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Music for the Jilted Generation 30 years old today yesterday!
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Damn that makes me feel old! my soundtack of choice in my late teens!
Damn that makes me feel old!
Keep seeing albums that were hugely influential reaching their 50th anniversary really makes you feel chuffing old! ?
Still a regular listen for me on long night drives, takes me back to my youth without fail.
This was the album / band that got me into electronic music. I think it came out in the summer of 1994 and I was in the second to last year of primary school (10 years oldish?). One Love and No Good (Start the Dance) were getting loads of play on the ITV Saturday morning chart show and later that year a mate at school brought the cassette in on his Walkman that he'd nicked of his older sister.
Fast forward to summer 1995 and the last year of primary school. I was on canal boat holiday with my family and bought the cassette in HMV in Rugby.
This does indeed make me feel old.
One of the first albums I properly got into. Still love it now!
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Damn, going to have to give that a spin now. Many a great night at the Garage in Glasgow!
Just the thread title made the whole song play in my head. This album and the USA Voodoo People CD have not stopped being on regular play in my house…
https://www.discogs.com/release/7749-The-Prodigy-Voodoo-People
…the mixes on that are still huge.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ98VwUsELI
I’ve never been one for one artist albums, but this one I bought and still have - used to imagine myself driving about in a grey sierra cossie listening to no good (start the dance) for some reason - think it was on my Walkman when I saw one shoot past a ring road in Torquay. I was probably about 16 in my defence, but it was peak everything in my mind and I’d still settle for that now.
Great memories of T in the Park 95 where Prodigy were on main stage. Also the f them and their law mural in Aberdeen Mudd Club. Fantastic album, can’t believe it’s 30 years!
Fun fact, the chemical brothers had to change thier name to the chemical brothers, they called themselves the dust brothers at first, but there was another outfit called that so they changed the name to stop a copryright strop.
I still listen to this album a few times a year. I don't feel it has dated but that is probably that thing where people get stuck on music from a period in their life (15-25 years old?) and to todays' young people it probably sounds dated.
Reminds me of going to a Prodigy gig a bit later in the 90's, would have been in my early 30's and felt old enough to be everyone else's dad ?
For a nice segue, Orbital were on Glastonbury last weekend. It was their 30th anniversary from first attending. The mid 90s were a great time for dance music's harder subgenres. The Prodigy played the next year at Glastonbury. (I went to see Oasis for some reason and missed a great show.)
MFTGG: a great album.
Did anyone get to the Megadogs in the 90s?
Brought a load of Swiss friends to see them in Zurich, who'd never heard of them, and they described the music as people having a fight in a kitchen. Sacrilege
Did anyone get to the Megadogs in the 90s?
Wolvo Wulfrun Hall was my first in about 91/92, also frequented Northampton Roadmenders, The Academy in Manchester, The Q club in Brum, Leicester Uni and a weekend of it at Phoenix Festival in 95?
Just unique at the time and I got to make some great friends.
Proper breakthrough album for me, I was all about punk and metal and I'd crossed over just a little bit but I'd never really got dance music at all never mind imagined it could do the same thing for me as they did. And then my brother got Jilted and it proved I was an idiot.
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Did anyone get to the Megadogs in the 90s?
Wolvo Wulfrun Hall was my first in about 91/92, also frequented Northampton Roadmenders, The Academy in Manchester, The Q club in Brum, Leicester Uni and a weekend of it at Phoenix Festival in 95?"
My first was about 94 and then a couple of times a year for the rest of the decade, all at the Manchester Academy. I loved that whole crusty techno scene of the Megadog, Reclaim the Streets protests, Spiral Tribe, etc, all very Mad Max.
Back to the OP, The Prodigy showed a different side of dance music from the chem lights and whistles that was the public's view of the rave scene.
Used to have a megadog night at Keele in the mid 90's.
I've got this on in the background whilst I work today, cheers OP. Takes me back to sitting on the bus to college listening to this on full blast on my Walkman to drown out all the school kids on the same bus.
I reckon I must have listened to it in full at least 200 times in the space of a few years!
It's so ingrained in my head that 30 years later, if somebody says FFS I mutter to myself "I'm trying to write this f'ing tune man". So many great tracks on the first 3 albums especially that bring back vivid memories of my youth every time I hear them. Liam was a genius I reckon.
Saw them live at Isle Of Wight a few weeks back. Obviously not quite the same without Keith but still put on one hell of a show. Long live The Prodigy!