I remember in summer 2019 I was walking to the job in Metallica hoody and there was a 40 y.o. guy on bike in Ant T-shirt riding towards me, he'd showed me horns and I responded with RIP Keith. Welcome to a random Russian morning.
My son and I are both metalheads....but listen to lots of other things too. We went to a Prodigy concert and it was f-ing great, what a vibe, crowd went nuts....we both agreed it was one of the best concerts we had seen....and we've seen many. A few weeks later news came that Keith had died....
Same with Pendulum, who were my personal gateway into electronic music in general, which is now my favourite genre! (I do still love metal though, of course)
The Prodigy are the artists who finally allowed this life long metalhead to understand dance music. A product of a time where rock music and dance music were running head first into each other to do some amazing things, Hapoy Mondays and Primal Scream being two other less intense examples of this.
I hear ya. Prodigy and Fluke were the bands that made at least a portion of the techno/dance music scene relatable. Before them, industrial was about as close to dance music as I cared for. Stuff like Ministry, NIN, KMFDM and such was music my metal head sensibilities could grasp easily enough but straight up dance music (well, anything since New Order at least), I didn’t get. Prodigy and Fluke got me into the late 90s electronica stuff.
@@paranoidrodent It happened to me at Scotland's T In The Park festival. I was walking from one tent stage to another to see my next band while Prodigy were on the main stage, I intended to ignore them, no guitars boooo lol, but as I crossed that field I promise you my feet started dancing before my conscious brain knew anything about it! I suddenly became aware I was now dancing across the field (very stoned lol) and was amazed. I watched them tear the main stage apart for the rest of their set and was hooked.
Totally hear you on this! These artists were real genre melders and gateways for both metal and dance fans to delve into the others camp. I can say that seeing The Prodigy at a small venue just over 10 years ago was one of the best gigs I've ever been to, and I've done 100's :) From the opener to the encore I never stop dancing (or rather flailing around) in the mosh pit. Such a diverse crowd, and incredible energy in the building.
Check out some of KMFDM's back catalog. they have a lot of thrash guitar/leads mixed in with lots of dance/industrial elements. Hearing A drug Against War shifted me on to the electronics side of things and I lover both sides; metal, and Electronic
The whole album is amazing. An instant classic. There was a story of The Prodigy doing an old school rock festival. You wouldn't think that would work. But when the crowd felt the bass, and saw the stagecraft, they were instantly won over. RIP Keith. So where do you go from there? I humbly suggest The Chemical Brothers.
@@grymkaft Yeah, by NOW. I remember when guitar fans hated electronic music - until they experienced it live. Music was very tribal. I've seen the exact same thing with the classic music divide. Thanks to movie and game scores, everyone enjoys pretty much everything these days. Which is great. The Prodigy broke down barriers. They weren't the only ones of course.
The Prodigy are an English electronic dance music band from Braintree, Essex, formed in 1990 by record producer and songwriter Liam Howlett. The band's line-up has included MC and vocalist Maxim, dancer and vocalist Keith Flint (until his death in March 2019), dancer and live keyboardist Leeroy Thornhill (who left to pursue a solo career in 2000), and dancer and vocalist Sharky (1990-1991). Along with the Chemical Brothers and Fatboy Slim, the Prodigy are credited as pioneers of the breakbeat-influenced genre big beat, which achieved mainstream popularity in the 1990s.
Aye. Also propellarheads, left field, Bently rhythm ace. First big beat song - > Beatles, tomorrow never knows (ok, not really, but no chemical brothers Setting Sun without it)
Ah man these bad boys were a massive part of my youth ! Illegal raves in the early 90's , ecstasy and just dancing and partying the weekends away ,great times ...there album "music for the jilted generation" is high on my list of favourite albums
As far as Prodigy tracks go, Brad would definitely dig “Diesel Power” off the same album as this song (The Fat of the Land). This album changed the game regarding electronic music.
This band could headline a Rave and a Metal festival in the same weekend! A true crossover band, loved by everyone! A full on metalhead and a neon raver could bond over a shared love of The Prodigy!
To me this is a mixture of techno, rock, break beat & some hip-hop mixed in, melded to create its own unique sound. I absolutely loved this album for its energy
One of the best and most important bands to ever come out of England. Also one of THE best live acts you could ever see, so lucky to have seen them 5 times. RIP Keef x
WOW! I was at The Isle of Wight Festival in 2009 - an outdoor festival (60,000+ crowd) and the ground beneath my feet shook when The Prodigy appeared on stage. I was thrown 6ft in the air by a complete stranger (and then caught) A rave, yes and one of the best live music events I have ever experienced.
I worked in a record store (Virgin) when this was released and it would play over the speakers at full volume while we worked. Amazing then, amazing now.
So techno is actually a specific genre, not just dance/electronic music, (“four on the floor,” beat; closer to house than other electronic genres; ~120bpm to 150bpm; etc.) Earlier The Prodigy would be closer to “techno” than anything off the Fat Of The Land album. This era of The Prodigy comes closer to the industrial rock of the time and the Drum ‘n’ Bass that would come later. It is still electronic music meant to dance to, more along the lines of Drum ‘n’ Bass dancing, but still dancing and partying. Lyrics are secondary, more to keep the music dynamic and not just pure electronic. A lot of Drum ‘n’ Bass will often have MCs similar to Keith Flint & Maxim. It was also an era where “electronica” became an amorphous genre where we see electronic music relate more closely to rock music than dance music, in this case we see that in the guitars, drums, and vocals.
