Reviews (page 5 of 8)
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.
Raving sound
Að sjálfsögðu eru taktar/lög þarna sem maður kannast við, og annað gott, en sumt er ansi langdregið finnst mér.
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.
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.
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
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.
Techno rock
Interesting. Not sure if I'm a fan.
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.
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
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.
Not my genre.
Yawn
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
roblox jailbreak ahh music. Not bad tho
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
Not as good as the Fat of the Land, but still good.
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
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
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
Si j'aime beaucoup les albums subséquents de The Prodigy, celui-ci me semble un peu désincarné et tourné vers lui-même.
interesting heavy metal / industrial sound with a good pulse. A pretty good high energy background listen tbh. 3/5
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
7/10
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
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)
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.
★★★½
Yllättävän kämäinen levy megahittiien ympärillä. Tai ei vaan kauheen kiinnostavaa elektronista musiikkia. 3/5
Not my genre. Interesting but not enough to keep me from the next album on my playlist.
Good
3.5 stars.
Ikke helt lige så fed som The Fat of the Land selvom den nok er mere Real™. Lyder stadig fedt, kæmpe lyd.
This is outrageous, this is contagious
Good enough background music.
begint te rustig, daarna komt het beter, een meesterwerk komt eraan, maar is er nog niet
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.
Meh. Not too bad for an electronic album.
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.
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.
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
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 think I'm a poppy prodigy fan.
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
It was fine. The Fat Of The Land was definitely better.
I'm definitely not an electonica guy by any stretch of the imagination. I don't hate this, though. It's just fine.
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
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.
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!
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.
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!
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.
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.
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*
It’s fine, some decent songs though they sound fairly similar and repetitive.
Hyper first half, then cooled off. Very 90s
Not bad, but not for me.
I didn't dislike it. Great for clubbing.
Some killer, some filler but at least it had some heaviness
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
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
A balance of "this is incredible" mixed with "this is dragging on way too long".
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’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
Good energy rave music
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.
Midrange for me.
It holds you hostage until you start liking it.
Solid
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: "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.
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
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.
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…
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
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.
I am more familiar with Fat of the Land but this is banging too.
Hasn't aged well
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.
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.
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.
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.
Favorites were "Voodoo People" and "Speedway"
Atol protected. Enjoyed this throwback, if I’d not been listening whilst doing laundry may have scored higher
first listen I didn't find much to like here
Music to OD too.
okay.
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.
Prodigy has always been a group I recognize as being very good at what they do, but damn I just can’t really get in to them. This album had fun moments, but overall I felt like it turned into more noise than music at times, and my brain this early in the morning was screaming out. Another artist I understand being on the list even if I wouldn’t put them on there.
I didn't feel like I really connected to anything until the narcotics trilogy at the end. If just those songs were in an EP format, I would give that EP a 5
no good, voodoo people!
brought an upbeat energy, would probably be good to run to. Started to feel a little redundant by the end but I enjoyed it for a change of pace
I like The Prodigy. I don’t think I’d be able to tell their albums apart but I like their sound.
solid grocery music 6/10
Pensavo peggio, non è comunque il mio
I’ve always been fascinated with how Prodigy often featured in rock and metal magazines as it felt they would be better suited in the dance scene. Regardless, they were often in Kerrang! when I was a teen, so were somewhat on my radar. I didn’t mind today’s album, but (much like a lot of drum and bass to my ears), it did all feel a bit samey. I prefer Invaders Must Die, but maybe that’s just because it had songs that played in the clubs when I was still a youngling, so it brings nostalgia with it. Today’s album was still pretty good, but I’ll still pick Invaders when I want to bust out some glow sticks.
Liked this more than I'd expected, however it is repetitive dance music.
