The Fat Of The Land

A few tracks I recognize from my youth. Something about this type of music makes me feel like I should be on amphetamines at a strobe-ridden rave taking e from someone I’ve never met before. I’d much rather listen to the Chemical Bros than this. Better yet, Aphex Twin.

Pretty unremarkable electronic

Not the kind of music I like but some parts were pretty hype. Stand-out: Climbatize

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

One of my favorite

Super different than anything I’ve listened to. Like punk dnb. Good skiing music. Leather jacket duster matrix music

FUCKKKKK THIS IS TOO FIRE

To me, the prodigy has always seemed like joke music for speed freaks. Giving it a chance, I found that it actually slaps pretty hard. Some of the vocals are still embarassing to me though. Strong 3.

Kara Housdan. 216. AHS. Silver 2-door Camrys.

Not my style.

Classic

Is it me or does all of this style of electronic music have the same beat? I was listening to this album and when it ended Spotify put on a similar artist and I swear that they had the same drum track. I guess this music would be good to dance to but otherwise I didn’t have much use for it.

Great album to have on in the background. Music flowed together well, some themes and songs overstayed their welcome and got repetitive, but nothing egregious. Love the album cover as well. Definitely suited my taste in music overall.

Interesting, good 2000's underground vibes

Good and fun. I like the crab

Bangers

The Fat of the Land was one of the first electronic acts that broke into the mainstream in the US around this time. Aside from holding a special place in my psyche as a good album, there's an ineffable quality for me that makes this much more listenable than, say, Homework by Daft Punk released the same year. This style of big beat dance music was what the DJs were playing in the clubs I occasionally frequented around Deep Ellum, mid nineties. The Prodigy just slotted right into the scene, becoming integrated with my tastes at the time. I used to babysit my friends dropping acid for the first time with this as the soundtrack easily half the time. Kind of makes me want to try that out myself – listening to this thirty years down the line, I wonder what they were experiencing?

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.

Too aggressive

this is my shit

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.

Literally got headache, may be my own fault but I *do not* have the energy for this one at the moment. It's also very very similar and LONGG.

Saw them in red Square, Moscow. I probably need to give this four stars. Not because it is a bona fide, four star album, but of its kind it was unique out there.

Chunky, unique, amazing

Ég er almennt ekki mikið fyrir svona tónlist en þetta er bara svo mikil stemmningsplata og nostalgía. Verð að gefa henni fimmu. Punktur.

Geggjuð plata - nóg af nostalgíu hér

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

90's dance music with some white-boy rap on top. It's okay. A bit repetitive

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

That was a long 57 minutes. I fondly remember the hits from this album when I was a kid. A few of the tracks were popular. Not really my thing nowadays. Wasn't really back then either.

A truly trend-setting album. It might not play that often, but I hear it's influences a lot more often.

4/5 I get hype cleaning to this.

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.

fat alla lan

I feel like the prodigy's biggest hits on here (Smack My and Firestarter mainly) are seared into my brain from my uncle being obsessed growing up, and I feel like it's hard to rate rave music in a vacuum? Like you need to have a massive crowd of bodies at nighttime with pulsing lasers and I'm just like... On a beach at 10am. But besides that context, I can absolutely find myself still loving the beat breaks and I can only imagine what it would have been like to hear those monster songs for the first time again.

Good ol rock

Elektronische muziek voor mensen die niet van elektronische muziek houden. Beats zijn gigantisch, nummers bijna allemaal lekker. Wat een fantastisch album, en heel veel mensen de meerwaarde van elektronische muziek geleerd!

The most British thing I ever heard

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pretty fun listen. made me think of mike and hs hits. easy to work to, high bpm kept me going early in the AM. heard precursor to heavier bands like NIN (though at this point idk if this album came first).

So good

Not much to say here. Grew up on this record and still love every single track today. Perfect. Liam is a genius. Favourite tracks: Smack My Bitch Up, Breathe, Diesel Power, Narayan, Firestarter.

