Reviews (page 7 of 14)
crab guy :)))
One of few albums in electronic music that I know of that forms a coherent experience. Classic. It does have a song with very questionable lyrics though
Kyllä tällä on ihan paikka tässä maailmassa! Aika epätasainen levy biisien osalta, mutta hittiensä ja yleisen soundin suhteen varsin vankka ööö electro tai beat tai mikälie -levy tämä nyt onkaan. 4/5
I really enjoyed this. Listened to it whilst studying for O chem (I think electronica stuff is what I appear to gravitate towards for study music which I find interesting). I liked that there was actual singing/rapping/whatever vocals and not just sampling of other people's vocals. Also I agree with Big Kev, the cover art is very swag, I really like the crab.
not really my thing to sit and listen to this kind of music but if i heard this out at a club i'd be having a blast. every song sounds distinct and it's fun even tho im not in the mood.
I did not really expect to like this as much as I did. I knew Smack My Bitch Up and Firestarter going in so I was a little hopeful for an album from a genre that I usually dislike. I think what works for me here is that these songs often feel like songs rather than beat collections. It's almost a little rock-ish in its approach. I love every time Keith Lee pops up (RIP) I even liked the 9 minute song. I groaned when I saw the run time but it ended up being one of my favorites. Yeah, some of it does get a bit repetitive and some of these songs maybe could've been trimmed down as I damn well get the freaking point after 3 or 4 minutes (or 1 sometimes) but I liked this a lot and will go back to it and probably other Prodigy albums too.
One of many soundtracks to my twenties - its bass-heavy beats make it necessary to play this album loud! Lost a point because the last couple of tracks seem pointless.
3-4 big time hits on here. They don’t age super well but I still love em. I love the kool Kieth appearance, was a huge surprise for me
crabcore
Interesante I guess
Great, aggressive beats. Feels fresh even though it's age. Just a classic drum-n-base album. "Breathe" is by far my favourite track on the album but nearly all of "The Prodigy's" hits make an appearance. For the negative it gets a bit too angsty 90:s at times and the vocals are not always great. So while there are some really good songs, there are some duds in between. All in all, a good listen and I also hadn't heard "Narayan" which was kind of cool song.
Enjoyable from start to finish. The album that thrust the band to superstardom that unfortunately was the start of the end.
Náði ekki að hlusta en örugglega jafn góð og hún var á ipodnum mínum 2010. Svoskemmtilegt þetta tímabil í breskri tónlist, hvernig breskt pönk/indí, house og teknó frá bandaríkjunum, jamaíka tónlist og hip hop blandaðist allt saman í einn graut og úr veður alveg ný bresk stefna. https://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/essays/the-wire-300_simon-reynolds-on-the-hardcore-continuum_introduction
Þetta er það sem maður myndi kalla sturluð plata. Þvílík keyrsla, platan í ræktinni fyrir þá sem hafa gaman af slíku.
Really liked it.
A bit problematic, but still a bangin album. As far as I can tell the band hasn’t done anything shitty, so I feel better for liking the album.
Talk about nostalgia. My very first school parties featured this album. Ah to be young again.
Same as for the other Prodigy album we got. I enjoyed it much more than I would have thought before this project. Probably that's partially do to the music feeling like rock almost as much as like electronica. Still, my main criticism is that tracks often feel too repetitive within themselves. Might be good for dancing, but not as much for my office job. 3.5 rounded up.
Repetitive by design. Classic.
Holds up more than I would have expected
A classic
This is interesting. Not sure where to place it but I like it. Has some pretty industrial moments. Has some moments that feel PWEI-ish. A few songs could be a bit shorter, but I'd say a solid 3.75 stars.
Wholly enjoyable. Not quite the first 5/5 for me, I reckon. Needs something a bit more personally appealing for that.
4/5. Good industrial late 90s jams
4 stars
4/5
I first listened to this album maybe two years ago, and I’ve been a pretty big fan of it since. As a husband and father of two daughters, “Smack My Bitch Up” is a disconcerting song title, but it’s a jam to be honest. Breathe, Seriel Thrilla, and of course Firestarter are all bangers and it’s solid in between.
Man I love high energy techno dance music. Not the christer kind. Love smack my bitch up and breathe. I love the samples they use
not bad pretty good beats
Terrific!
The non-singles are pretty standard Prodigy fare; tracks 3-5 are kinda average in my opinion but they get better after that. Still, it’s the 3 monster hits that boost this album above the riff-raff and up to - or just beyond - the level of Music For The Jilted Generation.
Fun album for sports
Crossover banger after crossover banger. Can still remember the impact of this record when it came out - probably among the few true punk records of the 90s. Only gripe is the first track which feels so dated in its heavy handed casual misogyny. Almost turned me off this otherwise excellent album.
I loved the energy of this album, and it was a fun listen. I'm not itching to get back to it, but I could definitely continue to enjoy some of the tracks here. +1 for the crab album cover. 8/10. Favorite Tracks: Breathe, Funky Shit, Mindfields No Least Favorites
4.5
OK, not really my thing but good enough to listen to
One of those albums that contains almost everything I usually dislike in music and yet I love it
- I’m not sure what the was but I enjoyed it - loved the beats and distortion
Good album. Too repetitive though. Not really my thing
nice one. takes me back...