Music for the Jilted Generation by is an intriguing blend of electronic, rave, and punk that attempts to channel the frustrations of a disillusioned youth. While tracks like Voodoo People and Poison showcase the group’s talent for crafting infectious beats, the album often feels bogged down by its own repetitiveness. The intensity and energy that initially grab your attention can become monotonous after a while, making it difficult to maintain engagement through the entirety of the album. Themes of rebellion and societal discontent are present, but they can feel somewhat superficial in their execution. The bold production choices are impressive, yet they occasionally overshadow the musicality itself. As the album progresses, it seems to fall into a predictable pattern that lacks the dynamism needed to sustain interest. While Music for the Jilted Generation certainly has its moments, it ultimately feels like a missed opportunity to fully explore its potential. Overall, it stands as a landmark in the 90s electronic scene, but it doesn't quite resonate as deeply as one might hope. NUMBER OF BANGERS - 3 STAND OUT TRACK - Voodoo People
Probably fire as fuck in a dark club 3 in the morning, not so much listening in broad daylight from my stupid phone. This kinda music needs the *~vibes~*
I prefered Fat of the Land
Some epic moments.
flows great from start to finish, just not my thing
I can imagine that if this is your sort of thing it's absolutely incredible. It's not my sort of thing at all and I thought it was fine
Hard to get more 90s than the Prodg. Still, not bad.
Didn’t mind it because it was just upbeat background noise.
Not bad but needed more vocals, otherwise just felt like club music
2.5 too long
The prodigy have a second album!? Kidding. Actually not bad.
This is the music of anarchy. It’s energetic, chaotic, unique, and beautiful. The blend of various samples and the use of synthesizers was unlike anything else at the time. This was an artist that really broke out of the boundaries and made something that truly set him apart from the others. Happy I came up during this era.
Fun! I felt like Blade
Interesting. Glad I finally listened to the whole album. But not my cup of tea.
This paragraph alone makes me interested to hear this: The album is largely a response to the corruption of the rave scene in Britain by its mainstream status as well as the United Kingdom's Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, which criminalised raves and parts of rave culture. I can't say it's a masterpiece but I listened to it on a run and it was easy to get lost in. I enjoyed the listen a lot. Strong 3 moving towards a 4 if all the songs were tighter together.
I want to hack the planet and surf the cyberspace now. I don't have enough experience to know where this lands with this kind of music. I didn't mind the vibe of it. I do like some tracks, it didn't offend me.
I listened to The Prodigy when I was younger and haven’t for a very long time so it was cool to hear something that sounds like what I remember from them. I found myself picking out all the common sounds they use in their beats which was interesting. There’s something unique about their style even though I would categorize it with other EDM-like genres.
Dapa dupa dapa dupa
Skylined and 3 Kilos are good, but the rest never did anything for me 3/5
Definite tech rave album. Andy approved
Det her album > The fat of the land. Jeg blev sendt tilbage til 09 Rock am ring.
I liked it more than I thought I could like electronic but it was too long 3.5
Pretty meh. Expected more energy and more interesting tracks...
The band made famous by one song with an album that doesn't have that song on it. I guess this is peak 90s UK electronic music. 3/5
Really a 3.5, give or take.
Looking forward to checking this album out. I do know of this artist, just a couple tracks though. Not sure if they are off this album. Very 90's electronic. Too techno-y for me. 90's electronic was very techno-y for my taste
Music for the Jilted Generation is the second studio album by The Prodigy. I wasn't yet born in the 90s so I didn't get a chance to live through the rave era. I'm sure if I was able to experience that I'd have a much better appreciation for most electronic music, specifically dance. The Prodigy were super prominent in this scene, as evidenced by other reviews on this site reminiscing about the times they were high off god knows what listening to this. One user even commented that Prodigy songs were so popular at the time that they had to limit how often they were played at clubs because people would get so hype. I feel like I missed out on a proper appreciation to this music and that sucks. As for this album, it's mostly repetitive pulsing rhythms, which I understand. It's meant to be played in forests or warehouses on repeat. There's also some cool synth sounds and samples on here. It was engaging enough. I was listening while I was at work so it's not really the proper setting. I prefer their follow up to this album, which I received earlier on this list.
