Fat Of The Land, The - Prodigy (The) > Reviews

Advantages: Its typical prodigy
Disadvantages: A bit too rocky in some places

...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 ... Read review

Advantages: Nice variation in it all
Disadvantages: ... well, can be highly prices nowadays...

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 ... Read review

Advantages: Good hard hitting music
Disadvantages: None

...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 ... Read review

Advantages: Great tracks
Disadvantages: Not as good as last album

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. ... Read review

Advantages: breathe
Disadvantages: something else

...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, ... Read review

Advantages: loads
Disadvantages: minefields

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 ... Read review

Advantages: loads
Disadvantages: none

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 'Fat ... Read review

Advantages: too many
Disadvantages: none

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 ... Read review

Advantages: its the prodigy
Disadvantages: none

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 ... Read review

Advantages: A real classic! wild wicked manic
Disadvantages: a few weak links

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 ... Read review

Advantages: see opinion
Disadvantages: see opinion

...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 ... Read review

Advantages: Will appeal to many people who have different musical tastes
Disadvantages: Not for the easily offended

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, ... Read review