Look, my most prolific internet presence is posting screenshots and video clips of PlayStation 1 & 2 games. You cannot play the amount of early PSX games that I do and still give this album an unbiased review.
One of the best 90s EDM albums. While EDM isn't my particular cup of tea, I don't hate it.
Gutted I got this Sunday morning and not a Friday night. Going to hold of reviewing this until the appropriate moment. Absolute classic dance album from the 90’s, not quite a masterpiece but really does stand out as a great album,
Took me back to being 13 and taking my cash to the music store in the mall to purchase this from hearing 1 single on MTV. This album was a gateway to a lot of music I would have never considered giving a chance. Energetic, noisy, aggressive.
Funkyyy
Ik heb t wel vaker bij nummers over bangers, maar dit zijn de echte bangers in de essentie van t woord
I bought this album when it first came out. I can’t remember the last time I listened to the entire album. I definitely took a trip back in time with this one. 4/5 for the nostalgia and being a great album to work out to.
Techno. Dos megahits. Un 4.
wow that was sick favorite tracks: Smack My Bitch Up, Climbatize really great
Ein starkes Album, dass auch einige Single-Auskopplungen gehabt hat. Mir ist vorher aber noch nie aufgefallen, dass die Grundbeats doch teilweise etwas wiederholend von Song zu Song sind.
The songs on this album are big nostalgia from my teen years. I love it! That being said - it's been a while since I listened to the whole album all at once, and I didn't realize how... samey it sounds? Like it sounds like maybe two really long songs. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but I actually am finding I wasn't necessarily blown away by the album as a whole. Still a great listen though, and it made me remember what it was like to be a kid and wish I was a hacker.
I was one of those teenagers who became obsessed with these songs. They’re all still pretty great. It’s a dated sound, but amazing example of rave music in the late 90’s. I actually didn’t realize how many songs where on this album, packed with good stuff.
good one
Not my usual thing, but this was an enjoyable experience.
90s Hip Hop descendants electronic music. Feels like songs you hear in The Matrix movies.
Really really good. Not sure if it's better than Music for the Jilted Generation though.
duplicate
My first introduction to the genius, Kool Keith, and I didn't even know it for years to come! ... oh wait, this is a review for The Prodigy. I owned this CD. This album came out my senior year in high school and was EVERYONES jam. Saw The Prodigy play End Fest that summer. As much as I don't like a lot of the electronica of the day, this scratches an itch. Maybe just because there are so many memories associated
Different. Pretty good
Smack my bitch up is echt een 10/10 eerste nummer, wat een opener voor het album zeg. Meteen daarna Breathe, eigenlijk weet je dan al dat dit een fantastisch album is. Het is hard, het is vet, ik ben hyped. Funky Shit heeft een lekker vuige acid lijn. Love 303s. Vind de transfer van en naar Serial Thrilla erg matig, had van mij niet zo gehoeven. Vind sowieso dat het na Funky Shit een beetje inkakt. De singles zijn ijzersterk met Smack My Bitch up, Breathe en Firestarter. Ook tussen de niet singles zitten naar mijn mening hele vette nummers als Narayan, maar daarnaast zijn er toch een paar meh nummers als Mindfields en Serial Thrilla. Het is dus zeker geen perfect album, maar wel gewoon een heel vet album. En dat is prima, dat mag allemaal. FAVO: Smack my bitch up, Breathe, Funky Shit, Narayan, Firestarter
This combines the punk rock spirit with the dance music of the day brilliantly. One of the few dance albums I bought at the time. It’s relentless, has touches of Eastern mysticism and is thoroughly politically incorrect throughout.
Three good, well known songs.
A bit faster than their previous album, much more my vibe
I've heard "Firestarter" and "Smack My Bitch Up" before, but this was my first time listening to an album by Prodigy. I wasn't terribly impressed with the first three tracks, but "Funky Shit" kicked off a string of songs that I really enjoyed, all the way through "Firestarter." Speaking of "Firestarter," the segue into it from "Narayan" was absolutely fantastic. At the expense of sounding like an absolute lunatic, I love a good segue from one song into another. "Climbatize" was great too, and I loved its use of a sample from The Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again." I really liked the beats on this song from "Funky Shit" onward; the lyrics and vocals weren't really my jam, but it was easy to ignore them. This album isn't the type of thing I'd listen to just to listen to, but I can definitely fuck with this during a workout. Overall, this wound up being a great album, despite its rocky start.
A big beat odyssey that tapped its era's youth culture zeitgeist by successfully fusing the techno rave with the punk rock pit, becoming a defining musical force of the late 90s in the process.
Overall a really solid electronic album, great instrumentals with aggressive effective lyrics. 8/10
This was more enjoyable than I thought it would be. I think I knew this record pretty well as a teenager but definitely did not listen to it in the intervening years. For me the big hits (Smack My Bitch Up, Firestarter, Breathe) were actually the lowest points of the record - the rest of it is actually pretty well put together and enjoyable.
Fun clubby and dubby big beat release. Great vocals too.
Listened to this while playing Barcelona with my best friend. He won. This album was way more fantastic than I thought it would be. I recognized so many of the songs, and every single one of them is a banger. The one negative for me are the vocals. From time to time they take an amazing song and make it considerably less appealing. Listening to this reminded me of the movie Go!
classic
Wow. This takes me back to every half remembered party or rave that I went to between the ages of 20 and 21. I had forgotten all about The Prodigy but this is actually a pretty awesome album. Breathe is such a great track!