Not as good as I’d hoped. Kind of boring.
I got high this past weekend and I think I’m would have enjoyed listening to this then. This reminds me of the movie Go. Very 00s. I like this record more than I thought I would. It makes me want to do drugs.
I think listening to this sober at home is really the wrong environment for this record. It's fine.
The definition of "edgy" music from the 90s. If there was ever a scene in a movie that required you to know that there's a counter-culture moment going on, any one of these tracks would do.
If I remember a few of these songs from a couple raves at Cornell, does that mean I wasn't actually at them? Regardless, I feel my rave days are over. Rating down the middle of the road - I do appreciate the middle finger sentiment this album gave to the British authorities.
Álbum sofomoro del grupo británico. Mi primer acercamiento a la obra de The Prodigy fue (como para muchos) "The Fat of the Land" (1997), lanzamiento posterior a este trabajo y su LP más alabado hasta la fecha. Aquí destaco totalmente la producción de este LP: la habilidad de sampleo y construcción de los beats es admirable. Si bien el álbum mantiene su sonido atrapante y energizante durante toda su duración, me pareció que hubo algunos elementos de este que no han envejecido del todo bien (recordemos que se trata de un trabajo del año 94, por lo que es un fenómeno normal). Además, siendo la implementación de elementos repetitivos algo esencial en este trabajo, me pareció a mi gusto que la duración del mismo es demasiado y a ratos me generó desconexión con la escucha. A grandes rasgos, un buen álbum. FAVTRAXS: Break & Enter, Their Law, The Heat (The Energy), No Good (Start the Dance), 3 Kilos LEASTFAV: Voodoo People
Let's be honest, the best way too enjoy this album is when you're off your chops.
Good, but not as good as Fat of the Land
Love the aggro industrial and metal.vibe to this along with the back beats. Not really my thing as far as genres go and it started to get a little tiresome about halfway through. That being said, we'll produced and exciting album.
It’s a nice album, really. Production is solid and the beats are new. The whole thing feels original and unique. Personally just not into electronica, but the rock/metal elements made it more bearable. 3/5
This is my second and final album to review by The Prodigy. I really enjoyed The Fat of the Land, so I have high hopes heading into this album. Overall, I thought this album was fine. The best songs were interesting and kept me wanting more, but most of the songs were a tad bland, and felt really repetitive. So many of the songs on here were too long, and there were only one or two songs that I wanted to listen to for over five minutes. The songs that I didn’t care for didn’t really add anything or develop over the course of their runtimes, and that made them a bit of a drag. “Voodoo People” was the first song on the album that really hooked me in. I loved the pulsing beats, and the way that the main melody would fade in and out, allowing that strange alarm-blare sound to drive the pace of the song at times. “The Heat” was really good too, and I enjoyed the softer moments during the first half of the song, because they showcased how big beat music can still be melodic. I enjoyed “No Good” as well; I liked the female vocals and the dance-y rhythms. I hate to compare this album to TFotL, but I felt this album really suffered from a lack of Keith Flint. His personality and vocals really brought a lot to TFotL, and while this album was fun and mostly enjoyable, it felt more like a showcase of big beat, instead of an album with its own personality and mood. I’d still throw down on this album again, but I’d have to be in the right mood.
Not a fan of purely instrumental music
First full song was rather rough to get through with the constant screaming in it. At that point, I thought I was in for a really rough ride. However, having this on during work actually turned out to be a bit more of a treat than I expected. I can see how this would definitely be a major hit in the 90’s clubbing scene and would be a good time for certain drug filled experiences. Not my normal cup of tea, but honestly was fine with it.
The Prodigy might make some of the only electronic music I can listen to. Personal enjoyment: 3/5 Relevance to this list: 4/5
So much more instrumental than the hit songs I knew. It was a fun listen.
