music for the jilted generation is a work of genius

they are playing in my city in a couple of weeks. worth it?

  On 1/4/2011 at 10:04 PM, Bread said:

  On 1/4/2011 at 9:37 PM, Lube Saibot said:

  On 1/4/2011 at 9:18 PM, Bread said:

You should see him now - I once saw a youtube video after the release of Invaders Must Die where he was pretending to bash around on a microkorg and no sound was coming out!

 

haahaaa

 

link or approximate name on youtube please?

just type on youtube something along the lines of "Prodigy live 2009 or 2010" and usually you see him with an expensive digital synth, and he keeps pressing down the key at the lowest octave repeatedly all throughout a live gig, pretending he is doing something, when actually, he is fail.

example - watch Howlett here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh1_csBOlDo

That looks like some super new type of skilled minimal keyboard playing to me ;-)

  On 1/4/2011 at 10:20 PM, NewSchoolScience said:

That looks like some super new type of skilled minimal keyboard playing to me ;-)

But am I going crazy here? - he is hitting the keys but not contributing anything, no?

  On 1/4/2011 at 9:12 AM, vamos scorcho said:

music for the jilted generation is a work of genius

 

Farkin' love the prodigy. Big fanboy here!

Jilted is a stunning album. Wish I had more time to go into it right now but im just off to bed.

*edit*

And ok point made about the "live" fail noted above - but the fact is you can have an awesome time at one of their gigs and sweat your bollocks off leaping around. The shows are very intense if you get involved.

The "new" invaders tracks did all sound like a recording with keith/maxim swearing over the top of them - but at least with the established tracks like Poison / Their Law / Breathe etc.. they were mashing them up and had live drums / guitars. New tracks always take time to become part of any bands live show, and the fans wanna hear it as they know it...

eg...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6lWPtubQ1w

Successful live/electronic crossover

*second edit*

Ok and here's some nostalgia, Liam clearly adding something to the main backing track and visibly tinkering with the synths...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPh8XqXeBvs&feature=related

Ahh would have loved to have been there!

Ok, now bedtime...

i fucking love jilted. what a great cd. got into it through the hackers soundtrack back in the day and have loved it ever since.

my mind is glowing

Great album. I know a lot of punk-heads and metalheads who really loved this record, proberbly the only dancey/electronic record they ever owned. In general dance music was hated by a lot of my friends.

For that reason alone I guess it could be considered a work of genius.

This album started my obsession with electronic music.

I've been stung out on it since the age of 9

Fuck. Yes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0r4FYv_Kxk

The drops @ 1:49 and 2:08 drive me nuts!!!!

:sup:

I used Poison for my 5th grade gymnastics recital lol

It was my only ''Teen Wolf moment'' in school .

This record is the reson why I got into electronic music. I was a metalhead in my teenage years, I was blasting this loud in my room and I remember my dad knocking on the door, coming in and says, with a disgusted look on his face "YOU LISTEN TO TECHNO NOW ???? I HATE THAT"

That chorus sample on the Warrior Dance live vid is fugin disgustingly cheesy

I like a little more than half the prodigy stuff I have listened to.

i remember buying this VHS tape on Germany or something on a study visit when i was 15.

i played it on the bus and everyone kept saying that it was "music purchased by the meter", if you know what i mean... most kids listened to korn at that time

one or two years after that, fat of the land came out, and every metalhead was banging the shit out of it, i LOLED!!!

i have that tape

:sup:

This may be a longshot, but do any of you old PC gamers remember GTA 1 for PC? The full version of the game played Audio that was also on the data CD, however when you cracked the game (so you didnt need to CD to start the game) you could put in any audio CD you wanted and it would sync to the game. Jilted was literally spot on with the game about on par with DSOTM and The Wizard of Oz. You'd steal a cop car and it'd say "what we're dealing with here is a total lack of respect for the law..."

