The Fat Of The Land

Thought I'd know more on this than I did but in saying that my Prodigy knowledge is limited to the best of. Breathe is phenomenal, always loved the opening riff. The other singles were also great. Not many new stand out tracks for me though. Funky Shit was good. Diesel power split me. Really liked the music but the vocal didn't fit. Not sure if it was a guest vocalist or something but it felt like a missed opportunity and didn't fit with the rest of the album. After a lot of lot of listens I'm going a harsh 3/5.

I hated these guys back in the day. It was because they were the poster kids for the whole Electronica is going to take over. It didn’t, and I like it more now. Those two data points are unrelated.

Never thought of myself as someone who liked Prodigy and yet I remember listening to several of these tracks fairly often in the 90s and still liked them today...so going middle of the road as there were a few here that went on forever like Narayan but Firestarter, Smack My Bitch Up, Diesel, Climbatize and Breathe are all solid tracks. I would go 3.5 but this is solid stars and 4 seems a little too strong for me

Aggressive - expressive - Nice one

Genre: Big Beat 3/5 The 2nd of 2 Prodigy albums in this book, The Fat of the Land is no Music for the Jilted Generation, an album that was forward thinking and predictive. Fat of the Land rests on the same sort of laurels that Fatboy Slim albums do. Because The Prodigy is a great producer, he doesn't necessarily have to go 100% every trach. The albums have their bangers, but then there's about 50 minutes of the rest: okay-to-decent techno songs. Music for the Jilted Generation was a very, very good electronic record, that really did help set the table for a much broader techno movement as a whole. This album here, The Fat of the Land, has Smack My Bitch Up and Funky Shit, but in between not too much to write home about (Firestarter is not bad). Great workout music, and could even suffice as easy listening to some of those who enjoy heavier techno music, but fails to reach the mark of its predecessor. Decent, though.

le gros crabe du pays un peu répétitif bien qu'il soit efficace pour les matinées difficiles

The only song I new from this - Firestarter - was on Jock Rock 2000, which I listened to many times as a teen. What's so tiresome about this album is that every song is basically that same song in a slightly different form. Rounding up to 3 stars instead of down to 2, solely because of nostalgia.

This is light years ahead of "Music for the Jilted Generation" in terms of sequencing/pacing, song structures, and having a more consistent tone/identity - but still not my thing.

Definitely that Fatboy Slim 90s era electronic dance music vibe... it didn't age very well for me, but it isn't "bad". Also their excuse for "Smack My Bitch Up" is laughable.

Add a star for the album cover, and the Indian bits in the first track.

I had this at the time; I sold it (when that was a thing!) because The Prodigy just felt like one-trick ponies, with very little muscle behind their aggressive sound. Now, the singles (Smack My Bitch Up, Firestarter) just feel quaint and cute and kind of funny. But I was surprised at the depth of the rest of the album, there are some decent tracks on here, especially the Crispian Mills collab. Which is something I never thought I'd say!

It was promising after the first track but there’s no sense of variation in dynamic. It remains a testosterone driven rave scene album which is great if you’re at a rave. There’s not much of substance here which is fine for what it is. It’s fun, driving, and clearly doesn’t take itself too seriously.

3, this reminds me of the matrix

An album manifesto that in practice acts as a link between different genres from ambient to heavy metal. The album's greatest weakness is: every second of music is absolutely banal in its context. Prodigy gives the listener exactly what they expect. Triviality has its merits, especially in the field of dance music. (6/10) FT: Breathe

Great album, takes me back. Firestarter and Breathe both stupendous.

Great album, takes me back. Breathe is an awesome track, as is Firestarter.

Not an enormous fan.

hjólatónlist

The land sure was fat. 3.5/5

Diferente a lo mucho que he escuchado. No es la gran cosa (no le presté mucha atención.), mas no es algo nefasto

This made me want to boot up my PS1 and play Need for Speed.

‘Electropunk’ is a good description. Such a long way from the early Prodigy - which I grew up with & still prefer. The drums & bass are phenomenal -breaks and bass bombs - as ever with the Prodigy but the vocals & lyrics don’t work for me to me this sounds commercial, American, too metal for me. Fucking mental live though, which is the point. I remember I had this on CD & after listening to it you feel a bit plastic / seedy. This has not aged well. The Crispian Mills song is terrible. I like the tracks without lyrics ‘Climbatize’.

This is sort of up my alley but I honestly thought it was just mids. Not awful but not really special either.

3/5

Nou… maar eens proberen dan…?

I like that this album doesn't sound like what I've normally heard as dance electronica or whatever the correct category might be called. Has some interesting elements from other genres like rock, metal, rap, and so on. The music is entirely sampled, so it's interesting for me to think about how to relate to the creative aspects of this kind of music. Instead of my usual approach of listening for each instrument and the vocals at times all as one musical expression and at other times layer-by-layer for each element. It's good for me to do this exercise. Back to the album: well-produced and mixed, and has some catchy moments.

tecno punk com batidas mais interessantes do que os vocais.

