The Fat Of The Land

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

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

Bought because it was a bit different for me. Still sounds good.

Badass

A fun listen, but probably not something I'd return to. Really liked the final track, Fuel My Fire. Climbatize was probably my least fav track, it dragged on and on.

Chingon

High School! Mercury Cougar, CD on all the time. Kate Aspell too. For sure 6 out of 5 stars

Score: 90 Album art: 100 Ocean man Kind of crazy to think a song called smack my bitch up that sounded like this was ever a hit song. This music was ahead of its time and not very many people were ready for it. The dark and industrial grooves are more mainstream now, and im sure this album helped usher in those types of sounds. Not every single moment of every track is perfect but it's super fun to listen to. The production is insane too. Also there's a crab

THIS SHIT LIT. ALL HAIL CRAB! We were so white bread back then Smack My Bitch Up was super controversial. Oh wait, reading some comments people are still worked up... Shut up, it's fucking dance music, so get jiggy with it. I enjoy how aggressive and energetic it feels with the notes of hard rock and hip hop. I listened to this shit constantly when I was younger, this music makes a kid feel cool.

The best Prodigy album for me. Not the fittest of fellas, but makes me absolutely beast a run

READY TO KNOCK SOMEONES HEAD OFF AND RUN 10K BABY!!

Giving this a pity second star. Mostly bad.

I am a fire starter, i wicked firestarter

Still a good album. So very 90's

its cute

Pure, chaotic and LOUD dance music. Not for everybody, but definitely an album that warrants a listen.

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

Been a long time since I listened to this one. Held up well over the years. Start to finish great stuff.

Timeless, deserves proper speakers. MFTJG is better though.

Nope. This is more dated than Tripp pants.

very cool album with some bangers and some other just solid edm vibers

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.

Classic solid

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

This album just bangs man. It's impossible to not get hyped up while listening to it. I practically wore the CD of this OUT in high school.

Nothing too great on this one. Whole thing sounds like the soundtrack to a 2003 heist movie.

Jamming. I like how exciting the electronic music is on this album, even if some of the songs are too long.

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

Better than I remembered.

"The Fat of the Land" is the third studio album from the English electronic music group The Prodigy (now just called Prodigy btw). It was their first album to feature vocalist Keith Flint who was lead vocalist on four songs and co-wrote three. Their music genres listed are big beat, electronica, electropunk, electronic rock technology and dance rock. I wrote that just to write electropunk but all those fit. The album was surrounded by controversy by the National Organization of Women and the song "Smack My Bitch Up" and its misogyny. No matter what the band really meant, there's no getting around that with the title. The album received critical acclaim and reached #1 in both the UK and US. The album gets right into it with "Smack My Bitch Up." A repetitive beat. Driving synths. Weird noises. A distorted sample of Kool Keith's vocals of the Ultramagnetic MCs repeating "Change My Pitch up/Smack My Bitch Up" from the song "Give the Drummer Some." Supposedly about about doing anything intensely. An eerie synth opening on their second single "Breathe." A jittery beat. A sample of a whirling sword sound. That's original. Flint on vocals. A big song from what I remember. "Mindfields" sounds more techno. The beat is pounding like a hammer with a more Middle Eastern melody on the synths. Distorted lyrics. Life is like walking through a minefield. Really good song. Their first single "Firestarter" has a faster beat, a helicopter-type sound and annoying weird noises. I remember being kind of annoyed when this came out; it sounded OK today. They cover L7 on the last song "Fueling Fire." Here's the electropunk. This sounded like if early Gary Numan met Ministry and it works. I expected this album to sounded dated but I actually liked it. It's pretty solid throughout and they vary the music up throughout. I see the controversy in the first song's title and lyric but beyond that there wasn't too much offensive unless you rather dislike the music then it is. An album worth going back to if your a fan of the six genres previously mentioned.

Love the energy on this one, but, wtf with the first song

Just not good. Can’t believe this artist has this many albums included. Ridiculous. This is noise with percussion. Cannot be a must hear.

