These 3 tracks are quality when taken individually. Combined they are a masterpiece and they close out an amazing album which is still as ferocious as it was 25 years ago when I first heard it.
At least the best electronic album EVER made, I agree...borrowed it from a friend for six months in 94 when it came out...many memories....still sounds fresh...and timeless
Howlett said when the album dropped that for 3 Kilos he wanted to write a stoner track so he said he closed his eyes and thought about him and his mates passing about a spliff and what would be playing in the background. He said that Skylined was about a trippy, uplifting vibe and that Claustrophobic Sting was "a bad acid trip, a depths-of-hell track".
I was in 4th grade when Fat of the Land came out, and I loved it. Shortly afterwards, I got every album they had and it was the Narcotic Suite that ended up putting them on my "best bands ever" list. I raise a glass to Keith Flint - he was a great fucking member of the band that was my gateway drug to electronic music.
For me 3 kilos is just something chill to listen to. Then comes skylined a little bit more sounds come in and claustrophobic sting sound like hell and i love it!
Nothing to explain even from self explanatory title, the three parts of addiction experience, drugs? Music? You decide. The first part (3 Kilos) was never a real get in action thing to me but a prologue, that sense of coolness and total control... Probably the most proggy tune even made by Mr Howlett, so many samples and vintage feeling. The second part (Skylined) it's where addiction starts, the full trip begin and you are totally lost on it, delirium heaven sort of, machines takes control and you are in an artificial world. The third part (Claustrophobic Sting) it's a bad ending and always scared me, took a lot to get used to this hellish closer, the trip landed wrong and you are lost in madness and chaos, arrived on the darkest terminal.
Liam Howlett truly was a prodigy, and the album these tracks come from is a genuine masterpiece. Praying that Liam does complete that new Prodigy album he's working on... 25 years on and I am still in awe of this great music
First album I ever bought, back when I was 14. It had hits like Voodoo People and Poison. But this album turned out to be so much more than just those 2 tracks. Compared to other house music of the day, this was infinitely more complex, and so much better. Not even on the same level. This is still awesome today. Still got the album.
ivo215 there was plenty as complex and more so. Check early Warp releases like Autechre's debut, or early Aphex Twin; also artists like Acen and Dave Angel. That's just As.
ivo215 I totally got ya, same story, same years (14), hrvatska, you described me and i'm listening to claustrophobic sting right here as the best acid-jungle track i ever heard...This album was and will be something else, forever
I don't argue that this isn't/wasn't one of the best and most influential electronic music albums, but let's not forget Orbital, Leftfield, The Grid or Underworld, just to name a few as quality artists in the early 90s. :)
This was, is and will be one of the best 20min you can experience in your life. Free your mind and and let your self loose on a trip with The Prodigy...
whatever happened to this prodigy? The Narcotic Suite, along with Speedway/Heat, Break & Enter & Weather Experience was my favourite musik...but then they got the idea of making Keith (RIP) frontman...Firestarter & Breathe were such mindblowing successes that Liam & co stuck with the electropunk formula instead of going back to these synth-driven masterpieces. Understandable, to be fair...it made them more of a band, Maxim & Keith had immense presence and are icons of electronic dance culture. ...still, i hope Liam returns one day to this kind of thing.
well thats one of the reasons why i loved AONO as it came after those peak punk years and eschewed all that to just produce the electro sound that liam was into at the time; keef & maxim would still belt out the energy & power of those old big hits when touring of course, they hadnt been made entirely redundant! love those particular tunes you list too. WE always a highlight for me when playing Experience and this suite to close Jilted but with those listed much earlier in the album to set the tone.
The Narcotic Suite: the time The Prodigy said "we're not just another rave act that'll vanish after a few records. We're an important point in the history of music and we'll be remembered long, long after we're gone."
You simply can’t touch these tunes. Nearly 30 years old and timeless. So far ahead of their time they’ll literally outlive the filler we get these days
Nah Blood! it just means you're stuck in yesteryear. i appreciate what it is but there are other artists that are doing their own thing which is excelent. If you're looking for this theme to be replicated exactly, you'll be disappointed. Muhammed Ali was unique in his own respect, so was mike tyson and now Tyson Fury. Broaden your horizons mate.
I have bought this album 9 times. It used to go everywhere with me. Just a masterpiece. Liam, hats off, mate. In my collection this album is on par with Songs In The Key Of Life and Here, My Dear. Not even Faithless with their valiant effort Sunday 8PM could come close to as strong and a cohesive album as this. Maybe Ed Rush and Optical aren't too far behind with Wormhole but I maintain that Jilted is unsurpassed. Also, sad about Keef. How the mighty do fall. Could happen to any of us. Very sad indeed.
I remember a couple of years later Melody Maker and so forth gushed over The Chemical Brothers and big beat - The Prodigy were always dismissed as chart rave, but this is awesome and sounds way ahead of its time.
🎉🎉🎉🎉 This song is so fucking chill all the time! 3 kilos I mean. 😊 Try listening to it at .75 speed and taking a walk down your street. See how far you get, you'll probably make it farther than the song! Every song of the Narcotic Suite is EXCELLENT! RIP KEITH! I really wish I had gotten to see you before I'm live. Listening to this band usrd to make me feel happy. It still does, but now there's the ever So unshakeable feeling of sadness and question of what if?
You can tell a lot about a person by knowing their favourite Prodigy album. - Experience - older generation, casualty of the early 90s acid house scene, those who have correct music taste. - Jilted Generation - second gen of electronica enthusiasts, casualty of the late 90s MDMA scene, those with decent music taste. - Fat of the Land - wankers who don't like dance music, drink Carling, listens to Coldplay in the car. - other - deluded, possibly mentally ill, probably just lying and not to be trusted.
