The Fat Of The Land

Better than jilted generation, not so annoying

Before even listening to it I just want to say how much i love the cover. 1.4 I am not a big fan of this older electronic music. They use sounds i am familiar in a sense that i am already familiar with them. I didnt like the album too much but it was at least well made.

The Fat Of The Land is a fun listen with a bunch of bangers on it.

Funky beats

Great record!!!

As far as electronic music goes, this is about as good as it gets. This album manages to have a theme or repetitive beat without the whole song being essentially the same. They kept it interesting and constructed songs that had layers. It’s not necessarily a five star album compared to all the other albums, but is compared to other electronic albums.

Just yesterday I was listening to some tunes from this albums and my wife has told me "we must find it on vinyl". And there you go, nothing to rate for today, as this is an instant 5.

This is so late 90's that after listening to it I just want to watch the Matrix and play some Goldeneye on the N64.

Surprisingly low energy for what I had always considered to be aggressive club songs. Maybe I've just heard them too much so they have lost the element of surprise? Hard to say really. In any case, while I'm sure it was influential on all the music that came afterwards and I can even see how it was popular, it doesn't evoke a ton out of me.

Me ha puesto a vivir de buena mañana

I feel like I was supposed to hate this but didn't. Reminded me a bit of the Cyberpunk 2077 OST. A fun bit of electronica.

Holy flashbacks, Batman! I listened to this cd about a billion times in 1997, as loud as possible, no skips.

I'm not a fan of electronic music, but this is actually a really good record

Correcto e intenso

The best alt electronic industrial dance music of the 90s. Hypnotic and aggressive. If you are in the right mood, this pumps.

Not my thang

this made me grumpy at work in my home office >:( vibe-y but not the kind of vibes I needed.

(2/7) I found this pretty challenging to get through

I didn’t love this on my initial listen, but on a more casual relisten, I could see the fun in this. This is obviously meant for clubbing or dancing and I do neither, but the music is so catchy that it’s hard to not enjoy even while sat down at home. The popular songs were my favourite, but I enjoyed the other tracks a lot more this time around. This definitely isn’t one of my favourite albums, but I’m glad that I could find some enjoyment from it this time around!

Ugh… really?

Ultimately there is one great song on this album.. that track being ‘breathe’ The problem with the album is that same track plays but not as well another 7 times! ‘Firestarter’ ends that angry psycho acid house dance filthy beat and then for the last 2 tracks the album has tracks that go against the grain of the album and feel so misplaced I thought I was listening to a completely different album! Ultimately though it woke me up, kept me engaged and up until the last 2 tracks I was all in! Best track - ‘breathe’ Worst track- ‘fuel my fire’ 7.5/10

Prodigy - The Fat of the Land Some music is made to be played loud. This is made to be played until your ears bleed. That it's the singleminded musical vision of man I find amazing. Liam Howlett must have a permanent headache putting this together in the studio 😂 Massive beats, huge sounds....ultimately a bit too singleminded though. I guess that's why my favourite bits were the second half of Smack My Bitch Up when the Arabic vocal came in, the more mixed up than the rest Funky Shit, and the more ambient sounding Climbatize. I played loud whilst driving fast through the night and for that I give it an 8.5/10 Best Track - Funky Shit Worst Track - Narayan cos it features that arsehole from Kula Shaker.

Très très cool ! Des sonorités que j’adore ! Un très très bon album à classer très haut 19/20

getting any album that isn't from the late 60s/70s is a welcome change tbh. had a great time raving on Amtrak.

Hørt og rata før, rotete og bråkete, syns serial thrilla e gøy

Listen, I am like the opposite of a person who should enjoy The Prodigy, but this was fantastic. Come play my game.

Pretty repetitive and often a bit grating. Some good songs, and Firestarter is a classic, but definitely wouldn't listen to this album again. 2.5/5.

Fun drum and beat album which at the time was probably near the top of the game. It does start with a song repeating the phrase "smack my bitch up" which is not great.

It was fine. Tbh didn't get thru the whole thing. Not for me but good for someone probably.

Listening to the prodigy at 6am with a baby, a coffee, and a bowl of oatmeal hits different to listening to the prodigy at 6am at a music festival.

There were so many good songs on this album! I'd rate it higher if there was more variety, but that might be missing the point..

Cool stuff, recognized a bunch of songs. I'd never listen to it outside of a party or club

This is one of the most ‘90s (and most dated) albums from the ‘90s that I can think of. 100% style-over-substance electronica with a rock/hip-hop sound palette, plus some “world music” sound effects thrown in because why not? There are occasional catchy rhythms, but it’s quite monotonous and gets boring quickly, and I remember it feeling cliche when it played on MTV back in the day.

Definitely talented and unique, but not my taste.

Це бенґер.

This was so hard to listen

Truly insane, and thrilling with it

Meh

I went for a run with this album in my headphones and felt like I was about to rob a diamond store. I’ve never really been a fan of electronic music, but I have to admit, it’s pretty fun to move to. 6/10

Redundant and unrelenting. Firestarter was decent though

I was worried this would get really repetitive, but there was no need for that. I loved the energy. I can see how some wouldn't like it, but this was such a breath of fresh air Favorite Songs: Mindfields, Narayan, Climbatize

This really isn't my style, but there's something about it that I kinda like. I don't think I'll come back to it often, but there's a nostalgia to some of it that pulls me in even though this was my first time listening to it outside of "Smack My Bitch Up"

Good 4, fun album

Never heard of this album or the artist behind it so i’m not sure what to expect. I do like the cover. This is actually the worst piece of music ever. The beats are so bad. Genuinely terrible

Great use of sampling. Has some real hype bangers. Definitely a significant album for industrial electronic music.

Started and ended strong, last song sounds like a SA2B song

Enjoyed

Meh… not bad but very monotonous

No 2/10

Garbage. Absolutely trash. Never have to listen again.

What a time to be alive in the late 90's Hip-Hop was leaving was getting weird, electronic music was getting more mainstream and a weird combo formed in big beat with the Chem Bros, and the Prodigy. This is slightly more watered down from their earlier acid break beat techno, they embraced catchy songwriting and made everyone panic by saying bitch in a song as if it were Elvis shaking his hips but in the 90s. Great songs from start to end, the greatest are inescapable, but most of the deep cuts are great like Funky Shit, Mindfields and my personal favorite Narayan. One of those "wish I could... first time" albums

I know some of the songs here - kinda catchy, but offputting. Someone said “rave meets metal”? I don’t hear metal, and I’m not sure about rave. It’s not remotely the dance music (techno, house, funk) that I liked at warehouse gigs - it’s club-type dance meets pop, ie short songs with simple hooks and a lot of repetition, maybe effective at being catchy (saleable) but no meaning or emotional journey. And the catharsis is not at all happy techno or happy house, the drums are like rock drums, and there’s a mean and aggro streak about most of the tracks. I visualise guys dancing vigorously and scowling somewhat threateningly. Not helped at all by the vocal snippets with their sneering, agitation, air of challenge. (I encounter enough meth users on the streets, don’t want it in my dance music.) I think to compare this with noise rock I like (eg Boris, Lightning Bolt) - such noise rock has masses of energy but not any aggression or threat, just exuberance. And I need to mention the first track of this album, the one with the red flag title/hook, classic Schrodinger’s Arsehole as another reviewer said (ie talk sexist etc crap, and when ppl object say you "didn't mean it"). So, I give the producers some credit for their skills with the hooks, I could see the album having a function ie music to keep you awake during long drive late night, but it wouldn’t be my first choice for that function, and I wouldn’t put the album on to dance to, and I’m happy to do without it. It’s Not Good, 4/10.

overall a kind of repetitive album. I was listening to this and often could not tell when one song ended and another started - although perhaps that is the point? Not a bad album, although I do have some issues with the lyrics of the first song (gonna smack my bitch up). For what it is, sort of a punk EDM(??) it's not bad. Probably not something that I will play again (maybe a car trip?) nor purchase. A solid 2 stars

Some catchy bits but mostly not memorable

Holy fucking fire top ten albums of all time this is aggressive, danceable and just so hellishly punk all the way, truly a real gem

super grimy and bassy album, pretty awesome and would love to listen to it loud as fuck in an industrial basement with 300 other people

i love this album cover so much. i wish listening to the prodigy made me feel like that crab. sadly it doesn't do it for me :(

There's a respectable place in music history for big boneheaded EDM, but I'm not sure that place is on this list. Firestarter does nothing for me, and Smack My Bitch Up is annoying. I liked Mindfields, but mostly because it's a change of pace from the other tracks.

2,5

Def the best prodigy album. I still can’t believe they’re called THE Prodigy and not just Prodigy. Memory is a funny thing.

Very repetitive, not really for me.

Love this album

I'd forgotten every song other than Firestarter, but I now remember how much I could not stop listening to this CD when it came out.

Interesting album. Sounds a lot like a techno dream from the 2000s era. This is what most 2000s movie soundtracks sound to me. I would listen to this if I felt nostalgic.

Had this on CD and still enjoy this album today. This brings back memories of listening to Breathe and Firestarter before high school track and XC races. Favorite tracks: Breathe, Mindfields, Firestarter, Diesel Power

Smack My Bitch Up 3 Breathe 3.2 Diesel Power 3 Funky Shit 2.9 Serial Thrilla 3.1 Mindfields 2.8 Narayan 2.8 Firestarter 3 Climbatize 2.8 Fuel My Fire 3 Score: 2.96

Not my cup of tea, but not bad. I’ve been told this is an *important album* but I don’t really care.

Really wish I could give this one a 3.5. I liked some songs on here but some weren’t my style. Don’t really like the ones where that whiny voice is on it. Last few tracks were great.

Already a fan of hits like Breathe and Firestarter, hearing the whole album in context is an electronic induced brain-gasm. This is the perfect listen to get the weekend started!

Pop nihilism at speed, another record I associate with contemporaries in my youth dancing faster than their abilities allowed, yet deeper steeped in the movements that came before than I gave it credit for - you can hear a lot of notes being taken and exchanged in clubs over its length.

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'

Interesting that it’s so self-consciously a genre mashup yet sound very much of its time.

My primary school PE teacher used to put the prodigy on for our warmups and that was the one redeeming thing he did. It’s a bit repetitive for me in daily life but can’t deny it goes hard

this album sucks major ass theres so much other electronic music that is 10000000x better

I’d forgotten how great this was.

Fucking love this album. Put it on if you want to feel energized. It's good background music for an upbeat video game too. Definitely their best album IMO.

Eh. They ain’t that clever.

I get it It’s iconic Just not my bag

A soaring collection of chunky beats and driving vocals. Glorious.

Nothing really blew my socks off - couldn’t really tell where one song ended and another started. SMBU is a decent jam and fairly recognizable, but not much else on the album spoke to me or sounded all too different. About 80% through the album I kinda just wanted to finish it rather than looking forward to the next jam.

Hm ja, wat erg, dit is ook mijn jeugd. Mede dankzij mijn gang-kompanen ken ik aardig wat van deze muziek. We weten allen dat met name Eric hier hard op gaat, maar ik? In ieder geval hebben ze een heel eigen, direct herkenbaar geluid neergezet, iets wat ik altijd knap vind. Maar waarom moet er per sé een bitch upgesmackt worden, onder invloed van diverse verdovende middelen? Zegt u het maar. Puur muzikaal gezien is het zeker te genieten, en voor iemand als ik (die enkel de single-versies kent) viel er zelfs in de hits wat nieuws te horen. Bam, hakketak, zsjwip.

Eén van de meest creatieve albums uit de lijst. Kenmerkend is de enorme bassdrum die alle tijd krijgt om uit te rollen en tot zijn recht te komen. De hele wereld kent het van Firestarter en Smack my Bitch up. Het zijn daarmee enorme energiebommen. En daar staat het album vol mee. Firestarter is ook een voorbeeld van de punkinvloeden die vaak terugkomen op dit album. Zelfs dat soort zang is op dit album toegankelijk gemaakt. Firestarter is niet voor niets een grote hit. Al zal de clip hier ook betekenis hebben gehad. Net als bij het heerlijke Breathe een kunstwerk op zich. De genoemde bigbeat en energie zijn de verbindende factoren op dit gevarieerde album. Het start met de kale bigbeat van Smack my bitch up, kijkt met Breathe tegelijk terug naar het vorige album van The Prodigy en vooruit naar dit album, brengt de bigbeat naar de rap met Diesel Power en brengt met Funky Shit de meest uiteenlopende samples bij elkaar. En zo blijft het afwisselen, zonder eenheid te verliezen. En dan is je album gewoon een kunstwerk. Een zeldzame 10 sterren!

Ik hoef er niet zoveel over te zeggen denk ik, dit is pure nostalgie. Dit hebben we helemaal grijs gedraaid op vakantie naar Luxemburg, toen we daar heen gingen om de (inmiddels voorlaatste) zonsverduistering te aanschouwen met een veel te duur eclipsbrilletje. Risk spelen, pizza's eten met champignons, teveel Bofferding drinken en Prodigy luisteren. Dat waren goede tijden, mooi man. 10 sterren!

Man, I just dont know how much more british electronic music I can take... 1.5/5

Not usually a techno guy but this has drive and I can see the influence it had on future music. The inclusion of vocals and enough different sections within a song prevents the core beats from getting stale and repetitive. Not bad!

The first time I heard Prodigy was... well, as far as I can remember, it was included in a trailer for CoD Black Ops 6, and then in Watch Dogs: Legion. After that, I met someone who's a big fan of their work. So going into this album, I can say I'm aware of their work as an electronic music group. So after finally listening through the entire album... eh, I guess it was okay, didn't expect much diving into it. I already listened to the singles before, so those weren't new; the rest of the album was solid, so I give this a... 3.5/5 Ngl might come back for Climbatize a few times... that was an interesting instrumental experience...

Way back then in the early 1990s I had 2 separate groups of mates, those into techno like this and those into metal. People like me sick of grunge already had to choose one or the other because rock was dead at the time and we needed something high energy to keep the parties going. So I kind of got into Prodigy with the "Experience" album, it grew on me when out partying. Music for the jilted generation was ok. The fat of the land was good at the time either at the club, or a drive to a bush camping spot or up the hills, or at 4am when my mates pizza shop closed and we all got stoned in the carpark. But after those years I stopped listening to prodigy altogether. We got old, we stopped having decent subwoofers in our cars, we all moved on, stopped seeing each other. Prodigy just became irrelevant somehow. It's not nostalgic, it's not anyone's roots. It just was. It was silly junk food back then so doesn't stand the test of time.

I did not like this at all. Basically some kind of hip-hop/rap/fusion. I would not listen to this again.

i mean yeah it's bangers start to finish. i think gun to my head i might take invaders must die, which might be heresy i always forget that Voodoo People isn't actually on this one

This is a great album. 9/10.

めっちゃいいです。ロックとエレクトロニカの融合なんだろうけど、エレクトロニカによってるロックなのかな？ロックの激しい音の部分を持ってきて、くっつけたみたいな印象。ノリノリで楽しいアルバムだった。 Smack My Bitch Upが1曲目にして1番良かったかも。 こういう系のエレクトロニカもありですねー

Some funky ahh music but I liked it. 3.5/5 seems fair since it was a little bit repetitive for too long on some of the songs.

3.5 I remember how monumental this album was when it came out and I was only 10. The subject matter of the first track, however it was intended, should never be promoted. The rest of the album, though, is great.

Correcto

Oh good God no

What an album! There are dirty bass licks, punk style vocal delivery, rap verses, almost pretty arpeggios, but it ALL sounds like Prodigy. I actually was disappointed when a song I was familiar with came on - not that I didn't enjoy those, but I wanted to keep hearing new variations on this very distinct sound.

Very tolerable electronics music. Liked the aggressiveness of it, especially the first half. Got a bit bored by the end.

- motorstorm ahh music - transitions between songs were nice addition - Minefields was my favorite from the album

This is an important album, and I recognise that. I remember it coming out at the time and the controversy. I appreciate it but runs out of steam pretty quickly. Singles aside, it’s very much a one trick pony and after three or four songs it had run its course for me.

This was an improvement from Music for the Jilted Generation. A solid electronica album if you're in the right mood for it.

honestly did not like

not a fan

Me likey

Noisy, shouty, visceral, provocative, wakes you up, literally. Not my cup of tea, generally, unless I'm going to a rave. Quite like it, in a head banging mindless rave dance kinda way. Smack My Bitch Up Indeed.

First, I want to mention that I skipped the first track. Even if the supposed message is not domestic violence, I still don't want to expose myself for that kind of lyrics. Other than that, this is a pretty decent album, with the hits as standout tracks. I would say somewhere between strong 3 to weak 4. Time will tell if I rate it higher.

офигенный

🦀🦀 CRAB RAVE 🦀🦀 The songs are tighter than their debut. Still rely on a lot of heavy and repetitive drum beats. Not feeling the vocals on this one.

