shows some technical skill. That said, I don't think it's exceptional.
I’ve never listened to prodigy but this me ready to workout.
Not my favorite... a little repetitive.
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 have been sufficiently jilted. a lot of fun ideas going on here
I can feel how this is influential on what would follow. Feels like proto-techno.
(1.5) the lyrics of break and enter really speak to me ‘eeiaaeiaha’
Until I hit play I assumed this was a solo record from Prodigy of Mobb Deep. This was pretty good. Yeah the songs are long, but they aren’t just repeating the same phrase over and over again to attain that length. They go somewhere, more elements are added, parts are taken away. Favorites were Their Law, Voodoo People, No Good, and 3 Kilos.
I’m not a big EDM fan, but I really enjoyed Fat Of The Land. This is nowhere as accessible, and it goes on way too long (both individual tracks and as a whole album), but it’s pretty solid.
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.
Raving sound
Grjóthörð plata! Þaut um á hjólinu með attitúd í stíl☠️
Að sjálfsögðu eru taktar/lög þarna sem maður kannast við, og annað gott, en sumt er ansi langdregið finnst mér.
my older brother was so into Prodigy when we were growing up. he would play their album in his car on the way to school and in his car on the way home from school and from his stereo when we were at home. it was the next album though "Fat of the Land" that I've heard a billion times. this one came out before, but the sound is very consistent between the two. that is to say familiar in a familial way but not something I seek out for myself generally. it's really danc-y though. I think I had forgotten that. also they wear more eyeliner than I do
Pretty good, but also pretty repetitive. Kinda rough to listen to straight through but I don't think that's really the intention.
I was ignorant to how much The Prodigy probably influenced the music I listened to in highschool. My only exposure was the song “Firestarter” (not on this album), and more specifically, clips of the music video which had very goth/industrial overtones that led me to believe this music was a very different thing. Pushing past that visual prejudice, this album sounds like you’d expect from any early ‘techno’ record, with a lot of happy motifs in place of the darker and more agro music I expected. “Voodoo People” - was this a single? I’ve definitely heard this one before. “3 Kilos” - nothing could have prepared me for the flute takeover on back half of this track. I'm here for it, but it wasn't on my bingo card for this album.
OK
Rough start for me, but by No Good I was ready to dance. Industrial/electronic/dance it doesn’t let up much. Really not the kind of music I know anything about, I’m way too old to be part of this scene. But I don’t hate it!
An okay album, not really a style of music I enjoy too much.
Not a bad record from them but also not amazing.
This is good dance music, and would surely be really fun to hear in a club, set and setting, but just sitting at my desk and hearing thunk thunk thunk is just kinda, ok, cool. Anyway, for what it is, heavy industrial dance with a social bent, it’s good. Would never again just sit and listen to it but in the right context, good stuff
Good for focused working and had many interesting experimental aspects including some properly eccentric (in a good way) whispering. Got a bit boring after a while.
This was alright. Lost its impact quickly on me though. I can see why it was lauded in the mid 90s perhaps, but that didn’t make my experience any better.
I hate this shit.
I read this as an English electronic album and had my doubts. At the beginning I was ready for a low score and possibly skipping the end like I've had to do on other electronic albums, but then it kind of put me in a trance. This was really enjoyable and listened to it all. I've heard some Prodigy before, but this just caught me at the right moment and was impressed. 3.5/5
Electropunk album from The Prodigy hits harder than a workout. I felt I needed strobe lights to really appreciate this and that would make for the perfect tiring listen. For all its energy there is a lot of repetition with the genre which I am not that fond of, but this album is a good take on it.
I wanted to like this more than I actually did. The tracks are mostly too repetitive to be as long as they are, and the whole album is too one-dimensional to be as long as it is. My only real knowledge of The Prodigy is through their well-known hits, which I like a lot, although I seem to have a foggy memory of seeing them at a festival one time many years ago. So if the project presents me with any more of their albums, I will hope to be more enthused about their music at that point.
Published 3 years befor The Fat of the Land and they sound maybe not totally different but could be another band on this one. The album is ok but a long way from what The Fat of the Land
Enjoyed jamming to it at work. Enjoyed jamming to it driving home.