Sounds very much of its era. I prefer other electronic acts from that time (e.g. Chemical Brothers, Underworld). This is Ok, but not amazing.
Didn't hate it. Some fun beats, but the big beat genre doesn't mean a lot to me to begin with, and nothing here really transcends it - though I'm expecting Fat Of The Land might in places.
Don't let the horrendously dated album art deter you - this is a representative slice of rave petrol that would feel right at home at the club scene from The Matrix. I listened to this while cycling, and found my heart rate racing faster than normal.
I swore I listened to this one before and really enjoyed it. This time I was, meh.
Enjoyable.
Had its moments as a mash between electronic and hard rock. Particularly liked Their Law. Better than the other Prodigy album on the list in my opinion
- another noise album but i like this it’s way more rhythmic than throbbing gristle - really good concentration wise I think; not a ton of words, that kind of wet bass synth - i’ve heard this synth riff in voodoo people before - oh my god wait. am i enjoying edm - i like that it’s not just synth though; the rhythmic repetition of sound bites makes it less pure EDM sounding - it’s definitely a lot - i’m giving everything 3/5 but it keeps being truee
Great EDM for the time, but as a fan of more modern house and drum and bass it doesn't quite hit the spot.
Not as good as fat of the land. It's too long and it would be better if a few songs were skipped. There's some absolute bangers on the album though.
I don’t think I’ve ever listened to this album. I used to love cycling around on the single speed to The Fat of the Land though. Maybe if I cycled around to this album I would have more love for it, but I didn’t so I don’t.
I get the feeling this guy is a firestarter
How do you rate a album, that’s not from a genre you like, that’s 30 years removed from the rave culture it was created for, a culture you was neither present for nor have any relatability too. I think the fact that this is even listenable at this point in time stands to its quality as a record. I don’t love it but I don’t hate the sound and despite being all breakbeat / techno it changes and chops the sound enough to be interesting and has some fun samples.
3.5 Couple of really good tracks. The rest seems ok.....
yeah!
3.5
beep boop beep it's like having a fever dream in the hospital where the sound of the medical equipment mixes in with your hallucinations where you're fighting cyber bugs I like it
Better than I expected, I’ll give it that. I also really enjoyed 3 Kilos, but there were also other songs that I didn’t like. Not bad, though!
Maybe I'm missing the historical context of this album, but the album doesn't sound particularly unique within the genre.
I remember some friends of mine going to a rave in the early 90’s and playing me something afterwards that sounded a lot like this I think it was called Happy Hardcore and it was the most tedious thing I’d ever heard Much of the first half of this album reminded me of that. Beeps that probably sound great in a warehouse when you’re smashed off your face but less so otherwise But somewhere around the middle of the album The Prodigy discover actual tunes and this gets really really good Call it a proof of concept for what came next
Better than Chemical Bros… but still kinda mindless and repetitive at times. There is enough variation to keep punished boredom from setting in… it’s ok I guess.
The music brought me back to the clubs and warehouses. That was fun. I think my sons were in their teens and 20’s where I first heard this. Never to old.
Interesting. Kinda mean-spirited. Hmm. Music make brain go fast
Gear: Focal Clear Mix (2011 Remaster): ballert Musik: ballert (aber "The Fat of the Land" und "Invaders Must Die" ballern mehr) Wertung: 💊💊💊(💊)/5
Well.
”one of the rare records that's damn near everything you want cheap music to be” - Robert Christgau Christgau is best known for his terse, letter-graded capsule album reviews, composed in a concentrated, fragmented prose style featuring layered clauses, caustic wit, one-liner jokes, political digressions, and allusions ranging from common knowledge to the esoteric Heh on hauska kaveri… Mainstream ukkeli vaivaa helppoa leipää kansalle… meikän leipomo kylä pahasta pidemmällä pääse….
