Music For The Jilted Generation

It’s no Fat of the Land but you can’t deny the influence it had.

Good stuff

And to follow up a 50s rock and roll album, which is something that I personally just can't really get into, we have a 90s British electronic album, which is also something that I've never been able to get into. Cool. It's also a repeat artist. Cool. Oh well. Of all the 90s british electronic artists with multiple albums on the list, The Prodigy is the one that I'm probably the most okay with revisiting considering the fact that I did enjoy The Fat of the Land a decent amount. Compare this to something like the inevitability of me listening to a second Orbital album, which is something that I'm not excited for in the slightest. Still, we're not talking about those guys. We're talking about the Prodigy, which I kind of vibe with. Music for the Jilted Generation is solid. It's not really my thing, but I like the style here. There's more energy here, which makes this great for a rave type thing. Now, I am by no means a raver. I have basically no social life. You ever wonder how I'm able to listen to all of these albums and have time to write these big reviews? Yeah. I think that's why these albums usually don't appeal to me. However, I do respect this album quite a bit. There's some cool sounds and stuff here. I mean, "Voodoo People" has a Nirvana sample! And it's actually the real Nirvana instead of that 60s British group that was sampled on Endtroducing...! That's just cool. "Voodoo People" is a cool song btw. The sample usage is commendable. The album has its flaws. For instance, it kind of drags a bit. It could be a lot worse, don't get me wrong. This isn't Haunted Dancehall we're talking about here. I know that this isn't Haunted Dancehall because I actually like this album. However, I don't like it enough to give it too high of a score. It's a respectable collection of some cool techno songs that I'm sure are great in certain contexts, but when it comes to what I look for in music, this album isn't quite what I'm looking for. Good stuff though. 3/5.

Good

Es un buen álbum, no es de mi completo gusto pero sus bases y sonidos me cautivaron

Love it.

Important British techno that opened the door for those out the loop to start joining in. There are some absolute bangers on here that anyone who was around at the time would know - this crossed over BIG. Aggressive, funky and sweaty - enjoyable, but you wouldn't want to hug it on the dancefloor. Get high and enjoy. Best Tracks: Their Law; Voodoo People; No Good (Start The Dance)

Not for me just pointless noise

Best Song: Voodoo People. Just the right amount of groovy. Worst Song: Poison. That "Yeah" sample really wasn't doing it for me. Overall: Fine enough for having in the background while working or doing something else, but there are too few standout tracks to make it that interesting to return to.

A soundtrack for a high-intensity video game. Since I’m not rolling at rave, this noise is not it.

They came up with 3 seconds worth of music and then played it for 6 minutes. This is music for people in basement bars with no AC and at least one time, not ironically, said stick it to the man

It's good music, but absolutely not for me.

Really just not an interesting genre for me. Didn’t finish the record.

Unique. Interesting. Groundbreaking. Deserving of many accolades. None of these should be used to describe this album. Even by 1994 rave standards this is just ok. Also too long.

Not enjoyable

Kind of droned on to me. Last song was best

★★★½

Great

God damn this is good. My 8 year old son said it make him want to dance and go fast and thats good enough for me. A seminal album in moving electronic music forward. This added danger and anger and industrial scuzz and its brilliant for it. The mid album run is about as good as it gets.

Exciting to be doing my first duplicate artist, as I've already had The Fat Of The Land and absolutely loved it. This album came out when I was only a couple weeks old, so I was excited x2. Excitement not misplaced, as it was fantastic. It's a beast of an album though, I didn't see the run time when starting and only noticed when I thought "wow, this song is long.... oh, so is this one" and so on. I can usually get through a full album on my bus ride to work, barely got through half of this. Very much what I expected based on their other album - fat beats, a lot of drum, lots of low bass-y noises and ethereal synths, quite industrial and grunge for EDM, an almost total lack of anything resembling traditional music like melody/song structure/lyrics (not a criticism for me, is for others) and never being bored the entire play through, which is a feat for an album so long. Being more "noise" than "music" it can be hard to see meaning and themes, but it's there. A lot of sonic variety too, bits of everything scattered throughout and it manages to sound of the time but also fresh, or maybe that's just because it's new to me. But it doesn't sound likes it's dated and poorly-aged, like Remedy by the Basement Jaxx for example (still good, but you can see its age). It starts strong and keeps going right through until ending with a bit more chill, atmospheric stuff (but still EDM, of course). 3 Kilos is especially representative of that - it's a real big change in the vibe of the album, but works incredibly well and signposts a really good 3-track close out to the album, I enjoyed the whistles. Found Speedway a bit... comical? The racing car sample was repeated so much it became funny, still a decent track otherwise though. Nothing bad on this album. The laughing loop on Claustrophobic Sting is absolutely intoxicating too, loved it. The glass breaking in Break & Enter too, it's weaved in so perfectly. The opening sample/lyrics in Their Law as well as Poison's office sounds opening, too - "oh fuck sake, tryin ta write this fuckin tune man", very relatable every time I get a phone call too. Seems each song has a distinct sample/sound it's built around, which I love. What I would pay to be able to go back to the 90s and get completely wiped dancing to this at a club. Plays: 2 Most: No Good (Start the Dance) Least: The Heat (The Energy), but Full Throttle also - still like both, but find them a bit jarring at points. And the "yeah-e-uh" vocals in the former are very dated imo, not a fan. Rating: 5

Would give it 4.5 if I could. Great album but need to be in the right mood.

Täydellinen levy! Eihän tämän kovempia bileitä olekaan! 5/5

Yllättävän kämäinen levy megahittiien ympärillä. Tai ei vaan kauheen kiinnostavaa elektronista musiikkia. 3/5

When I was a kid, I LOVED the Prodigy. Fat of the Land was a seminal album for me growing up and so of course I rushed out to get their other albums and to say I was disappointed was a vast understatement. This is still true, this album was a few years before my time and I wasn’t out my face chewing door frames in a sweaty club so maybe that’s why I don’t get it. If this is the only representation from The Prodigy in this list, then it’s the wrong choice. Their Law, Voodoo People and Poison still stand the test of time, the rest however, is not very good.

It was a 2 today. Could be a 3 or 4 another day

Voodoo People - sound of my youth!

Not my genre. Interesting but not enough to keep me from the next album on my playlist.