Actually goes pretty hard, I like the rock influence over the electronic production, kinda cool. 8/10
I thought this was very cool in 1997... and honestly it holds up better than the other UK electronica stuff that's been on the list so far. Especially Breathe. 3.7
i do enjoy those big beats BOOM BOOM CHHHH: 8.8/10
Current favs: funky shit and smack my bitch up, very chill but still danceable and upbeat, nothing to hardcore
Almost reminds me of jet set Radio. Used to not be an acid house guy, now I am
Techno before techno I’m all for it. Paved the way for a lot of new age dance music. A lot of songs go really hard. I could play it at the gym, a run, playing games, sports, free running… just makes you want to do things. Lots of well known songs that I didn’t know who made them. Kinda rap songs as well. Fun journey. 7/10
I'm the firestarter, twisted firestarter. A fun album from front to back but not much nuance to it. It's a good listen and if you enjoy techno and a little hip hop as well you'll like this album along with it having a couple of big hits spread throughout. 7/10
I can’t believe they made an album of the ‘You wouldn’t download a car commercial’. There are three massive hits on this album that are absolute bangers in the sense that you end up chanting along to the simple lyrics of smacking of bitches and starting fires. I enjoyed Narayan and Fuel My Fire quite a bit but the other songs were a little too similar to really shine. In the same electronica vein, The Chemical Brothers I believe provide a more distinct and diverse sound and this really just made me want to listen to them. Still a pretty solid heavy electronica album. 7/10
Time capsule record. Didn’t age particularly well. Sounds very dated but can see the value. It’s a cool album with a lot of early edm influence that you can see. Not really for me but enjoyed the listen through. 3/5
This is not usually my kind of music, but there's no doubting that this was a seminal album, and perhaps the best of its kind. There are three legitimate classics of electro dance on this one release. For pure nostalgia value, I'm adding a star.
Super different than anything I’ve listened to. Like punk dnb. Good skiing music. Leather jacket duster matrix music
Classic
Great album to have on in the background. Music flowed together well, some themes and songs overstayed their welcome and got repetitive, but nothing egregious. Love the album cover as well. Definitely suited my taste in music overall.
Interesting, good 2000's underground vibes
Bangers
The Fat of the Land was one of the first electronic acts that broke into the mainstream in the US around this time. Aside from holding a special place in my psyche as a good album, there's an ineffable quality for me that makes this much more listenable than, say, Homework by Daft Punk released the same year. This style of big beat dance music was what the DJs were playing in the clubs I occasionally frequented around Deep Ellum, mid nineties. The Prodigy just slotted right into the scene, becoming integrated with my tastes at the time. I used to babysit my friends dropping acid for the first time with this as the soundtrack easily half the time. Kind of makes me want to try that out myself – listening to this thirty years down the line, I wonder what they were experiencing?
Saw them in red Square, Moscow. I probably need to give this four stars. Not because it is a bona fide, four star album, but of its kind it was unique out there.
A truly trend-setting album. It might not play that often, but I hear it's influences a lot more often.
4/5 I get hype cleaning to this.
I feel like the prodigy's biggest hits on here (Smack My and Firestarter mainly) are seared into my brain from my uncle being obsessed growing up, and I feel like it's hard to rate rave music in a vacuum? Like you need to have a massive crowd of bodies at nighttime with pulsing lasers and I'm just like... On a beach at 10am. But besides that context, I can absolutely find myself still loving the beat breaks and I can only imagine what it would have been like to hear those monster songs for the first time again.
Good ol rock
pretty fun listen. made me think of mike and hs hits. easy to work to, high bpm kept me going early in the AM. heard precursor to heavier bands like NIN (though at this point idk if this album came first).
Understandable that this album is iconic. I remember hearing smack my bitch up as a kid for the first time and getting totally hyped for it. It's something that probably wont enter my rotation now but all props to The Prodigy for making electronic music give me the same feels as metal would. Im into it!
The dude is true to his name, killing it. Especially given the time and the technology available then. I can see parallels to how certain present day artists sound. (Like Gesafellstein) Smack my bitch up and Firestarter were the standouts for me!
It’s alright, know what you’re getting
4.5/5, i liked it Diesel fire and smack my bitch up
eld
A much needed change from the dad rock
Take me to the London Underground where the Molly flows
Og crab rave?
I see why this album was one of the first crossover electronic successes as it adds more variety than other albums in the genre.
4/5
Can’t imagine smack my bitch up coming out in 2023 but I remember being amazed at the video when they played it on mtv when I was a kid. There are good songs but they sound very similar to me now. But I guess at the time it was the first time music was totally made on a computer so gotta give that some love.
8/10
Yesh! 🍾
It has a very defined vibe from the start and does everything it sets out to do. Each track, no matter how explosive, fits and complements the next extremely well. Favourite tracks: Smack My Bitch Up, Diesel Power, Serial Thrilla, Mindfields, Narayan, Climbatize, Fuel My Fire.
