Fat Of The Land, The - Prodigy (The)

After the magnificence of 'Music for the Jilted generation', The Prodigy reached a crossroads. Liam Howlett had created two genre-defining and timeless albums, packed with ingenuity and phat beats, but what next? Howlett decided to experiment with turning up the aggression, and taking the guitar addition a step further, incorporating Keith Flint's sneering Johnny Rotten-style vocals to the beats, fusing hard dance and rock together for an album ...
...peak of British musical acts and popular culture. The three singles lit up the British charts, with 'Firestarter' and 'Breathe' especially redefining what dance could sound like, and enticing rebellious kids in their droves. The group themselves had redefined their image, with Flint obviously shaving and colouring his bizarre hair as well as having antisocial facial piercings to create a rather intimidating vocal and visual presence. Liam Howlett ...

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...“Breathe” with its hard-hitting beats, fat bass and aggressive vocals that I remembered that electronica had anything worth offering; “Breathe the pressure/ Come play my game – I’ll test ya”. Here was a mix of musical protein and carbohydrate, and I gorged myself silly on it. “The Fat of the Land” is nine tracks of sheer hard electronic bliss. Unfortunately, a tenth track, of such poor quality it is ...
...Reeow? Radical for its time - at least in the mainstream, “The Fat of the Land” is still worthy of attention today. Track Listing: Smack My Bitch Up, Breathe, Diesel Power, Funky Shit, Serial Thrilla, Mindfields, Narayan, Firestarter, Climbatize, Fuel My Fire More info: http://www.theprodigy.org ...

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...bar, where a cheerful looking fat man hammered out the 2 chord versions of wartime classics such as Leaning On A Lamp-post on a piano that has seen better days … Now this may come as a surprise to many, but I'm afraid I'm far to young to be remembering all this caboodle, hell, I can't even claim that The Graduate was a soft porn classic when I was a lad, because quite frankly, when I was a lad, transformers and Sam Fox's breasts were everything ...
...something totally different. Then came Fat of The Land. At this time, the big beat/break beat movement was beginning to gather pace, with relatively newest acts such as The Chemical Brothers and Fatboy Slim trying to grab the limelight; but none were as successful as this 3rd studio release. With Fire Starter, the first thumping single from the album topping charts world wide, the boys were bound to be on to a winner. Right from the first 30 seconds ...

craiggy_boy 30.01.2002 · Read full review
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...hip-hop influenced than its predecessors, Fat of the Land sets the pulse racing, fusing big beats with a raving loony attitude. A punk metal song, Fuel my Fire, is very good alongside almost straightforward hip-hop of Diesel Power, while Funky S**t is the nearest in spirit to Music For The Jilted Generation. This is an essential album for people curious about dance music in the late Nineties. This really is a superb album, and every track is good ...
...a bit loud in some places. Smack my Bitch Up – A very controversial track because of the video which contained scenes of intercourse, vomiting and drug taking. This track is a good opener and set the tone for the rest of the album. It starts of fairly slow and soft and then the bass suddenly kicks in, magnificent. Breathe – This song went to Number One, and I can see why. The introduction is menacing and awesome, then suddenly the bass ...

RussSenior 13.08.2001 · Read full review
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I do not know whether you have written an opinion on a dance CD before, but it is hard to describe all the songs separately because of the fact that it is all electronic sounds! Anyway, this is The Prodigy’s second to latest offering, released in 1997 with ‘Music for the Voodoo People’ released in 1998 according to Audiostreet. I do not know of any other releases since, but I will say they have released other albums before these ...
...may not know it, Prodigy’s music is used in quite a commercialised way. ‘Smack My Bitch Up’ has been heard over football action (minus the words for obvious reasons!) because of its fast tempo in most of the song, which is played over fast moving action such as goals being scored etc. ‘Breathe’ and ‘Firestarter’ have also been used in adverts, again, usually without the words. ‘Mindfields’ is ...

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...have ever like is the fat of the land. The first time when I heard the song Firestarter must have thought this group must be crazy and nerdy kind. I was not surprised when I saw the video. Though, there are some of the good dance numbers but you can hardly dance because as soon as the song starts your head starts rolling and you are in a different galaxy. The enjoyment, which you get when you had a nice 4 pegs of strong vodka or whisky. The music ...
...in some frightening otherworld. People who like hard-hitting, crashing, banging techno-electric rock may find this album and excellent bet. They are in similar lines with Chemical Brothers, this is one my all time favourite album. GO ahead and enjoy this FAT of Hard Hitting Song!!! ...

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This is the third album by the mighty Prodigy. This album is just as ground breaking as their last. The band reached new levels of controversy with the Firestarter video branded 'too scary' for daytime tv and Smack My Bitch Up causing controversy with both the lyrics and the video. The album contains two number ones in the form of Firestarter and Breathe and another top 10 single Smack My Bitch Up which had limited success due to lack of radio play. ...

