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Played this to death in the 90s; it was like revisiting an old friend. Plus Bowie loved it, so….
An album full of very repetitive boring songs, that I feel go on for way too long. I felt bored of this album half way through but managed to listen to all of it. Standout track: Voodoo People
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
Awesome
no good, voodoo people!
*breaking window sound effect for 11 minutes over generic electronic beat* Ah yes this will be a hit
Thought I’d like it the way it started but it got repetitive and lasted too long
I was happy when this ended
I couldn’t tell if these songs were a million years long or just that repetitive. Very much feels like music that may have been in The Matrix or movies of that time period.
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
9/10 I was a big fan of this when it came out, did not expect to to still sound so amazing. Testament to the production of Liam Howlett, a huge talent. Almost a perfect album, insanely good tunes with a few genuine classics in there. Great mix of breakbeat, rave, acid, techno. Clever stuff. Best: No Good (Start The Dance)
I didn’t have the patience to make it more than about 10 mins. The matrix was a cool movie though.
2.5 I listened to the albums in two sitting on different days. At first I hated it but I probably would have hated almost anyting on that day. Back half of the Album I had a bit more time/patience to get into it. As a whole its not something I would go out of my may to listen to but I could totally see how other would love this
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
Pretty good to help stay awake on a dark afternoon
My favorite Prodigy album. Total banger. Pure energy.
Here's a prophecy about The Prodigy: 30 years after this album was released, I'll rate it as terrible on this list.
Pensavo peggio, non è comunque il mio
So I bought 'The Fat of the Land' at the time in the nineties, the follow uptro this. You can certainly hear the genesis here of what became an absolute classic a few years later. Good beats, rhythmically driving but all in al la bit silly for somebody who didn't ever engage with the jilted generation.
No bitches we’re smacked up in the making of this album
Reminds me of the soundtrack to a racing car PlayStation game in the early 2000s
Probably more of a 3.5, but this makes me want to get drunk and run around
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.
3.5☆/5 09.14.2024
WOOOOOOOOOOO
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
Really enjoyed this album, quite intense after a morning coffee
Amazing, revolutionary, exceptional - one of my favourites! Love love love.
Classic 90s rave sound
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~*
Awesome
In the 90s I hated dance music I listened to rock/metal then Grunge then indie/Britpop and always dismissed dance music then The Prodigy came along with this album and live show and I loved it. This is probably my favourite Prodigy album all tracks are good but the hits Voodoo People, Poison, Their Law & (No Good) Start The Dance are the highlights.
Im the law and you can't beat the law Fuck em and their law Crack down at sundown Fuck em and their law Revolutionary and foundational. Amazing album. 5/5
I prefered Fat of the Land
Knew them vaguely (Firestarter, Invaders Must Die, etc.) but hadn't done an in-depth listen to their work until now. This has started me down a musical rabbit hole that I ABSOLUTELY love.
As a young teenager introduced to The Prodigy via music videos and Wipeout 2097, I always had a preference for Fat of the Land, but in retrospect I do think this is their best album. A truly groundbreaking mix of techno/rave/big beat/electronica, it still managed to cross over to alt/rock nerds like me who'd never set foot inside a rave, through it's punk energy, aggressive beats, and impeccably layered production. There is some cringeworthy circa-1990 dance on this list that has aged extremely poorly. It's amazing the difference a few years make, this is anything but. It still sounds big, bold, fresh, interesting and utterly timeless.
Some epic moments.
I bet this would have been awesome in a packed club at 2am. Less so on a Wednesday afternoon commute. Oh well.
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
-it’s like Aphex Twin if he spent his nights doing coke and molly in Manchester. This is very solid rave music that made me bop my head and want to get up and dance while doing my psychology homework. Lots of variety -Favorites are Break & Enter, Voodoo People, 3 Kilos, and Skylined
An album to put on if I ever wanna do cocaine and speed down a highway 😂 what an epic club / dance album! Cool band to learn about. Seems like a sister Oneohtrix Point Never.