S Tier————————— Diesel Power A Tier————————— B Tier————————— Climbatize Breathe Narayan Funky Shit Firestarter Fuel My Fire Smack My Bitch Up Mindfields Serial Thrilla

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

Understandable that this album is iconic. I remember hearing smack my bitch up as a kid for the first time and getting totally hyped for it. It's something that probably wont enter my rotation now but all props to The Prodigy for making electronic music give me the same feels as metal would. Im into it!

The dude is true to his name, killing it. Especially given the time and the technology available then. I can see parallels to how certain present day artists sound. (Like Gesafellstein) Smack my bitch up and Firestarter were the standouts for me!

Absolute classic, RIP and always SMACK YO BITCH UP

I am not a fan of this genre. Some tracks were fine but I don't see myself listening to any of it again.

It’s alright, know what you’re getting

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

Lots of the samples were cool but I just couldn't finish this one

4.5/5, i liked it Diesel fire and smack my bitch up

classic twisted fire starter

eld

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.

Some decent beats on here but I couldn’t really get into the lyrics. High 2

This sucks. Should only be heard in a club. Nothing about it makes me want to listen to it. Gave up half way through.

Another piece of trash.

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

This thing was new edge electronic and SLAPPED.

Sound of an era. I don't think it aged that we'll, and felt a lot more repetitive as an album than I remembered it. Still a good album

Kende het al. Vet.

Liked a few of the songs

Great!

What in the UK electronic basement music is this 🚮 First song in the album are words to live by tbh

Album cover goes hard af 👍 “Change my pitch up smack my bitch up” lyrical genius👍 Pins you to seat and beats your heart👍 Actual bangers after bangers👍 What an album!

Actual cheeks

A much needed change from the dad rock

Take me to the London Underground where the Molly flows

Whatcha listenin' to, Bobby?

Fucking AMPED for this one. Wildly ahead of it’s time. The prodigy did the dubstep/riddim/bass music aesthetic 20 years before it became a thing. Producers like G Jones and Nitepunk are just now making Prodigy-style sounds popular in edm. The first two tracks on here are widely considered to be classics, but Mindfields is such a slept on banger. The Noisia remix of Smack My Bitch Up & the Glitch Mob remix of Breathe are modernized versions of these bangers, worth checking out

Og crab rave?

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

I see why this album was one of the first crossover electronic successes as it adds more variety than other albums in the genre.

4/5

Can’t imagine smack my bitch up coming out in 2023 but I remember being amazed at the video when they played it on mtv when I was a kid. There are good songs but they sound very similar to me now. But I guess at the time it was the first time music was totally made on a computer so gotta give that some love.

8/10

Test

It sounds like it was made on a drum kit and 808s, not too my style

Yesh! 🍾

I believe there is a time and place for this, but today at work was not that time and place. Sick cover tho!

It has a very defined vibe from the start and does everything it sets out to do. Each track, no matter how explosive, fits and complements the next extremely well. Favourite tracks: Smack My Bitch Up, Diesel Power, Serial Thrilla, Mindfields, Narayan, Climbatize, Fuel My Fire.

Banger after banger. Not a genre i typically listen to but holy hell these cats are cooking This album makes me feel like im a cyberpunk vagabond outrunning the corpo police in the wastes

Indifferent with points taken off for Smack My Bitch Up. Crab was cool tho

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

Jævlig bra, fyre da ofta. Albumcoveret minne meg om Crab Rave, som også e jævlig bra

Litt ujevnt, men toppane e så sterke at da må bli 5 stjerne

Despite being such a classic, I don't think I'd ever sat and listened all the way through, sticking mostly to the singles. It's an absolute game changer. You can see why it was a dance album that the rock kids took to heart - not just the guitar samples, but the minor 2nds and tritones in the melodies are very 80s thrash. It's a consistently good album, and outside of Firestarter/Breathe/SMBU, has some great tracks in Fuel my Fire and Diesel Power. It's a very, very high 4. The omly reason it's not a 5 is because a few tracks just feel like substandard versions of the hits. Are you ever likely to put on 'Funky Shit' or 'Narayan' instead of Breathe? I'd argue it doesn't have the breadth of something like Jilted Generation or some of the early Chemical Brothers stuff. Definitely a turning point in 90s music though.

not really my cup of tea, sounded like the backtracking to every 90's action film i've ever seen.

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

good album, but short

This album still rips

Acá es donde me pregunto cuál sería la justificación de poner álbumes como este en la lista? Todo suena igual, no hay letra, parece una hora de música de fondo para una pelea en Matrix

okk 6/10

Heavy "big beat" electronic rock. Standouts are the adrenaline pumping "Smack My Bitch Up" as well as fast-paced "Firestarter".

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

This one brought back some memories. I went through a clubbing stage in the late 90s and this album sounded awesome in a club or rave. My old self can't do that any more but this album still sounds solid albeit slightly dated. Firestarter remains an all time banger.

Overall I liked it. Good time capsule to that time period and headspace. Fun to go back to that. Not my favorite sounds ever and can be grating over long periods. Solid album

A definitive album for anyone interested in electronic music. Blends hip-hop, rock, electronic, underground perfectly. Each track flows into the other effortlessly and never hangs onto one sound too long. There is a little something for everyone, but ultimately works best as a workout or rave album.

If this album doesn't make you want to pull a rail of the dirtiest coke/meth you can find in the worst part of England, I don't know what's wrong with you. I'm gonna give this one 5 stars, because for it is the platonic ideal of what it is. There's no making an album more this than this--if that makes sense. It feels like the future in which the worst has happened. So it seems like we're all on track to living in a Prodigy soundtrack. This from start to stop relentlessly executes its near singular visual. But, for real this fucks. It kicks all kind of ass. Breakbreaks, disgusting synths, high BPM, thrusting, violent dance songs. It feels like an album to fuck or to kill to. Maybe both. Heaven help us.

Awesome. It’s funky but also hard hitting and metal af

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

Music to burn society to, in this day and age it seems fitting and apt to fantasize about the impending fall of western civilization and I think this album gives the perfect audio backdrop to that.

Not interesting. I listened for about 15 minutes before I turned it off.

Плохой альбом, я крайне осуждаю подобные тексты и клипы, ужас 8/10

Awesome to listen to. Too fast for me.

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.

This isn't my favourite The Prodigy album, but it's still fantastic. I'm more of a fan of "Experience", as it goes. However, I'm a sucker for a bit of industrial, so this ticks that box nicely. I've fond memories of seeing them live as a teenager and this brings them all back.

Very catchy music, very good background music while playing chill games

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

Yeah, definitely not a music genre I like listening to. I quit after four songs, nothing stood out to me, they all sound the same.

Fuck ya! Kind of a kick ass 90s album. I remember it well. Good times when fuelled by hard liquor, red bull and cigarettes. Ahhh younger me.

One of the best!

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

Feels like they started a revolution with their album many of their songs are instantly recognizable even being decades old

Hip hop type instrumentals, maybe a little EDM lean

LOL prodigy. Not sure I had ever listened to this album in its entirety, so there's that.

not for me

Super nostalgic, my brother played this album nonstop back in the day. Listening to it as an adult, I can't say I purely love it - some tracks bored me. But it has a lot of bangers for sure.

Not bad. Some creative and some fun music.

Eh it was fine. Not really my vibe

Each track has a groove. Turns out I like electro-punk.

Eh.

Run run run

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.

Immer wieder grossartig!

a few catchy tunes, but overall would not recommend

An extraordinary beast of an album. An aural experience and just better than all of that genre.

Didn’t like it

There were one or two classics that I remember from when I was younger, but the overall sound is not my thing.

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.

If getting stoned and going to clubs is your thing, then this is the album for you. I don't enjoy either, so that's it for that.

Brings back great memories

Intense, rhythmic, really fun. I liked it a lot.

