TheProdigy

1.MFTJG
2.IMD
3.FOTL
4.EXPERIENCE
5.AONO

2

Surely it has to be AONO... oh wait no.

1 The Fat Of The Land
2 Invaders Must Die
3 Experience
4 Music For The Jilted Generation
5 Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned

If you had MFTJG as number 5, Experience at number 4 and AONO at number 3 your list would be correct (in opposite world)

IMD>AONO

What keeps Jilted low on my list in the track lengths
Love the album if I put the album on in the background while I'm doing stuff
But if I'm sitting there and really listening, I get a bit bored when we're constantly surpassing the 6 minute mark
Don't get me wrong, I don't mind a long track if it deserves the length (Weather Experience, Speedway, 3 Kilos)
But for me, most of the tracks would have more impact with some trimming
I love the new edits of Break & Enter, Poison, Their Law, and Voodoo People, but feel they start dragging on the album
Funny thing is that I hate the One Love edit on the album... usually skip it...
But love with the full version, felt Liam cut all the good bits out
Plus, if the tracks weren't so long, we would have gotten more tracks like We Eat Rhythm and stuff

But Jilted contains my favorite Prodigy track of all time... Claustrophobic Sting

I think it's kinda sad that Fat of the Land has such bad aura around it. It seems as if no one wants to fully support it because of the whole Invader fan base thing. You cannot deny that FOTL is an amazing album and despite a couple of weak points (Fuel my fire) it still comes top for me.

You can deny it.

1. SMBU - Awesome
2. Breathe - Yawn, Keef singing again?
3, Diesel Power - Good tune
4. Funky Shit - Awesome
5. Serial Thrilla - One of the worst tunes I've ever heard
6. Mindfields - Good tune
7. Narayan - Pretty good, but bit poppy with the vocals
8. Firestarter - ..... no comment from me needed
9. Climbatise - Awesome
10. Fuel My Fire - One of the worst tunes I've ever heard

And to be fair, this was my assessment before everyone (including all those who vehemently despised the "The" Prodigy before FS ) decided they did like them after all, nothing to do with the 2 number ones, they did like them all the time, just secretly. Obviously.

I was lucky enough to hear the whole album a week before it was released, before any media reaction to it, so my opinion is based purely on the tracks, not on the furore the album caused and the number of new fans (from outside the niche) that it attracted.

For me, The Fat Of The Land will always be the definitive album from them
And that's coming from someone who started listening to them in '94 and already a fan of Experience & Jilted
I don't know how anyone can diss FotL, it still holds up to this day and hits just as hard as today's releases
It just got very popular and overplayed, but that's still no reason to knock
That was the era when they were on top of their game and I can listen to that album straight through any day where I tend to skip tracks on some of the other albums
Plus you got amazing b-sides like Molotov Bitch, One/No Man Army, The Trick, Voodoo Beats...
Invaders Must Die reminds me of FotL meets Experience
To be honest, I don't know how anyone can hate on it.

If you don't like Serial Thrilla or Fuel My Fire, that's fine...
But saying that they are the worst tunes that you've ever heard? Come on, man... that's a bit overboard.

AONO is 50% good and 50% filler... and Serial Thrilla and Fuel My Fire piss all over the 50% of filler that AONO is made up of. Love Girls and Get Up Get Off. If it was the '05 version of Spitfire and Their Law mix of Under My Wheels and The Way It Is instead of the album versions, it would have helped. Didn't like Memphis Bells or Phoenix really. Shoot Down was overworked and ruined an already good track. I even liked the rough mix Noel played than what was on the album. But halfway through AONO, it falls apart. Back To School, Razor, and Warning would have made it a better album with their inclusion. I think Liam rushed it out in the end because of already delaying it after scrapping the original AONO. He should waited and tested it a bit live first before releasing. Just watch that Athens video when they first played after its release and you see and feel how it fell flat with the crowd. The tracks just didn't have that Prodigy energy yet. With a little more work it would have been great. I would like to see Girls and Wake Up Call back in the set.

Plus I was a fan of Baby's Got A Temper and didn't feel it was FotL Pt. II or whatever Liam said. Especially the instrumental where you get to hear all the fine details of the tune.

And even though Fat Of The Land is my favorite album from them, I would like to see a more varied live track list that's not just their singles. I can do without hearing SMBU, Firestarter, or Breathe live again. Try out some other tracks once in a while like Funky Shit, Mindfields, One Man Army, and bring back Voodoo Beats over current Voodoo People mix.

neorev wrote:
I like all the tracks from fotl but jilted is just better for me. That Narcotic suite is just priceless, its different and original and still sounds like prodge, it still has that attitude. But the hole album is awesome with great variety of music. Its jilted as #1 for me with fotl in a close #2.

yeah, The Narcotic Suite is amazing... the best part of Jilted
and Claustrophobic Sting is my all time fave track

Hands down; Experience. Old school baby!!

WayneB wrote:



Dude, to call a Prodigy track 'one of the worst songs I've ever heard' is ignorant. You're either a hipster or a douche. Seriously, with so many shit songs floating around, how do you even dare to say that about a Prodigy song??? This is fanboy rage at it's fullest, but you know too that I am right.

On Topic: Jilted is the best Prodigy album ever. I don't think there will be something else remotely close to it, by any band.

Jilted.

The guitar riffs on "Their Law" and "Voodoo People" fit the tracks up perfectly, not to mention how ridiculous "No Good" and "Claustrophobic Sting" are! Fat of the Land is definitely not too far behind though...