Indeed, some people use the term techno as a blanket term, whereas the only techno the Prodigy have ever done was the intro to Death of The Prodigy Dancers.
A stint in the military and there'd be no quirky hairdos, no smacking wives up and importantly, no drug-induced suicides. Commiserations to the surviving Flints.
Prodigy stands out as their own sound. It's a techno song. Lots of British techno was around during this era. Lyrics aren't everything. It's music, not a novel.
It's not techno. In their early days they said they wanted to get away from what techno was at the time because they thought it was boring. Then at around that time breakbeat was born. At this point they had evolved into big beat with a rock influence.
Totally agree , I wasn’t a massive techno fan , but me and my mate decided to go watch the Prodigy when we were at the phoenix festival in the 90s just to see what the hype was all about and they absolutely smashed it incredible live performance blew our minds loved them ever since. The Levellers and the Wonder stuff not well known bands outside of UK but in the 90s these were also incredible live bands that never disappointed .
Breathe, Firestarter, the list goes on. Prodigy blended techno, hip hop, metal and alternative vibes into a jam you CANNOT help but move to. Lex's head bop and smile is exactly how we all reacted to this.
It's Techo mixed w/Breakbeats The Prodigy are pioneers in the Big Beat genre this entire album( Fat Of The Land)this song comes from is great R.I.P. Keith Flint
Perfect album from start to finish. Brings me back to junior high. I remember all the church moms in my town realizing we were all listening to this and convincing each other that we were being indoctrinated into smacking bitches and starting fires and whatnot. So funny to think about how paranoid moms were in the nineties. When we didn’t even care about the words. We never heard rhythms like this ever before. It didn’t sound real how cool the beats were. This album totally blew my 12 year old brain.
A mom knocked on my (fellow mom’s) door in the late 90s, campaigning to prevent the spread of Nine Inch Nails. How the heck she expected to contain music by going door to door, I have zero idea. I tried to angle her so that she couldn’t see our NIN collection, and made every effort not to laugh at her as I cut the conversation short.
@@sarahjane8146 I just got an idea. What if we had an amendment that guarantees the right to listen to anything. It’s like the perfect opposite of freedom of speech. It could be the freedom of hearing or listening to anything you want.
Right! I remember my mom getting mad at me cuz I was singing Beck where he say I'm a loser baby so why don't you kill me. I was only like 10 but still. I have a sister 7yrs younger than me and when she was growing up in the early 2000's she would be listening to like gangster rap and my mom never said anything to her. For some reason parents in the 90's were all the same when it came to music and movies that kids watched. Now that would never happen. I'm sure there's 13yr old boys that are looking at pornhub and other crazy shit on their tablets. We didn't have access to anything like that as kids and our parents still thought we were going to end up satanists or something.
Its hard to understand how much they changed the world of electronic music, true pioneers, I was roughly 10 when i first heard them, always scared of the music but fascinated by it!
You just have to get on your feet and feel the beat, dance like a mad’un, let yourself go crazy, escape for a bit, let your inner soul take control. The album this song is off, The Fat of the Land, at the time of its release in 1997, was the fastest selling album in history. It’s one of my all time favourite albums, Diesel Power is probably my favourite track on the album
I watched these guys live in Plymouth. The fans were ravers, EDM nuts, metal fans, and goths. The Prodigy were the group that everyone in the UK loved back in the day.
To really enjoy electronic music, you just have to allow yourself to feel the groove, the beats, the bass, all of that. Let loose and let the music take over to do its thing. 95% of the time, any dance tracks containing vocals, the lyrics are secondary to the music. Not meant to be read into beyond surface level Unlike DJ/producer artists though, The Prodigy is like a crossover between electronic and rock. A band that has guitars, drums, vocalists, and drum machines. They've played a ton of festivals, including rock festivals, and the crowd goes insane every time.
They influenced me in the late 90s so much that I started writing electronic music myself. They introduced me to the underground and to improvisation in its purest form. Liam was always looking for something new, he experimented with sounds and created something unimaginable, but it was always cool. Each of their tracks is different from the previous one, and each album is a new step. And for the most part it is impossible to designate their style by one name. Because it doesn't apply to their musical vinaigrette.) as for me, the Prodigy is forever!)
The most LOVED song, across ALL genres, that I've ever seen!!! It doesn't matter what kinda music is 'your thing'... EVERYONE jams to this song when it hits! 💯😎
The prodigy would level tens of thousands of people during their performances. I have not experienced such bombastic power maybe SOAD. Watched many of their performances and went to one of their concerts in Amsterdam. That is a night i will never forget :D
Back when you were reacting to a lot of British rap, I suggested these guys because they were a fusion group of rap and techno and they had a huge influence on the Grime rap style.
i saw these guys live at The 1996 Phoenix Festival which was was held from 18 to 21 July at Long Marston, Stratford-Upon-Avon England... they rocked the main stage !! Awsome weekend didnt sleep for 4 days lol good times.