At some point in the 90s they (MTV, the music industry) stopped calling techno "techno" and started calling it "electronica." I don't know if anybody calls it that anymore but when I hear that word this is the album that pops into my head. I don't think is because this is some kind of pinnacle of the genre but I do remember it being a pretty big deal and it's a pretty fun example of late 90s techno music.

It reminded me of that Pere Ubu album in the way that there's sounds clashing. Although I liked this one more. A lot of the music was pleasing to hear, even amidst all that chaotic noise.

grimy, yet satisfying 3

Got me pumped for work. I dig it

Meh meh

Bad trip man

ret fedt 90'er

You: based on your ratings '90s electronica is your least favorite genre so far. Also you: here's more '90s electronica.

Second listen. Growing on me. Enjoying the drum beats. 3/5

A psycho made this. Funky rap-techno.

Liked it better than Fatboy Slim. Too long.

Sounds that I had never thought I would hear in my lifetime were available here. It was definitely a ride worth remembering. The songs that struck me the most were "Breathe", "Diesel Power" and "Climbatize".

I see they’ve made their album again

Not really my style, but also a little hypnotic. Listened to at work and I was definitely dozing off

Doesn't hold up as well compared to some of its contemporaries but from a time and space perspective it would've been absolutely mind blowing

Ahh memories.

5/10. I love the cover art, and how confusingly it clashes with the title. Sadly the music sounds a bit like something a 12 year old would have as the background for their minecraft tutorial youtube video. Found myself liking it okay on the whole, at it was decent as background music, but wouldn't want to listen to it actively

It was at least a little exciting. Still don't love electronic music though. 5/10

not much an industrial electronic fan, but this was easier listening than expected. Feels good for the list, even if it's not my stuff. Cover made me think of rave crabs.

I'll add an extra star for nostalgia's sake, but this album suffers from tracks that are 3 minutes too long, and lyrics that are 25 years past their expiration date.

Gnarly, loud and in your face.

Positive vibe

A ovo je vibe, ovo kad se pusti, glava radi sam tak. Dost dobar album, najbolji njihov.

🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀 mislim da mi je prvi put u zivotu lego prodigy 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

Big fat beats, but the best part of the album is the cover. Crab looks ready to throw down.

I would call this an easy record to enjoy, but it doesn't give me anything that I am hurting to come back to either.

Jammin

It’s really hard to come back from “smack my bitch up”

Love the Prodigy. Pretty good album on the whole, though some tracks are definitely not as good as others and make the album a bit worse on the whole.

Pretty decent album, although a lot of the songs do sound alike.

Some great tunes on here, Breathe, Firestarter and Smack my bitch up to name a few. Not exactly my scene though.

What a great industrial album, love the classic dance anthems, hated the lyrics of smack a bitch though and wasn't too fond of the rapping song.

Its a unique sound of drum and bass techno electronic music combined with lyrics shouted over it, it's not bad but not my taste sadly

funky and something new!

Alright album some good songs not an album I would sit down and listen to, would rate the album higher if played in a club when I was drunk but other than that not my type of music 3/5

Techno’s never really been my thing but I did find this fairly enjoyable. Made me feel like I should be hacking something.

Definitely not in my wheelhouse, and for that very reason I was happy to listen to this again - I remember 20 years ago playing video games with a friend and we'd loop this album. Perfect for racing games btw. At any rate as one who grew up definitely more of a "traditionalist" this ordinarily wouldn't be something i liked but oddly enough I do; on the tracks where there are vocals it's a little off-putting but not enough to distract from the head-bobbing electronic loops and catchy as hell beats - . (contrasting with the Fatboy Slim album I listened to a week ago which was unlistenable to me) Absolutely not an album for all settings :) but as I'm working while listening to this, it's really kind of the perfect soundtrack. Now I wish I still had my Playstation NASCAR game to veg out to... 6/10 3 stars

Up tempo album with good tracks

Not my type of songs, but I liked it better than I expected

Irgendwie nicht so überzeugend/schlecht gealtert. Ich verstehe, dass Bedürfnis mit krassen Elementen un Texten zu schocken, aber das tut es halt heute nicht mehr. Wenn man das weg nimmt, bleibt nicht so viel übrig. 3 Sterne, weil ich nostalgisch bin.

Not as good as I remembered, maybe I needed to be wrecked listening to it ;)

I like several of the songs well enough, but the whole thing sounds like the soundtrack to a drug addiction montage in a movie before everything gets bad.

Got to be in the mood for this one but a classic

Smack My Bitch Up is such a banger of a track, incredible intro. There's some fun tracks on here, but in general they feel pretty formulaic and tends to become pretty one note for me. If you're in the mood could see it but not something I'd return to regularly. Had heard this before.