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...band, especially the albums before fat of the land. I cant remember many of the song names, but I remember they all had a silly twist in them, but I liked them al the same. The fat of the land album was their best with no one hits fire starter and breathe. The prodogy with number ones, i wouldn’thave thought so, but that’s maybe my fault for buying the singles, I havent heard anything recently, I don’t know whether that is because of maxims departure, ...

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1. Smack my bitch up 2. Breathe 3. Diesel power 4. Funky shit 5. Serial thriller 6. Mindfields 7. Narayan 8. Firestarter 9. Climbatize 10. Fuel my fire After the sucess of Music for the gilted generation, we got this, a timeless classic of modern day music which almost everyone will have heard tracks from, for example the singles Firestarter and Breathe which Just plain rock. There are some duff tracks like mindfields and Narayan but they are revived ...

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The Prodigy return in style to blow Chemical Bros. and other pretenders to their crown clean out of the water. The huge nationwide success enjoyed by both 'Firestarter' and 'Breath' proved to be the catalyst for the most groundbreaking, pumping collection of aggression and adrenaline ever!! Let 'Diesel Power' blow your mind, smash up your room to 'Fuel my Fire' and ... 'Narayan', you just cant beat the feeling derived from a block bustin hour of ...

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The latest album released by the Prodigy (I believe) sees them move into a more mainstream mode. Of course everybody has heard Firestarter and Breathe (and Smack my Bitch up), so you should already have your opinions made up about them, but what about the rest of the tracks? In my opinion, the singles (except SMBU, which I hated) were probably better than most of the other pieces on this record, so if you’re expecting a consistently high standard ...
...passably good album, although nothing really stands out to make it excellent. Possibly my favourite track on the whole thing is the cover of L7’s Fuel my Fire, which includes Republica’s Saffron on backing vocals, although it’s damning praise indeed to say you prefer a cover to the band’s own stuff. If you really like the Prodigy, I recommend buying this. Also, if you liked Breathe or Firestarter, you’ll probably be interested too, although I doubt ...

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The first time I heard Firestarter when it was recorded from MTV, I was stunned. It was a lot more 'in your face' and had rock influence. I loved it the moment I heard it and was eager to buy the album. After allm the previous two had been superb, so this one must be good. I waited. Breathe then came out and again I loved it instantly. Again I waited. When it was eventually released I realised that they had shyed away from the all out dance attack ...
...still retaining a lot of the dance theme. It worked for me anyway. Despite the fact that this album wasn't taken to by a lot of people (many didn't like the references in 'Smack My Bitch Up'), I still think it is a very good piece of music. 'Diesel Power' is a very moody dance track which I think is magnificent and the collaboration with Crispian Mills to produce 'Narayan' was inspired. They definitely tried a different path with this album, and ...

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I was first introduced to The Prodigy and 'fat of the Land' after buying my sister the album in Bulgaria for £4. I had always thought that the music was loud and... well, terrible. I was soon became a Prodigy fanatic after heaing the album through. the album consists of 10 manic tracks, including 'Breathe' and 'firestarter'. The tracks are really catchy and although my taste in music has changed, I still love this album. I still havent heard the ...
...by- I really should. It's particularly good to listen to when you are feeling energetic- theres nothing better than leaping around your room to The Prodigy. The cover design is very slick, and features a crab racing along. The inlay is also very suited to The Prodigy- very different if not bizarre. It's not particulary interesting although the cartoon of the group in the centre of the inlay is really wicked. There is quite a lot of variation in ...

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...a far better album. The Fat Of The Land represents a change of direction for the Prodigy, but I don't know if it is for better or for worse. The whole album has the same continuous style to it, which none of the others do. The album is also shorter than all of the others. The best songs on the album are the singles, Firestarter, Breathe and Smack My Bitch Up. Mindfields is good, but the remix on the Smack My Bitch Up single is much better. Climbatize ...

D.Watson 29.06.2001 · Read full review
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This is the albums that had it’s release date famously pushed back due to the main creator of the band, Liam Howlett preferring to play tomb raider rather than finishing the album by its deadline. Even with the distraction of Lara Croft this album it is still a brilliant album to listen to and even better seeing the tracks on this album performed live. Some of the tracks featured on this album are Breathe, Firestarter, Smack my bitch up, Climbatize ...
...slightly more commercial than the other albums with Skin from Skunk Anansie and Crispian Mills from Kula Shaker both collaborating on the album. The differences between this album and the previous two is that it has a lot more vocals on it than they have ever done before with both Keith and Maxim singing on several tracks. The band definitely knows how to create original music, as their three albums sounds a lot different from each other, progressing ...

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