The Prodigy - Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned

it's absolutely not, though!! where's the mentasms?? where's the rush?? even "smack my bitch up" had those crazy ascending synths that seemed to be on every track on the 1st two albums. the new one just sounds like out-of-date nu skool breaks tracks.

"Girls" itself is a great track but the majority of the album doesn't live up to it. It's nice enough but isn't nearly enough fun to listen to as previous efforts; half the tracks seem unfocused and unfinished.

Now if I wasn't going to have to read about this toss as a dance album and see it featured in dance sections all fucking year then maybe I could just say "ok who cares". But that's not the case.

great constants of dance of constants of great dance?? either way that doesn't sound like much of a good reason for Howlett using them again (why retread older ground as opposed to old ground??!)

oh come on! 'Girls' is a DANCE track, i'm sure there are others on there too. of course Prodigy should still be written about in dance mags. perhaps the crick for some is they'll get equal (ok probably more) coverage in Kerrang. but if Orbital are covered by dance press still then Prodigy definitely should be.

x-post it's barely a dance track. too caught up its in own identity.

sorry but this is insanity. if people can dance to Freq Nasty, Pilgrem, Stantons, Plump DJs, Jedi Knights then they can dance to this. it's not even that far away from 'Satisfaction' really - imagine a 4/4 over it if you must. i understand the 'dated' argument perfectly but you seem to be getting at something else which i don't recognise at all - the 'being tired of Prodigy being regarded by too many people as at forefront of dance' is also understandood but who does that now? really? THAT's irrelevant. only...Prodigy singles have a habit of this 'problem', caught between stools as the singles from MFTJG and FOTL were too (Paul Oakenfold played 'Skylined', Jon Carter played 'Mindfields', just as two examples but generally Howlett seemed the outsider, either too pop or not enough). Same thing seems to be happening again, but really I'm only re-iterating my comments on NYLPM here.

and it may be music you can dance to but it doesnt seem like dance music,there are no tracks as such
dunno specifically what song people are talking about but i cant imagine any of the tracks been played at a rave or anything,wheras all the classic prodigy tracks ive heard at raves and parties,even up to smack my bitch up

i suppose i shouldnt judge it on one listen,but i cant imagine being arsed listening to it again
i'll probably end up hearing it somewhere though

It's like Liam decided to make a Fatboy Slim album.

'Girls' is still really good all the same.

Apparently he's making a hiphop/funk record though which sounds awful.

This album is terrible.

This career has been terminated by Mr. Howlett.

Only mildly revealing but I can't recall him giving a radio interview in the UK before EVER so...

I want to check them out live at Brixton I think, just to see how it's actually gonna work

http://www.prodigyremixed.com/tracklist.html

I've not heard the original or the remixes, having not bothered to buy/blag the former and having no means to use bit torrent. So, your thoughts please - compare and contrast etc.

Bet it's not as good as Parkspliced...

IT'S A PIECE OF SHIT.

both this one & Invaders are really good records. I love Fat but had very little invested in the band otherwise, the feeling I get from people who hate on later Prodigy is they have very specific if-you-grow-it-will-be-in-this-direction expectations of the band. they're basically just big-beat rock and roll albums though. that is cool w/me. they're really good big-beat rock and roll albums.