I like it more then when it came out but it's still at times a bit too heavy and cold for my taste. I forget to give this band credit for more than just Fireststarter. Songs like Narayan do some pretty cool things with that basic breakbeat.

Only really like a couple of the songs.

Never got the Prodigy but can appreciate the hooks. After a strong start the 2nd half tails off a bit

Fairly decent hard British EDM with some dodgy lyrics.

This was a really fun album. I always enjoy an electronic non lyric type of album and this had some good songs that reminded me a bit of Jet Set Radio Future or some old type of video game. Some were strange but seeing that crab on the album cover made it all worth it.

Not my thing but it’s okay

Good listens.

Immer noch nicht ganz meines

Crab music. When I hear Prodigy I think of the late rapper from Mobb Deep. This is NOT that Prodigy. I knew as soon as I heard the first song that this was late '90s; it's the same laser-specific techno/rock style that gave us Darude - Sandstorm. Definitely enjoyable as a relic of that era. This is the kind of music I'd put on while hacking into the mainframe. Favorite tracks: Firestarter, Breathe, Smack My Bitch Up. Album art: Iconic. I've never heard this before and never heard anything from this band, but I've seen the crab cover a billion times and know it well. Even if I hadn't seen it before, it's legitimately a badass picture. The motion blur is insane. 3.5/5

Fun album. Some classic big beat songs. 7/10

Big beats are best, get high all the time

nice. nothing I didn’t expect. 3.5 🦀

Another icon of my mid-90s MTV era, and of course The Matrix soundtrack. Again though not really my thing.

trance and almost dance like beats - fun coding music

This album is filled with a lot of highs and a lot of lows. Tracks like "Smack My Bitch Up", "Firestarter" and "Funky Shit" are really iconic, and this was really the moment when electronic music crossed over with metal and it gets you hype. But the album also has a lot of tracks that feel like filler also and just don't stick with you at all. The album art is the absolute fucking best tho.

Standard british electronic music. Too bad the only the cover had crab rave.

Bom, gostava na época.

Breathe, Smack my bitch up och firestarter berättigar platsen i boken.

Pretty good as far as dance music goes

Good background music for work. Never been a huge rave guy, so this was just ... fine, I guess. Love the energy, but it all kind of bled together after a while. Favorite tracks: "Breathe", "Climbatize"

12/15 Hard beats, very 90s, similar to the Chemical Brothers album. Standout Tracks: Smack My Bitch Up, Funky Shit, Serial Thrilla, Narayan, Firestarter, Fuel My Fire

Not really my thing, but so many good memories of learning to drive in my ex’s purple convertible and blasting this cd with the top down

honestly did not like

Boring

Definitely some bangers on here but this album, like most electronica in the 90s, suffers from songs that sound nearly identical to my ears. The lyrics for "Smack My Bitch Up" are still a pointlessly misogynistic gimick which is too bad. Honestly, I don't hate this album and "Breathe" slaps. I'd like to give it a 2.5 for being some of the best of its kind AND giving me feeling I've just been subject to some wankers exposing themselves from their vinyl trenchcoats.

Never heard anything by this artist. Not a lot to say other than interesting production in all songs honestly this album is like a child of Charli XCX and Limp Bizkit if that makes sense It's a very cloudy and cold day and I'm completely sober but if I was at a hot humid club 3 drinks in this album would hit so hard so you know

Electronic music hasn’t always been my thing, but coming back to this 90s classic was worth the listen. Keith Flint and Maxim Reality are two enigmatic vocalists whose engaging vocals kept me listening. Overall, pretty good, but don’t feel the need to add this physically.

Een paar nummers is even leuk, maar een heel album is too much

Some absolute bangers on this and the rest were just ok

Listening this at night, I will not be able to sleep anytime soon wtf is narayan?? this goes on for wayyyyyy too long. had to listen to fatboy slim a few days ago who also went on and on and on. why don't they get that after 10 times the point came across? 2/5

3.5/10 - Purely subjective. I hate the genre. Not their fault. Wasn’t made for me.

I don't hate it but there's other Big beat stuff that I would rather listen to and it's not a genre that I often come back to. Strong 5/10

I'm experiencing a sense of déjà vu. Last album I had was an electronic affair (more chill than this) that was incredibly mediocre and did nothing for me. This album is an electronic affair (much harder) that feels incredibly mediocre, and does nothing for me. Big meh. 2.2/5.

2 estrellas, sirve para concentrarse

This feels like an album that needs to be listened to as one straight song. As such, I don't think I could listen to it consistently because I feel like I would get bored.

Basically like David Bowie’s earthling if Bowie was talentless, overly edgy, and misogynistic. Idk can’t lie I like the way it sounds tho

I didn’t understand the appeal of this when it came out, and I don’t understand it now.

