Reviews (page 8 of 9)
Again with these electronic albums, I live in the techno capital of the world so my baseline for good techno (a genre I don't particularly enjoy) is very high. This was fine. Nothing special and overly long. You get the gist of it after a few songs (which is my complain about all techno... I guess you need to be on drugs to enjoy it) 2.5/5
oh man, I probably still have this CD in a big ass case logic filled with all the music I bought in middle and high school. I loved these guys. Saw them at least once at a festival. In general, this genre really doesn't hold up well for me but this album and band have so much nostalgia I have to give it a decent score. I find myself "singing" along to the boops and beeps
Yeah pretty good
Another one of those albums (and bands) that I rate highly because of the impact it made on me when I first heard it. It still holds up today - hell it sounds like a greatest hits collection. If you listen to this and don't want to dance (or at least bob your head once in a while) you are likely a robot and not a human.
Frenetic breakbeats. Samples from metal songs and TV shows. The first side is a little bit monotonous for my tastes. The second side has some great variety.
As always, amazing!
Another electronic double album that nobody outside the UK has ever heard of. All around this wasn’t too bad , but I found that it overstayed it’s welcome and some of the samples were grating, especially in the last song. 5/10
6/10. Musically, I definitely like this better than the crab album, but the crab album had a much more memorable album cover
The fact that people in the reviews are hyping this album up speaks to how shitty British music was in the 90s. 3/10
Not bad. Now you know what they ended up doing you can tell listening to this that there were better things to come.
Banger
Listened Before? N This was pretty surprising. I mean, hardcore techno/dance is not really my thing but I didn't mind this one too much. It was good background music while I was working, and would probably make good party music. Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist: Their Law
2nd prodigy album so far. definitely can see where "power of the land" comes from but i think this one is way more inventive and interesting. Voodoo People slaps HARD holy shit this has the HOW ITS MADE SONG ON IT i don't think i actually finished this one, but get the feeling that i got the jist of it
Wauw! Back to the 90s met dit album dat ik letterlijk grijs gedraaid heb in mijn "jeugd! Ongelooflijk als bijna alle nummers op een album geweldig zijn! *****
I wasn't big on the rave scene. It seemed like a lot of drugs and repetitive beats. This sounds a little more entertaining than that, but not by much. It sounds like there's some thought going into this, which is more than I can say for other music in this category, so that's cool. But there's nothing here that stays with me.
Forgot that 'Voodoo People' was on this album, and the moment I heard it I was instantly taken back to a classic old skool YouTube video featuring the Pendulum remix. If 'see you tonight geez' and 'oh-five V6 Clio Twin Turbo' ring any bells, you know what I'm referring to. That video seems today to be a relic of an era when a sizeable proportion of UK youth culture could be summed up as "'avin' it large", and there's the same frantic, sweaty urgency around having a phreaky good time on MFTGJ. The Prodigy always were the most rock oriented of the dance acts, which helped me to enjoy it. I listened to MFTJG whilst driving, and I recommend you do too. This is the perfect, pulsing, insistent beat for a spot of dromoscopy. Luvverly!
This is not good. I could stomach "Firestarter," but that's not on this record which you know what that means? We are for sure getting at least one more record from The Prodigy on this list. Hell, maybe we already reviewed that one. Nobody knows. My favorite part was the one "song" that had like a car alarm or police siren just going off in the background for a solid minute plus. Because people just LOVE listening to that when they're high. Lol.
This is probably better in a crowd than on headphones. I like a little more variety in my loops. Hack the planet.
This album wins the award for "Most Melodramatic Title." That the album is made up of generic EDM loops further emphasizes how ridiculous it is. I wanted this to end much faster than it did. Best track: 3 Kilos
Good for the genre.. longer than my attention span.
3.5 serait parfait ça se laisse écouter, parfait en fond, certains morceaux donne envie de hôcher la tête
You can throw all the Prodigy albums at me that you want, but you're still just trying to make fetch happen.
Small doses...great for movie trailers and action sequences and delusions of a Trainspotting lifestyle.
"Music for the Jilted Generation" is the second studio album by the English electronic band The Prodigy. At this point, The Prodigy consisted of Liam Howlett (synthesizers, keyboards, drum machine, mixing, engineering) and Maxim Reality (vocals, writer). Their electronic music uses elements of rave, techno, breakbeat techno and hardcore techno. I'd have to really dig in to find exactly what the differences between those styles are but this music is fast paced with a variety of samples, noises, synth sounds and different beats. No lead singers...that would come. It is quite interesting I must say. Although denied by Howlett, the title and some of of the songs are thought to be directed at the corruption of the UK rave scene by the mainstream and the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 00 unlicensed rave parties. The album was nominated for UK 1994 Mercury Prize (best UK album). The first song to catch my attention was "Break & Enter" with its fast drum beats, sounds of glass breaking and ominous keyboards. It morphs into more of a dance beat. Nice keyboard chorus. The third single "Voodoo People" begins a spacey guitar using Nirvana's "Very Ape." The drum beat sounded like The Prodigy I would hear on their next album. It samples Johnny Pate's "You're Starting Too Fast." The fourth single "Poison" has mechanical sounding keyboards, other weird keyboard sounds, someone yelling "ya" throughout, someone saying they have the poison and the remedy and changing dance beats. A lot going on. Cool sounding song. The second single "No Good (Start the Dance)" had lasers sounds starting it off. The fast pace continues. Vocal samples of Kelly Charles' "No Good for Me." This song reminded me of some of the DJ sets I've seen at Perry's Tent at Lollapalooza...very repetitive, very techno. The techno continues on their first single "One Love," a very similar style to the previous song. Repetitive and weird keys, a Prodigy-sounding drumbeat. I would have said initially that this sounded of its place and time in the 90's and I think it still does but I do hear a lot of this in today's EDM. I was expecting more "Firestarter" type songs. Some pretty serious techno. It does suffer from the CD era clocking in at a long 118 minutes.
Just no
Very interesting and cool not my style of music. Maybe has a time and place though
rimelig ok
elektronisk rock, dance, alternativt, højt tempo, energifyldt
First song should have ended after two minutes. So should have the album. Crappy music for a video game boss fight.
WHOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Banger.
This album has that cheap, 90s-electronic drip that reminds me of PS1 racing games. "One Love" brought me right back to the soundtrack for the movie Hackers. This was a nice blast from the past and decent enough background music while I work. "Voodoo People" and "One Love" stand out for me.