01) Intro - / 02) Break & Enter - 8,5 03) Their Law - 7,5 04) Full Throttle - 7,5 05) Voodoo People - 10,0 06) Speedway (Theme From Fastlane) - 7,0 07) The Heat (The Energy) - 7,0 08) Poison - 8,0 09) No Good (Start The Dance) - 10,0 10) One Love (Edit) - 9,0 11) The Narcotic Suite: 3 Kilos - 8,5 12) The Narcotic Suite: Skylined - 8,0 13) The Narcotic Suite: Claustrophobic Sting - 7,5 TOTAL: 8,21 (82/100) Current ranking: 145/563

It’s pretty good in all honesty and could be better than FOTL especially with tracks like voodoo people with its great nirvana sample. TP are probably the most unique band of the 90s with their almost new genre of music, although the rock-electronic blend isn’t built upon until later down the line it is certainly present in specific tracks. 8.5/10

Just not my style. Very busy and dischordant.

Feels very very dated. I thought I may like this but it just didn't do anything for me.

Good

2/5

I ended up enjoying this more than I thought I would. I’m glad it wasn’t just music sounding like it was made for The Matrix.

This is definitely not the type of music I enjoy. It’s overly repetitive without any real lyrics or melody. So far the one redeeming quality I’ve heard is some interesting beats but they go on so long that it feels like a hammer on my eardrums. I suppose it’s in this list because of how they blended techno and harder rock riffs.

Turned my living room into an illegal warehouse party.

2/5

This was not good.

Awesome "gettin shit done" album.

One of my favorites

3.5 stars.

Real Mortal Kombat type of stuff.

Context is important in music. Some things do not lend to casual listening as well as others. And electronica is a prime example. Often too repetitive for just listening, it benefits heavily from hearing it in the right context. Namely, when dancing. This album surprised me though by offering a bit more. At times quite cinematic.

Nah, fuck this shit.

Ffs people in the '90s would listen to anything with an electronic drum track

Meget fed! Tror jeg foretrækker den her over den anden vi havde

Ikke helt lige så fed som The Fat of the Land selvom den nok er mere Real™. Lyder stadig fedt, kæmpe lyd.

This was great! I can only imagine it being crazy in '94.

10/10. While I'm no longer as into EDM as I was as a pre-teen, something about The Prodigy's music just scratches an itch in me. I love their music!!! :)

5.0 - Awesome

Bought this album on the day it came out and it was quite important to my musical tastes developing as a teenager. I've overplayed it so haven't listened to it for years. It holds up well. The opening Break & Enter is a brilliant assault on the senses with a great riff. The album flows with a high energy and intensity, but on revisiting it is is too long (78 minutes). The second quarter (apart from Voodoo People) could be missed out as it doesn't really add anything to the album. The singles are all great, and the fourth quarter 'The Narcotic Suite' is The Prodigy at their most musically adventurous. They would never reach these heights again (I don't rate their overpolished follow up Fat of the Land).

Break beats

legendary!

This is outrageous, this is contagious

Not as good as Fat of the Land but still awesome

I feel like for every Clube Da Esquina by Milton Nascimento I have to sit through five Brit Pop albums and two overlong terribly repetitive electronics dance albums.

Good enough background music.

This album spurred a kitchen rave with me and my toddler, and was also a great backdrop to spur me on to do work. Would listen again when I need to be revved up. The album started making me feel a little anxious towards the end though and it gets a little samey, but a gem all the same

Muzak

3.8 2x catch up week of 5/15 over 2-3 days

begint te rustig, daarna komt het beter, een meesterwerk komt eraan, maar is er nog niet

I was a little young for the rave scene, as this came out when I was 14. This album certainly makes me nostalgic for something I never got to participate in. I wasn't listening to this type of music in 1994, but these days, I'm always looking for a high electronic music without unnecessary lyrics. For that reason, this is a far better album than Fat of the Land for me. This is definitely going into my personal collection

Similar to its "fat" successor (which I listened to a couple of enlisted albums before), the singles are massive but the rest of the album does not quite live up to them.

The sound of early adolescence.

As I’ve said of other albums, and probably will say again, this is the type of electronica that’s context-dependent - probably fun to dance to, but not something that I find really enjoyable on its own. Favorite: Speedway 2.5

Meh. Not too bad for an electronic album.

Kinda....hmmm. Like, I LOVED The Land of the Fat when it came out, but this album is just kinda boring. I'm not really sure this one is really for me. I think I kinda phased out of 90s EDM type stuff. Fine, not offensive, but really little on here grabbed my attention. Cool flute hook in 3 Kilos.

Each track. Same electronic riffs. Same beat. Different words. Same bad vibe. Music To Jilt A Generation.

Classic

Instant five

Just a little bit nostalgic and very listenable

7/10

Classic. Still does its thing

I had this album when I was young. It was pretty popular amongst my friends for some reason that I can't remember. Great trip down memory lane, I think it's a great album with excellent beats and some high energy vocals. I kind of forgot about the lead singer with the crazy hair and extreme eyeliner. Good stuff.

Manages to sound so very of it's era, and yet there is such freshness and energy in the music that it still leaves you in a state of awe. It's a towering achievement. The variety of tracks is astonishing given some of the boundaries of dance music usually. Everything from Jazz flute to Jean-Michel Jarre is put in the pot and the result is just staggering. Love it!

Full Throttle // Voodoo People // No Good // 3 Kilos // 3.5/5

Man, what a pile of techno garbage.

Not my jam

Not my favorite style, but I can appreciate it in doses

Vinyl: No Fav: Voodoo People

Was I jilted? I'll admit that, in their time, Prodigy weren't really my cup of tea. The years have improved their palatability for me in a way that every time I hear their sound I'm waiting for that massively impactful track like a "Smack My Bitch Up". You can hear the ground work for their later commercial success in here.

this goes hard.

Perfect soundtrack for committing cyber crimes during the early internet era. Also great for driving fast, staying awake, working out, doing ketamine, etc. 3/5

I’m sure it’s great in a club. I don’t live in a club.

I like some electronic music...but I can't stand this. Some parts aren't bad (No Good was decent). It gets a star for being mentioned in Gunnerkrigg Court however (even if Fat of the Land is better)

Mercifully, two of the tracks weren't available on Spotify, so I saved 15 minutes of my life

Boop beep boob peep music. Absolutely fine in background

I really thought Prodigy would have better songs than this

Voldsomt til mas da. Nei takk.