First thoughts: I'm not the target audience for this I like the crab on the album cover, and that is just about it. Outside of that, it was mediocre. I can see why people enjoy this sort of music, but it just really isn't for me. To each their own. I ended up feeling quite bored whilst listening to this, especially at the end when I practically had to force myself to finish the album in its entirety. The songs all just blended into one without any of them standing out as memorable. They also felt kind of repetitive, which isn't always a bad thing in music - however, this album spends 56 minutes being repetitive. It wasn't unlistenable, but I'm not going to lie and say that I would listen to it again.

Like, EDM jock rock, striving for testosterone, deliberately (or not) stupid, rave without the bliss, high energy but funk-less beats.

I never got on the Prodigy train and am not starting now. The best songs were the songs I already knew, and I found this album repetitive and way too long.

meh.

It was fun. But probably won't revisit.

I have a really annoying coworker whose favorite band is the Prodigy so I was not excited for this one. After giving it a listen I can now confirm it is annoying coworker music.

did not like it, didn’t make it past the fourth song

I've never heard of The Prodigy, and if I'm lucky, I'll forget I ever heard of them.

The Crap of the Land.

Only liked one track, Firestarter.

not my type of music but was an interesting listen 3/10

boring

Got old quick

Narayan was okay but I had no interest in the rest of it. 2 stars or D-.

impossible not to be jolted to attention by this record's initial mania, even harder to feel even a single thing about it by the time it's over. endlessly, bludgeoningly the same

Not my thing! I can see how influential they were but doesn't do it for me.

Brings back so many bad memories of crap music in its imperial phase in the 90s. Thank god I was too busy with young kids and babies to worry that I was missing out. For my this is largely unlistenable.

Not his best

5/10 No me disgusto, pero meh

Whatever mood you need to be in to enjoy this is elusive to me at the moment.

makes me feel like i'm in the matrix, but in a bad way.

too much for me

Man this one is a blast from the past. I used to love Firestarter. But I totally forgot about Smack My Bitch Up, what the hell? Who thought that was a god idea? The 90s were a different time I guess. But I mean there are still countless hip hop records made and applauded today with basically (or exactly...) the same lyrics so maybe we haven't changed all that much. I would imagine that was done to be intentionally controversial. I mean the band said that you aren't a fan if you take it literally (or something like that) but there are only 6 words in that song so how exactly is it hard to interpret? I was actually surprised how much of this I remembered. It was pretty much played everywhere for a while but looking back at it now it's definitely aged poorly, to my ears at least. Repetitive, droning, monotonous, all the worst parts of house music. Vocals are laughable on most tracks. I can see teenagers in the 90s just loving this though, I knew a lot that did. I wasn't much of a fan then, less so now. 1.5/5

Cool but like who can listen to this for more than 10 mins without getting utterly annoyed

Listened Before? Y I had this one back in the day. It's no better now than it was back then. It's just noise. Firestarter is a banger. Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist:

Feel like I'm on the set of the British movie Human Traffic

Pointless

Anxiety in an audio file.

So does every electronic dance dub album sound like them, or do they sound like every electronic dance dub album? I don’t know. I don’t care.

The soundtrack of doing way too much cocaine after drinking way too much whisky and passing out on top of the person you met while doing that. Tbh there are a few good tracks but it's relentless and repetitive. And yeah, “Smack My Bitch Up” ffs y'all

Whole album sounds like songs they play in transitions of old tv shows.

Look, this is clearly their best work, but that doesn’t make it essential listening. This is what kids from nice neighborhoods think they play at raves. No legit club would ever have played anything this commercial.

This album is not subtle, not elegant, and not interested in being tasteful.

rap, so not my genre

Pretty unforgetable and nothing special, except that album cover, I’m loving that.

Fell asllep

Sounds like the soundtrack to the X games or something.

I knew three songs on this: Smack My B**** Up, Breathe, and Firestarter. I'm not a big fan of electronic music. The songs I knew were fine, but the rest got to be kind of long and samey sounding.

I’m very overstimulated feels like I’m watching old school mtv skateboarding videos or kids getting arrested in 90s mashups

This was nice background music if you dont want to have a serious thought in your mind. Don't have a favorite song because they all sounded the same.

Completely fine background noise but did not Fuel My Fire in any way.

This sounds like the music that played on the intro of an early 2000’s Cinemax soft core porno movie. Which is sick at times but eventually it runs its course.

I did not do enough ket to properly enjoy this. Or actually any ket, which is probably a requirement. It's club music, but it's at least...somewhat interesting club music? I don't like it though.

I've been listening to a lot of weird techno subgenres lately so this seemed even more boring than I remember from 97.

Meh, this was not for me in the 90s and it still isn't today.

