Prodigy..

[Grojlach]

Originally posted by Epona: Ah, now I like Firestarter and Breathe! Great tracks. Can't say I know much of their other stuff though.

Ah! Well, personal favourites of mine are Out of Space from Experience ('92), Voodoo People from Music for the jilted generation ('94) and Breathe from The Fat of the Land ('97). All worth checking out in my opinion, so if you ever come across those earlier albums or those earlier songs: Out of Space is an old reggae-record in a rave/breakbeat mix. And no, it doesn't sound like most "covers", this one is even 10 years after its release still relevant and refreshing to listen to in my opinion. That, and the fact it was in that time I started to listen to music with more attention, so it's also partly nostalgia...
Voodoo People is mostly based on a few catchy and brilliant samples, also with the oh so Prodigy-like hyper-breakbeat... That one somehow never ceases to entertain me, even though most songs based on gimmicks and hooks normally don't outlive two months...
As for Breathe, it has that dark atmosphere over both the song and the videoclip. Can't add that much to that. [img]smile.gif[/img]

[ 07-08-2002, 08:19 PM: Message edited by: Grojlach ]

[Grojlach]

Originally posted by The Hunter of Jahanna: check out "music for the Jilted generation" from prodigy. IMHO it blows "fat of the land" out of the water.

Agreed. Even though Experience blows Music for the jilted generation out of the water on occasions as well, depending on my mood. I always thought No Good (Start the Dance) was a bit on the overrated side, to name a song. It's not bad, but not as good as some of their other classics... And yet it's the most often named song when you ask people what their favourite Prodigy song is.

[ 07-08-2002, 08:18 PM: Message edited by: Grojlach ]

[Elric of Scotland]

My personal fave prodigy song is still charlie.....and prob always will be...it briings back lots of great memories oh and outer space...magic "i'll take your brain to another dimension"....ah just really caught the mood of the time...i saw the prodigy live in a night club in paisley which is just outside glasgow many moons ago....the good old days now wheres my pipe and slippers?

[Jorath Calar]

Music For the Jilted Generation is the album that proved to me that dance muxic could actually be listened to [img]smile.gif[/img]
My fave tracks are Their Law, Break and enter and the Narcotic suite (the last 3 songs of the album).

I've seen them live twice and that was just about the greatest concerts I've been to ever, ven if I was pretty drunk te first time. [img]smile.gif[/img]

[uss]

Originally posted by Grojlach: As for Breathe, it has that dark atmosphere over both the song and the videoclip. Can't add that much to that. [img]smile.gif[/img]

That`s one grreeat song [img]smile.gif[/img] ! Not to forget the cool video [img]smile.gif[/img] !

[uss]

Originally posted by Grojlach: Now it's just a painful parody on themselves, on their past successes... They have even used a sample from Firestarter, of all their hits maybe the one that got played to death the most!

Hey, that wasn`t too bad! it was just a 2-second sample which was used only once in one song! personally, i like the song Baby`s Got A Temper but then again, i don`t know any other recent Prodigy hits.

[Tanoch Thas'ala]

The Prodigy aren't a band per se. The Prodigy is one man, Liam Howlett, who was DJing at an essex club. Liam played the keyboards, while Keith, Leeroy and Sharky danced. Only after they added Maxim, who MC'd did Keith and Leeroy start adding vocals to The Prodigy's songs.