James Blunt posted a really nice anecdote after Keith died. "At the Q Awards years ago, when Noel Gallagher was saying he was leaving Ibiza because I’d moved there, and Damon Albarn refused to be in the same picture as me, and Paul Weller was saying he’d rather eat his own shit than work with me, Keith Flint came over, gave me a hug, and said how thrilled he was for my success. Keith, I only met you once, but I shed a tear at the news of your death. In our business, there are no prizes for being kind, but if there was, that Grammy would be yours."
I totally agree! Met him in person - a very kind and sweet guy, a great artist and their music was revolutionary these days and is still completely outstanding until today! And on top me one of the most energetic, greatest live bands I’ve ever seen!
The last things Keith did before he passed away was cut his elderly neighbour's hedge and have a Birthday party for his dog, he was punk as f*ck but just as kind, absolute Legend 🤘
Hell yeah!! Ther was a metal night club in Manchester UK called Jillys rockworld, sadly closed now, but this would get the floor jumping on a Friday all nighter
Yep. I was a total metalhead when this came out and fell in love straight away as I saw this video. Never even had considered I could dig this kind of stuff.
Keith Flint was an amazing guy on and off stage. He was and is known as The Chief. Was honoured to attend his funeral and admit I cried like a baby when his dog led his coffin into the church. His microphone was on the coffin. Was an emotional day for all the fans that turned up. Miss this great man.
As a kid from the UK growing up in the 90s, I can categorically say that my parents generation did not hate on my generations music. My dad would listen to his old Led Zeppelin records, as well as as my Prodigy and Rammstein CDs. My dad even brought a Fugees album that I used to "borrow" from time to time. My dad was not unique in this sense.
Same here. My mom digged alot of my metal music I was constantly listen to. I made her alot of mixtapes and she was listening to them in her car or when working in her room. But I also digged alot of her music and still got alot of her vinyls she used to listen to.
Pretty much my Mother as well. She schooled me in the UK Blues/Rock and psychedelic rock of her late teens, yet my Goth records, Electronica records, Indie records of my late teens she would practically devour (and point out some 60's/early 70's act that they may have cribbed a few ideas from leading me to discover stuff) and even into the 90's it was much the same. We both cheered when we saw this was number 1
RIP Keith Flint. Saw these guys live some years ago, and they killed! such a great band. You really need out their song "Smack My Bitch Up" as well. BTW we played Prodigy in the metal clubs here as well. They were the first band to crossover between the worlds of electronic and metal music.
Paid up rock / metal fan here. The Prodigy were one of the finest bands I ever saw live, they were a force of nature. Through my work at a hotel I looked after them after an appearance at a festival, a nicer, more amicable group you couldn’t wish to meet. We had a wedding in the hotel at the same time as they were staying and at about one in the morning I’m stood in the hotel bar looking across a gathering of wedding guests who are rubbing shoulders with The Prodigy who are happily chatting away about missing their families ‘cause they were on tour and all are showing each other photos of their children on the phones, weirdly enough The Streets were with us the same night, sadly he’s a jumped up prick who refused to talk to anyone and he brought an entourage to fill a tour bus, The Prodigy? A people carrier and a quiet assurance that they didn’t need an entourage. Top band, top blokes and a blast live. RIP Keith.
i am 42 and live in Serbia. i remember when this came out. I was 13 when i bought CD. I blasted this so hard that people who lived in my building bought me a headset xD
Yeahhh see im a metal head that also likes other genre's where as most metal heads only like metal, and don't listen to anything else which is a shame.
@@Parkerlee1000 Im a metalhead that enjoys other genres too,one can't subsist on a diet of metal and nothing else unless their a one dimensional idiot with no culture or advanced appreciation for musical diversity but where i grew up the genre that Prodigy belonged to was considered antithetical to Metal & therefore it was universally loathed. It was considered almost sacrilegious or heretical to even tolerate techno let alone seriously listen to it...until The Prodigy came along. Thats how much of an impact they had that they actually broke down longstanding musical barriers & pryed open many a closed mind with their unique darkness. They challenged the norm shattered perceptions & ultimately changed things for the better...Respect.
I was hugely into metal back as the rave scene exploded and no metaller was into the Prodigy back then, except for me. It was only after Jilted when they used Pop will Eat Itself guitarist on "Their Law". Even then largely ignored until Fat of the Land dropped. Then they went total mainstream.
RIP Keith Flint. The Prodigy started out as a EDM (Electronic Dance Music) band, but they later started adding punk rock elements to their music. Some of their hit songs are "Breath", "Smack My Bitch Up", "Poison", Voodoo People", "Take Me To The Hospital", "Omen", "Run With The Wolves", "The Day Is My Enemy", "Under My Wheels", and "Wild Frontier".
RIP Keith the absolute legend. Breathe next as that's 🔥 (pun intended) They're a techno band but live they played with a guitarist, drummer and bassist and were fully accepted in the metal scene.
Not really a techno band, but rather an electronic band, as techno is just a sub-genre of electronic music. Their first official biography is titled "Electronic Punks", which I think describes their style pretty well. Also, they only had a live guitarist who occasionally might have played bass guitar for some tracks, which originally don't have guitar riffs, rather than a dedicated bassist. When they first added a guitarist to the live line up, he would come out on stage only for the tracks that had guitar riffs, which were only a couple at that point, but in later years he would remain on stage for pretty much the whole show, even if less than half of the tracks had guitar riffs.
