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I enjoyed this more than their Jilted Generation album. Probably based on the three more well known songs. I don’t mind listening to them with a single song here and there. Serves its purpose I suppose. But a front to back listen admittedly is an ear challenge. It all starts to sound alike. Still, the impact and popularity of this one can’t be overlooked.
This genre isn’t really my cup of tea but this was more enjoyable than I expected and have to respect the impact these guys had in the late 90s. Smack my bitch up (it was a girl at the end!!!!), breathe and fire starter were everywhere at the time. Diesel power was a nice surprise (I didn’t know they rapped!) While somewhat repetitive it was a solid listen overall. 3.25
Good times staying up late to watch the uncensored version of the Smack My Bitch Up video on MTV! Of course you have the three big tracks on this album and the rest is pretty solid for what it is. I am between 3 and 4...rounding up for nostalgia. 3.5/5
I throughly enjoyed this album from The Prodigy. What can I say this album freaking rocks and it gets better and better everytime I listen to it. Such a strong electronic album with banger after banger track! This is an album I will definitely be jamming out to again soon.
I just listened to the episode of the POD Kast about this album last week and was hoping for an excuse to relisten to this. I enjoy this album, even if it's kinda dumb guy heavy raver music. The Prodigy found their own lane around this time and I don't think we've begun to see the last of their influence.
This is a great album
This is very near a 5 though I feel the runtime makes it more of a stretch to get into. Nonetheless, The Fat Of The Land is a disc I should get my hands on. While not perfect all the way through, the stuff I like is cool to discover. The stuff I love, I have loved for years. Smack My Bitch Up is one of the best songs of the 90s straight up. I'm just not feeling that 5 tinge on this. The reason I felt it for Bonnie Prince was because that entire album consistently made me isolated and bony. This one gives its thesis and runs with it until a certain point where I'm like "OK, I get the message". But I do appreciate the vibe it gives off. Some epic skateboard moves must've been done to Firestarter. Rocket Power level shit, the funky shit. Nonetheless, all well regards on production and performance (8/10, 4/5 on this scale)
Incredibly Loud, with a lot to digest. Interesting and still holds up kinda
1000000000/10
quite possibly the hardest album cover in all of existence. and good songs
I like electronic and I like rock but I just don’t like this. Maybe ill try again another time
I like this, very original and great for work
One of their best albums, a few great tracks and the rest are OK, but still gets 4 stars from me.
Great album. A few timeless tracks.
one of the raddest albums ever
I'm not a fan of this kind of music. And I may not listen to this album again. However, I found this one pretty interesting. This is between 2 and 3 stars, but I'm leaning towards 3 stars.
I appreciate the dumb, brash energy of this album. I miss this era of electronic music.
Psicodelia noventera en todo su esplendor. Temazos como Diesel Power. No es muy mi estilo, pero entiendo por qué hay que escucharlo al menos una vez en la vida.
incomódate, incomódate, incomódate!!! Desde Smack My Bitch Up quede perpleja. después incomodidad gustosa. un 7
Goes so hard
This music sounds like the birthplace of frosted tips. It’s functional for sure, I could definitely rave to it. But for listening at home as I do chores, it didn’t amp me up or make me enjoy taking out the recycling. It’s repetitive and homogenous, which is fine in da club, but I didn't really enjoy it as an album.
Liked IT.
Interesting album…
Quality beats, great ideas and wicked noises. Makes me want to move. Easy 5
sorry but i'm british i have no choice but to give this five stars it's my duty
Always liked this album but never loved it outside of the first two tracks .
es pura energía sin filtro. Se siente pesado, agresivo, casi como si la electrónica se mezclara con punk. Firestarter y Breathe me dejaron en otro mood, súper intensas.
This one was as awesome as I remember. Title aside, the opening track Smack My Bitch Up, hits you in the face and it just carries from there. I’ll come back with a better review later
Meh
couple of good songs, but not really my genre.
Some good songs some that felt a bit long and noisy
Heart said 5 Reason said 4
There's something totally unique about the Prodigy. So fun and experimental. I really enjoyed this Album.
There’s something to listening to this on the bleak English public transport that makes it feel like a soundtrack. Some seminal tracks here, I loved Narayan which was new to me. Hard to find many faults other than you could say it’s a bit repetitive but that’s just electronic music in general.
Some amazing songs on this but also a few I wasn't massively into.
3.5
Right, this one was a major staple of my teenage years but it's a hard one to review. Let's start with the ugliness and the very unfortunate misogynistic opening track. Man was this unnecessary. As a teenager who loved this album, I bought into the excuses they made. "It's just a sample, we didn't say that ourselves." "Of course, it's not meant to be taken literally." "Watch the video! It had a twist at end. See?? Not misogynistic now, right??" But as an adult who knows better now, these excuses are all pretty cringeworthy and I have to accept that it's just a toxic song, whether or not they intended it to be. Then there's the album title, which is a reference to military spending over social services. Sure. Edgy. But here's the thing. Take out the toxic sample of one song and the rest of the album is incredible. It's like an industrial punk album laced with electronic breakbeats. Keith Flint was one of those iconic lead singers who caused panic in parents because he was so weird looking and had that double mohawk haircut that looked like devil horns. I had never heard an album quite like this before, where the synths and drum machines felt as terrifying at heavy metal guitars and the music would occasionally break down into rambling psychedelic trips before ramping up the angry energy again. The album can send you to spaced out dream with "Narayan" and then race from danger with "Firestarter" before bringing you back to a heavier version of the punked out "Fuel My Fire". Through in deep hip hop influences in songs like "Diesel Power" and the album is (nearly) perfect. So yes, adult me is much like to skip the first track, but I still reveal in the nostalgic energy of my high school years with the rest of the album. It's a classic that I will always love. Well, 9 out of 10 tracks anyway. In a way, it feels like a very fitting final album for this challenge.
