discuss this legend of an album
Crab time bitch
Nicholas Parker
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Nathaniel Ross
HE'S FAST
Jackson Gomez
Sweet crab
Nathaniel King
Is "Smack My Bitch Up" the most retrospectively problematic piece of electronic music ever created?
Elijah Nelson
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Daniel Martinez
essential crabcore
Evan Martinez
so here's this giant enemy crab...
Elijah Parker
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Bentley Cox
AAAH GOT A BIG BAG OF CRABS 'ERE
Nathaniel Ward
back with another one of THOSE BLOCK ROCKIN BEATS DUHDUHDUHDAHDUHDUHDUHDAHDAHDAHDAH
Anthony Clark
how is this album related?
Carter Ward
>tfw i actually really enjoy this
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especially that part around 3 minutes in, hnng
Owen Walker
why does focal blur make everything funny
Benjamin Nelson
I have one of those crabs, he's a terrifying asshole. Never comes out of hiding, but will make little windows against the glass in his tunnels to watch me and my roommates throughout the day. If we look at hom, he quickly scuttles backwards into the darkness.
Connor Williams
>And this is our crab's room, he's quite the music lover...
Oliver Torres
Reference to a boring and pretentious harem anime.
Jayden Flores
Screamo is shit user, but that part around 3 min is listenable indeed
Samuel Allen
good lads
Isaac Perry
OH MY GOD THATS THE FUNKY SHIT
Caleb Walker
Do you reckon he's still alive and well?
Kevin King
hearing this at the end of Event Horizon was the most surreal shit ever
Aiden Anderson
>this crab is probably dead
Brody Flores
ITT Nobody discusses this album because everybody here barely left their mother's vagina a few weeks ago.
Fat of the Land shat all over its contemporaries at the time, and actually this and Jilted Generation (especially the latter) were high water marks of electronic dance music. Now what the fuck do we have? Kiddy sounding shit like Feed Me, Skrillex and other god awful shite. It doesn't sound like it's made for adults and sure as hell isn't made by any either. Man children raised on video games and cartoons. I digress.
I remember being surprised when it came out, couldn't believe Prodigy had released a new album and didn't even listen to it before buying it. It fucking blew me away, and rightly so. Smack My Bitch Up sadly overshadowed the album a bit with the half-cooked controversy, but actually what stood out here was just how idiosyncratic the sound was. I've always balked at the idea of Chemical Brothers being somehow mentioned in the same sentence as Prodigy, they're not even half as talented as Liam.
I remember hearing Firestarter on the radio for the first time. I couldn't quite believe what I was hearing. It didn't sound like anything that had been made before. And quite possibly, no, definitely, it was the last truly innovative track I heard in the charts. It's just been a fucking slide into shit since then. Keith was the warning. The bitch you hated. Death infatuated.
But what has always set Prodigy apart were the artistic flourishes, the segues like at the end of Funky Shit with the sound of sirens and breathing synths, or that extended introduction to Climatize. It's the sense of pacing and space in their music that really captures an atmosphere that all of his contemporaries completely overlooked.
Kevin Cook
it's really diverse with the mudslime singing also beating their women is just what muddies do so no it's not problematic at all
Aaron Wilson
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this kills muh crab
Adam Long
It's not anymore problematic than when it was released. Also, not that it really makes a difference, but "smack my bitch up" is meant as slang for doing something intensely.
Angel Richardson
are you into Meat Beat Manifesto?
Satyricon which was released the same time as Experience sounds like it was highly influential on FOTL
Juan Rivera
What are some good groups similar to The Prodigy?
Joseph Sanders
>It doesn't sound like it's made for adults
how so? how does prodigy do?
Michael Evans
Lunatic Calm's debut LP is worth a mention
Joshua Green
>Man children raised on video games and cartoons.
the exact type of people who listen to prodigy
Gabriel Baker
Just consider the general tone of a track like Break and Enter:
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And compare that with with this cancer:
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LE LASERS XD BOOM HEADSHOT XD WE'RE GAMERZ AMIRITE LE EPIC WIN XD
Mind you I suppose you could counter this with stuff like:
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It's just somehow those tunes seem a bit radder and less faggy.
Know what I mean?
Cooper Garcia
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William Martinez
oh so it's all in the track titles, i see
Hunter Reed
on the other hand prodigy draws its extramusical aesthetic from chav slang like that's any more commendable, see or that guy in the video
Mason Hall
and attitude tbfh
Jack U's Coachella set this year was full of ragefaces and narwhal bacon-tier memes
Aaron Brooks
Fat of the Land was The Prodigys sellout album for the American crowd who want loud, edgy, shouty ''rock/metal'' type music, thats why brostep did so well.
Experience was Liams masterpiece, MftJG was not bad, FotL is Skrillex-core shite for drunk obnoxious high school football playing fratboys.
Henry Phillips
Experience sounds extremely dated
MftJG was the real sellout point, FOTL was their creative and commercial magnum opus before they submitted to beating decomposed horses
Xavier Perez
So what? That was the music of the time, all breakbeat hardcore sounds like it was made in the 90s because it was, thats how its so definitive and its charm.
FotL was absolutely cringeworthy, the modern equivalent to DJ Bl3nd. Jumping around with bright green spiky hair like a 13 year old retard whose favourite movies are Fast and The Furious franchise and went to see Suicide Squad 17 times already.
Samuel Nelson
DJ Bl3nd ain't a musician you bellend
Dominic Fisher
He is a prick like post-MftJG Prodigy though
Parker Davis
>chav slang
"smack my bitch up" was a sample from an ultramagnetic mcs track, basketball americans are not chavs, friendo
anyway prodigy wasn't proper chav music, you want chav music, ave some of this m8
Jonathan Brooks
but he isn't a musician he's a youtube meme DJ
if you want a modern Prodigy equivalent then compare them to Die Antword
the two share the same kind of energy, same style of mainstream fanbase and same style of image, plus both acts used to make "repsectable in the scene" stuff as you call it before branching out and selling out and becoming ironic edge incarnate
Thomas Thompson
>>Kiddy sounding shit
>> Mentions two of the least childish sounding artists
What about fucktards like Must Die! and Getter? Must Die! is a fucking weeb and Getter is a walking meme who regurgitates the same fucking track over and over again.
Kayden Perry
as good as Scooter
Brandon Collins
>> two UKF videos
say no more, I understand completely.
Elijah Davis
we used to make fun of this song. Its not that bad.
The happy synthesizer part just comes too unexpected.
Bentley Perez
I feel it, man. I was 14 when it came out and I'm pretty sure I wore out my first copy.
I saw an edit with the title on BlurryMrKrabs.jpg and one of the comments was 'lol I remember my dad listening to this.'