I'm the same! 100%! Best band on earth for the raw live performances by far.. The sheer energy you feel whilst even watching them on RU-vid is PALPABLE! But when I saw them play live, here in the UK!💥BOOM! My love, admoration and respect for The Prodigy quadrupled overnight! The live "Prodigy experience" is one to tick off that bucket list for certain. Dance eternally Kieth Flint... He is still here! We never do go far following human death! (from someone who has experienced clinical death as well as many near death' out of body' experiences)... We are eternal beings... ✨️✨️✨️✨️
Liam Howlett is a genius. A master at the continuous tweaking of almost all aspects of their songs, unlike most similar bands. The live show wasn't an unofficial, 'illegal' rave of the type the law was intended to control back in the '90's - it was a show at Milton Keynes Bowl, a big (but rarely used) concert venue in the UK which I've also seen Metallica and Pearl Jam at. I'm sure they're not every metal fan'd cup of tea, but the Prodigy cross over into the metal world so well. They were responsible for me being more open to music that wasn't rock or metal. I really liked their early stuff in around 1992, but my attitude back then (I was 18) was 'I can't buy that - it's dance music, not rock / metal'. But then I went into a record shop one day which had the prodigy playing, and thought 'this is awesome, just buy it'. I quickly learned to never be that closed minded about what music I listen to again.
i was there on that night, at the MK Bowl in Milton Keynes - over 65,000 people were there, an unforgettable night , after the event i could barely walk and had lost my voice,RIP Keith.
Mh I guess my reply was deleted because it had a link in it. So, again: I think Autechre's Anti EP is a protest against the same law from 1994. On that EP, there is the track "Flutter", that they designed to have no repetetive beats at all as to (satirically) subvert the definition of "rave music", that leaned heavily on the repetitiveness of the beats.
Maxim and the late Keith are actually contracted dancers and Liam the guy behind the keyboard is the music brains. No matter what you think of their music remember these guys have been music festival headliners for the last few decades. Apparently the first electronic act to headline Glastonbury back in the 90s. And yes I have seen them play live many times. The energy when they're playing is infectious.
Yes it may be repetitive but they were a rave band (which by the way even back then superseded any rave act- prodigy were always so more intelligent and ahead of their time) they stayed true to their roots as a dance band but were the first to add rock, metal, rap, hip hop etc etc into it so essentially they’re still a rave / dance band so are gonna have repetitive riffs / hooks / samples etc but the music is unique and mixed the genres and is instantly a powerhouse of energy that gets the crowd moving! It isn’t supposed to be Mozart lol
Dancing to The Prodigy in a forest in Austria has to be one of the best atmospheres I've ever experienced at a music event. They were pure energy and excitement, definitely. You should check out some of the breaks music that came after The Prodigy and a few others that paved the way. The genre is my favorite within EDM, mostly because of how much musicality can be found there relative to house, techno, trance, etc.. Maybe Stanton Warriors or Plump DJs or Nubreed would be up your alley,
Hey Bryan..I remember The Prodigy from back in the mid-late 90's and they're what I recall them being lol..Its not my overall genre but I love the energy that would rival a hard rock show and I also wouldn't have minded being at that gig 🤘🧐✌️
(that RINGMOD!) love your mature analytical response to first listen, this riff made me jump about like a nutter when i first heard it i was 18 (i cant believe its like 30 yrs ago or somethin 94) misremembered i thought was erlier release 92?
This was a protest song against the Criminal Justice Act in the UK, which allowed the police to declare any gathering of 3 or more people as a riot and thus use extraordinary powers to suppress it. It was mainly aimed at unlicensed raves (which themselves were a side effect of the government effectively refusing to issue licenses to venues and revoking many of those that had been issued in the 80s). It sounds quite different to a lot of their other tunes from the same era, because it was originally a collaboration with Pop Will Eat Itself. It's kinda sad that most of the audience didn't really seem to know the song or the importance of its history, and what he was talking about at the start. I suspect many of them were fans from the album afterwards and onwards.
There a phenomenon band .. and bring so many fans together across so many genres. They've shut down Red Square in Russia twice for them to perform, check out that vid, so intriguing
The DJ hear is the producer. He creates all the music. The electric guitar is made on a computer so they patch the guitar through a computer so they can play those parts live. This music is made to be hard to make you move. It has to be simple. It’s hard to dance to complicated music. Not great musicality but Prodigy did a great job at making dance music fit in at giant rock festivals.
The electric guitar is played by a member of a punk band called Pop Will Eat Itself. It's certainly modified, but it's not made on a computer. The original studio vocals are also provided by the same band (not sure if it's the guitarist or if they have a separate vocalist), so the track is a collaboration.
@@lewisb85 Do you know whether PWEI fans consider this as one of their tunes? If so, is it as popular as among fans of The Prodigy? I've seen PWEI perform it live and their version is quite good.
I wouldn't consider much of what The Prodigy did after their first album a good fit into the rave scene, some songs did, like No Good from this album, and even Warriors Dance years later. As I'd say rave tends to be more aligned with its hardcore origins mainly utilising analogue synths and either flat-four techno or an amen break based beat. They band members met on the rave scene, and started out with rave, but after their first album, their genre shifted swiftly through jungle and drum and bass into this 'big beat' version of industrial dub-step which has become their main identity. Heavy use of non-EDM samples can make their sound hard to put into any single genre overall, too, but that's what also make them popular with fans of other genres like metal.
For context, there were massive protests against the 'criminal justice bill' which did actually get passed to become an act of law. The main part that I remember was that it became illegal to congregate in public with more than 3 people while playing amplified music without a licence. F 'em & their law!
This was a really good request! This song is perticularly suited to showcase their strengths, with its many buildups and memorable sampling. One thing missing perhaps is the more complex layering you can find on some of their other tracks, but I still cant think of a better single track to represent them. Many of their songs can come across as too insistant with their main sample running too predominantly for too long, which unless the listener is blasted into space on a rave, or is a massive fan, ends up tiring them out. This one strikes the right balance I think. It's entirely correct to say that the production of their songs is that elevates them from mediocre to something special - it always was. The samples used in their songs are the most catchy and memorable ones in the entire music business - I challenge anyone to tell me a group that does it better than Prodigy! It was also smart to choose a live version. If not in the right mindset, the listener would struggle to see exactly what about them and their songs can be so compelling. It communicates well how the songs are best blasted with the volume dial at 11, with the synth, bass and rythm permiating your body, making you feel ALIVE! I remember as a teen blasting their songs from hooking up my crappy black plastic CD player into my ridiculously unsuited pioneer guitar amp (2x12 inch speakers), my head rattling against the grill while listening to them. As someone who's got a chronically understimulated nervous system and get bored very quickly, this calmed me down and made me feel really good. These days I'm very careful of maintaining my hearing, as I want to be able to enjoy music for as long as I can. I do have some hearling loss at certain frequencies most likely stemmong from my sessions, but I'm amazed its not more from the abuse my eardrums suffered at that time. If I ever listen to Prodigy these days though, I still do so at full blast. It's still worth it for the few minutes its on! I just don't put my head inside the speakers any more. 😆
The Prodigy summed up in one sentence:- "Raw Passionate Energy whilst keeping it REAL, working with simple but POWERFUL riffs with live performances + crowd control of the ASCENDED MASTERS of Hybrid Rock/Techno/Rave/Acid House LEDGEND's!" Dance on eternally Kieth Flint 🙏
They mix, expect lots of repetition. The initial sample or influence for the intro voice (cd version of the track) is from Fried Green Tomatoes (1991 movie), the bassline is Techno Grooves Mach 3 (Drop That Bassline), the riff is by Pop Will Eat Itself who collaborated but eventually had their own version of the track with lyrics, and there is also an element taken from The Commodores The Assembly Line (the sample is near the end of the song, around 4mins in). On stage Keith never used to be at the forefront, it just evolved that way as their fanbase expanded from dance fans to rock fans more open to the electronic genre.
15 years old blasting Prodigy Experience over and over on my Sony walkman...haha i miss those days....tripping my head off walking to the Pleasuredome in Skegness...smashing a 8 hour rave and walking home....blasting it again.....no wonder i have Tinnitus now lol 😂🤣
In a different setting I would have been jumping too. But if I did that then I wouldn't be paying enough attention to everything in the music. It's called Active or Orchestral Listening. I can absolutely turn it off an just have fun but that's not why people come to the channel :)
@CriticalReactions I've seen 50 reactors do this tune and go crazy. It's music that is designed to make you move. If you don't move you ain't listening to it properly. You're doing well to switch off though 👍😁
I agree that the musicality maybe simple to some, but the production is next to none. Music for the jilted and fat of the land are absolute masterpieces.
I mostly just know these guys for Firestarter and Smack My Bitch Up. Never really my thing, but I always appreciated their energy, and that holds true. Musically I find this just too repetitive and boring after a while, but I can see why they make a great party soundtrack!