Nah

Favourite track: Breathe

Siis onhan tää järjettömän hyvä ja uraauurtava albumi. Jotenkin soundit kuulosti vielä paremmalta ko sää on kehno. Hyvien taajuuksien piip-puuttaamista.

albumi "you wouldn't download a car"ia. alussa olin että hell yeah. lopussa olin että pliis voisko loppua jo. silti tykkäsin pääasiassa.

Mun on vähän vaikee arvostella tätä puolueettomasti kun tosijjaan Firestarterin musavideo on mun eka muisto ja tähän yhtyeeseen liittyy tosi lämpimiä muistoja. Mutta siis täähän on ihan huikee merkkipaalu elektronisessa musassa. Tää levy ei oo musiikillisesti mun lemppari Prodigyltä, mut onhan tää varmastikin heidän merkittävin levy. Kokonaisuus on mukaansatempaava, mut toisaalta vähän monotoninen. Tuntuu että enemmistö biiseistä noudattaa kaavaa: laita Amen break pyörimään -> lisää synkeä synakoukku -> kohkaa päälle. Tässä kaavassa ei sinällään oo mitään vikaa, mut ehkä vähän mielenkiinto katoaa levyn varrella. That being said, tää on mestariteos ja tekis mieli antaa enemmänkin tähtiä :D

Huomaan ilmiön! Mulla monesti napsahtaa kolmeen tähteen tämmöset levyt mitkä on sinänsä hyviä, ja minkä soundista tykkään, MUTTA ne alkaa kuulostamaan samalta ja puuroutumaan. Tällaset levyt tuntuu monesti joko a. liian pitkiltä tai b. siltä että mulle riittää täältä yks tai kaks biisiä soittolistalle, ja sit voin luukuttaa vaa niitä :D

🔥🔥🔥 Huh huh! Tän tahtiin kelpas lähtee kohti viikonloppua 🤩 Ihan hiton kovia bängereitä noi isoimmat hitit ja tiukkaa settiä kyllä muukin levy. Tasavahva kokonaisuus ja ihan hilkulla et ois ollu vitonen.

Sairasta jyystöä. Nautin. Kokonainen pitkä levyllinen alkaa mennä jo aavistuksen toisteisen puolelle, mut se kuulunee myös genreen. Ihanan likaista.

I had forgotten how good this album was and so when it popped up I approached it with a degree of trepidation, given how much I dislike the sample/dance genre à la Chemical Bros et al. The Prodigy manage to fit more emotion into the opener 'Snack My Bitch Up' than the aforementioned do into an entire back catalogue. I love how heavy and gritty it is, and how the music moves through phases rather than just relying on one sample or hook and then just repeating it for four minutes. 'Firestarter' is great, as is 'Climbatize'

Oh shit.... I am missing an opportunity to see these guys live in my town next month. I mean...THANK GOD I am missing an opportunity to see these guys live in my town next month. I had my speakers on loud when this started playing, and my neighbor's dog went absolutely ballistic... Needles to say, I pulled a DNF at that point, and the dog thanked me. This was just noises and repetitious wordages...

Boring awful noise. DNF.

Prodigy- The Fat Of The Land (1997) I had the CD at the time and listened to it a fair bit. Saw them live a few times. Listened to this on my floor standers and a decent volume. It’s basically full of bangers. Best tracks are those with no singing or a guest vocal. Standout tracks: Diesel Power Mindfields Narayan Climbatise A strong ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I never really enjoyed this style but impressive that this album basically (fire)started a whole genre - this is very much of a time and place 2.5+

I kept putting this on right before bed and falling asleep so it took 4 listens to properly rate and review it, but I don’t mean that even slightly as a negative. This is a comfort blanket of an album for me. Easily The Prodigy’s most consistent work and one that stands the test of time.

Really enjoyed it. Such a 90's feel to this album

Boring

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

it’s fine

If I had never heard this album before I probably would have hated it. However, I had the joy of listening to this when it came out, and have very fond memories of listening to this. In fact, I have some very specific memories tied to this album. It's kind of interesting since this is the album album of this type of music I owned. I think though that since it is tied to such great memories for me, and I still remember exactly what the video looked like etc... that the music must have some lasting power. Something special, at least for me. 8/12/26

Best Track - "Smack My Bitch Up"

Me gusto menos que el otro, empezo bien pero poco a poco me fue aburriendo muy feo. Tiene 2 canciones que se salvan pero poco mas, muy repetitivo para mi gusto y un poco ruidoso ya al final. 6/10

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

It’s a nice album, but something is stopping me from really enjoying this tape.

Not my thing but no denying the energy.

Ruim e barulhento.

This was a pretty decent listen. I always feel this vibe doesn't really peak and is more mellow than what I want from electronic/dance music

Certified banger. 4.5 stars really but had to upgrade it due to that Friday feeling.

Great British dance record with killer singles and pounding beats throughout. Couple of skips in here for me, especially Diesel Power +: SMBU -: Diesel Power

I really expected to love this. I really like the singles (although I can't get fully on board with SMBU, for obvious reasons) - but most of the rest of it fell flat with me. It probably doesn't help that I'm listening to it quietly as background music; it probably demands more than that, but as it stands I can't give it better than a middling mark.

Definitely some all time hits on this album. I was surprised that Breathe had more plays than Firestarter - but the unsung hero on this album was the last song.

It was a decent time. Thanks higher than a lot of the other electronic albums we’ve listened to on here.

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

You’re telling me a crab made this?

В прошлый раз так расстроился что многообещающее начало альбома оказалось говном, как тут внезапно такой подгон. Один из лучших альбомов электронной музыки который я когда-либо слушал, из ближайших конкурентов наверное только Pendulum с их In Silico или Daft Punk с Discovery. Без сомнений чистые 10/10. По трекам было сложно, так как 3 уже были в основном плейлисте и один добавился после прослушивания. Скрепя сердце пришлось выбрать только 2: Breathe и Climbatize

Абсолютный кайф. Напичканный хитами жирный альбом. 0 минусов. 1 - Smack my bitch up 2 - Funky Shir Honorable mentions: Breathe, Firestarter

Even better than I had hoped it would be, everything you want from 90s drum n bass, jungle, British techno.