Can’t say electronica is in my wheel house. Bit repetitive and overly long, but when I viewed as soundtrack to a Bourne movie or video game it sort of bopped along. 2.5 Star
Fantastic album
Energetic fun.
Another The Prodigy album. It's alright, but Fat of the Land was better.
This was pretty popular in its day, for sure. But - it wasn't my thing then, and not now either. I'll grant you that this would probably be much more fun with lasers and beers at a club, rather than in my car on the way to work.
Realmente lo he intentado pero esete estilo de musica no puedo. Canciones muy largas, de 8 minuntos, solo escuchando sonidos. Lo he intentado escuchar en tres dias distintos pero ni con calzador.
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.
Nominated for etafb (every track a fucking banger)
I enjoyed it more than Fat of the Land and Fatboy Slim's albums on this list. But its still not quite my preferred genre of electronic music.
Techno rock
Old school techno
Interesting. Not sure if I'm a fan.
This sounds better today than it did 30+ years ago, and it was pretty awesome back then.
Great songs for a background music for workout. Some ideas here and there, but it's lengthy and tiring. Could be shortened. As an album, I don't see much. Guess I'm not part of the jilted generation, definetly is not for me.
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.
Smaken verschillen. Veel mensen lusten bijvoorbeeld graag oesters, terwijl ik vind dat het gewoon naar zeewater smaakt en de textuur heeft van snot. Dit album (en the Prodigy in het algemeen eigenlijk) zijn voor mij de oesters van de muziekwereld. 0
Previously rated: The Fat Of The Land (3/5) ****************************** More music to MORTAL KOMBAT to. There's a song called Break & Enter where the crash cymbal is replaced by glass breaking, and it gets repetitive, as does some other stuff here. And it's long. Best track: Probably 3 Kilos, it has kind of a retro sound to it.
Yessss lfg
Aphex Twin this, Chemical Brothers that. I feel like Prodigy doesn't get recognized as much as it should. Staple of EDM.
Maybe I'm not jilted enough, I like it, but probably not enough. Apparently electronica is when you repeat the same few key words in the middle section.
'twas an okay time indeed... 5/10
It sounded so edgy in its time. Obnoxious and unbearable now. It's like rap, except it's a single phrase over and over.
music for robots
Thought it wouldn’t be for me but I actually got a bit into it. But the songs are too long
I definitely prefer rave and dance Prodigy to nasty gurning and noise Prodigy. This album is way more of the former than Fat Of The Land. I'm by no means a convert, but this gave me a more enjoyable nostalgia kick than things like Firestarter do.
Hated this from day one.
Not my genre.
Mixed feelings about this album. I enjoyed the energy in some of the songs - they were great to listen to while working. Other songs I liked less, and when you're listening to a genre defined by repetition, a disliked song gets annoying even faster.
Not my thing
Just the same thing going over and over again for 7 minutes straight. I just don't get Electronic music that's intended for dancing; It's insanely repetitive, I'm sure it sounds great live but I just can't get with it on the studio version.
Yawn
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.
Another Prodigy album?!? Another friggin Prodigy album on this finite list?!?! Well, if you like electronic sounds maybe you'll dig this. I got about halfway through and figured I had a pretty good handle on it. Not for me.
It's kinda hard for me to say anything overtly negative about Prodigy. I like their music. It's not the best thing ever—it can be repetitive or a bit too simple for my taste—but it's just fun. When I listen to them, although the music doesn't feel particularly special, I'm never underwhelmed or bored. This album is more of the same. Their over work from that time period has a similar vibe, so if you like it, this album is good. 7/10
This one grew on me a little bit the further I got into it, but I still think I liked the other Prodigy album better. Some of these songs were so repetitive that they got a little annoying. Probably would have been more tolerable if I had been listening to it in the background at work. I got behind and am trying to catch up so I’m a little more focused on the music today. 2.25 stars, I’m not quite ready to round up to 3.
Not for me thank you. Was just a waste of time to listen to.
Why is it so hard to only include certain band's best albums here? If this was The Fat of the Land, it would be a 4.