Banger Voodoo People (spesielt Pendulum remixen) er killer. No Good og 3 Kilos er krem.

Quite aggressively frenetic. Best enjoyed out in a field through a massive soundsystem, Prodigy were a useful gateway for me into discovering all sorts of other electronica. The production is rad: very big, very loud, and very sharp. But saying all that, it's quite a challenging listen nowadays. It's all energetic but some of the big rave lead synths can sound a bit cheesy at times. When this popped up, my instinct said this would be a 4 star record but in truth, on listening back, it doesn't move me like it used to.

I figured I might need to crank this one to fully appreciate it. I turned it down.

I think I'm a poppy prodigy fan.

Has some weak songs which make the length and repetitiveness get to me, but when it's good it's excellent

The Prodigy are the greatest dance act of all time and probably the most important band in my life. The reason I got into music. Left it to the last for that reason and glad I did.

So close to a 5 but just misses out due to an average back straight.

Some great tracks on here, but like many 90s albums, it’s just too long. Flirted with a 4, but a star dropped off in the last 20 minutes

The first few songs I kind of liked, the rest not so much. The baby crying one at the end was pretty funny.

It was fine. The Fat Of The Land was definitely better.

Red pill or blue pill? Red pill or blue pill? Such decisions.

I quite enjoy the first few tracks. Then…it keeps going… 2/5

I was there when the prodigy came to prominence and I didn't really get it then, and I still dont. This entire album is pretty repetitive and monotonous. You really could not tell one song from the other. If i compare it to something like Leftfield - Leftism, that still sounds fresh and unique while this sounds dated. Halfway through and I am bored out of my head from listening to this. The second half was slightly better...but only slightly

Seems like you need to be on molly.

3.7 I quite enjoyed that. Only ever really absorbed Fat of the Land by these guys. That was admittedly better than I expected, but it does suffer from a lot of bloat. For every good, drawn out song (Break & Enter, Full Throttle), there's an equal number of slightly tedious drawn out songs (Their Law, One Love). Trim the fat and this is a fantastic rave album. Still, credit due to this being released so early on.

Why did I recognize a song from tiktok…so brainrotted. Anyways, I can totally imagine the goth kids from South Park and katya bumping to this. It ain’t for me, but I understand ita appeal

Not unpleasant to listen to but not a lot to take with you either, Music for the Jilted Generation is filled with songs that ride their riffs for far too long. Now the songs often go on journeys around these riffs, but it's as if they're constructed to be the way they are, rather than orchestrated. There's a lot of industrial sounding percussion and abrasive synthesized sounds. This feels like an album that requires close, active listening to be rewarding. Maybe I'll end up revisiting this, but it didn't ever really call to me.

Classic, soms wat eentonig of langdradig maar over het algemeen interessant, natuurlijk goede beats en goede productie, 7.8/10

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Gotta be pretty groundbreaking for its time, right? But awfully abrasive and downright unpleasant way too often.

I'm definitely not an electonica guy by any stretch of the imagination. I don't hate this, though. It's just fine.

You know how the second Mission Impossible movie has the most ridiculous, absurd 90's score? How that movie is a bore to get through. This is the same thing. DNF Best Song: Speedway Rating: 2/10 Stars: 1/5

Instrumental albums, club music albums, electronic music albums and everything beyond and in between are often challenging for me to review. I feel like sometimes the goal of the music is to be repetitive enough that you space out, allowing it to slip into the background and help you focus. Or that's unintentional and it happens anyway. I don't know what the intent was with this album. Everything is certainly high energy enough that I could see it not intending to be ambient background noise. Rather, I think it was meant to be enjoyed on its own. But regardless, I find it difficult to review. It's good. The loops (the album is built on them) are fun and addictive at times, necessary if you're going to play them over and over again. But is it something I'm dying to come back to? Did it encourage me to seek out more music in a similar genre or artist? No, on both accounts. So it gets three stars. Standout Tracks: Their Law, Voodoo People, Speedway (Theme from Fantastic), 3 Kilos

Fuck ‘em, and their law Relisten to the first two Prodigy albums every few years, and think they’re still very good, especially Jilted Generation - in hindsight, a clear stepping stone on the way to Boards Of Canada (you could easily hide 3 Kilos in MHTRTC), the best to ever do it.

I feel like I’m storming a midnight zombie rave.

Anstrengend und immer wieder gefühlt das gleiche

I liked some of it, it opened very well, but a number of the songs went on too long. And I get the style, but if you don't like the song, the repetition started to wear thin on me. NEXT. Top tracks: "Voodoo People," "Claustrophobic Sting"

I just didn't like it as much as their next album. Too many songs went on too long (ahem, 78 minutes of audio) and it was a bit too droning and similar across songs. I loved how edgy and crunchy their next album was, and how their sounds imitated real instruments. This one is a bit electronic-heavy. Slightly above a 3 but not a 4 for me. Favorite tracks were Speedway, Poison, Skylined, and Claustrophobic Sting.

My initial reaction was shock that there are two Prodigy albums in the 1001. The first few tracks had me even more irritated - here's that same Prodigy beat in every song. I started thinking maybe they're great when you're at a rave stoned out of your mind but listening on a Sunday morning? Not so much. Well, then I found myself listening over the course of much of the day and it grew on me every time I listened. I was listening while working, and before I knew it I was grooving with the whole album. And THIS is why I think it's so essential to give albums on the 1001 more than one or two listens. Who would think this one was a grower? Favorite tracks: Their Law, Voodoo People, Poison (really great groove), The Narcotic Suite: 3 Kilos & Skylined.

I liked this more than expected. Had some really solid beats. Voodoo People’s riff being inspired by Very Ape was quite cool. Solid album!

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It might be just that I was listening to this after a Dion album, but I quite enjoyed this, nodding along to a few of the tunes. It has a bit of that plasticky feel of 90s music, but it's fine, moderately enjoyable. The last 2 tracks, Skylined and Claustrophobic Sting, have more of the sound that I think of as Prodigy.