Great energy! Really helps with those cleaning tasks. The Prodigy always strike me as a live band but works just as well on record.
Nor for me
Real good! Never played it all before was surprised at how much I liked it. Bet its a great album to hear live! So many bangers! Will be purchasing the record.
For raves, for motivation or for kicking someine's head in: top tier. Its a 'Get some bollox about you' album. I wouldnt advise driving to it. Youd veer four lanes and end up in someones privet hedge. Eggs would also end up shot putted across the living room.
Love this album. Got some great songs on it Really helped me with my bike ride gave me that energy made me feel good
Blows your mind drastically, fantastically
The intro to Firestarter was the only part I really enjoyed
Amazing
This is very energetic, dancy, club-scene music. I found myself getting bored about halfway through because the lyrics get pretty repetitive and the energy gets kinda stagnant, so this is album I'd sprinkle into a playlist or listen to one or two out of the context of the album. Also, there's a musical element (not quite sure what the original instrument is) in the start of the first song that just sounds like farting. It didn't overstay its welcome, but that was weird to hear at the top of the album.
Ah yes, the album that looks like it’s going to start playing the crab rave any minute now. We start out, with a track charmingly titled “Smack my Bitch up”. Title aside, the actual music was alright and fun to listen to at times, just having “Smack my bitch up” being yelled periodically somewhat took me out of it. Breathe had its moments. I’m not a huge fan so far as the beats have sounded very similar to each other. Same with Diesel power. This guy has good flow, but all the tracks sound very similar. I’ll give Funky Shit some credit, it was in fact funky. Serial Thrilla also was a bit of a bop. Minefields redeemed this album for me. I thought it was super cool. Narayan was also quite good. Firestarter was sick. I think that’s all I need to say. I really liked Climbatize but Fuel my fire was back to being meh. 3.5/5 ⭐️
Had listened to the previous 2 albums alot but when this came out, I wasn't too bothered. Didn't like the singles much at the time. I like it a bit more on this listen, but some of these big beat tracks are plain bad. 3 Heard before? Some Owned: No 65/259 (25%) Will I get: No
Decent tunes - good high energy stuff
This album could not exist in any other time period than the late 90s. It's so aggressively of its time. Not too bad, decent background music.
ALBUNAZO PARA GENTE COOL. SI ESCUCHAS ESTO SOS ALGUIEN COOL.
This album represents my high school days way more accurately than I wish it did making it Surprisingly nostalgic.
As fantastic as I remembered
The second track is great 9/10. the rest of the album is decent but ultimatley bland.
Ready for a workout
love this era
3 of the most normal ones: 1. Smack My Bitch Up - The most provocative track on the album. The title caused controversy (accusations of misogyny), although Liam Howlett claimed that he meant "kick her ass" in a figurative sense. 2. Diesel Power - because it has more hip-hop and less electro. 3. Narayan - the longest (9 min) , the first half is fine, such Indian motifs xsshhaha and a meditative mantra, then again a heavy electro beat. Result: I read that the band itself made a statement that synthesizers and samplers can sound as dirty, aggressive and dangerous as electric guitars. not my genre, it's hard to listen to electronics, like a robot shouts, but when there was a rap, an interesting instrumental and vocals - then fine
Ngl I was bored for a lot of this. The first half of the album wasn’t great and I felt like I’d heard it all before. The back half was way better and kept it from being a one though. The prodigy had to walk so Death Grips could run though
Very okay album. I often felt bored. Didn't do much to really grab my attention and the same DnB beat can only be reused so much. Certainly important for later groups like death grips but not my favorite by any means. Favorite track: Serial Thrilla
A very "band" way to do electronic/dance music, but dunno. I think if I'd been 14 when this came out, it might've meant the world to me, but Prodigy never hit me the way it reached a lot of folks.
I think I actually like this more today than I would have in 1997, thanks to my expanded affection for electronic dance music but also my deepening soft spot for (certain) sounds and vibes from this decade. I like the high-energy mix of techno rhythm beds and noises with hip hop and snarling punk. Sure, the thematic/lyrical content is perhaps dated (“Smack My Bitch Up,” “Funky Shit”), but it’s hardly the point and doesn’t take itself too seriously at any rate. It’s a fun set of block-rockin’ beats and a time capsule I can easily lose myself in.
Every track feels like the soundtrack to some subpar early-1990s film that is basically a Matrix ripoff or an action/crime Tarantino homage (but British).
Masterpiece
Mmmm love The Prodigy, great album.
A bit repetitive. I felt like pretty much every song should have either done a bit more with the beat or been cut by ~2 minutes
Definitely preferred the more industrial tone of Music for the Jilted Generation, but this was a great album that I thoroughly jammed out to.
Nothing wrong with this album but I wasn't really feeling it.
Songs range from good to great without a miss
Really good gym album but regular listening the songs sound very samey, the music still slaps when you're in the mood
This record brings me back to a record store trip I made in ‘97 where I bought this record and Radiohead’s Ok Computer. I thought this album had the potential to be the Never Mind the Bullocks… of electronic music. I also bought Ok Computer as my kind of safe bet figuring I liked Radiohead’s last album, so this should be pretty good. I liked the Prodigy album, it was cool but I loved the Radiohead album. Little did I know both albums would be industry changing for different reasons. This album didn’t hit with me right away, and while it grew on me over time, it hasn’t aged very well, in fact, listening to it now, it sounds extremely dated. There’s lots of good stuff here, but thinking back to that day in ‘97 reminds me of the joy of discovery record stores used to provide.
I understand that all the albums are here because they have been successful and embraced by a lot of people. This is no exception. The band is raucous and very repetitive. I guess that’s the allure for many. I liked some of the grooves, but they end up going nowhere. The video for “Smash My Bitch Up” was disturbing and misogynistic. Definitely not for me.
This takes me back to my early 20’s. This was an album that always went well with a workout. May need to try that again.
Starter fuldstændig viderunderligt ud. Masser af energi! Falder desværre i niveau på "Diesel Power", hvor det viser sig, at vokalen ikke er rapper :o Shit "Mindfields" er til gengæld en kæmpe øjenåbner - kæmpe bangerz! "Narayan" - af for en slasker! :i
Glædelig nostalgisk gensyn! Den her kørte på konstant repeat hos mig tilbage i slut 90'erne/start 00'erne. Et perfekt album fra start til slut.
*76 Ikke alle tracks er født lige. De udvalgte bangers er til gengæld fuldstændig forrygende.
Det her album giver mig lyst til at spille playstation 2 spil på høj sværhedsgrad. Rigtig rigtig fedt.
Det er sgu ret fedt, det her. Jeg skal have hørt noget mere af det. Sniger sig med nød og næppe op på en 4'er 3.8.
Ja tak, det spiller også i 2026
stadig fedt
Well now. One builds up a mental picture of what you expect from a band and to be honest that is not what I got. I found this boring and tedious in the extreme. I expected to give it this score, but not for this reason. 1.
Another all time classic. So powerful and edgy. For me, The Prodigy and Faithless stand head and shoulders above everything else in this genre, and this album is the absolute pinnacle. 10/10.
The Prodigy are one of the few bands of this type where I have enjoyed watching them develop their sound. When this came out I was blown away by the sheer aggression coming from the tracks. As I say, a good song has to make me feel something, this album mostly ticks that box. After revisiting this album after many years. I had forgotten how long some of the songs were, but that is not a big criticism though. Quality tunes across the board.
Literally the sound of my childhood
30 - The Prodigy - The Fat of The Land = 3 Great example of an album that is good, relevant and has a couple of good/fun songs… but it’s not something I’m really going to put on or look to listen to. It’s a grinding sort of drum and bass driving beat with distinct, aggressive vocals. Firestarter is a hit of a song and good. Breathe is an urgent banger with a driving energy that’s infectious. Smack My Bitch Up was the first Prodigy hit - probably as much for the name as the silly groove - but a catchy song. This is a good album, but I’ not going to turn to it except in moments for a quick taste. If it comes on, I’m not changing the station.
Quite good, first half of the album was the most enjoyable. It got a little stale for me by the end but I'll definitely be listening to this one again. I'd give it about 75-80/100
awesome
Unlike other EDM on this list that the algorithm has graced me with, it's hard to imagine this one ever feeling dated. Raw, primal, totemic, it defined a generation. 4 - a great album, even among this list
Drum n bass goodness
Divertido
Iconic and enjoyable listen, aggressive electronic at it's most nineties
Classic
Standard
está bien pero sin más
really loved this one. punk rock
Ah, The Prodigy. I remember the music video for Firestarter freaking me out when it came out. I was only 10, and pretty sheltered, so the whole thing was upsetting. Be here we are, nearly 30 years later. Truth be told, I’ve always enjoyed their upbeat dance electronica. It is by no means great, but this album gets the blood pumping and body moving: great for exercise or chores. There is nothing here that’s going to change your life or impress you. There is, however, some fun to be had. Plus, where would Guy Ritchie be without some of these tunes?
Muy rápido, desenfrenado, no me gusta.
An incendiary listen that sounds just as ahead of its time now as it must have in 1997. There's never a dull moment on here, with Maxim and Keith Flint sounding perfect over top of Liam Howlett's acid breakdowns and breakbeat instrumentation. An essential album of the 90s.
438/1089 - When I first heard the Prodigy as a kid I was blown away by how they made those sounds. I also thought the guy said "bake sale" instead of "exhale."
Firestarter - the song that started it all.
This fucking bangs and that's all there is to it. Sometimes music really is just that simple.
This was fine but nothing amazing
a little scary but got me in the mood to be creative.
ts sucks
A few stand out tracks but becomes a bit repetitive.
This. Fucking. Rips. An excellent example as to how repetition can be used as a stylistic choice in music; you notice and feel the more subtle changes /because/ there’s not many, if any, big changes. Moreover, it’s the perfect dance music for cyberpunk dystopia, so I’d argue it’s aged very well. Also, that album cover is golden. 10/10, would get addicted to ketamine to appreciate more fully.
En ole elektronisen musiikin suurin fani, muttaThe Prodigysta kyllä pidän jonkin verran. Tosin tietämykseni yhtyeestä rajoittuu melkeinpä vain tähän levyyn, joka on oikein hyvä. The Prodigyn musiikki on sen verran ärhäkkää, että rockin ja metallin kuuntelijoiden on helppo pitää heidän musastaan.
Not a huge fan of electronic punk rap done in British voices, I guess. It was an interesting episode of 60 songs but just not my thing.
With the over abundance of mediocre electronic music I was expecting the worst. I think if I was younger, went to clubs whatever, I would appreciate this more. Maybe I’ll give it another try.
British meathead shit. Gotta give it up.
A plane of existence that's very fun to ride out for the runtime. Great time
overlong but the couple of tracks at the start kick ass
we’ve got crabs!
CACETADA
pretty cool
Finally a Little electro
Less than 2 weeks after I revisited Music for the Jilted Generation, here I am revisiting this one. What a step-up, honestly. More immediate, more conscious of its runtime and what to do with it (a median 5-minute runtime for most of the songs, which are also far more energetic and rattling in my opinion) and more outwardly aggressive. The kind of music you run into brick walls to. All of the controversy surrounding "Smack My Bitch Up" be damned, it's a stone-cold classic and easily my favorite song here; impossible to separate from its incredible music video as well. Sometimes provocation is the key is a hit.
Firestarter är den enda jag har hört. Oväntat bra, väldigt sköna ljud och bra beats. Öppnar ögonen för techno/DnB. Detta räknas väl som riktig old-school nu? Kanske inte lyssnar på hela igen men en solid 3:a.