Hard to get more 90s than the Prodg. Still, not bad.
Þó svo að ég hlusti vanalega ekki á svona tæknidansiballatónlist þá finnst mér mjög gaman að hlusta á Prodigy. Það er eitthvað sem gerir tónlistina þeirra þannig að maður kemst í blússandi stuð. Þetta er bara virkilega vel gerð tónlist.
Um, no. One saving grace was that I was at the gym for this. Hard to imagine listening to it from a sedentary position.
Didn’t mind it because it was just upbeat background noise.
Not bad but needed more vocals, otherwise just felt like club music
Noooo
2.5 too long
With one foot in the door that signaled what was yet to come while the other foot remained firmly in the place where most wouldn't recognize them, The Prodigy provided music for a jilted generation for close to eighty breakneck, blood pumping minutes. This album places itself alongside plenty other electronic dance releases of 1994 that further pushed on the door that was mainstream infiltration and acceptance, whether or not their government wanted to stifle the progression of the rave scene The Prodigy and their ilk occupied. All that was needed for the dam to burst was some trouble starting and instigating. Favorites: Break & Enter, Their Law, Voodoo People, Speedway, Poison, No Good (Start the Dance), One Love, 3 Kilos, Claustrophobic Sting.
A guy I know was so excited to hear I had hit this album. He said it was one of his all time favorites. I didn't have the heart to tell him I don't like techno.
The prodigy have a second album!? Kidding. Actually not bad.
This shit is awesome. I am listening to it as I type my review as fast as I can. There is a drip of sweat running down my brow and someone is shouting at me in the background so that I work faster.
I hated this. This is music for the dance clubs in a sci fi video game
Not what I expected, but in a bad way. Electric much more than any kind of metal.
Não é muito minha vibe um álbum só com músicas sem letras. Ainda mais bate-estaca.
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
Auténtico terrorismo sonoro, este disco nació como respuesta a la represión de las fiestas rave en Gran Bretaña a mediados de los 90. Su sonido 'techno breakbeat' es más sucio que el de los trabajos precedentes del grupo. Nada más comenzar, los cristales estallando y auténticos aullidos que resuenan en "Break & Enter" anticipan lo que vamos a encontrar. Pura energía. Son excelentes los cuatro singles que se extrajeron del disco: "Voodoo People" (con el vudú como vehículo de rebeldía a través del poder oscuro que hay dentro de cada uno), "Poison" (en torno a al poder interior que, 'como veneno', impulsa al protagonista de la historia), "No Good (Start the Dance)" (himno empoderador que anima a la autosuficiencia y el rechazo de relaciones tóxicas) y "One Love" (sobre la música como un espacio intemporal y universal donde unirse y celebrar experiencias humanas compartidas).
Yksi ihan kuunneltava kappale ei paljoa auta. Erikoista instrumentaalimenoa, joka ehkä jossain voisi mennä, mutta kuunneltavaksi ei kyllä itsellä jää.
Interesting. Glad I finally listened to the whole album. But not my cup of tea.
Pretty dated now but has its place
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.
Det er vist computer-musik uge 😅 Det er svært at høre Music for the Jilted Generation uden at sammenligne med Fat of the Land. I 90erne hørte jeg hele FotL men kender kun singlerne fra MftJG. På singlerne syntes jeg klart at FotL er bedre. Og resten er sgu lige skidt. The Prodigy kan noget når man skal holde en fest. Det er party music. Men når man sidder stille og roligt og lytter, så er det sgu primært bare lort.
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...
Starkes Album, steht zum Glück bei mir im Regal
Not my thing but ok. 2.5
Wasn’t into this. Fat of the Land for me.
Puke. More techno electronic thump thump crap.
