The Fat Of The Land

Good work album

Some awesome dance music, throughout. Not what is put in my music collection but if I were at a club I would want it playing.

My first electronic record from the generator. “Big Beat” acts like Prodigy, Fatboy Slim, and to a lesser extent, Chemical Bros, were the unsubtle maximalists of the 90s. Hugely exciting to my teenage ears but much less so when listening to them now. With that said, I still remember the thrill of seeing Poison and Firestarter on Top of the Pops!

Definitely of its era and definitely some hard rage music. I had a pretty good time with this, but was pretty worn out on it by the end.

I enjoyed the album in the main 3*

The Fat of The Land, tercer larga duración de The Prodigy, nos ofrece la intensidad de la música electrónica al ritmo del hip-hop característicos de los primeros años de la banda. Incluye los dos sencillos que habían alzanzado el número uno en GB y que son de lo mejor del disco: "Firestarter", sobre la idea de que el caos y el desorden también puede inspirar la creación, y la enérgica "Breathe", sobre como enfrentar el estrés y la ansieda que genera la vida. Además de estos dos temas, destacaría el poderoso sin sentido arranque del álbum "Smack My Bitch Up", las influencias funkys de "Diesel Power" y la mezcla neopsicodélica de "Narayan".

3 stars, no music for the jilted generation. far superior album.

3.75 Good electronic album actually really fun, way better than the last one

Situationally good. Not for everyday use.

Granted this is a great album. Just not one I would choose on my playlist. It is compelling. Hard to turn off.

I want to go to a rave for this album so much, it’s very 99’s, coherent, techno that I love. 3.3

What a great album cover. This crab is dancing and the blur makes it seem like it's dancing hella fast. What a good time this crab is having. As for the music itself it's passable.

i bet people who love this album think the matrix is the best movie of all time. it was overall ok, pretty good at points and absolutely horrible at others. there are glimpses of things that i like, but the songs are all at least 2 minutes too long. the beats are also a bit clean for my taste, i wish it was more abrasive overall.

Not the biggest fan of this type of music but I sort of dig it Top tracks: Smack My Bitch Up

Things I am: a fire starter, a twisted fire starter I think I used to play this way too much back when it came out, about to time travel back to a simpler time! From my memory I got sick of the singles real quick and really dug into the rest of the tracks.

Catchy beats but really not my type of music.

I really enjoyed!! I remembered some of these songs as soon as I heard them, lots of fun!! Felt like I was in a 90s video game or a rave!!

It was alright. Would have enjoyed it more if there were less instrumental tracks 3 ⭐️

Old enough to remember the hype when this came out. I was around 19ish and was definitely NOT into electronic music at that point of my life. I did enjoy Firestarter and the video on MTV etc, but never had actually listened to this album until now which is surprising since in my later years I have become a fan of electronic music especially groups like The Chemical Brothers who were clearly influenced by The Prodigy. Still, not a huge fan of this album. Has some good tracks like "Breathe" but a lot of it doesn't do much for me. Some of the tracks seem to do a bit better with diversity of samples and layering where some like "Serial Thrilla" are quite frankly repetitive and kinda boring. Overall, as someone who appreciates electronic music I can definitely underststand critics and fans putting this album in legendary status but for me personally it's not something I will want to listen to again front-to-back.

Nogen af mine største minder omkring det her album. Selvom jeg først fandt det 10 år efter udgivelsen så har den fyldt mine ungdoms år med oprør, og glæde. Jeg havde 4 sange på albummet som jeg ikke kunne huske overhovedet. Ellers et sjovt gensyn. Musikken falder dog ikke i min smag idag. 😜

Jees taas osastoa ”löytyy minun ipodilta” joten tuttuusetu on. A-puoli on hyvä, onneksi b-puolella on Firestarter nostattamassa alussa alkaneet bileet takaisin. Eli levy toimii kuin dj-settinä bileissä silloin kun tarttee tanssia. Ja se on hyvä.

Hyvä, että he alentuivat vokaaliraitoihin. Levy kannattaa kuunnella, vaikkei tyylilajin kiistämätön tehokkuus riittäisikään loputtomaan mielenkiintoon sitä kohtaan. Matala 3

Good album, would listen again.

Classic / but not really my bag = 5/10

3+. I didn’t expect to like this—-I think I just dismissed it as being for people I didn’t hang out with when it first came out, but it was actually fun to listen to. In a middle aged person at the gym kind of way, but still, I am a middle aged person and I need something to distract me from the elliptical.

Aggressive dance/synth music, at least the majority of the songs. I don’t have many opportunities to utilize it as a soundtrack. if I needed to let out my aggression, this would do. There are few lyrics, and even fewer I can understand detract from my enjoyment of the beat.

sounds really cheesy lol 5/10

This is a blast from the past for me. It was my first real introduction to party music. It's not something I just put on while sitting at home though.

Awesome! I know a lot of the songs somehow. “Breathe” is from something but a google search isn’t coming up with what. I considered making this a 4, but other than the songs I know, I wasn’t that into it. A surprisingly good album.

Major ‘you wouldn’t steal a car’ anti-piracy ad vibes. At first I was upset because I wasn’t a huge fan of our first drum and bass album. But I quickly realized that I’m actually familiar with these songs and after a google found out a decent amount were included in the soundtracks in what seems like every 2000s and 2010s action movie. Still, its mood music, and a rainy day off from work definitely isn’t the same as being in the club. The familiarity gives it a little extra oomph for me.

Some classic dance toons nearly as old as me

The sort of thing hackers in the 2000's would listen to in the movies. Standouts include Breathe, and Firestarter.

it's decent

The hits work, the rest feels like filler

Punk techno

Was wondering why it reminded me of the Matrix

A good album, I listened to it while reading. Very nice.