Nostalgia
Very fun beats/house with a few classics
Good but a bit long
Mi primer cd que tuve en la adolescencia, me encanta su continuidad entre cada canción. Lo sigo escuchando y teniendo el mismo sentimiento cada vez, de mis favoritos
3/10
Paar nummers zijn heel goed. Begon met een rap-achtig nummer Tis luisterbaar maar veel nummers niet heel leuk
didn´t love it
damn breath is actually so fire and diesel power ok i don’t feel like listening anymore but ptetty good
That opening track is super nostalgic feel like I have heard it a lot growing up at least the instrumental. Most of the tracks do not have the same oomf or the same sheen, in my opinion. 3.5/5
Legal. Essas canções puramente DnB me pegam. Adoro esse subgênero e tudo que ele têm a oferecer. Batidas ótimas. O verdadeiro “tambor e baixo”. Eletrizante e envolvente. Me lembrou em momentos a música do Jeremy do Peep Show, “This is outrageous!!!”. Engraçado. Inegavelmente brega mas infinitamente charmoso. E apesar do alto nível de queijo nessas canções, o disco em si possui uma estética sonora até que progressiva, em parte, futurista. Não digo isso apenas por sua associação com Matrix. Possui um defeito grave: sua duração. Curto as faixas mais longas, mas o disco em sua totalidade acaba passando dos limites da razão. Quase uma hora de dnb cansa até os mais entusiastas. Uma pena pois, na medida certa, este é um disco imensamente satisfatório de ouvir. Como Harrison colocava, este disco é como bolo de aniversário – pegue uma fatia mas não demais. 3.5
This gave me a headache.
Awesome. Just awesome. All timer.
THAT video fucked me up as a kid - in all fairness, 12 years old shouldn't have been awake at 2 am on a school night to watch "banned" videos but eh. amazing album.
I was born in 1985 so back in 1997 and 1998 I was exactly the right age for Prodigy. Breathe and Firestarter still sound good almost 30 years later but Smack My Bitch Up must be one of the worst songs ever released. Apart from those three songs, there's nothing really special about the album but it still goes on and on for an hour.
CRAB I know this goes crazy at a rave or a big party and surely while you've got substances. Maybe if you're making your way through a neo noir dystopian cyber future as a blade runner or samurai displaced in time or something. But sitting here at work rating albums with a resting heart rate, it is just alright. CRAB
i remember enjoying the videos at the time of this album's release. the album stands up as a decent punky-dancey electronic album. it's a little same-y sounding, but not completely. the non-single stuff i had never heard before was usually the more interesting stuff. "narayan" is particularly good, if not a touch long
Electronic music to game/party/b@ng to. Has some edge to it which I really like.
I forgot how many hits they had from this album.
Did NOT like it. I like albums that have lyrics not just beats, plus I have a phobia of crabs.
Aika rankkaa. Naisten pieksäminen meni kans aika ohi.
BRILLIANT.
If it was the 90s & I’d heard this for the first time I’d think t was the coolest thing EVA
Holds up.
This was a blast to listen to. Liked the groove and overall experience. Solid 3. Best track was Breathe.
I felt bad because Inreally didn’t like this album and I thought it was from a small artist but then I saw they have 5 mil monthly listeners and I stopped feeling bad. It sounds like this whole record was made in garage band.
CRAB RAVE.
Didn't like it in high school. Still don't like it now.
Classic of its genre
You lost me at electronica where the first track is titled Smack My Bitch Up
содобалися три пісні. загалом не дуже моє. можливо якби я вслухалася більше то сподобалося б а так «е-»
Kind of goes in one ear and out the other, another album that goes harder in The Club(tm). I do really like Narayan and Firestarter though. 7.5/10.
Nice beats but not my scene, not really convinced it had to be this long either. Favourite track: Breathe.
7/10 I can see what they were going for but it didn't leave much of an impression for me. It's electronic, it's dancey, but it's also kind of repetitive.
Look, you add a breakbeat to anything and it makes it sound instantly better, it’s just the rules. Just such an awesome album, exactly what I love from the 90’s. We didn’t need that misogyny tho.
It is quite a good techno electronic album. Some pretty good elements within the album, but it didn't connect to me. Would definitely enjoy it more in the right context, but it achieved its goal in helping me clean the house. Awesome album cover though.
If you don't like The Prodigy there's something wrong with you. Liam Howlett churned out classic track after classic track for several years (let's be fair, he was the driving force musically, no disrespect to the others). This album is full of classics, not just the 3 more "well known" tracks that hit the charts. Listening to this instantly took me back to my late 20's - and they were the best years of my life!!!!!
The first 2 songs are great but the rest kind of had me less interested.
maybe 3.2
Hated this
I have somehow avoided listening to Prodigy albums until now, even though I’ve pretty much enjoyed all the songs I know by them, a curious omission to my listening history, which is also curious since I like similar acts. The big singles were unavoidable at the time, and I still remember channel 4 debuting the video to Smack My Bitch Up late one Friday night. I enjoyed the album which holds much of the same energy that the singles provide, but the best track on the album was its penultimate, Climbatize, which really ought to be the closer and is my main criticism for the album. That track could also be 3-4 minutes longer, which is saying something when it clocks in over 6 mins but I’d have happily listened for 10.
This is #day585 of my #1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie challenge, and… just yesterday, I was eating crab sticks and couldn't suspect that this record would land next. The Fat of The Land, baby. Just so you know, as a kid of the '90s, Prodigy was an indispensable name in my listening habits, whether you were into rock or electronics (I did both). As Metal Hammer once put it, this record is the point at which rave culture collided with metal culture. And I think this kind of ambivalence is the band's whole phenomenon. All singles, particularly "Breathe," are some of the biggest tunes of the era. "Narayan" turned out to be a delicious deepcut. This is a 5 out of 5, of course. Looking forward to #day586.
