Music For The Jilted Generation

If you're in the right state of mind, this is actually quite good. Would I listen to it on a normal day? No...

Intro/Break & Enter - this is made for the Matrix if it also took place in the Bomberman 64 soundtrack. (5/5 i like the kind of 90s House Electronic thing) Their Law - oh wow these tracks stay pretty long huh. damn okay i unironically fuck with this. (5/5 the shredding?) Full Throttle - this is the same fucking song that the one guy did "Fuck You I'm Late" or whatever. this fucks (5/5 it's like video game music) Voodoo People - holy shit i had never heard that outside of the tiktok trend. that was so jarring. (5/5 it still fucks) Speedway - a little repetitive but a light bop. (4/5) The Heat - this actually feels like an uncanny dream that is strange but doesn't freak you out enough to be a nightmare. (5/5 it sounds like Miku is on the beat) Poison - so far the strangest song of the bunch. the sharp drum beat is very Clubbed to Death on the Matrix soundtrack. (4/5) No Good - very warpled so far. i had to check and see if they were connected to the Matrix. some of the techniques feel the exact same. (4/5) One Love - this is a weird alternate universes' version of Mario Kart songs. (5/5 this fucks) 3 Kilos - i think this album is gonna get a 5/5. 90s electronic was so fun. (5/5) Skylined - not my favorite song so far. (3/5 kinda disappointed) Claustrophic Sting - i feel like i've heard this song before. (5/5 never heard of this song) i love this y2k/90s electronic vibe. i really enjoyed this. 5/5

This is clearly well composed dance music. It's grimy and varied. Perfect for soundtracking your Cyberpunk role-playing game. It's also very long. Highlights: Voodoo People, Their Law, Speedway

My kinda dance music: squelchy bass, aggressive guitars, frenetic beats, spacey synths, and bleepy bloopy hooks. Some of The Prodigy's best tracks are on this album. A few others sorta feel like filler, but I never got bored. 3.5 / 4

Mediocre.

Overindulgent, uninspiring, and repetitive.

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.

I really thought this was gross. Not my kind of scene, brother

perhaps the one I enjoyed the less of the list despite the appreciation I have towards The Prodigy

Awesome!

I suppose if I ever want to really annoy my neighbors, or make them worry about my drug use, I know what to blast through the windows.

Props to "One Love" and its Mario Kart-soundin' keyboard sample.

Définitivement plus aimé que The Fat of the Land. Bien qu'il y aille toujours une influence big beat présente, les sons plus techno/trans (selon wikipedia) sont vraiment plus mon genre. Je dirais que c'est quand même un style auquel je dois m'habituer, mais il n'y a pas vraiment de pièces que je n'ai pas aimé. C'était bon du début à la fin. 8/10

90s movie montage music

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

Has the feeling of an epic story taking place in "another world". I didn't personally enjoy it very much but it is a journey through and through. I may refer back to it for dance music.

Great album. Wild. But, massive heroin/chaos vibes

¡Venga, un 5!

obnoxious

Good for work, and light gaming, but I'm not sure I'd just put this on anytime.

Made it about halfway through this before I just couldn’t go any farther.

not for me, couldn’t get through

the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was getting two albums by the prodigy put onto this list

Feels like I'm listening to an extended version of the Matrix Soundtrack. I remember when STOMP was huge.

Not my cup of joe

No vocals. Electronic. Not my style at all

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.

Ah man, I used to dance…

first 5 star comeonnnnnnnn

Truthfully I went into this record thinking I'd hate it. And maybe I still do. However there were a few things that were notable about this listen. One - there's a hell of a lot of songs or snippets of songs I immediately recognize from some of my favorite movies of the 90s. Second, I think this type of music is best (at least for me) when my mind is mostly pre-occupied with other things. Listening while working allowed me to have my mind elsewhere, only to come back to focusing on what I'm hearing and find that it's the same beat, or melody, that I had just heard 5 minutes ago. No doubt I'd have an issue listening to the same exact beat replay over, and over, and over, and over again with my full attention. But at work or with other things to distract me? It works kinda!

Am I too jilted for this music? Possibly. This music does very little for me. I'm beginning to suspect that The Prodigy was a band someone on the project came of age hearing. I get the sense that only someone who was into The Prodigy early in life would love them enough to include them twice especially given how little difference there is among the tracks and thus the albums.

Great hard hitting, perfect DIY music

Always enjoyable

I remember when GarageBand first came out. My buddy and I got drunk and made a whole bunch of songs that sounded just like this. Maybe it's better with strobe lights and ecstasy, but I'm not really willing to try it at my age.