I'd relate this more to hardstyle than necessarily metal, but definitely an important blend of upbeat electronic music and more intense music. Strongly reminiscent of the late 90's, good to learn it's the first. Excellent cover art

Here we have The Fat of the Land by The Prodigy. There is a reason for this album to be on the list. It's decently popular. Apparently it's sold over 10 million copies, which is nothing to scoff at. Also, I've heard of this band and one of the songs on this album. Granted, I only know of it because of Epic Rap Battles of History, but that's still me having heard of the artist. Anyways, is this album good enough to balance its popularity? Yeah. I'd say it is. It's not my favorite album. Hell, it's not even my favorite album of 1997. But, it isn't my least favorite of 1997 either, and that's good. This album's pretty fun. The sound is bombastic and I enjoyed each of the songs. The writing isn't particularly meaningful, but does it really have to be? In an album like this? No. No it doesn't, and that's okay. This album succeeds at its goal. Are there problems? Yes. The album is too long, in my opinion. That's basically the one problem that I can describe without having to go into extreme detail about why this album just isn't really my thing personally. So yeah, this is a good album, but not one that personally appeals to me all that much. 3/5.

It got better towards the end, but it was a bit too funky for my tastes

Classic 90s. 3.5/5

"Smack My Bitch Up" and "Firestarter" are some of my favorite electronic songs ever, but the rest of the album does not live up to that hype.

Decent listen

I liked it because of the crab

Loved it

The lyrics on the opening track are inexcusable. Musically, there's a lot to enjoy on this album; I particularly enjoyed the hip hop influence on Diesel Power. Cut the first track and I'd bump this score a whole star.

I’m very nostalgic for this album but it’s a bit more repetitive and boring than I remember.

Kind of riding that fatboy slim train

7 year old me would have loved it, but 15 year old me liked it. Tracks were too long and.got boring fast. Definitely one for the club though. I would go CRAZY if Firestarter came on at a rave, but at home whilst I'm doing the washing, it's just alright.

Pretty good overall, but some parts haven’t aged well. Firestarter was one of those songs that seemed to be everywhere at its height of popularity. Firestarter is still an exciting song.

It’s possible this electronica music is beginning to wear me down but I didn’t hate this. Some of it I downright liked. How about that?

Well, this uses too much amen break samples for me sooo

I’m a fire starter, twisted fire starter.

Decent 90s house music with some interesting loops and vocal samples. Sort of fall into the trap that most house music does, it’s hard to listen to casually. Regardless, better than the other electronic and techno records On this list so far.

3/5 tænker jeg - har ikke stærke tanker om det hihi

Was alright background music, nothing special/wouldn't think to put it on again

Favourite song-breathe.

It hurts to give this album a 3 because I loved it so much back in the day. But it has the same problem other 90s electronic albums have- it was clearly made for a live experience so the music is repetitive and overlong. It was probably fine when you're vibing to it on ecstasy in a club, but listening to it while driving and sober? It can get old quick.

This reminds me of a soundtrack for a movie like Blade; get repetitive with a driving beat. Listening to it on it's own is... Fine. Just a little boring. I'm sure these were bangers in the club, though. I can absolutely see some drunk AF guy finger blasting his high AF rando in the dance floor of Jive while Breathe plays in the background. Lesser known tracks>>>>Famous ones (minefields>breathe)

Some absolute bangers, albeit problematic. There are some hits, and with good reason. I probably won't revisit the deep cuts very often.

Some great 90s electronic hits

Ihan jees, mutta ei kyl lemppari big beatiä. 3/5

Toisaalta isoja tanssihittejä, toisaalta aika tyhmiä biisejä kun koko levyn kuuntelee (minkä artistit toki itse ovat myöntäneet haastatteluissa). vähän samaan lapsellisen tuntuisten ysärilevyjen laariin menee kuin eminemit ym. menköön nyt kolmosella kumminkin, mut vois olla kakskin.

Pretty solid! The tracks are catchy.

Didn’t really think much of it

I just don't really get the appeal of The Prodigy. We get it pals, you've taken loads of drugs and you've gone mad. It's fairly generic music in the main, and is only really elevated when they lean way more into dance than drum and bass. Then you get something fairly interesting. Whichever one of them sings has a stinker of a voice too. Having said all that, Breathe is a nostalgic song to listen to and impossible not to enjoy on a fairly primal level.

My mom’s least favorite 90s band on alt radio. Has some good beats, but they all sound pretty similar

ah..trying to pry the nostalgia goggles from my eyes..tbh i think the singles off this album (and the amount of airtime the videos got on rage) helped get snobby punk baby me a bit more open to dance music. anyway. listening to whole thing now..it is so 90s, bless. does get repetitive tho, when ur not chewin on bikkies. its a couple bangers and a lot of "ok? ig i dont mind this?" (except narayan which is too fuckin long im sorry & i actively dislike fuel my fire) favs (predictable af): smack my bitch up breathe firestarter

Not my type of music but not terrible

Good enough to start your car in the morning, but not enough to drive you to work everyday. The opener, Firestarter, and a few others are cheap thrills, but there’s not enough staying power. It’s adrenaline fueled house music, with little need or want for a muffle. And sometimes constraint goes a long way to preventing an album from just being a fib.

Intense, energetic and interesting. But for me this belongs in a club, and not on a Monday morning at the office.

Cool but repetitive. Not really my style.

This is where The Prodigy started to normalise and their output become diluted by the main stream. I liked everything they did up to this album. They were more original, more weird, more edgy and more dangerous then.

I listened to Breathe on repeat in middle school. The rest of the album was okay.

Just not really my kind of thing. Probably not bad if you’re off your noggin in the mixer though. Simpsons: No

This had all the songs I knew from the Prodigy, which is why I thought that it was alright, but they all sound the same and get repetitive.

I’ve listened to Jess music from Peep Show. I’ve listened to this. I can’t tell the difference. I did like it though, I did a park run in the rain to it and it got me through most of it. I know it was groundbreaking but it’s not for me.

A deranged, highly energetic and addictive rave/electro album from the late 1990s. The production of the album is top class. In small doses this record is entertaining, but as an almost 1-hour long album I've found it quite exhausting. Musically it is also quite repetitive.

Craaaaaab Album. Craaaaaab Album. Love the Prodigy for what the album represents for 90s electronic. Not an album I actively seek out but came across in several people’s Case Logic’s throughout the years.

