Music For The Jilted Generation - Prodigy (The)

Advantages: A peak in dance music.
Disadvantages: Not for those who like smiley faces and glow sticks.

...Anthems and Garage Nation, dance music was fresh, new and vibrant. The beginnings of rave employed the same rebellious nature that punk had done 15 years before. To rebel against your parents, the system, the mundanity of everday life, was to go to a rave and dance . By 1994 however dance music was becoming more and more mainstream, and the authorities, feeling threatened by this mass explosion of youthful expression were clamping down. The 1994 ...
...gatherings of people listening to music that contained "repetitive beats" was outlawed. At a stroke the long summer of love that started in 88 was over. And against this background of domestic upheaval, the first sons of rave, the Prodigy, recorded perhaps dance music's finest hour, Music for the Jilted Generation. The Prodigy's first album, "the Prodigy Experience", can be said to very much a product of its time i.e. the first outpourings of rave. ... Read review

Advantages: Best and most groundbreaking dance album ever
Disadvantages: Absolutely none

This was Liam Howlett's career apex. The magical maestro of dancefloor electronica and beats, and his band, dancers Keith Flint and Leeroy Thornhill, along with MC Maxim, announced themselves upon the wider public with their underground hit album 'The Prodigy Experience', which was blamed for single-handedly killing rave. Not a bad way to start! Many critics felt Liam's brand of tongue-in-cheek rave satire would see them sink without trace were it ...
...record-buying public, it wasn't. Howlett embraced and straddled various dance sub-genres within this LP. Elements of house, techno, hip-hop, jungle and trance all rear their heads, with the result being a near-flawless album to dance, bang your head, and get off your head to. 1. 'Intro.' A dark-sounding sample guides us in, with a tongue-in-cheek sample from a movie i don't know the name of; "I'm taking my work back underground, to prevent it ... Read review

Advantages: astounding emotional range and flexibility
Disadvantages: none, a pure, polished gem

...settled down and had kids. Music nowadays has either gone the commercial route (a la trance, garage, club) or followed the manufactured anti-establishmentism of either teeny-angst metal (think Limp Bizkit) or the 'cult of the dispossessed' that is hip hop (think Eminem). 'Music For a Jilted Generation' marks the final point before this split. It has the fast, furiousness of dance music, a spillover from the Prodigy's rave days, and also the hatred ...
...and recorded, the track order reads like a journey around the insides of a Generation Xer's mind and the album is the epitome of the 'underground' scene that it claims as it's own in the Track 1 introduction. Jilted is far better than either the earlier rave album 'Experience' and the subsequent 'Fat of the Land' which seemed to mark the point at which the Prodigy decided to capitalise on their 'angry' image. Jilted has tribal beats mixed with Roland ... Read review

Advantages: Will appeal to people who are into different types of music
Disadvantages: None

...into different areas. The prodigy’s music was revolutionary and very original at the time which is something that the prodigy always seem to be able to do and keep on doing. As always many tracks have samples from films, lyrics or music from other bands, which always seems to be a main ingredient into the track that the prodigy make. The singles released from this album were, ‘Voodoo People’, ‘Poison’, ‘No Good ...
...the best, it has some of the best live tracks, and I never seem to get bored listening to them even after hearing them over and over again. This album will appeal to people into dance music as well as rock as there are many tracks with guitars in them. ... Read review

Advantages: The 'perfect' electronic dance album.
Disadvantages: Only 13 tracks long...

...well worthy of its mercury music prize nomination (although how it did not win is beyond my comprehension), Music for the jilted generation was the follow up to debut album Experience and not only marked a positive step forward from its predecessor but also cemented a winning formula which Howlett would utilise for his next album, the world conquering The Fat of the Land. 'So, ive decided to take my work back underground, to stop it falling into ...
...welcome angles for the prodigys music before Howlett expresses his frustration at being interrupted by a phonecall on the intro to album defining track Poison, a monster of a track in which Maxim belts out his lyrics with such agression you'd think his life depended on it. Another single, No Good (start the dance) marks the albums most 'club friendly' moment and arguably its most recognisable. This is followed by One Love, the albums first single, ... Read review

Advantages: A mindblowing album for its time and still sounds very fresh today.
Disadvantages: Playing this album at load volumes may blow your speakers!!!

.... Poison, if you haven't heard this one you don't know The Prodigy as well as you thought. This track sounds incredibly fresh everytime you hear it. Poison will always be a Prodigy classic and will never grow old. Truly legendary. Even if you have never heard this track you will instantly recognize it. No Good (Start the Dance), this is a huge rave track, banging beats that you just have to move to. One Love, on the album it is actually and edited version to fit it on. This track also featured in the flim hackers, it was also the first single from Music for the Jilted Generation and it was an instant hit. Now we move into the final three tracks titled "The Narcotic Suite", I'll let you work out why. These 3 tracks a little more down beat than the rest of the album. 3 Kilos showing a more melodic side to The Prodigy, blended into... Read review

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Advantages: Still sounds bloody brilliant 12 years on
Disadvantages: Old fogeys might complain about the noise

...I first heard this album when it came out nearly 12 years ago. I was only 14 at the time. It still sounds amazing. When it came out, the tracks sounded way ahead of their time. They still sound fresh, havent dated one bit. I would recommend this to anyone who likes dance music, no sorry I mean LOVES dance music. I bought it 3 years ago for £5.99 in a sale. My only regret is that I didn't buy it much sooner. I never get tired of listening to it. I try not to put it on too loud though in case other people complain. I just tell them "If it's too loud, then you are too old". The best track on the album for me is track number 4 called Full throttle, which has an almost hypnotic beat to it, I think no good start the dance is as brilliant as ever, voodoo people is fab too and poison is one of the best tracks on the album. All of the tracks... Read review

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Advantages: Great mix of The Prodigy's greatest hits.
Disadvantages: Shame they didnt put more tracks on it.

...The Prodigy are a British electronica (or big beat) band whose style has been heavily influenced by the Acid House Movement. The Prodigy's varying style can best be described as rave or hardcore techno. The band's permanent members are Liam Howlett (composer/keyboard), Keith Flint (vocalist) and Maxim (vocalist). The Prodigy formed in the early 1990s and in 1991 their demo was released by XL Recordings. They have released five albums, including the demo "What Evil Lurks" in 1991, which was followed by "The Prodigy Experience" in 1992 (reached number 12 in the UK charts), "Music for the Jilted Generation" in 1994 (reached number 1 in the UK charts), "The Fat of the Land" in 1994 (reached number 1 in both the UK and the US charts) and finally "Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned" in 2004 (reached number 1 in the UK charts). The Prodigy... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful