Is pretty good
The soundtrack of my youth. Genious.
I went through a big prodigy phase in my teens (still listen often). I once had the house to myself so I loaded up the backyard surround sound system (living with some rich friends at the time, we did not have backyard surround sound money) with 6 CDs of prodigy. Got really stoned and then floated around in the pool with their small dog on my lap for hours. Probably one of the best single days of my life. Just pure glorious relaxation. Leisure on a level I have been chasing for the rest of my life lol.
Used to have it on loop while playing doom/quake
Same but it was Duke Nukem 3D for us!
Don’t forget the Megadeth duke track. Gotta have that in rotation too.
Descent for me. This or some kmfdm.
It sounds modern, mainly because modern electronic music was so heavily affected by Prodigy
Plugging this making-of smbu:
https://youtu.be/eU5Dn-WaElIThank you! This is awesome!
I never knew they sampled RATM.
I was young when this came out and had no idea it was built from samples until many years later.
Back when Quake came out and Team Fortress Classic as well you could remove the game CD and put in a music CD of your choice for an alternative soundtrack, and this was my go to. Flippin’ astrology, rocket jump with Prodigy. Diesel Power is still on my workout playlist.
I think a lot of people don’t realise just how much this utterly shifted the British music scene
Ok there was electronic music before it and after it, but this was Sex Pistols level of ground-breaking at the time
It was the first prodigy album I heard as a kid and it changed my perception of electronic music
Essentially Public Enemy for apolitical pillheads.
Hey I’m not apolitical
What’s in your stash?
oxies mollies and xannies 🤤
Together they make Moxycodeads.
fucking awesome.
Awesome album
It was both trendy in terms of sound and packaging/styling, but the whole album was mixed with such mastery that it was one of the best sounding package I’ve heard until perhaps the mid 2010s. That on its own is incredible, especially in a technologically driven genre.
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. 🤣
I get exactly what you’re saying here. I feel the same way about pearl jam after they started working with Neil Young. Their sound changed and never went back to their harder rock roots.
I never made the Neil Young connection, but I absolutely stopped listening to Pearl Jam. The last album I enjoyed was Vitalogy, which lines up with them doing Mirror Ball with Neil Young before their No Code album.
Funny you say that, I always felt like the previous two albums felt kind of empty, almost as if the production wasn’t finished. I felt like that at the time it came out too, and there were better, more “complete” contemporary works in the genre (although hardly any had airplay at the time).
This had a new energy and felt every bit the polished album that they were due. Then the radio stations played it to death.
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.
I can appreciate their later stuff but I agree that the first two albums are better. You might say they are rougher and under produced but they captured the sound of underground at the time. You look back at a lot of the early music that came out of the rave scene and it’s almost naive in its production but will always be special to me.
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
If you continued to follow that trajectory you probably have the best album ever made by now.
The last album I bought was Bricknasty - XONGS which I very much enjoy
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 might have been my first CD that was bought just for me. 311 would have been another one. I’m very nostalgic because I loved it as a young teenager. It still holds up, too.