Skipped my way through this (I know that’s not really fair but I just had to) because like I said the other day (on The Chemical Brothers) I really don’t like this kind of music. It’s just irritating to me and the only way I can ever see myself listening to it even a little is for studying wall-of-sound. It makes my heartbeat feel irregular.
Was this good? I'm not sure. Is it the kind of music I love to groove around the house to? 💯 4/5 stars.
roblox jailbreak ahh music. Not bad tho
Insoportable
Huh, je pense pas pouvoir écouter cet album là dans les bonnes conditions dans ma chambre, il me faudrait un gros mush pit dans ma cave, ça serait le best
A little long but otherwise awesome
We walk in the footprints of giants
Much like the last album I just rated - I listen to The Prodigy much differently now than I did as a child in the 90’s. As a fan of electronic music, I actually really dig this. I can’t tell what genre it is, but it’s dirty and dark and meant for a warehouse and too many BPMs.
Big oof. Not the worst record I've heard so far out of the 1001 but 47 seconds into track 2 I was waiting for it to be over. The lowest of 2s
Några klassiska låtar men det blir ju jobbigt i längden att lyssna på den här typen av musik.
Guess I wasn't jilted 'cuz this ain't fer me.
This band has always been a tough one for me. Part rave, part background music for video games.
Music to help me get through my workout a little faster. Other than that…rave on I guess.
Just because this genre of music existed does not mean it belongs in this little time capsule. You cannot convince me this is good
Sounds cool / interesting at moments. But no way I can do an hour + of this. Gotta be on some good drugs to get through this. Also, you think Yungblood is Keith flints (RIP) child?
My knowledge of The Prodigy starts and stops with Firestarter, Breathe, and Smack My Bitch Up... none of which are on this album. I'm sure some of these tracks were awesome at a club or rave back in the day. Doesn't hit the same while driving to work in the morning... 2.5/5
Copy-and-paste bloop-bleep music with an aggro "edge". *Might* have been revolutionary at the time, but now sounds like something a 14-year-old with pirated copy of Ableton could crank out in an hour.
Not as good as the Fat of the Land, but still good.
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.
1 star as this list doesn't need two Prodigy albums. Pick one m8.
i used to be way more into scene EDM, from its early 90's roots til the 2000's. today its less interesting but still memorable in many ways. Chemical Brothers, Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, all that stuff with this in there. the technology to improve the music at this time was encouraged and moving at the speed of light. what i can appreciate is that it is a genre built around the experience of live music and moving to beats that allow the mind to wander and flow. the festivals that these groups created are still around and thriving by evolution. something new was always the goal of a new record. this is pret great for 94. def ahead of its time in a lot of ways. it was a simpler time and shows how far things have come today in 2025. Full Throttle shows the energy of the record and how this atmosphere was at the time. not for everyone, but still fun. solid 2/5
Over an hour and 15 mins..... yeah we'll see if that's worth it for me. OMFG it's ELECTRONICA. I was NOT expecting that. I was expecting like... metal or like.... post punk or something. not the sounds of the camp from Tarzan. This is definitely not my cup of tea lmao. It all just sounds like the soundtrack from a cheesy action movie to me. I enjoy it a lot more when there's singing. All the songs are just soooo long though. 8 mins of the same thing over and over will never be my choice. I can't imagine anyone sitting down to listen to this unironically. I feel like I'm in a fast and furious film or like I should be finding my target in a dark Berlin club or like I'm hacking into the mainframe right now. It's definitely good for what it is, I just don't think I like what it is.
Was interesting doing this straight after The Shamens. It benefited this I would say because this was clearly better, but it still didn't have the same energy and aggression I expected from The Prodigy.
5/10 Top 3 tracks: 1. No Good 2. 3 Kilos 3. Voodoo People
This is techno. Not really my thing
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.
this took me back to tiktok sounds in ~2020 2.5
Nostalgic Can't do half stars, so am rounding down.
Big and loud, not much to sing along to, I'm not much of a raver
Not much to say here. Grew up on this record and still love every single track today. Perfect. Liam is a genius. Again.