Woah, it was hard to endure this long ass sequence of minimalistic noises. I'm sorry but that's not even music for me, might be a pretty lame base for some uninspired song at best

I dislike it respectfully. Its just not my Sound

it wasn't as bad as i expected tbh

i actually liked this but i really want a candy necklace now

absolutely chuffed to have this one just am absolutely buzzing over this innit

i didn't take enough dr*gs for this.

what mark said about justice is how i feel about prodigy....

pretty cool, not what I'm used to listening to

Lots of grungy energy in here, plenty of fun to be had.

Enjoyed the cyberpunk space ship / post soviet industrial ambience

Listening to this I felt like I was part of some stressful retro-futuristic adventure. Not very enjoyable.

If Jez from peep show knuckled down I reckon this is the album he would produce. Make of that what you will. It’s alright, maybe a 1.5 but I wouldn't round it up to a 2. Nothing special to me especially since I never even experienced the 90s!

it's techno! I don't know much about Prodigy aside from the one song. This is pretty solid techno though. It's dance music that has a lot of layers in it. I never actually finished listening to this album but I don't feel the need to. Review of Reviews: Seems like people get it. It's dark industrial techno that came out in a time before there was any.. Best Track: Break & Enter.... woooooooooo

Mostly had me in the first half when it was just background. It’s fun.

Made me feel like a robot but in a good, locked in way. Enjoyed listening to it at the gym but I doubt I would ever listen again. 2.5

Know the artist from another album, the fat of the land, but not this one. I prefer the other album.

Timeless, a good bunch of the tracks are still being played at festivals and raves around the world 30 years after release.

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.

Always happy to listen to The Prodigy. This album is a wonderful mix of their dance roots with a mean streak of industrial mixed in. Still sounds awesome to this day.

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

If I was in a club and this was pumping with a buzzing crowd ... back in the day... I'd be luvvin it. Fast forward 30 years and listen to the album in isolation... its actually quite bland and long, there's nothing legendary about this as part of the rave scene.

Besides the occasional overuse of a really irritating sample (looking at you, broken glass), this album has a lot to love if you're into electronic music. 8 minute long songs with themes that build and layer on top of each other for a payoff that makes you wanna move. Several songs from this album would be on a playlist if I ever were to host a dance party. Favorite tracks: Full Throttle, Speedway, No Good (Start the Dance)

I mean, it's prodigy.

Bleh, not very good. Songs were mostly too long. My favorite song was full throttle

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.

This album is comfortably outside of my comfort zone. While most of it was inoffensive, it did feel awfully outdated in parts, and repetitive and droning in others. Needless to say, not my cup of tea. Highlight: 3 Kilos Lowlight: Claustrophobic Sting Surprise Hit: Poison

Reminds me of the time Kyle Gantos (aka Puntos) and Eddie Ybarra took X at the lizard lounge in Dallas and Eddie dehydrated and over heated. Like those two this album did not age well.

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

Überraschend Elektro lastig

Brani Preferiti: - "Voodoo People" Note: Guardando il nome della band e la copertina, mi aspettavo fosse un gruppo metal o almeno rock... a quanto pare è un album elettronico, immagino rave metà anni '90. Se ignorare i propri gusti personali l'album di per se è fatto bene, ricorda quando i film degli primi anni 2000 usavano questo tipo di musica per mettere suspence in molte scene d'azione. Com'è composto questo album mi fa più pensare a come possa essere usato durante i rave per divertirsi, che ascoltarlo per puro piacere.

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

The album where The Prodigy (mostly) abandoned their early techno sound and invited the punk rock kids into the clubs. For album from angry ravers, this album holds up surprisingly well, nearly 30 years on.

So right of the bat, I’m not a fan of this cover art. Normally, I see something like this, I wouldn’t bother listening. For the sake of this journey of discovery, I pressed play. I don’t mind electronic. After the mechanical saw-sounding intro, Break and Enter is ok. It’s just a little fast for me. Can’t really bob my head or dance to it. Listening to Their Law made me think it’s more workout music than dance music. I could see this music playing in one of the gym-bro type places that’s just a huge room full of dumbbells and weight machines. But as we get further into Full Throttle and The Heat, I don’t know. Prodigy loses me a little. It’s not bad melodically, but there’s A LOT of different sounds to take in here. It was distracting.

3+

not for me

Du electro rock britannique toi. Des longues chansons (mais pas autant que miles davis). Whudup le bal en blanc. Du beat dans un jeu de combat. Pas dég, mais j'en écouterais pas souvent mettons. Un peu de beat d'entrainement p-t.