Breathe
never really knew this group but 2-4 songs from this specific album are on the charlie’s angels soundtrack. liked this one a lot, it’s not an album on the wall but it’s a no skip. really good focus music
Crab Rave This must be the inspiration for game soundtracks for years to come. It's a fun listen. 4 stars.
Love the album
Some absolute crackers on here. I feel like they are holding the album up, a few forgettable tracks inbetween 6.5-7/10
Some killer, some filler. All in all, engaging and general fun, but more suited to dancing than home listening.
WTF, que gran discooo. Divertido, energético, te hace querer brincar, mover la cabeza y agitar los brazos. Tremenda gozadera al escuchar este disco, muy bueno. Una gran combinación entre electrónica y punk/rock. Wikipedia lo clasifica como Electropunk, es eso tal cual, buenísimo. Tiene un gran sonido, muy potente, autentico y con carácter. Me costó un poco acabarlo por lo mismo, es mucha energía, demasiada, no tiene nada de malo, solo que para mi fue mucho. Creo que solo podría escuchar esto por mucho tiempo en un concierto o una fiesta, solo con audífonos es demasiado. Fuera de eso todo muy bien. En general un gran disco.
It’s ok
The sound of 1997. Beautifully produced and is the best in its genre. A top 3 out of 5 from me.
Electronic music is not usually something I enjoy, and though I won’t likely ever listen to this again, it was definitely energizing and more enjoyable than I anticipated.
Confirmo una vez mas, la electrónica no es lo mío, pero me dió una experiencia nueva. Arranque sobre estimulada y me terminó ayudando a dejar de procrastinar con la limpieza que venía pateando toda la semana. No volvería a escucharlo ni me dió curiosidad la banda ni el género, me quedo con una única buena experiencia. O capaz cuando necesite tener otra sesión productiva de limpieza vuelva a este álbum.
Good enough to add some songs to my workout playlist and have something different come up every now and again. Not sure I would go out of my way to listen otherwise though.
Smack My Bitch Up opens up strong. Funky Shit was another good one. The album is ultimately a bit samey the whole way through but that isn't the worst thing.
This record is certainly an interesting time capsule, though it can feel a bit corny and cringe to listen to. While it isn't a record I would necessarily revisit, I don't regret giving it a listen. Liked: Narayan, Climatize Blocked: Diesel Power, Serial Thrilla
Pretty good start but felt like after a bit some of the songs sounded the same.
This was a fun listening experience for me. The album gets your attention immediately and the engineer did a phenomenal job of making the album flow from song to song. The highs were very high but the lows were pretty low. Overall I enjoyed this album and I definitely plan on coming back to it. 3/5.
It was better when Keith wasn't singing. There I've said it and you can't make me take it back. It feels mean to give this only 3 stars as it has 3 iconic tracks but the rest of it is average at best. Oh f*ck it, it can have 4 stars, I'm feeling generous
Way better than I remember.
This was a fun album, very unique
Not for me.
1/5
Every Track the same
this was honestly so epic.
I am a bit biased. I was born in 1981 and The Prodigy was very much part of the soundtrack of my formative years. I hadn’t listened to the album as a whole in ages and it was a blast to hear it again. I was going to give the album five stars, but on an honest relistening, soms songs felt like fillers and some tunes got repetitive. Still, take me back to a nineties party and I will dance to The Prodigy all night
4/10
Decent album. Firestarter was a cool track, as was Breathe, which still gets played on radio these days. A few others I dug. EDM just really isn’t my thing. This was better than a lot of other stuff I’ve heard as it wasn’t just strong beats. All the same, not amazing.
Was never a fan of this band when they hit the US in my college years, but now I kind of dig it. Seems like jock jams for the thinking person.
7/10 – Good
Best Song: Breathe. Maximally crunchy. Worst Song: Serial Thrilla. Both times, that grating "whirrr" sound made me think that my computer had frozen. Not exactly musical. Overall: It's decent, but it feels very "juvenile" in a way I can't really explain. Listening to it, I just imagine a bunch of young boys in some urban setting, doing amateur parkour and shadowboxing. Music for having your action figures beat up other action figures. Music for punching air.
It was definitely Prodigy
good.
Pas ma tasse de thé
Would have been awesome to listen to if I was British or a Vampyric race traitor. Otherwise, pretty decent. Has its heaters, but some of the other ones are a bit of a drag.
first listen vibe was weird, but not in a good way. very “wtf is that.” then i realized it’s electronic music, and personally… i just don’t live very much for that. the energy to me is a weird mix of the matrix meets the crow, like it’s trying to be cinematic and rebellious at the same time, but it just didn’t grab me. vocals? samples? didn’t care much. The whole firestarter thing, just not my lane. i’ll give it this: the beats are nice, and it’s not overproduced compared to others in the genre. i can see why people lost their minds over it. but for me? nah. not my thing. straight 1.