A great electronic album. A different track each time. 7/10
Ik heb deze meerdere keren geluisterd, da's toch al heel wat voor Eric-muziek. Het heeft genoeg interessante muzikale haakjes voor het oor om aan vast te blijven zitten. Afwisseling, wat rariteiten, een hitje en (ook heel wat waard in dit genre) afwezigheid van storende elementen. Ik kon deze goed hebben. Voor de record, ik heb heb hier verder een enkel gevoel van nostalgie bij. Muzikaal was ik destijds echt met andere dingen bezig.
Samen met Bad van Michael Jackson is dit album denk ik door mij het meest beluisterd. Liam maakt een kunst van het hergebruik van muziek van anderen. Met het gebruik van een Nirvana riff voor Voodoo People als hoogtepunt. Niet alles heeft zo'n metamorfose. 3 Kilos is wellicht juist weer zo fijn omdat het zo dicht bij het origineel blijft. Naast deze nummers biedt het album ook nog de klassieker Poison met één van de beste manieren om de beat te droppen. Het is bijna alsof de tijd vertraagt. En het bevat de alleen op vol volume en bij voorkeur live te beluisteren energie-rammer Their Law. Als we dat op een rijtje zetten, zit er nogal wat verschil tussen de nummers. Their Law en 3 Kilo's zijn zo ongeveer uitersten in het breakbeat-genre. Ook opvallend voor mij. Als ik zo de top 4 eruit licht, zit de andere klassieker No Good daar niet eens bij. Wow, dan is de rest vet. 10 sterren!
"Klassenavond, lauwe cola, bakken met chips". En dan je nieuwe hakkoe-moves uitproberen. Al was dit dan niet gabber, maar de meer 'toegankelijke' techno en breakbeat van the Prodigy. Die herinnering heb ik aan No Good. Of op Romereis een oortje van de discman delen met die gast in dat Waxweazle t-shirt, terwijl we de gebouwen met historie negeerden en meer op weg waren naar de volgende kar om een ijsje te kopen. Of in Luxemburg op een camping staan, omdat daar blijkbaar een zonsverduistering gaat plaatsvinden. Al was het toen meer lauwe Bofferding ipv lauwe kola. (En dat was ook eigenlijk het volgende album, Fat of the Land). Oftewel, er zit enige nostalgie in de muziek van the Prodigy. Fat of the Land krijgen we nog als het goed is. Ik zou ze achter elkaar moeten draaien om nog eens goed te beoordelen welk album beter is. Voordeel is wel, dat ik allebei de albums vaak genoeg heb gehoord (al dan niet in de shuffle-bak van winamp) om eigenlijk alles te herkennen.
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
Wingspan brought me back to the generator today! Didn’t vibe with this one though
Really a 3.5, give or take.
2.0 I don’t know how anyone can separate the good from the bad in this genre.
I think I found a way to listen to this type of music and not totally be annoyed. And that way is doing something like Biking or working out. This album made me feel like i was in the matrix. This album is also one long song. Not actually.... But it truly sounds like there is no change. Just different layers. Often times, repeat beats/samples are used again. Even from other albums. I don't know. Even though it was ok of a listen while I was biking... I don't ever want to listen to this again. It has nothing for me. It's background noise.
Proper party music. First real listen to The Prodigy and it didn't disappoint - first half of the album was absolutely excellent, notably "Voodoo People" and "Full Throttle". Think the latter side was intended to be more pure dance, and that's fine but for me takes it down a bit. 3.85 all in all.
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
kinda repetitive and boring, didnt really get much out of it, i prefer contemporary electronic music Significant No 76/229 Liked No 36/229 Added No 10/229
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.
I forgot what kind of music Prodigy makes and was dreading this one. The cover looks metal but the music was groovy.
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.
"good because british" - 1001 Albums
Just no. It could serve a purpose as background music at a gym, or a dance club, but I just don’t get it. It may be great to those that like this genre, but I am certain that I will never intentionally listen to it again. I only listened to maybe half of the first album as I would fast forward through portions of “songs” and generallly it was hard to tell I was doing so as it was picking up right where I left off.
this kind of music makes my head hurt, ok for low level background music i suppose. I was never into the rave scene.
