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"New Prodigy album"

Absolutely awesome, and I mean awesome. It's so far detached from Fat of the Land it's like a different band. Gone are the demented yelping and gurning of Keith Flint and the annoying screeching by Maxim (Leeroy aka 'Billy Longshanks' is also long gone) - this is Liam Howlett's album, and it shows. If you've ever heard his Dirtchamber sessions, you'll know what to expect - Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned is punk, syphoned through breakbeat with some fat, fuzzy basslines and dirty vocals. It starts brilliantly, continues to be brilliant and ends brilliantly.

It's like a complete stranger coming up to you in the street and shouting as loud as they can in your face and and spitting in your mouth - like in that Aphex Twin video - it's just that filthy, and I love it.

Do not buy if you like McFly, Joss Stone or Jamie Callum.

DreamWarBird wrote:
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> It was Liams mix cd, released around the time he was Dj'in more, and
> just decided to release it under 'The Prodigy'.

Yes, but if you listen to the interview CD they were conscious of the 'trendy' fans they'd picked up because of the success of Fat of the Land.

DreamWarBird wrote:
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> Thats why its on a BMW advert this month.

Are you trying to indicate that it being on a BMW Ad makes it somehow of great quality? Or are you agreeing with me that it's a poor track that may have been churned out for a BMW ad.

Anyway aside from that: what's a Prodigy track doing on a BMW ad? If this is true I don't think I can say the term 'sellout' quick enough. :S

Hedfix wrote:
> But I think that was the point of dirtchamber,
> they wanted to lose the passing fans from Fat of the Land.

It was Liams mix cd, released around the time he was Dj'in more, and just decided to release it under 'The Prodigy'.

Hedfix wrote:
> Whereas 'You Will Be Under my Wheels' sounds like the B-side off of
> the 'Smack my B!tch Up' single - not at all album quality if you ask
> me.

Thats why its on a BMW advert this month.

Just realised how awful 'Shoot You Down' and 'You Will be Under my Wheels' actually are:

'Shoot You Down' is some sort of hellish remake of Triggerfull (not on the album download the live version boys and girls).

Whereas 'You Will Be Under my Wheels' sounds like the B-side off of the 'Smack my B!tch Up' single - not at all album quality if you ask me.

Yeah I like tracks 2,4 & 5. Off of Dirtchamber, I like every track on the other releases. But I think that was the point of dirtchamber, they wanted to lose the passing fans from Fat of the Land.

Anyone got the interview CD with Leeroy and Keith?

"We don't need America"

- Leeroy



"'Keith, the faces'! F*** the f***ing faces ya C*** come and see the ****ing show"

- Keith [talking about photographers]


Classic. :D

I think I've got Dirtchamber Volume 1 somewhere - I seem to remember not being overly struck on it though.

I'd like to retract my statement about it being like Dirtchamber, it's not really because I listened to Dirtchamber again today. But they're both still brilliant. It's a filthy diseased prossie of an album.

First listen: It's ok.

GamesFreak summed it up well: "The Fat of the Land + Music for the Jilted Generation - Flint = Always outnumbered, Never outgunned"

However, half sounds like it belongs next to Liam's 'Scheming' track on Maxim's album and the other half sounds like B-sides from Fat of The Land.

Great by ANY other bands standards (this still leaves Propellor Heads, The Chemicals and Crystal Method way back in the dust, let's face it noones fully caughtup to Jilted Generation except the odd Junkie XL track) BUT I was expecting more from Howlett this time around.

This is a sideways step from Fat of The Land NOT a progression beyond.

Because he only does 'man-woman'