Good background music
This is the second straight day I have listened to an album that is mostly instrumentals and I didn't hate this one. It's definitely not something I would listen to again, but I can see/hear what people like about them. So as a rating: 1 - For my enjoyment 3 - Deserves to be on the list
Hmm - not mine.
Будто бы слишком затянуто. Я понимаю... Рейв-музыка, миксы и все прочее, но в этом АЛЬБОМЕ минимум лишних полчаса! Трудно сказать, какой мне нравится больше, этот или с крабом. И тот, и другой, в общем-то, звучат устаревшими в 2024-ом, но это не мешает получать удовольствие от музыки. Лучшая песня - No Good (Start the Dance)
не фэтбой слим, не пробудило ностальгию) многовато дисторшна и не тянет плясать
Not my usual listen, but a good pace to run with and help but in the zone.
This did nothing to help my ADHD.
Fun and bouncy....
Cool electronic music, but too long, which wasn’t something I felt about Fat Of The Land, for some reason. These songs just overstay their welcome.
I totally inderstand the hype, but this has a huge “you had to be there” halo which makes it dated and in parts simply annoying, still, it has its timeless moments.
Very entertaining and very ling. Gta online background music
I probably wouldn't listen again. Not that I think it was bad, it just didn't flip a switch for me. I did like it more than most EDM I've listened too. However, I'm just not that into EDM to begin with. I'm guessing 6-7 minute songs are the target length of songs people listen too? For me, however, that's just too long to listen to a song I'm not that into.
aight
Good album. Don't love it as much as I did back in the day.
I do like this album. In general though I prefer house music to backbeat. I do love the fact that Prodigy incorporates vocals & live performances, something not always found in backbeat.
Not my thing/genre but this album is pretty tight.
I really tried to give this a fair shot. I just could not for the life of me active listen to it. It’s fine I guess, but I’m never going to think about it again.
super solid album
It's just dance music: honestly it wasn't smth to absolutely hate on but it was smth to love every single second of. I thought some of the samples were pretty cool, other than that it was forgettable due to every song sounding effectively the same to me.
I would prefer to listen to this in an underground rave in the 90s. Beats like that had never been heard. I wouldn’t choose this to sit and listen in the living room, but it is the perfect soundtrack to get into hyperdrive mode for a good cardio workout!
It was OK. Good background music. You can hear the foundations for some of the work on Fat of the Land.
If my star ratings are to be believed, the 90’s are the worst music decade by a country mile. Though my first album by the Prodigy hasn’t done much to convince me otherwise, it’s important to note I listened to this with a headache, so my displeasure has little to do with the actual quality here. In fact, it’s a pretty damn good album from a genre I don’t really care about (synthpunk? Hard techno?) There is a pretty wide range of sounds between the jazz flute in “3 Kilos” to the (ugh) rhythmic glass breaking in “Break and Enter”. Other tracks, like “Poison” & “Claustrophobic Sting”, just feel edgy to be edgy. Music to put your fist through drywall to HL: “No Good”, “3 Kilos”, “Their Law”, “Voodoo People”, maybe “Break and Enter” Less crazy about: “Poison”, “Speedway” January 4th, 2024
Si durés 20 minuts menys serien 4 estrelles. M'ha agradat moltíssim i m'ha semblat súper agradable d'escoltar tot i que no és gens el meu estil. Però s'allarga un pèl massa i acaba fent-se una mica pesat Expected Lorenzo rating: 3
Dirty horror warehouse club vibes. Lots of stank on this one
If you're in the right state of mind, this is actually quite good. Would I listen to it on a normal day? No...
dark, uptempo dance music, essentially. wasn’t terrible, but as much music in this genre, the songs lasted about twice as long as they should have. often redundant.
As far as techno goes, Prodigy are the cream of the crop. I'm just not really in a techno place anymore.
perhaps the one I enjoyed the less of the list despite the appreciation I have towards The Prodigy
Props to "One Love" and its Mario Kart-soundin' keyboard sample.
Voodoo Bitch!