To use one of their song titles as inspiration: electronic shit

A total design classic. Heard it everywhere non stop through about 2002, and very lucky to stumble across them at their peak in a field in Portugal around June '96. Bangin'

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

Genetically, pedophiles have more genes in common with crabs than they do with you and me. Now that is scientific fact. There's no real evidence for it, but it is scientific fact.

A whirlpool of mind bending rocket fuel that spins you inside out and leaves you dripping with an urgent sense to fuck anything in front of you. A crunched up volcano at the point of climax, pulsating and throbbing, ready to culminate all over your brand new shoes. It's the entire Chelsea first team and backroom staff jizzing all over your chest on a Tuesday afternoon.

Go on, Bort, you big raving crab. Episode 7. Scott books flights to Thailand in a desperate attempt to try and find an animal sanctuary that he's still allowed to visit.

Heavy, driving bass with lots of Star Wars gun ‘pew-pew’ noises = music? I think the portion of this that sounded cool and futuristic in the 90s has not aged well at all. They went for loudness over any sort of melody or catchiness and it makes this record really boring and grating. 4/10

- welp, name of first song is concerning

There seem to be a lot of albums like this on this long list. At least "The Fat of the Land" tickled my interest more powerfully than the other Prodigy selection, "Music for the Jilted Generation".

WELL this angry crab moving photo album cover is pretty cool and really captures a crab's personality and the way that they move too haha. I don't know about this album. I can definitely support The National Organisation for Women when they publicly objected to the track Smack My Bitch Up. It's just such a shame that has to ruin the rest of this amazing album and even that tune is incredible the vocals towards the end from Shahin Badar are mesmerisingly gorgeous. It's not even them singing that line it's all a sample. Couldn't they find something else to fit in there?? I find their claim that it was meant to represent "doing anything intensely" absolutely sickening... I wish I could focus on some of the other tracks and the fact of how influential their music was in the electronic music world and for so many musicians to come. I just think of all of the generation of 11-18 year-old boys listening to this album and getting all hyped and fired up and never even thinking about smacking any bitches up but always thinking a band who could get to number 1 for so fucking long with that line as the words ringing in everyone's heads were so great and cool. They purely just did it to get people talking about them that much is obvious and it worked and it's infuriating. SHAME!

I can't think of any time you'd want to listen to this other than off your nut at a rave. I put this off for 2 days as I couldn't handle it on a Monday but then got a ratty cold and confirm it's not the soundtrack for that situation either. Ah it's just real intense. And I bet it's really hard and very impressive to create music like this that is so popular, it's probably a intricate process but not my bag. A struggle

Great stuff, got some of their bangeriest bangers on there.

A touch flabby.

just a little too jack sprat for my liking

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.

Love this. I think I got really into The Prodigy when they played at Big Day Out in 2009, and I would use the lineups for music festivals to find new music and download a stack of torrents. I also went down the rabbit hole of watching "epic" live crowd videos on Youtube of Prodigy concerts which got 14 year old me pretty fired up.

Pretty kewl

Bangin album. Fire starter vid one of the most iconic from my childhood Fave track - smack my bitch up

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

smakc my bithc up

Fav songs: - Smack My Bitch Up - Breathe - Nayaran - Firestarter

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

90-tallet var syre!

I must have absorbed this record by osmosis in 1998, because I knew every single one of these songs. (Does math) …so that means I’m good on listening to this album again until 2048.

The thing I like most about this album is the crab on the cover just living his best life.

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

I scrolled through it quickly while intoxicated. Didn’t seem like my taste, but not too bad.

Incredible album, incredible songs!

Already listened

"Oim a foiah stahtah, tweested foiah stahtah" Elska þetta. Svo mikið kaos.

It’s best to start this album and go to work on some task. Let it go, let it flow. I did stop to check out Narayan. That one got a 2nd listen and probably more to come.. it was hypnotic Keith was incredible and the bass playing on most of these songs was unbelievable

Oh man one of my absolute favorites! These dudes are insane. Ridiculous live show. Blasting this in my '92 Corsica, windows down, nothing to worry about in the world. No other hard electronic band had the mainstream power like the Prodigy in those days. Their songs were rightly featured in some great films, and are still used to illustrate the frenetic action energy of a story.

