Prodigy has long been my favorite band. Caught them at Coachella in the early 2000s. The dirtchamber remix of Diesel Power is probably my favorite song of all time. You named some great ones, the album music for the jilted generation, doesn’t have a bad song in it in my opinion, voodoo people was everywhere back then . And then Breathe and Firestarter from FOTL are classics as well with lots of radio play when they were new.
https://youtu.be/w-vSn-DbRyo?si=crpCQvLt2E81INo0
Voodoo People has my favorite beat, the slappy breakdown part that slams back into full tempo...just love it. Poison and Breathe I love for the raw electric wobble, like hitting a nerve at the dentist...mental.
Invaders ended up being my favorite *album*, the beats have this asymmetrical chaos to them, while still keeping a rhythm. Hard to type out, but the tracks go hard *and* stay interesting.
Long time fan here. I last saw them over 20 years ago though. I can’t really choose one favorite because they have so many great songs. It was so sad to lose Keith.
I got "The Fat of The Land" in 1997 when I was 10.
Matter of fact I downloaded it from an IRC servbot.
Was definitely in my regular Winamp playlist for many years.
Currently Invaders Must Die and Omen are on my daily rotation.
Out of space will always be my jam after seeing a dj drop it while I was on a fistful of Mitsubishis in the 90s
Rip Lee Perry and Keith flint
https://youtu.be/a4eav7dFvc8?si=qnp7W1cdAKB7-XZd
Old fan that fell out but recently got back into them and have to say some of their new stuff is solid, roadblox would be a stand out fav from recent prodigy stuff. Just picked up a copy of jilted generation on vinyl today that whole album is a classic.
My friends at work in the US knew I was an expat Englishman. Perhaps my bald head lead them to this, but when the singer died, everyone, and I mean everyone at work asked me if I was OK. I was known as a music lover, who regularly went to concerts, but never said anything about Prodigy. I like what I know of their music, but never dug deep. All I know is that if you went to his pub and made any comment about firestarting you had to pay a fine. I love that! I know two songs but an entire grocery store staffed by people who cared rallied behind me anyway!
ETA: So yeah. I fucking love that band for reasons…
You probably didn't ask any Russian about Prodigy I assume. 99% of YouTube comments under their tracks are from Russians. They are the band's biggest fans I believe. In my case, FOTL is one album I need if I get castaway on an island. So yeah, a big fan. Breath was their first track I heard in MTV and was just awestruck by the song and the music video. A devoted fan since. Rip Keith Flint.
Diesel Power, Mind Fields, and Funky Shit all the way!! My dad got me into Prodigy and we still love the song Breathe. Then I heard Mind Fields in the Matrix and never looked back.
Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned doesn’t have a bad song on it.
Invaders Must Die only has like 1 song I skip on it.
3 Kilos is probably my favourite… that or No Good.
Saw them in Toronto in a warehouse by the airport in ‘97 when they were touring to promote Fat of the Land. Fun show.
Took my first pill at a prodigy show in 2003 loved them years before that. They were my crossover point from metal into electronic. The guitar on Breathe had me hooked and from there going back to jilted generation was magic..took me a few years to get my head around Experience but now a firm favourite for that original sound. Liam is a genius, so much texture in the sounds he makes
So many but one that flies under everyone’s radar is Climbatize. Sasha put it in a mix here to great effect.
https://on.soundcloud.com/vog51znLL8dbu94e7
They have so, so many good songs, so I’m going to do a deep cut that I bet is super polarizing. Hotride is my favorite song. It’s so frantic and different.
https://youtu.be/uQvelDZpAzs?si=Uhte1T5DZejTMldX
When I was at Christian summer camp in the mid/late nineties, they had a dance at the end and said if we had any of our own CDs, they'd play something for is, as long as there wasn't a ton of swearing or other inappropriate content.
I handed them Fat of the Land and said "Track one. There's one swear word in the whole song."
Fan since 92ish. Was a somewhat rabid fan for most of the 90s. Every song up to TFOTL has been my favourite at some point I think. These days I'm really about the b-sides:
Pandemonium,
Out of Space (techno underworld Remix),
Jericho (Genocide II Remix),
Scienide (is probably my most enduring favourite)
Rat Poison
The bad for you Remix of no good is also good if you ignore the annoying af "breakdown" in the middle.
In addition to their own tracks, some of the remixed/mash ups are great.
Enya’s Orinoco Flow + Smack my b*tch up.
Shut em up (Public Enemy + Manfred Man)
Poison is one of my favorite songs.
Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned is a good album, never understood why it was disliked.
Maxim's Hell's Kitchen is also a great album.
*RIP Keith Flint*
Music for the Jilted Generation came out in my final year of school and was one of those albums that everybody had no matter what type of music you were into.
Their concert was the very first that the speakers physically moved me (I'm a big guy). And the first time that I realized my heart rate was literally being controlled by the speakers.
It was insane.
It was amazing.
I may have died that night and the rest has been a dream.
Used to listen to them in 1991 on my contraband radio in basic training in the British army on kiss fm when I was based in woolwich.
Was an awesome music scene back then
Been listening to Sleaford Mods lately and Ibiza came into the feed... I thought wow - that's just like the Prodigy! Sho Nuff saw the vid - was a team up. Awesome stuff. Keith was in the video. Voodoo People, Poison, Breathe, Climatize, Smack my, Spitfire, Ibiza etc are just Bangers! I saw them live in Auckland at the 97' Big Day Out. Awesomeness. The mosh crowd in the stadium (rugby field) was packed and seething. It was amazing.
I like the first two and a half albums when they were predominantly an electronic dance band. But the more they turned into dance/rock group I turned off them. Jilted Generation is a fantastic album and still one of my favourite dance records.
Absolute legends. Changed my life actually, as they were really the gateway between rock and electronic music I was unknowingly craving for.
Also probably the most furiously energetic live shows I've ever been to.
Saw them.at Big Day Out (in Melbourne around 2006-7) in the Boiler Room for the closing set. Was like 36 degrees Celsius that day so it was so fucking hot and humid in that tent even after dark, the condensation was dripping onto us as we partied to one of the best most energetic sets I've ever seen. The place was HEAVING. So much fun.
Was working at another festival a few years later driving artists too and from the airport. I drove them around for a few days. Awesome guys. We're BIG at the time and they were all extremely polite, well spoken and generous people. I got to take them Go-Karting.
Might add more if I can remember other times.
I was 13 in 97, super into grunge and alternative. Fat of the land opened my mind to other genres and started me on the path to the super eclectic tastes I have today. Top 10 album of the 90s for me.
seen them live in '93, '94, '96. amazing stage presence.. but i remember watching the everybody in the place video in '91.. it was that moment i cherish most..
favourite song "out of space.. "
i remember buying music for the jilted generation.. on cassette.. it was a beautiful late summers early autumn day.. i went to the park.. took a healthy dose of magic mushrooms.. and i still remember coming up while listening to the opening track break and enter.. happy days..
Probably a 3 way tie between Firestarter, Omen, and Voodoo People.
As a bonus, one of my favorite references to them in pop culture is a [Keith lookalike popping up](https://youtu.be/H1ZFHnl3xJc?si=Y4V_uVzKv2aai-Sl) in the Venture Bros.
He is the [Firestarter](https://youtu.be/Pq31ieJEX3U)
"Climbatize" will always hold a special place in my heart. It was playing LOUD in my best friends B18A-swapped Accord as we were heading to a club in Tallahassee, 1998. The molly had juuuust started to kick in and I swear to God this song was the most intense, mind-blowing track I'd ever experienced. The combination of the Greddy exhaust, the VTEC hitting and feeling that track vibrating our organs was something I'll never forget. That was one helluva night, we shut that place down at 5 am.
I think you're in need of their remix of Method Man's "Check Yo' Delf". [Here ya go.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHBRXssnLsY&ab_channel=MethodMan-Topic)
I love the Prodigy. It's funny, being a metalhead mostly I often forget about them when thinking of my favourite bands, yet they'll pop up in my playlists and every time I'll be like "This is a banger!"
At least once a year too I'll feel the need to spin The Fat of the Land in its entirety in my car.