I like this album- I owned it, in fact. I think somehow it perfectly encapsulates a lot of the atmosphere around being 21 and living in northern Florida in 1997. But more importantly, I feel vindicated about being confused for YEARS that this band’s name is actually “The Prodigy” (not just “Prodigy”), because quite obviously there is no “the” before their name on this cover, and that’s exactly what I remembered. So there!

at first i made the mistake of listening to this on the phone. This record really needs to be listened to in stereo at least, if not surround sound. At the same time though it does follow the 'car radio' rule of being recognizable played on a tin can. Just look at a song like Breathe. The first few chords of...its not really a bass line or a melody line. I would call it a blue man tube noise. Everything in that song is played in service to that one phrase so the song can basically be boiled down to one measure easily recognized even through humming. Maybe its just a Chicago thing, but I feel like after the disco demolition of 1979 the radio stations didn't really have an appetite for dance music for a long long time. Sure we played music we danced too and we did play Groove is in the Heart, but mostly that stuff is more pop than dance. the Prodigy was specifically dance music and they were a huge success for a few years in a row. Many people think dance is what Prodigy is all about, but those people are all wrong. The Prodigy is about one thing only and always: DIESEL POWER! ...after the record ended autoplay went to Songs for the Deaf and it was a perfectly seamless transition.

I was in high school when this came out and I remember very clearly "Breathe," "Firestarter," and to a lesser extent "Smack My Bitch Up" having regular radio and MTV airplay. I also remember generally enjoying the songs and style, but not really having any desire to seek out the album or other Prodigy material. Having listened to "Fat of the Land" in its entirety it turns out that was a prescient decision. The three singles still stand out and "Diesel Power" (feat. Kool Keith) is a sort of hidden gem, but this is otherwise filler. It's well done to be sure, and it all paints a vibrant scene in my mind of seedy, underground clubs and such, but much better suited to a background concentration soundtrack or VGM. I also never realized just how little anyone else really contributed to the songs beyond Liam Howlett, though without Keith Flint's grimy Cockney accent they tend to fall flat. I would listen to this again, but I wouldn't be paying very close attention.

I don't find myself reaching for this sound very often, but after listening to it again, I suppose this is what I'd reach for. "Narayan" => "Firestarter" is pretty great.

Electronic is not a genre I’m familiar with. I thought parts of this album were okay, but overall I thought it was fine. I appreciate it more knowing the context behind it.

Very samey, and very 90's matrix. Got a bit bored half way through, Though the classics on this are still absolute bangers tbf

its okay, starts off strong, plus i have listented to a couple of songs previously YNN

it was ok, a little too long and repetitive but had some cool songs

Every song sounds the same. Of course I listened to it twice.

It's a solid album, just not for me. I find that some songs outstay their welcome and/or get a bit too repetitive for my liking, but I really appreciate the ambition and uniqueness to it all. A few songs I feel would fit in a soundtrack like Jet Set Radio perfectly! So while I'm not a fan, it's something I respect. It's not afraid with what it's doing, it's confident and competent with the beats and techno direction!

I have conflicting feelings listening to this. I think it’s very dynamic and powerful but no self-respecting person wants to listen to the words Smack my bitch up over and over. I know they were being controversial and the video was trying to challenge preconceptions but I can’t condone it even though the tune is great. And the rest of the album has the same feel. Great aggro jumping about music. Breathe and Firestarter are bangers and Prodigy’s only no. 1s - credit goes to larger than life Keith Flint. RIP Keith!

I'm almost at a 4-star on this one. As has been said of this genre, it's difficult for me to sink my teeth into it due to the repetitive nature of the compositions and the electronic-ness of the whole affair, but this was entertaining, and the various vocalists add a welcome element to the proceedings. Even the drum machine isn't an offense to this drummer, though the loops did start to beat my brain into a dull thud before the album finished. But this is a 3.5 for sure... do I go up or down from there... ?

Despite some absolutely seismic songs - namely Firestarter and Breathe - this one has never chimed with me as much as the Prodigy’s earlier albums. The more aggressive sound is just not as appealing to me as the giddy fun of the first two records.

Good but becomes background music

I'm not sure if I know any other songs from The Prodigy besides "Smack My Bitch Up"—at least not off this album. The opener is iconic, in large part because of all the controversy surrounding the lyrics and music video. I won't comment on that, but the song is decent (though long). "Breathe" is a cool song. That synth line is very EBM/dark wave, and the vocals and guitars are like a mix of punk (Sex Pistols) and Britpop (Blur). Then add the trip hop, and it's a great dance mix. "Funky Shit" sounds like an inferior version of the Mortal Kombat song, sorry. I could have also done without the weird vacuum and siren sounds at the end. "Fuel My Fire" is probably my favorite track on the album. It actually sounds like a real song and not just a collection of loops and sounds. A lot of the songs seem to follow a formula of one part trip hop, one part Brit pop, one part industrial. Sometimes the result is cool, and other times it starts to get repetitive. The "Oriental" synth line of "Minefields" stands out, as do the bagpipes in "Climbatize," but then both songs devolve into more of the same. Most of the lyrics are simple and repetitive in the same way—just something to fill the space rather than trying to say anything. My biggest complaint with this album is that the songs are too long. In the context of a rave that's fine, but it's not something I'd just listen to at home. There's not enough variation in the music to keep me interested that long. The album is fine. Very repetitive and forgettable.

7/10 - 3/5 I liked how this album sounds, but the songs are longer than they need to be. It felt repetitive. I'd assume that's mostly because of the genre, which I'm not super familiar with.

I remember when this came out, loved it then, it's ... okay now.

- This album art is literally the crab rave, 5 stars - Disappointed the music is not the crab rave music - Honestly kinda hype, feels like the soundtrack to a chaotic night out

I wasn't much a fan of this album when it was released--generally not a great fan of the Big Beat sound (Chemical Brothers et al). A little goes a long way. On the other hand, Prodigy isn't going to take a left turn halfway through the album and throw a slow song in. If you need a good workout album, this would probably suit your needs.