I remember that broken nose every time.

A little of this goes a long way. Or maybe nowhere at all. Not my jam

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

"Smack my Bitch Up" is still a definite rager to this day. Despite the varied crossover, the album dulls out a bit near the end. It sounds like a product of its era.

A bit too jazzy for 7am

Very loud

Fav song: Smack My Bitch Up

Excellent album, soul affirming funky hip-hoppy metal rave. Hard, uncompromising, energetic, wonderful. Strong, British, full of a sort of anarchic liberty which is deeply satisfying. I remember hearing it for the first time as a child in the 90s and it absolutely blew me away. What a record

Probably the most well known Prodigy album. The Fat of The Land released in 1997 and even though I was pretty young at the time I still remember my compilation CD I had that had Breathe as one of the songs. That song and Smack my bitch up starts the album and I would say that they're modern classics that most people remember. The rest of the album also delivers tight beats, insane samplings and an intensity that's hard to match. The single Firestarter appears much later on the album and is easily as good as Breathe and Smack my bitch up. In my opinion The Prodigy didn't manage to create a follow up to this album until 2009 when they released Invaders Must Die.

Lively and upbeat. would recommend

I knew the singles of course, but I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this as a whole. This kind of bombastic 90s electronic music is not something I know very well, but this makes me think I should dig deeper.

It haunts me to this day. Any of these tracks make me think of 2000s racing games, late night MTV, and intrigue of druggy sub cultures.

Hyvä rapulevy Kaikki kappaleet ei niin hyviä, mutta sisältää prodigyn isoimpia klassikoita niin 4 tähteä

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

I loved this album. Not only were the songs I know (and loved) great but the most of the other songs felt good to me too.

One of the better albums of the genre, though at some point, you could no longer distinguish which track is which. Maybe that’s the point.

An odd album, a compelling mix of guitar, samples and synth that is maximized to full effect across all ten tunes here. The prodigy sound hungry and driven here, leading to shocking and incredibly effective cuts like single "breathe" which still sounds as raw and innovative as anything else to come out of the late 90s rave trend. Hell, even the 9 minute guitar/electronica epic works ("Narayan"). However, when the Prodigy aren't motivated, often the quality decreases and the songs sound tired and worn out. Thankfully though, the album keeps a tight grip on its runtime and its goals never slide out of focus fully, leading to a thrilling, riotous hour that is definitely worth your time. A great record.

Could have been a 5 minute album. Electronic circlejerk.

Kinda a mood

Pretty okay

If you don't like this album, the crabs will find you. To say "this music goes hard" would be an understatement, because I don't think anything has ever gone or will ever go "harder" than this. This is the hardest shit ever. Nintendo Ninja Turtles hard. Insert dick joke here.

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.

"Smack My Bitch Up..." Why? Oh, who cares. Fuck off.

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 neat listening to Firestarter at a Trader Joe's

it's a vibe

A lot of yelling haha

Sick bruz

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.

SICK AFFFF! Obsessed

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.

New artist! Not for me! 0/5

Very electronic from the get go Do not like the opening song, not a great start You do not like this album. Too 90's electro

Great album, unique sound

I remember this being a slight disappointment at the time as it came out after the the singles. They were always great live in a way that made the albums a bit secondary anyway. Album sounds better than I remember but it might just be the nostalgia talking. You reach an age where you forget that people have died and Keith Flint is always one of those people that I have to remind myself isn't here anymore.

Stupid and contagious.

Snap wel dat die zanger er uiteindelijk een einde aan heeft gemaakt; ik zit niet eens in die band en word er al helemaal onrustig van...

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

Smack My Bitch Up gemakshalve maar even geskipt want die is echt over de houdbaarheidsdatum heen. De rest van het album vond ik destijds al geweldig en nu nog altijd kan ik het heel goed hebben.

Wat een heerlijke kneiterds staan hier op!

Too long mostly. Other than the 3 radio songs, this is not that great.

Hard to listen a full album of this.

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.