The sound track to every late 90s hacker movie...
Under the right circumstances, I could totally listen to this. Unfortunately, those circumstances would involve being in a k-hole surrounded by a lot of other people, and a time machine set for 1997. Nowadays? A couple of tracks on a playlist would be good. 78 minutes worth? Not so much.
Solid fucking rave music. Please listen with caution: this shit will blow your balls off!
Timo 12v olis vielä antanut heittämällä 5 tähteä, mutta Timo 39v ei. Edelleenkin varsin hyvälevy ja kuuntelee enemmän kuin mielellään, mutta kirkkain tähtiluokka jää kyllä saavuttamatta.
Ei petä.
What it feels like to take bad ecstacy.
This album is the perfect bridge between Experience and Fat of the Land. I first saw The Prodigy live around the time of Experience. That was full on rave, whistles, fluoro, lots of white. This album was much darker, more experimental and angry. Set against the background of the criminal justice bill (later act) and the crackdown on rave culture, this was clearly a political album in many ways. Being in my last years of secondary education, this album was perfectly timed to be the background of many hours of gaming. No Good, One Love, Poison, Their Law. All really strong tracks. Not as commercial as Fat of the Land but hugely influential.
Used to really like this but now it seems overly repetitive and too long.
Good dish washing music
7/10 what if the Chemical Brothers went to a rave
Not a collection of their greatest hits, but it's an interesting journey that ultimately made them the powerhouse they became. I think the few songs that are memorable also cemented the direction they took forward.
Nice Melodies, trying to be punk (but not)
What the fuck.
Il disco è storicamente importante per la scena dei rave, ma il genere non fa per me.
Non avevo ascoltato nulla dei Prodigy prima di quest'album, se non quei pochi pezzi più "da radio" e più famosi. Album interessante, anche se la ripetitività propria del genere industrial/techno fa spesso venir voglia di passare al brano successivo a metà traccia.
not my style
nice
Didn’t mind this. I can see what they were trying to do - mixing heavy rock riffs with techno to make techno for people who don’t like dance music. But the stadium techno thing works much better on Fat Of The Land, and with a singer. The sampling and production sounds dated here. NIce to remember how they started, but prefer where they ended up. Awful cover ‘art’, too. Poison is still a banger, though.
You can't fault the beats, but the album didn't really take me anywhere. You probably need to be buzzing off your tits to truly appreciate this, It was a half decent soundtrack whilst watching the football with the volume turned down. Fuck 'em and Their Law pricked up my interest slightly.
Aquí encara eren uns punkis raveros amb molt malla llet i moltes idees. Electrònica gairebé pura, però feta amb mala sang -en el millor sentit de la paraula- i uns tons polítics i contemporanis que la fan encara més interessant
Argh, I don't know if it's album fatigue or what, but I just wasn't having this today. Too many recent albums I just didn't enjoy listening to on busy stressful days. This one went on forever. Even back in the day, I didn't enjoy bouncing up and down in a crowded club to endlessly repeating phrases and loud beats.
I would not have guessed it from the cover, but this album suited me well! The driving beats like this are great accompaniment, especially when I am trying to keep myself motivated and on task with work or chores (of which I was doing a bit of both today). A keeper!
A fun endless dance party to accompany my boring workday. Very nice!
I have The Prodigy’s debut album and liked it back in the 90s, but it has been over 20 years since I have listened to them. I’m not sure how hard-edged rave is going to go over with me today. ……………………………….. Thankfully, quite well. Apocalyptic rave music is a perfect soundtrack to the world today. I really loved this album! Rave on!
Had heard this before and liked Fat of the Land 20 years ago, but this was not for me
This sounds like the worst Sonic the Hedgehog soundtrack ever made. If industrial soundscapes are your thing, you may enjoy it.
I finally get around to the third of the big beat three. The UK dance scene in the 90's was exploding with fantastic new sounds, but The Prodigy had perhaps the edgiest and rawest sounds. Pulling from techno, breakbeat, and acid subgenres of electronic music, this album fed into the rising popularity of drum and bass, which would build on breakbeat and take the UK by storm for their fast rhythms and infectious grooves. Music for the Jilted Generation would be at the forefront of it all. Songs like "Their Law" are almost reminiscent of hardcore punk, layering distorted guitar and aggressive vocals ("fuck em and their law") give The Prodigy's sound a distinct edge. I'll also add that they sound incredibly cool, moreso than their big beat contemporaries. What can I say, I'm a sucker for genuinely great albums that also prove themselves to be landmark releases in music history.
Fruity Loops album…
Okay, first of all, I loved hearing the sound of an old-fashioned typewriter -- the keyboard upon which I learned to type in high school typing class -- in the intro. Brief as it was, that sound alone brought me to places. Nice conscious or unconscious nod to Han-Solo-frozen-in-carbonite on the cover art. Now, the rest of the album. I don't listen to electronic music except in this project, and I'm grateful to this project for serving up so many stylistic variants in that genre throughout the rotation. I like some of the tracks here. A few get too frenetic for my tastes, but I get that this is meant to be fast-paced and highly stimulating. (Never been a dance club person, but maybe this is the kind of music they play there? Would seem to fit.)
Wow this is just a terrible album. Only two songs of twelve are under 5 minutes and 7 over 6 and a half minutes. All of them too long. My ears were hurting after the first three songs and it never stopped. I don't get how anybody can listen to Techno. I really cannot believe this band has a second album on this list either. Just a really bad album, I will never understand Dimery's affection for electronic based music, there is just way too much of it on the list for the to all be musts.
same prodigy boring
Bang bang bang boop bip boop bip bang bang bang. Yawn. Rating: 1/5 Playlist track: No Good (Start the Dance) Date listened: 02/09/22
A lot of these songs are progressive, DJ-friendly tracks with long intros and outros so they can transition slowly between songs, but "DJ-friendly" often means less palatable for casual listeners. If you're willing to go with the flow, there's a lot to like here (see "Break & Enter," which has some truly fantastic bits in the middle). For the less patient, tracks like "Voodoo People" and "No Good (Start the Dance)" get to the point more quickly. Other highlights include "Poison" (which reminded me that I really need to find a copy of the Pump Panel Reconstruction Remix of New Order's "Confusion," which many will recognize from the blood rave in "Blade"), "One Love," and "3 Kilos" (which sounds like the bastard child of "Low Rider" and an acid trip). It's not as good as "Fat of the Land," but it's still a solid offering by the Prodigy.
Annoying. I had high hopes because Fat of the Land is one of my favorite albums, but this was intolerable.
Never really paid much attention to The Prodigy. At times it was pretty good background music. Other times, not so much. More of a 3.5 really than a 3.
iconic
Great album. A little high energy for me, but loved it. Excellent work of punk electronica
Rating: 8/10 Best songs: Vodoo people, Poison, No good, 3 kilos
An energy bomb!
3.5: techno for background music
Not really my thing but liked it more than anticipated. Highlights are Voodoo People and Poison.
good for background music
Voodoo People is a great tune. As a whole, not my cup of tea but can appreciate it for what it is
3.75
Mechanical industrial and great. Sounds very early and experimental
not a fan of this album.
Sounded like I was in a warehouse basement rave with a bunch of people from Zoolander. And I loved it.
Like most dance/techno music, listening to it at a moderate volume, sober, and on my lunch break isn't the same experience as being in a club on certain substances. It's undeniably a very good rave album (which isn't a genre I would normally choose to play). But for me it lacks the musical hooks (and Keith Flint's vocals) that made 'Fat Of The Land' one of my favorite 90's albums. I wanted to enjoy it more than I actually did.
Interesting to play this so close to the moby album as the prodigy certainly made dance music popular and brought the undergroundelement to the mainstream. What can I say this album came at a time when I needed it. I remeber marching against the cjd bill in Bristol with their law blasting away. no good to my mind is still to this day one of the finest if not the finest dance tune ever made. its stayed in my head for ever. All the songs had something Mobys didn't and that was attitude
Relentless perfection, so many happy memories...
Banging retro electro.
Iconic artwork. Really enjoyed the popular tracks - Voodoo People, Poison, No Good, et al. Some of the tracks were quite long, which get a bit wary if you're sober. 3.5
Breakbeat with a side of industrial derangement. Arguably a little too long, but it starts and ends strong.
Uninteresting 90s dance/club music that hasn't aged well. 1.5/5
Voodoo People!!
Exciting and in your face, but suffers from too many similar or identical sounds.
This is not for me. Obviously there are people this is for, and I'm stoked for them that this exists for them. But it's not for me.
Not my type of music. Voodoo people is awesome though
Solid 3.5, but for nostalgia reasons it definitely rounds up to a 4.
Any album that can get tens of thousands of Pacific Northwestern Washingtonians to dance en masse with complete abandon, then there is something special happening. While other countries and many major US cities were already rave crazed, the greater Puget Sound was still clueless about EDM. I remember hearing these guys for the first time on the radio station KNDD (aka \"107.7 the End\"), which was the mainstream \"alternative\" radio station, squeezed in between the otherwise endless sets of grunge rock. I was hooked. And so was the region. Nearly overnight, clubs started appearing (all I could go to DV8 since I wasn't 21 yet) and more and more EDM shows started touring into town. Pretty soon, festivals and raves were popping up everywhere, house parties were blasting \"electronica\" and people could not stop dancing! It was a really good time, and this album takes me right back to it.
Not my normal sound, but well done, some great songs, wouldn't mind listening to their other work.
In the 90s this sounded like the future. I listened to the first 10 tracks, but didn't finish. Definitely Matrix rave vibes on the first half of the album. I was listening while working, which put me in a productive mood. However I wouldn't listen again.
I wore the wrong pants for this album.
I just watched something about these guys the other day about how they took heavy metal and made it where you could dance to it. I had the Fat of the Land album. I rocked that for a long time. This reminds me of the Church in Denver Colorado. Multi floor dance club made out of a 100 year old church. They had a techno floor and it was chaotic. https://coclubs.com/church It was a great time. That was then, now Techno is just annoying after the first 2 minutes.
Not bad but I would probably enjoy it more high
Big Beats are the best. Get high all the time.
So I usually look up what genre an album is before listening just to prep myself. RYM calls this "Big Beat" or "Breakbeat" and that just confused the heck out of me. Well, I didn't know what to expect, and I'm not disappointed. I'm pretty impressed by the sounds on here considering it's from '94, and many of the songs were lively and kinda pumped me up. Though it's a little too much for working, I could see this being great rave or late night drive music, but outside of that, when am I gonna listen? It's not my taste, but not a bad listen.
Good, but would be amazing if I was off my face
Ah yes, music for the Jilted Generation indeed.
I was in my only-metal phase when this first came out so I recoiled from it at the time, but grew to love it not too many years later. Some absolute bangers on here! Fave track - whilst I appreciate the bangers, this album won me over with the final three trancey/ambienty tracks "3 Kilos -> Skylined -> Claustrophobic Sting" 😍
Masterful but too much fat.
I listened to this album a lot in college. This took me back and I enjoyed it.
Not my jam.
Not bad. Felt like I was in a video game, but there were a few tracks that were bops.
Not my jam
Neon Tokyo and speed. Драки и что-то от Матрицы (?) Понравились the heat, no good, 3 kilos Мрачный, жутковатый
хз тут есть самая популярная песня prodigy voodoo people но я в целом не фанат группы и не могу оценить ее выше чем того же спрингстина в силу моих муз предпочтений
блин вот я вроде люблю электронщину, но с этим альбомом что-то не сложилось у меня... какие-то треки зашли (вообще вначале хорошо шло), например, poison и, конечно, voodoo people, но под конец альбом начинает бесить и тревожить( жестковато для меня, кароч
Pioneering electronic music, lots of nostalgia. Not the most exciting listen now, but amazing for it's time.
Decent
This went on forever and was somehow unsettling yet boring at the same time.
Eh... it didn't move me. Some interesting textures and beats produced, but I don't think I'll be coming back to this album a ton.
7/11/22
Great industrial drum and bass
Interesting, mostly one man band. Loopy, I could see myself capable of producing this. Should listen again and take some inspiration. Poison, Voodoo Trippy trance.
Such a fun album. I definitely need to be in the right mood, but it’s fun as hell.