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.
Meth-y jams.
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
Eletrônica. Chato. Sem graça
It feels like music that would play as a theme of an early 2000s kids tv show most of the time.
Let's be honest, the best way too enjoy this album is when you're off your chops.
had this on while working, productivity through the roof, listened again while cycling, good to motivate! really like 3 kilos
Good, but not as good as Fat of the Land
I had to bail 5 songs in. I felt annoyed and like I was in a store at the mall that has nothing of interest to me. Even the track with “reverse Star Wars” was annoying.
The album cover was scary but I enjoyed the music way more than I thought I would..
Are you ready for mid 90s inventive music?
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
Haha! I listened to this just the other day anyway! It's probably my favourite Prodigy album and "Poison" is my favourite Prodigy song. It captures their sound having developed from a sort of tinny sound of the early rave scene like "Charlie says" and "Going to outer space, find another race" and all that, but before they got that bombastic metal/dance sound of "Firestarter" and the annoyingly antagonistic "Smack my Bitch Up" and so on. This was a time when the rave scene felt like it was actually revolutionary and allied to all sorts of counter-culture stuff. Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't but after this it went into the mainstream.
Genre defining, possibly. Sounding better in 2024, definitely
Excellent rave music
love this!!!!!
made me want to go back to 90s techno and jungle. love this album and many other prodigies
Fuck 'em, and their law.
Being as this is, The Prodigy's second album, and one preceding arguably the breakthrough Fat of The Land, this album had a rawer, darker feel too it. Indeed, Keith Flint (RIP) had yet to take up vocals with the group and this does feel a little more 'underground'. Still, some good beats on here.
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.
Great 90s amped up techno that hit mainstream with their next album. I prefer this one, it has a lot of range, from "Full Throttle" to the more chill "3 Kilos". There's some creative use of samples, like glass breaking in "Break & Enter", and fun elements like the studio chatter before "Poison". Fuck's sake, I'm trying to write this fucking tune!
Not a fan of purely instrumental music
Perfectly aggro drum & bass meets techno. High energy and chaotic as it should be. Techno should have a punk-music-outlaw-edge to it and this does not disappoint.
Awesome!
Perfect 10/10 👍
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.
This album was inferior to the first The Prodigy album that we listened to. Less recognizable and more bland in my opinion. This especially gets hit a bit harder coming off of a refreshing 30 minute Beatles album. Long in general and especially long for what it is. I think it makes sense for the first prodigy album to make this list, but not this album.
I can tell you one thing: this is not the album you want to listen to in a "hurry up and wait" situation as a teacher on the last day of school while waiting on the district office to finalize grades for your high school seniors a day later than planned because a singular individual did not have their grades done on time and refused to work late to get them done. Essentially, I'm listening to club music while being held captive by an archaic reporting system and someone's inability to read their emails. Too long, just like the amount of time I had to sit in an empty classroom today. I guess you could say Their Laws and Claustrophobic Sting were tracks that really stuck out for me. Also, how does a kid that I’ve seen be glued to their laptop for four years fail an Intro to Computers class? I don’t know if it’s that this genre is growing on me, or if The Prodigy is really good at what they do, but these albums really aren’t terrible. They’re just very situational listens. Rounding down from a two and a half.
Every time I listen to The Prodigy I feel like I should be wearing a black trench coat with combat boots and sunglasses at night; kicking in a door to a vampire night club in the middle of a blood orgy. Wesley Snipes throws me a fully auto crossbow in slow motion as I combate roll across the room to catch it. Time resumes normal speed when all of the black leather clad vampires turn to me. "What a pain in the neck" I say before squeezing the trigger and begining the electronica fueled slaughter of the blood sucker monsters. After 3 minutes of that feeling, I'm just sitting around listening to mediocre beats for another 1h and 12min. Wondering was that actually cool, or really lame in hindsight.