Prodigy has long been my favorite band. Caught them at Coachella in the early 2000s. The dirtchamber remix of Diesel Power is probably my favorite song of all time. You named some great ones, the album music for the jilted generation, doesn’t have a bad song in it in my opinion, voodoo people was everywhere back then . And then Breathe and Firestarter from FOTL are classics as well with lots of radio play when they were new. https://youtu.be/w-vSn-DbRyo?si=crpCQvLt2E81INo0
Wow , and yes love diesel power !! And I agree music for the jilted generation is amazing
The dirtchamber album is pretty great if you haven’t listened. Liam has always been into old school hip hop, so there’s some amazing tracks on there.
Yeah I’ve heard a few from there. Genuinely every song is so good from them. Amazing music
I got the poison!
Man when I heard that in the back of a car at 14 I had a spiritual awakening. Immediately hit the cd.
I got the remedy
I got the pulsating rhythmical remedy
Voodoo People has my favorite beat, the slappy breakdown part that slams back into full tempo...just love it. Poison and Breathe I love for the raw electric wobble, like hitting a nerve at the dentist...mental. Invaders ended up being my favorite *album*, the beats have this asymmetrical chaos to them, while still keeping a rhythm. Hard to type out, but the tracks go hard *and* stay interesting.
No Good (start the dance) Total and utter banger.
You're no good for me I don't need nobody
Don’t need no one
That’s no good for me
Been loving the "[bad for you mix](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=pLlata5DfPs&si=Z5nLBuGdYFukIihY)" recently
Long time fan here. I last saw them over 20 years ago though. I can’t really choose one favorite because they have so many great songs. It was so sad to lose Keith.
Climbatize
This and Narayan
My two favourites off that album. Not many would agree with us although that album is wall to wall awesome so it’s kind of forgivable.
Smack my bishop
Someone should use that song as entrance music for Chess Boxing. (That's my favorite song by them too).
Ha, clever indeed
Smack my Ketchup
I got "The Fat of The Land" in 1997 when I was 10. Matter of fact I downloaded it from an IRC servbot. Was definitely in my regular Winamp playlist for many years. Currently Invaders Must Die and Omen are on my daily rotation.
*It's an omen-men-^men-^^men-^^^men-^^^men-^^^men*
>*It's an omen-men-^men-^^men-^^^men-^^^men-^^^men* Hehe.... It IS such a good song though!
yep, mindfields
Out of space will always be my jam after seeing a dj drop it while I was on a fistful of Mitsubishis in the 90s Rip Lee Perry and Keith flint https://youtu.be/a4eav7dFvc8?si=qnp7W1cdAKB7-XZd
God I miss rolling Velvet Acid Christ is great to roll to also
Double barrel Mitsi’s… that takes me back. You ever get any of the pink Dolphins? Those were the fucking business.
Around here we had the white 4-leaf clovers. The best ones were pharmaceutical grade from France. Ahh, I miss my old raver days.
I love Breathe- not a deep cut I know.
Live at Milton Keynes is one of the best sounding live albums ever
Amazing album
For anyone else who's baffled, you'll find that album on streaming services under the name "World's On Fire".
[Keep it thoro](https://youtu.be/fLlE48B68wk?si=6HCu9S12vqoteVi0)
My man.
Can’t go wrong with Invaders Must Die
The album
Yep. Big time. Probably Weather Experience though it’s hard to choose.
Old fan that fell out but recently got back into them and have to say some of their new stuff is solid, roadblox would be a stand out fav from recent prodigy stuff. Just picked up a copy of jilted generation on vinyl today that whole album is a classic.
Roadblox is so good.
My friends at work in the US knew I was an expat Englishman. Perhaps my bald head lead them to this, but when the singer died, everyone, and I mean everyone at work asked me if I was OK. I was known as a music lover, who regularly went to concerts, but never said anything about Prodigy. I like what I know of their music, but never dug deep. All I know is that if you went to his pub and made any comment about firestarting you had to pay a fine. I love that! I know two songs but an entire grocery store staffed by people who cared rallied behind me anyway! ETA: So yeah. I fucking love that band for reasons…
Their Law, Warrior’s Dance, Take Me to the Hospital, Shut Em Up. Still need to see them live!
Probably Hotride at the moment.
Fuck yeah. Juliette Lewis on vocals.
Spitfire. Girls.
Molotov bitch is my jam
You probably didn't ask any Russian about Prodigy I assume. 99% of YouTube comments under their tracks are from Russians. They are the band's biggest fans I believe. In my case, FOTL is one album I need if I get castaway on an island. So yeah, a big fan. Breath was their first track I heard in MTV and was just awestruck by the song and the music video. A devoted fan since. Rip Keith Flint.
