The Prodigy Album: “Music For the Jilted Generation”

Easily the best Prodigy album out there, and that's really saying something. All of the tracks are based in energetic hardcore techno, but there's an incredible amount of variety here. Everything from metal guitars ("Their Law") to shattering glass ("Break and Enter") is used as a sample, and all are used effectively. The album doesn't have a single weak track on it, but the true highlights are the singles. "Poison" is probably the darkest track the Prodigy's ever done (**including** "Firestarter" and "Breathe") and it's great. "One Love" sounds a lot like an older rave track, but it works really well and doesn't overstay its welcome. "Voodoo People" uses LIVE guitars and flutes in a breakbeat track that will get you moving like no other. Then there's my favorite: "No Good (Start The Dance)" which pastes together a sped-up soul vocal and a ridiculously intense beat. It'll leave you gasping for air, but in a good way.

What else can I say? The music's the best that the band's ever made, and there really isn't a downside. Even the artwork's a lot of fun. Pick this up as soon as you can - you won't be disappointed.

Jilted Generation is the album of the decade, a fantastic transition from the early rave/dance tracks of Experiance, to contempory gritty rock with an industrial/electronica base. Only the Prodigy have dared to show insight and innitaitive to adapt their style to changing times and attitudes. Any fans who don't like the change just 'don't get' what the Prodigy stand for.

The Prodigy is one of the strongest forces in the Electronica world today, and this album shows why.

01. "Intro": this intro is short but does a good job introducing the album.

02. "Break & Enter": this might be the best track on the album. It has a sweet lyrical sample and some breakneck beats.

03. "Their Law": a rebellious track featuring an obscure group titled "Pop Will Eat Itself". 04. "Full Throttle": it reminisces of "Experience" and has some sweet clean piano.

05. "Voodoo People": One of the best tracks on the album. the lyrical sample is all right but the guitar and catchy beats are what drew me in.

06. "Speedway (Theme From Fastlane)": I've never heard of any movie called "Speedway," but whatever it was, it had a good theme! This tracks is slow to develop, but it's great once it's fully grown. I think they may have tried to fuse two different tracks made for the movie into one song here because about halfway through the song, it sort of stops and starts up again with an entirely different sound. Great track though.

07. "The Heat (The Energy)": this track has a muggy feel to it sort of like a smokey underground club and seems to heat the atmosphere when you play it.

08. "Poison": supposedly, this was the hit single from this album, although I've never heard it on the radio or seen the vid or anything. It has hip-hop inspired beats and FX and a raspy voice sample. The closet track to Big Beat styling on the album.

09. "No Good (Start The Dance)": I like this track alot. It definitely has a club feel and a nice lyric sample. It has massive beats to get you dancing and is just a great song.

10. "One Love (Edit)": this is an edit of a song featured on "Experience" and is nice ans short but sweet.

11. Narcotic Suite- "3 Kilos": the beginning of the appropriatly titled trio. It has some jazzy piano and flute which gives it a nice retro feel.

12. Narcotic Suite- "Skylined": this commonly overlooked track is one of the best on the album with nice strings and beats. Also features a seashore sound effext that leads into the next track.

13. Narcotic Suite- "Claustrophobic Sting": how better to end a excellent album than with an excellent track? it comes full with sweet synth lead sequence and eerie feeling samples and beats. This might be the best track on the album.

Well, all i can say is BUY THIS ALBUM. then stick it in your DVD Player and listen to it loud (this is important) and in its entirity. While your listening to it, turn off the lights and turn on Tony Hawk's Pro Skater (with the volume off of course) and play Downtown Minneapolis. 78 minutes later your Mind Will Be Glowing!

I 've been a prodigy fan since day one and I can clearly remember the first time I listened to this album. To be honest, at first I wasn't too sure, after all my love of the prodigy was based on the old skool breakbeat of 'Experience' (another 5 star album) and I was only 15. But, as I listened to it more I began to realise just what a monumentous achievement it was. This album gets better with time, and for electronic music, that is very rare indeed. Jilted was nominated for the mercury music prize on its release in '94. Jilted is Liams piéce de resistance, he is yet to produce anything remotely as good as this album. Its dark, its edgy, its loud and its agressive and thats what the prodigy is about. The intro cheekily signaled Liams intention to stay underground and then bursts straight in to the fat chunky beats and breaking glass of Break and Enter, pure class. Everything is perfect, the production, the samples, the 'fists in the air' beats. Its a real anti establishment record. Stick it on, crank up the bass and try and hear all the layers of madness that Liam lovingly crafted onto this record. An audio catharsis, buy it.

Jilted Generation completely blows away Fat of the Land, ranking way up there with Experience. Anyone who thinks Prodigy is Fat of the Land, you are sadly mistaken and missing the point completely. Jilted Generation is... liquid heaven, the tunes and phat beats are basically indescribable, and have never been matched since by any other artists, including the Prodigy themselves. Truly their masterpiece ever.