OH MY GOD THATS THE FUNKY SHIT!
Dabadabadabadabadabadabadabad
Up there with Dummy and Different Class in the triumvirate of British 90s music.
One of the best.
Edit: in fact I’m going to listen to it right now.
It’s a classic. Back to back bangers. Even some of the more “out there” songs like Narayan. Though there’s barely any albums I don’t like from them. Maybe “Experience” because it’s a little much sometimes. Quite partial to “Invaders Must Die” and “No Tourists” since I grew up with IMD and because NT is their last album before Keith died (RIP)
Invaders Must Die is so good but Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned is another good one, mainly because of Juliette Lewis.
Oh yea lots of bangers on there too. Spitfire, Girls and You’ll Be Under My Wheels are my faves
I think a lot of people don’t realise just how much this utterly shifted the British music scene
Ok there was electronic music before it and after it, but this was Sex Pistols level of ground-breaking at the time
It was the first prodigy album I heard as a kid and it changed my perception of electronic music
It sounds modern, mainly because modern electronic music was so heavily affected by Prodigy
Coooommmmmeee plaaaay myyyy game
I can hear this comment
Fantastic album, like others have said, it was on heavy rotation in my teens, sounds track to many late night game sessions.
“Smack my Bitch Up” being a hugely popular and influential song, is also part of a long running lost media hunt for me. In the late 00’s there was a youtube video made by a 3d animator as a demo reel. It was an extended anime fight between a yellow and black sentai/robot and a bunch of other robots. SMBU was the soundtrack to the video of course, lots of bits were synced to it.
That was back in the glorious pre-copyright-bot times, and since it was a demo for an unreleased project using a hugely popular song by someone who’s name I’ve long forgotten, I can’t find it! Probably scrubbed off the net by now, the creator moved on to being a cog in the Marvel movie machine.
Certified iridium banger for a reason, without question. My favorite track, voodoo people (pendulum mix) isn’t on this, but I still sing the chant from Narayan. Just as influential as most of the early works of Fatboy Slim, the Chemical Brothers, the Bassbin Twins, the Crystal Method, Fluke, and so many others. The remix album of this is still just as devastating.
Once you heard pretty much any one of these tracks, you knew this was, and probably always would be, the sound for you.
I’ve never heard of this but that album art goes so hard, now I have to listen to it
you have to come back and tell us what your take is
Okay, back! This album puts me right back into “PS1 game soundtrack nostalgia” and I love it.Its’s a great album to get hype to. Definitely added to my rotation.
Downloading now, I will return with hot takes 😎
Your lucky day.
The music in it goes harder than the cover art!
Oh my I envy you
Great album, one of my favourites.
Where I’m from Narayan was a summer hit in the dance clubs when it came out, although my friends and I were more into Firestarter and Breathe. I venture saying that it helped bridge punk and dance in a big way.I went through a big prodigy phase in my teens (still listen often). I once had the house to myself so I loaded up the backyard surround sound system (living with some rich friends at the time, we did not have backyard surround sound money) with 6 CDs of prodigy. Got really stoned and then floated around in the pool with their small dog on my lap for hours. Probably one of the best single days of my life. Just pure glorious relaxation. Leisure on a level I have been chasing for the rest of my life lol.
I still listen to this at least weekly, the album is in my regular gym rotation because
A) it’s hard for me to listen to lyric heavy music and count reps correctly (brain no work good during ugga dugga) and
B) It’s amazing.
Good album, so many great tracks.