Banger after banger. Not a genre i typically listen to but holy hell these cats are cooking This album makes me feel like im a cyberpunk vagabond outrunning the corpo police in the wastes
Despite being such a classic, I don't think I'd ever sat and listened all the way through, sticking mostly to the singles. It's an absolute game changer. You can see why it was a dance album that the rock kids took to heart - not just the guitar samples, but the minor 2nds and tritones in the melodies are very 80s thrash. It's a consistently good album, and outside of Firestarter/Breathe/SMBU, has some great tracks in Fuel my Fire and Diesel Power. It's a very, very high 4. The omly reason it's not a 5 is because a few tracks just feel like substandard versions of the hits. Are you ever likely to put on 'Funky Shit' or 'Narayan' instead of Breathe? I'd argue it doesn't have the breadth of something like Jilted Generation or some of the early Chemical Brothers stuff. Definitely a turning point in 90s music though.
Heavy "big beat" electronic rock. Standouts are the adrenaline pumping "Smack My Bitch Up" as well as fast-paced "Firestarter".
This one brought back some memories. I went through a clubbing stage in the late 90s and this album sounded awesome in a club or rave. My old self can't do that any more but this album still sounds solid albeit slightly dated. Firestarter remains an all time banger.
Overall I liked it. Good time capsule to that time period and headspace. Fun to go back to that. Not my favorite sounds ever and can be grating over long periods. Solid album
Awesome. It’s funky but also hard hitting and metal af
Music to burn society to, in this day and age it seems fitting and apt to fantasize about the impending fall of western civilization and I think this album gives the perfect audio backdrop to that.
Плохой альбом, я крайне осуждаю подобные тексты и клипы, ужас 8/10
Awesome to listen to. Too fast for me.
Very catchy music, very good background music while playing chill games
Fuck ya! Kind of a kick ass 90s album. I remember it well. Good times when fuelled by hard liquor, red bull and cigarettes. Ahhh younger me.
Feels like they started a revolution with their album many of their songs are instantly recognizable even being decades old
LOL prodigy. Not sure I had ever listened to this album in its entirety, so there's that.
Super nostalgic, my brother played this album nonstop back in the day. Listening to it as an adult, I can't say I purely love it - some tracks bored me. But it has a lot of bangers for sure.
Each track has a groove. Turns out I like electro-punk.
Classic, very uptempo
Not a lot of variation, some of the tracks are easy to confuse with others. But damn it’s a good formula. More punk influence than I expected.
fat beats, every track went hard. strong strong 4
7/10 pretty good stuff not really a genre I’m a fun of, but this was still very well made
HARD!
Liked Jilted Generation a bit better but this is still a great album and will probably make it's way into my regular rotation
pretty good
This isn't really my genre, but I always kinda liked Prodigy. They're punk rock - like if the Clash did electronica. They keep the tracks relatively short and there is enough variety that I stay interested the whole time. That's saying something.
Techno techno techno, it's fine, and I love that crab on the album art. Very fun to me that it wouldn't be until about 15 years later the trajectories of stuff like this and mainstream pop would overlap, like i have to remind myself this probably would've had a more niche audience than I'd expect nowadays. I wasn't musically checked in at all during the 90s (being younger than 10 years old the whole way through) (sorry to older millennials for mentioning that), but I'd have probably been drawn more to this kinda thing than Smashing Pumpkins
Good
75/100
Great electronic dance music. Danceable/raveable. Heavy, energetic, chaotic. Flows well between songs. The songs are built well.
Great album. Changed the landscape of rock and dance music
Good album, lots of bangers, great sampling probably 3.5
Not exactly my type of music, but this was good, the singles jump out at you right away but even the filler songs have a lot going on with them really liked Serial Thrilla
Holds up. Pretty good rave music.
Brilliant energetic music with the 3 classic singles on it. Not whole album that level, but 4 stars easily.
4.0
3.5
Relative to other EDM albums that are likely on this list, I would have to say this is likely going to be the one that’s most appealing to me. Objectively, this album is fast-paced rage-dance. It’s catchy, and it’s action packed. It’s unique and fun and it hits hard!
Rating: 8/10 Best songs: Smack my bitch up, Breathe, Mindfileds, Firestarter
Most of it I'd great, some undoubted filler
Good times
Some belters
Techno. Dos megahits. Un 4.
Turned 16 in late 1996, bought this album when I first got my license later in 97. Blared this album all summer down the shore in my mom's Mercury Villager. Great times. Ni hypocrisy Herr, as I just knocked the Buzzcocks down to 2 starts cause there was no depth. Lots more to chew on here in Fat of the Land, but these drum beats are interchangeable, and as with all electronic music, tracks are too long. Not ever concept needs repeating 5 times over 6min. I wish I had a 4 5 option
Pillar album to electronics dance music
Not my thing. But a brilliant use of technology and very interesting to listen to.
Always a banger. Instant transport to 1996 8.5/10
ég er hrifinn. elst vel, áhrif frá hipphopp og þyngri iðnaðardanstónlist.
4.5 Enjoyed this
Un muy buen disco, la realidad es que no entiendo de donde surge ni en que contexto este genero tiene tanto exito. El nivel de inmersion desde que se le da play es impresionante, hace que uno se sienta 100% parte de algo cinematográfico 7/10.