A few of the tracks are actually surprisingly not bad; nice rhythm and melody. Unfortunately, the rest are just unlistenable noise. Unrelated to the album itself: the cover art prompted me to go listen to Crab Rave again. It's been playing in my head all day now. Reminds me of simpler times before the pandemic!

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 am quite familiar and fond of "Firestarter", "Smack My Bitch Up", "Breathe", and "Mindfields". While I[m not a huge fan of electronic music, this album gave me a lot of nostalgia and new songs that I had never heard before. I normally love rap, but the one rap song, "Diesel Power", felt a bit out of place with the music. I do enjoy a good genre crossover here and there but this one fell short. Overall a fantastic album, just short of 5 stars!

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

Eh. was happy when it ended

It was alright. Average to me

Fire singles, the rest is fine.

Good for fast driving

Enjoyed more than I thought I would

Very cool and good

I mean, it's good GSD background music but, if you take the effort to actively listen, it gets pretty old pretty fast. Very repetitive. But what they're doing here is cutting edge and really novel for the time and I really did enjoy it for the most part. I'm feeling generous so this one gets 4 stars from me.

The lesson here is, whether you're making music or starting fires, be terrific at what you do. 5 terrific brachyuras out of 5 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

Wow, two Prodigy albums in a week! I wish I had revealed this before I went out for my jog. I'm not as fond of this one as "Jilted", but its still a very significant album. I think as a whole, "Jilted" is a better album, but the singles on this one are better. "Smack My Bitch Up" is a bit weird to listen to now and hasn't aged well, no matter what way the guys try to explain it. It would have been perfect as a purely instrumental song. I did always prefer the Enya Orinogo Flow mash up anyway.

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

This was an instant classic, and it's the Prodigy at their best. I'm not a huge fan of the final track, "Fuel My Fire," but I don't hate it, either. Everything else is brilliant, especially "Mind Fields," "Narayan," and my personal favorite, "Diesel Power," (which features the underappreciated Kool Keith). Absolutely love this album.

The best album of its time & genre. I remember dancing to these songs at clubs, and it's my workout go-to. Running to this album is pure adrenaline. This album will always be a personal favorite.

Nose, eso

Fuck yeah

So close to a 5 it's a bit tot repetitive, and a bit too 90s. 4.6 maybe.

Some serious bangers, but definitely some fat on the album, keeping it from being a 5/5.

If I had to choose, this would be the album I’d choose to have my jaw swinging to.

Good techno

I prefer their first but plenty of bangers onhere

One thing I like about taking on this 1001 project is having the opportunity see how artists evolve from album to album. Fat of the Land is an excellent example of this. I listened to Music For The Jilted Generation a few months ago and liked it well enough, but this album is far superior. It shows tremendous growth in the band. The album is tighter, more polished and more focused. The band has lost some of their grit in the 3 years between albums, but this is a case study in how you can trim away the rawness of your sound without losing your edge or your power. This is an album with a clear musical point of view, memorable songs, strong beats. And it has aged really well. I enjoyed this. Fave Songs: Firestarter, Breathe, Climbatize, Funky Shit, Narayan, Mindfields

100th album!!! Definitely liked this one, super fun and makes for great background music especially, since every song kind of blended into one (which might be considered a negative thing) - therefore i'm not sure if there's much here that I would revisit individually except the first couple of songs, but its a very well made album nonetheless and deserves a spot on this list.

Amazing how many iconic sounds come from this album, awesome stuff!

Techno, not my thing.

listend 5 times in a row, and somehow it seemed to mellow a little more each time

<copy-paste> Wauw! Back to the 90s met dit album dat ik letterlijk grijs gedraaid heb in mijn "jeugd! Ongelooflijk als bijna alle nummers op een album geweldig zijn! <copy-paste> Dat schreef ik eerder deze week over het album "Music for the Jilted Generation" maar dat is ook hier van toepassing. Beste album blijft echter "Experience". *****

Too much

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

classic 90s album love it Firestarter and smack my bitch up are 90s bangers

Didn't finish. only did first 2 songs. they were abrasive and uncomfortable to listen to, but also somewhat fun in their own right. they really captured that "late 90s action movie chase scene" feel. also can't help but dig the choppy drum loops. overall, not something i would want to listen to regularly

Dated but dope. Can hear some hints of industrial in here. Most songs sound like they could be in a Tony Hawk game.