The epitome of “The DJ saved my life on the dance floor tonight.” Front to back, this is a transcendental experience: crushing, abrasive, rebellious, and yet, spiritual, contemplative, and nuanced. With little lyrics or themes to latch on to, all you have is the music, which feels like it is simultaneously timeless, of its time out of the rave scene, and could be released tomorrow and still sound fresh and mind-bending. I liked The Fat of the Land a lot, but Music for the Jilted Generation is something so much deeper. This is a special record, one that works well track by track, but can change your life when put together. 78 minutes have never felt so short and all-absorbing. My ass was SAT!!! I’m blown the fuck away. What a fucking masterpiece. Literally, words can’t explain what the music can with this one.

Excellent!!

Yes, yes, good for me...

Good.

Dang this project is really giving me a much stronger appreciation for EDM. Who knew

Outstanding album!!! Still relevant, and always be.

I guess I'm not enough of a music nerd to enjoy this one. It's not only the repetitiveness of it all, but also the kind of sounds they used - it was simply annoying. 1,5 stars

This was just ok for me. I was a little bit disappointed because I like the album The Fat of the Land so much, but this album just seems harsher and more repetitive. I understand this album came first and it's historically important, but for me, I'll always choose to listen to The Fat of the Land over this album.

Maybe this would grow on me or be better with the right drugs

I have some time for this genre, broadly speaking, but none of these songs would get my ass on the dance floor then or now. Like Jason Mendoza at a Skrillex concert I'll be waiting for the bass to drop. And it, it'll never come. Too bleepy bloopy.

This record is a wily, wiry, often incandescent bricolage of sound. Its textures and rhythms inform towering compositions that do so much more than provide a blueprint; they throw down a gauntlet. It’s ironic, maybe, that the thing my mind first conjures when listening to this sample-heavy affront to UK policing overreach is the classic 90s anti-pirating public service video familiar to VHS viewers everywhere – “you wouldn’t steal a…” – and its iconic soundtrack. Surely a Prodigy rip off? While there’s a somewhat dated sense of the thing having been quantised to within an atom of the grid lines at times – resulting in a rigidity that threatens to flatten the atmosphere – the propulsive momentum of the tracks will carry you through. It’s a big record, full of iconic moments; but what’s in here is also a sophisticated sort of musicality that scavenges and builds to produce its affects (what postmodern philosophy might identify as evidence of a “deterritorialising” impulse). It’s a good punk record, an excellent electronic album, and rave’s true claim to immortality.

I need to give this another listen, but this is the kind of music that I love listening to during work. A low three for now!

VOODOO PEOPLE

I don’t get this at all.

Miserable

Kinda listened to this one, garbage

I like it! Perfect album! Masterpiece! Voodoo People, The Heat and No Good are amazing!

Heavy guitar riffs over breakbeats? Vaguely evil synths over distorted hardcore basslines? This albums got it all. I thoroughly enjoyed this one from start to finish with the exception of “One Love” which I feel should have been omitted from the record entirely, man was that a real vibe killer. I do feel like the flute work on the track “3 Kilos” deserves a shoutout. It’s like if the dude from Jethro Tull was rolling on molly at 3am in an abandoned warehouse rave, exceptional stuff. I really like this record, I’m glad I was exposed to it from this list. 4*

This is what I wanted those Chemical Brothers albums to sound more like when we had to review them. It's pretty similar, but this album just had a certain je ne sais quoi that made it quite a bit more fun to listen to. Still not my favorite kind of electronic music, but I feel slightly more invested in the heist being planned.

Loud, high energy and relentless rave/techno. I really liked Their Law, Voodoo People and No Good. But a whole album of 5-8 minute tracks is a bit difficult to slog through, especially when the music is so repetitive.

I never enjoyed The Prodigy when I was a young whippersnapper, mostly because there was a total jerk at school named Cameron, who would constantly blast this band through his shitty CD Walkman speakers and rave about how hardcore they were. This arsewipe of an excuse for a human later went to prison for being the ringleader of a highly illegal online forum, so I always associated his awful character with awful taste in music. A quarter of a century later, here I am giving them another chance. This is their second album I've had as part of this project, and I realize they're not that bad; I got through both records without suffering from high school flashbacks. I knew Voodoo People, which I didn't even realize was by The Prodigy. They're not a collective I'd be quick to listen to again, but I can appreciate how they were so influential to 90's electronic/rave.

Another 1+ hour long electronica album... Could have been worse, but it's still not really my thing.

This is very heavy, electronic, very interesting, I loved it while riding my bicycle, certainly not for a relaxing evening at home. I wanna mix a BPM list for working out, incorporating some of this. 3*

Literal garageband music

CHOOOOON!

good for me

Aged well, still good today.

It’s fine, some decent songs though they sound fairly similar and repetitive.

I don't know enough about this genre to know if this was really all that special of an album, but most of the songs are just too long and became super frustrating and repetitive.

Boom, easy 5* for me. I totally get why other people might not like the Prodigy, particularly this album. It's abrasive and in your face, but it's trying to be. Not every album has to be 'beautiful', 'soulful' or a 'thoughtful masterpiece' - sometimes you just need punching in the face. "Yes, but so many people make music like that, why is this one 5*?" Virtually everyone that has made albums like this after the Prodigy did it worse, or said that they never would have been making music we're it not for Liam, Maxim and Keith. Jilted... Isn't just an album, it's a cornerstone in music history

This album was huge at the time, but I never really bought into it. Seemed like a gimmick - scary looking makeup and a permanent scowl seemed so contrived. They did put on a good live show and got the crowds dancing, and can admire their songcraft. Just not my thing.

Largely boring and overly pleased with itself, but "No Good" is an absolute classic.

Fantastic.

Hyper first half, then cooled off. Very 90s

I'm torn if I wanna give this a 5. I never listened to them seriously before and this ruled. I'll come back to this.

Too much for me

Love fat of the land so I was excited to check this out and am happy to report it’s great

Not bad, but not for me.

I didn't dislike it. Great for clubbing.

2.5

Never been to a rave and probably wouldn’t enjoy it. But I enjoyed this.

288/1001

I thought I would like The Fat of the Land more than this but I'm glad I changed my mind. Phenomenal.

Bleep bloop

this was ok. kind of boring listening to this rather than dancing to it in a club.

Hard electronica. Industrial elements, hard beats. I kind of dig it, like the soundtrack of a cool 2000s action movie. Would make excellent exercise or running music. Expected this to be much noisier. Wakes you up.

Some killer, some filler but at least it had some heaviness

Noping the fuck out of this one. It's like Firestarter on streoids for a whole album

This is legit giving me anxiety. I hate it.

Rating: 7.5/10 A lot of bangers and fun songs on here. Definitely more musically versatile and interesting than a lot of the other electronic albums on the list.

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I'm working as I listen to this, and I get why some people would benefit from it as an industrial background thing. Maybe dance to it if you had that much energy and cocaine in you. But otherwise, it's not my thing.

Voodoo People & Poison are classics. Not my fav Prodigy album, but a good’n

Cool album but mostly filler

Blade. Sprinkler blood. Vampires

woah my brain feels like it's been washed

Seems like a great and influential classic in the rave scene. Very interesting samples mixed over endless industrial beats. But this is not music for sitting around and listening to — it’s music for dancing. Hard to score against music intended fir a different purpose. I’ll give it a 3, but could be a four based on its influence in the club/dance/rave scene. Or it could be a 2 because you just can’t listen to a whole album of this stuff repeatedly.

I used to listen to music like this almost to a fault. The highlights are pretty high (Voodoo People is a killer jam) but a lot of it gets to long and too repetitive. 3.5/5

Electronic I don’t love but good background on a flight

# Album Name: Music For The Jilted Generation # Artist: The Prodigy # Rating: 4/5 # Comments: Very mixed feelings on this one. Ive seen the prodigy live several times. And they are fucking great. Bags of energy. Theres some really good songs on this album too like Law, Voodoo people, poison, no good and one love. But on the other hand its nearly 80 minutes fucking long. I mean, you got to be dropping a few E's to listen to an album like this for 80 mins. I mean if i was, it would probably be great. Either than or doing a kettlebell session. I was torn between a 3 and 4. Id give this a 3.5 if i could. Benefit of the doubt is a 4. # Top Tunes: Law, Voodoo people, poison, no good and one love. # Would I listen to it again? Yes.

A balance of "this is incredible" mixed with "this is dragging on way too long".

Absolutely no sane list, even one with a hefty allotment of 1001, should include two albums by The Prodigy. Will echo what I said of Fat of the Land…it hasn’t aged well. This album even more so. Poison though….

I remember this one had the iconic song Voodoo People. I ended up enjoying this a lot more than I thought. Still not quite my thing.

I reckon this is a (sub) genre classic, and as such I'm having trouble to rate it. Lord knows I have a niche I can talk someone's ear off about. But about this dance album? Influential? Probably. Good in it's genre? Probably? Foundation for a legendary group? Sure. The thing is, if I had any stake in the genre I could tell you it's worth. The album after this ( the fat of the land) claims more territory and is more worth it imo.

6.5/10: i liked it. Clearly pioneering force for punk edm and the electronica that followed. There were lots of good moments, but not something i see myself revisiting much

I went into this having already enjoyed the clusterfuck that is 1997's 'The Fat of the Land'. And this monster is certainly a clusterfuck in its own right but in a far less "obviously" charming way. Despite being released only 3 years before its more popular younger brother, I found this album's metal, electronic, and big-beat fusions to sound significantly more dated. It's a different thing entirely though, the songs here are longer and more repetitive, and there are barely any vocals. There's no standout banger like 'Firestarter' either. And yeah this album is fucking stupid, and I thought I was going to hate it, but no, I love it. And not even in a "it's so bad it's good" kinda way. Like the beats here are big, the sample choices are consistently interesting, and the vocal snippets with the "fuck 'em and their law" of 'Their Law' or the garbled "The Energy" on 'The Heat (The Energy)' or the "I've got the poison!" of 'Poison' are all utterly hilarious. The album is too long for its good, this album cover is atrocious, and certain switch-ups make absolutely no sense - but I was enjoying every minute of this nevertheless. Those break-neck speed drums and subtle switch-ups sound like cars blowing up beside you in a Tokyo street race, especially on 'Voodoo People', an absolute adrenaline rush with what sounds like a subtle fiddle hit guiding the track through its various phases. This song is so masterfully over the top, I love it. 'Poison' is relentlessly funky with those distorted bass hits and acid-house leanings. I love the bassline on 'No Good (Start the Dance)', maybe the most straight-up electronic cut here. '3 Kilos' is super chilled out compared to everything else here - it serves to round out the whole album experience quite nicely. But I understand I was just in the right headspace for this. If I was annoyed or irritated this could've easily ended up being my least favorite album, like ever. Instead, it ended up being one of my favorites from this list so far. Funny how things work. It's like the music "Resident Evil 4" if anyone gets that reference...a fundamental masterpiece masked in a layer of tack that only serves to make it more enjoyable.

I really wanted to like this album because my wife like prodigy, but i just dont. The song not very melodic except Vodoo People. Also doesnt help when the artist says the album is too long and would love to leave 3 songs off...

Fuck yeah, intro en dan vooral het eerste nummer zet meteen de toon van wat je van dit album moet verwachten. Namelijk een soort fuck you HYPE album. Holy shit, soms vergeet je het maar Voodoo People SLOOPT! Sowieso, dit album is dikke acid, dikke elektro vibes, LOVE dit! Denk dat ik dit album zelfs iets beter vind dan Fat of the land, dit album is veel meer chaos en DnB terwijl het andere album meer gepolijst voelt? Dus: chaotisch album, lekker veel 303s, dikke acid synths en moddervette drums. Het enige wat het van de 5 sterren weghoudt is toch een beetje de matige troep die er tussen zit soms, maar zeker een album dat je moet luisteren voor je dood gaat! FAVO: Break & Enter, Voodoo People, Speedway, No good, One love, Claustrophobic Sting

Why this one and not Fat of the Land?

Coming from my very limited industrial rave music knowledge: no band was able to so well blend dance house music with that absolute guttural sludge like The Prodigy. This is dirty, it is dated, and it is a very niche music. However, it is also addictive and an absolute riot. It warrants that the volume be increased, that you give it a chance and feel it. It is infectious and at its best it is euphoric.

4.5

After the banality of Limp Bizkit yesterday this was a welcome relief

i want to goth dance under a bridge to this

legitimately sick for 1994

Music for the Jilted Generation - literally music for me. I was literally jilted back in ‘84. Len warned me, he said she was only after the money and fame, of course I didn’t listen! I mean, I should have seen it coming, her name was Jill Tedman! Never mind, lucky escape if you ask me! Found out a few years ago that she ran off with Bob Monkhouse! Apparently it fell apart quite quick. She thought Bob was Des O Connor! He kept up the charade for months. Honestly, that bloke will do anything to get his end away! 2.3

Rave music isn’t my thing.