Easy 5 *, listened to this album my entire life, one of my favourites of all time.

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

i bet if you played this album for me in 1994 in a club while i was high on molly i’d give it a 5/5. but unfortunately i am employed by corporate america and did not enjoy this album

God it's all just so much isn't it. I think I have enjoyed the Prodigy in the past but I have to say this time it felt like a slog. I appreciate it must be very impressive music to actually produce but I didn't have a good time listening

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.

I don't listen to techno music much. But when I do, whether at a club, rave, or finding some playlist to throw, it's almost always repetitive and has almost no substance, serving as nothing more than a "sound" I'm in the mood for while I dance, socialize, or study to. But this is one of those albums that teach me something new about the genre, and it throws me off every time. Fat of the Land was one of my gateway albums to electronic music. And just like Fat of the Land, it incorporates the styles of hardcore punk and metal to pull in those rock-oriented audiences. But this one is not as accessible. That's not a bad thing though. This record is very focused on what it aims to do. And primarily to me, it makes techno colorful and engaging. Tracks are long but never repetitive, centering around a theme but throwing in all sorts of twists and turns. You know something's right when I can actually stand a whole double album of it. It starts to trade industrial for funk by the time we get to "No Good" which is actually a nice break from the intense hard beats of the rest of the album. Almost no forgettable tracks, and lots that leave an impression. Good job Prodigy for making me like techno more.

Voodoo People good. The rest? Bad.

Aucune surprise, on ronfle

je vais avoir the prodigy en top artiste du mois et ca m'anéantit

One of my favourite of any type of music, although behind Experience. The amount of great songs in this album is amazing. Excellent!

Dark dance beats and has the feel of running around in a worn down old derelict warehouse. Awesome.

Tunes

I don’t know why there needs to be 2 Prodigy albums on this list.

Good work music. Solid beats.

Big beat is perhaps the boppiest subgenre of electronic music. It may be repetitive, but the loud and explosive sounds of it is interesting enough for me to stay.

Brilliant!

Was so happy seeing this come up, a true classic, loved this one for 10 years. For me though, fat of the land clears, even if this has more of an arcade-y appeal. Favourites here remain the singles, which are among the prodigy's best.

Sounds like video game music for a PlayStation game. Kinda boring to me. One of these electronic albums that were probably interesting at the time but didn’t age well.

Horrible. I’d rather listen to kollaps.

Electronic music is hard for me. So repetitive.

It's good, in parts. I don't love this kind of stuff though generally.

What a monster this album is. Great beats throughout. Would have been absolutely bonkers in the club. For me also great to focus while working.

I've been wanting to get into 90s techno for a while, this is a good a place to start as any. Great mash of genres, loved all the metal bits. Very hypnotizing album, this sort of stuff is great to listen to while doing repetitive manual labour.

I'll be honest, I don't know a whole lot about EDM. I've never been into it that much. I enjoy it when I hear it and that's kind of it. This was pretty good though. Music For The Jilted Generation sounds like it was for the jilted. It's fast and occasionally harsh. No better example is the song Their Law, a fast and heavy guitar-laden track. The use of breakbeats is prevalent throughout this album, which combined with its fast-paced nature, makes for a very unique sound. This album can be a little weird at points, especially with some of the beats and samples used. These moments kind of work though because the songs embrace this abrasiveness and it amplifies the oddness. Past the halfway point, tracks begin to slow down and be a bit more odd than in the first half though. Especially the tracks One Love (Edit) and No Good (Start the Dance). However, the last three tracks do pull off this stylistic switch well. 3 Kilos might be the most laid-back track but it works as a bit of a break before the end. Skylined is more than 3 Kilos, but a bit faster, a bit heavier, and a bit more abrasive. Claustrophobic Sting serves as a melancholy finisher that's a bit eerie, and it works. Overall, this album was a bit flawed and it kind of lost momentum near the middle, but this was a very fun and fast-paced record. I'd be happy to give it 7/10.

Not my taste, too much aggressiveness and no good music

My mind is glowing..

Man, I am just not there yet.

Mainstreamová taneční hudba ušla za 20 let dlouhou cestu, během které ale někde blbě odbočila a ztratila se, protože tohle je pořád nářez.

There were some interesting new ideas. Still, electronica feels a bit empty and soulless. Ok as background music.

I've only heard of The Prodigy through their collaboration with Tom Morello. This is not my usual vibe but I honestly dig it.