Way too long. Just like the other one on here. Trim the fucking fat. Still way to much EDM, electronica, dance, whatever on here.
Was probably fun at the time to hear this in a club, off your nut, but it just sounded amateurish and a bit boring.
I’m sorry but no … there is no way I could have listened to this all the way through without skipping. Good soundtrack for a 90s hacker movie though.
I was not in the mood for this. 2.
The Prodigy might make some of the only electronic music I can listen to. Personal enjoyment: 3/5 Relevance to this list: 4/5
I drank three espressos and got a months worth of work done while listening to this!!!!
2 some cool things happening with this album but alas it is still boring, repetitive and entirely too long electrónica
Big NO
great energy
So much more instrumental than the hit songs I knew. It was a fun listen.
**buys tickets to Prodigy**
Gostaria de questionar que mal fiz eu a Deus para merecer ouvir esta atrocidade. Caraças, não consigo descrever a agonia que é ouvir durante 7 minutos o mesmo "beat" repetido ao expoente da loucura. Como é longo, interminável, repetir a mesmice sem motivo e sem criatividade, uma hora e 18 de músicas chatas que não acrescentam em nada. As musicas tem variações mínimas, nunca o suficiente para justificar a duração exacerbada de tudo neste álbum. Ouço facilmente álbuns sem vocalistas, mas tem de existir um instrumental que justifique, coisa que estes álbum não tem. A única qualidade deste álbum é a sua produção impecável e a capa que é espetacular. A melhor música é o Their Law devido a guitarra pesada, parece que saiu de uma música de metal. Contudo, só entra a metade da música e sai no final. Nota: 3/10 28/05/2024
Absolutoria belter of an album! Peak prodigy
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.
Great album
Não é meu tipo de música. Talvez no contexto certo faça mais sentido. Eu no caso ouvi isso num dia frio, trabalhando num escritório e completamente sóbrio (e mesmo assim consegui gostar de alguns trechos). O maior problema que tenho é que além de não ser meu tipo de música, elas são muuuuuuuuito longas.
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.
Bra skole musikk, overraskende nok
Techno hardcore. Estresante. Venga, un 4 por aumentar el ritmo cardiaco.
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.
While I appreciate their enthusiasm, this is jot something I find enjoyable.
I swore I listened to this one before and really enjoyed it. This time I was, meh.
Holy fuck is techno/electronica repetitious. I think I would like it more if I was at a rave on Friday night whacked on ecstasy and dancing. But I'm at home on a rainy Saturday morning sipping tea and it doesn't quite translate.
a big No
"fat of the land" is the album that should be on the list, but this was a good listen.
# 234 : Good music to play in a rave, but Some of the songs are just a bit too long and samey. Average at best!
ultimate 90s electronic.
I’m not part of the jilted generation so this album does not apply to me (thankfully) 1/5 14/5/24
Enjoyable.
Tf is this?
Never have I ever: understood The Prodigy. Like Underworld I guess you had to be there. And be on drugs. Good drugs.
Had this nightmare of a record been two minutes longer, I would have needed to call in sick from work due to stress.
no mg
I'm just saying, there is an album that released a month after this that is better in every way which didn't make it on the list. WHERE IS WEEZER!! This album was mid and the beat drops were not satisfying. Got to give it a 2/5
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
Histórico e revolucionário
Hat meinen Eintrag nicht gespeichert und jetzt weiß ich nicht mehr was ich geschrieben hab, aber war nice nur eben nix was ich öfter hören würde
kapinallinen akti, haistakaakoon paskakoon lait ja säännökset..me niitä emme tottele.. voitte sitten tuta seuraukset myös, seuraava albumi the prodigy at folsom prison hehheh... tosiaan kyseinen genre ja biisien pituus hämää näin kuunnellessa.. hyvä albumi ehkäpä maaailman ennätys grindaukseen... jos ei robotilla olisi tuhkaa keuhkoissa niin voisi. edeltäkävijöitä kuitenkin, preliminäärinen tuotos genreihin joita tulee kuunneltua kasuaalisti enemmänkin...magik people voodoo people...
