Music for the Jilted Generation

A stone cold classic

I can't do this one. I tried it several times getting a little further each time, but it's just repetitive and not interesting at all. 1/5

From my understanding, this is a hardcore breakbeat album from a UK electronic dance group that is considered a pioneer of the big beat subgenre. That much is evident early on from "Break + Enter" with how hard the beat goes amidst synthesizer loops and samples of breaking glass. A lot of this album goes pretty dark with the sampling and beat intensity, to the point where it's closer to industrial than dance. That said, the 78-minute runtime is pretty daunting and requires being in a certain mindset. If you're into heavy rave music, then check it out.

3.5

Banging choons

I enjoyed listening to this today and appreciate how important this album was to the UK dance scene at the time.

Despite its undeniable quality and importance, Music for the Jilted Generation is not a flawless album. Some of the tracks are too long or repetitive, the overall album is also too long for my personal preference and some of the samples are dated or clichéd.

The album also suffers from comparison with its follow-up, The Fat of the Land (1997), which I consider as the group’s masterpiece and one of the greatest albums of all time.

Therefore, while Music for the Jilted Generation is a remarkable album that deserves respect and admiration, it is not an album that I would listen to frequently or enjoy as much as The Fat of the Land. For that reason, I would give it 3 stars out of 5.

However, I would still recommend it to anyone who is interested in electronic music or in the history of British culture in the 1990s.

Con "Voodoo people" y "Poison" es suficiente para darle 3 estrellas, el resto no está mal pero no sé si al volver a oírlo subirá mi opinión. Añado "Their law", "Full throttle", "No good" o "Claustrophobic sting". Mejor de lo que recordaba. Creo que se merece 4 estrellas por mi parte. No lo dejéis pasar si no lo habéis oído nunca.

I was listening to this album bobbing my head while also thinking the whole time: "I hate this". A head bob is a head bob though, most have got me enthralled enough.

Bangers!!

The only album I've ever listened to by The Prodigy was The Fat of the Land, so I am looking forward to checking out more of their stuff.

This, unlike every other electronica album I've listened to on this album generator, was actually not bad. It is very high energy, and it has a few looping lyrics to some songs.

Their music is electronica mixed with rave, hard rock, and punk. This music, instead of putting you in a trance like all the other electronica I've heard, pumps you up and makes ya wanna move.

I didn't mind this album. Not my favourite genre of music still, but not bad as background music. It was great to listen to while working today.

Favourite songs: Voodoo People, Their Law, Speedway (Theme from Fastlane), Poison, No Good (Start the Dance)

Least favourite songs: Skylined, 3 Kilos, The Heat (The Energy)

3/5

dance mother fucker dance!

MY MIND IS GLOWING

I had this on fairly heavy rotation when I was a teenager, but it has been years since I listened to it in full. I expected it to have aged worse than it has though, it's still fantastic! A truly groundbreaking album in electronic music, and music in general. Some of the songs may be a bit too lengthy and repetitive for some listeners, but overall I think this is a big improvement on their first album, and still stands as one of the best albums of the 90s. The only songs on here I don't enjoy as much are "The Heat" and "One Love", I don't hate them though.

Banger.

Iconic artwork. Really enjoyed the popular tracks - Voodoo People, Poison, No Good, et al. Some of the tracks were quite long, which get a bit wary if you're sober. 3.5

Any album that can get tens of thousands of Pacific Northwestern Washingtonians to dance en masse with complete abandon, then there is something special happening.

While other countries and many major US cities were already rave crazed, the greater Puget Sound was still clueless about EDM. I remember hearing these guys for the first time on the radio station KNDD (aka \"107.7 the End\"), which was the mainstream \"alternative\" radio station, squeezed in between the otherwise endless sets of grunge rock. I was hooked. And so was the region.

Nearly overnight, clubs started appearing (all I could go to DV8 since I wasn't 21 yet) and more and more EDM shows started touring into town. Pretty soon, festivals and raves were popping up everywhere, house parties were blasting \"electronica\" and people could not stop dancing!

It was a really good time, and this album takes me right back to it.

needs more 70s PSA cat gibberish

This IS the pulsating rhythmical remedy!
It's an incredible album and totally blew my mind when it was released. Listening back to it, I am still fully rocking out to the best rave album that was released when the rave-scene was slowly on its way out. It returned to the feelings of anti-authoritarian punk and hiphop, but is a full rave album, with influences from both.
The song that brought me to the album 28 years ago was No Good (Start The Dance) with its breakbeats and might for me still be the best dancehall song ever made.
Where the album really comes out is in the song that has all the rockrave influence in it: Voodoo People.
Other highlights are Break & Enter, Poison and Claustrophobic Sting

Why no 5 stars? Even though all 13 songs differ wildly from each other, in this 78 minute opus, there are also a few lesser songs. They could've taken some of the 'fillers' out I'm afraid to make it perfect.

I've never heard this album befroe, but there's a bunch of songs on it I know. Because I've listened to the Hackers movie soundtrack a lot, and there's at least two songs on here that are on that soundtrack.

I don't listen to a lot of dance/electronic music, but when I do, this is the style I gravitate to. You can have it on while working and since there aren't any lyrics, it's not distracting and can sometimes help get you into a flow state.

But it's also not something I'm going to put on extreemly often. At times it's what I'm looking for, but not something that would work all of the time.

annoying af

Oh god, my face just MELTED. Only really got into them with Fat of the Land, but obviously this is a belter if you want to gurn yourself silly into the small hours