Ehhh i dunno I don’t really like electronic that goes this hard on space sounds. I acknowledge that listening to this on air pods while cleaning moss off bricks probably was not the intended environment, and maybe I’d enjoy it more at 2am in some trippy galaxy tent. but yeah it’s a 2.5/5 from me dawg

This is one of the most boring electronic albums I’ve ever heard.

So good for how weird it is. I would never expect an electronic album like this to be this good. Especially the back half.

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.

I absolutely love big beat, so this was a meatball tossed directly down the middle of the plate. The songs are huge and long as fun as fuck, and Prodigy's sample-work is masterful. Even if a track starts out only *alright*, these guys no how to pull some of the greatest vocal samples of all time to elevate anything they touch into pure bliss. While I prefer the Brothers in terms of the genre's classics, this is excellent. I only wish that big beat came back any time soon. It's time for the genre revival. A raving, neon green 4/5.

The Prodigy, apparently not to be confused with the rapper "Prodigy," is an energetic D'n'B collective. Points out of the gate for an unsettling album cover. I like the play on words with Break & Enter, which features a beat composed largely of traditional pounding drum and bass centered around a sample of a breaking window. This seems like pre-dubstep given the bass warble. Very cleverly arranged, particularly the distorted vocal sample; however, it makes use of some kind of hockey stop'n'go tempo manipulation. Hard to tell, but I think I took the red pill. As far as music for writing software to goes, this is that good kush. Their Law features a heavy metal riff infused DmB jam that keeps things bobbing start to finish. Need some water after those last three songs. Thankfully The Heat (The Energy) opens up to give me a chance to breath. Unexpected psych laced electro warble to pick up the back half of the album. The dominating sample on Claustrophobic Sting is the thing of nightmares. I'm deeply unsettled. Overall, I'm into this album for what it is. Trancey and psych infused drum n' bass that keeps the floor moving. I think that there is a decent amount of variation across the album and individual songs, while long, have enough elements and progression to keep them from feeling stale. Its not my absolute favorite from this genre, but I enjoy it and will likely come back for more 4 / 5.

3.4 fine, good, nothing particularly special faves: break and enter, voodoo people

It isn't bad but does anyone REALLY need multiple +7 minute songs on one electronic album?

Light 8

Not into hard drugs, so may have missed this one. 2

Techno hardcore. Estresante. Venga, un 4 por aumentar el ritmo cardiaco.

¡Venga, un 5!

Would be better if it was the mid-90's and on a bunch of e.

Jeg aner ikke hvorfor, men jeg digger The Prodigy. Det er slitsomt å høre på, men det gjør ingenting. Nytes best på tinnitus-nivå? Jeg sparer 5/5 til Fat of the Land som jeg synes er bedre. Mitt største tap konsertmessig er når de avlyste konserten sin på Pstereo 2019.

meh prodigy

Way too long

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.

There hasn't been electronic music quite like this so far! This is definitely leaning in the direction of rave music. It's a little bit edgy and dark, which I can appreciate. This really isn't my type of music, so I didn't appreciate it as much, but that said, I know well enough that this is a historical piece of music in the raver scene, and certainly deserving of some recognition in this project! Probably around a 2.5 for me, but not rounding this one up!

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

Love the aggressive sounds, but the album is easily 20 minutes too long. FS: Break & Enter, Full Throttle, No Good, Claustrophobic

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

First thought to give this 4 out of 5 just because it doesn't get close to the greatness of its successor. But anyways, this was the album that paved the way to The Fat Of The Land, both in sound and catchiness, this one deserves 5 out of 5 too.

I loved this

Awful. could not finish

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.

A little too much repetitive, droning, boring sounds for me. It felt like a never ending soundtrack to a video game or a Matrix-like film, that is fine, but not my idea of a good time. Good background noise, if you're at a club or rave or some electronica festival with DJ's dressed as machines. If this is someone's idea of the future, I'm content with my old dad-rock.

This is one of the worst things I've ever heard. Repetitive drums, similar in every song, combined with boring and annoying electronic noise.

Didn't mind it but probably won't listen to it again

Love the energy and love Voodoo people. Makes me want to mosh pit more than anything

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.

day 5. interestingly, though I don’t listen to techno/electronic music I did know 1 song from this band, but it’s on their next album The Fat of the Land. Judging by this listen, I think I’d like the sound of that more than this one. it just dragged on forever … it wouldn’t fit any place in my listening. Not quite work background music, not pumping me up enough for a workout, not chill out music. Idk. 2/5 I can tolerate but wouldn’t choose to listen to. Faves: No Good (Start the Dance)

Electronic noise

goed voor op de achtergrond

Oh ik had nog nooit naar een heel the prodigy album geluisterd maar wel echt leuk!