Seems like something I wouldnt like, but its great. Its a vibe

Унікальний гурт. Це чи не єдиний приклад музики, де люди з дуже різних оточень з мого життя: поціновувачів Міши Круга та гурту Бутирка, ню-метал мазефакерів, метал-поціновувачів, інді-хіпстерів та просто людей, яким на музику +- все одно - всі розйобувалися від Продіджи. Одні з найкращих концертів, на яких доводилося бувати. Чистий кайф та літри поту.

Ізі 5, класика мого дитинства.

Catchy and genre blending. Somehow the is my first time encountering The Prodigy despite them clearly influencing and being influenced by other artists I enjoy.

I’ve heard this before. This reminds me of doing drugs in my dorm in college. There’s a lot of good fun songs on here with vibes that passed for scary at the time but were pretty goofy as well and are even goofier now. Starting it off with Smack My Bitch Up really puts a damper on things and they really didn’t need to have that song, so I drop a point for that.

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

BREATHE THE PRESSURE COME PLAY MY GAME I'LL TEST YA

A truly trailblazing band. The genre was EDM, but the attitude was punk. They famously employed a drummer to play an electronic kit and then used the performances to trigger drum samples giving the drums a live and manic feel. The Prodigy sound dangerous and aggressive, and it's addictive.

Okay, I went into this thinking I would hate it. And I'm not going to take the album to a desert island with me. But as I let the beats flow over me, I think it's more Chemical Brothers and less indie punk. More movie soundtrack and less Breeders. Better than expected.

Good in an aggressive dance way, was everywhere at the time. Still holds up. Just not really in the mindset for this 3 star

Some absolute bangers on this and the rest were just ok

I don't think I've heard the whole of this before. The singles remain classics but it is overlong.

The original crab rave.

Surprised this made it onto the list? But a few classic Charlie’s angels soundtracks

Very exciting music when this came out. Later in life when I heard the original songs whereupon The Prodigy based their songs I learned that there was hardly any originality. Still 3 stars for sentimental reasons.

The prodigy is probably the most emblematic band of the 2000s emo counterculture that appeared in the UK. Characterized by sexual deviance and delving into the taboo at times while remaining very upbeat and hardcore. Not for my tastes as I usually detest British sexual deviance that is solely based on misogyny and violence.

I’m so torn on this album. Did I enjoy it? Not really. However I do remember absolutely loving it when it was first released. I remember when the singles were all over the radio, and the countdown. So it gets an extra star for that.

Brilliant snapshot of 90s rav music. Breathe is my fav song of the album. Firestarter and Diesel Power (my fv first listen) were my other highlights

3.5, it is what it is p.s. please don't slap your bitches up, that's bad

1) Firestarter 2) Fuel My Fire 3) Breathe Least Favourite: Minefields

Although Invaders Must Die is the album that I think of when I think of Prodigy (due to it releasing when I was a teen!), this one just can't be beaten - probably the best album of it's kind, so how how can it not be five stars? 9/10

The singles are amazing. Breathe, smack my bitch up and firestarter are amongst the songs of the 90s. However the rest of the album is a bit hit and miss unfortunately and does not match up to the previous album despite the fanfare at the time of release.

Love this album. There is a possibility of I have a bit of hearing damage from this one. I have no regrets

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

I could imagine Stewart and Roald dancing in front of the dollar store to this. It's a good album for catching up at work after a few days off.

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

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

Hell yeah! As soon as I saw this one come up, I knew I was in for a treat. Though I only knew the hits, I had a feeling the rest would be of the same calibre. Whilst the Prodigy weren't the first to combine rock and hard-bass, they were probably the first to do it properly. Absolute banger from start to finish, proper hype machine stuff, and one that will go down in history. Yes!

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Got my ass SHAKIN

i live this shit

matrix vibes muito específico, não foi pra mim

olha, preciso dizer que hoje não era um dia para música eletrônica, mas até que eu to lidando bem com o álbum O susto com Mindfields. Apenas o trecho mais usado do mundo em cenas de suspense

Hard core for first thing in the morning. Another album where the highs are very high but some of the rest is middling. Still a banger though

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

Did not finish. 1 star.

This was fun because it brought back a ton of high school memories. This is probably the only electric album I’ve ever gotten into. That video for the lead track is crazy!

one of the BEST album covers to album vibes ever. It really is zooming in on an excited/intense crab. maybe THE defining big beat record? The best parts of those anti piracy commercials, aesthetics from the film "The matrix" and just general rap/hip hop combinations with hard rock and electronics

2 estrellas, sirve para concentrarse

One album apparently provided for decades of tv/movie soundtracks

Classic record

funky video game ts, i like

Its like corny electronic music they play in the back of heist movies while the hacker goes crazy on the keyboard Actually liked it, very interesting mix of vibes but I had a good time. Not totally sure I’ll resisten

I really like the ideas of the songs, but I just wish they shortened each song a little bit. Some other genres of music makes sense to have longer songs and and still keep up the engagement, but the fact that all these songs were pretty repetitive called for shorter songs in my opinion. Really wanted to give it a four cause I loved all the sound design.

Ya it’s good I just think music has lost its magic for me and life has no meaning.

Really sick album, felt like a ps2 racing game in the best way. Fire album cover too

The perfect mixture of rock and electronic with numerous bangers. Absolutely unskippable album of the nineties.

It's alright for what it is.

Never liked the Big Beat sound. Cheesy drum loops, played-out 303 presets, just kinda cheesy. Big Beat and a lot of Breaks in the 90s was kinda like bottom-rung compared to all the shit coming out. It's all corny. Fuel My Fire is actually a pretty great cover of the L7 song. Firestarter is the best original track here by far. Breathe is okay too. Overall very corny.