I want to give this 5 stars and say it’s the best dance album of all time… But A lot of the songs do sound very similar so at an hour long, it got pretty boring at times. Still some absolute bangers on here but you shouldn’t have to skip the second half of tunes on a 5 star album.
good album top 3 songs breathe diesel power fuel my fire
Just incredible
Listens: 2 Enjoyed: yes Theres a beauty here - a mixture of two genres which should never be integrated but is done in such a way to make it feel so right
Breath with me! Not a daily listener, but required when the mood hits.
For EDM/Techno, The Prodigy is pretty fucking good.
Things are just different in the UK. So many singles from Prodigy hitting #1 on the UK singles charts – it’s hard to imagine driving around in my car in the 90s, turning the FM dial and finding “Firestarter” on high rotation! They deliver quite a one-two punch with the opening tracks and the relentless energy stays high throughout the album. “Breathe” is my favourite with Keith Flint sounding very Johnny Rotten-like, as he should, since they define their music as electronic punk. Maybe Flint is the addition that made this so much more palatable (to me) than their prior LP, or maybe I just prefer breakbeats to rave. It’s well-produced with great drums and open spaces to drop the bass. Dance all night long!
Firestarter. 4/5
Slapping bangers!
Toujours le même rythme, toujours les mêmes structures de chansons souvent trop longues, je ne pense toujours pas être capable de discerner avec certitude Firestarter de Breathe, mais ça fonctionne à fond quand meme. J'avais oublié Climbatize, un peu à part et très cool.
first listen something absolutely classic about this
Bought because it was a bit different for me. Still sounds good.
Still a good album. So very 90's
Pure, chaotic and LOUD dance music. Not for everybody, but definitely an album that warrants a listen.
Timeless, deserves proper speakers. MFTJG is better though.
very cool album with some bangers and some other just solid edm vibers
Classic solid
Better than I remembered.
"The Fat of the Land" is the third studio album from the English electronic music group The Prodigy (now just called Prodigy btw). It was their first album to feature vocalist Keith Flint who was lead vocalist on four songs and co-wrote three. Their music genres listed are big beat, electronica, electropunk, electronic rock technology and dance rock. I wrote that just to write electropunk but all those fit. The album was surrounded by controversy by the National Organization of Women and the song "Smack My Bitch Up" and its misogyny. No matter what the band really meant, there's no getting around that with the title. The album received critical acclaim and reached #1 in both the UK and US. The album gets right into it with "Smack My Bitch Up." A repetitive beat. Driving synths. Weird noises. A distorted sample of Kool Keith's vocals of the Ultramagnetic MCs repeating "Change My Pitch up/Smack My Bitch Up" from the song "Give the Drummer Some." Supposedly about about doing anything intensely. An eerie synth opening on their second single "Breathe." A jittery beat. A sample of a whirling sword sound. That's original. Flint on vocals. A big song from what I remember. "Mindfields" sounds more techno. The beat is pounding like a hammer with a more Middle Eastern melody on the synths. Distorted lyrics. Life is like walking through a minefield. Really good song. Their first single "Firestarter" has a faster beat, a helicopter-type sound and annoying weird noises. I remember being kind of annoyed when this came out; it sounded OK today. They cover L7 on the last song "Fueling Fire." Here's the electropunk. This sounded like if early Gary Numan met Ministry and it works. I expected this album to sounded dated but I actually liked it. It's pretty solid throughout and they vary the music up throughout. I see the controversy in the first song's title and lyric but beyond that there wasn't too much offensive unless you rather dislike the music then it is. An album worth going back to if your a fan of the six genres previously mentioned.
Love the energy on this one, but, wtf with the first song
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'
Genetically, pedophiles have more genes in common with crabs than they do with you and me. Now that is scientific fact. There's no real evidence for it, but it is scientific fact.
There seem to be a lot of albums like this on this long list. At least "The Fat of the Land" tickled my interest more powerfully than the other Prodigy selection, "Music for the Jilted Generation".
Great stuff, got some of their bangeriest bangers on there.
A touch flabby.
just a little too jack sprat for my liking
Love this. I think I got really into The Prodigy when they played at Big Day Out in 2009, and I would use the lineups for music festivals to find new music and download a stack of torrents. I also went down the rabbit hole of watching "epic" live crowd videos on Youtube of Prodigy concerts which got 14 year old me pretty fired up.
Bangin album. Fire starter vid one of the most iconic from my childhood Fave track - smack my bitch up
smakc my bithc up
Incredible album, incredible songs!
"Oim a foiah stahtah, tweested foiah stahtah" Elska þetta. Svo mikið kaos.
"Smack my Bitch Up" is still a definite rager to this day. Despite the varied crossover, the album dulls out a bit near the end. It sounds like a product of its era.
I knew the singles of course, but I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this as a whole. This kind of bombastic 90s electronic music is not something I know very well, but this makes me think I should dig deeper.
It haunts me to this day. Any of these tracks make me think of 2000s racing games, late night MTV, and intrigue of druggy sub cultures.
Hyvä rapulevy Kaikki kappaleet ei niin hyviä, mutta sisältää prodigyn isoimpia klassikoita niin 4 tähteä
I loved this album. Not only were the songs I know (and loved) great but the most of the other songs felt good to me too.
One of the better albums of the genre, though at some point, you could no longer distinguish which track is which. Maybe that’s the point.