🫤

Trashy. Nicely punchy. Bouncy. But not catchy. Annoying, sparse vocals. Compressed. Feels like the sort of thing you'd hear behind a weird, morphing, edgy cartoon montage in the 2000s. Listenable. There's competent rapping on some (only one?) of these! This is much cooler than the more trance-like, rave-y repeating ones. Very much like Fatboy Slim (same genre/period), but crunchier than what I've heard. Transitions between songs! Badass! But all rather one-note sonically. Standouts: Diesel power (rapping), mindfields (trippy beat), climbatize (cool rattling percussion, and then it opens up with an ethereal section and continues to develop unlike the other songs) Final feelings: Aggravated. Head-nodding, but bored. Some fun beats but the lack of variety spoils them.

I bet it's good at a rave, but on a Wednesday morning trying to concentrate on work, I could not wait for this to be over.

so electrical. a bit disturbing when I am in an anxious mood

genuinely what was that

This went exactly how I expected it to: I liked “Breathe”, “Firestarter”, and, to a lesser extent, “Smack My Bitch Up”. The rest was just noise, reminding me I don’t think the 90s rave scene would have been for me.

nice

Feels like I should like this album but I just didn't.

This album is only here for firestarter and breathe. The rest are filler

comprido demais. preferia ter ouvido kasino no sabadaço repetidamente por 1h

If you like 90s UK techno, then you must love this album. I do not. It wasn't bad, but it's not my kind of album. It's dirty, it's grungy(good), but it's also repetitive and every song is 1-2 minutes longer than it needs to be.

Medio post punk pero me hizo recuerdo al episodio de la disco de HIMYM. No fui fan

You couldn't escape this in 1997 - it wasn't great then and doesn't really hold up now. Outside Kool Keith's appearances, there isn't a reason to revisit

I found almost all of this pretty annoying

Definitely not for me.

Boring and repetitive, although some songs from it are classics and I do respect the genre as a whole, this is really not a type of music I enjoy and would play to myself under any circumstances... 🫣

Muy loco jajaja. O sea es un género diferente, es original pero no es mi estilo de música... Es ya como demasiado para mí.

Another uninteresting electronic record, just seems to blend in for me.

If this was the prodigy, I’d hate to see the ordinary kid.

Yeah...No

This music sounds like the birthplace of frosted tips. It’s functional for sure, I could definitely rave to it. But for listening at home as I do chores, it didn’t amp me up or make me enjoy taking out the recycling. It’s repetitive and homogenous, which is fine in da club, but I didn't really enjoy it as an album.

Interesting album…

couple of good songs, but not really my genre.

Nor for me

The intro to Firestarter was the only part I really enjoyed

3 of the most normal ones: 1. Smack My Bitch Up - The most provocative track on the album. The title caused controversy (accusations of misogyny), although Liam Howlett claimed that he meant "kick her ass" in a figurative sense. 2. Diesel Power - because it has more hip-hop and less electro. 3. Narayan - the longest (9 min) , the first half is fine, such Indian motifs xsshhaha and a meditative mantra, then again a heavy electro beat. Result: I read that the band itself made a statement that synthesizers and samplers can sound as dirty, aggressive and dangerous as electric guitars. not my genre, it's hard to listen to electronics, like a robot shouts, but when there was a rap, an interesting instrumental and vocals - then fine

Ngl I was bored for a lot of this. The first half of the album wasn’t great and I felt like I’d heard it all before. The back half was way better and kept it from being a one though. The prodigy had to walk so Death Grips could run though

Very okay album. I often felt bored. Didn't do much to really grab my attention and the same DnB beat can only be reused so much. Certainly important for later groups like death grips but not my favorite by any means. Favorite track: Serial Thrilla

A very "band" way to do electronic/dance music, but dunno. I think if I'd been 14 when this came out, it might've meant the world to me, but Prodigy never hit me the way it reached a lot of folks.

Every track feels like the soundtrack to some subpar early-1990s film that is basically a Matrix ripoff or an action/crime Tarantino homage (but British).

I understand that all the albums are here because they have been successful and embraced by a lot of people. This is no exception. The band is raucous and very repetitive. I guess that’s the allure for many. I liked some of the grooves, but they end up going nowhere. The video for “Smash My Bitch Up” was disturbing and misogynistic. Definitely not for me.

ts sucks

Not a huge fan of electronic punk rap done in British voices, I guess. It was an interesting episode of 60 songs but just not my thing.

3/10

didn´t love it

CRAB I know this goes crazy at a rave or a big party and surely while you've got substances. Maybe if you're making your way through a neo noir dystopian cyber future as a blade runner or samurai displaced in time or something. But sitting here at work rating albums with a resting heart rate, it is just alright. CRAB

Didn't like it in high school. Still don't like it now.

Hated this

Good enough to add some songs to my workout playlist and have something different come up every now and again. Not sure I would go out of my way to listen otherwise though.