Classic, very uptempo

Not so bad, popular music

Sounds like a remix I would hear while playing street fighter

nope

Not a lot of variation, some of the tracks are easy to confuse with others. But damn it’s a good formula. More punk influence than I expected.

fat beats, every track went hard. strong strong 4

7/10 pretty good stuff not really a genre I’m a fun of, but this was still very well made

definetely influential but not my music taste

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

eh, same old droning beats

авансом ставлю 5, надеюсь что также кайфану как в первый раз (вот себе челлендж выдумал, дурачок)

Это то, что ты узнаешь из тысячи. Этот звук, эта манера, эти кислотно-убийственные мотивы. Этот стиль невозможно спутать с кем-то другим. Мы все родились позже. Однако эта музыка всё так же продолжала звучать и в нашем детстве, отрочестве и юношестве. Как и эта легендарная пластинка с её тремя потрясающими синглами (думаю, понятно какими), так и более поздние вещи, типа Invaders Must Die или Omen. Оно живо, оно с нами, это есть в базовой версии натурального Шазама. Настроение улучшилось.

Fuck yes, what an album! Heavy, aggressive and loud, a killer combo of electronic and rock, and as a massive fan of both this was always going to be an easy sell for me. It has a good few of the classics here - Breathe, Firestarter, the excellent-yet-controversial Smack My Bitch Up. This album never misses though. Everything has a similar format but never gets even close to feeling stale. Admittedly I'd not listened to The Fat of the Land in its entirety until now. Shame on me for missing out on some more absolute bangers. Diesel Power is one I have heard a couple of times before but really slept on until now! I wish I was around to see the British rave culture of the 90s, and see the impact and influence of this album first-hand. Alas, this came out around a year before I was born, but I'm sort of glad to see that a 90s revival seems to be hitting the UK EDM mainstream again lately, even though all the new stuff is just a shitty imitation in comparison to the OGs. RIP Keith

Big Shiny Tunes-core Breathe with me

When I was 17 and playing this loud in my bedroom, my mum walked past and said "That sounds like Devil Music" She was right.

HARD!

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

I’ve tried with Prodigy but damn this all just sounds like the same crap

Passables Elektroalbum

Liked Jilted Generation a bit better but this is still a great album and will probably make it's way into my regular rotation

pretty good

This isn't really my genre, but I always kinda liked Prodigy. They're punk rock - like if the Clash did electronica. They keep the tracks relatively short and there is enough variety that I stay interested the whole time. That's saying something.

I'm only here for the comments of 20 year old somethings in 2023 who popped this on on their 7am commute and got Smack My Bitch blasting in their ears for the first time. I already know the album inside out as I was exposed to it when I still had the energy. Yeh, will age a bit but still, bloody hell.

Wow this sucks.

Meh

Yes, you can dance to it, but I hope someone smacks The Prodigy all up for glamorizing abuse.

Techno techno techno, it's fine, and I love that crab on the album art. Very fun to me that it wouldn't be until about 15 years later the trajectories of stuff like this and mainstream pop would overlap, like i have to remind myself this probably would've had a more niche audience than I'd expect nowadays. I wasn't musically checked in at all during the 90s (being younger than 10 years old the whole way through) (sorry to older millennials for mentioning that), but I'd have probably been drawn more to this kinda thing than Smashing Pumpkins

Good

Pretty cool. I can see why this has such an impact

Old albums being boring I am sad we used to make music like this. Could grow on me but I doubt it sorry. Favorite Tracks: Diesel Power

75/100

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

This was 12 when it came out. It's not the best Prodigy album, but it has an indelible place in my heart as a result.

Interesting but not for me

Felt like I was trapped in a circa 2006 Transporter movie. Not for me.

TOM HOLLAND??? WAT THE FUCK!!? I DONT WANNA TALK TO YO BITCH ASS

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

Great electronic dance music. Danceable/raveable. Heavy, energetic, chaotic. Flows well between songs. The songs are built well.

The first album I ever bought 25 years or so ago. Its as good now as it is then. Timeless classic

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

Pretty good.

it's very aimed at the mainstream but damn it still hits hard.

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

interesting to hear their electronic music but not going for a repeat listen.

Great album. Changed the landscape of rock and dance music

Unbelievable album full of energy, anger and catchy hooks. Deserves its place as the fastest selling UK album. It encapsulates the feeling of the 90's. One of my favorites!

Good album, lots of bangers, great sampling probably 3.5

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

Not my type of music but the singles are ok

Not for me

Heard before: some Look, I get that the point of this is to be scuzzy, in your face dance music. But at the end of the day, that means it’s scuzzy and not fun to listen to. Just way too long and uninterested in anything except sticking its tongue out. Nice crab on the cover though. Top tracks: Firestarter, Diesel Power, Fuel My Fire

Second Prodigy album and I’m certain that they aren’t for me. Their music is jarring, I don’t like this. 2 stars

Not exactly my type of music, but this was good, the singles jump out at you right away but even the filler songs have a lot going on with them really liked Serial Thrilla

It was alright but nothing special

What a smashing album. From the controversy of "Smack my bitch up" to the pretendy Indo-hippy chants of one of England's most awkwardly embarrassing musical mistakes - of course I mean Crispian Mills - this is a masterpiece of English EDM. Starting off strong with Breathe, this album doesn't really back down. While it is ultimately a product of the mid nineties, it is the epitome of The Prodigy's ouvre, giving them success out the wahooey and doing what was previously impossible. Getting pill-headed ravers, speeding metallers and lager-swilling britpoppers onto the same dancefloor. Without them killing each other. Well. The pill-headed ravers would be too busy hugging each other, but there might have been some collateral damage from the lager and the whizz. It's actually fairly astonishing that an album as out-and-out aggressive as this managed to win almost everyone over. There was the usual knee-jerkery from the Mary Whitehouse types, but they utterly failed to spot of factionalism was just abandoned totally in appreciation of this album. Today it holds up. A lot of the samples now are almost painfully 90s (hey hey hey!) but the record still hits the same. You're angry and you bloody love it.

Holds up. Pretty good rave music.

Brilliant energetic music with the 3 classic singles on it. Not whole album that level, but 4 stars easily.

Instant 5 Stern.

The album cover is cool as fuck. Right on, crab man, you get yours! But I hate this music. It sucks so much. Rating a bit more kindly for mr. cool crab.

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.

Iconic album, almost full of great songs and few gems. Funnily enough, I actually like their newer stuff a lot as well, mainly Invaders Must Die album, but one has to admit, this record was a proper breakthrough and deserves to be on every list. One of the amazing electronic releases from nineties!

4.0

3.5

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

One of the most important albums in British music This album is pure energy captured into music form While the singles are undoubtedly the best tracks on here, the bombastic aura carries through the whole album R.I.P. Keith Favourite tracks: Smack My Bitch Up, Breathe, Serial Thrilla, Narayan, Firestarter, Climbatize

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.

SMACK MY

genuine shame this was made by british people. pulls you out of the soundscape when there’s speech. a delightful charcuterie board of electronic aesthetics, but overlong in my opinion. took several attempts to finally hear the whole record at once. feels like an extremely long album, listening to it is exhausting.

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

Relative to other EDM albums that are likely on this list, I would have to say this is likely going to be the one that’s most appealing to me. Objectively, this album is fast-paced rage-dance. It’s catchy, and it’s action packed. It’s unique and fun and it hits hard!

Electronic music pioneers delivering mind-blowing beats and fearless experimentation. An easy 5/5

One of the better electronic albums on here. Still too repetitive for my tastes.

Rating: 8/10 Best songs: Smack my bitch up, Breathe, Mindfileds, Firestarter

Bangerz!

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.

Most of it I'd great, some undoubted filler

Good times

Some belters

Techno. Dos megahits. Un 4.

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

eh

When I was a preteen edgelord (edgelady?) I was appalled when The Prodigy were beaten by THE SPICE GIRLS at the 1997 Brit Awards. I had an official Prodigy calendar and made a tiny Keith Flint Firestarter head out of modelling clay for my school project. An easy 5*. Fan tip - check out Maxim's collaboration with Skin from Skunk Anansie!

2/5 Best: Climbatize Worst: Serial Thrilla

Turned 16 in late 1996, bought this album when I first got my license later in 97. Blared this album all summer down the shore in my mom's Mercury Villager. Great times. Ni hypocrisy Herr, as I just knocked the Buzzcocks down to 2 starts cause there was no depth. Lots more to chew on here in Fat of the Land, but these drum beats are interchangeable, and as with all electronic music, tracks are too long. Not ever concept needs repeating 5 times over 6min. I wish I had a 4 5 option

p806. 1997. 2.5 stars So, someone learnt how to programme a drum machine. This hasn't dated well - 10 seconds of it and you are immediately in the late 90s - and twenty years on it sounds tedious and repetitive. Perhaps you had to be there at the time to enjoy it.

I used to like The Prodigy quite a bit when I was younger bu I have to say that this album really doesn't hit me the way it used to. Maybe I just got old idk

Well this is something for an early morning. I think everbody heard smack my b up an firestarter a million times by now. And if i was into those songs I would have checked out the record. But alas, its not my kind of music. There are some good songs and I can understand why people like it. But for me it's a one and done deal.

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

Best songs - Smack My Bitch Up, Breathe

Not my cup of tea. I like the ones with some rap on it but not the funky stuff. 2.2/5

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.

At last, a British electronic music album that doesn’t outstay its welcome. On their masterpiece, the Prodigy thumb their noses at convention and turn in a hard-hitting collection of fabulous songs.

It does sound very 90s. It feels wrong listening to this sober. Not something that I'll be listening to again

amazing album

Pillar album to electronics dance music

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

hell yeah, Liam Howlett is a genius

fantastico

This album really broke through at the time. I have never been a fan of electronic music or techno, but I remember listening to this when it first came out and enjoying some of the sounds here. All that being said, the genre still doesn't really work for me. It was a fine background choice while reading a book. That's about all I can muster for this one.

Yes top, until 2023 !!! ; ) ***

Hahaha no shit that song Firestarter is on here. That's it though, pretty much one-note.

absolutely not. i can respect the space this occupied in the 90s but I need to be on drugs if I'm going to listen to any of these songs ever again. 1.4/5

Was ok, was listening to it while at work and went quick to me. Giving it 2 stars as I cannot give it 2.5

There's some decent stuff on this album, but it just drones on and on. I know it's electronic music, but it was incredibly repetitive. I had to stop before finishing the album.

Not my thing. But a brilliant use of technology and very interesting to listen to.

2.5

although i appreciate their contributions to the electronic genre, this particular style is not my cup of tea. the lyrical content is extremely dated too. songs like “smack my bitch up” are blatantly misogynistic. that being said, i did find myself grooving to a few songs

5/5

Always a banger. Instant transport to 1996 8.5/10

Electronica. No soul.

ég er hrifinn. elst vel, áhrif frá hipphopp og þyngri iðnaðardanstónlist.

Stil sounds menacing and magnificent

Feel like I am watching a 90s piracy ad while listening to this. Wasn’t all that impressed but it is nice to turn on to get work done.

Breathe is a strong song. Pretty good DIESEL POWER! new theme song ahaha Funky shit: so many synths! Ooh I love the drumline in Serial Thrilla. It also sounds like the music in The Matrix's lobby shootout scene Minefields: finally some non-synths! Sounds like I'm in a medival blacksmith shop lol I'm not gonna lie this music all sounds kinda the same Narayan has a cool chant though! toast approves Firestarter: honestly gives me doom eternal vibes in a weird way ahaha I wonder what this genre is called. Electronic? Techno? Hip hop? I'd call it techno-hiphop but I'm not sure. It's a very 90's sound Wikipedia says that it's "big beat" or also electropunk which I suppose I see. The genre does have some cool drum riffs but it gets really repetitive really quickly. Music to do parkour to ahahaha As far as the album goes, I think it's accomplishing what it's trying to, but I think it's just too repetitive. It does have some cool motifs going on each song, but I think each song is still mostly more of the same.

4.5 Enjoyed this

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?

Dislike

This is the second album I have received from The Prodigy--hopefully the last--and this is the one I assumed the first one was. It has the songs that I remember getting serious radio play when this came out. I was in to this slightly more than the first one, but ss I said on the first review, this band and this music is not for me. But I am happy that it exists for the people that it is for.

Un muy buen disco, la realidad es que no entiendo de donde surge ni en que contexto este genero tiene tanto exito. El nivel de inmersion desde que se le da play es impresionante, hace que uno se sienta 100% parte de algo cinematográfico 7/10.

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 want to give this 5 stars and say it’s the best dance album of all time… But A lot of the songs do sound very similar so at an hour long, it got pretty boring at times. Still some absolute bangers on here but you shouldn’t have to skip the second half of tunes on a 5 star album.