An odd album, a compelling mix of guitar, samples and synth that is maximized to full effect across all ten tunes here. The prodigy sound hungry and driven here, leading to shocking and incredibly effective cuts like single "breathe" which still sounds as raw and innovative as anything else to come out of the late 90s rave trend. Hell, even the 9 minute guitar/electronica epic works ("Narayan"). However, when the Prodigy aren't motivated, often the quality decreases and the songs sound tired and worn out. Thankfully though, the album keeps a tight grip on its runtime and its goals never slide out of focus fully, leading to a thrilling, riotous hour that is definitely worth your time. A great record.
Kinda a mood
It was neat listening to Firestarter at a Trader Joe's
it's a vibe
I remember this being a slight disappointment at the time as it came out after the the singles. They were always great live in a way that made the albums a bit secondary anyway. Album sounds better than I remember but it might just be the nostalgia talking. You reach an age where you forget that people have died and Keith Flint is always one of those people that I have to remind myself isn't here anymore.
Stupid and contagious.
Smack My Bitch Up gemakshalve maar even geskipt want die is echt over de houdbaarheidsdatum heen. De rest van het album vond ik destijds al geweldig en nu nog altijd kan ik het heel goed hebben.
Wat een heerlijke kneiterds staan hier op!
I am quite familiar and fond of "Firestarter", "Smack My Bitch Up", "Breathe", and "Mindfields". While I[m not a huge fan of electronic music, this album gave me a lot of nostalgia and new songs that I had never heard before. I normally love rap, but the one rap song, "Diesel Power", felt a bit out of place with the music. I do enjoy a good genre crossover here and there but this one fell short. Overall a fantastic album, just short of 5 stars!
Enjoyed more than I thought I would
Very cool and good
I mean, it's good GSD background music but, if you take the effort to actively listen, it gets pretty old pretty fast. Very repetitive. But what they're doing here is cutting edge and really novel for the time and I really did enjoy it for the most part. I'm feeling generous so this one gets 4 stars from me.
Wow, two Prodigy albums in a week! I wish I had revealed this before I went out for my jog. I'm not as fond of this one as "Jilted", but its still a very significant album. I think as a whole, "Jilted" is a better album, but the singles on this one are better. "Smack My Bitch Up" is a bit weird to listen to now and hasn't aged well, no matter what way the guys try to explain it. It would have been perfect as a purely instrumental song. I did always prefer the Enya Orinogo Flow mash up anyway.
So close to a 5 it's a bit tot repetitive, and a bit too 90s. 4.6 maybe.
Some serious bangers, but definitely some fat on the album, keeping it from being a 5/5.
If I had to choose, this would be the album I’d choose to have my jaw swinging to.
Good techno
I prefer their first but plenty of bangers onhere
One thing I like about taking on this 1001 project is having the opportunity see how artists evolve from album to album. Fat of the Land is an excellent example of this. I listened to Music For The Jilted Generation a few months ago and liked it well enough, but this album is far superior. It shows tremendous growth in the band. The album is tighter, more polished and more focused. The band has lost some of their grit in the 3 years between albums, but this is a case study in how you can trim away the rawness of your sound without losing your edge or your power. This is an album with a clear musical point of view, memorable songs, strong beats. And it has aged really well. I enjoyed this. Fave Songs: Firestarter, Breathe, Climbatize, Funky Shit, Narayan, Mindfields
100th album!!! Definitely liked this one, super fun and makes for great background music especially, since every song kind of blended into one (which might be considered a negative thing) - therefore i'm not sure if there's much here that I would revisit individually except the first couple of songs, but its a very well made album nonetheless and deserves a spot on this list.
Amazing how many iconic sounds come from this album, awesome stuff!
Dated but dope. Can hear some hints of industrial in here. Most songs sound like they could be in a Tony Hawk game.
Still sounds bloody good. I don't love it as much as their previous two albums, but it is still excellent.
Yeah, these guys were good. The beats knock you on your butt immediately. Smack My Bitch Up, Breathe, and Firestarter are massively popular tracks, and with good reason. Like a lot of this album they are infectious. Funky Sh&t and Mindfields were other tracks that I couldn't shake, in a good way. What struck me about the album is it's electronic but doesn't always feel that way - it feels bass or drum heavy at times, it feels like there are guitars and instruments (which there are, but even when there aren't). It has its moments where a song runs on too long or has too extreme/annoying of loops or beats (looking at you Serial Thrilla). But it is a fun listen that I'm willing to repeat or makes we want to explore more Prodigy.
Colonna sonora perfetta per parkour, intervallo di una partita, rapina in banca.
Not really my type of music, but this is really good. I like the more psychedelic stuff more (think Climbatize was my favourite), a bit less aggressive big beats than most of it, but the rest of it still works really well despite being 25 years old. Consistently good, three instantly recognisable tracks, 4/5 for me.
Not my style of music. I didn't listen them in the '90s But today it's more than just ok.
Muy bueno. Mucho uso de samplers para armar las bases y la continuidad en el tema. Después tienen sus arreglos de guitarra, sintez o voz medio rapeada. Es más lo rítimo y las capas que la melodía o un trabajo armónico innovador.
Great album, can get slightly repetitive after a while
Holds up well.
SMBU, Breathe and Firestarter are classics but the rest of the album is pretty great too.
