Hope everyone is keeping well? Works really busy, my Ciao time is very limited.... pretty much non ...
Hope everyone is keeping well? Works really busy, my Ciao time is very limited.... pretty much non existent! ;0(
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MUSIC FOR THE JILTED GENERATION - RRP £12.99 - Bargains to be found all over the place
Music For the Jilted Generation was released in July 1994 and was The Prodigy's much anticpated follow-up to the classic debut album "Experience", released orginally in September 1992, including the Rave classics "Charly" and "Everybody In The Place".
Firstly, a little background on my muscial tastes ... They are extremely varied ... from Hardcore Gabba Techno, Drum & Bass, Rave, Funnky House, Garage, and Trance ... to ... Hip Hop, R&B, Soul ... to ... 60's, 70's, 80's...to.... Rock, Indie, Pop ..... to .... Motown, Reggae, Urban ... to ... Classical and Instrumental ... I like some element of it all. Therefore, to try and pick a favourite ever song from this quite eclectic taste can prove difficult, as you would need to narrow it down to one genre and then elect a favourite ... Ben E King - "Stand My Me" ... There I did it!
Anyway, the same could be said for the best live act you have ever seen, but - I must admit - The Prodigy have provided the most raw, charged up live performance I have ever witnessed from a band, and the gig was electric from start to finish. That will never really be recaptured when listening to a studio recorded album, and I suppose the disappointment of witnessing The Prodigy live, is that when I listen to their studio tracks now, they seem to lack something! Some may say that could be said for many bands, but I can truly say that The Prodigy was on a different level entirely ...
and that includes The Beastie Boys and Oasis (When I first saw them in 1995 - they weren't a patch when I saw them last year), who are also (or where also) renowned for very high energy performances.
The above said, this is a terrific album, and was - in a sense - the album that defined The Prodigy as a band and really as a new wave of music, or at least, a splinter genre of music, which sought to bridge gaps between 3 main genres, each with their own sub-divisions .. that being Dance, Rock and Indie... "Prodigy Music" as it was often referred to, was born.
Jilted Generation was a very experimental album in many senses, which proved to be a huge success, keeping relatively true to the roots of the bands early success as a breakbeat rave act, with classics such as Full Throttle, No Good [Start The Dance], and One Love, yet breaking new ground with an entirely new audience of grungy indie kids, through colloborations with popular indie band Pop Will Eat Itself, in the production of the fabulous Their Law, to the dark depths of Voodoo People and Poison.
Liam Howlett, the man behind The Prodigy, has brought his own brand and style into music, with the band maturing as a musical animal throughout the 90's and into the new dawn of the Millennium. Each successive album has evolved from it's sibling and added something new, whilst always remaining true to it's orgins.
Jilted Generation is arguably the bands best album (I can't split Experience and Jilted Generation personally), but has to go down in British Musical Culture as the album of a Generation, certainly the most defining and longest impacting. Like Human League before them, The Prodigy can rightly claim a place in music history, with this album influencing the shape and direction of the music industry for years to come.
1. Intro - Liam is busily typing a tune on his type writer, when a telephone rings in the distance .. band member Keith walks in to announce - to Mr Howlett's annoyance - that someone is on the phone for him .... Cue ...
2. Break & Enter - Smashing windows, electonica & breakbeats galore ... a pretty mixed up track with mixed up vocal ... Awesome, intense start to the album ..
3. Their Law feat. Pop will eat itself - A Gem ... the blend of guitar riffs, electronica, keyboard, bass, breakbeat, & beat box just works a treat on this track ... a favoruite amongst the new wave of Prodigy followers and old ravers alike. I love it and it's one of those definite go mental on the dance floor tracks, no matter what style you choose to dance in - headbanging or jogging on the spot !
4. Full Throttle - Definite track for the rave culture and one of my all time favourite Prodigy tracks ... builds and builds and builds until finally unleashing a crescendo of noise (but good noise), exploding into an array of keyboard orginiated tunes speeding like an express train towards it conclusion ....
5. Voodoo People - Another classic and the first single release off the album, post release of Jilted Generation (One Love and No Good where both released preceeding) ... a classic, starting with a slow guitar rif, and building into a mix of beats, breaks, and solo keyboard tunes, before building and blending into one big fusion of sound, along with the classic lyrics "The Voodoo-Hoodoo .. What You Don't Dare Do People!" (Okay, it didn't take long to think them up, particulalry when you compare it to the majesty of Eva Cassidy and Songbird, but for this type of music, this is good stuff!)
6. Speedway - Not one of my favourites ... Samples from the racetrack, or more appropriately the Speedway, with the sound of cars and bikes racing by, with electronic plays on these sounds and themes throughout the track ... Not bad, but just not my favourite.
7. The Heat [The Energy] - A well and truly ... erm ... how do I put this without using choice language ... fecked up track (Rely on the Irish pronunication that's how!). The track is all about raw energy, with all kinds of experimental samples and breakbeats going on. I like it, so won't.
8. Poison - The 2nd post album release, single release, which was hugely popular and has since been remixed and sampled on numerous occasions. "I've got the Poison, I've got the Remedy!". Similar in style to Voodoo People, with a slow build to the central timing of the song, when literally all hell breaks loose ... Guitars, keyboards, breakbeats, vocals ... awesome .. total mayhem.
9. No Good [Start The Dance] - What I would describe as the only typical 'dance' track on the album, appealing to the orginal ravers, but also fans of house music. It is and remains a Prodigy classic, which always sends gig goers into an absolute frenzy when this comes one, particulalry if it is followed up by...
10. One Love - An absolute rave classics ... nailed on Hardcore tune, favourite of DJ Carl Cox at one time, particualrly if taken up a notch or two on the turntable.
The final 3 tracks are collectively known on the album as the Narcotic suite, and are quite simlpy a come down after the madness and delirium of the previous 10 tracks.
11. 3 Kilos - What this evidently refers to is the average weight of party goers after an evening of brain hameoraging dancing to the preceeding tracks ... clearly?!?!?!? A muh more mellow, softer, experimental track, which took a good 20 or so listens to actually grow on me, but grow on me it did.
12. Skylined - Raises the stakes a little higher again, almost looking for a second wind ... very electronic, yet still experimental track.
13. Claustophic Sting - This track has a slightly darker side, and is the only really techno sounding track on the album, mixing techno with breakbeat to great effect to finish the album on a real high.
It's a while since I listened to this album, but reviewing it has given me fresh impetous to do so... Thanks Ciao!
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great review. very helpful, but not my kind of music, still very helpful tho. andy
knight_of_the_soundtable 08.06.2006 01:27
THE PRODIGY were the first electronic/tekknoish project I've ever actually enjoyed listening to. It must have been about the time when "Music For The Jilted Generation" came out. 'No Good' & 'Firestarter' still get me. The former has aged better, I must say. Come to think of it, I've never listened to the full album... (maybe I should)
Suzi75 11.05.2006 01:14
Good review, loved these when I was a 'young adult' and attending all manners of illegal raves. Give us a shout f you correct the typos xx
Crawling out of the end of the rave scene, the Prodigy's second album went straight in at ... more
number one in the charts. All the tracks have the unique stamp of Liam Howlett and the boys, from the hypnotic atmosphere of aggression and attitude on "Poison" a...
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Crawling out of the end of the rave scene, the Prodigy's second album went straight in at ... more
number one in the charts. All the tracks have the unique stamp of Liam Howlett and the boys, from the hypnotic atmosphere of aggression and attitude on "Poison" a...
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Advantages: A mindblowing album for its time and still sounds very fresh today. Disadvantages: Playing this album at load volumes may blow your speakers!!!
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