How did we have the energy to listen to 80 minutes of this stuff in the 90s? Not top banger stuff, but still pretty fucking banging
A stone cold classic
Some cool beats here. I could see this being a huge hit at a rave, and I would actually be into it there. But there’s no reason these songs (which most tracks barely qualify as) need to be this long.
Fine for low background energy until the last song-which annoyed me. A 3 then became a 2.
A just alright collection of sludgy electronica. Poison is the best song.
- 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
feels like it never ends
I can only listen to a few pieces at a time!
I can’t wait for this to end. I didn’t like it in 1994 and I don’t like it now. Listening to it makes me jittery and anxious and I honestly don’t understand how people can listen to it. 1
Fan of their other stuff, this one's a bit long winded though.
Technoide Tanzmusik. Als solche sehr gut. Trifft aber nicht so ganz meinen Geschmack. Obwohl...sie hat schon manchmal was Mitreißendes.
Bad of the land was better
click click click could i write poetry to this? n
Not sure we need two Prodigy albums on this list. "The Fat of the Land" was plenty. They are both good Electronica albums, but this slot should have gone to another contemporary electronic artist. Two and one-half stars. It undeservedly loses a half-star because the "random" album generator gave us both Prodigy albums within one week.
Couldn’t get through all the blips and boops.
I don't do the right kind of drugs for this.
Great EDM for the time, but as a fan of more modern house and drum and bass it doesn't quite hit the spot.
I can't do this one. I tried it several times getting a little further each time, but it's just repetitive and not interesting at all. 1/5
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.
Way better than expected. Listened to it mountain biking which definitely helped the enjoyment factor
This doesn't belong on this list.
From my understanding, this is a hardcore breakbeat album from a UK electronic dance group that is considered a pioneer of the big beat subgenre. That much is evident early on from "Break + Enter" with how hard the beat goes amidst synthesizer loops and samples of breaking glass. A lot of this album goes pretty dark with the sampling and beat intensity, to the point where it's closer to industrial than dance. That said, the 78-minute runtime is pretty daunting and requires being in a certain mindset. If you're into heavy rave music, then check it out.
Not my cup of tea…or coffee
Sublime dance album. I tend to agree with Bowie, who apparently said of it "An amazing record, it impressed me quite a lot." Favourite track: No Good (Start the Dance)
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.
Felt like pretty repetitive early techno to me.
I get the feeling this guy is a firestarter
VERY 90's dance vibes. There's a lot of fun, and creative stuff here- but I am getting tired not even 4 songs in. I understand that this isn't my thing, and that you really have to dig this kind of stuff to get enjoyment out of it- I just don't. To me it overstays its welcome- again, there are fun moments, but I would much prefer these tracks at shorter intervals, and a shorter track list. At this point, this is quality gaming background music at best. Solid 4/10
God so Dirty and Grimey and just so fun to dance to. I can't help but bop my head at the sound of this album and just be hype at the electric sounds. This is a club hit and I have heard so many remixes of these songs over the years that revisiting the raws feels just as good. Voodoo people being the stand out here and what a song it is just raw and visceral. It does get kinda samey in the middle which brings it down a bit songs like The heat. The break Beats of Poison is incredibe and breaks up that samey tone. We literally see the influences that this album had on the late 90s especially with daft punk. I mean this is just Homework the prequel so classwork if you will. I will always appreciate what this album did for the culture. Lets start the dance :)
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.
Very fun listen. What more do you need.
Noise hurting my ears
I suppose there's a time and place for it Not 06:30 in my car on the way to work
Idk if I’m jilted enough
3.5 Couple of really good tracks. The rest seems ok.....
Too long, and not jilted enough (2.5/5)
yeah!
I can't do it. Got halfway through. This borderline isn't even music, and this DEFINITELY isn't danceable music.