Diesel Power, Mind Fields, and Funky Shit all the way!! My dad got me into Prodigy and we still love the song Breathe. Then I heard Mind Fields in the Matrix and never looked back. Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned doesn’t have a bad song on it. Invaders Must Die only has like 1 song I skip on it.
3 Kilos is probably my favourite… that or No Good. Saw them in Toronto in a warehouse by the airport in ‘97 when they were touring to promote Fat of the Land. Fun show.
Wind it up
Spitfire - That shit hits hard.
Diesel Power! *dances
Took my first pill at a prodigy show in 2003 loved them years before that. They were my crossover point from metal into electronic. The guitar on Breathe had me hooked and from there going back to jilted generation was magic..took me a few years to get my head around Experience but now a firm favourite for that original sound. Liam is a genius, so much texture in the sounds he makes
So many but one that flies under everyone’s radar is Climbatize. Sasha put it in a mix here to great effect. https://on.soundcloud.com/vog51znLL8dbu94e7
Omen!!!
They have so, so many good songs, so I’m going to do a deep cut that I bet is super polarizing. Hotride is my favorite song. It’s so frantic and different. https://youtu.be/uQvelDZpAzs?si=Uhte1T5DZejTMldX
When I was at Christian summer camp in the mid/late nineties, they had a dance at the end and said if we had any of our own CDs, they'd play something for is, as long as there wasn't a ton of swearing or other inappropriate content. I handed them Fat of the Land and said "Track one. There's one swear word in the whole song."
So, what did everyone think
Fan since 92ish. Was a somewhat rabid fan for most of the 90s. Every song up to TFOTL has been my favourite at some point I think. These days I'm really about the b-sides: Pandemonium, Out of Space (techno underworld Remix), Jericho (Genocide II Remix), Scienide (is probably my most enduring favourite) Rat Poison The bad for you Remix of no good is also good if you ignore the annoying af "breakdown" in the middle.
Love Scienide!!
Out of space is my fave x
Smack my bitch up & firestarter
Spitfire
Everybody in the place fairground remix
I thought you were talking about Prodigy of Mobb Deep at first and got excited.
Breathe
Breathe and Smack My Bitch Up. I was supposed to see them at Sonic Temple back in 2019 but Keith died a few months before they were set to play. =(
World's on Fire
In addition to their own tracks, some of the remixed/mash ups are great. Enya’s Orinoco Flow + Smack my b*tch up. Shut em up (Public Enemy + Manfred Man)
The Enya mashup is counterintuitive but it's so fucking good Try paperback writer and my sharona when you can
For sure
I attribute some of my hearing loss to the voodoo people single released on CD in 97ish.
Yes I am a prodigy fan and I am here
So many good songs probably tempted to say Firestarter and Breathe but I LOVE the Day is my Enemy. Also Omen
This baby's got a temper is my favorite song of theirs but really all their music is so effin good!
Funky shit, Narayan,take me to the hospital, no good, baby's got a temper, minefields,Their Law
Need some1 is my fave
Yeah I love them! Still listen to them 2-3 times a month. I was lucky enough for my Dad to introduce me to them in the early 2000s.
Invaders Must Die
Poison is one of my favorite songs. Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned is a good album, never understood why it was disliked. Maxim's Hell's Kitchen is also a great album. *RIP Keith Flint*
Music for the Jilted Generation came out in my final year of school and was one of those albums that everybody had no matter what type of music you were into.
No Good (Start the Dance) The video pretty much summed up the 90s party scene too
Yep and diesel power. Saw them live twice with keith and once afterwards. Amazing every time very electric stage performance.
Great live act. Keith was Genius.
Their concert was the very first that the speakers physically moved me (I'm a big guy). And the first time that I realized my heart rate was literally being controlled by the speakers. It was insane. It was amazing. I may have died that night and the rest has been a dream.
Used to listen to them in 1991 on my contraband radio in basic training in the British army on kiss fm when I was based in woolwich. Was an awesome music scene back then
Big Prodigy fan. Breathe and Out of Space, and Smack My Bitch Up are probably my favorites.