No le gana a Fat of the Land. Pero está bien.

Good to hear an album and be like I see what this influenced

Missing a few points that they would hammer away at their follow-up. Definitely feel like I'm crawling through the London sewer system at 3 am looking for shiny coins, however.

I have many a story from my Step-Mum of clubbing where this band's music is heavily involved. Don't usually listen to drum and bass but hard to say I didn't enjoy myself listening to this.

Just not my jam for an entire album

Nah.

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.

This would be really good Saturday morning music if I lived in a meth dungeon and was currently on meth. Going to listen to it tomorrow. Some of the songs are just a bit too long but I find myself dancing it up in the car. Kinda enjoying the darkness of it but I wish I listened to it while it was raining. Overall not my type of shit but still enjoyable. Wish I could give 2.5 stars.

The anger felt by the Criminal Justice Act of '94 making it basically illegal to dance is amplified through this album. The band, once interesting but throwaway had transformed into a beast from hell. Rave beats mixed with punk riffs. I got to see a few shows they played around this time and they still stand as some of the most exciting live acts

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.

Not terrible, but there's not enough that's interesting here to recommend it. Forgettable.

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.

I never thought it could be possible for an electronic album to be so boring.

mehhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

1h20 of breakbeat and techno jams. Duuuuude, this is sooooo long for having so little to express and to say. What the hell was this?

It's just so repetitive. I wanted to like it, but no dice.

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.

Beats too big

I chose to listen to my hairdryer over this

this had a few songs i really liked but overall it was a bit of a slog

Surprisingly ok

Stunning album.

A+ 90s techno, feel like the coolest hacker listening to it while working

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.

Excellent album. Punchy, unique, strong, thrusting. You will always always have a smile on your face to this. Excellent UK race with punk, metal, D&B, jungle elements. What a mix.

This was a pretty fun album. I enjoy techno quite a bit lately, especially with the clear metal influence that this one had. The songs were a bit repetitive, but that's just the nature of the genre. I would love to see a lot of this mixed into modern sets. Could definitely see myself enjoying this in a warehouse or stage on the edge of the woods at 3am. 8/10

Una especie de techno medio beat music, progre con un tire al rave. No estaba para escuchar esto pero me sorprendio para buena. Los arreglos son muy acertados y no cansa en ser escuchado nunca 8/10.

Interesting to see what electronic music started out as but nah

Quite an album cover. The intro was cute but for some reason Break & Enter grated on me a little. But it wasn't long before I was swept up in the forward motion through interesting soundscapes and digging the energy of these tracks. Perfect background music for working, working out, hanging out. I'm happy to have heard this album -- it's going into rotation and I'll be exploring what else The Prodigy has to offer.

hyper funk? Groovy post punk dance music? Whatever you call it, much more interesting than I was expecting. 4 stars.

3 stars

bof

Con "Voodoo people" y "Poison" es suficiente para darle 3 estrellas, el resto no está mal pero no sé si al volver a oírlo subirá mi opinión. Añado "Their law", "Full throttle", "No good" o "Claustrophobic sting". Mejor de lo que recordaba. Creo que se merece 4 estrellas por mi parte. No lo dejéis pasar si no lo habéis oído nunca.

Best Song - Break and Enter

Much more of a chaotic listen, never a dull listen with Prodigy

It’s strange that Liam later said this was never meant to be political in the first place when much of its power comes from the context of the Criminal Justice Bill which threatened to criminalise rave culture. It’s what gives the album its focus and energy and elevates the record from mere beeps and whistles.

I am sure this is great in a certain situation under a certain influence but it isn't an album to listen to, enjoy or immerse in. It's a songs characterised by a series of repetitive beats. And musical phrases. There's worse dance music, I have had to listen to some of it here, but it's still not interesting to do anything more than dance to.

Just didn’t do it for me.

This was a wild album, felt like I was in some 90's video game Tron type setting of just zipping through tunnels and night scapes. Very cool in that sense and makes me glad I listened to it, but beyond maybe catching these songs at a club I'll never go to or an underground street racing event, I'm not sure I'd listen to again. I did just finish watching Cyber Punk Edgerunners last night and they should have taken some songs from here.

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.

not for me

Me aburrió, por momentos parecia el soundtrack de un juego de pelea

This album is its own special niche of cool. Not my fav though. Sounds like the soundtrack to a PS1 racing game in outer space.