Better than I thought, but extremely repetitive. And 1:18 is too long. I wonder how much of this would be created or listened to in the absence of ecstasy.
Vaikka prodigysta paljon tykkään ja arvostan, ja hyvää tämäkin oli niin silti ehkä.3 tähteä "vain'. Oli kyllä silti sitä prodigyn reivi tunnelmaa
Cool stuff but the loops are too long for just listening to it and not being at a club
Good for work, and light gaming, but I'm not sure I'd just put this on anytime.
Iconic, energetic, brash electronic album. Certainly one of the most important albums of its genre with some real stand out tracks. I do feel like the album is a little too long though and I could easily get rid of a few tracks on here.
it wasn't as bad as i expected tbh
i actually liked this but i really want a candy necklace now
Enjoyed the cyberpunk space ship / post soviet industrial ambience
Mostly had me in the first half when it was just background. It’s fun.
Know the artist from another album, the fat of the land, but not this one. I prefer the other album.
Thumping dance rock rave hybrid thats not as good as the follow up (Fat of the Land) but contains Poison and Voodoo People
I enjoyed listening to this today and appreciate how important this album was to the UK dance scene at the time. Despite its undeniable quality and importance, Music for the Jilted Generation is not a flawless album. Some of the tracks are too long or repetitive, the overall album is also too long for my personal preference and some of the samples are dated or clichéd. The album also suffers from comparison with its follow-up, The Fat of the Land (1997), which I consider as the group’s masterpiece and one of the greatest albums of all time. Therefore, while Music for the Jilted Generation is a remarkable album that deserves respect and admiration, it is not an album that I would listen to frequently or enjoy as much as The Fat of the Land. For that reason, I would give it 3 stars out of 5. However, I would still recommend it to anyone who is interested in electronic music or in the history of British culture in the 1990s.
This list loooooooves 90s electronica. Electronic music is my favourite genre so while I wasn’t necessarily a fan of this album, I’d take it over a lot of the other stuff I’ve had to listen to. I’m not super into this industrial sound. At times it reminded me of DnB which I loathe. As background music it’s okay, but there’s not a lot here to sustain your attention for 78 minutes.
Not as good as FOTL but I did enjoy it
This is a decent techno/rave album. I’m not too familiar with the more dance centric genres, but the album was consistent and included some industrial elements that I really enjoyed. It was a bit too long for my tastes.
Good album, with some dance electronic beats to jam too. A bit more background music than some of the other Prodigy albums. Not their best work, but still good enough
Fun but got old
I just don't like rave, even if it is good on a technical standpoint... there is great electronic music imo but that is Kraftwerk or Aphex Twin
3+
This album was decent. It's not my favorite kind of music but I didn't ever feel the urge to skip any of the songs either. I just had it on while I took care of work, a lot of times I wouldn't think about it but then there were some standout scattered throughout that I noticed got me moving a bit more. Standout Tracks: Their Law, Voodoo People, Speedway, Poison, Skylined, Claustrophobic Sting
90s electronic trance
This was a lot for first thing on a Monday morning. I like some of the Progidy's stuff but this was quite intense.
3.5/5. I hate the album cover so much, has no bearing on my rating but needs to be said. Their set at Glastonbury 2025 convinced me to listen to this one in full.
Dark dance beats and has the feel of running around in a worn down old derelict warehouse. Awesome.
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I don’t know why there needs to be 2 Prodigy albums on this list.
It's good, in parts. I don't love this kind of stuff though generally.
There were some interesting new ideas. Still, electronica feels a bit empty and soulless. Ok as background music.
There are some classic tracks on this album but overall i think it has aged pretty poorly. Quite a few long, but repetitive tracks in here that i had forgotten about.
3.4 fine, good, nothing particularly special faves: break and enter, voodoo people
meh prodigy
É um álbum meio cabuloso, mas tem bastante energia. Their Law é braba, muito braba. Eu conheço Voodo People de algum lugar, não sei de onde. O álbum tem músicas boas, mas algumas músicas demoram muito e no final é só cansativo.