Opening tracks were killer, very dark and industrial with punk elements. End of album becomes brighter and poppier and was less of a fan. But the energy was intense, peak 90s electronic music.

Really good, I prefer Fat of the Land but this has a great variety of sounds and style

I’ve never been on the right drugs to get through one of the Prodigy’s tracks, much less an entire album.

A foot in industrial, metal, and breakbeat "electronica" Perfect videogame soundtrack for sure. 3.5

Was going to rate three stars because I liked some of the songs, and thought this was interesting EDM, but the album art is terrifying

Good energy rave music

Not for me.

I forgot how great this is. After the first few tracks I remembered and by the end I wanted to rave like there’s no morning.

This wra of electronica is very nostalgic and dated feeling. Sounds like a lot of video game music from the late 90s, and while there are interesting parts, overall I just didnt really care for the album a ton. It's way too long, though there are some cool hooks and sounds mixed in. My favorite is Their Law, which has a nice weight to the heavy rock in it. Poison was also good. But I'm very ready to move on after 75 minutes.

unimpressive

Midrange for me.

It holds you hostage until you start liking it.

Solid

Guess I'm a jilted generation, cause this is for me.

Oof, such a banger!

Did I hear a "Pokemon" Battle Theme, or a "Pokemon" Route Theme in there? Among that, many electronica bleeps, and bloops. If nothing else, the album gets you motivated, but for what it is, it goes on too long. Favorite Song: "The Narcotic Suite: Skylined".

The Prodigy are among the first acts I think of when it comes to the big beat genre. They seemingly perfected the use of breakbeats and drun'n'bass in conjunction with interesting sampling. Sure, some individual tracks are quite long here. That's the nature of the beast when it comes to big beat/techno during that era. That era is obviously very much a bygone era now, and this album certainly sounds of its time. I enjoyed some pieces here, but thought the album kind of lost its legs near the end. The sheer variety of samples used here impressed me, though.

Album 648 of 1001 The Prodigy - Music For The Jilted Generation (1994) Rating : 3 / 5 I usually hate Electronica stuff but this one isn't half bad. I never went to a rave back in the day, but I think this album is what I would have expected to hear. I'll celebrate the good times I might have missed.

not really into this type of music, but it wasn't terrible

I felt like I was in Blade or Crank for most of this album. There's a lot of weirdo techno elements throughout this album that keeps it interesting, but it's a bit long. I think there's a good mix of samples and synths with what sounds like legit instruments. There's some cool builds and drops, that got me moving a little. I'm a sucker for synchopation, and there's a good amount in the album. The Fat of the Land is much more of a Prodigy album I would listen to. There's cool parts in this one, and some sounds that carry over through to the next album. In a few tracks, but mainly the last track there's this crash/bass hit combo you hear all over Firestarter, Smack my Bitch Up, Breathe. It's kinda cool to see where it started. I prefer a bit more lyrics but there's some earwigs in here for sure. I can't imagine anyone in our group going over 2, I'd call it a 3 and chang though

I can see appreciating a song or two if you were a specific kind of high from drugs I haven’t dabbled in. A whole album of it over an hour long even then would probably be a bit much.

Well there goes my high 90’s decade rating right down the toilet. Fuck this album. Full disclosure, I didn’t finish. I bailed after 6 tracks (which was still 32 lousy minutes of repetitive nonsense). I didn’t like Prodigy’s weird techno bull shit when they popped up in America in mid 90’s. I still didn’t like it when The Matrix came out and made industrial techno and those dumb long leather duster jackets popular again at the end of the decade either. I’ll bet this genre is a considerably better listen in a crowded warehouse rave at 3 am high as hell on ecstasy, but it’s god awful at 8:00 am behind a desk reviewing insurance claims. There had better be an Iron Maiden album down the road on this list, or I’m calling bull shit! 0 ⭐️🖕🏻🖕🏻

Great music for spreadsheet navigation. I liked the second half more than the first....not sure if the second half is better, or if the coffee had just kicked in by then. "No Good (Start the Dance)" is such a banger. "Poison" was one of the songs I really liked but that "Yeaaaaaah!" kept making me think of Howard Dean. They really used EVERY inch of the 80-minute compact disc capacity....so much so, that it really does get monotonous after a while. I liked most of this more than the radio songs I remember: "Firestarter" and "Breathe." The length and repetitiveness though, make me not really want to spin this any time in the future. 2.5 stars, rounding up.

The track Full Throttle freaking slaps, and no other tracks (except possibly No Good) come even close. I'm amazed it doesn't have more listens. It's a breath of fresh, turbo-charged air amidst a sea of mundane, repetitive 7-minute tracks. The chromatic two-chord changes, airy synth bass, and almost cinematic atmosphere really drive the music, and the drums are at their most acoustic-sounding. All in all, a solid recipe for decent electronic music. No Good (Start the Dance) fades into the background until I picture a real bass player shredding those lines. It's a lot more entertaining that way. It's also the most exciting of the "hype" tracks, of which there are many. Most of the other tracks are fine, and probably in the better half of 90s electronic output, but they're too long to properly engage with. Sure, put this album on in a club or at a party and nobody will think twice. But nor will anybody call for the DJ to spin "Claustrophobic Sting" or "Speedway (Theme from Fastlane)" another time. There's little to distinguish the individual pieces. This is probably because of lack of instrumental variation, zero balancing between electric and acoustic (or acoustic-adjacent) sounds, almost nothing to show in terms of melody or chord progressions, and rhythms that are fine but a bit indistinguishable from one another. 2/5 Key tracks: Full Throttle, No Good (Start the Dance)

Nowhere near as good as Fat of the Land, but as far as Electronic music goes, this is still pretty good. Mid 4.

I generally dislike electronic music because it just sounds like a bunch of noises to me. But I especially don’t like it when those noises are unpleasant lol. Also this album is way too long. But kudos for catching me way off guard. With the album art and title, I was bracing for metal music.

Maybe I’m not jilted enough, but I have a hard time believing anyone actually wants to sit down and listen to this. I can understand it would be awesome on a bunch of ecstasy at a rave, but let’s keep things where they belong.