Reminds me of video game soundtracks from the late 90s/ early 2000s which isn't necessarily a bad thing. I dont usually love heavy synth music without accompanying vocals or guitar, but I found myself nodding along and moving my legs to the music. Favorite Song: Voodoo People
This was way better than I expected, at least I couldn't find anything about this album to outwardly hate. I think most all British music should be instrumentals. Though there wasn't anything I could hate, there wasnt' a whole lot that I could love either... the exact definition of a three..
Which generation is the jilted one? The Prodigy are Gen Xers, and that was probably their main audience for this album, though by the follow-up they probably started to capture a lot of Millenials with “Firestarter” hitting big on MTV. That follow-up (“The Fat of the Land”) was my main exposure to The Prodigy, and thanks to that video I’ve always associated the group with Keith Flint, but it turns out he was a dancer for the group that they wound up using as a singer on a few tracks. However, Liam Howlett is much more responsible for The Prodigy’s music. And without Flint, “Music for the Jilted Generation” is a much better album. “No Good (Start the Dance)” was the only one that really bothered me, and the rest were all between tolerable and quality breakbeat. So was Gen X jilted? Growing up through Reaganomics and Thatcherism could do that, I guess. But then the Cold War ended and I thought there was some hope about the direction of the world in the 90s. In England, the anti-rave, civil liberty restricting Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 made for a pretty jilted countercultural scene and may have provoked The Prodigy. But beyond that, what was it that made both sides of the Atlantic so jilted in the mid-90s, unleashing grunge and then later rap rock, rage rock, nu metal, and emo? By the time you get to 2000, there seems to be so much discontent and rage in the culture. And then 9/11 happened and you would think it would have gotten worse. That Gen Z and Gen Alpha would be even more jilted. But instead there was a pop resurgence as culture got less enraged and more vapid. With all that’s happened in the last 25 years, we really ought to be more jilted.
Two and a half. It turns out I had a belief hiding in my subconscious that I never needed to listen to an entire prodigy album in my lifetime. It also turns out I was correct. But my headphones were dying and every two mins or so this robotic voice would cut in and say “battery low” and it fit right in with the oontz oontz music.
This is a very good techno album. I’m sure many people put this album on in the mid-1990s, popped E, and had a grand old time letting some random dude massage their scalp because it felt great. My biggest takeaway is that all I can think about during Break And Enter is the dude working the vacuum in this video: https://www.reddit.com/r/toptalent/comments/vq7zl6/dj_spin_that_shit/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf I’m not sure if this album will go in my library, like all other 4+’s, because techno isn’t really my jam, but the rating is deserving nonetheless.
I’m certain this is good for the right kind of person but I was not feeling grimy electronic music so I struggled with this
Oh yeah! Not heard a full prodigy album before. Got me going. Like most dance albums, trailed off a bit towards the end.
More like "Music for the Deaf". Yeesh it's just kind of this industrial or drum & beat electronica. 3/10.
Surprisingly a fun electronic/dance album. Lots of energy, but felt a bit darker than other electronic albums I've listened to. However, can still get very repetitive throughout. I personally feel like this would be a lot more enjoyable on a night out with a large group, rather than listening alone like I did. "Their Law" and "Poison" my favourite tracks.
I don't get the hype, but then I'm starting to think I don't really get electronic music
Not heard this album before, although I of course know some of the songs. A sign of greater things to come.
Peak Prodge, by far!
2.5 / 5. First listen. When I first started listening, I really wasn't impressed. But, as the day has gone on, I am starting to get into it.
6/14/2022 - ALBUM #138 Today's Album: "Music for the Jilted Generation" by The Prodigy - Wow what a really fucking unique sound this album has. Stemming from the electronic dance sounds we heard on The Chemical Brothers' and Daft Punk's Records, This album takes those electronic loops and eclectic samples and twists them into the really twisted picture of society. The title isn't wrong when it claims that this is music for a generation that's pissed off with the ways of the past, with songs like The Law and Break & Enter emphasizing this idea of disregarding societies norms. The big problem I have had with electronic dance music so far is that a lot of the loops can get pretty repetitive and lose their charm quickly, but key production choices set this album apart a bit. The sound of the album is pretty awesome, with invasive samples of industrial sounds and the way the sounds are staged give them this echo that makes it feel so cold and inorganic. Each song sort of feels like it could be the background music in some crazy gun fight or car chase in a blockbuster movie, but the picture I get clearest in my mind is an absolutely insane dance floor. This music is the perfect thing to get a crowd of people on their feet and hyped, with a ton of really great instrumental builds and they often introduce instrumental lines that sound really pleasing to the ear and contrast with the really dark industrial beats that are constantly building. The drum machine work and general sampling throughout the project is next level and I think if any album was going to help me make the jump from simple loops like Daft Punk's Homework into more drugged out and insane EDM, there is no better transition album than this one. The way things build just leaves me kind of speechless, as it quickly goes from a pretty standard beat to something that is so chaotic it is hard to follow anything. With that, though, the mix of this record is absolutely masterful, as all of these noises feel balanced so so well. No sounds really became obnoxious despite how invasive they are because they are placed perfectly in the back of the mix. The track Voodoo People is one that I have definitely heard before and it sums up a lot about what makes this album great. In one part alone, I hear a blaring synth lead, string accompaniment, a distorted flute, a sample of a pastor, and about 10 other auxiliary effects to build the dark atmosphere that makes this album amazing. Overall, this is a really great EDM album that has opened my eyes to the darker and more chaotic side of EDM, while still being really accessible and fun. Give this one a listen if you want some bomb ass music to dance to on a really energetic night or maybe just something to play while playing an intense fps game. Highlights: Break & Enter, Full Throttle, Voodoo People, No Good (Start the Dance), 3 Kilos Score: 7.5/10 The best EDM album so far
not the biggest fan, but wakes you up in the morning
Not hugely listenable.
It’s an album I’ve tried to love for a long time. It’s got some great memories in places, but for the most part it still just sounds like a hell of a racket to me. I want to like it more than I actually do
Ew, no. Can't say this was objectively bad but getting through it was a slog. It reminds me of the music used in the Sims that they danced to on radio stations. Just utterly strange. My fave track, "No Good" was ironically the only one that I thought was any good. That said, I didn't despise this album, it's just not a style of music I can really get into. And the sound hasn't aged particularly well--it lacks a sense of timelessness for me.
Usually I'd say 1hr 29m is a bit much for a studio album but this works. The high energy is engrossing. Would listen to this again
Not their best work
As always, I don't love electronic music because I can't sing along. This particular album doesn't have a lot of lyrics, but it's okay because I just keep yelling out "Firestarter!" and "Breathe with me!" anyway.