Återigen går jänkarna vilse i vilket eller vilka album som ska vara med. Jag hade köpt om dom valde "Music for a jilted generation" (2a albumet) för kvalitén eller i synnerhet den stilbildande debuten "Experience". Men den här blir svårt att övertyga mig om att den måste höras. Jag hade förmånen att se Prodigy på Hultsfred 96 precis i brytpunkten mellan en dansgolvsangelägenhet och en headlineakt för den stora scenen (kanske var vi fler här som gjorde det?). Det är en av mina mer omtumlande konsertupplevelser. Prodigy pulveriserade den där småländska gräsplätten med sin breakbeatspunk på ett sätt som närmast chockade en "vanlig" rockfestivalpublik (tänk på att det här raggarrockslandet Sverige). Det var hårdare, skitigare och mer utlevande än all rock som spelades på den festivalen. Jag är ingen superfan av Prodigy så men är det nån kredd dom verkligen förtjänar så är det som liveakt, att dom tog dansgolvet till de största scenerna, på ett sätt som nästan kan vara svårt att förstå idag när de största scenerna befolkas av just dansakter. Prodigy stod tveklöst i första ledet i den utvecklingen. På "The fat of the land" går man på rå kraft, man har i stort sett blivit Mötorhead. Det är låtar som inte är tänkta för nåt annat än att fronta de största scenerna, brytpunkten är borta det här är den nya rocken. Singlarna (Breathe, Firestarter, Smack my bitch up) må vara högeffektiva livemonster men är kanske inte så bra. Funky shit låter mer som vapenbröderna Chemical Brothers, det är en komplimang. Som bäst blir dock när ett uns rötterna i rave hittar in i de två spåren Mindfields och Narayan. Annars är det mest stort, hårt och slammrigt, ja den nya tidens rockband. Inte dåligt, aldrig riktigt bra men hyfsat kul. Svag trea
Snacka om att ha en enda hook och dryga ut den i fem minuter. Ungefär så är varje låt uppbyggd.
Prodik! Prodik! Spela Prodik! Vilket skit stäng av! Det var väl så det lät när Pop i ett reportage lät förskolebarn kommentera de hetaste musikakterna vid mitten av 90-talet. Till viss del går det att dra paralleller till hur jag själv upplever albumet, så här snart 30 år senare. Till en början blir jag positivt överraskad. Många spår håller förvånansvärt väl. Inte minst Diesel power där Kool Keith gästar. Funky shit med tydliga Chemical brothers-vibbar är inte heller dum. Å andra sidan det här är ju inte musik gjord för att i lugn och ro lyssna på i hörlurar eller i sterosoffan. Som sådan blir det en lite väl tungmatade timme. Mot slutet känner nästan, ”vilken skit, stäng av”. Inte för att det dåligt, det har bara blivit för mycket av hårda, dystopiska big-beats. Man klarar trean.en låt till och det hade blivit ett snäpp nedåt.
The fat of the land gick på repeat på min cd-spelare under en stor del av 1997. Albumet var för mig efterlängtat länge då första singeln, Firestarter kom ett år före albumet. Jag har plockat fram det lite då och då sedan dess, men det var aldrig i närheten av diskussionen om världens bästa album. När jag lyssnar idag så är singlarna bra, men bäst är fortfarande Diesel Power med Kool Keith. Andra halvan (med undantag för Firestarter) går lite på tomgång. Det är samma ljud och samma beats som återupprepas. Avslutande punkpastischen Fuel My Fire hade gärna fått stanna i byrålådan.
Brought me back to the days when Kris and I would slam dance for hours at all night raves.
Good album. Not sure I can imagine listening to this anywhere that *I* would go which does make replay-ability a little difficult. Also, I enjoy it when songs have words. Season: Early Winter at Night Favorite Song: Breathe
This album reminds me of the opening of batman beyond and that was an unmeasurably hype time as a child. As a kid, this is exactly what nightlife music sounded life. it's fun and quirky. As an adult, I can appreciate it electronic music more, but it definitely has a time and place, I wouldn't really seek it out, but If I was out and about, I wouldn't mind hearing it. Ill leave a snip from a much better review than mine: " Writing as one who has never “Smack[ed] My Bitch Up”, I should perhaps merely confess that I can’t relate and move on. But that wouldn’t be fair to the art."
Le techno ce sera pour dans une autre vie... Une fois j'ai été dans un rave. Je me suis tellement ennuyé que je suis allé m'installer dans un coin et j'ai dormi jusqu'au petit matin.
5 ne serait-ce que pour le facteur nostalgique, je l’ai déjà écouté pas mal quand j’étais fan de Big Beat. En plus c’est je crois, notre première toune qui se trouvait aussi dans le mythique Big Shiny Tunes 2! (Oups non, j’ai vérifié et Paranoid Android se trouvait aussi sur cette compilation)
Good intro to punk techno.
Not my jam
Not my cup of tea
Oh this was surprisingly fun! Not sure about the lyrics to the first song, but each track was something I could see myself jamming out to in the gym or at the club or while crushing tasks at work. 8/10
- tän levyn kovimmat biisit on niin isoja järkäleitä että ihan sama vaikka muut raidat olis vaikka pieruääniä, tää albumi ansaitsee vähintään nelosen - mää rakastan prodigyä
Maybe a full hour is to much
High energy. Love the party crab on the album cover. Not my vibe, but I can appreciate it. Narayan was a bit too long for my rubbish attention span so I did skip the last 2 minutes. Might actually be good focus music for when I need to buckle down and do a task, will keep it in mind.
Classic beat beat tracks on here from late 90s when that subgenre was a think. I never heard the whole album though, just the singles. Love the Kool Keith feature on Diesel Power. Not sure I'd go back and listen to the whole album though. It's a little abrasive--probably I'd have liked it more if I'd familiarized myself with it in the 90s. 3/5
What a pleasant surprise getting this album!! It is very dear to me as it reminds me of a mundane but nice memory of my childhood. When I was little I remember my dad would work out in the basement and he would blast The Prodigy music including this album and it was his favorite. I would hear the music upstairs and jump around to it in my room. So this album not only holds bangers but it holds a warm spot in my heart as I’ll always associate The Prodigy to my dad. Also I fucking love the album cover so much. Would give 5 stars but giving 4 because I have to be in a specific mood to enjoy this type of music.