Overly long, but a couple of great tracks

Not even the best Prodigy album (it's actually a decline from their debut, though admittedly a decline that starts with three five star albums), but darker than Experience, with both the anti rave Criminal Justice Act (as ever, Eff the Tories) and darker, RZA style production radicalising their sound. You can't argue with an album that has Their Law, Voodoo People, No Good AND Poison. Have a pinger, whip your shirt off, and enjoy.

Great album I really enjoyed the production

Do NOT listen to this album while driving, holy fuck I nearly crashed. Bangers tho.

Beastly album! Sounds a lot cleaner than I remember it.

Amazing mix between synth and guitars, powerful music , great for workout!

I listened to this album thousands of times in college, so it's hard to be objective. Obviously a classic.

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

Very very fun and so deeply in the 90s! Feels like a heist movie and a car chase simultaneously on some tracks. And yet, such hypnotising alluring beats and gorgeous drums cut through the cheese to leave me with the best breakbeat album I've ever heard.

I was listening to this album bobbing my head while also thinking the whole time: "I hate this". A head bob is a head bob though, most have got me enthralled enough.

This is like jazz but worse for my attention span

A very nice techno album, never heard it before or of The Prodigy, unfortunately not my favorite one, cool beats and nice drops and all but just felt a little repetitive, a lot of the songs seem to just drag on with the same repeating loop not really adding anything needed for a 7-8 minute song. All in all just not the best I’ve heard. Good sounds but just doesn’t hit the right spots for me.

Would have been a five if the songs were all 2 minutes shorter.

Should just be called Soundtrack to the Matrix

⭐ Speedway / Skylined

This is music made for 90’s youth who liked to get super high and flail around. I don’t think it has a purpose today, I do like Electronic but prefer it to be chill not abrasive. There were some instances of good music on this album but they’d fuck it up with some annoying effect, most notably on Full Throttle when they tossed in the annoying duck sounds. Admittedly, I was not excited about this one, I thought it’d be ok for a morning run at least and I guess that made it a bit more tolerable but it was still grating and annoying for the most part. The only track I can say I enjoyed would be 3 Kilos. 2 Stars

This may have been better when I was in high school, listening back to it now it's not earthshattering. It was probably at the forefront of electronic music and allowed future acts to exist but since I listened to them first this one just doesn't have the sizzles factor.

Very intense listening for 6am on a night shift

Not for me

Not for me

I'm more of a prodigy fan today than ever

Who listens to this, apart from drug dealers? Great for dancing when you're off your tits, but otherwise useless.

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.

7/10 I guess this is good? not really an EDM guy so I can’t speak for how good this is I guess it’s enjoyable, and the production was sometimes creative but ultimately, rave electronica just sounds kind of annoying

My biggest takeaway from this is how quickly electronic music advanced from 1994 to 1997, because this sounds at least a decade older than "The Fat of the Land". It's almost primitive in comparison, the songs are way longer but also way more repetitive. It lacks the cool vocals and samples that make the crab album so fun to listen to. In conclusion, just listen to "The Fat of the Land" instead. It even has a funny crab on the cover.

Great album!

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.

Of eerder 3,5? Herbeluisteren

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.

An impressive feat of a rave album that can be listened to and enjoyed outside the club

As Kyle said, caffeine for your eardrums

Men neme een drumlijntje, zet er een aantal verschillende baslijntjes overheen, voegt een hoop vaag gejengel en geklingel er aan toe, et voila: je hebt een album! Het zal vast ooit vernieuwend en/of invloedrijk geweest zijn, maar ik vind er echt helemaal niks aan. De eerste 1 ster.

Techno-hardcore con variedad de efectos, sintetizadores y ambientes. Para gente muy aficionada

Definitely had me bopping away and raving in my loungeroom while drinking out of a goon bag and canned beer. Not as good as The Fat Of The Land but scratches that techno itch, Might listen again if i'm in the mood again. Favourite tracks - Their Law, Voodoo People

IS THE BEST ALBUM OF THE WORLD

Music for the Jilted Generation is the second album by English electronic music group the Prodigy. This techno album was seen as a response to the rave scene in Britain being stunted by the laws and police cracking down on it. The album received critical acclaim for containing great techno music that was "harder" than anything the group had recorded before. I enjoyed this early EDM music and felt nostalgic for a time period that I wasn't even alive for yet.

Impressed at how well this stands up. It was a staple album as a teenager, way more important to me than Fat of the Land...it hit as I started drinking and hanging out and was a bit of a soundtrack to both getting ready and hangovers. Listening today It still sounded fresh, intense and vital.

This is one of my partner’s favourite bands so I was a little familiar already. Really liked the “vibe” of this, would definitely enjoy it in a live setting, but not something I’d listen to on the day-day-day as I’m not huge on electronic unless it’s in a club/at a gig or party.