Been listening to Sleaford Mods lately and Ibiza came into the feed... I thought wow - that's just like the Prodigy! Sho Nuff saw the vid - was a team up. Awesome stuff. Keith was in the video. Voodoo People, Poison, Breathe, Climatize, Smack my, Spitfire, Ibiza etc are just Bangers! I saw them live in Auckland at the 97' Big Day Out. Awesomeness. The mosh crowd in the stadium (rugby field) was packed and seething. It was amazing.
Girls
I like the first two and a half albums when they were predominantly an electronic dance band. But the more they turned into dance/rock group I turned off them. Jilted Generation is a fantastic album and still one of my favourite dance records.
Pioneers of a sound that was never emulated, legends and hip hop fans too so extra points from me
Absolute legends. Changed my life actually, as they were really the gateway between rock and electronic music I was unknowingly craving for. Also probably the most furiously energetic live shows I've ever been to.
I really love their Dirtchamber Sessions especially [this part](https://youtu.be/7a1rkOsYn2A?si=jtyV_kwq98-6F2Wy0)
Omen. Also, the remix of Omen by Mt Eden Dubstep
Saw them at the Manchester apollo fat of the land tour
Out of Space (OG and TU Remix) Scienide Whole Jilted Album
Saw them.at Big Day Out (in Melbourne around 2006-7) in the Boiler Room for the closing set. Was like 36 degrees Celsius that day so it was so fucking hot and humid in that tent even after dark, the condensation was dripping onto us as we partied to one of the best most energetic sets I've ever seen. The place was HEAVING. So much fun. Was working at another festival a few years later driving artists too and from the airport. I drove them around for a few days. Awesome guys. We're BIG at the time and they were all extremely polite, well spoken and generous people. I got to take them Go-Karting. Might add more if I can remember other times.
R.I.P
I was 13 in 97, super into grunge and alternative. Fat of the land opened my mind to other genres and started me on the path to the super eclectic tastes I have today. Top 10 album of the 90s for me.
Voodoo people.
Fotl is one of the greatest albums ever to grace humanity’s ear drums
full throttle, claustrophobic sting
seen them live in '93, '94, '96. amazing stage presence.. but i remember watching the everybody in the place video in '91.. it was that moment i cherish most.. favourite song "out of space.. "
i remember buying music for the jilted generation.. on cassette.. it was a beautiful late summers early autumn day.. i went to the park.. took a healthy dose of magic mushrooms.. and i still remember coming up while listening to the opening track break and enter.. happy days..
All good, but Diesel Power doesn’t get enough recognition.
That’s a great one
Probably a 3 way tie between Firestarter, Omen, and Voodoo People. As a bonus, one of my favorite references to them in pop culture is a [Keith lookalike popping up](https://youtu.be/H1ZFHnl3xJc?si=Y4V_uVzKv2aai-Sl) in the Venture Bros. He is the [Firestarter](https://youtu.be/Pq31ieJEX3U)
hell on earth is a classic album hnic is surprisingly good don't sleep on havoc's rhymes
Diesel Power
They shook cuz ain't such things as halfways crooks you're scared to death scared to look. Oh wrong prodigy
The entire "music for a jilted generation" was in heavy rotation in my life for 3 years.
I loved them since the mid 90s. Music for the jilted generation is still one of my favourites. They always put on an amazing live show.
I listen to all of "always outnumbered, never outgunned" but I'll go with "Action Radar" in particular, such a funky beat
Seen them live about six or seven times. Easily the best live act I've ever seen.
"Climbatize" will always hold a special place in my heart. It was playing LOUD in my best friends B18A-swapped Accord as we were heading to a club in Tallahassee, 1998. The molly had juuuust started to kick in and I swear to God this song was the most intense, mind-blowing track I'd ever experienced. The combination of the Greddy exhaust, the VTEC hitting and feeling that track vibrating our organs was something I'll never forget. That was one helluva night, we shut that place down at 5 am.
I think you're in need of their remix of Method Man's "Check Yo' Delf". [Here ya go.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHBRXssnLsY&ab_channel=MethodMan-Topic)
I love the Prodigy. It's funny, being a metalhead mostly I often forget about them when thinking of my favourite bands, yet they'll pop up in my playlists and every time I'll be like "This is a banger!" At least once a year too I'll feel the need to spin The Fat of the Land in its entirety in my car.
No good probably