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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Invaders Must Die is so good but Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned is another good one, mainly because of Juliette Lewis.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Oh yea lots of bangers on there too. Spitfire, Girls and You'll Be Under My Wheels are my faves

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago

It sounds modern, mainly because modern electronic music was so heavily affected by Prodigy

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Coooommmmmeee plaaaay myyyy game

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Fantastic album, like others have said, it was on heavy rotation in my teens, sounds track to many late night game sessions.

"Smack my Bitch Up" being a hugely popular and influential song, is also part of a long running lost media hunt for me. In the late 00's there was a youtube video made by a 3d animator as a demo reel. It was an extended anime fight between a yellow and black sentai/robot and a bunch of other robots. SMBU was the soundtrack to the video of course, lots of bits were synced to it.

That was back in the glorious pre-copyright-bot times, and since it was a demo for an unreleased project using a hugely popular song by someone who's name I've long forgotten, I can't find it! Probably scrubbed off the net by now, the creator moved on to being a cog in the Marvel movie machine.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago

Certified iridium banger for a reason, without question. My favorite track, voodoo people (pendulum mix) isn’t on this, but I still sing the chant from Narayan. Just as influential as most of the early works of Fatboy Slim, the Chemical Brothers, the Bassbin Twins, the Crystal Method, Fluke, and so many others. The remix album of this is still just as devastating.

Once you heard pretty much any one of these tracks, you knew this was, and probably always would be, the sound for you.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I've never heard of this but that album art goes so hard, now I have to listen to it

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

you have to come back and tell us what your take is

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Okay, back! This album puts me right back into "PS1 game soundtrack nostalgia" and I love it.Its's a great album to get hype to. Definitely added to my rotation.

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[–] DannyBoy 8 points 1 week ago

Your lucky day.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

The music in it goes harder than the cover art!

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

Great album, one of my favourites.
Where I'm from Narayan was a summer hit in the dance clubs when it came out, although my friends and I were more into Firestarter and Breathe. I venture saying that it helped bridge punk and dance in a big way.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

Good album, so many great tracks.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Used to have it on loop while playing doom/quake

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Same but it was Duke Nukem 3D for us!

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[–] _thebrain_ 8 points 1 week ago

Descent for me. This or some kmfdm.

[–] pishadoot 16 points 1 week ago

I still listen to this at least weekly, the album is in my regular gym rotation because

A) it's hard for me to listen to lyric heavy music and count reps correctly (brain no work good during ugga dugga) and

B) It's amazing.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (7 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

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)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Awesome album

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Wait, that's not Crab Rave?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

There is not a single bad track on this entire album. Every track rocks.

[–] Gigliorananomicom 10 points 1 week ago

One of their top three albums, possibly the best and most cohesive.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Essentially Public Enemy for apolitical pillheads.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

One of the greatest albums of all time!

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Great music and a innovative piece of history that set us on the course to crab rave.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Prefer jilted generation but this has some great tunes on it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you continued to follow that trajectory you probably have the best album ever made by now.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

The soundtrack of my youth. Genious.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

fucking awesome.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Great album. Bought my copy a long time ago. It's the kind of music I sometimes go for when, of all things, cooking.

Great beats, strong lyrics, a well balanced album overall.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

OH MY GOD THATS THE FUNKY SHIT!

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I have it on vinyl and it's so good. One of a kind. Iconic in so many ways. Shame about Keith Flint, hopefully he rests in peace

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

its a total banger

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Is pretty good

[–] DannyBoy 5 points 1 week ago

Fantastic album

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I got the poison

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