This is weird and I didn’t enjoy it. Hope it was influential for the genre at the time but goddamn I did not get anything from this lol

Nah. Thanks.

It's a cool album, but the lack of clarity and structure really lowers the enjoyment of this album. Perfect noise filler though, the best one so far.

Not for me

It was a January Monday morning when I was assigned this album. I was unsure if I could handle it. Turns out I could. Not half as hardcore dancey as I half remembered.

This was surprisingly a smidge better than the crab album, even given its lack of crab. But only a smidge.

I was actually quite impressed compared to their follow up to this, but it had a bit more substance in my mind.

I found myself nodding my head a lot while listening to this. Later, when I thought about what I had listened to, I couldn’t recall any of it. That’s some kind of magic trick. Does this make it life-altering?

This has not aged very well, to be honest. Yet beyond the obviously *dated* big beat / drum'n'bass rhythm patterns, there are also many interesting harmonies--along with catchy loops and punchy licks from time to time. So I wouldn't throw *all of it* into the dust bin of music history. The thing is, who is that music aimed at *today*? Middle-aged folks like me would look like eccentric old-timers playing this in their living room. And younger people would dismiss it as music that's out of touch with current electronic sounds. Time is not kind with forward-looking genres such as EDM. What was futuristic once quickly sounds like a relic of the past, very ironically. You need some kind of special touch or off-kilter charm to make such relics of the past sound truly relevant or original decades later. I hear that the album after that one is also in Dimery's list. At least, all the famous electro-punk hits of the band are in there--and it seems to me they fare a little better today. They're shorter, catchier, and even if everything in that subsequent LP was not up to that level, at least you'd have more interesting dynamics throughout. So *maybe* it's better to save some room in my own list for that *other* Prodigy album... But to return to *this* record, that "jilted generation" mentioned in its title now mostly evokes pictures of old people going to a rave party, which is quite a bizarre thought in itself, isn't it? Not that I would have any problem with it happening--it's just that I would think twice before going to such a weird sort of rave party myself. My personal experience is that if you played this sort of record to, let's say, the teens in my house, they would just roll their eyes and dismiss the whole thing as a quirky impulse on my part. This sort of thing rarely happens when you play Neil Young, Talking Head, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Tears For Fears, The Cure, Pixies, Nirvana, Elliot Smith, Jeff Buckley, A Tribe Called Quest, Beastie Boys, Björk, DJ Shadow, Queens of The Stone Age, The Strokes or The White Stripes. Most of the time, those teens will like what they hear, and even if they don't, they're often intrigued by those older sounds, at least. Play stuff like The Prodigy, and they will just tell you it doesn't resonate with them at all. It won't elicit any meaningful reaction from them. It will just be categorized as "out of fashion" stuff. When in doubt about old music, *always* trust youth's reactions. They'll tell you if something has aged well or not. Number of albums left to review or just listen to: less than 700, I've temporarily lost count here Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: approximately a half so far Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: a quarter Albums from the list I will certainly *not* include in mine (many others are more important): the last quarter (including this one)

A bit too annoying for my taste, but also bland in a lot of places. A weird mixture.

Aggro. Fast. Heavy. Music made for taking Adderall and rollerblading and hacking all day.

Ketamina

Side B is 5 star

Nah 1/5

EPIC HARDCORE STUFF MAGIC PEOPLE MAGIC PEOPLE VOODOO PEOPLE VOODOO PEOPLE LIAM HAWLETT MAXIM REALITY THIS IS IT MOVE IT BOUNCE IT POW POW LET'S GO TRANCE RAVE TECHNO BEAT FEEL IT EVERYBODY BREAK THE FLOOR

не совсем мое, но годнота есть

Excellent stuff

Grote tegenvaller. Had hier meer van verwacht.

Bangers!!

You can feel the early forms of electronic music

It has its moments, but I can't really listen to an album of it. I prefer some of the more recent prodigy

Too much electronic stuff on this list...

Better than expected. Not really my genre, but some good high energy tracks in there that anyone can enjoy.

There were a few familiar moments on this one. A definite mid 90s throwback.

Estuvo ok, pero como disco prefiero el Fat of The Land

I'm not the biggest fan of the genre but this isn't bad. I'd prefer to pick out a few songs rather than listen to it in one sitting as it's quite long.

Incredible energy, proper banger

sonzao eletrônico muito massa, melodias ricas

Hardcore. Better listed to loud and when buzzin' on something. Just saying... It starts powerful and keeps the beat throughout. Singles (4): One Love (#8 UK), No Good (#4 UK, top 10 all over the world), Voodoo People (#13 UK), Poison (#15, UK) Standouts: Break & Enter, Their Law, No Good, Tops in the genre. Overall: 3.5/5

Nope.

