The Prodigy - Firestarter (REACTION!) 

Prodigy was the only electronic music act that got consistently invited to rock/metal festivals. That's how hard they went live.

While I love this song, I think "Breathe" would've been a better Prodigy song to use as the first reaction. Some other ones to check out: Their Law, Voodoo People, Mind Fields, and Invaders Must Die.

Hard to hear this and not be IMMEDIATELY transported back to the 90s!

This song was absolutely massive here in the UK. Thankfully it didn't spark an arson epidemic.

RIP Keith Flint. (The MC in the Prodigy). I'm really interested now to hear what you guys would think of Pendulum. Since they had a knack for beats and vocals even.

Y'all really gotta watch the official music video for this, it goes so well with the song. Cause without the visual, you don't really get the full picture of who The Prodigy is.

"No good" is their best song (in my opinion).. also Voodoo people, Break and enter, Breathe, Out of space, Charly, Poison are all worth a reaction 🔥

The Prodigy are among some of the most respected old(ish) mixers/samplers and did all of their work before people now who have crazy computer programs. They just listened to a lot of weird music and had ears to create this futuristic rave culture 90s sound of generation X. They were and still are incredible artists and performers. Great reaction too!

I loved Prodigy's Fat of the Land album so much, I owned two copies

The “hey hey hey” sample is from Art Of Noise - Close (to the Edit). So many people sampled it, I think they made more money from royalties on that sample than they did on the original song.

90s EDM had a lot of old school hip hop samples in it, especially Big Beat stuff which The Prodigy helped popularize. The song you guys said you heard before "Smack My Bitch Up" is a vocal sample from Ultramagnetic MCs "Give the Drummer Some". Some other big EDM and Big Beat artists from this era worth checking out are Fatboy Slim, the Chemical Brothers, and the Crystal Method

YES!!!!! My husband and I played this CD to death when it came out; the other HOT song was “Smack My Bitch Up”. Yep, blasting with our 5 year old in the car. He’s 31 now and doin just fine 😂❤. You two should watch the official video for Firestarter; it’s great!

90s British electronic big beat/break beat music is untouchable. Crystal Method is the only ones that can ride with them

Breathe and Funky Shit are good choices for the next reaction!

Mindfields is the track from the first Matrix. Also good one, a bit mellow but still with a lot of breakbeat energy.

Takes me back! Wow early 90s whizzing my nuts off 🙌 RIP Kieth 💙🙏

R.I.P. Keith what a legend..he's the reason why a became a raver 30 years ago and still am today 🤟

Man rocking this and Spitfire, Breathe and more while playing games on the computer was a blast in the 90's early 2000's. RIP Keith, you legend.

Liam Howlett, the DJ, is the prodigy behind The Prodigy. Find the Dirtchamber Sessions. It's 6 tracks from the DJ based off a set he did for the BBC. He drops everything musically in the album, and you never realized how closely all the sounds are related until he puts them all together..

As hip hop fans I would highly recommend that you check out Diesel Power from The Fat Of The Land album, also by The Prodigy. Edit; I would like to add Poison too. Music For The Jilted Generation is one of my favourite albums (of any genre) of all time and Poison is track that would fit in here, over any of the others. Their Law/VoodooPeople is also a good shout though. Break & Enter is my favourite though close second/tie for first being Poison.

This is one of the songs that helped keep my weight down back in my club days. Damn, you come off the floor after a set of songs from bands like Prodigy and you're just a nasty, glob of sweat. Best workout you can get.

Love from 🇬🇧 I was lucky enough to see them few times and I danced to firestarter many nights long at the ra be parties all over Europe good times.

Seeing these guys was probably my 2nd favorite concert experience, just so much intense energy at that show

Fat Of The Land is probably one of my favorite albums of all time. Has no skips.

Five minutes too long??? WTF, how short can an attention span become??

I grew up in Latvia and this song was at every party, club when it came out. Immensely popular.

Reacting to The Prodigy without watching the video is a crime.

Maaaaaaan listening to a track of the fat of the Land always brings back memories

this entire album is an absolute GEM, released in 1997 and i STILL listen to it. next song by them you check out NEEDS to be breathe

The video for this song is wild 😁🇬🇧 R.I.P. Keith Flint 💔

This entire album is lovely.

This topped the UK charts and several others in 1996. Still sounds fresh.

Been a huge Prodigy fan for more than 30 years.