Sounds good
music for the jilted generation was an unusual album! after more than 350 albums, i haven't heard anything quite like this yet. i get the sense that this album was unusual for its release year, 1994. the prodigy certainly were committed to rave and techno. techno music can sometimes be too repetitive for my enjoyment, and basically i'm here to say "it's not you, it's me." i can say that the wind instrument in "3 kilos" was an unexpected choice of a sample. not bad to keep your listeners on their toes. 2.5, but i'm impressed with the album and creativity, so 3.
Break & Enter, Voodoo People, Speedway, Poison, No Good. Cool flute in 3 Kilos. I liked it and some songs were awesome. Some were repetitive and this could have been 30-40 instead of 78. 7/10
good: their law, full throttle. repetitive and long
When I saw this album cover, I thought I would hate this. I don't hate it; it's interesting, but not something I would want to listen to again so I won't buy the album.
Electronic glitchy stuff, not bad, not great
You're going along thinking an inoffensive 2 star record and then the album drops a banging festival memory. But that's the problem. Other artists would trim this by 3 or 4 tracks and mix the remainder better. The Prodigy were a great singles band but didn't always make great albums.
Didn't mind it but probably won't listen to it again
Definitly a vibe. Makes me want to punch stuff in a good way. Can have this on in the background for hours when focussed on something else. Bit much for an active listen.
goed voor op de achtergrond
No le gana a Fat of the Land. Pero está bien.
Not feeling it right off the bat. I liked the middle/middle-end of Break & Enter. Repetitive, Repetitive, Repetitive. At least there is some creativity with sound design so each song, while repetitive, is actually distinct from other songs. I started to enjoy this more in the second half of the album as I was tuning it out more. Not sure if that's a good thing necessarily. Overall, I thought I was really going to hate this album and was pleasantly surprised by it. Definitely fits the bill of 90's edge. Probably pairs well with Adderall and Finals Week.
Just an old fashioned no nonsense techno album just like Grandpa would have liked it. I wonder if these old techno artists ever had the thought that they would influence DJs in the 2020s to create music that would have millennials show up to Echostage while rolling harder than a wheel of cheese going do a hill in Gloucester on a brisk fall day and dance around with glowy tips on their fingers while sucking down lollipops. I really liked that in one of the songs they took the sound of an F1 car flying by and used it on repeat as an effect. Techno's not really my jam but this album got me moving around my kitchen.
The Prodigy were one of the first rave acts I was ever aware of, after hits like “Firestarter” and “Omen” surfaced into the mainstream and carried the band’s momentum for a good couple of decades. I wasn’t at all keen on the full album of theirs I heard before this (“The Fat of the Land”), and have never found much to like in electronic music, so was bracing for another one star. But this album, I have to admit, is something different: “Music for the Jilted Generation” sets itself apart from most of the other electronica albums I’ve heard on this list within the first few minutes. It’s difficult to pin down why, but the dynamic big-beats, elaborate layering of sound, scale of drama, intensity of the atmosphere goes a long way. For example, there’s a real sense of tension running through “Break and Enter”: the opening bars are punctuated by breaking glass, slowly rising in intensity, until everything is filtered back to a dull thumping masked by heavy breathing and footsteps. The vocal samples are not distracting and all used in service of each song’s character, the gear changes are well-timed (especially the unexpected break to piano in “Full Throttle”.) There’s a clever layering of sounds and a strong sense of pacing that sells “Music for the Jilted Generation” as more of a cinematic experience than many of its contemporaries. Then, by the time the vocal hooks came around in “Poison” and then the best track on the whole album, “No Good”, something remarkable was happening. I was dancing round my kitchen. Truly infectious EDM: I’ve perhaps never felt sadder to have been too young for the rave scene. At 78 minutes, it’s not all engaging: songs like “Their Law” and the final track “Claustrophobic Sting” are a little more like drafts than fully formed songs. And “Speedway (Theme from Fastlane)” has perhaps aged the worst, sounding like a cutting room floor leftover from a PS1 racing game. It’s stuffed with sound effects of whizzing and speeding cars, but goes absolutely nowhere. So while it may sound a little dated now, and is still from a genre I struggle to get on with, but this is up there with Chemical Brothers’ “Dig Your Own Hole” as my favourite of the big-beat/rave genre so far.