This is hard for me to rate as an album experience, I feel like my pupils aren’t wide enough. This is seriously fun and abrasive and perfect rave music. I just can’t get more out of it than just feeling like it’s solid race music, it doesn’t further inspire. It’s also really long…

I have this on CD (that's how old I am). As soon as I saw it come up, I knew it was a 5*. It's very gentle in places, 3kilos for instance, nice ones to dance to as well, with No Good (Start the dance) then Poison, which is a little more raucous and a bit more on what was to come with Fat of the Land. Love this album and I'll listen to it more again now.

it's good in a nightclub when you can't feel the time passing, the flashing lights and effects make you have this instinct to dance, but listening to it at home is not the best choice 4/5

Yikes this blows

Not gonna lie this kinda scratched my brain in a good way. Songs probably didn’t have to be that long because once you listened to a minute or two of each you got the gist of the whole song.

This album was simultaneously too much and not enough

I am more familiar with Fat of the Land but this is banging too.

Really dug this. But I still subscribe to my theory that it takes something really special for an album to justify being over 50 minutes long. It does start to become diminishing returns the longer it goes. 4/5

Hasn't aged well

This brings back so many memories. I listened to this album more times than I can remember. I can unashamedly say that these were the best years of my life. The Prodigy were so in tune with the youth of the time, these songs are timeless, like a soundtrack of the 90's to me. I think the lesser-known tracks are better than the hits.

Another in the 'this album changed my life' category.

Mucho menos accesible que el del cangrejo. Buen disco, pero llega a ser demasiado dirigido solo para amantes de lo electrónico.

Was somewhat similar to the Crab album with some high tempo moments but doesn't pack the same punch.

Boy have I had a day… was in a weird headspace while listening, don’t hate prolly won’t listen again. The album cover is not something I enjoy looking at. It’s how I feel like I look like when I cry.

6/10 - Not as good as the other prodigy album song by song but as a whole I thought it was about the same. It was really good for the game I was playing while listening. But I did not think any of the songs were great.

Me when my generation is jilted

Nice sounds

Droning layered sound. Good for background music while working. All the songs blend together

Good for a cardio workout.

Good club music?

Another one that's better than Daft Punk

2 out of 5. Raves in the 90's must have been wild.

My first impression of this genre and it's amazing

Reminds me of the gaming soundtrack of need for speed racing Favorite track: poison other picks: voodoo people, no good

Yes it's too long but everything about is great, from the killer singles to the ambient tracks to the great oil painting adorning the inner sleeve (Castlemorton crusty types outwit the plods en route to a humungus rave). Their most consistent album.

We're back to extremely unsurprising ratings, but come on, this album has always whipped out loud.

Yep, jolly good. Haven’t heard most of this before but it stands up with the Prodigy content i know and love.

Thinking back, I always considered this "the less good Prodigy album" compared to Fat of the Land, and listening back to it now I don't quite know why? It's got some absolute bangers on here, and despite it being the pre-Kieth Flint era it still pounds ahead with track after track of hard-dance furiosity. A hell of a listen, and I'll definitely be putting it back on in the near future! Faves: Speedway, Voodoo People, One Love, Their Law

Vähän kypsempää, yksinkertaisempaa Prodigya. Ei ehkä edes niin aggressiivista kuin joskus. Mut aika tiukka meno. Tästä on hyvin liikkumisen taustamusiikiksi. Ei kyllästytä, ei tosin annakaan kauheasti muuta kuin levottomuuden.

Huomattava määrä ideoita; huomattavan raskas kokonaisuus. Kuuntelin melkein loppuun saakka kiinnostuneena ja tasaiseen tahtiin yllätettynä. Lopulta toivoin, että levy loppuisi. Vaikeimpia arvioitavia listalla: kolmosen ratkaisee se, että tämä ei jätä minua rauhaan.

ахуенчик

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Saved Prior: Voodoo People Not Saved: 13. The Heat (The Energy) 12. One Love - Edit 11. Speedway (Theme from Fastlane) 10. Intro (works really well as a, well, intro for the album though) Off Rip: 9. Claustrophobic Sting 8. Skylined 7. Poison 6. No Good (Start the Dance) 5. Break & Enter 4. 3 Kilos 3. Voodoo People 2. Their Law 1. Full Throttle Overall Notes: When I was 16 I went on my first solo abroad trip to meet my extended German family. I stayed with my great aunt who had a 27 year old son who would hang out with me on the weekends when he wasn't teaching. Really cool guy but I was 16 and didn't really know how to socialize with someone that much older than me so I was pretty quiet most of the time. One day he took me into Hannover to show me the skatepark he used to fuck up as a kid and asked me what kind of music I listened to. When I said a little bit of everything, he said "Have you ever heard of The Prodigy?". My dad had "Breathe" on his road trip CD but I hadn't listened to anything outside of it. He told me "That's awesome I didn't know the kids still listened to The Prodigy. Ready to have your mind blown?" and he turned up the speakers in his beat up VW van to the max and B L A S T E D their stuff. Flying down the Autobahn, music so loud I couldn't do anything but laugh and headbob. One of my most formative music memories right there. In terms of this album, I know it's going to get slaughtered by the people not getting this on the right day but please please PLEASE crank this shit if you get the chance. 4.5 rounded up.

The musical equivalent of strobe lighting. Boringly repetitive but fades into the background so not actively annoying.

Hated it! Maybe good for a movie soundtrack but too repetitive and boring to enjoy listening to!

If aliens—or current toddlers—ever end up asking what rave sounds like, this is the album. It is to rave what Nevermind is to grunge. And 30 years later, rave as a concept, activity and culture, probably inarguably has the larger global significance. Plus, personally, I love this album. It sounds like being 14 again.

I wasn't a big fan of the Techno/Rave scene because, like this album, it all begins to sound very repetitive after a while, but I quite liked the odd track here and there.

I remember when these guys debuted. I thought they were so avant garde. Now the music feels somewhat primitive...still, it is a wild album and I enjoyed almost every single track.

Idk some songs I jammed out to but some was just pointless noise and it was generally overlong

Not the best. I like mid-career Prodigy more. And late really. This is a bit rave-y for me. Poison is nice though and a few others.

3/5 I liked some of the sounds, I imagine this is what set some of the berlin-underground-bunker vibe that would later become associated with the Matrix and other similar things.