I don’t think this cute little crab would like what it’s representing :(

Es buena fusión de electrónica y rock, pero se me hace un poco repetitivo. Lo admiro igualmente! 3

Don't know when I'd ever listen to this again when not on allot of drugs at a rave or something. Breathe and Firestarter are jams I guess

enjoyed this quite a bit, with the exception of the first song. good trance dance with a bit of the 80's spin me right round in there

Notable tracks: Breathe, Smack My Bitch Up, Firestarter

It was pretty alright.

There was probably 3 tracks that I enjoyed off of this album, but I could see how influential it was to the world of dance/ breakbeat music.

Not my genre, will relisten while working out

That was a trip to revisit this album 26 years later. The singles still kick ass, but the rest is a bit bland. Except I found a new interest in Narayan. Overall this is a fun album, but a few single tracks only carry it so far. Not a great "album" imo.

This is the kind of 90s electronic that felt so edgy and fun at the time. Electronic music doesn't sound like this anymore. Repetitive overall, but enjoyable in the background. After a while I couldn't tell tracks were changing anymore. 3*. Highlights: smack my bitch up (lol), breathe (excellent groove)

Dacht aan het begin pillen nodig te hebben, maar kwam er steeds meer in. De Staat heeft Firestarter gecovered leuk man

Weet niet zo goed wat ik hiermee moet. Smack My Bitch Up en Climbatize zijn goated tho.

Nice electro music

An intensely 90s album. Not really what I would choose to listen to most days, but I also get dance tracks are meant for, yknow, dancing, so I can live with how crazily long some of the songs are. Lots of cool bass and wobbles. Best song: Firestarter

Thoughts before listening: I never owned this album, but the hits were pretty ubiquitous for someone obsessed with music at the time. I was never a huge fan of the techno/electronic scene, but I did like the Prodigy's more rock approach to the genre. I'm sure I will recognize quite a few songs on here and that the nostalgic enjoyment will be strong. Review: Right out the gate I recognize "Smack My B Up"...this is a very memorable song and video. I believe I even may have seen the controversial video during its one time airing on MTV. Furthermore, I am well aware of "Breathe" and "Firestarter" which again were songs I enjoyed during high school without actually ever loving this band. All in all the album is fine. It wasn't something I gravitated to 25 years ago and it likewise isn't something that I find myself loving today. There are certainly some fun songs on here that I am happy to add to the playlist, but this is ultimately a 3-star album.

The Fat of the Land is seriously flabby around the middle. With the exception of Funky Shit, everything from Diesel Power through to Mindfields is pretty one dimensional and oddly boring, Narayan is wanky, as you'd expect from anything featuring Kula Shaker. It's also waaay longer than it needs to be. Besides the singles, which I've heard 64 millions times in clubs or everywhere (and I'm so bored of Breathe) I only really like Funky Shit and Climbatize. Climbatize is ace. It's probably the least Prodigy song the Prodigy ever made. I remember particularly enjoying sticking that song on the original PlayStation and watching the fractal generator. The different movements in the song worked particularly well with it as I'm sure you can imagine. Not getting into the debate over Smack My Bitch Up other than to acknowledge it, and say that song, if they were chanting Pack My Fridge Up instead, would still be fucking excellent, and the music has lost none of its power in the last 25-odd years. So yeah, obviously their biggest album, but the two prior to it were both far superior. There's an argument to be made that this is possibly actually the worst Prodigy album overall (although I've only heard the first 5 and have just this second learned there's two more after that). I'm only giving it 3 stars because of 2 absolute classic singles and 2-3 other good songs.

Decent album, I like the prodigy. Not my go to though

Funky, great for a late night drive when you’re falling asleep

Album started somewhat strong, then fizzled off into generic 90 dance/techno territory. 3/5

good album but not really my vibe

Not a big fan of EDM, but seems to be a decent album for those that are.

It's okay. I like some of the songs. Bit repetitive for my tastes unless I'm in the mood for that sort of thing. Not into the lyrics of the first song but the beat slaps.

I tend to fall more in the Dance subgenre of Electronica, so this album was fun, and I didn't mind listening to it, but I'll probably only revisit it when I need some music to exercise with. It makes me want to *move*, but that's more the beat and melody than any of the lyrics.

fave- breathe, firestarter

Generally enjoyable. Between a 3 and 4 for me.

Better than I expected.

The disgusting message of “Smack my bitch up” notwithstanding, this was a decent album; not my genre of choice and the concept of that first track is so warped that I wouldn’t choose to listen to it again.

Sounded like a rave backdrop. Pretty repetitive beats but some interesting lyrical choices (also repetitive within the song). Reminded me of chemical brothers? Would fit into the Matrix soundtrack

3 I was a little apprehensive going into this one, but there’s definitely an enjoyable vibe to it. In fact, I found this to be much more accessible than a lot of other club-style electronica and was actually quite enjoying myself as the album kicked off with Smack My Bitch Up, a song that I’m sure has never attracted any kind of known controversy. Breathe was a similar, but excellent follow-up track (and probably my favorite of the album), as was Diesel Power and Funky Shit from there. But that’s really the problem with this album though - things never really change all that much from the same general sound. That wasn’t really a problem at first (once my coffee kicked in, I was plugging away at work to this like I was some sort of 80s sci-fi hacker), but the music - like the caffeine - started losing its hold on me about halfway through the album. After a certain point, I just found myself holding out for Firestarter, a track I’ve seen a lot of people name as the group’s best (and which also requires you to slog through the 9-minute Narayan), but… it just sounded like everything else here? Am I missing something? I mean it’s fine, but it’s nothing special, and it’s definitely no Stand Up, the actual best song by this group - give that a listen if you’re not familiar. It’s a totally different vibe, but much better in the sense that it makes you feel like a badass without feeling like you should also be tweaking on something. (On an opposite note, if you want to hear an abomination, check out Gene Simmons’ cover of Firestarter). If you’re into electronica, I can see why you’d be a fan of this album. As someone who isn’t particularly into the genre, I still would say I liked this more than I disliked it, though not by a ton - the charm of this kind of stuff runs thin quickly with me. Will keep in mind if I’m ever on coke or molly.