  On 1/6/2011 at 12:12 AM, sysyphus said:

This may be a longshot, but do any of you old PC gamers remember GTA 1 for PC? The full version of the game played Audio that was also on the data CD, however when you cracked the game (so you didnt need to CD to start the game) you could put in any audio CD you wanted and it would sync to the game. Jilted was literally spot on with the game about on par with DSOTM and The Wizard of Oz. You'd steal a cop car and it'd say "what we're dealing with here is a total lack of respect for the law..."

Haha. Sweeet

listened to this album a ton in middle / high school, absolutely loved it (along with experience). then didn't pick it up for 15 years, and now rediscovering it has been a lot of fun.

  On 1/6/2011 at 12:12 AM, sysyphus said:

This may be a longshot, but do any of you old PC gamers remember GTA 1 for PC? The full version of the game played Audio that was also on the data CD, however when you cracked the game (so you didnt need to CD to start the game) you could put in any audio CD you wanted and it would sync to the game. Jilted was literally spot on with the game about on par with DSOTM and The Wizard of Oz. You'd steal a cop car and it'd say "what we're dealing with here is a total lack of respect for the law..."

you could do that anyway, even without the crack - just load the game up with the game disc in, then once it's loaded swap the disc out.

  On 1/4/2011 at 10:04 PM, Bread said:

 

just type on youtube something along the lines of "Prodigy live 2009 or 2010" and usually you see him with an expensive digital synth, and he keeps pressing down the key at the lowest octave repeatedly all throughout a live gig, pretending he is doing something, when actually, he is fail.

example - watch Howlett here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh1_csBOlDo

Actually he appears to be playing the main synth riff on the Gaia while riding the cutoff...

so does anyone here know what the center cover and the track 'Their Law' was all about at the time?

  On 1/7/2011 at 6:20 PM, soundwave said:

so does anyone here know what the center cover and the track 'Their Law' was all about at the time?

WIKI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_Justice_and_Public_Order_Act_1994

  Quote

It is largely a response to the corruption of the rave scene in England by its mainstream status as well as Great Britain's Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, which effectively criminalised raves, rave culture, and by implication, rave music itself. The latter is exemplified in the song "Their Law", which its predominant lyric is the profane "Fuck 'em and their law" sample, and the spoken word intro, which paraphrases a quote from The Lawnmower Man.

extra trivia: like jilted, ae's anti ep was a response to this bill (hint: something about repetitive beats so the ae geniusses made a track without repetitive beats. i'm sure you can figure out which one)

  On 1/4/2011 at 9:59 PM, NewSchoolScience said:

Liam got married like the rest of us (in some cases, like the rest of us will). I can understand why his musical output went downhill after that. Who'd want to f*ck about with drum machines and synths when you have the option of f*cking around with an All Saint instead? Haha.

What? Why? You sound suspiciously like someone who's never had a girlfriend. You can still do other things you know? His musical output went downhill because he didn't keep up with developments in technology cos he was too busy being a "rockstar" with those other fags.

  On 1/7/2011 at 7:59 PM, jim said:

  On 1/4/2011 at 9:59 PM, NewSchoolScience said:

Liam got married like the rest of us (in some cases, like the rest of us will). I can understand why his musical output went downhill after that. Who'd want to f*ck about with drum machines and synths when you have the option of f*cking around with an All Saint instead? Haha.

 

What? Why? You sound suspiciously like someone who's never had a girlfriend. You can still do other things you know? His musical output went downhill because he didn't keep up with developments in technology cos he was too busy being a "rockstar" with those other fags.

Haha, nice predictable dig. That wasn't really a serious statement I made though, relax dude! Really what I was trying to say was people settle down, slow down, after getting married. Easy to see how he lost his cutting edge.

His ego may have conflicted with his music. His recent stuff sounds totally unexperimental and very dull to me despite maybe a couple of tracks off Invaders Must Die. Anyway, admittedly I don't miss or crave Prodigy stuff.. that's all been left behind in my younger years. Howlett reminds me a little of Reznor - both have deteriorated musically (imo) since the 90s and there are no clear signs that both will improve.