Definitely a popular rave song back in my rave ecstasy taking GHB days. Wearing Jenco‘s, glow sticks, and chewing on pacifiers all night, with Vicks inhaler‘s to intensify the role. LMFAO! Damn that was fun.
One of the best live bands every considering they took Dance music to festivals along with groups like Orbital and Underworld. RIP Keith Flint you legend.
Her name is Lex, not Lexie. And she has a mind of her own. She's just a team member, so naturally she looks at Brad. But she disagrees with him when she wants. Now don't call her Lexie anymore. It makes you sound pathetic.
Lex is watching for confirmation her partner FEELS the same. I doubt this is a marriage in peril but if it is, we are watching them drift apart. My feels is that they function like this on the daily and compliment each other comfortably. Certainly not clones of each other. Thank goodness!!!
I maintain that the Prodigy is the only act whose music you could hear at a rock festival, a house music festival or a rave. This track is a complete, certified, absolutely iconic banger... for eternity!
I wanted to throw this out there for your consideration. There's a band called Mother Love Bone which was, arguably, the first or one of the first grunge rock bands of the 90's. They're a great band that broke after the od of their lead singer and later went on to form or join other grunge bands like Pearl Jam.
Headphones are alright, but this is one of those songs that you need 1000 watts, four good speakers with 15" drivers, a 15" sub, and blast it until the window panes are loose in their frames.
cool UK industrial electronic dance club music from back in the day. red-haired lead singer died a while back. he was widely recognized for his talent. hard to sit still listening to the Prodigy.
saw the prodigy 3 times and im so glad i had the chance, every show the crowd was jumping and it was pure energy, rip keith, looking forward what liam makes next!
I was really into the album before this one, Music for the Jilted Generation, when I was in college. It pretty much never left my CD player. When this album came out I ran to get it. It's OK, a little more mainstream than their previous work.
"The Fat of the Land" still bangs hard. It's one of those timeless records where every time I break it out my playlist, it's pure raw vibe. RIP Keith Flint
Man! I remember the mid-90's, being a lost young man and going out on Saturday Nights to the "Techno" and "Industrial" clubs. The darkest places with rowdiest music to just WRECK the dance floor with. Drunk, late, frigid, winter nights coming out of the club, exhausted and drenched with sweat. Kind of soulless music capturing the electric anger from being young and undirected in the city.
The Prodigy live is one of the best things in existence. The energy is off the charts, got to see them 3 times and each time I was like daaaaaaaaamn! Pure power. R.I.P. Keith
Love this, no matter what I'm doing when I hear this just have to stop and move, it's so hypnotic, perfectly understand why Breathe would be loved by rave clubbers, the video is awesome too. The intro on Breathe is used in 'Ultras Our Way Of Life' which is perfect for when the mood changes from fun to business.
Love the random sample/loop they use of the sword sounds from the clip at the beginning of Wu Tang Clan’s Da Mystery of Chessboxin throughout the songs. It entertains me to think of how that gap was bridged.
The Prodigy are the greatest when it comes to electronic music, all bout energy and getting you fired up which is definitely what you got at their gigs when Keith Flint was alive as he certainly was The Firestarter. Music for the Jilted Generation & The Fat Of The Land are their 2 best albums especially TFOTL as I would drive around in my convertible blasting it, listen to it working out in the gym and even at work. Love this group as Liam who writes all the music never conformed to the corporate music game as he wrote albums when he was good and ready & most definitely never gets the credit he deserves. The Prodigy are legends, R.I.P. Keith, sadly missed but never forgotten.
LMAO.. "It sounds like something you would binge to, eat food real fast".. That was so hilarious Lex that you said that.. so funny. I was laughing when you said that so randomly...LOL
One of my all time favorite albums. It's keeps such a high standard of tracks from beginning to end. Since Brad is looking for lyrics, he would probably love Diesel Power!
As other people have said, if you are doing "Fat of the Land" album era Prodigy you really need to hear "Diesel Power". It has the hip hop legend Kool Keith rapping on it and it's an absolute banger of a song. I could also suggest tracks like "poison", "Voodoo People", "Serial Killa", "Mindfields", "Omen", "Narayan", "Out Of Space", "Jericho", "Girls", "Spitfire". So many more. I saw The Prodigy a fair few times back in the 90's and their live shows were always amazing and created a huge bond between ravers, indie kids, punk fans, industrial fans, metal heads and even the odd pop fan. I'd never seen such a mix of different fans from different musical genres at one gig before until I started going to Prodigy gigs. They truly knew how to bring everyone together as one!
To appreciatte the Prodigy turn the bass up to the top. Vibrates the lungs. They come from up the road to me in England. This and Firestarter (Prodigy) were the first two songs at my wedding 1997!
Oh I remember this coming out so well. Bought the album the same day it came out. It was refreshing and groundbreaking. Still is! I feel lucky that I had the opportunity to see them live several times. Always energetic, always good! It's sad that Keith Flint isn't with us anymore. R.I.P. It's funny that Lex says that she gets a " driving over the speedlimit vibe". Research pointed out that their sons Firestarter is one of the worst songs to listen to while you drive your car. The song can make you distracted and agressive.
