The Prodigy - The Day Is My Enemy

Hnmm heard Nasty a few times now and its kinda grown on me.

Yeah, hard to really get excited about The Prodigy these days, it's certainly been downhill since Fat of the Land (which I did still enjoy.) Always Outnumbered had a couple decent singles (Girls, Spitfire) but mainly fell a little flat overall. Invaders was pretty cheesy garbage so I really don't know what to feel about this one.

  On 1/8/2015 at 12:21 AM, Ifeelspace said:

I think it all went wrong when keith turned into sid vicious tbqh

There's definitely a bit of truth to that it would seem.

New single

 

 

It's... alright I guess, better than Nasty

Better than "Nasty" I guess, but the vocals are really cheesy/kinda awful in a try-hard "edgy" kinda way. "The day is my enemy, the night is my freind" ... really? sounds so jr. high-ish. Would be better without them.

An improvement on Nasty but most things are, and it will be tons of fun live.

  On 1/27/2015 at 8:12 AM, ghOsty said:

Better than "Nasty" I guess, but the vocals are really cheesy/kinda awful in a try-hard "edgy" kinda way. "The day is my enemy, the night is my freind" ... really? sounds so jr. high-ish. Would be better without them.

It may just be that they're trying to appeal to the same audience that made them so big with their previous albums - i.e. your aformentioned jr. high-ish types. We're just getting too old for them !

http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/e/ella_fitzgerald/all_through_the_night_lyrics.html

 

Day is my enemy, the night my friend - Ella Fitzgerald lyrics

  On 1/27/2015 at 1:05 PM, leterel said:

http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/e/ella_fitzgerald/all_through_the_night_lyrics.html

 

Day is my enemy, the night my friend - Ella Fitzgerald lyrics

 

See those are fine, because Ella elaborates on the meaning of the phrase, making it poetic. This song does not it just repeats the initial statement.

Edited January 27, 2015 by ghOsty

  On 1/27/2015 at 7:42 PM, ghOsty said:

 

  On 1/27/2015 at 1:05 PM, leterel said:

http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/e/ella_fitzgerald/all_through_the_night_lyrics.html

 

Day is my enemy, the night my friend - Ella Fitzgerald lyrics

 

See those are fine, because Ella elaborates on the meaning of the phrase, making it poetic. This song does not it just repeats the initial statement.

 

 

Poetry and a Prodigy song : that's not really compatible innit ?

I actually quite like that tune, it's a good "party song" for people who don't dig techno that much I guess !

Nah, its just stupid shit.

can anyone please explain why the day is my enemy?

  On 1/27/2015 at 9:32 PM, Bread said:

can anyone please explain why the day is my enemy?

 

because you're so dark !

  On 1/27/2015 at 9:03 PM, Gocab said:

Nah, its just stupid shit.

Prodigy is just rave music, I'm not sure why anyone is expecting Liam to do anything else? What's he gonna do, release an IDM album or something?

I'd love some straight up rave stuff from the Prodigy rather than this big beat stuff.

Edited January 28, 2015 by GRVGLTCHR

  On 1/28/2015 at 4:11 AM, GRVGLTCHR said:

I'd love some straight up rave stuff from the Prodigy rather than this big beat stuff.

 

i mean, i'd dance to it at a festival type scenario but i wouldn't listen to it while eating my breakfast.

Fuck me, that sounds terrible.

  On 1/28/2015 at 4:02 AM, modey said:

 

  On 1/27/2015 at 9:03 PM, Gocab said:

Nah, its just stupid shit.

Prodigy is just rave music, I'm not sure why anyone is expecting Liam to do anything else? What's he gonna do, release an IDM album or something?

 

 

at least to be as good as his past stuff. Its not Autechre vs Prodigy its Fat of the Land or MFTJG vs The New Crap

Edited January 29, 2015 by o00o

Yeah, I mean 20 years ago he was able to kick stuff out as good as this -

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M_o-SRPbd0

 

(weird to hear it properly: it's been my ring tone for the last 6 months so flinch at that opening break in order to grab my phone)

I really miss those 90's strings above everything else.

Fuck me, the vocal sample on that new track gets on my tits. Still a marginally better tune than Nasty though, I suppose.

 

Unreal listening to 3 Kilos. What happened Liam?!

i love the prodigy, except Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned otherwise, this last album... not going to be a success...

Sounds like an AONO song if it had been done with Invaders Must Die production. Actually listenable, unlike Nasty, but not very inspiring. Just lacking any real kind of energy. I know artists get criticised for 'mellowing' and 'maturing' as they go on, but I always see that as an admission that they no longer have the urgency and energy they did when they were young 'uns discovering the world and with no responsibility.

It also ties into the whole "we're so dark" thing, it seems so try-hard, and in an attempt to hide the fact that the music really isn't dark. Certainly not when you compare it to this beast:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4mVecwflO4

  On 1/30/2015 at 10:34 AM, vasio said:

I really miss those 90's strings above everything else.

 

Yeah me too, the string sound he used all through Jilted Generation is amazing.

Another new track has been previewed, its called "wild frontier" and it is shit.

  On 2/1/2015 at 9:40 AM, Aces said:

 

  On 1/30/2015 at 10:34 AM, vasio said:

I really miss those 90's strings above everything else.

Yeah me too, the string sound he used all through Jilted Generation is amazing.

 

He used the Roland W30 sampler workstation, I remember reading that it was a big deal for him for doing strings because it could make them loop really easy. I really miss those 90's strings in modern music, no one uses them anymore.

 

The new tracks sound plain and boring: