Reviews (page 12 of 15)
Is this trance music? I don’t hate it. There were some good hooks. I don’t think smackin’ bitches is ok to do anymore, thankfully. I shared it with Selim and he loved it, as expected. 2.7
Was going to skip, but listened anyway. Ended up liking it a lot more than expected. Nearly 30 yrs later, it still goes hard. Prodigy is a pioneer of big beat - crazy. 3.5
Absolute banger. Wish I had seen them in the 90s but they blew me away in 2004ish. Bangers form start to finish.
This Nine Inch Nails dance music feels dated. There are some cool hooks here and there but I'm not that big a fan of this 90s goth-core industrial electro British club kid rave music or whatever sub-genre it fits into.
Not good apart from the songs I already knew
Legendary 90s album!
Still sounds as fresh as it did 30 years ago.
Absolute classic, banger after banger.
Fun clubby and dubby big beat release. Great vocals too.
see what they accomplished, but it's not for me. 2.5* fav.: breathe
Listened to this while playing Barcelona with my best friend. He won. This album was way more fantastic than I thought it would be. I recognized so many of the songs, and every single one of them is a banger. The one negative for me are the vocals. From time to time they take an amazing song and make it considerably less appealing. Listening to this reminded me of the movie Go!
classic
Terrible. Couldn't finish it. Would have rather listened to Rebecca Black's Friday on repeat.
Hated it. It was all over the place
5*
skipped every song
These fucking guys again. Look sure fine if I were at a rave in the nineties this would slap but I’m not and Smack My Bitch just isn’t my vibe.
Classic
This album is so rad. Danceable, intense and just 90s in the best/worst way. Also, fukcing CRAB
3.5
just not my taste. too noisy
Wow. This takes me back to every half remembered party or rave that I went to between the ages of 20 and 21. I had forgotten all about The Prodigy but this is actually a pretty awesome album. Breathe is such a great track!
I didn't hate it as much as I thought I was going to hate it, but I didn't really like it either. I do appreciate some of the middle eastern/Indian influences but still not my thing. Like most electronic dance music, it's just too repetitive. 2 stars.
I'm blown away by how hard this production hits given its age. I often find that older stuff (especially metal and electronic) lacks the bite of modern production, but this has it. The bass is thick, and everything sounds big af.
Actually goes pretty hard, I like the rock influence over the electronic production, kinda cool. 8/10
4 gode gamle klassikere. Ellers litt litt mye rap og litt lite fengende?
Very vibey reminds of music my Dad would play a lot
Brilliant album
As soon as I finished this album I played it again and listened to it all the way through a second time. There’s so much raw energy in this music that holds up to this day, I can’t imagine how mind blowing it must have been to listen to it when it first came out. This album defines the late 90s grungy techno/industrial scene (the prodigy, NIN, the chemical brothers) that make you feel like you’re in a matrix movie when you’re listening to it. This sound holds a lot of space in my head for some reason. It just works for me
Something my son would like.
Good
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Lots of amen beat adjacent british electric music. Sorta industrial. Sirta samey. Tight A-rab singin indian chanting sometimes. Best 1,2, 10
I thought this was very cool in 1997... and honestly it holds up better than the other UK electronica stuff that's been on the list so far. Especially Breathe. 3.7
i do enjoy those big beats BOOM BOOM CHHHH: 8.8/10
Current favs: funky shit and smack my bitch up, very chill but still danceable and upbeat, nothing to hardcore
Almost reminds me of jet set Radio. Used to not be an acid house guy, now I am
2.5
Take my picture! Snap my picture! The Prodigy giving us lessons in photography from the mid 90s On a serious note this whole album is gold
Nah not really my style but some sounds was fine
Fav: Firestarter
I love the prodigy, their best album by far
Techno before techno I’m all for it. Paved the way for a lot of new age dance music. A lot of songs go really hard. I could play it at the gym, a run, playing games, sports, free running… just makes you want to do things. Lots of well known songs that I didn’t know who made them. Kinda rap songs as well. Fun journey. 7/10
I'm the firestarter, twisted firestarter. A fun album from front to back but not much nuance to it. It's a good listen and if you enjoy techno and a little hip hop as well you'll like this album along with it having a couple of big hits spread throughout. 7/10
I can’t believe they made an album of the ‘You wouldn’t download a car commercial’. There are three massive hits on this album that are absolute bangers in the sense that you end up chanting along to the simple lyrics of smacking of bitches and starting fires. I enjoyed Narayan and Fuel My Fire quite a bit but the other songs were a little too similar to really shine. In the same electronica vein, The Chemical Brothers I believe provide a more distinct and diverse sound and this really just made me want to listen to them. Still a pretty solid heavy electronica album. 7/10
Iconic sounds
I got this on vinyl when it came out -- not for the hits, but for "Climbatize."
DANCE PARTYYYYY
If you seen the crab dance, you will see it in your brain on almost every song. That being said, most of them are kind of meh to me. at a time, especially funky shit pretty fun to dance to if you were out but otherwise I would never put this album on. I mean I would never put this album on lol.
Never heard of this before! Crab rave! Goes on too long but good.
Time capsule record. Didn’t age particularly well. Sounds very dated but can see the value. It’s a cool album with a lot of early edm influence that you can see. Not really for me but enjoyed the listen through. 3/5
Pretty good themes
Banger after banger after banger. This album, and band, was the soundtrack from my pre-puberty till early adulthood and I am glad it aged like a fine wine.
I saw the Prodigy at the big day out. Their best songs came from this album. Not totally my bag, but a classic nonetheless
This is not usually my kind of music, but there's no doubting that this was a seminal album, and perhaps the best of its kind. There are three legitimate classics of electro dance on this one release. For pure nostalgia value, I'm adding a star.
10/10
Looping sample music - kinda makes you angry.
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