This was fine.
Mmm 90s
Enjoyed the listen. I never knew how influential Prodigy was in the EDM space, only had listened to their single Breathe previously.
Probably a "you had to be there" situation, because listening to this today, while it has some exciting moments it'a also very long and the whole things sounds dated. Without any nostalgia value attached to it the impact is less apparent.
An hour and 18 minutes of repetitive genetic music. Honestly, there is a very specific time and place this could ever be thought of as good. And I don't have any ex, and I'm not at the club, and it's not the 90s.
Surprisingly ok
An amphetamine spiked sledgehammer of an album. Not an ideal Monday listen tbh. From the front cover alone I knew it'd be on a collision course with today's to do list. I like hardcore as much as the next man but can't back the metal fusion on the opening few tracks. Things did get better from Full Throttle (a stand out). The more acid sounds from Speedway onwards were appreciated but I've heard similar so often. Things then fell back to being pretty consistently 'hard' and two dimensional. Even the softer tracks nearer the end seemed out of kilter. Didn't hate it but not sure I'd turn to it again. Read that Bowie was really on this record, but this was dnb era Bowie (aka his worst iteration). 2.5
Very industrial, very 90s. Definitely blew the cobwebs off this morning... Break & Enter, No Good (Start the Dance) and Voodoo People were highlights, but a lot of this album felt too disjointed and not actually enjoyable. I expected more
My least favourite of theirs. Wouldn’t be till their next album that they peaked, successfully blending rave, rock and pop (and by doing so, maybe killing rave). Too many nothing tracks on this but can imagine in the right setting they might be ace. Shame us sweet summer children will never be in that said setting. Better than house. Sot: Voodoo people Poison No good 3/5
I mean they’re beats.They’re good beats but it’s really long and it’s boring just listening to beats.
This was ok - some songs were more catchy than others, but mostly it just felt repetitive by the end.
3 stars
Best Song - Break and Enter
Much more of a chaotic listen, never a dull listen with Prodigy
I think this is our second from the Prodigy, after the crab album for sure. That album nailed the hacker aesthetic of the '90s, this one has a different edge to it, more industrial/grunge-y to me. Took a while for things to heat up, but I did like a few songs. Decent project, though I wouldn't personally call it essential. Favorite tracks: Full Throttle, Voodoo People, Poison. Album art: Love this gross head melting. Definitely fits the sound and style of the music. 3/5
Sounded spiffy
Percebi com mais camadas de ambient do que a pegada punk. Funciona bem para final de noite envolvida com atmosfera tecno.
Overly long, but a couple of great tracks
Do NOT listen to this album while driving, holy fuck I nearly crashed. Bangers tho.
Non-stop industrial dance music. great for a sweaty club after dropping extasy, not so great for listening to in my basement listening room. 3 stars
⭐ Speedway / Skylined
Inovative at their time, Prodigy was a door opener mixing electronics with power rock, crazy drum loops, nervous synth basses, multi processed SFx and high speed bpm. This album is an adrenaline booster.
I know I say this a lot, but I thought I would hate this, given that I never really liked Smack My Bitch Up. There's definitely a time and place for this kind of thing, though. No standouts since most of the songs blended together.
Never listened to this before, but was aware of the band. I enjoyed it more than I thought I would.
Not my usual cup of tea but I’d much rather listen to this than Appetite for Destruction. Here you can sense and hear the cultural and historical relevance and the craftsmanship that went into the album.