The Prodigy - Classic or Dud ?

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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?

Hah! I love it. What's wrong with saying fuck the system?

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"

I hated Firestarter. Don't get me wrong, I liked the first two albums, but Firestarter was just plain shit. Making Keith Flint an icon was a crime against society.

No, that was Eamon.

god i really need to learn about this stuff.

Also, the Sub Focus remix of Smack My Bitch Up (from 2005) goes in hard.

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.

best post-98 Prodigy: excluding the Dirtchamber mix, Howlett's own remix of You Will Be Under My Wheels

Breezeblock mix was ‘98 so that counts imo

forgot about this (pre-98 but still great)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lEtgbT8v4k

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

DJP, do a best prodigy tracks from 1998 onward

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)

Girls
Get Up Get Off
Hotride
You'll Be Under My Wheels
Omen
Take Me To The Hospital
Warrior's Dance
World's On Fire
The 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

Cheers, I've whacked those into a playlist with a couple of No Tourists tracks

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6EVnNNVYCizndzOBXdMn7c?si=8fa33b4a3b034dfc

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

oh also Wake Up Call goes pretty hard

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).

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.

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.