This record is certainly an interesting time capsule, though it can feel a bit corny and cringe to listen to. While it isn't a record I would necessarily revisit, I don't regret giving it a listen. Liked: Narayan, Climatize Blocked: Diesel Power, Serial Thrilla

Not for me.

4/10

Pas ma tasse de thé

Snacka om att ha en enda hook och dryga ut den i fem minuter. Ungefär så är varje låt uppbyggd.

Not my jam

Not my cup of tea

They did it they figured out how to make instrumental music sound bad I’ve heard a couple of Prodigy songs before and kinda liked them, so was sorta looking forward to this one and was pretty disappointed. Some of the beats sound pretty good and get you invested, and then they do something stupid that ruins it. It almost feels like an video game ost at times While listening for the first time I thought it wasn’t really that bad at all and then my second listen through made me realize how shallow and uninteresting this one is. Also the vocals are too British

The thing about electronic music is you'll think it's hype and then listen to the same beat and sample on loop for 5+ minutes

Less than an hour, that's good. I'm making it obvious that I don't like when albums are over an hour. This album has almost no variety, none between songs and none in songs. The song would repeat a melody and keep repeating and never stop. I just didn't really get this album.

Worth one listen kinda awful proto industrial hip hop

Did people actually like this? +1 for kool keith

Their 3 hits are on here. They are bangers. There are also a bunch of other songs on here. If this was an EP….

demasiado gede

It’s ok

2.5 not my style

Couple bangers but goes on a bit

2/5 - If all music sounded like this, poetry would be much more popular.

Not my vibe. I much prefer "Breathe" to "Smack My Bitch Up" (and as a woman, I detest that title), but like most industrial / electronic music, it's extremely repetitive and gets a tad boring after awhile. No thanks.

За крабика

Did not like

En del bangers men jag tröttnar på genren

This is the album I most associate with my personal break-away from popular music. My friends started listening to Prodigy (and other similar artists) and I just didn't like it. I still don't. And then more music started heading off into that electronic direction and it seemed like the other option was nu-metal, and I just stopped watching MTV and listening to the radio for a few years. This album brings back vivid (though hazy) memories of my friends baked out of their gourds playing Wipeout on the Playstation 1, while I watched and wished we were playing NCAA Football and listening to guitar music. (I originally included SSX in this, but just googled and apparently that game didn't come out until 2000 on the PS2, so perhaps these memories aren't as vivid as I thought?) This album is a good example of something that I do not like personally but agree that it is essential listening. I did not know until reading the Wikipedia page that Tom Morello and Matt Cameron were on this album. I also never knew that the looped guitar in "Firestarter" was sampled from a Breeders song, and listening to it now I still can't make it out. "Climbatize" bothered me the least on this listen-through. I'm not sure I ever made it to the end of this album so I never knew it closes with an L7 cover. That bumps it up half a star for me.

This isn't music for listening to - it's music for dancing to, and I'm not much of a dancer. So for me, it's just more repetitive techno beats with nothing that really appeals to me. Each track has about six words of "lyrics" - usually sampled from other, better songs - repeated ad nauseam like every other instrument. I'll pass, thanks.

Groupe d’electronique britannique connu sur la scene rave underground. Je n’ai pas reussi a ecouter la 2nde moitie de l’album. Beaucoup de loops, tres repetitifs.je pense que c’est très innovant en terme de musicalité mais pas fan du tout

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It’s tough to express just how big a deal the hype was around this back in 1997 leading to its release. It was going to start a revolution a la grunge and Nirvana. And then that just did NOT happen. Filler for thousands of used CD sections. As such, its inclusion here is more of a curio, a footnote to OK Computer or the swing music craze.

Ok. But not really my music.

Not my normal go to but I definitely didn’t mind it. The only reason I’m rating it as low as I am is that my boss plays this album on repeat almost every day at work and I’ve heard it probably 3000+ times at this point. Not something I’d ever normally listen to either way.

Nie dla mnie, okładka wygląda jakby była inspiracją dla tego mema „Obama is gone”, ale to jedyny plus dla mnie.

Not my genre

First track is awful. Whether it was intended or not, it depicts awful things. I enjoyed the rest of the album.

ehhh..

not for me, I understand the appeal but not for me

Barely listenable but two bangers get it two a 2.

A lot of weak fillers but the classics go hard. 2/5

This gets an extra star because I recognize that it was influential and basically the first of its kind to hit mainstream. That said, this is not my jam. Half the beats sound like farts in an aluminum trashcan. It's full of energy -- and that energy extends, almost monotonously, the whole album. Also, how come no one ever told Keith Flint that an inverse mohawk is basically a baldspot?

There's some decent beats here, but overall I found it repetitive and annoying. I pretty much just don't like the genre. 2.5

Not my favourite genre

Really couldn’t get on witb this at all

not my vibe but it's a vibe!