Pretty awesome

Prefer The Fat (which came later). I gave that 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 but this was when they were pretty much finding their feet. It's still good but not great.

The only album I've ever listened to by The Prodigy was The Fat of the Land, so I am looking forward to checking out more of their stuff. This, unlike every other electronica album I've listened to on this album generator, was actually not bad. It is very high energy, and it has a few looping lyrics to some songs. Their music is electronica mixed with rave, hard rock, and punk. This music, instead of putting you in a trance like all the other electronica I've heard, pumps you up and makes ya wanna move. I didn't mind this album. Not my favourite genre of music still, but not bad as background music. It was great to listen to while working today. Favourite songs: Voodoo People, Their Law, Speedway (Theme from Fastlane), Poison, No Good (Start the Dance) Least favourite songs: Skylined, 3 Kilos, The Heat (The Energy) 3/5

better than I thought! moves well. Idk if its techno or what genre but ye

Definitely had influence on every action movie soundtrack after this. Cool sounds.

12th December 2022 Listened in the afternoon while working. Dad came round in the evening and we watched hook and white lotus. An electro punk opera. Knows the quite moments are as important as the noise. 3.5 if I could.

Not my scene.

This definitely isn't as good as the fat of the land, which I need to listen to again to see if it still deserves my surprised 5 star because I don't remember it a whole bunch, but it's still about as good as big beat rave edm gets. It gets you hyped, then you get exhausted of it by the halfway point, then eventually you just start vibing. It sounds like ass if you listen to it any other way besides as loud as possible though. Voodoo people was my fav and is also another fun origin of a tik tok sound.

dance mother fucker dance!

Some good tracks but not all were winners.

Very good. I love this band, but this album is not as good as The Fat of the Land.

hell yea voodoo people. also poison is jammin. nearly a 5

Close to being a 3 because of a couple bangers, but it's a bit hardcore for a whole album for me

Classic album of my misspent youth😁

Jilted is an adjective for someone who just got off a long coke binge and has ground their teeth to stubs. I don't do cocaine. 3/5, would've been a 2 but I have a soft spot for this music

Alright , my dad loves this band =) Their law is cool

The last Prodigy album that's ace from start to finish. My CD copy of this always used to skip like buggery at the 3 song suite at the end, it's nice to listen to it without having to regularly get up and batter the hi fi.

Nice to work to and I imagine pretty rad in a club.

Catchy, but too long and repetitive. None of the focus of Fat of the Land.

Not what I expected -- I guess I never what genre these guys were, but I liked it. Not sure I'll decide to listen to an electronic album again, but if I do this one is just fine

The best thing about this album was laughing at it with my husband while we cooked brunch and felt so far removed from the target audience for this “music”.

listen

This album is too long (78 minutes) and too much. The Prodigy is a band for which it's better to listen to individual songs instead of full albums imo. I respect it, but as a full album start to finish listen I didn't enjoy it a lot.

Classic!

Messy dystopian future sounding electronic music. Non of their well known stand out hits make this album fall flat.

Not a superfan of rave music and The Prodigy in particular - it seems like they are playing the same track over and over at slightly varying speeds - but some times it works and I can appreciate it so overall still a reasonably strong electronic album. 7/10 = 4 stars

I was a big fan of this album back in the 90s, and today it still sounds awesome. The first few tracks may seem a bit slow and repetitive, but it builds up to the first real high with Full Trottle. This continues with until Heat, where we take a bit of a breather, but halfway that song things blow up again and after One Love we enter the 'narcotic suite', the three tracks that finish off the album. My mind is glowing.

Definitely good: Start the dance!

MY MIND IS GLOWING I had this on fairly heavy rotation when I was a teenager, but it has been years since I listened to it in full. I expected it to have aged worse than it has though, it's still fantastic! A truly groundbreaking album in electronic music, and music in general. Some of the songs may be a bit too lengthy and repetitive for some listeners, but overall I think this is a big improvement on their first album, and still stands as one of the best albums of the 90s. The only songs on here I don't enjoy as much are "The Heat" and "One Love", I don't hate them though.

Prodigy getting back to its digital roots. Only the best in digital doots, bweeps, and dial-up connection tones. Infectious as hell, and impossible to not move to. Good stuff from the golden age of rave.

Appreciate this is good, but not really my thing and sounds pretty dated. A few bangers though, esp Voodoo people.