The Fat of the Land

This feels far more deserving of being a hit album over other electronic 90s albums. It has the definitive classics for better or worse, the deep cuts that also keep the pace moving, and enough filler to still give it that stereotypical big beat sound!
Less racing game, more street-racing game, the Prodigy is an act that has the potential to grab me, but often it just comes off as shallow. Party music, fun in the moment, but not worth the listen any other time. Perhaps I seem harsh, and I don't mean to be, as the album has good moments, especially when it takes influence from industrial scenes, but the album just feels like nothing extraordinary. Definitely from the 90s, which gives it its infamous success with tracks like Smack My Bitch Up, but thirty years later all I can think with a modern mindset is "look at that little guy on the cover go!" Still, will give it that boost for influence so it can scrape by into a middling spot for me.

I need to go raving again.

So many hits and still banging.

deserves 5 stars for the crab alone tbh

This album contains a selection of 90s dance tracks. I enjoyed listening to the entire album.

Liked tracks: Breathe, Narayan, Firestarter, Climbatize & Fuel My Fire

It was alright. Would have enjoyed it more if there were less instrumental tracks

3 ⭐️

I’m exhausted as hell from jumping around. That is a spectacular 5.

I’ve never heard this album in full, and I was only vaguely familiar with “Smack My Bitch Up,” but good lord, what a ridiculously energetic collection of songs that manage to feel captivating and engaging throughout all 56 minutes of its runtime.

Part of it was me getting up and being active and letting the energy of the songs come through me in a way where my body hit a sort of adrenaline rush, but part of it really is just the excellent production; great drum samples, deep heavy basslines, great guitar, gritty vocals, and ultimately, just finding the right moments to break down and give a song new life when it started to get a little too repetitive or overbearing on the ears. Those moments really kept the album’s energy up for me, and they always hit at the perfect time.

One of the most enjoyable albums we’ve had yet, and an absolute bomb of energy to boot; easy 5, spectacular electronica, probably a 10/10 if I were going out of 10. Fantastic stuff.

Enough of the euro trash electronica records.

I’m very nostalgic for this album but it’s a bit more repetitive than I remember.

I thought they seemed mysterious and cool when they made Music for a Jilted Generation. This iteration fits too well with 90s lads mag culture. Breathe is good.

Out of 174 albums so far, this is the 15th electronica album! Last time I did the math, we were on track for 74 electronica albums. Now we are on track for 86.

I can assure the creators of this list: I do not need to hear a single. other. electronica album before I die. I get it. Please. I’m begging.

Toisaalta isoja tanssihittejä, toisaalta aika tyhmiä biisejä kun koko levyn kuuntelee (minkä artistit toki itse ovat myöntäneet haastatteluissa). vähän samaan lapsellisen tuntuisten ysärilevyjen laariin menee kuin eminemit ym. menköön nyt kolmosella kumminkin, mut vois olla kakskin.

I guess you had to be there cause to me right now this doesn’t stand out as anything special. Climbatize was pretty cool. The rest was ok, annoying at times, but not too bad over all.

Nunca pensé que un disco de música electrónica me gustaría tanto. Es una bomba, desde el principio con "Smack My Bitch Up", "Breathe" y "Diesel Power" pasando por "Funky Shit", "Serial Thrilla" o "Mindfields" y haciendo cima en "Firestarter".

Gutted I got this Sunday morning and not a Friday night. Going to hold of reviewing this until the appropriate moment.

Absolute classic dance album from the 90’s, not quite a masterpiece but really does stand out as a great album,

This is the kind of 90s electronic that felt so edgy and fun at the time. Electronic music doesn't sound like this anymore. Repetitive overall, but enjoyable in the background. After a while I couldn't tell tracks were changing anymore. 3*.
Highlights: smack my bitch up (lol), breathe (excellent groove)

Life changing.

I'd never really listened to this album all the way through before for some reason, despite loving 'Music for the Jilted Generation' as a kid. There's plenty of banging tracks outside of the big singles, although they don't all hit. In terms of quality and consistency I think someone like the Chemical Brothers were way better, but this is still decent and I'm pretty there for it.

3.5 rounded up.

Never heard of this before!

Crab rave!

Goes on too long but good.

Hard hitting big beat/DnB techno with a charismatic lead singer and a band kind of feel that got it out of the rave and onto the radio like few others from the genre. At times it verges into NIN industrial territory but clubbier. Too long and a bit samey as an hour-long album, but the hits, Breathe especially, are great - catchy hooks, head-banging synth riffs, distinctive snarled vocals, and tension/release build ups & drops, and some big bass booms. Surpringly good as a getting stuff done on the computer album.