The Prodigy

[evilchris]

Is anyone else out there who's going to The Big Day Out worried that perhaps, 5 years on, the Prodigy are going to be a little bit past it?
Don't get me wrong, I'm a fan (my copy of 'Everybody in the Place' still has the 'No1 UK Rave Anthem! sticker it came with), it's just that 5 years on, there's still no tangible release date for the new album "Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned" (promised for around 2 years running), and the new sets performed recently in Europe have had only 2 new tracks, "Nuclear" and "Trigger".
I'll be infront of the main stage with all the rest of you when they play somewhere in a capital city...it'll be interesting to see what the Prodge experience is like in 2002...

evilchris
www.livingroomcanberra.com

[bennybee]

i think this same debate happened pre-fatof theland. it took forever to come out and everyone thought they were past it. Its possible they are past but i wouldn't put it past them to turn on a scorcher. hrmmm alot of pasts there. I for one won't find out as i'd prob rather check out dave angel as i've never seen him and i've seen the prodigy before. Plus main stage scares me. lettuce know what you think evilchris.

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[Alistair]

Given that fat of the land kinda sucked (individually they were all great tracks, as an album ...) its not suprising its taken them a while to work out what the next album will be like...
Personally, im going to be in the (i would imagine) reletivly empty boiler room dancing to dave clarke.and then running for my life before basement jaxx takes the stage and everyone at the bdo piles in... i think fenix is on at the hot house :)

[DJSeb]

"individually they were all great tracks, as an album ..."


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[calico]

yeah dave angel takes my vote on that one! but prodge were always a bit of a pop take on the whole rave scene - cartoonish enough to get the chart action that the black artists who kicked it all off were too scary to get. they've put out some great tracks but they've never been right on the money. dave angel on the other hand!! basement jaxx will be rocking too!!! have fun!
calico

[evilchris]

Yeah, I will agree that Music for the Jilted Generation was probably the high point of the Prodge for me. I think when the Prodigy released Fat of the Land they were obviously gearing things towards pop-crossover (cf tracks like Serial Thriller and Minefields), which I was less into. Although I find a lot of the newer Prodigy a bit cheesy, I still think Liam Howlett is an undeniably great production talent. What I'd really like to hear is the collaboration Howlett did with 3D of Massive Attack that was withheld from the Beach soundtrack a couple of years ago. Apparently, the track in question made it to (of all things) the soundtrack of the delightfully named 'Uranus Experiment', the first porno to be filmed in zero gravity (apparently using that special plane that flies very night and follows the curvature of the Earth, creating a few seconds of ZeroG...imagine the possibilities for a porn director)
Did anyone hear the track (I want it, can't find it on fileshare and don't know that I want to do the Fyshwick crawl to get the track in question (I'll live I think:)

evilchris

www.livingroomcanberra.com

[Alistair]

Seb... by themselves they kinda rock "SMBU" "Narayann" etc but all in a row, it just becomes sad especially when it gets to the last track and they cover L7's "fuel my fire" (off the awesome Brick Are Heavy album if im not mistaken) and you just know that they went completely, completely mad when recording that album.
Think of my comment like this - The Beatles "No1" a collection of their hightest selling songs and songs i quite like, nay, love, is not as good an album as even say Rubber Soul and defienatly not the impact of something like Magical Mystery Tour... even though individually they are great songs... theres more to an album than 12 good songs tacked together...

Oh yeah and Chris, if you find that track, i so need to hear it - i might do a bit of a web search and try and see if i can find it...

[marcus]

I'm still looking forward to them, past it or not.

[palu]

pffft ... who cares if the prodigy were commercially succesful.... do u think about that when u dance ur ass off? i think not. personally i will be going bananas to the prodigy, altho i must warn all, that if anyone attempts to mosh to the prodigy i will be forced to take off my shoe and throw it at the offendors head (i doubt ill get it back but hey.)

[Alistair]

I dont have a problem with them being commercially successful... just that the fat of the land kinda sucked as an album...
Personally i will be in the percievedly empty Boiler room when they are on, getting my rocks off to Dave Clarke...
Oh and youve obviously never been to a prodigy show if you dont think there will be a mosh... they are the new rock&roll after all...