Like nothing ive heard before

i like the bum tss bum tss beep boop music

Still sounds bloody good. I don't love it as much as their previous two albums, but it is still excellent.

Fully bro

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.

Yeah, these guys were good. The beats knock you on your butt immediately. Smack My Bitch Up, Breathe, and Firestarter are massively popular tracks, and with good reason. Like a lot of this album they are infectious. Funky Sh&t and Mindfields were other tracks that I couldn't shake, in a good way. What struck me about the album is it's electronic but doesn't always feel that way - it feels bass or drum heavy at times, it feels like there are guitars and instruments (which there are, but even when there aren't). It has its moments where a song runs on too long or has too extreme/annoying of loops or beats (looking at you Serial Thrilla). But it is a fun listen that I'm willing to repeat or makes we want to explore more Prodigy.

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.

Valet står mellan 2 och 3. Finns ju några dansrökare på plattan.

Colonna sonora perfetta per parkour, intervallo di una partita, rapina in banca.

The Fat Of The Land has a few iconic tracks and isn't bad overall, but the full Prodigy experience doesn't really come across listening on record while working. No fault of theirs I guess, but it didn't really grab me enough outside of the singles to get more than a middling high 2/5.

Not really my type of music, but this is really good. I like the more psychedelic stuff more (think Climbatize was my favourite), a bit less aggressive big beats than most of it, but the rest of it still works really well despite being 25 years old. Consistently good, three instantly recognisable tracks, 4/5 for me.

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

Like one long song that just wouldn't end. It literally hurt my brain listening to this. I'm guessing the only real way to handle this is on drugs at a rave?

Not my style of music. I didn't listen them in the '90s But today it's more than just ok.

Muy bueno. Mucho uso de samplers para armar las bases y la continuidad en el tema. Después tienen sus arreglos de guitarra, sintez o voz medio rapeada. Es más lo rítimo y las capas que la melodía o un trabajo armónico innovador.

This album is so much fun!

There's an enjoyable song on this album. The problem is that they play it 10 times with different names.

Love this album its so awesome

One of the very best electronica albums of all time.

Great album, can get slightly repetitive after a while

Class

Holds up well.

SMBU, Breathe and Firestarter are classics but the rest of the album is pretty great too.

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.

-S Tier- Smack My Bitch Up Breathe Diesel Power Mindfields Firestarter -A Tier- Funky Shit Narayan -B Tier- Climbatize -C Tier- Serial Thriller Fuel My Fire AVG SCORE: 4 / 5 - - - Another hugely influential album for me. This was the soundtrack of my “Hack the planet” phase in late middle school and early high school. WaReZ, Back Orifice, Sub7, the Rainbow Books, Jolly Roger, my first lineman’s handset…This album brings the memories flooding back. I love it.

Wish I could have seen these guys. I love this album. Listened 50x

Boom!

I absolutely love this album from start to finish. Back in the day, this was my first foray into electronica music.

I don’t get this.

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

Didn't like it personally. Subjective opinion, not objective

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.

Really enjoyed this. Went straight to their next album and listened to it too. It can be a bit repetitive (what self respecting EDM isn't?), but jacked up on my ADHD meds this hits just right!

all time banger. RIP Keith

Heavy, aggressive, artistic, textural, dance-able, consistent, varied. All at once, all the time, all the way through. Wow.

An absolute classic, fantastic energy and drive, catchy lyrics and beats and not a bad track on the album.

I fucking love big beat. This album is one of the best pioneers of that genre.

It's a classic. One of the defining records of the 90s.

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

Had this as a teenager. Totally forgot how awesome this album is!

I dig it. Not my usual thing but pretty enjoyable. Felt like I was listening to a soundtrack of an early 2000’s action movie

I completely understand why this album is on here, but it is hard to sit down and listen to. Definitely meant to be dance music. My favourite song with Breathe.