That was a fun trip down memory lane yet the album still sounds good despite it being so of the era. Liam Howlett’s mastery of production is uncanny here and most of the songs, especially on Side A, are total bangers. It starts to wane a little in energy after No Good, but theyre actually good tracks still - albeit not the classic pounding of the first half. Good stuff.
Dark, intense, gritty, throttling, deeply cool. The energy of these songs is pretty great. I could see listening to it to power through a project. That said, I get that this is meant to be clubby, but I as an old lady do not find breaking glass on a loop to be particularly entertaining. I also agree with the assessments that the album is simply too long. This is an interesting place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live here. Fave Songs: Voodoo People, Speedway, No Good (Start the Dance), Full Throttle, The Heat (The Energy)
I don't know, it feels like this music sounds a bit outdated. Like it meant to be cool, but it's not anymore.
As an album not actually all that great, first few tracks just electronica, however the stand outs of voodoo people and start the dance are just so good. Also helped dance music become the sound of the 90s so super influential.
Альбом, ставший вехой в развитии легендарного коллектива. Лучший ли он? Нет. Все же пика Prodigy достигнут позднее. Свеж ли он до сих пор? Да. Звучание до сих пор уникально. 6 из 10.
Not my music preference at all. This album was difficult to get through and it felt as if it was never-ending. Not a fan, sorry :(
These guys are full of piss and vinegar. In a good way for a couple of songs but not for a full album. At least not in the daylight. I'm being generous today.
Pure ecstasy!! That's what I'd need to ingest to enjoy this stuff – 100% pure ecstasy. There’re a few great dance floor thumpers, but not really enough to carry an album. “No Good” is an excellent track. Even though by 1994 that sample had been around the block a few times, no one did it with the energy or bpms of these guys. For me, they could have used 1 or 2 more songs like 3 Kilos, moving away from that relentless hardcore breakbeat sound, but then it would have been a different animal. I think their cohorts at that time, Fatboy Slim and Chemical Brothers were doing more interesting stuff, though Prodigy were more frantic.
That drum and bass and those vocal are annoying as hell.
I really enjoyed this album. It was strange in a good way. Every song just sounded like boss music to some retro video game.
I have this CD, but I honestly don't even like it that much. There are some parts that are enjoyable, however it is kind of exhausting to get through.
This wasn't as great as I remembered, it was much longer too. Poison and No Good are absolutely epic though.
needs more 70s PSA cat gibberish
A pretty gritty electronic album. I found some of the songs not that bad but overall it still get pretty boring like most electronic albums. 2.6/10
A banger
Meh
I'm so jilted, these sound like regular beats to me
If every song was only 45 seconds long that would be better.
So now that raves are done, shouldn’t we be one with such as this? The songs get to a place but no further, though these sound (very) slightly less dated that others in The P’s dreadful oeuvre. At best, this is a soundtrack for a movie I’m glad not to be watching or a video game I don’t want to play.
Quite enjoy The Prodigy. You do have to be in the right mood though. Found myself bouncing to most of this. Love me some 90s dance music!
I honestly thought this was going to be a rap album...turns out it's two hours of SNES video game music, which obviously appeals to me. 4/5
Quite enjoy The Prodigy. You do have to be in the right mood though. Found myself bouncing to most of this. Love me some 90s dance music!
Better than I thought it would be considering the album cover. Good for listening to while getting work done.
At its best, this is an album of kind of interesting videogame final-boss music. At its worst, this sounds like the music Jez makes in Peep Show. Just an idiot with a synth, pressing the buttons at whim. I did not love this.
I actually kinda liked it. I wouldn't go back and listen again, but it was kind of fun. I liked the song 'No Good'.
This IS the pulsating rhythmical remedy! It's an incredible album and totally blew my mind when it was released. Listening back to it, I am still fully rocking out to the best rave album that was released when the rave-scene was slowly on its way out. It returned to the feelings of anti-authoritarian punk and hiphop, but is a full rave album, with influences from both. The song that brought me to the album 28 years ago was No Good (Start The Dance) with its breakbeats and might for me still be the best dancehall song ever made. Where the album really comes out is in the song that has all the rockrave influence in it: Voodoo People. Other highlights are Break & Enter, Poison and Claustrophobic Sting Why no 5 stars? Even though all 13 songs differ wildly from each other, in this 78 minute opus, there are also a few lesser songs. They could've taken some of the 'fillers' out I'm afraid to make it perfect.
its a nice album but it has to grow on you, for me it starts out as a quite harsh drum and bass album but slowly you get into the flow and then it becomes really nice
This one is going to be in high rotation for workout music for me for a while. I love the energy. The music is full of surprises too. Every song is a marathon dance jam with twists and turns and layers of details in the mix. Amazing production. I love how they use sound effects in the music. There’s breaking glass in “Break & Enter,” a pitch-corrected voice that sounds like a dying cat in “Their Law,” and race cars and car alarms in “Speedway.” The album has an eclectic mix of dance/techno styles and a lot of different vocal samples that make it a great, varied front-to-back listen. Even some more upbeat stuff (that flute melody in “3 Kilos” is great!). I wasn’t familiar with this beforehand but it definitely feels like a classic of the genre.
Tell you what, I stuffed and stamped envelopes faster than I ever thought I could while this album was playing. Its caffeine for the ears, and I'm into it. If I were to go to a festival to dance and trip, this is totally what I would want to hear for at least an hour or two... and then I would probably have a headache and need to sit down in a quiet corner for a lil bit.
Pros: - Prodigy has such a cool sound. They are serious groundbreakers. - Yea, let's take glass smashing and make it a rhythmic element. Yea! - Oddly enough, it's great background music. - Drum n Bass is just a great discovery in music. Cons: Misc: - Their follow up album to this, "The Fat of the Land" is also very good, and contains probably their biggest hit, "Smack My Bitch Up".
Genre defining british techno rave music. Takes clear inspiration from industrial rock of the time. Voodoo People is pretty iconic, and I really liked the flute loop and what sounded like morse code blips on 3 Kilos. Some great music, but I felt a little silly listening to it at 9pm on a Thursday in my pajamas. This is really meant for you to be moving to. With my full focus on it, the record started to feel a little long and repetitive. 3.5.
