Essentially Public Enemy for apolitical pillheads.
Controversial opinion: It’s the album that ruined Prodigy.
Experience and Jilted Generation are amazing and I love every track.
Their first two albums were everything I loved about the genre. As soon as Smack My Bitch Up started getting radio play, they shifted their sound to match and never looked back.
I can see that. I came to the thread thinking that this album is great but the downside is that it got so big and influential that it overshadowed the first two albums, which is a shame because they are very different than Fat of the Land but still so good. Experience and Music for the Jilted Generation deserve more attention. Hackers is such a formative movie for me and a big part of it is it’s soundtrack and prodigy is a big part of it.
For me it would be “ruined” in quotes, I don’t blame them for changing their style, musicians change and want to do something different, just sad that there is no more old prodigy.
But I have to make a disclaimer, I didn’t listen to anything after The Fat of the Land, so my knowledge is limited. (The reason is because I got introduced to prodigy at the time of the first 3 albums but didn’t follow up on them, but that is normal for me, never follow up on bands)
I considered writing “the album that ruined Prodigy for me” but decided to stick with the more inflammatory version. 🤣
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One man’s polished is another man’s over-produced.
Clearly the sound of this album resonated more with the mainstream, but I always felt like the addition of so much distortion, both to the sampling and to the synth, started to get away from what I liked about the genre. The pure waves of the digital instruments are why I liked techno. I had analog genres of music if I wanted to listen to something dirty sounding.
It’s a classic. Back to back bangers. Even some of the more “out there” songs like Narayan. Though there’s barely any albums I don’t like from them. Maybe “Experience” because it’s a little much sometimes. Quite partial to “Invaders Must Die” and “No Tourists” since I grew up with IMD and because NT is their last album before Keith died (RIP)
Invaders Must Die is so good but Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned is another good one, mainly because of Juliette Lewis.
its a total banger
Legendary
Great album, I slightly prefer invaders must die over it but i’d put it on par with music for the jilted generation for different reasons though (like both complement each other I’d say)
I’ve never heard of this before and I have not listened to it but I just really like crabs so I bet it’s a good one
You owe it to yourself to listen to that album ASAP
I took your advice and can confirm that it is in fact a good one 🦀🦀🦀
It makes me nostalgic because it was one of the first CDs I owned.
The first was Jock Jams Volume 2, if you were wondering
Ha! Very funny that you mention Jock Jams Volume 2.
When my wife was in labor with our first daughter, and it came time to push, the album she wanted to listen to was Jock Jams Volume 1.
We just had our second daughter yesterday, we are still in the Maternity ward. Guess what album we listened to during the pushing part of labor? That’s right…
Jock Jams Volume 2.
Fantastic choices. Volume 3 has some good tracks but pales in comparison
This had their “hits”/pop vibe. Invaders must die I think a better album, their real sound. But this is 10 years before, and really the same revolutionary sound/music. Was a big shift from their earlier “Everybody in the place” technohouse.
Good album, so many great tracks.
There is not a single bad track on this entire album. Every track rocks.
OH MY GOD THATS THE FUNKY SHIT!
Dabadabadabadabadabadabadabad
Up there with Dummy and Different Class in the triumvirate of British 90s music.
The soundtrack of my youth. Genious.