The Prodigy is a techno/ rave project by composer/ producer Liam Howlett in the 90's ... Howlett used two frontmen to handle vocals up front - Keith Flint (the white punk rocker) and Maxim (the black guy in dreads)... Maxim did the vocals on another Prodigy single - 'Breathe' w/ Keith Flint. 'Firestarter' was Keith Flint on vocals... Sadly, he took his own life in 2019.

Finally some Prodigy. Hope u do more of it. They are so versatile - RIP Keith.

Seen these guys live a few times. They were incredible. One of a kind techno mosh pits everywhere. This song was on the Playstation one game Wipeout's soundtrack. It blew them the f*ck up.

I’ve always been a fan of metal, stonerrock and grunge. Prodigy is the exception to that, they are phenomenal !!

The Prodigy, to me, is all about their first two albums The Experience and Music For The Jilted Generation. Top song picks: Out of Space, Fire, Their Law, Poison

Ahhhhh back in the day Raving to this in DC was so hot!!!

One of the most legendary bands over here in the uk . Funny to see people in the US dont know them

I think for you boys, The Poison is next. Nasty groove off what i believe is the most important electonic record of all time, Music for thr Jilted Generation.

Fat of the land is an absolute belter of an album... Also music for the jilted is probably one of the most influential early 'EDM' albums... Must listen, all of it.

When this song came out, it was the video that sold it for me. Freaky vid was perfect for the Freaky vide.

"Breathe" is definitely a better choice

This song reminds me of my highschool days 😅

Great reaction guys! Thanks for being open minded. The Prodigy was music perfectly designed for the club. In that environment, you didn't notice nor feel the passage of 5+ minutes (no matter what your 'poison' of choice) - you were groovin' (hopefully with a fine lady or gent) and wanting that to last forever! The only other place where I've had their tracks going was while driving. Again, where you don't really notice the passage of time. Sitting in your easy chair at home - The Prodigy is NOT for that! Highly recommend: Breathe (a little less repetitive, but just as awesome), and if you would indulge, Smack My B!tch Up is stellar!! Cheers.

"Breathe" I remember it was on one of the Charlie's Angels movies with Cameron Diaz on a dirt bike

The Prodigy - Diesel Power

Voodoo people! Man, I loved Prodigy. This song was on the video game Wipeout XL. I loved it so much that I bought the albums.

The repetition is its psychotic trance effect.

Diesel Power by The Prodigy is pure 90’s rap. They did everything

Never have heard of ANYONE disliking this song before. First time ever.

The most exciting piece of music ever!

Sepultura did a bitchin' cover of this song.

I’m going to watch this later. But I’m going to go ahead and hit that like button.

This had to be heard and seen. Some music videos are as iconic as the songs themselves.

Breathe is the song you want to listen to from them. It’s the song that blew my mind when I heard it. Minefields was the song off the Matrix Soundtrack.

One of my favorites 😍

Your Love 💘 ... Shout out to The Art of Noise for the "Hey Hey Hey" sample on this track, a friend of mine went to school with Liam down in Crawley, 90's were the best !

If you want a trip, there’s nothing like their early hit Out Of Space

Takes me back to school discos mid 90’s. this was the coolest thing at the time. I was there with my Baggy jeans and Peter Andre style hair curtains. I didn’t even like the prodigy that much but was trying to fit in. 🤣

Diesel Power from the same album featuring Kool Keith 💪 I think you'll like that one more

Yeah!!! Minerva from Deftones pls

You have to go listen to Spitfire off their later album Always Outnumbered Never Outgunned. Absolute banger

The Prodigy was a very imprtant band to push Drum and Bass to a place where it could fill bigger venues and that music...well let's just say thosse parties were warzones. What substances and the music did to the people was insane at times. Also some of the best parties I've ever been to, so much energy, so much raw chaos.

The "Hey Hey Hey" is a sample from Art of Noise's "Close To The Edit" (also worth a listen) from early 80s.

IF YOU CAN FIND IT, The video for that "Smack my bitch up" song, was the only video that MTV actually banned from playing. They only played it once at midnight when the song came out and then never played again on American Mainstream TV. IF you could find it. you will understand why ??? GREAT SONGS BTW !!!!!

Songs like "Breathe", "Poison", and "Voodoo People" are also great songs by these guys.

"Smack my bitch up" is a great Prodigy tune also the video to it.

You're dead on with the old school hip hop stuff. They've got a collab with Kool Keith that sounds like the late 80's at 2x speed

Man, this takes me back. This kind of Break-beat/Drum&Bass style was my jam back in the day. Have you guys gone down that rabbit hole? Have you done a reaction to Goldie - Timeless? Man, I'm about to go on a nostalgia trip if I listen to any more Prodigy...