Saw them at Reading 98 The Beastie Boys were on next,what a day.UK festivals best festivals,and when the Beasties took the stage they were remixing Tom Sayer by Rush so i was double happy
man this album brings back sooooo many good memories. I had this cd in my player for like 4 weeks straight just listening to it over and over. I had just gotten my kicker 12" with 1200 watt amp...it was banging!
I wish you'd watched the music video for this. It just turbocharged the effect of this song on me as a 9 or 10 year old sitting on the carpet eating my coco pops in front of the TV on a Saturday morning watching the Chart Show. I thought the world would never be the same seeing Keith Flint giving it his all in that tunnel in black and white.
It was considered industrial rock in the 90s but it just got labeled that because their wasn't really a section for it in stores. They're probably primitive neuro funk in actuality. Still making pretty dope music 2oo RIPflnt
You both cheated yourselves not watching the official video of this song. Might be the most artistic expression of this type of Rave dance music ever, definitely of it's time. RIP Keith Flint, what a great performer.
Prodigy broke on to the mainstream with out of space. The first song I remember was called Charly which was way before they got big. They have some very good songs on music for the jilted generation and the fat of the land plus their newer stuff is pretty decent too. Americans never really caught the 90's dance scene that was massive in Europe and places like Greece, Aus. It's starting to be used more in US music I've noticed. This is where it began. This is mdma music.
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Every metalhead i know (myself included) love The Prodigy; fantastic crossover band.
I remember in summer 2019 I was walking to the job in Metallica hoody and there was a 40 y.o. guy on bike in Ant T-shirt riding towards me, he'd showed me horns and I responded with RIP Keith. Welcome to a random Russian morning.
My son and I are both metalheads....but listen to lots of other things too. We went to a Prodigy concert and it was f-ing great, what a vibe, crowd went nuts....we both agreed it was one of the best concerts we had seen....and we've seen many.
A few weeks later news came that Keith had died....
Same with Pendulum, who were my personal gateway into electronic music in general, which is now my favourite genre! (I do still love metal though, of course)
@@loobkoob Yes, Pendulum is also great! 👍
Agreed
The Prodigy are the artists who finally allowed this life long metalhead to understand dance music. A product of a time where rock music and dance music were running head first into each other to do some amazing things, Hapoy Mondays and Primal Scream being two other less intense examples of this.
I hear ya. Prodigy and Fluke were the bands that made at least a portion of the techno/dance music scene relatable. Before them, industrial was about as close to dance music as I cared for. Stuff like Ministry, NIN, KMFDM and such was music my metal head sensibilities could grasp easily enough but straight up dance music (well, anything since New Order at least), I didn’t get. Prodigy and Fluke got me into the late 90s electronica stuff.
@@paranoidrodent It happened to me at Scotland's T In The Park festival. I was walking from one tent stage to another to see my next band while Prodigy were on the main stage, I intended to ignore them, no guitars boooo lol, but as I crossed that field I promise you my feet started dancing before my conscious brain knew anything about it! I suddenly became aware I was now dancing across the field (very stoned lol) and was amazed. I watched them tear the main stage apart for the rest of their set and was hooked.
Soooo….like Skinny Puppy
Totally hear you on this! These artists were real genre melders and gateways for both metal and dance fans to delve into the others camp.
I can say that seeing The Prodigy at a small venue just over 10 years ago was one of the best gigs I've ever been to, and I've done 100's :)
From the opener to the encore I never stop dancing (or rather flailing around) in the mosh pit.
Such a diverse crowd, and incredible energy in the building.
Check out some of KMFDM's back catalog. they have a lot of thrash guitar/leads mixed in with lots of dance/industrial elements. Hearing A drug Against War shifted me on to the electronics side of things and I lover both sides; metal, and Electronic
The whole album is amazing. An instant classic. There was a story of The Prodigy doing an old school rock festival. You wouldn't think that would work. But when the crowd felt the bass, and saw the stagecraft, they were instantly won over. RIP Keith.
So where do you go from there? I humbly suggest The Chemical Brothers.
A story? They played lots and lots of rock festivals :)
The Prodigy did many Rock Festivals in Europe, especially the UK where they are from... Next step? I dunno, maybe NIN?
@@richardctaylor79 That's where I saw them, at a rock festival in my country, back in 97.
Dust Brothers first lol
@@grymkaft Yeah, by NOW. I remember when guitar fans hated electronic music - until they experienced it live. Music was very tribal. I've seen the exact same thing with the classic music divide. Thanks to movie and game scores, everyone enjoys pretty much everything these days. Which is great.
The Prodigy broke down barriers. They weren't the only ones of course.
The Prodigy are an English electronic dance music band from Braintree, Essex, formed in 1990 by record producer and songwriter Liam Howlett. The band's line-up has included MC and vocalist Maxim, dancer and vocalist Keith Flint (until his death in March 2019), dancer and live keyboardist Leeroy Thornhill (who left to pursue a solo career in 2000), and dancer and vocalist Sharky (1990-1991). Along with the Chemical Brothers and Fatboy Slim, the Prodigy are credited as pioneers of the breakbeat-influenced genre big beat, which achieved mainstream popularity in the 1990s.
Aye. Also propellarheads, left field, Bently rhythm ace.
First big beat song - > Beatles, tomorrow never knows (ok, not really, but no chemical brothers Setting Sun without it)
Ah man these bad boys were a massive part of my youth ! Illegal raves in the early 90's , ecstasy and just dancing and partying the weekends away ,great times ...there album "music for the jilted generation" is high on my list of favourite albums
I was right there with you man lol fuck the 90's were the best.
Yep, raving away in the middle of nowhere, getting busted by the cops. I even used to sell drinks from a mates caravan sometimes. Was great!
I danced non-stop the whole night fueled by just plain water. No drugs of any kind, but people used to ask me what I was on anyway. 😂
@@UnexpectedTurnOfEvents sometimes I envy personalities like yours but then again I’m pretty happy being introverted and anti social lol
I hear you buddy good times!
As far as Prodigy tracks go, Brad would definitely dig “Diesel Power” off the same album as this song (The Fat of the Land). This album changed the game regarding electronic music.
Wish I could circle and underline this one
YES! Diesel Power is by far my favorite track from that album.
Game changer, for sure. Turns 25 this year!
But there were many older djs that did this way before prodigy.
No. Music for the jilted gen changed the game. Americans were late to the party
Best live band ever, so much energy. RIP Keith.
This band could headline a Rave and a Metal festival in the same weekend! A true crossover band, loved by everyone! A full on metalhead and a neon raver could bond over a shared love of The Prodigy!
To me this is a mixture of techno, rock, break beat & some hip-hop mixed in, melded to create its own unique sound.
I absolutely loved this album for its energy
and Industral.
it's techno punk
@@SakhaYkt14 Actually we called ELECTRO-PUNK
Stop trying to label it and enjoy it.
It is more heavy than many heavy metal groups.Always underground!! Rave was a modern punk.
One of the best and most important bands to ever come out of England. Also one of THE best live acts you could ever see, so lucky to have seen them 5 times. RIP Keef x
WOW! I was at The Isle of Wight Festival in 2009 - an outdoor festival (60,000+ crowd) and the ground beneath my feet shook when The Prodigy appeared on stage. I was thrown 6ft in the air by a complete stranger (and then caught) A rave, yes and one of the best live music events I have ever experienced.
omg I would've shit a brick lol
As someone that went to a few of their gigs, completely believe it
The best fusion of Punk, Rock and electronic music... RIP Keith :( You should see them live, quite the experience.
I worked in a record store (Virgin) when this was released and it would play over the speakers at full volume while we worked. Amazing then, amazing now.
This, then superstylin by groove. Name a person not dancing
Legends! Loved them since Charlie say's. RIP Mr Flint. Happy memories of free parties!
So techno is actually a specific genre, not just dance/electronic music, (“four on the floor,” beat; closer to house than other electronic genres; ~120bpm to 150bpm; etc.) Earlier The Prodigy would be closer to “techno” than anything off the Fat Of The Land album. This era of The Prodigy comes closer to the industrial rock of the time and the Drum ‘n’ Bass that would come later.
It is still electronic music meant to dance to, more along the lines of Drum ‘n’ Bass dancing, but still dancing and partying. Lyrics are secondary, more to keep the music dynamic and not just pure electronic. A lot of Drum ‘n’ Bass will often have MCs similar to Keith Flint & Maxim.
It was also an era where “electronica” became an amorphous genre where we see electronic music relate more closely to rock music than dance music, in this case we see that in the guitars, drums, and vocals.
Indeed, some people use the term techno as a blanket term, whereas the only techno the Prodigy have ever done was the intro to Death of The Prodigy Dancers.
Earlier albums we’re more hardcore related than techno I would argue.
Experience is full of classic breakbeat hardcore tracks.
Proper English music 🤟🏻🇬🇧
Haha innit
A stint in the military and there'd be no quirky hairdos, no smacking wives up and importantly, no drug-induced suicides. Commiserations to the surviving Flints.
@@cahillgreg just regular pts suicides
Loved the Prodigy. And that was such a great album, but will you guys do “Smack My B*tch Up?”
i really hope they do but if they do they have to do it with the video
@@bacup27 It's hard to find the video online, it's banned pretty much everywhere.
@@bacup27 Sadly the video has been banned on RUclips.
@@Cnith lame but understandable i guess lol
@@3DJapan I tried posting the link, but it looks like you can't post URLs here. Anyway, a 5 sec. search finds the original uncut video...
Prodigy stands out as their own sound. It's a techno song. Lots of British techno was around during this era. Lyrics aren't everything. It's music, not a novel.
Big Beat/Break Beat, not Techno.
It's not techno. In their early days they said they wanted to get away from what techno was at the time because they thought it was boring. Then at around that time breakbeat was born. At this point they had evolved into big beat with a rock influence.
Not techno, more electronica but yea, not every song should be analysed for its lyrics.
Yeah, the voice is just another instrument first and foremost. This is primal music, not singer-songwriter or hip-hop where lyrics are paramount.
Woo this one is a classic!! This whole album is fire!
One of the best albums of the 90’s.
The music videos for this and "Firestarter" are definitely worth checking out
They tend to get in the way for people that dont know the music. Most spend their time trying to figure it out all and forget the music.
Time to enjoy..."Smack my Bitch Up"....and please watch the actual video😀!!
I don't think they're ready for that, that might be too british right now.
It's infuriating when they don't watch the videos.
Americans are offended at the word 'cunt' so they aren't ready for SMBU.
One of the best live shows I have ever witnessed in my life. Pure energy. So much fun.
Totally agree , I wasn’t a massive techno fan , but me and my mate decided to go watch the Prodigy when we were at the phoenix festival in the 90s just to see what the hype was all about and they absolutely smashed it incredible live performance blew our minds loved them ever since.
The Levellers and the Wonder stuff not well known bands outside of UK but in the 90s these were also incredible live bands that never disappointed .
Breathe, Firestarter, the list goes on. Prodigy blended techno, hip hop, metal and alternative vibes into a jam you CANNOT help but move to. Lex's head bop and smile is exactly how we all reacted to this.
It's Techo mixed w/Breakbeats The Prodigy are pioneers in the Big Beat genre this entire album( Fat Of The Land)this song comes from is great R.I.P. Keith Flint
Man, talk about a throw back... Summer of 97 was a great year for music!! One of the years my music tastes and knowledge exploded with new stuff!
Perfect album from start to finish. Brings me back to junior high. I remember all the church moms in my town realizing we were all listening to this and convincing each other that we were being indoctrinated into smacking bitches and starting fires and whatnot. So funny to think about how paranoid moms were in the nineties. When we didn’t even care about the words. We never heard rhythms like this ever before. It didn’t sound real how cool the beats were. This album totally blew my 12 year old brain.
A mom knocked on my (fellow mom’s) door in the late 90s, campaigning to prevent the spread of Nine Inch Nails. How the heck she expected to contain music by going door to door, I have zero idea. I tried to angle her so that she couldn’t see our NIN collection, and made every effort not to laugh at her as I cut the conversation short.
@@sarahjane8146 I just got an idea. What if we had an amendment that guarantees the right to listen to anything. It’s like the perfect opposite of freedom of speech. It could be the freedom of hearing or listening to anything you want.
Right! I remember my mom getting mad at me cuz I was singing Beck where he say I'm a loser baby so why don't you kill me. I was only like 10 but still. I have a sister 7yrs younger than me and when she was growing up in the early 2000's she would be listening to like gangster rap and my mom never said anything to her. For some reason parents in the 90's were all the same when it came to music and movies that kids watched. Now that would never happen. I'm sure there's 13yr old boys that are looking at pornhub and other crazy shit on their tablets. We didn't have access to anything like that as kids and our parents still thought we were going to end up satanists or something.
@@kf8346 Since when are people not allowed to listen to what they want? Your comment is seriously confusing!
Guys, you need to check out their live performances. Imagine this + live improv and the crazy crowd!
Its hard to understand how much they changed the world of electronic music, true pioneers, I was roughly 10 when i first heard them, always scared of the music but fascinated by it!
You just have to get on your feet and feel the beat, dance like a mad’un, let yourself go crazy, escape for a bit, let your inner soul take control.
The album this song is off, The Fat of the Land, at the time of its release in 1997, was the fastest selling album in history. It’s one of my all time favourite albums, Diesel Power is probably my favourite track on the album
Every time it comes on, I gotta listen to that track at least 2 or 3 times on loop
I watched these guys live in Plymouth. The fans were ravers, EDM nuts, metal fans, and goths. The Prodigy were the group that everyone in the UK loved back in the day.
To really enjoy electronic music, you just have to allow yourself to feel the groove, the beats, the bass, all of that. Let loose and let the music take over to do its thing. 95% of the time, any dance tracks containing vocals, the lyrics are secondary to the music. Not meant to be read into beyond surface level
Unlike DJ/producer artists though, The Prodigy is like a crossover between electronic and rock. A band that has guitars, drums, vocalists, and drum machines. They've played a ton of festivals, including rock festivals, and the crowd goes insane every time.
This was *definitely* driving over the speed limit music for me! The whole album was!
They influenced me in the late 90s so much that I started writing electronic music myself. They introduced me to the underground and to improvisation in its purest form. Liam was always looking for something new, he experimented with sounds and created something unimaginable, but it was always cool. Each of their tracks is different from the previous one, and each album is a new step. And for the most part it is impossible to designate their style by one name. Because it doesn't apply to their musical vinaigrette.) as for me, the Prodigy is forever!)
The most LOVED song, across ALL genres, that I've ever seen!!! It doesn't matter what kinda music is 'your thing'... EVERYONE jams to this song when it hits! 💯😎
The music video to this is still one of the best I've seen. Scared the shit out of me when I was a kid.
The prodigy would level tens of thousands of people during their performances. I have not experienced such bombastic power maybe SOAD. Watched many of their performances and went to one of their concerts in Amsterdam. That is a night i will never forget :D
Back when you were reacting to a lot of British rap, I suggested these guys because they were a fusion group of rap and techno and they had a huge influence on the Grime rap style.