Not my vibe at all, didn’t enjoy any aspect of the album.
3.5
At first I was worried it would be too "proto EDM", as in it would be really basic and repetitive like a lot of 90 electro is. Turns out I really loved it! The beats are indeed simplistic compared to modern edm, but in this case I found it to be a good thing because it perfectly balanced with the eclectically changing beats and the unique sound sampling. It made me realize that a lot of modern EDM is actually very oversaturated with noise and that sometime a more refined beat is better.
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
Þessi fkn plata. Snilld frá upphafi til enda. Finnst samt eins og þetta sé mögulega "you had to be there" dæmi. Það tók ekki nema ca 6 tíma að ná "I got the poison, I got the remedy, I got the poison, the rythmical remedy" úr hausnum á mér!
There might be some electronica out there that doesn't suck but this wasn't 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!
Not as bad as I expected.
This album made me realize I'm officially at the "this music is just noise" age
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
Rad
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.
An assault on my ear drums. Great rhythms and layers of build up. Brooding and menacing at times.
Solid 4/5 for me. Volume up to 11, dancing like a nutter and smiling, pretty much the way I did 30 years ago when first hearing it. An album that pointed the way for me to another musical avenue to explore and enjoy!
4/5. This is a solid collection of heavy electronic songs with songs that can sometimes be annoying after a bit but it's mostly banger after banger. Just foot-tapping goodness and slick and wet beats driving each song. I imagine a dank and sweaty basement with 50 people crammed raving to this. So yeah, it goes hard.
Banging choons
Now I can confirm that I am not part of the jilted generation, thanks guys!
A few years before they would hand Keith Flint the mic to sing on their biggest hits, The Prodigy released this classic which, might not be as flashy as Fat of the Land but probably holds up better.
Funny to think that this album is considered EDM. 1994 went harder than 2024.
Interesting. Kinda mean-spirited. Hmm. Music make brain go fast
Not a big synth fan
2.3
Too much electronica for me
If techno-dance-industrial-rock is your thing then this album is for you, otherwise ...
"Yeah Yeah Yeah ... I got the poison Boom Bap ... Yeah Yeah ... WTF?! (5,0/6)
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….
Gave up on this after halfway through. I get it. The whole UK early industrial electronic scene is not for me. I’ve tried, I’ve failed. Some okay beats here and fun experimentation but it’s so grating.
The Prodigy fights for our rights to party in this rebellious relic of rave culture's heyday.
Day49 - maybe at the club late at night this might be cool but i don’t know who could listen to this on a wednesday
Good background music
Another gd prodigy album? Only listing 1001 albums ever made and TWO of them are prodigy albums? What a joke.
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)
Ok I can just tell this is gonna suck 1
не фэтбой слим, не пробудило ностальгию) многовато дисторшна и не тянет плясать
I don't my electronic music, just not an entire album. Seems repetitive 1.5/5
Not my usual listen, but a good pace to run with and help but in the zone.
This did nothing to help my ADHD.
Powerful; got my body moving!
Really fun electronic album, good from start to finish.
Fun and bouncy....
Pleasant memories! The Narcotic Suite raises the score.
Not my thing at all but well-executed.
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.
It was alright the prodigy isn’t my taste really
Never before had someone created music that was equally good for driving, fighting, and working real fast on the computer. Pop this on and do your taxes in like... twenty minutes. The Matrix (1999) could not have happened without this music preexisting it. It is the hidden glue. Give Hackers (1995) credit for putting the first pieces together for us.
It's not bad, it's even kind of interesting at points. But 80 minutes is just entirely too long for an album with this type of music. It sounds like a looped playlist of royalty-free a content creator gym would play so that it's influencers could record without incurring charges.
Very entertaining and very ling. Gta online background music
Für mich ohne Zusatzstoffe derzeit nicht verwertbar. Trotzdem sehr cool - insbesondere zum Tanzen.
