The Prodigy - Classic or Dud ?

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― JoB (JoB), Monday, 16 May 2005 12:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Bad sight of the week.

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 (eighteen years ago) link

Wait, "Electronic Punks" is rare????? AWESOME I HAVE A RARITY

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 16 May 2005 13:34 (eighteen years ago) link

Sorry mate: http://search.ebay.com/electronic-punks

― JoB (JoB), Monday, 16 May 2005 14:52 (eighteen years ago) link

Dreamcrusher.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 16 May 2005 14:58 (eighteen years ago) link

five months pass...

the best of is called 'their law'. which wasn't a single, and wasn't really one OF their BEST.

― N_RQ, Monday, 17 October 2005 11:32 (eighteen years ago) link

Ha ha, 'Linus Roache'. I am an idiot.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 17 October 2005 12:09 (eighteen years ago) link

They are also of course classic for having the worst gatefold sleeves of the 90s - Experience was bad enough with the badly drawn hippie cyborg top trumps but Jilted Generation has one of the most terrible drawings of all time ever and I laugh like a drain every time I see it.

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

i will fuck the system... by listening to pwei and not washing....

― N_RQ, Monday, 17 October 2005 12:59 (eighteen years ago) link

It was good at the time I guess, maybe a little bit embarassing these days.

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 17 October 2005 13:04 (eighteen years ago) link

It's because you grew up and the machinations of The Man overpowered your fragilistic spirit duh. YOU CAN NEVER WIN.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 17 October 2005 13:06 (eighteen years ago) link

The records are super duper fucking great, I've been listening to them a lot lately.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 17 October 2005 14:06 (eighteen years ago) link

Prodigy are actually really good, i've realized. their albums just sound so MASSIVE and over the top.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 17 October 2005 14:46 (eighteen years ago) link

theyre easily the worst live act Ive ever seen in my life.

― Stuh-du-du-du-du-du-du-denka (jingleberries), Monday, 17 October 2005 15:10 (eighteen years ago) link

The art on the new album is so weird, full of newspaper cuttings like "Prodigy Banned!" etc, and "Stop This Devil Music".

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

Last week I (very briefly) met the man whose voice is sampled in "Voodoo People". However, I only found out yesterday it was him.

― JoB (JoB), Monday, 17 October 2005 15:42 (eighteen years ago) link

The Prodigy should have stopped poncing around pretending to be a punk band and instead tried to release more than two great techno albums and two shit baggy albums (which came out 10 years too latE).

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 17 October 2005 16:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Firestarter was the last great British number 1.

― Doozer, Monday, 17 October 2005 16:23 (eighteen years ago) link

i was kind of astonished that 'Voodoo People' DIDN'T clear the dancefloor at Forget About The Sugar the other week!

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 17 October 2005 16:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Firestarter was the last great British number 1.

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.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Monday, 17 October 2005 22:09 (eighteen years ago) link

He certainly was a cunt, but it was the last number 1 to actually have a social impact and really rattle people who just happened to stumble across it on Top of the Pops.

― Doozer, Monday, 17 October 2005 22:13 (eighteen years ago) link

I did find it weird the number of people who noticed them for the first time then. It's not like they were obscure before that - they'd been having big (if not no.1) hits for nearly five years.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Monday, 17 October 2005 22:20 (eighteen years ago) link

i knew this girl in college who was terrified of insects and crustaceans so one time i waved the fat of the land in her face because of the terrifying crab ATTACKING the camera, hoping it would elicit a panicked reaction. didn't work.

― gear (gear), Monday, 17 October 2005 22:28 (eighteen years ago) link

He certainly was a cunt, but it was the last number 1 to actually have a social impact and really rattle people who just happened to stumble across it on Top of the Pops.

No, that was Eamon.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 17 October 2005 22:31 (eighteen years ago) link

Except it didn't because they bleeped all the f-words out.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 08:05 (eighteen years ago) link

Also no number one record has had a social impact.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 08:05 (eighteen years ago) link

except maybe Rock Around The Clock.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 08:06 (eighteen years ago) link

I saw Their Law on sale in Reckless for £7.99 on Friday. I suppose that's a good indication of how well it'll sell.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 08:06 (eighteen years ago) link

I think the problem is that if you hunt around you can find all their previous album for about £5 each, so what's the point in a best-of?

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 08:23 (eighteen years ago) link

It's the Pulp/Verve/Lennon/New Order/Leftfield problem again!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 08:24 (eighteen years ago) link

haha leftfield and their TWO albums -> ONE best of.

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 18 October 2005 08:27 (eighteen years ago) link

Quite. On the subject of best-ofs, has anyone got the Young Gods and/or Screaming Trees ones? Are they worth investing in?

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 08:31 (eighteen years ago) link

The thing is, 'Leftism' would've really benefitted from being remastered, beefed up sonically and possibly packaged with some new remixes.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 08:33 (eighteen years ago) link

but that would mean buying it again, steve.

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 18 October 2005 08:37 (eighteen years ago) link

if i want to beef things up, i reach for my graphic equalizer.

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 18 October 2005 08:38 (eighteen years ago) link

The Leftfield argument applies equally to the Young Gods, except that the first two YG albums were great and the rest were rub. You're much better seeking out The Young Gods and L'Eau Rouge in their own right.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 08:42 (eighteen years ago) link

lol @ downloading remastered Leftism at 128kbps

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 08:42 (eighteen years ago) link

"128kbps" what are these!!??

god i really need to learn about this stuff.

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 18 October 2005 08:44 (eighteen years ago) link

"128kbps" what are these!!??

It's short for 'killer bumps'.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 08:47 (eighteen years ago) link

ok i josh it's killabytes per second, but nonetheless i kind of spaced out c. 99-00 and missed all the meetings about how to d/l.

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 18 October 2005 08:49 (eighteen years ago) link

It's simple: you just point your computer at towards your telephone, then say clearly into the mouthpiece which tune you want, who it's by, and how many killer bumps, and then just hold the receiver near your monitor until the tune arrives.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 08:53 (eighteen years ago) link

that's how it should be.

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 18 October 2005 08:54 (eighteen years ago) link

B-b-b-b-but Only Heaven is GREAT!

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 08:57 (eighteen years ago) link

D-d-d-d-dull.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 08:58 (eighteen years ago) link

It's Album of the Week in Tesco...

― Grumbleweed, Tuesday, 18 October 2005 10:59 (eighteen years ago) link

What, Only Heaven by the Young Gods?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 11:29 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm trying to work out in my addled brane if Tesco selling Young Gods albums is a good thing or not.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 11:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Of course it is.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 11:55 (eighteen years ago) link

They were playing early Prodge in Fopp this lunchtime. GOD it sounded great. GOD did I ever drop the ball in the early 1990s, what with my stuck-up soulboy snobbery and my Galliano singles.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 12:26 (eighteen years ago) link

I professed to like Galliano at the time though i didn't buy any of their singles (whereas i did buy most of the Prodigy's). I am not sure what I was trying to prove here (esp. after adding Stone Temple Pilots into the bargain).

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 12:32 (eighteen years ago) link

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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 (two years ago) link

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