Reviews (page 11 of 14)
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.
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.
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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
Not exactly my style.
I'm going to ignore the dumb lyrics. The first couple tracks were kinda fun and energetic. But by the end of the album I forgot about them and this faded into the abyss of other 90s house/techno that I really don't care about. It was popular for a reason, but I don't think it innovates or does anything remotely interesting for its genre.
weirdly disappointing burnout paradise menu music. sort of slimboy fat wearing a cool gnarly aesthetic, except all but a couple songs were just pretty boring. technically capable and fine but absolutely of its time and entirely unexciting. if my little cousin showed me a couple of these drum loops he put together I'd say "that's awesome man, keep it up you've really got something going here". i liked Smack My Bitch Up and Serial Thrilla. strong 2
Not my thang
(2/7) I found this pretty challenging to get through
Ugh… really?
Pretty repetitive and often a bit grating. Some good songs, and Firestarter is a classic, but definitely wouldn't listen to this album again. 2.5/5.
This is one of the most ‘90s (and most dated) albums from the ‘90s that I can think of. 100% style-over-substance electronica with a rock/hip-hop sound palette, plus some “world music” sound effects thrown in because why not? There are occasional catchy rhythms, but it’s quite monotonous and gets boring quickly, and I remember it feeling cliche when it played on MTV back in the day.
Redundant and unrelenting. Firestarter was decent though
overall a kind of repetitive album. I was listening to this and often could not tell when one song ended and another started - although perhaps that is the point? Not a bad album, although I do have some issues with the lyrics of the first song (gonna smack my bitch up). For what it is, sort of a punk EDM(??) it's not bad. Probably not something that I will play again (maybe a car trip?) nor purchase. A solid 2 stars
i love this album cover so much. i wish listening to the prodigy made me feel like that crab. sadly it doesn't do it for me :(
2,5
Very repetitive, not really for me.
this album sucks major ass theres so much other electronic music that is 10000000x better
Eh. They ain’t that clever.
Nothing really blew my socks off - couldn’t really tell where one song ended and another started. SMBU is a decent jam and fairly recognizable, but not much else on the album spoke to me or sounded all too different. About 80% through the album I kinda just wanted to finish it rather than looking forward to the next jam.
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.
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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