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- Date Released: February 28, 1995
- Genre: Electronic
- Label: XL Recordings
The raging second album from England's toytown techno quartet.
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We Say...
Accomplished enough as their debut album The Prodigy Experience and early singles had been, the Prodigy’s somewhat cartoonish image and sampling of “Charley Says” (a vintage UK public information animation aimed at youngsters) had led some to dub their sound ‘toytown techno.’ But with linchpin and studio whiz Liam Howlett fine-tuning his sonics and 1994's Criminal Justice and Public Order Act outlawing the raves that were the group’s lifeblood and playground, the Prodigy's sound coalesced into something darker, combative and much more powerful. “How can the government stop young people having a good time?” ran one sleeve note message. “Fight this bollocks.”
Fittingly, the record’s 78-minute, mostly instrumental mix of breathless breakbeats and squelchy techno keyboard hooks sounds as those it’s been designed to unite and galvanize disenfranchised ravers. All swooshy breakdowns and adrenalized minimalism, it still has the power to transport those who once partook of rave culture’s sacraments back to the scene’s woozy epicenter.
Dampened thrash-metal guitars heighten the tension on “Their Law” (“Fuck ‘em and their law”), while MC Maxim Reality’s alchemical promise on “Poison” (“I got the poison / I got the remedy / I got the pulsating rhythmical remedy”) still sounds scary. But for all its edge and undercurrent of trashed claustrophobia, the album has moments of sheer joy. Witness “No Good (Start the Dance),” a massive slice of kinetic euphoria that samples Kelly Charles’s 1987 single “You’re No Good for Me.”
Music for the Jilted Generation was the album that saw the Prodigy bring techno to the masses; a developmental stepping-stone between their debut and their techno music-jettisoning third album, The Fat of the Land. It was the latter record, of course, that saw Prodigy MC and dancer Keith Flint metamorphose into the “twisted Firestarter.” A miffed pyromaniac? Now there was something for the government to worry about. -
They Say...
The Prodigy's response to the sweeping legislation and crackdown on raves contained in 1994's Criminal Justice Bill is an effective statement of intent. Pure sonic terrorism, Music for the Jilted Generation employs the same rave energy that charged their debut, Experience, up the charts in Britain, but yokes it to a cause other than massive drug intake. Compared to their previous work, the sound is grubbier and less reliant on samples; the effect moved the Prodigy away from the American-influenced rave and acid house of the past and toward a uniquely British vision of breakbeat techno that was increasingly allied to the limey invention of drum'n'bass. As on Experience, there are so many great songs here that first-time listeners would be forgiven for thinking of a greatest-hits compilation instead of a proper studio album. After a short intro, the shattering of panes of glass on "Break & Enter" catapults the album ahead with a propulsive flair. Each of the four singles -- "Voodoo People," "Poison," "No Good (Start the Dance)," and "One Love" -- are excellent, though album tracks like "Speedway" and "Their Law" (with help from Pop Will Eat Itself) don't slip up either. If Experience seemed like an excellent fluke, Music for the Jilted Generation is the album that announced the Prodigy were on the charts to stay.
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| 01. |  |
Intro |
0:46 |
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| 02. | |
Break And Enter |
8:24 |
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| 03. | |
Their Law (Featuring Pop Will Eat Itself) |
6:40 |
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| 04. | |
Full Throttle |
5:02 |
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| 05. | |
Voodoo People |
6:27 |
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| 06. | |
Speedway (Theme From "Fastlane") |
8:56 |
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| 07. | |
The Heat (The Energy) |
4:27 |
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| 08. | |
Poison |
6:42 |
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| 09. | |
No Good (Start The Dance) |
6:17 |
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| 10. | |
One Love (Edit) |
3:53 |
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| 11. | |
3 Kilos |
7:25 |
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| 12. | |
Skylined |
5:58 |
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| 13. | |
Claustrophobic Sting |
7:11 |
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13 Total Tracks, 78:08 Total Length
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Credits
- Pop Will Eat Itself - Performer // The Prodigy - Main Performer // Neil McLellan - Producer // Stuart Haygarth - Photography
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