This was so much better than I expected

Not really my cup of tea, but it'd be a good album to put on when a deadline is approaching.

Video game track, reminded me of hideki naganuma.

It’s a goid album but the songs get repetitive after a while of hearing the same beat for like 8 8s in a row

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

Finally an electronica album with some interesting stuff happening and not the same loop over and over again on this list. The rock influence increased the enjoyment of this record for me.

I remember being fascinated by the controversy around the Smack My Bitch Up music video as a kid. Not sure how much I’ll revisit this, but I definitely appreciate it.

One of the better electronic albums on the list. As a 90s kid these songs took me back

Classic album with some known hits and some awesome B-sides ("Funky Shit" in particular).

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

Great album with a fresh sound we’ve not really had on the list yet. I’ve never listened to a prodigy album before, only the popular ones really. But I liked it. I thought some were quite similar but all sounded great

Yeah this is great, some all time bangers here. Never listened in full so glad it came up. However a mildly hot take would be that some of it might've aged poorly? Specifically 'Diesel Power', that stood out to me as not ageing particularly well.

This album was the soundtrack to an evening spent getting ready for and driving to a beach night at the local lesbian bar with one of my best friends. I was ready for The Fat of the Land to serve as a much-needed palate cleanser after the Marshall Mathers LP, which made it very funny to when I jumped straight into the first song on the album: Smack My Bitch Up. But beyond this brief moment of initial worry, this album was exactly the pick-me-up I was looking for: just some straight up electronic music, reminding me of the music I spent most of my childhood obsessed with. While most of this album deals in the same big beat space as the Chemical Brothers, there are also quite a few moments of techno and drum & bass, as well as some Eastern melodies and influences which remind me of Infected Mushroom. All of these EDM subgenres which The Prodigy are working in are ones which I have historically had the hardest time getting into, but The Fat of the Land executes these sounds incredibly well, flowing seamlessly from beginning to end as one continuous expression of energy. I have been pleasantly surprised at the amount of electronic music which has been represented on this list so far, and will always appreciate the chance to hear more of the foundational albums and projects which would eventually inspire the music I grew up on. Now I'm just curious if we'll get something outside the relatively tight confines of big beat, as there is an entire world of electronic music to still explore. Highlights: Smack My Bitch Up, Breathe, Diesel Power, Funky Shit, Serial Thrilla, Narayan, Climbatize

Pointless dog shit.

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

Stands up

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

Giving it 3 because I watched Charlie’s Angels last night and apparently The Prodigy is a big part of that soundtrack, fun coincidence. And because my girlfriend really enjoys it. Otherwise a 2 for me. Was good but not anything I loved.

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

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

meh.

Three very popular songs amongst other songs that all kind of sound the same. I don't think you need to love this type of music to appreciate the hits.

Habe mich vor ein paar Jahren mal mit dem Vorgänger und dem Album hier beschäftigt. Fand früher das Album davor besser, hab jetzt aber meine Meinung geändert. Neuentdeckung!

Album is a great flow from start to finish and the best material Prodigy has put out.

I like this more now than when it came out.

Legendary and awesome to listen to, every song hits hard, and it's energetic. Everyone gets their part and give it their all in all songs. Would listen to this a thousand times and never get tired of ir, so so good.

Fucking huge album, bangers bangers and bangers all so much fun just wanna go let loose. Such a huge album and so influential as a band. Not even my favourite album of theirs. Always forget how much I love this band. Best Song: Breathe 5.0/5.0

Absolutely world class, so fun so mental so dark, imagine going nuts to this back in the day

Quintessential rave album. Some 90s dance music has a tednency to age very poorly. The Prodigy (somewhat ironically considering one of the song titles), manage to sound fun and feisty 30 years later.

This is the music that was used in YouTube compilations of rollercoaster POVs. I like that Climbatize samples Won’t Get Fooled Again. I like Big Beat. Favorites were Smack My Bitch Up, Breathe, Funky Shit, Firestarter, and Climbatize.

It was fun. But probably won't revisit.

I hadn’t given this a full listen in a long time. It really has a lot of strengths. The powerful production is consistent throughout. Even on the rare occasion when they switch up tempo to something more groovy, the solidity of the rhythm is not compromised. The album is jam packed with melodic/rhythmic hooks but while they span the whole album the best tracks are those where the hooks are most successful. What I found surprising going back to this now was how much it seemed to be influenced by the rise of The Chemical Brothers. In my head, I’d always had The Prodigy compartmentalised separately from a lot of the other edm/pop crossovers (Chemicals, Orbital, Leftfield, Lionrock, Underworld). I’m not sure what it was that made me separate them, but on ‘Fat of the Land’ they converge a lot on the playing field of Big Beat. One thing obvious from the album is how much it is crafted with their live show in mind. Already renowned for their explosive sets, this album really knows how to push the right buttons for an audience. I actually worked at a show when I believe they were touring this album. As well regular “local crew” work (assisting load in and set up) I was tasked during the show with operating of the spotlight for none other than Keith Flint RIP. The daunting task of keeping up with him proved less challenging than I expected, but that is not to say he wasn’t an absolute dynamic visual force in the show.

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

Bit of nostalgia for me above all else. Clear memories of Firestarter being on the radio/Top of the Pops as a kid. Breathe still sounds great. Awesome album cover as well!

Sounds a bit dated now but still has some classics.

Got some decent tunes. Don't think I like it enough to revisit it.

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

I feel like I’m in my own personal film soundtrack hacking mainframes and rollerblading around the city. Smack My Bitch Up Breathe Firestarter

Não curti... Electronica meio Z

The ultimate Masterpiece of The Prodigy. Nuff said.

