Music For The Jilted Generation - Prodigy (The)

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, ...
...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 ...

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...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. ...

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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 ...

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...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 ...

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...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. ...

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...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, ...

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...albumns I have decided that Music for the Jilted Generation is definately the best one. It starts of well going into hits such as Voodoo people, Poison, No Good and One Love. It then finishes off with the different but quality Narcotic Suite. There are no weak tracks on the albumn with some of my favourites unreleased tracks such as Full Throttle and The Heat (The Energy). The albumn moves on from their debut albumns rave style as the Prodigy develop ...

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...same thing hours of listening over and over i've had the cd for years and is still probably my most played cd and will most probably still be when i die it is that good gotta krank the volume up though for the maximum music experience ...

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this album has not got many of their hits on but it is deffinetally a album worth hearing. This album was created on a computer in his bedroom, an amazing achievement with so many groundbreaking sounds and originall beats. This album is sure to get you jumping around and it sounds brilliant turned up nice and loud. A album that all techno fans should have. The album cover looks intigueng and once you open up the case and put the cd in your hi-fi ...

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...Or to be more precise, Music for the jilted generation and the Experience. (another of their early albums). Yeah, i hear Poison, and think of Frinton-on-sea, the local skating haunt. i hear No Good and visualise the antics at many a house party, drinking woodpecker cider, and generally having a wicked time. So, the fact that the music might be good or bad really isnt my point. its a memory jogger. I love it because my memories are all great, so ...

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...and everyone who appreciates electronic music MUST own this. Every single song is a classic, and sounds best whether you have it in the background in a car (especially when driving at night, it's almost perfect) or thumping in a club. Awesome! The lyrics (when applicable) are also great, and another good thing about this album is that if you want to take a break from thinking, you can lose yourself in the music and clear your mind, or listen into ...

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Music for the jilted generation, eh. Well I am not a big fan of dace music but the prodigy are great. So I guess that I must be a member of the jilted generation then. The prodigy are one of the most original groups of the '90s. And although very different from the rest of the charts they still managed to become popular. This album is not as good as 'Fat of the land' but not much dance music is, is it? I would only recommend 'Music for the jilted ...

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