RIP Keith Flint

This is such a tune, loved that you guys hadn't heard it before and seeing you slowly vibe with the madness haha

Definitely a song that's hard to just sit down and listen to. It's more about the mood and the energy it gives off.

I waited for eternity for you guys to react to Prodigy. Wildest show i ever been .

this might not have been the best prodigy song to start out with but it grows on ya

This bands music gets sampled by a lot of artists. Some of their top songs are in some recognizable movies and tv commercials.

First off rest easy to Keith Flint!!!!!!!! Second the album this come from is hella dope. I'll never forget when MTV banned the video smack by bitch up from them. Saw it once lol and that was it. Keith's energy was a whole different vibe if you were ever lucky enough to have seen them live!!!!!! It's hard to listen to this and NOT get pumped 🤘🏻🤘🏻

You definitely have to listen to the song “What Evil lurks”. That was one of her first songs.

i would recommend Omen. its just over 3 minutes

Smack My Bitch Up , Breathe, No Good, Voodoo People are all better songs

You've been living under rock guys, how in the world You didn't know all the songs You react in this channel? 😂😂

Fat of the land and Music for the jilted generation were dope albums from 90s and those songs always transport me to teenage years. I was metalhead, but Prodigy was band that was popular among both ravers, metalheads and punks. It had that dirty raw vibe.

Saw these live in the 90's, epic!

The thing about a track like this is it's of a time. As time moves on music moves on so what is groundbreaking at the time becomes overtaken by next level. I remember the first thrash metal track i heard, Battery, by Metallica being super groundbreaking for me for power and speed and just being something completely new. This track is off the Prodigy 3rd album and really was different from all other dance / indie / techno of the time, and had vibe where it was across genre appeal. Techno heads liked it, a lot of rockers, indie and punk types liked it, same with the rest of the singles from this album, i'd say Breathe took it to another level and killer video.

Yes, The Prodigy were heavily influenced by Hip-Hop. Smack my bitch up", was sampled from the song "Give the Drummer Some" by the Ultramagnetic MCs. Diesel Power from the same arriving had a guest vocal from Kool Keith. They also used a lot of samples from dub Reggae, notably Max Romeo on Outer Space. A lot of 90s Brit dance was heavily influenced by hardcore Hip-Hop. Yes, Ye used a lot of UK dance music in Yeezus. He did a whole track that was just him rapping over an Aphex Twin tune.

R.I.P. Keith Flint Mental dancer and singer for the prodigy. Your antics are still missed my man 🤘🤯🤘

Fat of the land ! First album i bought with my saved up allowance. Still kicks ass!

This song just bottles up anger and tension and shoots it directly in your ears 😂 Loved the reaction

Gods of electronic music!

I don't know if Ye was influenced directly by these guys, but yeah Yeezus for sure had a lot of (abrasive) electronic sounds that you'll also find throughout The Prodigy's music. Also yeah, that type of drum pattern is pretty common in that typical 90s music, specifically the breakbeat genre and like drum and bass/jungle. The drum pattern is called the "amen break" (even though in this song it wasn't exactly that) and it's been the foundation of manyyyyy hiphop joints too

Brings me back to my late 90s rave days.

This song also featured in the video game Wipeout 2097 (Wipeout XL) on playstation 1, that's how I discovered The Prodigy as well as other electronic stuff, and it does fit so well with the futuristic racing mood! I used to be very focused on rock/metal but this game sold me on electronic music, and 25 years later, I can see how much of an impact it had on my musical tastes :) You may want to check out The day is my enemy, Spitfire, Nasty or Breathe!

You have to check some of that Drum and Base, Chase and Status - Baddadan, slaps !

Curious how you guys will react to this one. Probably not the best, but LOVE The Fat of The Land album- such a banger! Next should be Breathe, Smack My Bitch Up, Diesel Power, Funky Shit, etc. P.s. I'm not normally an electronic music guy, but there are a few album I gravitated towards a few in the 90s.

Prodigy is essentially RAVE, but in a bottomline, a fusion, which is why they used to be at rock festivals, trance gatherings and of course, Rave concerts. They infuse not just one type of music though; often overlooked fact is they also used South Asian music in their numbers.

When it was announced that Keith Flint had died it tore a hole in my heart that I can only imagine it’s like losing a brother, I’ve spent 20 plus years listening to the prodigy and that day broke me

There is literally no other country that could have spawned The Prodigy - they are one of the great British bands, up there with The Beatles, Sex Pistols and The Jam.

You guys should definitely check out Smack My Bi*ch Up

It's one that just sticks with you