Absolute banger. I bounced so hard this morning, I spilt my Earl Grey.

Legendary. The tracks released as singles, plus a few others, are the tentpoles holding the rest up. And they hold it all up high. But as a 7-8 track EP, with some of the ‘fat’ trimmed, it would have been perfect. Pretty close though.

Was not a fan of the guitar-heavy and shouty direction they took with this album and my favourite tracks are the ones that avoid this. But even then I still quite like it all, I just don't love it.

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

4 absolute bangers on this, therefore I must give it 3.5 rounded up to a 4, even though I'll never relisten beyond those 4 songs!

Brilliant, brilliant album. Love me some Prodigy. One of my very early music memories is watching Top Of The Pops when Firestarter got to Number 1. The song and accompanying video blew my little mind. Unfortunately the BBC banned it afterwards. Complete and utter Bastards that they are lol. As for the album itself, for me there’s nothing even close to a dud track. The three singles are definitely the stand outs but the likes of Minefields and Narayan more than hold their own. It’s been a year or two since I’ve listened to this in full and bloody hell I loved revisiting it. Top Track - Breathe, my favourite Prodigy track by a mile

Most Iconic Crab in Music. Five star crab. As for the album, let's just be honest, if I was listening to this in any other context, I would be out halfway through Smack My Bitch Up. I probably would have been out if it was called Change My Pitch Up, too. It's boring. Techno is boring. I'm sure some electronic music fan will explain that this isn't actually techno, but it's definitely boring. “Breathe” has some more interesting textures. This could have potentially been a solid song given a different idiom, instead of being saddled with a repetitive lyrical theme that sounds like an on-the-nose entrance track for a Joker or Saw themed WWE performer. “Come play my game, I'll test ya” sounds like what Chop Chop Master Onion would say in Parappa the Rapper. And they do this four times? At least Diesel Power follows it up with a proper song. I'm not into it, but it's actually a song. It's probably the most song-y song on here. Most of it is just loops and the occasional patched-in vocal snippet. That's the thing about music like this. It is so much propulsion but it goes nowhere. There is so much repetition, because it is programmed, it is meant to be looped, so there is no feel, no change, just layers being clicked on and off. You can absolutely feel the difference with so little organic input. I guess that's probably why Keith Flint, with his half-pipe clown hair and freak out dancing, became such an iconic part of the group. Outside of Breathe, where his contributions are, as mentioned, phoned in quotes from a videogame villain, at least he is an organic force. You couldn't program someone that absurd. Would this be anything more than one more forgotten soundtrack to dropping acid and meat market dancehalls if we'd never seen Nosepiercing Bozo the Clown night-terroring through a sewer pipe? Probably not. Though worse yet, Firestarter was originally conceived as an instrumental. Imagine hearing that that way, five minutes of diggadiggadigga, yeah!yeah!yeah! with no rambling firestarter, twisted fiyastahtah. It would be even more excruciating. Couple that with the normal trappings of this sort of sound: the unnecessary lift from the Beastie Boys, the stolen Breeders drums that prove that dance music is absolutely bereft of worth, because even their boom-bappiest bits are flat out taken from musical genres that aren't synonymous with dance, the attempt to make this sound like a continuous flow that only really succeeds in showing how little this moves from song to song. I am not surprised I hate this, but I'm kind of shocked that it is so deeply ⭐️ for me. The singles are worse than I remember and the rest is a great reminder that people on drugs are a real easy audience to sell to, but a terrible audience to trust on taste.

Segunda escucha asegurada, quiero ver mas de estos discos Nota: 3.9

The Crap of the Land.

Not for me. No real melody and quite ‘samey’. Firestarter is the obvious standout, but that’s not really saying much. Lead singer is apparently a nice bloke. He once congratulated James Blunt on winning an award, while Damon Albarn refused to be in a group photo with Blunt on JoolsHolland’s show and Noel Gallagher moved from Ibiza when he found out Blunty lived there. Not a massive fan of James Blunt necessarily, but he is funny, whilst both Albarn and Gallagher appear great songwriters and real twats.

Only liked one track, Firestarter.

hey bro... check out this crab....... what is there to say that hasn't been said already?? its the fuckin prodigy!!!! this album might as well be a "best of" compilation cos it's got basically all the best tracks they made since their mid-90s pivot to a big beat/electropunk sound. "firestarter", "smack my bitch up", "breathe", "mindfields", "narayan"..... i guess "spitfire", "girls" and "omen" are absent but this really is the bulk of the hardest big beat bangers they put out since the genre shift. even as someone who much preferred their earlier acid-infused breakbeat hardcore/techno stuff, i still don't think there's a single bad track on here. the 56 minute runtime is more than justified. absolute album of all time for sure. take these stars lads. rip keith flint...... ;_;7

i've never listened to much edm so this was a fun foray into the genre! not something i would listen to outside of a rave, though. i also did feel the misogyny #sorrynotsorry

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

Erfitt að byrja plötu betur. Rúllar sjúklega vel í gegn öll saman. Set fjórar stjörnur þar sem hún er ekki öll sem heild eitthvað sem ég mun setja á en ég mun taka mörg lög af henni á playlista.

Painfully 90s

Legal para danças urbanas.

This is the second or third time I’ve heard this album and the first time it’s clicked for me. Of all the too-long English electronic records released in the ‘90s, this is the best.

3.5 ⭐️. Not quite Music for the Jilted Generation.

boring

Brutal!!

So hitting this album after a long streak of Doves, Ride, Willie Nelson’s Stardust, and The Byrds Sweetheart of the f*ing Rodeo, felt like making land after a long time at sea. In this land they understand complex rhythm and deep and resounding bass. Hallelujah! I almost wanted to cry. I DID dance! F* yeah!!! I almost wanted to give it a 5 out of my sheer joy. I don’t care what Maxim is saying. It’s really part of the rhythmic layers and the lyrics’ explosive nature are meant to be EXPLOSIVE, just like the beats that drop. It works. In fact it works so well, I AM giving it a 5. 5 Boolean: TRUE

I cannot imagine the amount of drugs I would need to take to find this listenable.