-S Tier- Smack My Bitch Up Breathe Diesel Power Mindfields Firestarter -A Tier- Funky Shit Narayan -B Tier- Climbatize -C Tier- Serial Thriller Fuel My Fire AVG SCORE: 4 / 5 - - - Another hugely influential album for me. This was the soundtrack of my “Hack the planet” phase in late middle school and early high school. WaReZ, Back Orifice, Sub7, the Rainbow Books, Jolly Roger, my first lineman’s handset…This album brings the memories flooding back. I love it.
Boom!
Really enjoyed this. Went straight to their next album and listened to it too. It can be a bit repetitive (what self respecting EDM isn't?), but jacked up on my ADHD meds this hits just right!
I dig it. Not my usual thing but pretty enjoyable. Felt like I was listening to a soundtrack of an early 2000’s action movie
Surprisingly fresh after 25 years. One of the best electronic dance albums of the 90s.
It is punk. It is raver. It goes on a lil too long and can be repetitive, but i do think these are intentional things (for the club, for the rave, for the drugs). It's still pretty much a sound that they have mastered. A lot can be said about copycats and such. But that should have any effect on how this sounds. It sounds real good.
Great for the morning, makes me feel sassy.
Solid
very rhythmic, both chaotic and controlled, primal - can't help but move to this - climbatize is epic
Kool Keith all over!
Probably the album that first got me deep into my electronica/techno phase. I think it holds up amazingly well. So many bangers. 4.5/5
A ningú que creixés als '90 li va passar desapercebut aquest treball. El disc d'electrònica per la gent a qui no li agrada l'electrònica; punk visceral amb més sintes que guitarres. I temes tan desorbitadament bons com 'Firestarter' o 'Smack My Bitch Up', anys abans de la cultura de la cancel.lació. Un d'aquells discos que marquen una década
Pretty 90s. It was fun.
A couple of dated tracks, but the classics hold this album up.
oh hell yeah. now we're getting into home territory. i've actually never listened to this album before but wow. this sounds disgusting (affectionate). i sure wouldn't download a car while listening to this. i feel like i'm listening to what mission impossible 2 looks like. beautiful. that said i think it kinda drags a bit near the end, but then again i'm listening to the whole thing in one go and i am sober. also i think i recognized a sample from firestarter that appears in an alchemist rats beg bashful remix.
Breathe is a banger and is the opener to one of the greatest 90's compilation albums of all time - Big Shiny Tunes 2. Quite a few hits on this album, and it's a solid Industrial Drum n Bass album. Lots of driving beats, very Bri'ish accents, some good hooks on a lot of the tunes. A bit repetitive at times, but a solid album and good music to work to.
8/10 Best Song - Breathe
4.1 - Compared to other British EDM I've reviewed, this one is different. I had it bumping in the back while I was cooking and I really liked it. Besides the pointlessly misogynistic "Smack My Bitch Up", this is solid background for when it's time to get stuff done. I especially like the way "Narayan" fades seamlessly into "Firestarter" - it's a moment that feels especially rave-like.
Great production. Liked Funky Shit.
Diesel Power is a banger
its good but iv listened to it too many times, so i dont listen to the prodigy any more
Classic! Hard not to love.
CD
A blistering, essential big beat album. There's not much to think about with this one, though I caught onto the Kool Keith cameo this time through. Prodigy are less obvious on the samples but sprinkle their signature throughout the tracks, which have very little fat. Here, it seems, the group figures the tunes can be extended via DJ. That's an approach to a dance record I can get behind.
I can see how people like it but I didn't really enjoy the whole genre
Was a good listen. I've listened before. It a little too repeaty for me, but it's still really good. 3.75/5
The Prodigy rules and this is their best by far. Makes you want to destroy shit.
I'm pretty ignorant on the Prodigy, only knowing some of their hits, but this is cool. I can see why they overlap with metal fans often. Will check out more. B-
Seemed more focused then the other Prodigy album. I knew more of the songs. This must have come out during the techno boom of the late 90s. It seemed really familiar... in a good way.
Not sure Fat of the Land was designed to be listened to with a hangover after a night out at a gig, but then prodigy kind of set me off gig going in 1997 when I saw them touring this album at the Astoria (or possibly Brixton Academy) so fair is fair. Think it's generally aged pretty well. It distracted me from my morning funk pretty well.
The album's second-half is underrated. I still struggle through the first-half despite its greater popularity.
Seminal album. Three big hitters and couple that could of been.
Parfait dosage de techno, d’énergie presque punk, épices musique du monde propres à l’époque, le tout bien intégré. Chouette!
great album
A compilation of some really neat tracks without much of an overarching theme. This albums sparked some nostalgic memories too. The energy is palpable and the rythms are captivating.
Highly entertaining, aggressive big-beat album. Felt rave-ish at times. Fun. Highlight: Breathe
4/5. Pretty epic ngl, thought it would blow more 🤷♂️
Cool dont sound nothing like prodigy
Y'a du banger.
Pretty solid EDM, better than the other.
Banging
This is pretty fucking good
Vraiment cool même si on s'approche souvent de la musique de blockbusters de Michael Bay par moments Prefs: Smack My Bitch Up, Breathe, Funky Shit, Firestarter, Climbatize, Fuel My Fire Moins pref: Narayan
Not much to say about this one. Driving beats, solid electronica, unimposing vocals, layered repetition, one could put this on and get taken back to the 90s, maybe even pretend they are in the Matrix. This is an album that can be forgotten while it is still playing, but in a good way. For the period of time where dance, techno, electronica made their way out of clubs and into movies, commercials, hype albums, we can look back at that as having been an interesting yet appropriate thing for the time. It may seem a bit silly today, but music and nostalgia go hand in hand. This album is worth the walk, or dance, down memory lane.