- feels great for working out - energic electronic music - a bit intense as background music while working
I think they had better albums. Meh.
Sounds like it was made by the kids in gym class who refused to take off their hoodies and thought detention was a personality trait. The minimal lyrics read like the kind of try-hard rage you’d scrawl in the margins of a biology textbook next to an anarchy symbol. The music feels less dated than expected and the drum programming is honestly pretty fucking cool. I’m not jilted, so this album clearly wasn’t made for me, but I still catch myself nodding along
didn't like it
adri: 2, no estoy en el estado adecuado para tanto drug and bass. Suena como suenan las fábricas de coche por dentro. mar: 0, lo intenté pero es que odio a este grupo.
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.
Damit kann ich nix anfangen. Wenn man das eine Stunde lang angehört hat, dann ist das Hirn leer!
Completely unknown band and rightly so. Too weird for my taste.
Si j'aime beaucoup les albums subséquents de The Prodigy, celui-ci me semble un peu désincarné et tourné vers lui-même.
banger
interesting heavy metal / industrial sound with a good pulse. A pretty good high energy background listen tbh. 3/5
I was a rock/punk/metal kid who thought if it didn’t have loud guitars it was worthless. Then, of all people, my mum handed me this on tape and told me to listen. It’s still in my regular rotation to this day
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
ok first of all that album cover kinda jumpscared me. anyway this is just a bunch of instrumental loops with random samples repetitively played over them for over an hour. i'm sure this would go hard if I was at a club, however i'm currently in my bedroom at 2 am so this kind of vibe isn't too easily applicable to my current surroundings. favorite song: speedway overall: 5/10
Die britische Gruppe The Prodigy nahm ihr zweites Studioalbum in den beiden Studios Earthbound (Essex) und Strongroom (London) auf. Liam Howlett, ein Engländer, fungierte dabei als Produzent, während Maxim Reality stimmliche Beiträge leistete. Musikalisch zählt das Album zum Breakbeat-Hardcore und Hardcore-Techno, angereichert mit Einflüssen aus Rave, Jungle, Rock und Hip-Hop. Einige der bekanntesten Stücke sind: „One Love“ – ein Rave-Song aus dem Vorfeld des Albums „No Good (Start the Dance)“ – ein energiegeladener Hit mit markantem Vocal-Sample „Voodoo People“ – mit einem Gitarrenriff im Stil von Nirvana und einem treibenden Breakbeat „Poison“ – mit einem langsameren Hip-Hop-Flair und starken Breakbeats Das Album überzeugt durch eine dichte, kraftvolle Produktion, die rohe Energie mit technischer Raffinesse verbindet. Songs wie „Their Law“ reflektieren zudem eine kritische Haltung gegenüber der britischen Polizeigesetzgebung gegen Raves, unterstützt durch rebellische Samples. Persönlich fällt mir auf, wie das Album trotz seiner Härte strukturiert wirkt – es entfaltet Dynamik und Tiefe, ohne in Beliebigkeit abzugleiten. Die genreübergreifende Mischung aus Breakbeats, Gitarren und Vocal-Samples wirkt authentisch und durchdacht. Abschließend halte ich Music for the Jilted Generation für ein wesentliches Dokument der 90er-Rave-Szene, das rohe Kraft und stilistische Vielfalt in eine stringente Klangwelt überführt. Eine Empfehlung für Hörer, die elektronische Musik mit kantigem Charakter und Produktionstiefe schätzen.
7/10
Forgot about Poison. What a jammm
Sounds like the future of rock, I wonder where did it all go wrong
8/10 7it3 haxx0rz
1/5
Every Prodigy album is a pipe bomb (complimentary)
It's kind of funny because while every element of the signature Prodigy sound (aggressive breakbeats, acid synths, sample hooks) is all there, it still sounds like a setup for the classic Prodigy sound we all know, just because neither Keith is involved on vocals. But as a pure head rush from start to finish, it's hard to beat this. If the rave doesn't sound like this, I don't want to come.
Ultimately this is pretty repetitive and uninspiring. The other prodigy album I had had a lead singer and I missed him.
4/5
Not my bag