Smack My Bitch Up - 8.5/10 Breathe - 7.5/10 Diesel Power - 7.5/10 Funky Shit - 7/10 Serial Thrilla - 7.5/10 Mindfields - 8/10 Narayan - 8/10 Firestarter - 7.5/10 Climbatize - 7.5/10 Fuel My Fire - 8/10 TOTAL - 71/100

Memories of youth.

At first, I liked the video gamey sound but then grew tired of it by the middle of the album

Pioneers of electronic music for years to come. Fuel My Fire was a standout from the album's deep cuts

Fun remembering these guys from my 90 mtv days. Some ok tracks but nothing really great.

Hits are really good. It gets a bit samey by the end.

All sounded like the same song but I kinda liked the song

I don't have too much to say about this album. I was decent enough and a bit nostalgic for me.

First song lyrics and title are not good. Although it is high energy I fell asleep during it last night. Its not amazing but it was one of the first electronic albums so needs some respect.

Big fan of all they do but overall on this list I’m trying to figure out where this lands. It’s formative for the genre and one of the largest successes commercially but is it great? 3.5/5

Smack my 3 stars up.

Is this trance music? I don’t hate it. There were some good hooks. I don’t think smackin’ bitches is ok to do anymore, thankfully. I shared it with Selim and he loved it, as expected. 2.7

Was going to skip, but listened anyway. Ended up liking it a lot more than expected. Nearly 30 yrs later, it still goes hard. Prodigy is a pioneer of big beat - crazy. 3.5

3.5

just not my taste. too noisy

I'm blown away by how hard this production hits given its age. I often find that older stuff (especially metal and electronic) lacks the bite of modern production, but this has it. The bass is thick, and everything sounds big af.

4 gode gamle klassikere. Ellers litt litt mye rap og litt lite fengende?

Very vibey reminds of music my Dad would play a lot

Good

Lots of amen beat adjacent british electric music. Sorta industrial. Sirta samey. Tight A-rab singin indian chanting sometimes. Best 1,2, 10

Iconic sounds

I got this on vinyl when it came out -- not for the hits, but for "Climbatize."

If you seen the crab dance, you will see it in your brain on almost every song. That being said, most of them are kind of meh to me. at a time, especially funky shit pretty fun to dance to if you were out but otherwise I would never put this album on. I mean I would never put this album on lol.

Never heard of this before! Crab rave! Goes on too long but good.

I saw the Prodigy at the big day out. Their best songs came from this album. Not totally my bag, but a classic nonetheless

Looping sample music - kinda makes you angry.

Ups and downs, some tunes are really catchy, some I didn't care for at all. I can see why it was innovative and overally enjoyed it but wouldn't make it a regular listen

Goes hard at times but some songs get way too repetitive, alright for zoning out too but boring to actively listen. Best parts of the album are when there's actually lyrics.

I feel like I was transported into scene in a crime drama tv episode from the early 2000s when they show the characters doing quotidian tasks with no dialogue.

Another prodigy album, it's not bad - but prodigy is prodigy.

Some tracks are great but listening to the entire record is rather onerous

Sonically incredible. Some songs are a bit long.

Hard hitting big beat/DnB techno with a charismatic lead singer and a band kind of feel that got it out of the rave and onto the radio like few others from the genre. At times it verges into NIN industrial territory but clubbier. Too long and a bit samey as an hour-long album, but the hits, Breathe especially, are great - catchy hooks, head-banging synth riffs, distinctive snarled vocals, and tension/release build ups & drops, and some big bass booms. Surpringly good as a getting stuff done on the computer album.

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Thursday, 10/26/23, 9:30, office S Tier————————— Smack My Bitch Up A Tier————————— Breathe Climbatize Funky Shit B Tier————————— Diesel Power Firestarter Serial Thrilla Narayan Fuel My Fire Mindfields

Strong entry from Prodigy, but not my favorite DJ record. Strong track listings i clude Smack My Bitch Up, Diesel Power, and Serial Thrilla

These hour long electronic albums are killers. Would love to know why there are multiple on the list. Still, I think I’m more upset at the list makers than the artist here. This is ok.

i'm not normally an electronic music person but, yeah, this was pretty fun. i went into this feeling pretty cynical as most electronic albums i've run into so far have been really not my thing, but i was pleasantly surprised by this. engaging throughout and fun to listen to.

very 90s firestarter was catchy

Liked a few of the songs

Whatcha listenin' to, Bobby?

Really like the album cover. Music was fine for an electronic type album.

Sounds almost like a parody in retrospect. Snooty and fun. Terrible remixes on the deluxe/remastered edition though, wow.

Smack My Bitch Up is a banger, transition at 3:00 is very nice. Breathe's bassline is slick. Some of the samples can come off as harsh in treble area. Diesel Power is good but not enough to make it onto a regular playlist Funky Shit doesn't appeal to me all that much. Serial Thrilla would be better imo if the mixing had vocals louder and the base volume lower. Transition at 3:10ish and the transition into mindfields were classy. Mindfields is the first song that does not feel like it comes in immediately swinging which is a nice change especially after serial thrilla. Narayan is catchy but should be like 3 minutes shorter; last bit of transition into Firestarter is good Firestarter is classic Prodigy to me; love that shit Climbatize feels harsh but fits that 70/80's electro house feel. Bass and beat is very good from 1:30 on; again could probably be shortened by a minute or more on both sides. Fuel My Fire is good but not being added to my regular playlists. Just too much noise/static. Overall mixing on the album is like a 3/5. Not very high dynamic range, tracks seem to blend together even on good headphones and the volume of vocals consistently seems too low for me. Music itself is something I dig. 3/5

okk 6/10

shoutout tecno

This album has some hypnotically intense songs on it. This is probably the most commercial and mainstream big beat music ever got. And most of the real highlights are those couple of singles that got really popular. But there are some other deep cuts like Serial Thrilla that I enjoy. The problem is that with a genre like this, you don't really have a verse chorus structure to keep your song moving forward. And so these songs often mosey around the same melodies and rhythms. That translates into some of these songs being too long, and not justifying being as long as they are. Narayan probably doesn't need to be over 9 minutes long. if they trimmed some of the fat, this album might be better. I'm also not a fan of the UK Hip Hop type of rapping on some of the songs. Considering the vocal parts are usually just the same lines repeated over and over again, they become slightly annoying after a while. Rating: 6/10

in general not a fan of like rave music or whatever that is... but it is solid to be fair

Not my thing but didn’t dislike it. Already knew Firestarter, also quite liked Narayan.

i could definitely see myself raving to this music but i might mix it first.