The one good thing I can say for this album was that it was easy to tune out

Like the 3rd electronic album this week. Just not my thing. 2/5 Won’t listen again

surprising. the first track came on and I was like "damn - my third crappy album in a row" but then it kicked in with some real, pumping music! Real club dance electronica beat! Hot! Where's the Molly at?! Close to a 4... but all tunes almost sound the same...(which is not a bad thing) Scratch that - listened a 2nd time -there are distinct difference *(truth be told, was I'm a meeting the first listen) they get the 4!

Favorites were "Voodoo People" and "Speedway"

Listening to this album (a full hour of industrial techno) in one stint was quite tough. Fond nostalgia from Voodoo People, but didn't care much for the rest of it.

After the sound of glass breaking hit my ear drums for the 50th time I realised this was not for me 2/5

Atol protected. Enjoyed this throwback, if I’d not been listening whilst doing laundry may have scored higher

Wicked

3,5

I like Prodigy. It's fun music, though of course, it helps if you like the genre -- I understand it's not for everyone. I like this album, but it's not quite 4 star material -- there's only a couple of songs I really, really like, and the others are good, but not great. At times I found myself getting tired or a song (most are 6 to 7 minutes long) and skipping to the next song, so definitely not 4 stars, but good enough for 3.

first listen I didn't find much to like here

Kind of boring. Sounds stale and dated. This album’s presence on this list is questionable. Although maybe it has cultural significance in the UK I am unaware of that justifies it being here. Or maybe this is the kind of album best experienced in a crowded room at high volume.

No, I’m good. Pretty much the same as all the electronic dance albums. Not my thing.

I thought we were done with electronica.

Music to OD too.

What a sick album, just banging beats front to back. This is more pure beats and samples, very light on vocals compared to later Prodigy that most would be familiar with. Just a great time listening to this, couldn't sit still had to keep bopping along while getting some work done.

I didn’t hate it, but I’ll be honest and say that I don’t think I ever considered giving The Fat of the Land a second listen. I just couldn’t ever justify a reason to go back. But I was surprised that they found their way into the list not only once, but twice. Kind of makes the fact that Daft Punk couldn’t even get two spots hurt even more. But The Prodigy are still important to how dance music has evolved, especially in the UK. “Jilted” means to suddenly reject or abandon. Rave culture was growing during this period of the 90s, and as it grew, it would eventually be made illegal. This album, and most specifically the song Their Law, is a direct opposition to this change. And no doubt, this album fully embraces the sound and energy of Rave culture. There isn’t really a moment of down time. It’s a consistent ride through the nastiest and most underground pits of the world of English Rave. I’ll just cut straight to the point for this. I think this is equally as good in the same places as the album that would come after it. And in ways, it even does a better job. I actually like the lack of vocals on most of these songs better. They weren’t bad on The Fat of the Land, but I can only hear the same bits said over and over again so much before I get tired of it. And I still think the production is top notch stuff. Every song has at least one aspect to it that I enjoy, even if I don’t like the whole song itself. I can appreciate the metal and rock influence coming in on songs like the aforementioned Their Law, or Voodoo People. And whatever that synth sound might be on the latter is basically iconic at this point. But all of the same issues that were present for me in my previous review still remain here. Maybe my attention span is just ruined, and has gone far beyond what it takes to appreciate something like this, but many of these tracks feel like they drag on to lengths longer than they need to be. It’s full of bloat, and even more so than The Fat of the Land, since this is nearly 80 minutes long. There is rarely enough going on keeping me interested that makes a 7 or 8 minute long track feel worthwhile. So even with their success and status as club classics, I would put both of those records on an even playing field of just decent. Rating: 6/10

Love this. Great album.

ENOUGH

Above all, a waste of a great band name.

Awesome. Powerful. Great album. Don’t need to say anything else.

Intro n/a Break & Enter 2.6 Their Law 3 Full Throttle 2.6 Voodoo People 3 Speedway 2.4 The Heat (The Energy) 2.3 Poison 2.4 No Good (Start the Dance) 2.3 One Love (Edit) 2.3 The Narcotic Suite: 3 Kilos 2.5 The Narcotic Suite: Skylined 2.3 The Narcotic Suite: Claustrophobic Sting 2.2 Score: 2.491666667

Music for twats gacked out in their mom’s basement. 2/5

Meh

I've been sitting on this album for a while with the fear that I'd hate every minute of it. As a non-fan of electronica, it was more enjoyable than I anticipated. The "meat" of each song was a little much for me (and the singing lady was a bit too 90s if that makes any sense), but there were some recurring elements in each that I enjoyed (e.g., the ringing bell in Claustrophobic Sting). I found the history of the album more interesting as a release in response to the outlaw of raves in the UK. Favorite song: 3 Kilos Least favorite: No Good (Start the Dance) Knew before? No

okay.

I really don’t like electronic music. Goldie, Fatboy Slim, Moby, and others on this list were such a struggle to get through. So why do I love The Prodigy? This album is 78 minutes long, and I didn’t know any of the songs on it (I know quite a few from their other album on this list) but I was never bored and this album never felt like it dragged. I guess that’s why this album belongs on this list. It’s quite a feat to make someone love an album in a genre they hate. Kudos to The Prodigy. They’re clearly one of the best.

Enjoyed it far more then I thought I would

Lots of bangers

Nah.

Nice album. Definitely not best that The Prodigy has to offer but still good piece of electronic music.

This was ok but not something I'd want to listen to regularly. Went on a bit too long.

Glorious!

Some all time favourites on this album. I feel bad giving it a four, but having listened to it in the office it nearly works but not entirely accross the runtime. I know that its great in the club, or in the car, but compared to some other 5s I've given that just always work I felt that particularly the last two tracks of the Narcotic Suite put this out of this group.

My heart initially sank when I saw this, but lifted again when it turned out not to be the one with Firestarter on it - sorry, but I really disliked those 1997 hit singles. I was further relieved that Keith didn't do anything on this; he's pretty scary. This wasn't bad. Not something to get me dancing - I prefer my dance music rooted somewhere in the 70s, even if it's later, if ya get me. Anyway it's way too fast for me nowadays 😆 My favourite bits were when it slowed down and went a bit filmic, which it did fairly frequently. 3 Kilos was a jaunty little tune, but I didn't like the last track at all. I don't know enough to know whether it's ground-breaking or anything like that, but it was clever and, as I say, not bad.