Not really my bag, but prodigy brought electronic music to the suburbs.
What we're dealing with here is a total lack of respect for the law.
Not very good. Very techno, but it's not terrible to listen to.
I just don't get The Prodigy. Is it a dance thing? A drug thing? Is it all an elaborate joke? Surely those super cheesy "breaking glass" percussion effects aren't unironic? The even-cheesier "villainous laughter"? I wouldn't be surprised if barks and moos showed up. But then for a minute from time to time, it would all come together and I'd be like, now that's tight.
Sick techno album. One of my favorites. 7-8/10
Thanks to the samples, most of this album starts out positively evilly. The formula, a well-executed one I'm a bit saddened by, is to arc from there to a more straightforward party mood. That means most tracks feel padded at the back for dancing over album listening, but the spots where synths and drums are joined are second to none. This project continues to remind me that I enjoy techno.
probably bad but idk Not as bad as all that! in a certain mood its exactly what i want
"Music for the Jilted Generation" is a frenetic record released by the heavy hitters of the breakbeat techno. With a darker tone than their predecessor, it's a mix of 13 songs that elevate electronic music to a even more hardcore position. "No Good (Start the Dance)" is one of the ultimate classics of the 1990s raves.
Overlong, but still chock-full of bangers.
More 90's. Without the flashing lights and drugs it get's old fast. I semi remember dancing in the clubs to Voodoo People back in my youth. It's ok.
Unlistenable. Unless… you’re in an, um, enhanced state. And at a dance party. In 1994. Or a Skid on Letterkenny.
I liked hearing those songs from Hackers. It just got repetitive.
I've never heard this album befroe, but there's a bunch of songs on it I know. Because I've listened to the Hackers movie soundtrack a lot, and there's at least two songs on here that are on that soundtrack. I don't listen to a lot of dance/electronic music, but when I do, this is the style I gravitate to. You can have it on while working and since there aren't any lyrics, it's not distracting and can sometimes help get you into a flow state. But it's also not something I'm going to put on extreemly often. At times it's what I'm looking for, but not something that would work all of the time.
Accessible techno classic
I'd rather listen to Fat Of The Land... but really, I'd rather listen to Chemical Brothers.
Music For The Jilted Generation isn't my thing, I'm into more Eurotrance style house and dance than this, don't get me wrong, it has its moments and has great energy and No Good is an insane song, might get it into 3/5 territory because I respect it, just don't like it all.
Probably not an album best appreciated sat at my desk working, but quite enjoyed it. Felt that it took a while to get going - I wasn't a huge fan of Break and Enter, and Their Law wasn't much better, but it does pick up through that middle section. There is no need for this to be so long, more than an hour is very rarely necessary, particularly when it's relatively intense music like this. I expect there should be another Prodigy album on this list, which will be better than this? Just scrapes a 3/5.
Il y a quelques années, j'aurais écouté cette musique pour danser toute la nuit. Aujourd'hui, je l'ai écoutée en avant-midi pour me donner l'énergie nécessaire pour finaliser ma déclaration d'impôts. Quand j'ai voulu terminer l'écoute de l'album en soirée, j'ai trouvé ça un peu trop intense ; comme quoi apprécier la musique est toujours une question de contexte. Quoi qu'il en soit, malgré le côté répétitif (inhérent à ce genre de toute façon) et un creux vers le milieu de l'album, celui-ci demeure un excellent exemple de la révolution électronique qui agitera le monde de la musique à partir du milieu des années 90.
This music basically means nothing if it's not 1997 and you're not watching an action movie or at a club
What is this, Techno? Too quick paced to enjoy.
Interesting. I liked it.
Were they the first rave ‘band’ - full length albums, tours etc?
A frantic techno/break beat album. Feels like an acid trip in Madchester (which it likely was). Is very enjoyable when you want to electric out (not sure where my love for old school techno comes from: may be the only way I can excuse liking techno?) It is listed along albums by Chemical Brothers as one of the Breakbeat pioneers but it is definitely the more deranged, chemically indulgent brother if it is to be compared to them.
When I was young I listened a lot for The Prodigy. Damn, it felt good to remember this album. It is great! It's still a bit long for my taste, but whatever. The songs give you that extra energy needed for doing anything you want. Favorite tracks: * Voodoo People * Break & Enter * Full Throttle
Succumb. (The Narcotic Suite is nuts.) 4.0
Didn’t get to finish the album but this was pretty awesome. Definitely upped the energy on the morning commute.
I actually liked this way more than I thought I would. It dragged in the middle for me a bit but started out hot and finished strong.
meh
Not their most interesting
Not my type of music.
Got a lot of things done listening to this album
Eigentlich ziemlich billig. Rave/Techno Beats, catchige Samples (Gitarrenriffs, melodische Singsang) und Laut/Leise Momente. Aber es geht halt einfach gut nach vorne.
p750. 1994. 1 star So-so drum and bass with synths and samples. Probably brilliant for clubs at the time but not my thing at all. Just goes on and on and on...
Electronica. Definitely interesting. Instrumentals were unique. I am undecided about it.
1001 Albums Generator Day 17 I had so many associations with this record even before I put it on. I think of the rave scene from which The Prodigy emerged, and the radical free festival culture with which it cross-pollinated. Those who thought they could see a way to a more communal, compassionate way of life, and working class kids who spotted an opportunity to make something of themselves. The Criminal Justice Act versus the emission of a succession of repetitive beats. Lots of muddled thinking that would later curdle into paranoia. That self-proclaimed "Thatcher on drugs," Paul Staines, whose corrupt, ego-libertarian ethos has ultimately done more to shape the country we've become than either the kids he sold tickets to or Major. Mostly, though, I think of Keith. After years of going to DIY gigs and workshops, reading and making zines, and putting on exhibitions in disused Edwardian toilets, I have never experienced a single moment more punk rock than the first time I saw the Firestarter video on Top of the Pops. It's in the amazement that an adult could look like that, sound like that, be so wild, and not just be allowed to do it or get away with it, but to take people with him. To be so lovable. It's something I also found in the nonsense poetry of Spike Milligan and would later find in Syd Barrett and Pixies and Anton Henning: the sheer glee of people throwing things together that aren't supposed to be. It's also there in the culture-jamming collage of Oasis' Shakermaker, though I suspect I'll have an opportunity to persuade you of that one at a later date. I love the rough edges that capture the moment and energy of throwing paint around in the sweet spot between purpose and spontaneity. In Liam's choice of samples for Charly I can hear the playful resistance of people dancing in spite of the warning signs. I didn't realise in 1996 that the rage in Firestarter erupted from a movement arrested. Liam has since denied any political intent to Music for the Jilted Generation. I can see why he wouldn't want to limit the resonance of his work to one particular moment. However, the artwork, titles and vocal samples say otherwise. Also, with the caveat that this isn't my area at all and I'm probably missing something, I feel the politics of the moment have far more contemporary relevance - from modern protest movements to digital piracy and crypto scammers - than techno. These days, the first thing that comes to mind when I think of the Prodigy is the friend who showed me a documentary about the band and pointed out that Keith Flint had the same speaking voice as her grandma. Similarly, this album belongs to a different generation and I can't always understand where it's coming from, but I'm sure it has a lot of good stories beneath the surface.