I didn't like techno before listening to this. Now I like it even less. Repetitive meaningless and uninspiring. Perhaps I don't have the right chemical stimulation to enjoy it, I don't know and don't want to find out. If the chemicals can lead you to enjoy this they must be destroying your brain.

Meh.

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

Great album and Les really hits hard during this period.

Surprisingly fresh after 25 years. One of the best electronic dance albums of the 90s.

revolutionary for its time but not chill at work

Kameron’s favorite but not me

I don’t like prodigy really. This album is just not that great, I don’t have strong feelings about it

this was fine. didnt particularly care for it.

It is punk. It is raver. It goes on a lil too long and can be repetitive, but i do think these are intentional things (for the club, for the rave, for the drugs). It's still pretty much a sound that they have mastered. A lot can be said about copycats and such. But that should have any effect on how this sounds. It sounds real good.

Couldn’t get through it. Wasn’t really my vibe. Found it pretty repetitive and a little too aggressive for my taste. I definitely don’t think it’s bad, just not for me. It also aged itself quite a bit with the casual misogyny.

Great for the morning, makes me feel sassy.

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.

Solid

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.

very rhythmic, both chaotic and controlled, primal - can't help but move to this - climbatize is epic

Kool Keith all over!

Probably the album that first got me deep into my electronica/techno phase. I think it holds up amazingly well. So many bangers. 4.5/5

forgot how much hip hop sound there is in this album

STOP GIVING ME EDM

A ningú que creixés als '90 li va passar desapercebut aquest treball. El disc d'electrònica per la gent a qui no li agrada l'electrònica; punk visceral amb més sintes que guitarres. I temes tan desorbitadament bons com 'Firestarter' o 'Smack My Bitch Up', anys abans de la cultura de la cancel.lació. Un d'aquells discos que marquen una década

Pretty 90s. It was fun.

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?

OK. I like electronic as much as the next cat. Assuming that the cat has a headache and is having a seizure. I may change my pitch up... most likely not going to listen to this too many times.

Though I still think of Wipeout when I hear firestarter, I’m weary of the frenetic aggressive siren oriented electronic music. Fuel My Fire is the worst example of this, but the whole album is GUILTY.

A couple of dated tracks, but the classics hold this album up.

oh hell yeah. now we're getting into home territory. i've actually never listened to this album before but wow. this sounds disgusting (affectionate). i sure wouldn't download a car while listening to this. i feel like i'm listening to what mission impossible 2 looks like. beautiful. that said i think it kinda drags a bit near the end, but then again i'm listening to the whole thing in one go and i am sober. also i think i recognized a sample from firestarter that appears in an alchemist rats beg bashful remix.

All thriller, no filler. What a banger

Bit of a classic.

Breathe is a banger and is the opener to one of the greatest 90's compilation albums of all time - Big Shiny Tunes 2. Quite a few hits on this album, and it's a solid Industrial Drum n Bass album. Lots of driving beats, very Bri'ish accents, some good hooks on a lot of the tunes. A bit repetitive at times, but a solid album and good music to work to.

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!

This album feels like it should be accompanying the FMV intro to a late-90s sports game or a Skechers commercial from 2006. Im sure it was very influential for its time, but it’s just not my jam.

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

8/10 Best Song - Breathe

4.1 - Compared to other British EDM I've reviewed, this one is different. I had it bumping in the back while I was cooking and I really liked it. Besides the pointlessly misogynistic "Smack My Bitch Up", this is solid background for when it's time to get stuff done. I especially like the way "Narayan" fades seamlessly into "Firestarter" - it's a moment that feels especially rave-like.

Great production. Liked Funky Shit.

Diesel Power is a banger

Smack My Bitch Up - 10/10 Breathe - 9/10 Diesel Power - 8/10 Funky Shit - 6/10 Serial Thrilla - 10/10 Mindfields - 7/10 Narayan - 9/10 Firestarter - 9/10 Climbatize - 10/10 Fuel My Fire - 5/10

I loved this album back in the late 90’s. It really hooked me on the electronica genre

Songs are catchy for the first minute or so, but are ultimately too long and repetitive for me to not zone out and try to think of something else.

What a start. RIP fellow park runner