Goated dance album. There were some songs that I wasn't that fond of such as Break & Enter but overall good dance album
I'm not exactly the clubbing type, but this was nice background working music.
A repetitive journey. Like it’s a Small World.
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.
I may have heard of Prodigy before, but never listened to them. Avant-garde... odd... not sure how to describe it. Moody, electric. I liked it in a way.
aight
Not my thing
Good album. Don't love it as much as I did back in the day.
Honestly really enjoyable and a big surprise for me. This was a good electronic album.
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.
I am not that generation.
Very good! Genre defining and one of the best of this type
Not my kind of thing.
Have a soft spot for this one from my raving days. Prodigy managed to go back underground a bit more with this one, very influential, great album to get ya pumped!
Couldn’t wait to turn it off. Really pisses me off
Not my thing/genre but this album is pretty tight.
I'll be honest, I came back to this one just to not miss a day expecting to really dislike it, and honestly, it didn't disappoint in the fact that I did if fact hate it! (it's not my style), I'll give it 2 starts for its consistency according to my expectations
Well, if I was at a rave in ‘94, this would be perfect. Sitting in a chair listening on headphones 30 years later, bores the shit out of me. Unless you are at a rave or something, no one needs the same beat going for 8+ minutes. I know some tracks change it up at some points, and it’s all about the progression and how it builds, but you get what I mean. I’m on the fourth track now and luckily these are getting shorter. I will give them props for adding some metal guitar to a dance track. I need to see the Techno Viking going to this! Poison - I was just thinking “Oh this could easily be a hip hop beat, then in the middle it, completely turns in to an old school beat. More than halfway through, this is where I start drawing some lines in my overly-critical mind…. Do I enjoy listening to this? Not actively listening, no. In the back ground while I’m doing something energetic? Sure. Do I think it’s good music? Musically, there’s not a lot happening. Basically you get the drums down, throw a variety of samples, etc., on top. But is it good music? See answers to my previous questions. Is this artist talented? Definitely stitching together tracks like this takes talent. Do I like it? I think it can take you to a place just like Simon & Garfunkel can, but in a different way. And I like that at the right time and place. But at this point in my life, I’m never ever going to be in that time or place again. So, no, I would never listen to this on purpose. I’m a real trooper though. I’m gonna listen to this whole goddamn thing and you can’t stop me.
Not for me! I respect the foundation to edm tho
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
Song: No Good (Start The Dance) I was not expecting to like this song much at all, considering my feelings about Fatboy Slim earlier this week. But it was, surprisingly, a much more enjoyable listen. The instrumental was more layered and had more going on. I liked a lot of the different sections of the song, despite the repetition. The vocals blended well with the instrumentals, and just added another interesting texture. Overall, while I still felt mostly that I'd heard nearly the whole song once I got about halfway through, it kept me invested with some shifts and new rhythms near the end. Definitely feels like music to move to, whether that's dancing or maybe running. This feels like it could be a good running song. All in all, this was a pretty fun listen, and I'd listen to it again.
Dope af!!!
Muss ich nicht unbedingt, aber objektiv nicht schlecht
It’s for people in the 90s that did ecstasy, weird graffiti artist or parkour montages.
Great!
Repetitive electronic music made for people who are off their face. If your songs are this tedious they should at least be short, what's with all the 7+ min tracks! Not for me at all
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
some weirdo stuff you would imagine them dancing to in the matrix underground city.... long songs like 6-9 mins long, techno/electric dance type music..... 1 star, not into it
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
I wasn't expecting this much of fun listening to this album, Very entertaining
Good dance tracks, you can picture this in the Blade nightclub
Favorite Track: 3 Kilos
Not really my thing. The album art also bothers me, and I just don’t enjoy seeing it in my library. It feels dirty and sticky and doesn’t match my vibe.
Didn’t like it on first listen, but the beats are great. Pumps you up, great vibes. Best to listen through full album at once
Dirty horror warehouse club vibes. Lots of stank on this one