I can understand the appeal

Ok beats and cringe lyrics.

This is lame.

I heard it but don’t remember any of it.

Before Listening: I haven’t heard of this album or this band! I’m excited to see what’s in store! After Listening: I wasn’t expecting British rap/electronic! The album wasn’t bad, it just was a lot of the same. The stand out for me was Diesel Power, which I enjoyed.

Interesting and different. Not for me though.

Heilt greitt. Not my cup of tea.

The first thing I noticed about The Fat of the Land was that it felt like the soundtrack to a 2000s movie about rebellious teenagers, like an intro sequence where all the characters are being introduced while going out, causing chaos, and just doing whatever they want and I thought that vibe was cool. Now, Even though this isn’t a genre I would normally choose to listen to, there were a few songs that I genuinely enjoyed. At the same time, a lot of the album felt overwhelming. I could understand the energy and the atmosphere this album required but it got to a point that it was too much for me to handle for long periods of time. It’s not something I would put on in my day-to-day life but overall it was a cool listen.

Niet helemaal mijn ding. Maar kan me voorstellen dat je dit kan luisteren.

A little too hard core for me

more my style but not quite my tastes just yet

Hørt i snøstorm søndag 27.12.25 Det e jo noen bangers, men nei, fuck det her. Ta vare på - Smack My Bitch Up - Firestarter - Breathe - Funky Shit skip alt anna

anxiety inducing by itself ngl but would make a great video game soundtrack for something like Tony Hawk's Pro Skater

DNFed bc I get the point (I think)

It was ok won’t listen again

Not my thing but I can see the attraction. 2/5.

It's more grating than offensive, honestly.

Music for Sega Genesis commericals

I remember a prodigy song on big whiney tunes and thinking it was great. The album has not aged well I did not enjoy it.

Cool ish

Not really my cup of tea. Some good grooves created, but it all started lacking variety and sounded all the same to me.

Interesting....almost a 3 but didn't finish the album propaaaa - the beat precedes the lyrics tbh

I don't understand the hype. Maybe the lyrics are too cerebral for me?

It’s ok. Some cool bears. They mix electronic with harder rock. Nothing revolutionary.

I know it was ground breaking for its time but i feel like it didn’t age well at all haha

Some bangin tunes

Payday 2 music but without the crime (less fun)

Couple good songs. Turns into repetitive slop. I might come back to a couple songs, but I'll never listen to the full album again.

This was probably the first 'electronic' album I ever purchased. The imagery from the 'Firestarter' video was bizarre and menacing in a way that I hadn't seen before. I think they were probably one of the first, if not the first, electronic artist to really style themselves like a rock band, which was honestly the necessary ingredient for a suburban 18 year old like me to buy in, not to mention the MTV marketing machine, etc. Overall the album holds up, if in a background music sort of way. The beats are fun and it's not too dense. The impact of this album is about a specific moment in time and it never really transcends that. But fun to listen to for nostalgic purposes. And the album cover is fucking great.

Not the worse, not the best electronic album. Did go by quick! high 2/5

This was kind of around in 1997. Smack My Bitch Up was pretty controversial on the evening news as I recall. And the album influenced almost every U2 remix of the era. But it sounds of a time. Not a classic by my standards.

Beats are good, lyrics are concerning. Nice hearing an accent like mine tho. 2.5

A good variety between god damn wtf awful to not that bad

Not for me

Yah no. Lotsa beats but goes nowhere, really.

Brings back memories of Doug recovering on the couch from the previous nights rave rambling on about "yellow world". Still pretty funny. Other than the nostalgic chuckle not much here for me.

Ouvi de novo pela pressão social, melhorou um pouquinho, mas continuo não gostando. Tô no time do ian! Definitivamente não é meu tipo de música, parece que não vai para lugar nenhum e fica só a mesma coisa repetitiva. Talvez como trilha sonora em alguma cena de filme fique legal mas para "só" ouvir a música não curti não.

Comentei o que eu achei desse álbum para Nuno Karam e ele disse o seguinte: "Perdeu uma oportunidade de ficar calado!" Diante disso, prefiro mostrar minha opinião única e exclusivamente por meio das estrelas, sem tecer qualquer tipo de comentário adicional.

Know & like the three radio hits. Other than that would not seek this out

Except for that one track, it just sounds like noise to me. Not my kind of album.

I know more songs on this album than I thought when looking at the track list. Shows how big it was when it cale out I guess. Its not a bad album, just not a great one for me. They found thwir niche and stuck with it. Ita almost a rock band approach to electronic music.

Sounds a bit dated now

Electric repetitive music like this is not my jam, there are some fun beats on this album though. I could run or bike to this, it's fast paced and hecticly intense in a good way. But still got tired of it pretty quick

The crab is the best thing going for this album; it gets 5 stars. The album only gets 2. Techo just isn't my scene.

