The prodigy - new single 'nasty nasty' airs today

[xoxos]

The new album is pants... just like the last one... and the one before that.

but i already have a generally serviceable user sig.

well maybe it's all time you all grew up and stopped listening to the mass consumer recording for the special sound that goes beep to bring substance to your lives.

so i'll make up a good joke right. superman, right. he comes form another planet and there are prisoners and he sneaks inside where the baddies live and leaves a note on a piece of paper "prisoners meet here and we'll escape!"

so superman is hiding right and the prisoners see the note and superman is thinking, yeah, yeah! so he goes and no one shows up. no one f**king shows up.

he looks around and stuff, and he's trying to do anything he can for these people, and years go by and he goes up to the prisoners and says "what gives? you could have gotten away"

and the prisoners say "it's just that we love sucking peckers so much. hey, superman, have you got any more of that paper the message was on? it was really keen paper. i mean, really keen."

and on that second "really keen" superman started to feel really uncomfortable about they way they were looking at him, drooling slightly, like he was just a big ol' piece of paper and they were going to get that paper.

paper paper paper M*f*s.

[t3toooo]

Hahaha,good one keep on!

[kingtubby]

the medium is the message

[SampleScience]

The album is disappointing but there's a couple of tunes I really like. It's a bit too oldschool for me though. Favorite tracks: "Wild Frontier", "Rebel Radio", "The Day Is My Enemy", "Roadblox" & "Medicine". "Beyond the Deathray" is a sound wallpaper, not bad, but it's just background music.

[mutantdog]

I'm kinda biased toward the whole "Regard an album as more than just a collection of tracks" ideal.

In this respect, I actually think this albums holds together well with a consistent vibe and sound throughout. The many singles released prior to release all sounded shit on their own, but as components to the album they fit well and provide slight glimmers of the Prodigy that knew how be accessible without compromising on attitude or aggression.

I haven't seen the Prodigy live for some time,but i totally get where their live thing is now, more prominent guitars, live drums, Keith and Max shouting crap but catchy vocals. Shorter rockier tracks for a festival crowd, no need to consider the clubs or the DJs anymore, let the remixes cover that. This album does convey the spirit of Prodigy Live, more so than any other I'd wager. As such it kinda works well together, perhaps a few tracks should have bee dropped and it wouldn't have sucked so much in the latter half.

But for what its worth Liam's beats are still shit-hot even if his synth parts are rather less so.

Always Outnumbered received a lot of criticism at the time, with its awkward vibe, lack of choruses and suprising change of direction, its my 4th favourite and i still enjoy it. This one seems like the opposite, a moshpit vibe, singalong bits and completely predictable sound. Its not that it doesn't sound like the prodigy, rather it sounds just like how the prodigy sound now, a little too much.

Hopefully this is the lowest point in their artistic output, I would hate to think its the start of a new era.

[MFXxx]

The album is the Prodigy doing The Prodigy, what they do best!?

Agree it's samey and their style, the thing is it's a risk for any artist to change their key signature sound. They have such a huge following it's a major commercial risk to adapt too much.

The main track that jumps out for me is Nasty, Rebel Radio, Wall of Death, Invisible Sun and Medicine. A lot of the others are very forgettable, seeming forgettable. The weakest for me are Ryhthm Bomb, Beyond the Deathray, Medicine and Roadblox.

I see this as very much new material for the Stage Shows rather than a new studio album that's taken some risks.

Would like to see some more innovated videos than the ones I've seen so far for their tracks ie The Day is My Enemy just seems very weak and effortless!

Still some is nostaglia at the time for those who haven't lived through their history...cant stop the dance still snapshots a particular moment in time...for me personally speaking.

[mutantdog]

The Prodigy's legacy was built on releasing three wildly different albums in succession all incredibly relevant to their time. Sure, each had tracks pointing at the direction they were taking but Fat of The Land is the key crossover point from rave act to rocking festival headliners. Outgunned was markedly different in a less accessible way, Invaders was clearly an attempt to bring back the some of old skool Prodigy within the format of the new rocking electronica, complete with anthemic hooks. While not as revolutionary it certainly was different, yet retaining the now established sound most notable on Liam's beats.

Enemy offers nothing new, aside from introducing a new-found predictability. I guess Liam realised he couldn't do dubstep well, EDM was out of the question and besides "Them metal kids love the guitars". What I'd love to see them do next is to bring back some of Liam's hip-hop roots, Fat had hints of it, Outgunned touched on it. Slow the beats down, get Kool Keith on a couple of tracks and we'll get to hear that heavier side of the band that didn't rely on distorted guitars and cheap sounding synths.

[MFXxx]

The Prodigy's legacy was built on releasing three wildly different albums in succession all incredibly relevant to their time. Sure, each had tracks pointing at the direction they were taking but Fat of The Land is the key crossover point from rave act to rocking festival headliners. Outgunned was markedly different in a less accessible way, Invaders was clearly an attempt to bring back the some of old skool Prodigy within the format of the new rocking electronica, complete with anthemic hooks. While not as revolutionary it certainly was different, yet retaining the now established sound most notable on Liam's beats.

Enemy offers nothing new, aside from introducing a new-found predictability. I guess Liam realised he couldn't do dubstep well, EDM was out of the question and besides "Them metal kids love the guitars". What I'd love to see them do next is to bring back some of Liam's hip-hop roots, Fat had hints of it, Outgunned touched on it. Slow the beats down, get Kool Keith on a couple of tracks and we'll get to hear that heavier side of the band that didn't rely on distorted guitars and cheap sounding synths.

Totally agree regarding your point with FOL. I think the diversion into rock is actually a reflection of how the scene and the music has changed...but I'm old and maybe still stuck in the mud of an old rave field !!! Glow stick anyone?

[Numanoid]

I wonder, is this the episode list of some ancient cop show that got cancelled mid-season, or actually the track listing of the new Prodigy album?

1 The Day Is My Enemy
2 Nasty
3 Rebel Radio
4 Ibiza
5 Destroy
6 Wild Frontier
7 Rok-Weiler
8 Beyond The Deathray
9 Rhythm Bomb
10 Roadblox
11 Get Your Fight On
12 Medicine
13 Invisible Sun
14 Wall Of Death

[do_androids_dream]

Myself and a friend of mine had a listening party for the new album a few weeks back. Despite being fairly impressed on first listen to a few tracks (that I'd listened to in isolation from the rest of the album) we had to concur that the new album is complete and utter garbage. 'Ibiza' had us both jawdropped in disbelief at how much a band can fall from grace. She was actually quite distressed as she's such a huge fan - almost angry lol. Oh well... here's until the next one...

[Numanoid]

I mean:

Rok-Weiler ?

Was ist denn das?

[lotus2035]

I think Prodigy became increasingly preoccupied with their image over the years, leather gear, tattoos, piercings etc...the music began to compete with their public image in a way.
I can't see Howlett releasing another good Prodigy album at this stage, maybe if he did something radical in some side project. Always Outnumbered was his big push to recapture something and it didn't work even though production-wise I think it is his most technically impressive album to date.
Their early stuff was a heavy part of the early 90's English dance scene, as they moved away from that I think the band gradually lost their focus, that whole scene at the time was musically pretty varied and experimental to begin with so it's no surprise that they found themselves in some kind of limbo afterwards.

[Numanoid]

For those reading german, there is an in-depth interview (mostly) with Liam in the latest edition of Beat Magazine, which they now have put online:

http://www.zampler.de/upload/Interview_Prodigy.pdf