3.1. The album goes for too long, all scungy UK rave techno does, but the singles are still bangers.

Bit heavy for me, but I can see why it's in the 1000 list

I hate giving ratings. A democratic 3 for everybody :)

Eh.

Classic and iconic album from the Prodigy. Never fails to boost the energy levels, great dance album. Can't help it to rave along with the crab from the album artwork. This album is a must to listen through your headphone as it has quite some pending with sounds travelling "through" your brain. Favourite songs: Smack My Bitch Up, Breathe & Firestarter Bonus points for me (accidentally) playing firestarter on the highway while driving past a car that was going up in flames.

It wasn’t what I wanted but appeared to be what I needed on this Wednesday morning. The album cover took me back to my school days…and I remember watching the video for fire starter on top of the pops and being scared by Keith. Bless him.

Not so bad, popular music

I do love this album, but I can only listen to it once before the bears become repetitive. Therefore I’m only giving it 3 stars, since it’s not repeatable. Listen again: yes Purchase for my collection: probably not Favourite Song: Serial Thrilla

Vibey project that reminds me heavily of dnb and could have possibly been a precursor to modern dnb and EDM in general

Passables Elektroalbum

Very cool. Electro dance metal. Such matrix. Very Neo. Wow.

I need this band in small doses. Great for playlists, not for albums. Best track: Smack My Bitch Up

20% bangers, creative Intros and energetic beats. Too little variation for average 6 minutes.

Pretty good.

You know, I could actually get into some of it.

Heard it before?: Yes Enjoy it?: Yes! This is a classic and not much will age like this has Favourite song: Track 8 - Firestarter

Smack my bitch up, firestarter and breathe get a star each for nostalgia.

It was alright but nothing special

3/5. Fun little album that used plenty of percussion-esque instrumentation to build the tone of this record. I found the early few songs to be quite fun with the later songs a bit of filler.

A bit heavy but I liked it! Love the combo between rock and electronic music and weird sounds. 3,0

I really like “Firestarter” but the rapping on the song has always been sort of a negative for me. The same goes for the full album— it’s just kind of hard to ignore and it sounds very goofy. Also I like the original “Fuel My Fire” and it was a little frustrating to listen to it in this form.

It was good. But two prodigy albums in this list had me skeptical.

A deranged, highly energetic and addictive rave/electro album from the late 1990s. The production of the album is top class. In small doses this record is entertaining, but as an almost 1-hour long album I've found it quite exhausting. Musically it is also quite repetitive.

This could grow on me even more over time. Not something I'd listen to normally but really decent. I will give it a 3 for now, but its on the borderline of a 4

some good songs and sounds but overall most of it sounds about the same. none of the hard hitting electronic sounds of modern electronic music

My favourite thing about 'The Fat Of The Land' is the fact ‘Smack My Bitch Up’ samples the Ultramagnetic MC’s, and that better yet Kool Keith features on ‘Diesel Power’. Aside from this and the obvious hits we all know and love, the rest of the album hasn’t really aged all that well, which is a shame.

some pretty good beats & riffs, they don’t have to try too hard i’m a bit of a sucker for this kind of thing

ik this is supposed to be really good but i feel like i’ve heard shit like this before and it’s kinda mid

I only really know the hits from this album. I have memories of listening to Prodigy at Leeds festival and the crowd going crazy. It wasn’t a pleasant experience and unfortunately the songs mostly remind me of that. The album as a whole felt quite “samey”. Despite my thoughts the album was incredibly successful according to Wikipedia and is now an essential 90s album I do remember one of the music videos was very entertaining. Possibly Smack My Bitch Up?

On first listen, I thought it sounded like music from an action scene in the Matrix or a "doing science" montage in CSI (TV show). Turns out they did have a song on the Matrix soundtrack. It's not bad music at all, I'd just rather hear it in a movie rather than sitting down and listening to a full album of it. Favorite track: Breathe

I liked this more than Music for the Jilted Generation

Not really my vibe but fine.

I hated this on release, mainly teenage stubbornness as I preferred their rave stuff and thought Firestarter was really weak compared to the Atari Teenage Riot and gabber techno I was listening to. Don't mind this now, Firestarter sounds much better sequenced in the album and Diesel Power with Kool Keith makes me wish Liam Howlett produced a full hip hop album rather than the depreciating returns they went into after this

"Smack My Bitch Up" So those are the lyrics. Who knew?

Some interesting sounds but every song is 3 minutes too long, you need to be on some kind of mind altering substance to enjoy it

File under Need for Speed music

90s Brit Electronic music. What does that evoke for you? That sound you heard in your head is this album. It's fine!

Back to back albums by this group wasn’t great, but I did like this one a bit more than the other. I enjoyed their big singles, one of which I even recognized. My husband told me a bit about why they are noteworthy and I liked learning that trivia.

Never been a big fan, but never actively hated listening to them. Reminds me of high school.

The three singles are excellent, Funky Shit is pretty fun, and Narayan is a low key banger (I’m also a big fan of how it transitions into Firestarter). Unfortunately I just don’t really care for the rest of the album - it’s fine while it’s on but doesn’t draw me in, and some of the songs (including ones I enjoy) are just wayyy too long without enough development to justify it imo

A little dated, and not as good overall as Jilted Generation but it's got some bops.

Production quality is really good, wasn’t a fan of the songs.

Once "Smack My Bitch Up" has finished (what were they thinking?) I can listen to this great album

Reminds me of a 90s indie movie chase scene. Actually really good album to run to. Consistently engaging but potentially one-note. 3/5

I am a fire starter, i wicked firestarter

its cute

This is not my preferred type of music, but this was pretty enjoyable.

J’ai beaucoup aime, c’est du ´´techno ´´ comme dans mes souvenirs. Le genre de tounes qui fit parfaitement dans un film comme blade etc. J’ai apprecie lecoute mais ce n’est pas trop mon style et le facteur de reecoute est tres petit. 3.5

Imagine a gang of crabs had a shipping business... In space and had quite an adventure delivering their items. That's what this album essentially reflects.

Genuinely annoyed that I find myself kinda enjoying this. Favorite track: Diesel Power

kim possible ahh beat. nse me gusto pero me cuesta tomarmelo enserio y me da risa enbola x eso me gusto mas xd. 6.5/10

good electronic sound. don't like some of the cursing lyrics

This really is of its time. Feels a bit dated now, and if Smack My Bitch up felt weird then it sounds pretty horrible now. Much of it is one-paced and samey, but there are still some bangers to enjoy, especially Firestarter and best song, Breathe.

Pretty kewl

This might as well be an album of fire starter remixes apart from a couple of tracks but I like it

This is a rave & that's cool. I like Climbatize. Also Breathe.

This album reminds me of the good old days of the internet where I definitely did not use the Pirate Bay and I would definitely not have downloaded a car if I could. 2 point for techno. 3 points for nostalgia. 1 point for reminding me of the, “YOU WOULDN’T DOWNLOAD A CAR,” commercial. 6/10

Listened to some of it, but I've heard it many times before. Decent album with some good EDM tracks, a little rough on the ears though

Already listened

Drum n'bass potente y con ritmo. Más de un tema muy explotado en su momento. Música tecno y con ritmos repetitivos

A bit too jazzy for 7am

I purchased this, maybe 20 (?) years ago, and was quite surprised that I did. It didn't really fit with a lot of what I was listening to at the time. Credit the disposable income, I guess. I could count on one hand how many times I listened to it all the way through. I grew tired of it quickly, and just never felt the need to invest time into it. Loved tracks 1 and 2, but I wasn't into hip hop then and once Diesel Power popped up, I skipped ahead...probably straight to Firestarter. My loss a little bit, but not a lot. I'm glad I gave it a full listen now. Really good stuff. Narayan is awesome...love the chanting section just past the midpoint. These songs are fun on their own, but I may never play the whole album through again. 1 = bad 2 = average 3 = good 4 = great 5 = outstanding

Pretty okay

Great for the genre. 3.5/5

This was decent electronic music and I liked it well enough. Not much stuck out about it, although it did have an interesting metal attitude to it. And I love the cover.

This was okay, but I had hoped it would be better. I got kind of bored...to the point that I stopped listening about half way through and then forgot to finishing listening until the next day.

I didn’t enjoy this nearly as much as Music for a Jilted Generation. Some good beats but I think that filled my The Prodigy quota.

Pumpin'

Ahead of its time, lots of great moments but sort of overstays its welcome

It was alright at the time.

Definitely a hard sell for me because of genre. But I still liked it!

It’s boring enough for me. Despite on several bangers listening to the entire album in a row is not easy.

Though it is not my style/taste, I can appreciate the production or the energy. I'm sure other persons than me will find many things to enjoy about it.

I love EDM, and a couple tracks on this album are fantastic, namely “Breathe” and “Firestarter” but overall I find the album to be lackluster.

Destijds ging ik hier heel hard op, maar nu ben ik er toch wel op uitgeluisterd. Sowieso zou ik dit thuis niet zo snel opzetten uit vrije wil

A little boring but OK-ish Prodigy album, which was pretty disappointing at the time - liked the first two Prodigy albums quite a bit more.

When this album came out, I was disappointed and thought it was much weaker than Music for the Jilted Generation. After listening today I still feel the same. There are a few great tracks on this, but overall, the tone doesn't feel quite right.

A little blunt, I favour the Jilted Generation.

Laute, elektronische punkige müllhalden-flair Musik

Not a bad album at all, but unfortunately this is a project that I'm not crazy about.

cool. not my fav but def not bad.

I like a few songs of this but I can’t give it the listen it deserves right now. It doesn’t fit into my daily routine. Studying in it feels like im about to mash aderall

It was alright. Average to me

Fire singles, the rest is fine.

It’s whatever, like it’s enjoyable but I’ll never listen to it again

Nose, eso

Some good songs but some just don’t click with me

i like the bum tss bum tss beep boop music

You can feel the energy coming from just about every song. But after the first three or four songs, it did feel kind of monotonous. Having "Firestarter" (the big hit?) later in the album was kind of interesting. Drum 'n bass can only get you so far, really. There has to be some variety here. The album was high energy, but an hour of it? Kind of exhausting.

What can you say about an album that starts with a song called "Smack My Bitch Up"? Insert eye roll emoji. Still, it's definitely a fun listen. I don't know that I'd go out of my way to seek it out, but I'd definitely listen again. Favorite tracks: SMBU (minus the lyrics - cool groove), Breathe (very cool dark sound), Mindfields, Firestarter (total earworm). Least favorite track: Serial Thrilla - the beginning and ending sound effects made me think something was wrong with my computer. Not cool. I docked a point just for that.

You need to listen to this album as you walk through a city and it slowly drops rain at night. It is a much better experience. Listening through kinda shitty headphones also helps. All in all, this feels like a worse Chemical Brothers album. I like it, but it's not the best electro-grunge I've heard. Best Songs: Smack My Bitch Up, Funky Shit, Mindfields, Narayan Worst Songs: Breathe, Diesel Power, Serial Thrilla

This album is so much fun!

Nostalgic and undeniably a good album.... although not my genre of choice usually! Update: every time a song from this album appears on my playlist, I skip it.... This tells me it's not for me. Going to a 3

I liked some of their songs on this but I would definitely have to be in the mood to listen to it.

Real, high-octane party music. Can’t really listen to a lot of it.

Catchy but too repetitive. Electronic music is fine but personally it's not my cup of tea. I'm not sure what it did to include itself on the 1001 list, but I think it's because for its time period it was futuristic.

Time to Rave! Classic 90's techno. Good for cruising.

not bad, but too repetitive. Mild disappointment, but I should revisit

Goes on for too long, but has some great songs.