Definitely not background music - this grabs you by the ears and forces you to listen. Still sounds like nothing else; it sounded like it came from another planet at the time! Firestarter and breathe are the two big hits, and as close to catchy as the album gets, but it probably works best as a whole piece
Just banging. Very close to a big 5…. But not hitting perfection quite!
Kolejny klasyk z gatunku w ktorego nigdy nie potrafilem sie zglebic, wiec elektronika, o ile sam zespol kojarzylem, to nie mialem pojecia, ze tyle osob za nim stoi, jacys spiewacze, producenci, tancerze na kiju, the fat of the land jest ich trzecim studyjnym krazkiem z roku 97, jakos zawsze prodigy kojarzylo mi sie z hameryka pewnie po tych vajbowych teledyskach i okladkach jak ten crabowy jam, ale jednak niektore wokale zdradzaja wyspiarskie korzenie bandy, krazek jest utrzymany w stylu big beatu i breakbeatu, wiec na spektrum elektronicznym jest to ten chaotyczny kraniec przepelniony energia i chaosem brzmienia, efektu dopelniaja roznorakie wokale, dziwne sample, jak katanowe machania z breathe, najwiecej wokalnie udzielal sie pan Keith Flint, ktorego bardziej kojarze jako pana z rogami z chocby firestartera, kolejnym waznym glosem plyty jest Maxim Reality, ktorego styl liryczny daje skojarzenia z hip hopem, bo momentami tak wlasnie plyta brzmi, jak dobre beaty i wylozone na nich liryki jak diesel power, ktory featuruje koola keitha, plyta ma 56 miniut i ciezko znalezc fragmenty ktore by nudzily lub niepasowaly, jak dla mnie jeden z lepszych elektronicznych pickow na liscie jak dotad, a z pewnoscia jeden z najbardziej energetycznych, bo takie jamowanie pasuje nie tylko do tanca, ale jak glosi motto openingowego smack my bitch up do robienia czegokolwiek intensywnie, z czym sie calkowicie zgadzam, wiec na plejke leci openingowy kawalek, breathe i firestarter, a na rapowa zalapie sie disel power
Boof
RIP Keith. Iconic album from late 90s and brings back memories of a great time, preferred the prodigy’s earlier albums but still some great tracks (climbatize especially)
Good, solid album. All tracks well done. Lacks an emotional extra level for me. But still superb
Relentless. Consistent. Radge.
Diferente. Recuerdos de más de 20 años Gran disco de música electrónica
Great album! so so station generated.
Pretty good
A trio of unmatchable singles, some decent album tracks but there is filler and tracks are stretched out. While the heights are greater than previous album Jilted Generation it's not as consistent.
Great album. Had been awhile since I’d listened but really enjoyed that. Climbatize is amongst the best things the Prodigy have done. One Star off for that Firestarter nonsense but otherwise a top album
stress dream of bangers
Great album, one that I don’t listen to enough
Grungy, fast and nostalgic!
Just a solid album and loved all the music videos back in the day
Умеете, могёте.
Got a soft spot for this, even though I can't stand the genre in general. Every track is pretty engaging for its variety in sounds, beats and/or tempos. Narayana is the best.
Not what I usually would listen to, but interesting.
Thought this was related to crab rave - I was wrong. This appears to be the "original crab rave". And I really enjoyed this album. Everything somehow didn't sound the same and you were randomly blessed with vocals. Each track jammed, no complaints. Although, i'm not sure electronic music will ever be at the top of my list.
Haven't heard this one in a hot minute. It holds up if you're in that sorta mood
Some very iconic songs. Not something I would personally seek out but I can see its appeal, very energetic with strong beats.
The Fat of the Land is a good album, but the start of the demise of The Prodigy. The singles ("Firestarter", "Breathe" and "Smack My Bitch Up") are great songs, but the record also contains a lot of filler material.
That got to number one in about 1999 in America, and then the next the UK artist to get to number one was like Adele or somebody.
Not surprising that this was controversial when it was released. I recall that MTV did some stories about the misogynistic lyrics for a few days before they world premiered the video for a “one time only” showing. Overall I think this is above average electronica w some pop and rap tossed in. 3.5 stars and difficult for me to round up, but the cool cover art tipped the scales.
Tempted to go 5 but I was sensible. Loved it as a kid and still stands up fairly well I think. It sounded like nothing else at the time. It's not easy to make dance music into an engaging album either
completely forgotten how many great individual tracks there were on this album!
Banging
Me gusto
Solid album
I remember listening to this at 17/18 on a family holiday in Ireland. Using a CD player and some crappy headphones. It sounded dangerous then, as it still does now.
Didn't think I was gonna rate this but it ended up being pretty great. Relentless from the get-go.
If I ever need music for a rave, I know what I can use now. 4/5 stars
I knew the singles as this came out while I was in high school, but it was good to give a critical listen and hear the b-sides. Maybe my favorite dance music so far.