3,5 Highlights: Breathe, Firestarter
Highlights: Smack My Bitch Up, Breathe, Diesel Power, Funky Shit, Serial Thrilla, Mindfields, Firestarter Tasty production all the way. Hit after hit - pure blast! The damn bass everywhere is just so nasty - rip to everyone listening to this on a laptop speaker. Funky Shit samples the Beastie Boys which I found it to be a nice touch cuz I love them too. It also has a bunch of these Jet Set Radio-esque sounds which I find cool. Narayan has a very cool combination of flowing bass and sound effects but I'm not sure if it's really a highlight - it's kinda long and long songs are always a bit sus. It feels cool as a part of the record, but not standalone. But that is ok, since this record has a great flow. It's a really thought out concept with minimal filler. It could carry a party on its own. I never heard Serial Thrilla before, but it was love at first sight. Climbatize was interesting because it was a rare instrumental - the thing is I either expected more of them or none at all. I can see a rave record consisting of a lot of instrumentals, but for it to have only one was weird to me and it kinda killed the flow. That's why the closing part was overall a bit weaker. But when the flow was on, it had a lot of great transitions between songs. If this came out fresh today I would have this on repeat for at least a week. Also, it has such a wtf cover but it works - a great album can't be great without a cool cover.
They did it they figured out how to make instrumental music sound bad I’ve heard a couple of Prodigy songs before and kinda liked them, so was sorta looking forward to this one and was pretty disappointed. Some of the beats sound pretty good and get you invested, and then they do something stupid that ruins it. It almost feels like an video game ost at times While listening for the first time I thought it wasn’t really that bad at all and then my second listen through made me realize how shallow and uninteresting this one is. Also the vocals are too British
The thing about electronic music is you'll think it's hype and then listen to the same beat and sample on loop for 5+ minutes
Nope. I'm too old for this crap. And when I was young enough for this crap, it was not my flavor.
Less than an hour, that's good. I'm making it obvious that I don't like when albums are over an hour. This album has almost no variety, none between songs and none in songs. The song would repeat a melody and keep repeating and never stop. I just didn't really get this album.
Initially, I could not figure out why this album was in the book. A quick visit to Wikipedia revealed to me the reason. They are an English group. This book leans hard towards English groups and this is not exception. There is some "sameness" to these songs, though "Narayen" has a pretty neat synth riff that differentiates itself from the other songs prior. I won't ever listen to this album again, unless I am being held hostage and my captors are blaring The Prodigy in an effort to cause me sleep deprivation in the hopes I will confess what they want me to know. Unfortunately, my only conclusion would probably still be that I don't think this is excellent music. Not my thing, but also not quite as offensive as some of the other music here I didn't like, I’m looking at you Rock Bottom. Did I need to hear this before I die? Nope
This took me back, still an incredible album, amazing bass throughout, every track a banger
Worth one listen kinda awful proto industrial hip hop
Difficult not to like the Prodigy - plenty of heart.
Lov
Funky But why we smacking bitches up? It does feel like living a fast life industrial style futuristic neon lights idk Würde am Duisburg Landschaftspark hören während man so tut als wäre das eigene leben cooler als es ist. Mafia type shit I still dont like it so far
Muy bueno. Enérgico, me salvó un día brutal de laburo.
Otra muestra de la influencia enorme que tuvo el hip hop para la electrónica como paradigma musical. El álbum es tremendamente genial y divertido. Desde sonidos industriales, los constantes breakdown, líneas de bajo bien bastardas, etc.. No creo que se tenga que saber mucho de música para considerar esto una obra maestro, al menos de un nicho musical.
Not for me
I totally get it why it gets ranked so high.
Indeed the funky shit is pretty funky
This was cool Felt like I was in a sci-fi movie P.S best while high
I’m old enough to remember reading about the controversy around, “Smack My B* Up,” when it first came out. But since there was no YouTube Music in ‘97, I didn’t want to waste my time or money to listen to it and make my own judgment. Now, thanks to YouTube Music, I can have another reason to dislike electronic music for free!
A headbanger’s dance album.
Yeah, straight up very hard to condone someone blaring "Smack by Bitch Up" several times. And if when you look over that, you're still left with obvious song structures that do not really innovate. They just drop the bass at the expected times. Even if it was important when it first came out, the tracks have aged pretty poorly. I guess it's good for the dance floor or something?
New Forms Roni Size
Absolute vibing bangers
Did people actually like this? +1 for kool keith
It feels like all the meandering, overlong, repetitive techno the early 90s led to this. Prodigy produced a truly impressive electronic record. Edgy, gritty, and punk rock aesthetics shine through in a space often dominated by more dance forward sounds. Almost a complete inversion of Daft Punk's Homework, Fat of the Land provided a techno that utilized harder and heavier musical styles creating something unique and all their own.
Their 3 hits are on here. They are bangers. There are also a bunch of other songs on here. If this was an EP….
Not a big EDM fan, but this one is different. It has an in-your-face attitude that doesn't rely only on endless loops and drum machines. It's manic and a bit menacing but kind of enjoyable.
demasiado gede
ok i confess. i was only familiar with Smack My Bitch Up and Firestarter. but listen, those are classics ok? i honestly was expecting to love this more than i did. i still really like it, but the energy of earlier work has been sanded down to become more rock-like in sound and appeal. i'm glad some dance music that's actually fun is respected here, though. that's a real relief. deserves to be one of the 1001? yes! and add in Experience too. it's a really important moment in the development in rave music, significant because it's a *great* album in a genre that doesn't really care about the format. and it's probably the album i dance the hardest to when listening.
Yes please
Tough to score this. It's not really my kind of music, but it was good paired with a gym session. Probably worth a 4 in that context, but I can't see me listening to it again in any other context. I'll go with a 3.5 rounded up.
Beatific
Yeahhhhhhh!!!! A true nineties classic. I usually bitch when they put dance music here, but Prodigy are different. I mean sure this works incredibly well at the club (not on this album, but Out of Space is the best dance song ever) but the music also works great for album listening. The songs are super danceable and energetic but they also have narrative and progress and incredible dynamics. This really fuses all of the nineties dance music with some rock sensibilities and makes for a great listen. The dark industrial atmosphere takes me back to abandon warehouse raves in the best of ways. Five stars one of the best of the nineties.