Kameron’s favorite but not me

A sensational hit in Firestarter - check! Influential legacy - check! Excellent crab on the album cover - check! Yet there is something about this album that fails to lift it, IMHO, to the level of similar albums from the same era (say, Chemical Brothers). It sounds too much as if they use the same synth program throughout the album.

Not my cup of tea.

Very fun tracks, a little repetitive but I could see myself having a good time partying to these. I want to take all the samples from this album and put them on a board and get high as shit in the woods pressing buttons lmao. Not something I would listen to regularly, but a fun experience for a specific mood. Favourite Tracks: Diesal Power, Firestarter

There’s a few songs on this album that I recognize from growing up in the 90s (Smack My Bitch Up) that brought some nostalgia. Admittedly, that’ll make me a bit bias. Overall a fun listen. They definitely made some cool sounds. Next time I wanna travel back to the 90s and hack computers in a shitty flat in Berlin I’m gonna bring a copy of this album and a bag of speed.

forgot how much hip hop sound there is in this album

Instantly recognisable and still sounds massive. A little bit dated and verging on caricatureish in 2022, although that could be because this album and the Prodigy sound are so well known and iconic. Some of the song titles are puntastic (Serial Thrilla, Mindfields, Climbatize). Given the wordplay and fact that 25 years have passed, is this now music for the Countdown generation? Rating: 3/5 Playlist track: Firestarter Date listened: 02/08/22

I got this for my thirteenth birthday, because everybody in school had gotten it. After about a week, I was standing in the kitchen, holding the album in my left hand and and an orange in the other. I decided to give juggling a go, and threw the orange up in the air. I had forgotten I was holding the album when I reached out to catch my orange. The orange (quite a hard orange) neatly snapped the album in two. I had to tape a mate's copy that he himself had taped off my copy. Such adolescent idiocy is fitting for The Fat of the Land, a lit bottom burp of an album. This is an album that convinced itself that PS1-era Tomb Raider was a good game solely because of Lara Croft's pointy norks. The shiniest example of its immaturity actually occurs on the sleevenotes, where they quote Goering's guns-not-butter speech, simply because they thought it sounded cool. But the most notorious instance is Smack My Bitch Up, a tabloid-baiter of a title. Sampling a couplet from an Ultramagnetic MCs track (the rapper in question, Kool Keith, raps on The Fat of the Land's Diesel Power), by focusing on the phrase "smack my bitch up" the Prodigy giftwrapped a controversy for the tabloids, who got double-bubble from both the Prodigy's popularity and infamy. In response to the artificial furore, the video to smack My Bitch Up was a first-person view of someone drinking, doing cocaine, eating a kebab, groping women, fighting, using one of those smack heroin needles, stealing a car and bedding a stripper, and at the end it turns out, gasp!, it was a woman doing all that beastly naughtiness! I presume you've heard of GTA. I also presume that you know GTA is one of the most financially successful works in any medium. I also presume you know that the visceral impact of GTA has lessened to that of a flea in an oven glove (do you know the boundary they're crossing for the next installment? A female protagonist! Quick, I need a smelling salt suppository!). The outrage The Prodigy courted was always a joke, as they knew and as everybody who objected knew, along with everybody who didn't care. The Prodigy appeared mature when you were in school, the first year of uni at a push. Do you know what you happened to start listening to the first year at uni? Bob Dylan. Tell me what's more mature: The Fat of the Land or Blood on the Tracks? Still, I'm not one to discount the moments when I crave the teenage charms of slasher flicks and masturbating over ridiculously overimplanted bososms, so I can't damn The Fat of the Land. Hell, I firmly accept that Firestarter is one of the great UK number 1s (a while ago, I was in a pub, and it turned out the youth next to me by the bar was born after Firestarter topped the charts; that's as sobering as a grey pubic hair). But everyone who's held a job will tell you: The Fat of the Land is a slightly above average album that got horrendously overpraised by people hoping it'd usher in a new punk rock, blinding themselves to the fact that the album signified nothing but flash sound and furious beats. Liam Howlett, the one in The Prodigy who actually did all the bastard music, said the ultimate defence of Smack My Bitch Up and all the other controversies was that it was meant to be dumb, akin to preferring Flavor Flav to Chuck D. In fairness, I think that defence holds up. Still, it means that the music's dumb.

Maybe it’s so influential it retrospectively sounds like something I’ve heard before?

It does have some fun tracks on it. As a whole album it wears thin after a while though. I actually prefer a few of their more recent tracks

Not usually what I listen to, but it's exciting, heart pounding and terrific beats. Lots of energy!

it isn’t horrible, but not my favorite album ever.

A bit unfair to judge a dancefloor album off a first listen sitting here in the office, but this one still delivered for the most part. Even if there's not a lot of rhythmic variation within each track, there's enough across the whole LP to keep things moving and decently interesting. Wish there was a stronger melodic presence here, this group usually leans toward sparser DnB/breakbeat arrangements but has a great ear for catchy progressions.

This album gives me some high-precision nostalgia; makes me want to Hack the Planet. I kind of hate what they done to my beloved L7 with their Fuel My Fire cover.

Owned this one and got played fairly often, more metal and single driven than previous stuff. It was good to listen to it again but I seriously doubt I'll ever do it again.

Better than I anticipated, but kind of repetitive. Also, and this has been said for many of the records, probably better in a club setting.

I had this album in high school, just like everyone my age had this album in high school. It's pretty good late 90s techno, and one that I would put on again if I was in the right mood. But that mood won't come around very often.

I love Firestarter, but there's only so many times you can put the same track on the same album.

Reminds me of my teen years. Breathe is still a brilliant tune.

Klasyka gatunku, trochę ciężko się słucha w pracy. Po okładce spodziewasz się crab rave a tu tylko zwykły rave ;)

Prodigy nigdy mnie nie kręciło, tutaj też nie. Są wciągające traczki, ale na dłuższą metę dość męczący album. Nie odbieram jakości wykonania technicznego, fajna zabawa dźwiękiem (ale jako że do tego nie wrócę, nie mogę dać 4)

aight

Je comprends l'attrait, le niveau de production est top notch, mais ce style d'electro est vraiment moins mon genre.