It is not techno, it is industrial club. Was huge in the Acid houses back in the 90s.
i saw these guys live at The 1996 Phoenix Festival which was was held from 18 to 21 July at Long Marston, Stratford-Upon-Avon England... they rocked the main stage !! Awsome weekend didnt sleep for 4 days lol good times.
Definitely a popular rave song back in my rave ecstasy taking GHB days. Wearing Jenco‘s, glow sticks, and chewing on pacifiers all night, with Vicks inhaler‘s to intensify the role. LMFAO! Damn that was fun.
One of the best live bands every considering they took Dance music to festivals along with groups like Orbital and Underworld.
RIP Keith Flint you legend.
Lexie always feels ALL the music but then looks at Brad for his Approval or if he’s into it. Just feel what you feel Lexie!
And he's never into it lol
Her name is Lex, not Lexie. And she has a mind of her own. She's just a team member, so naturally she looks at Brad. But she disagrees with him when she wants. Now don't call her Lexie anymore. It makes you sound pathetic.
Lex is watching for confirmation her partner FEELS the same. I doubt this is a marriage in peril but if it is, we are watching them drift apart. My feels is that they function like this on the daily and compliment each other comfortably. Certainly not clones of each other. Thank goodness!!!
@@tonysimmons5729 I think J R was implying that Lex is dominated by Brad and weak. Note also that J R addresses Lex as Lexie. J R is a misogynist.
@@drServitis wow, Calm down you Simp!!!! Lol
I maintain that the Prodigy is the only act whose music you could hear at a rock festival, a house music festival or a rave. This track is a complete, certified, absolutely iconic banger... for eternity!
Their Law.
I wanted to throw this out there for your consideration. There's a band called Mother Love Bone which was, arguably, the first or one of the first grunge rock bands of the 90's. They're a great band that broke after the od of their lead singer and later went on to form or join other grunge bands like Pearl Jam.
Headphones are alright, but this is one of those songs that you need 1000 watts, four good speakers with 15" drivers, a 15" sub, and blast it until the window panes are loose in their frames.
Feeling the music is ESSENTIAL
cool UK industrial electronic dance club music from back in the day. red-haired lead singer died a while back. he was widely recognized for his talent. hard to sit still listening to the Prodigy.
Prodigy's music has been used in video games such as Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. Really cool upload!
saw the prodigy 3 times and im so glad i had the chance, every show the crowd was jumping and it was pure energy, rip keith, looking forward what liam makes next!
Lex had the best reactions I've ever seen. And her laughter dispelled all evil sorrows. All the best from Poland
I was really into the album before this one, Music for the Jilted Generation, when I was in college. It pretty much never left my CD player. When this album came out I ran to get it. It's OK, a little more mainstream than their previous work.
That’s such an interesting comment! Not complaining, but I have not heard anyone ever say something less that perfect for Fat of the land
I totally agree, Fat of the Land is really good but Music for the Jilted Generation is on another level.
Voodoo people is a great track! The Refused did a smokin great prog punk version of it
@@saltifate Fat Of T he Land is their 3rd best album imo.
"The Fat of the Land" still bangs hard. It's one of those timeless records where every time I break it out my playlist, it's pure raw vibe. RIP Keith Flint
Man! I remember the mid-90's, being a lost young man and going out on Saturday Nights to the "Techno" and "Industrial" clubs. The darkest places with rowdiest music to just WRECK the dance floor with. Drunk, late, frigid, winter nights coming out of the club, exhausted and drenched with sweat. Kind of soulless music capturing the electric anger from being young and undirected in the city.
Another 90’s hype track! And “firestarter”!🔥
Hahaha driving over the speed limit vibes! Love it! Facts!
R.I.P. Keith, we miss you. Suicide is not the answer folks, hug your loved ones.
The Prodigy live is one of the best things in existence. The energy is off the charts, got to see them 3 times and each time I was like daaaaaaaaamn! Pure power. R.I.P. Keith
Love this, no matter what I'm doing when I hear this just have to stop and move, it's so hypnotic, perfectly understand why Breathe would be loved by rave clubbers, the video is awesome too. The intro on Breathe is used in 'Ultras Our Way Of Life' which is perfect for when the mood changes from fun to business.
The amount of times you guys call stuff "different" 😂 love it
Cruising around in my convertible 240 around ‘97-98 with this blasting…memories
Imagine; ecstasy tabs, rave & dance floor. Then this track makes sense. 👍🏻
Love the random sample/loop they use of the sword sounds from the clip at the beginning of Wu Tang Clan’s Da Mystery of Chessboxin throughout the songs. It entertains me to think of how that gap was bridged.
Man, this fives me flashbacks (90's rave experiences). Love this group! R. I. P. Keith Flint
Listen to the whole album it's absolutely brilliant from start to finish!
The Prodigy are the greatest when it comes to electronic music, all bout energy and getting you fired up which is definitely what you got at their gigs when Keith Flint was alive as he certainly was The Firestarter. Music for the Jilted Generation & The Fat Of The Land are their 2 best albums especially TFOTL as I would drive around in my convertible blasting it, listen to it working out in the gym and even at work. Love this group as Liam who writes all the music never conformed to the corporate music game as he wrote albums when he was good and ready & most definitely never gets the credit he deserves. The Prodigy are legends, R.I.P. Keith, sadly missed but never forgotten.
