Damn, I wish I still had access to Lexis-Nexis at work. Fun and useful.
― scott p., Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― jess, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― stevo, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
For my reply to your message Peter I suggest Google Groups. But damn, it's nice to know you're still out there. I feel all nostalgic now. BRING ON HEATHER THE GARBAGE FAN!
― Tom, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Peter 'fucking' Thomas, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
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― /<-r/-\/>-31337, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
PS Prodigy? Pff, fuck the Prodigy.
― Ally, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Oh, I spoke too soon. We did clash at least once, but I can't find his response to my post. Anyway, hi Pete!
― Dan Perry, Friday, 19 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
For Scott: Iain Lee = monstrously unfunny TV comedian w/boggly eyes, recently removed from desperately dire so-called satirical prog The 11 O'Clock Show after someone at Channel 4 finally realised he was rubbish.
― RickyT, Friday, 19 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Robin Carmody, Saturday, 20 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― DG, Saturday, 20 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Dan Perry, Saturday, 20 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Michael Taylor, Sunday, 21 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tim, Sunday, 21 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Thanks
Peter
― Peter Penis, Monday, 28 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 28 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Dan Perry, Monday, 28 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ronan, Monday, 28 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
BBBY GLSSP = WNKR! @# ! @# !
― Nrmn Phy, Monday, 28 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― gareth, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 20 January 2005 12:44 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 20 January 2005 12:56 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Stevem On X (blueski), Thursday, 20 January 2005 13:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― JoB (JoB), Monday, 16 May 2005 12:02 (nineteen years ago) link
I still thenk they are/were absolute rub.
I like what Tom says about the inner sleeve to "Jilted Generation" and just thinking about it made me laugh a little bit right now.
Is this the historick first instance of the ILM "random Googler", I wonder?
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 16 May 2005 12:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 16 May 2005 13:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― JoB (JoB), Monday, 16 May 2005 14:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 16 May 2005 14:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― N_RQ, Monday, 17 October 2005 11:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 17 October 2005 12:09 (eighteen years ago) link
Hah! I love it. What's wrong with saying fuck the system?
― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 17 October 2005 12:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― N_RQ, Monday, 17 October 2005 12:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 17 October 2005 13:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 17 October 2005 13:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 17 October 2005 14:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 17 October 2005 14:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stuh-du-du-du-du-du-du-denka (jingleberries), Monday, 17 October 2005 15:10 (eighteen years ago) link
It kind of makes you think, are they saying that the people who wanted to ban the Prodigy, over the years, are super-intelligent and hence they achieved something great by offending these people out of their seats.
Or are they saying, these people were stupid to try and ban us, they are in fact complete reactionary morons, in which case isn't their music kind of shit?
I don't really understand, but one thing seems clear, and that is that are openly and overtly announcing the importance of the reciprocal relationship they have with people who found/find them offensive, be it their fans or right wing American christians.
I mean I can understand a teenager buying into this, the Prodigy did used to seem kind of cool, but at this stage, and at the end of your career, are they trying to say "THE PRODIGY: WE OFFENDED MORONS, SOME OF WHOM HATED US AND OTHERS BOUGHT OUR RECORDS"
― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 17 October 2005 15:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― JoB (JoB), Monday, 17 October 2005 15:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 17 October 2005 16:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Doozer, Monday, 17 October 2005 16:23 (eighteen years ago) link
Breathe and Firestarter haven't aged massively well. Smack My Bitch Up still bangs though.
― chap, Monday, 7 June 2021 17:17 (three years ago) link
And the Crispy Mills one still sounds surprisingly decent.
― chap, Monday, 7 June 2021 17:18 (three years ago) link
FOTL is a great EP ("Smack My Bitch Up", "Diesel Power", "Mindfields", "Narayan", "Climbatize") with some decent filler ("Firestarter", "Breathe") and some total horseshit (the rest, although "Fuel My Fire" is at least bad in an entertaining way)
― 80's hair metal , and good praise music ! (DJP), Monday, 7 June 2021 17:20 (three years ago) link
That's solidly OTM.
― chap, Monday, 7 June 2021 17:21 (three years ago) link
Can't remember Climbatize though!
The instrumental towards the end.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 7 June 2021 19:10 (three years ago) link
I quite like Naryan. Climbatize is good in a "let's do Weather Experience again" way. The two lead singles are great but I never need to hear then again. Don't care much for the rest really.
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Monday, 7 June 2021 19:31 (three years ago) link
"Diesel Power" rules
― 80's hair metal , and good praise music ! (DJP), Monday, 7 June 2021 19:35 (three years ago) link
wow, i completely forgot "Fuel My Fire" existed... in my head it sounds pretty good.... but i think this might be an album where glancing at the tracklist and thinking about the hooks it seems like an all-killer-no-filler album, but i'm actually forgetting some exhausting digressions because WOW it's 56 minutes long?!
― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Monday, 7 June 2021 22:28 (three years ago) link
“Serial Thrilla” is 200% enervating
― 80's hair metal , and good praise music ! (DJP), Monday, 7 June 2021 22:32 (three years ago) link
Yeah it’s too long for such a monochromatic album, but drop Firestarter (I never need to hear that ever again), Funky Shit and Fuel My Fire and you’re done.
― Siegbran, Monday, 7 June 2021 23:11 (three years ago) link
"Smack My Bitch Up" is the single I've really tired of. "Breathe" got the most play on the alternative station I listened to in the 90s but I never hear it anymore and enjoy it nowadays. "Mindfields" and "Narayan" quietly the best tracks on the album
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 01:20 (three years ago) link
yeah now that you mention it, "Breathe" has not really been super overplayed, for how big it was that year. i don't think any of the more "electronica" side of 90s alt rock has crossed over to the "alt rock is now classic rock" thing. or even the relevant xm genre stations.
― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 01:27 (three years ago) link
DJP, do a best prodigy tracks from 1998 onward
― mh, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 01:32 (three years ago) link
1. Girls (Rex The Dog Remix)
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 02:04 (three years ago) link
sic otm
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 05:56 (three years ago) link
Yeah that one is excellent. My DJ trick at the time was to mix the acappella from Breathe'n'Stop over it
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 07:27 (three years ago) link
The beat drop on Narayan in incredible.
― chap, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 08:33 (three years ago) link
Spitfire (05 Version), Girls, Take Me To The Hospital, Warrior's Dance, The Day Is My Enemy (Liam Howlett Remix), Timebomb Zone that's my other picks.
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 08:49 (three years ago) link
I've listened to so much Prodge in the last 24 hrs. Strange to listen to No Tourists and then go straight back to Experience. There was definitely a point in their career where they stopped caring about coming up with new ideas and decided to keep using the same template - even down to the drum/break sounds Liam uses from Invaders onwards.
I'm definitely someone who got off after hearing FOTL, but I've heard Always Outnumbered and Invaders a few times out in the wild. Gonna give Always Outnumbered a spin now - my guess is that it's going to be marginally more listenable than FOTL at this point.
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 08:53 (three years ago) link
Also, the Sub Focus remix of Smack My Bitch Up (from 2005) goes in hard.
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 09:05 (three years ago) link
All these years later mind a bit blown by Jeff Mills having a credit on 'Warriors Dance' because of the 'Take Me Away' sample. I never realised he was part of Final Cut.
― nashwan, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 09:21 (three years ago) link
best post-98 Prodigy: excluding the Dirtchamber mix, Howlett's own remix of You Will Be Under My Wheels
― nashwan, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 09:24 (three years ago) link
Breezeblock mix was ‘98 so that counts imo
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 09:57 (three years ago) link
forgot about this (pre-98 but still great)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lEtgbT8v4k
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 10:42 (three years ago) link
Man, Climbatize is easily one of the best tracks on FOTL. Serial Thrilla is the worst.
I had a listen to 3 Kilos off of Jilted earlier - so good, and nothing like how they usually sound. They were great at doing those more chilled, funky tracks and it's strange they didn't do more of them
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 11:46 (three years ago) link
off the top of my head without relistening and without digging into remixes (because tbh I haven't heard a bunch of them yet, I've mostly just rattled around the albums)
GirlsGet Up Get OffHotrideYou'll Be Under My WheelsOmenTake Me To The HospitalWarrior's DanceWorld's On FireThe Day Is My Enemy(there was another track off of The Day Is My Enemy that I REALLY liked but of course I can't remember it now)
I don't know No Tourists well enough to pick any tracks off of it
― 80's hair metal , and good praise music ! (DJP), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 13:35 (three years ago) link
Cheers, I've whacked those into a playlist with a couple of No Tourists tracks
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6EVnNNVYCizndzOBXdMn7c?si=8fa33b4a3b034dfc
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 13:56 (three years ago) link
btw I left Stand Up off my list; really Invaders Must Die is a great album, a lot better overall than Fat Of The Land
― 80's hair metal , and good praise music ! (DJP), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 14:21 (three years ago) link
oh also Wake Up Call goes pretty hard
― 80's hair metal , and good praise music ! (DJP), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 14:27 (three years ago) link
i love the prodigy vs dubstep era.the productions levels finally met their needs.the 2nd cd that came with the special edition of 'invaders must die', proved the point for me.for all the classics, i have always chosen the recent material when in the mood purely cos of the insane sonics.and 'no tourists' is so much fun.even though it totally sonically references their history (pretty sure that liam acknowledged this at the time of its release).
― mark e, Thursday, 10 June 2021 20:39 (three years ago) link
I agree, individually these newer songs are all pretty impressive sound-wise, but over a whole album it gets really hard to listen to. Then again, I’m too old.
― Siegbran, Thursday, 10 June 2021 21:57 (three years ago) link
yeah, cos of this thread just listened to 'no tourists' again, and absolutely love it.a definite case of 'all killer no filler'.the fact it's a short album means you don't get time to become bored.yeah, its a retread of well worn prodigy tropes, but it totally works for me.
― mark e, Friday, 11 June 2021 17:15 (three years ago) link