Solid hits and the sound of an era . This album is amazing and one of the better commercial electronic albums within the then popular Big Beat genre (along with the Chemical Brothers Exit Planet Dust/Dig Your Own Hole). Favorite tracks: Diesel Power, Mindfields and Narayan. 5/5

Got old quick

Seminal, memorable, enjoyable. Can't really go wrong with this one, but I can't say it really gets me grooving (shocking I know), and it doesn't move me emotionally. Perhaps I underestimate what it truly brings in a live setting, even if that could apply to almost anything under specific circumstances... Likewise, it is in a way quite cinematic, but I do wonder if that is just cultural osmosis talking or if the songs themselves lend themselves to visions of myriad gritty and grimy scenes.

I fucking love The Fat of The Land. I have for decades at this point. It knows exactly what it is, what it wants to do, is unapologetic about it and completely nails the landing for good measure. It completely ruined raves for me before I was even old enough to go to them, as most I've been to don't have near enough the energy this packs. More this please.

Man, this is a pretty damn good album

Great experience, be good music for driving or playing video games or something. Enjoyed this one

Cracking, classic 90s album here. Probably got all their best singles on it too. Enjoyed this coming up.

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

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

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

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

Back with another one of those block rocking beats!

A key album in my post-Trainspotting music appreciation timeline. The world really was this interesting pre-Internet uncertain universe -- were we going to become a chaotic post-punk apocalypse of club-fueled hedonism, or were we going to all succumb to the screens of our lives and care more about our 401k appreciations. Sadly, the latter won out for too many of us.

This is what i imagined the club to be like

One of my favorite bands. This album is a classic. Many bangers, especially "Smack My Bitch Up" and "Firestarter".

Really happy to see this one pop up after enjoying the previous album so much. Another really fun album with a lovely cover. I think I definitely preferred Music For a Gilted Generation, but this was still really great. Favourites: Breathe Funky Shit Firestarter

???

It's ok

Remember this being huge when it came out and a bit surprised to hear it still stands up. They never managed to take this anywhere but other bands took this approach to popular dance music. Surprised that this deserves its place on musical and influence grounds, but it does

Electro-garbage.

Not his best

Repetitive

RIP Keith

5/10 No me disgusto, pero meh

3 - decent

never heard of this before but really digging it. will be a great album to put on when I need to dig in and get a task done. fave tracks: funky shit, narayan, climbatize

Interesting one today. A bit long, but really good. I especially loved the heaviness of the drums here, it added a lot to the album as a larger experience. “Smack My Bitch Up” was a song I was already vaguely familiar with (we all know why), but the rest of the songs I was listening to for the first time. I can’t say I love the vocalist here, but his voice certainly fits the bombastic sound of the album. It’s at times aggressive, in-your-face, fast, and big. Pretty much every song is awesome, save for “Serial Thrilla” and “Mindfields,” neither of which I especially cared for. That being said it’s awesome, it’s iconic, and it has a lot of songs that are really worth listening to. 8.5/10

Relentless. Starts of with a banger and ends with one. Never really loses steam. Only downside is lyrically could be better. Great album to work out to.

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🦀🔥🦀🔥🦀🔥🦀🔥 Als 13-jarig jongetje zag ik The Prodigy voor het eerst live en werd omver geblazen door uitvoeringen van Breathe en Firestarter. The Fat Of The Land is ongeëvenaarde, snoeiharde big beat. Met grote afstand de beste Prodigy plaat en een van de beste elektronische platen uit de jaren 90.

Half of these songs sound like they could be used in a Breaking Bad montage & one of them sounded like they sampled the fitness gram pacer test. Strange but in a weird electronic, club-y way that I can enjoy when I’m in the right mood. I liked the songs that settled into the electronic production more than the lyrical ones, though. Three stars. STAND-OUT SONG: “Climbatize” HONORABLE MENTIONS: “Smack My Bitch Up”, “Funky Shit”, “Narayan”, “Fuel My Fire”

Pretty good hard-pounding techno.

Decent enough for what it is

epic

You can’t sing along with it. You can’t dance to it. It’s too fast and choppy to listen on weed or acid. It doesn’t have anything of interest musically. I suppose if you want to get ripped on coke and wrap your Tesla around a telephone pole, this is the ideal album.

This sounds like soundtrack music from the 90’s and early 00’s. I like it, it’s main character music while I’m walking around today.

A must for techno/big beat lovers.

Classic sound from that era...even if they had an anthem about smacking bitches.

não é nem um pouco minha vibe, produçao e vocais nd ve. nao conectou nem um pouco. letras sem significado nenhum. 1/10

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

lowkey so lit. probably is the coolest thing to listen to on a motorcycle or something f

Kind of a 5, kind of a 4. It was the energetic album I needed to listen to while boarding a 6AM flight.

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

If I treat this album as a villain's soundtrack, it is much more enjoyable. Like their previous entry, I think this was pretty cool, if a bit surface level. Music for the Jilted Generation reminded me of Blade, but this one reminded me a bit more of a Trainspotting sequel but with meth instead of heroin.

I first listened to this album in 2019 because I was just getting into Mobb Deep and I thought it was a Prodigy album (apparently I forgot about Google). Back then I was disappointed because it wasn’t Prodigy or Mobb Deep, and instead it was this. Seeing it pop back up here I thought “maybe I judged it too harshly,” but, no, this is just poop from a butt. I considered myself a changed man because it’d been a while since my last 1 star rating. Poop from a butt will do that to you, I guess.