This album leaves with the taste of nothing in my mouth. A palette cleanser that goes on too long. They thought so far outside the box that they ended up making their own box that they were unable to think outside of. The music of this album fails to deliver the excitement promised to us listeners by the cover art. I am disappointed, but not surprised. 2/5

This is up there for me in terms of albums I’ve listened to repeatedly over the years. The music video for Smack my Bitch Up still stands the test of time as one of the most shocking imo. Love Kool Keith on Diesel Power. They put on a great live show too!

Classic album that defines the 1990s. Climbatize is a great sleeper song.

I liked this more than Music for the Jilted Generation

Not really my vibe but fine.

good album top 3 songs breathe diesel power fuel my fire

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

Just incredible

Listens: 2 Enjoyed: yes Theres a beauty here - a mixture of two genres which should never be integrated but is done in such a way to make it feel so right

Breath with me! Not a daily listener, but required when the mood hits.

For EDM/Techno, The Prodigy is pretty fucking good.

Liked this a lot more 25 years ago. A few tracks still hold up

ENERGY. Some complete bangers. Even the 9 minute track was manageable. Plus it had some fantastic mid 90s dance rap on it, which is a fetish of mine.

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

Things are just different in the UK. So many singles from Prodigy hitting #1 on the UK singles charts – it’s hard to imagine driving around in my car in the 90s, turning the FM dial and finding “Firestarter” on high rotation! They deliver quite a one-two punch with the opening tracks and the relentless energy stays high throughout the album. “Breathe” is my favourite with Keith Flint sounding very Johnny Rotten-like, as he should, since they define their music as electronic punk. Maybe Flint is the addition that made this so much more palatable (to me) than their prior LP, or maybe I just prefer breakbeats to rave. It’s well-produced with great drums and open spaces to drop the bass. Dance all night long!

Well electronic music is one of my favourite genres, but this drum and bass shit is my least favourite. I find this sound incredibly annoying, its just too in your face and anxiety inducing. Music for obnoxious yobs.

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

Firestarter. 4/5

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!

Slapping bangers!

⭐️Smack My Bitch Up

Album meraviglioso, molto orecchiabile. Si può utilizzare anche per una sessione di allenamento di giocoleria

Solid. Timeless.

This album would be much better if each song was about a minute and a half shorter. It's fun for the most part, but every single track is repetitive beyond belief. Favorite track: Narayan

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.

ok we’re back! sick album cover I wanted smack my bitch up to give me more. With such a provocative name it was pretty tame. People fucking love this album. The whole album gave me similar vibes to the pirating warning that played before DVDs and VHS tapes.. the like YoU WOUldnT sTeaL a CAr?! wHY stEAl dVD?! ones ya know? Ummm after reading about it I can appreciate its status as a force in the rave movement. It’s more zombie race music than I would like but happy that there are beats for plur babies to dance to

Lots of noises

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

Toujours le même rythme, toujours les mêmes structures de chansons souvent trop longues, je ne pense toujours pas être capable de discerner avec certitude Firestarter de Breathe, mais ça fonctionne à fond quand meme. J'avais oublié Climbatize, un peu à part et très cool.

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

It is an hour of electronic music. I don't not need an hour of electronic music.

first listen something absolutely classic about this

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

The trouble starters, the instigators... The Prodigy came along at a very interesting and important time for electronic music. With The Fat of the Land, their third outing, they not only became a beacon of the wild new sounds emerging from wherever it came but they became a symbol of what would become of the genre's popularity going forward. Fusing rock and hip-hop into techno strains, The Fat of the Land settles itself into a microcosm of the type of impact (and triggers of fear and controversy their songs generated) that they were capable of. This is just a distiller of what and how things were in 1997 and it has aged quite well twenty-five plus years on. This is the funky shit, this is the fat of the land, this is The Prodigy doing good for the jilted generation.

Such an amazing band at the height of their career. The anticipation for this album from me was huge. At that stage I had seen Prodigy a few times and they are still one of the best live acts I have witnessed. This album captures a of that and more

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