Would have been really interesting to see you react to the video for this!
LMAO.. "It sounds like something you would binge to, eat food real fast".. That was so hilarious Lex that you said that.. so funny. I was laughing when you said that so randomly...LOL
One of my all time favorite albums. It's keeps such a high standard of tracks from beginning to end. Since Brad is looking for lyrics, he would probably love Diesel Power!
At their core The Prodigy are a Punk band.
"Omen", "Thunder" and "Invaders Must Die" are 3 more recent songs by them that are pretty cool
Juliette Lewis cameo singing!
When you listen to the Prodigy their video 's are a MUST
The Prodigy provided the live music for an MTV Fashionably Loud show in the 90's and blew everyone's doors off.
As other people have said, if you are doing "Fat of the Land" album era Prodigy you really need to hear "Diesel Power". It has the hip hop legend Kool Keith rapping on it and it's an absolute banger of a song. I could also suggest tracks like "poison", "Voodoo People", "Serial Killa", "Mindfields", "Omen", "Narayan", "Out Of Space", "Jericho", "Girls", "Spitfire". So many more. I saw The Prodigy a fair few times back in the 90's and their live shows were always amazing and created a huge bond between ravers, indie kids, punk fans, industrial fans, metal heads and even the odd pop fan. I'd never seen such a mix of different fans from different musical genres at one gig before until I started going to Prodigy gigs. They truly knew how to bring everyone together as one!
Just found you guys. You react to so much more stuff I like than anyone I've found. Love it. Subscribed.
Hell yes! Love this song so much. I really wish you'd watched the music video along with it. It's good too. RIP Keith Flint.
You've got to imagine this loud, in a club in the late 90s. Amazing.
Ahhh raves and extacy... those were the days! 😍😋🤣
To appreciatte the Prodigy turn the bass up to the top. Vibrates the lungs. They come from up the road to me in England. This and Firestarter (Prodigy) were the first two songs at my wedding 1997!
Oh I remember this coming out so well. Bought the album the same day it came out. It was refreshing and groundbreaking. Still is! I feel lucky that I had the opportunity to see them live several times. Always energetic, always good! It's sad that Keith Flint isn't with us anymore. R.I.P.
It's funny that Lex says that she gets a " driving over the speedlimit vibe". Research pointed out that their sons Firestarter is one of the worst songs to listen to while you drive your car. The song can make you distracted and agressive.
It's a drum'n'bass sound, mid 90s. I really got into the drum'n'bass genre back then, there were some great artists around.
Sadly most Americans will never understand electronic music even it all started in chicago and detroit.
We do much more than you’d ever think. The Prodigy was fucking massive here too by the way! They dominated especially with this album
How can you not LOVE The Prodigy. I have love them for 3 decades now!!!
Prodigy is electropunk. Interesting club music lol. Industrial rock. Catchy.
do Prodigy - Out of Space, it's from one of their earlier albums... it's a whole different vibe
Saw them at Reading 98 The Beastie Boys were on next,what a day.UK festivals best festivals,and when the Beasties took the stage they were remixing Tom Sayer by Rush so i was double happy
man this album brings back sooooo many good memories. I had this cd in my player for like 4 weeks straight just listening to it over and over. I had just gotten my kicker 12" with 1200 watt amp...it was banging!
'Driving over the speed limit vibe' loved that 🤣
Best foot chase music ever.
I wish you'd watched the music video for this. It just turbocharged the effect of this song on me as a 9 or 10 year old sitting on the carpet eating my coco pops in front of the TV on a Saturday morning watching the Chart Show. I thought the world would never be the same seeing Keith Flint giving it his all in that tunnel in black and white.
Used to love blasting this music video with my brother back in the day. That millipede in the video had me f-d up, tho lmao
It was considered industrial rock in the 90s but it just got labeled that because their wasn't really a section for it in stores. They're probably primitive neuro funk in actuality. Still making pretty dope music 2oo
RIPflnt
Lex got the visuals of what Prodigy was and stood for.
Nice intuition there!
Ministry - 'Thieves' (from In case you didn't feel like showing up - Live)
That's a great album. I love that London sound.
Glad to see this genre on the channel.
Another banger from highschool!
You both cheated yourselves not watching the official video of this song. Might be the most artistic expression of this type of Rave dance music ever, definitely of it's time. RIP Keith Flint, what a great performer.
Grab a molly, a friend, a bottle of water. and a pacifier….time for Prodigy.
90s fighting movies official soundtrack 🤣 definitely bringing underground vampire club vibes.
Been lucky enough to see them live quite a few times and every time was awesome. RIP Keith.
Prodigy broke on to the mainstream with out of space. The first song I remember was called Charly which was way before they got big. They have some very good songs on music for the jilted generation and the fat of the land plus their newer stuff is pretty decent too. Americans never really caught the 90's dance scene that was massive in Europe and places like Greece, Aus. It's starting to be used more in US music I've noticed. This is where it began. This is mdma music.