The Prodigy - Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned

This record fucking sucks.

I thought the whole Prodigy thing was fucked by this point - Howlett obviously had a creative block and didn't know which directiom to go in, Flint had let success go to his head a little bit too much, Maxim was off doing whatever the hell he was doing and the Thornhill had departed - not that this had much of an impact, mind.

*direction

I forgot this existed tbh.

I remember a friend claiming Invaders Must Die was a return to form, I didn't believe him.

a good friend 10 years my younger claims the Prodigy only really got good after Fat Of The Land. He hears Jilted Generation as sounding flat and lacking 'oomph', and (according to him) the songs take too long to get going.

he's heinously wrong of course, but it's an interesting take

I've met American Prodigy 'fans' who were unaware they had any albums before FOTL.

Sounds like your friend is coming at them from a rock rather than dance angle.

Invaders Must Die has some FANTASTIC material on it.

I don't remember the last time I played AONO, maybe that should be today's soundtrack.

Invaders Must Die has some FANTASTIC material on it.

otm.

Sounds like your friend is coming at them from a rock rather than dance angle.

― chap, Thursday, August 17, 2017 1:20 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah I think he first encountered them as a pre-teen during the nu-metal era. Some sort of high-impact activity he was doing at the time, and one of their latter albums was the soundtrack.

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.