It was interesting and some parts were interesting but it’s not what I can listen to casually.

I can see being into this at specific times, but generally not for me.

Totally not my style. But I'm glad to know a new band 🥸

Did not enjoy this.

Hmm, très hétérogène à mon goût. Bien aimé la rythmique et les sonorités de Breathe notamment qui m’a pas mal embarquée, mais j’ai trouvé de manière générale pas mal de loop pas très « propres », avec souvent une structure qui m'a paru bancale, et des egotrip injustifiés (eg. Diesel Power). Ça a l'air d'avoir été dans l'esprit underground / rave de l'époque, avec quelque chose d'assez innovant dans ces sonorités brutes, agressives qui étaient dans l'esthétique qui parlait j'imagine (dont le caractère peu lisse est cohérent avec les moyens de l'époque), et que leurs clips / paroles / image de groupe incarnaient. Et je suppose que musicalement ça a peut-être pas si bien vieilli dans un contexte où les prod de musique éléctro sont ultra quantifiées et lissées, bien loin du temps du sampling manuel - une des raisons sans doute de mon impression de "trop brouillon". Intéressant en tout cas de savoir qu'ils ont été très influents dans l'histoire de la musique éléctro. Sans doute aussi quelque chose qui s'apprécie davantage en rave que tout seul dans sa paire d'écouteurs, à voir en contexte mais je reste sur un 2 subjectif.

Nineties Funky Sh@#* 🤯

This is not my typical genre, but I listened while at work today and it was very motivating. I like it for background music.

Not good

Pretty forgettable with the exception of "Smack my Bitch Up"

Biggest hits but not the best Prodigy album; that is Music for the jilted generation. Not really an album band

Somewhat repetitive to my ears, nothing special sounding to me.

Memory Lane-Start dieses Album, hat stark angefangen, aber dann Songs gebracht die mir so gar nichts sagten. Klang mehr nervig und nach Einheits-Brei

This is insane

I didn't get much out of this one. Most of the songs were too long, I kept getting distracted and starting over. Just don't like it.

Far to intense

Irgendwie nicht so meins

2/5 electronic music is not my thing

I thought it would be better. I just can’t seem to get behind it.

Hey, this album. I've seen this cover around before, but I've never heard of the actual band. I have an inkling that this is going to be a dance album. Yes, I've come to this conclusion entirely because of the crab rave music video. Yep. About what I was expecting, though I like my brand of late-90s techno a little more subdued than this. That being said, this isn't half-bad. Some cool drum breaks and alright electronic tones make for a decent of-the-time listen. The vocals are somewhat of a let down, however. Very cheesy and jarring. The tracks also have a nasty habit of going on for way longer than they needed to. "Diesel Power" is a good tune. Big fan of the echoing ambience, and the lead synths have a lot of kick to them. I'm ambivalent to the rapping segment, but for what it is, it's alright. "Funky Shit" is a decent follow-up. Another characteristically 90s electronic track, though that's by no means a bad thing. Big fan of the cool drum breaks, and the electronic embellishments are, again, quite decent. The siren sounds near the end of the track are a cool way of closing it out. "Naryan" is pretty cool. Very solid instrumental - I'm a big fan of the intro, and those drums do a decent job of carrying the rest of the piece. "Firestarter" is a familiar song - I've heard this one before. Needless to say, it's the strongest track on the album. All of the loose ends are tied together, the drum breaks are tighter than ever. The vocals aren't half bad, and I especially dig the sample during the chorus. I'm checking the book. Topped the charts in the UK and America. Wikipedia reveals that this album is critically acclaimed, though that mostly appears to have been during the time. This thing topped the charts just about everywhere, damn. I'm not too crazy about the actual music of this album, though as a time capsule of the era I think it occupies a solid niche. I cosign this inclusion.

I'm torn on this one. I don't much care for techno music, but I enjoy some of their hits. But in the end, it just gets repetitive.

This definitely feels very 90s, but also kinda like rap. Which might be apt.

I kind of expected this album to be better because Breathe is such a banger. But this was kinda boring. Even the first song, which made me recoil when I saw the title — it’s clear they chose it simply to provoke. Eye roll. Honestly it feels kind of pointless reviewing these electronica albums outside the context of a rave. Highlights (exactly as expected) - Breathe, Firestarter

I think there are 2 scenarios where The Prodigy works: 1) You're on a dancefloor on some form of uppers and losing your mind OR 2) You're watching a movie set in the late 90s and there's a club scene and you need 15 seconds of a song that's gonna immediately communicate to the audience the exact era/vibe of this club scene - firestarter would be the song of choice. Outside of those 2 scenarios, I find their music pretty boring. Even the big songs didn't do much for me sitting alone in my apartment trying to work. I was just bored. It wasn't even good background music for working. It just felt monotonous and grating when not on a dance floor. Sorry to all the ravers out there.