I need a drink. Do you need a drink? These lights are hurting my eyes and I can't stop my shoulders from moving in a funny gyrating manner. Do lasers burn a hole through your retinas? Where is this smoke coming from? There's a time and place for some types of music. I can never imagine that I would listen to this anywhere other than the alluded to place above.
It does get it's groove and pacing... and towards the end of the album, it finds an energetic vibe that pleasantly isn't so much IN YOUR FACE. A little too much of the album is hyper and seems poised for a siren alarm sound as part of its music. Still pretty interesting and enjoyable listen.
More EDM. So boring. Why would anybody buy a whole album.
Couple of old school classics but it’s a bit heavy as a full length LP
I'm here and I'm listening and I'm enjoying bits of it but a lot of the time I'm wishing I was listening to The Fat of the Land instead. I know Keith Flint (RIP legend) didn't really start doing vocals until the next album and I think this album really misses that. Maybe I'm biased because I'm used to hearing The Prodigy with him and also because I was listening to this during a shit day at work, lol The guitar in Their Law is NOICE OOH 3 Kilos is a sweet little change up!!
Didn't like, though tbf I don't think this was meant to be listened to in the lab at 11am.
Too cool for me I was just mildly stressed doing a puzzle listening to this
This has some bangers on it and is clearly a very important album, but 80 minutes of breakbeat is just a bit too much for me
I'd probably love this if I were 19 rolling on molly at some underground rave, lol
Legendariskt album, inte fullt lika fett som uppföljaren men något otroligt tonsättande för hela genren!
Asså det är ju fett som fan. Inte lika fett som Fat of the Land men svårt att va
Det är... storbeat men ganska utdaterat.
belter! too long though - if he'd reigned it in a wee bit it'd be a 5
Dancefloor punk, audacious and bombastic in all the right ways.
annoying af
Les prodiges de la connerie font leur retour dans le générateur, cette fois-ci sans crabe (il intégrera la bande plus tard avant d'être bouilli et mangé par Buck Owens et Merde Haggarl). Concernant l'album, il s'agit d'une suite de morceaux ma foi sympathiques mais devenant rapidement un supplice. Les vingt dernières minutes d'écoute furent les plus longues de ma vie.
J'ai beaucoup aimé ce festival de bruit. The Prodigy ne cesse de nous surprendre en se montrant un peu plus bruyant à chaque apparition. Le pic de l'album est sans conteste le moment où le bruit proposé par The Prodigy nous force tout simplement à éloigner le casque de nos oreilles. C'est à ce moment là qu'on réalise à qui l'on a réellement affaire, un groupe devenu maître dans l'art de la nuisance sonore.
3.5
No idea behind this. Simply unnecessary.
This wasn't super rough to listen to but it's hard to understand how an album full of just beats could be considered a must hear
few songs on here that i liked, but majority of it i didnt. felt very early 2000s tweaker club music
Not for me. Annoying, repetitive and boring.
its a lot of synth loops but not very fun
What a freaky state of affairs - *whispers* my mind is glowing. Who needs K when you've got this album. Unbelievable how many genres they can subtly explore under the guise of industrial tech.
Okay that is a bit too much for me. In a club when I was in my 20’s it wasn’t even my style, but I could have enjoyed it for a night. Beats and random noises, the occasional guitars, voices, and more beats.
WIth no rave drugs on hand, this sounds like music for a bad video game. Or a dodgy party you realize, upon arrival, you should have skipped. Has not aged well so far and unlikely to improve -- sounds like random noise now that audio and synth tech has moved on and the referents are too long in the past. Don't get the critical hype but follow what Christgau said -- "cheap music" -- though maybe a tattoo you wish you'd never gotten is better analogy. We all have a right to be ashamed of our youthful indiscretions; one hopes fans of this act are appropriately so.
2, barely, this is what people in the 90's thought future music would be
Electronic, bad
Solid instrumental rockish EDM
tiktok sound
Definitely different
5 star. Love every track.
Dark and industrial is cool, but I can't sit and listen to it for long
I didn’t hate it but i also didn’t love at all. It wasn’t bad it just wasn’t interesting. It’s music that you would put on to focus on something fast? I wouldn’t listen to it again unless I like had a purpose to. 2.5/5…
Years ago while living with my best friend in a sketchy apartment we would play hours (HOURS) of an old racing game, Playstation Nascar I think. Often til dawn. Important stuff. His brother visited one weekend and joined our league/circuit/whatever and put on a Prodigy album while we played. I'd never listened to electronic music before but for whatever reason it was the absolutely perfect soundtrack to making virtual 200mph left turns for 3 hours straight before you inevitably crashed on the final lap. I guess what I'm saying is that I really want to play that game again right now. Judging this on what it is (as opposed to comparing it to what I guess I'd call a "normal" album?) it is kind of compelling. Hypnotic. Good to work to, especially if I want to stay awake. Sum: it's not something I can see putting on when I want to listen to *songs* because they're not really songs - more of an aggressive soundscape, but it works really well as a caffeine-substitute. Or additive. 7/10 3 stars
Not really my style but I can appreciate the rave vibes.
no me parece!
Pretty repetitive and dated.
I'm not really sure why this particular Prodigy album is on the list. They've had more popular albums (with vocals). This one is generic 90's rave music.
What a cool look into what early EDM was like!