Pretty decent album, I liked it more than I thought I would.
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My rating 3.2. Fun
On paper I shouldn't like this but Keith has a killer voice
This is as good as electronica can get for me.
It’s ok
Still amazing
2.5 not my style
This might have been the worst thing I’ve ever heard. DNF at song 3
Sounds like a ps2 racing game sound track. Songs sound pretty similar to each other.
BANGER AFTER BANGER
What could you possibly say that hasn't been said before? An absolute juggernaut of dnb.
Brum brum. Menudo clásico
Couple bangers but goes on a bit
Nice
If there was ever an album to give a 1 to without relistening, this is it. I've been annoyed by this band enough in my life.
I liked this album. I would listen to it again. I like the aggro big beat sound. This sort of fits nicely between Chemical Brothers and early Ministry in my music listening spectrum. I could do without the whole misogynistic sounding Smack song. Overall, it's about a solid 3.5, but rounding down for various arbitrary reasons I can't really articulate.
Not my thing, but I heard a fair bit of this album when it was released since a lot of my cohort liked it. It's aggressive and sounds good, so I get it if you like this. I'm sure people thought the first track title was funny 30 years ago. Hard to imagine that.
Rounding up a little here because: (1) almost every song has a very cool 30 seconds or so, before in most cases taking too long to wrap up, and (2) the L7 cover is excellent.
2/5 - If all music sounded like this, poetry would be much more popular.
This is ok. Might deserve another listen even.
Pretty good. Not a lot of strong opinions either way.
Yes the soundtrack of my youth, driving around with this on my car stereo parcel shelf shaking from. The bass on my 6x9's
When half the songs are already in your Liked Songs playlist, you know you're in for a good time during your mandated listening.
Not my vibe. I much prefer "Breathe" to "Smack My Bitch Up" (and as a woman, I detest that title), but like most industrial / electronic music, it's extremely repetitive and gets a tad boring after awhile. No thanks.
Mye bra her! Første gang jeg hører hele plata og er positivt overasket. Svak for 90-talls breakbeats. Kul og unik sound som ikke låter som så mye annet.
За крабика
Banger
Did not like
HYPEEEEE
Great beats, this is a decent album. 3.5 stars
Sadly I am drunk Apparently a lot of these songs were put in movies because of the influence it had GREAT album for the background of a MTG Commander night 🙂↕️🥳🥳
I feel like I'm watching a 90s movie rave scene
SO BAD
En del bangers men jag tröttnar på genren
Smack my bitch up
This is the album I most associate with my personal break-away from popular music. My friends started listening to Prodigy (and other similar artists) and I just didn't like it. I still don't. And then more music started heading off into that electronic direction and it seemed like the other option was nu-metal, and I just stopped watching MTV and listening to the radio for a few years. This album brings back vivid (though hazy) memories of my friends baked out of their gourds playing Wipeout on the Playstation 1, while I watched and wished we were playing NCAA Football and listening to guitar music. (I originally included SSX in this, but just googled and apparently that game didn't come out until 2000 on the PS2, so perhaps these memories aren't as vivid as I thought?) This album is a good example of something that I do not like personally but agree that it is essential listening. I did not know until reading the Wikipedia page that Tom Morello and Matt Cameron were on this album. I also never knew that the looped guitar in "Firestarter" was sampled from a Breeders song, and listening to it now I still can't make it out. "Climbatize" bothered me the least on this listen-through. I'm not sure I ever made it to the end of this album so I never knew it closes with an L7 cover. That bumps it up half a star for me.
I hardly ever listen to this type of music but damn, I was jamming hard to this one. Great fucking vibe. Took me back to the 90's.
A one-note album, but it hits that note very well. Electronic music (I'm not going to guess the subgenre because frankly, I don't really care) that goes hard with booming beats, addictive rhythms and nonsense lyrics, never taking it's foot off the gas. It is pure catharsis: simple, stupid and fun. Make sure your subwoofer is in good condition and enjoy.
Quite fun learning where songs you "know" actually come from
This rocked
Standouts Smack My Bitch Up Breath Firestarter
Nostalgic beats. So 2000s
This album slays! Slaps hard, but hard and fun too. It is difficult to define the prodigy sound because they blend so many different beats and textures that aren't used by most bands I can conceive of. In fact, I can't think one. They are their own animal. There is a fierceness and that deep bass groove that hammers and drives on tracks like Firestarter, Breathe, and Diesel Power. Other songs like Climbatize and Narayan have more expansive sonic pans and atmospherics. But in with the slamming bump and growl, there are also seemingly incongruent sounds that they somehow make work. They're almost jazz accents. If jazz were bombing the dancefloor.
the cover of this album perfectly represents how it feels to listen to it
Love the classics but got slightly bored by the rest by the end of the songs. Really like the vibe overall!
Nope
The recognizable hits were good, the rest of the album was fine but without the familiarity it was just noise. For me this is always just background music, filler for when you're doing something that requires some concentration but you need something else to fill the silence.
This isn't music for listening to - it's music for dancing to, and I'm not much of a dancer. So for me, it's just more repetitive techno beats with nothing that really appeals to me. Each track has about six words of "lyrics" - usually sampled from other, better songs - repeated ad nauseam like every other instrument. I'll pass, thanks.
Absolute class
Lovely stuff, if you’re raving.
Groupe d’electronique britannique connu sur la scene rave underground. Je n’ai pas reussi a ecouter la 2nde moitie de l’album. Beaucoup de loops, tres repetitifs.je pense que c’est très innovant en terme de musicalité mais pas fan du tout
fire
Slaps. Two incredible bangers to start. Jams
uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Fun!
This has held up a lot better than I expected, especially for a genre that didn’t necessarily lend itself that well to albums.