Music for the Jilted Generation

I enjoyed more than i remembered. Obviously Poison, Voodoo People and No Good are the standout tracks, but all the tracks up to No Good are fairly strong. Unfortunately i think the quality drops thereafter.

We got Fat of the Land less than 10 albums earlier, and much as I quite enjoyed it, I would have preferred a bit of a longer break before being handed Prodigy album number 2.

This is too long and also feels like being an extra on a 90s sci-fi/computer hacking movie set in a dark basement. I like No Good (Start The Dance), Poison and bits of Voodoo People. Everything else, except 3 Kilos which I really enjoyed, was very, very trying.

It's getting a 2 and should feel lucky I've been so generous.

2/5

I didn’t discover this album until after *The Fat of the Land*. And with that one, it took me a while to become completely hooked. With this album, it happened much faster. It sounds different, sure, but it’s got plenty of energy and really blows you away. I would have loved to have been in London’s clubs back then when The Prodigy started playing their music. It must have been incredibly electrifying. 5/5

I felt burned out at the end. Fat of the Land did a much better job. 5/10

Raving in a warehouse kind of music. I've listened to some Prodigy before, but not this album. Maybe it's beep boop music, but it was alright. 4*

More interesting than other entries. It is somewhat repetitive and drags on at times. However, I found this to be a good representation of its genre.

7/10 [KEEP]

As a fearsome fuck you to the Government over restrictive legislation brought in as a hurried response to the moral panic over the 90s Rave scene this is pretty much without peer.

But 30 years later, when the political message is long forgotten, does it stand up?

It's incredibly fierce stuff, with big driving beats and thumping bass. These guys aren't here to put socks on centipedes. They're here to party and party hard.

To be honest, Fat of the Land is probably the one to get, but this is a pretty worthy runner up.

I rather loved this! :) I slightly preferred Fat of the Land, but this was also excellent!

An electronic record that tells a story is as rare as a prog album that won't get on your nerves, but somehow The Prodigy's second release is just this, even or especially if that story is up to our own imaginations. It's actually impossible not to be distracted while listening to this thing, so one doesn't exactly take in the story as one continuous stream, but distraction is a part of this album's design: if you've gone somewhere else, that's the point, is it not? There's also something to be said about music this corporeal, this somatic - I literally couldn't get my leg to stop its reactive momentum - that is also cognitively supportive. Eno's ambient releases are good for writing, but this is good for dancing as well as thinking. I mean it. Get work done.

I often find it hard to rate electronic music albums due to their lack of traditional pop songcraft and emphasis on beats. This is apparently one of the most influential and popular techno albums of its era, so it gets marks for that. The actual music is brisk and fast-paced, with a general mood that it has something to prove. It's mostly just bleeps and bloops, and yet I feel as if there is palpable emotion here. It feels like the lovechild of dance music and thrash metal, almost. The songs run on pretty long, probably longer than they need to, and they are pretty repetitive, but all of that is baked in to this genre. It's no masterpiece of an album, but it is actually very enjoyable techno music with definite emotion. It's not a 5 for me, but it's sure as hell a 4.

If you don't like this album I don't think we can be friends

First part is just banger after banger. It's more than just dance or electronic music, it feels bigger.

Second party sounds like excellent music to kill aliens to.

wow I hated this

Fun fast paced electronica. I would throw this onto the listening rotation again.

Such a harsh electronic sound. I was a metal kid, but this won me over back in the 90s. The generator gave me "The fat of the land" last week, and hearing the two albums almost back to back, it's incredible how much happened to their sound over the 3 years.

Dark timbre scary rave bangers with plague levels of infectious energy and huge bombastic beats.

As far as electronica goes, this is varied and has a lot of really cool moments. Unfortunately, it's about 35 minutes too long. I get that dance tunes have to be a certain length (long), but maybe they could've split this into two albums to make for a better listening experience. That said, this was not intended to be listened to as an album but rather to be played inside a club, so I can understand their decision to keep the whole thing.

3.0/5.0: Good

from the cover i expected hard rock or nu metal not rave music. as far as electronica goes this was pretty good. in my opinion, this type of music doesnt lend itself well to a full album listen.

I’m at a 4.5 that I’ll bump up to a 5.

Well, I’m still tired from moving around for a lot of that album, but in terms of pure musicality, this isn’t quite as good as “The Fat of the Land”. It’s composed about as strongly (with some great sample work throughout), but the energy of their follow-up isn’t as prevalent here, with a lot more lull spots in the instrumentation. There are tracks that could’ve been trimmed down here, which I can’t say for anything on “The Fat of the Land”. Instrumentally, a lot of the breakbeat standards are still here (and for 1994, probably a REALLY welcome shift from the poppier UK house tones of the time), but it’s combined early on with more of a metal / guitar-driven identity that slowly fades out over the course of the album, with a sort of sci-fi vibe substituting it in the latter half.

I think there’s less beat drops here too? They’re still here, but they’re used to just transition in a sort of A to B, B to C, C to A, A to C, C to B sort of sense, as opposed to a stronger sense of constant progression that would keep each track fresh throughout. Again, “The Fat of the Land” does this better. It’s very hard not to compare the two, sorry. It’s easier to point out what this album doesn’t do as well in comparison, because otherwise, I’m not really sure I have that many active flaws with it. Yeah, it’s a little more stagnant at times, and not as “fresh” of a ball of energy as it could be throughout, but I’m still giving this a 4.5 bumped up to a 5 because I just fuck with this style of music enough that my little nitpicks aren’t affecting my enjoyment of this. It’s just not as good as its sequel, and that’s fine. It’s still REALLY good, especially if you have a taste for this style of music (sort of VGM-adjacent, as always) already.

Overall, while 78 minutes is certainly a bit long (22 minutes longer than “The Fat of the Land”), since I allowed myself to zone out just a little more than I usually would for this one, it never felt as prevalent in terms of the length while I was in the moment. Granted, I’m feeling that length a little more now, after the fact, but time flies when you’re… I dunno, bopping your head along a lot? If you can find that space to sit in, those 78 minutes won’t feel as long, & they may even fly by. It’s a 4.5 that I’ll bump up to a 5, but I do understand the relatively big difference in ratings on the site (3.41 vs 3.07). It’s just not as good as its sequel, but it’s a good album in its own right, and its highest highs do feel pretty close to some of The Fat of the Land’s best tracks, ESPECIALLY “No Good (Start The Dance)”. I enjoyed it, at least.

I remember liking The Fat of the Land the first time listening to it, but being a little more reserved listening to it for this project.

The opposites happened for this one. Liking it quite a bit on a second listen. Will say that it does get a little less interesting/simpler later in the track list, but I do enjoy the dark vibe of it. I'll have to listen to it again and listen to The Fat of the Land again, but for right now, I think I prefer it.