Genre: Big Beat 4/5 Ah, the 90s. The Big Beat/Techno boom was coming, and Music for the Jilted Generation is certainly a high mark for the genre. Some prescient moments on this thing, crafting sounds that would titillate the ears for years to come. You can hear Thomas Bangalter, Fatboy Slim, and even later acts such as SebastiAn and Justice. Overall, the music on this thing is generally high energy, fun to listen to, and a hard kick in the ass. A must listen for any techno-head’s out there.
Ah yes, raving in the ‘90s. I might have liked this then, but it’s not for me right now. Anyway, I always preferred Underworld (dubnobass).
2.5/5 Not my genre Great song: Voodoo People
Absolutely brilliant album and dare I say it, better than The Fat of the Land
wild
Hard classic techno beats that would be at home in a warehouse rave. I can smell this album and it wreaks of sweat and clove cigarettes
Dansen van begin tot eind
Unrelenting and hypnotic. Not my genre but undeniably crafted
Oh god, my face just MELTED. Only really got into them with Fat of the Land, but obviously this is a belter if you want to gurn yourself silly into the small hours
trashy techno
It's not a bad album by any stretch, but I enjoy Prodigy with vocals a lot more.
Didn't care for it
I'm already a fan of the Prodigy so I liked a lot of the songs on this album. The only downside is that some of the songs are really long and repetitive.
Really good background working music, almost trance-y.
this used to be my preffered album to listen to when i came home too wired to go straight to bed. i am now old and that no longer happens.
I was a former child prodigy. Unfortunately, after getting mercilessly fucked by my scout master when I was 9, I lost any kind of interest in anything. Cruel world.
RIP Keef. If this was a footballer it'd be Razor Ruddock. (Not for his football ability).
8/10. Kinda hype tho ngl
ARE YOU READY FOR THE MATRIX? The album goes on a bit long, but if you are in the mood for 90s industrial/goth/techno nostalgia, it absolutely slaps.
Not a fan of prodigy
Amazing album. I was aware of and enjoyed The Prodigy beforehand; I can't believe I let this album by.
great rave music, or in my case great for keeping me motivated whilst working.
Great album. Never listened to it before but thoroughly enjoyed it.
didn't finish - quite repetitive.
Not my style, but I can see why it was so influential.
Another that I have heard before but not since I was at college many years ago! Really enjoyed this. Kept me going through a shitty work day
I liked it better than most of Prodigies other stuff, because it was less noisy and had a cool 90s techno vibe. But overall it‘s not my kind of music.
Some good some bad
Curious and interesting, not actually my cup of tea, but the kind of album I like to hear when i´m doing something.
weird but fun
Electrónica. A pesar de ser machacón, como toda esta música, tiene ritmos y melodías interesantes.
Pretty damn good! I didn't expect to like this so much. I'm not a huge fan of Techno usually, but this one hit differently! Defs gonna buy this album
Trop c’est comme pas assez. J’ai l’imoression d’etre dans un rave. Pour etrre franc ca secoute buen mais cest repetitif. En fait mes commentaires sont la definiton du techno quie st la base d el’album. Jai tout ecouter en travaillant et je n’ai vraiment pas detester. 4*
All a bit samey to be honest. Some good bits in places but as a whole album I didn't enjoy it.
Wasn't expecting to like it and I was right. Most of it is not unpleasant, but it's just sound. It doesn't even really sound like music to me.
If this album were a pastrie I would say it wasn't worth the calories. Some of the songs are kinda cool, but then they just go on and on without much variation, and the album overall was the same way. Not for me.
Had only heard singles off of "The Fat of The Land" before. Though I think I prefer this more electronic non-band format, the album wore thin pretty quick with me. I think I'd need a chemical enhancement or two to actually get excited about it.
This is basically what I thought all electronic music was until college. It s not bad per say, but it’s only useful for a club setting. If you told me this was a 90s video game soundtrack I would believe you 100%. This style feels so dated and did not age well to me. 2.5 down to 2.
Blips, blops, snares, fireworks, drums, voices from beyond the veil, reverberations, passing UFOs, foghorns from ships 20 miless out at sea, drums, breaking glass, a carnival two streets over, looped organ music from a 40s horror flick, drums, drums, drums.
Fanade…
Propa chunes
Boring, listening made me feel completely empty. Lacking anything interesting, and why in the world is this so long? The ideas it has are enough for 20 mimutes.
Felt stale a third of the way through.
nice ideas, but quite long and repetitive songs
I was excited for this album because I really liked The Prodigy's first album. However, this album sounds much more generic in the present day, and lacks the cool hooks that populated the first album. It's not bad, but it doesn't really stand out from a lot of the techno mixes that are a dime a dozen on YouTube 3/5
I’m not of the jilted generation so this is not for me.
Didn’t make it to the end
Electronic Punk is a good description, lots of energy, if a little noisy!
This is what the goths in Letterkenny listen to, but not what I listen to
Straight up did not enjoy listening to this NEVER ENDING album. You know in really cheesy 90s movies that tried to be really cool where there was inevitably a scene in some sort of REALLY COOL 90s club where people were like dancing in cages and had very spiky hair and there's just incredibly obnoxious NOISE blaring through the speakers? Turns out, in literally every one of those scenes in every one of those movies they are listening to this album by The Prodigy. Only thing saving this from 1 star was 3 Kilos, which was enjoyable (surprise! It had a melody and wasn't 350 bpm!)
Второй альбом The Prodigy демонстрирует плавный переход от чистого рейва Experience к электропанку легендарного The Fat of the Land. При загрузке материала под завязку на 1 час 18 минут, альбом слушается на одном дыхании. Ураганный рейв сменяется цепляющими хитами и уносит в космос на последних треках.
The Prodigy are like rock music with the sex taken out. No-one ever screwed to the Prodigy - it’s too frantic and has no juice, just energeeeeeee! Now, Fluke have sex, but not the Prodigy. Great with amphetamine, though.
Nää va? Det här är alldeles för techno för min smak. Väldigt högt tempo utan att något intressant händer i låtarna, det gör mig bara stressad och får mig att känna mig instängd. Det är också väldigt repetetivt vilket också är min generella åsikt om techno, det blir ofta bara samma sak på rundgång i öronen och då lyssnar jag utan undantag hellre på något annat.
Not for me clive
I'm sure that in the right setting, that this album would work: just not sure what that setting would be. This was like if Enigma and Mannheim Steamroller were dropped into a garbage disposal.