Yea not a techno band actually came out in the rave scene absolute legends to this day can not pigeon hole this band ..Keith flint absolute legend ❤ still missed r.i.p 👑
I'm very proud this got to number 1 in the UK. How cool are we?!
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@@leec6707 Haha, u could say Prodigy is one of the reasons I'm kind of a fan of the UK, that and all the cool history (Romans, vikings, pirates, kings queens and knights, inventors-scientists-engineers, trade and business, so on and so forth).
A much-missed grand bloke is Keith. Along with music he was nuts about motorbikes and was a fixture for many years at the TT where he could just be one of us. I'll always remember him with a grin on Douglas prom clutching a can of pop chattering about his bike, your bike or someone else's. You really need to check out 'Smack my Bitch Up' because it's F-ing class.
The music is Liam Howlett. They started with dancers but two of this three dancers became hype men: MC Maxim Reality and Keith Flint (rip). Leroy was the other dancer. As others have said, they’d tour also with a guitarist and drummer. Their electro sound crossed over to punk/metal and brought listeners in from these genres.
Saw a video that explained this song a bit more. Keith had never sung on a Prodigy song before and after Liam wrote it as an instrumental, he decided it needed some lyrics. Whilst looking for some samples, Keith said "let me sing on it." This what he came up with... Apparently the lyrics are basically about himself in the band. His job was to get the crowd fired up - the firestarter....
I started listening to The Prodigy thirty odd years ago, I was at school when they released “Charly”. I’m now 46 and still listening to them, complete bangers, the lot of them. Rest in peace Keith.
He was a lovely bloke gutted he’s gone. I worked in Braintree and one of the tour managers brought camera films in to be processed!! I saw all the backstage of their concert and pics from the side stage! Saw them at V Festival still my top 3 performers x
Pioneers and legends of rave music. Keith was an amazingly talented and vulnerable soul, may he rest in peace. Check out 'Diesel Power' and 'Voodoo People'.
Take away the awesome rap vocal and Diesel Power is incredibly repetitive. It's basically 4 seconds on constant loop.. but that 4 seconds is beautiful! Love listening to it on headphones, eyes closed, head nodding.. Fucking thing hypnotizes! I can never listen to it just the once!
I can also attest, I was a metalhead who also had to throw Firestarter or Breathe on nearly every burnt CD's back in the day. The band always hit hard and seemed to mesh well with other aggressive genres like Industrial.
You could have put The Prodigy as headliner on every metalfestival, people would go crazy. This band was loved through all genres and I have never been on better live-shows than theirs. I have been to 15 or more shows of them. They were always fantastic. Pure f@cking power and energy. Rest in peace Mr Flint.
Lived in the same county as this guy/Keith and he was really well known by all the locals and loved by everyone, you'd see him out around the place all the time when they weren't touring.
That’s unfortunate. I don’t care for this style of music, but I don’t wish depression on anyone. May he RIP. Reminds me of Ian Curtis of Joy Division. Wish I was alive when they were around.
@@jenpru3825 Too many greats have had to endure such agony. Personally, despite avidly listening to the first couple of Linkin Park records ever since they came out (I was 9), as someone to whom lyrics have never been important, only recently I started relating to the pain Chester shared on those albums.
The Prodigy was one of my favorite groups growing up. Every album had a different, unique sound to it so everything they released sounded new, but they all sounded like "The Prodigy." This song was off their 3rd album "Fat of the Land" and had a much heavier, industrial sound compared to their prior album "Music for the Jilted Generation" (should definitely check out Voodoo People). RIP Keith.
It warms my heart you found one of my old favourites with the prodigy, being English I'm proud to have bands like this, saw them live back in the 90's and nowadays I'm a metalhead but man the prodigy were fking dope, sadly the singer Keith Flint died a few years back. To many great front men and musician take their lives these days, its heartbreaking...
True Legends and MEGASTARS over here in Europe!I saw them the last time 2 Month before Flints Suicide.What a Blast.Moshpits during the whole Concert.What a Lost for the Metal Party Scene.The Concerts were always Mindblowing.Saw them 5 Times Live....You have to watch the LIVE Videos ,for example Live at the RED SQUARE MOSCOW at 5 Grade Fahrenheit...in T Shirts!
RIP Keith Flint. What a guy. Incredible band. The Prodigy will live on forever. No matter what genre you’re into, everyone loves The Prodigy. Voodoo People and Poison are a couple of my favourites of theirs. Then there’s also Out of Space, if you wanna see some 90’s dancing!
I LOVED this track and it was played regularly, when it was No 1 (1996), on Top of the Pops! Keith was a lovely person by all accounts. He lived in a large manor house in Dunmow Essex. R.I.P Keith Flint
I was privileged to see The Prodigy live in Brighton on their last tour. I am 50yrs old and was with my musician 19yr old son. One of the best nights of my life, I felt so free and alive, couldn’t sit down! The Prodigy is the ‘DJ’ and the front man in this song is Keith Flint who lived in a village, owned the local pub and was mush loved and sorely missed. Shame you don’t get to see Maxim front with him, epic!
I remember randomly seeing Keith flint waking around Download Festival. Some guy shouted ‘Ozzy eats midgets’ at him and when Keith turned around he shit himself
RIP Keith 🙏 these guys absolutely slapped anytime they hit the stage. The big beat heavy baselines from Liam Howlett to the larger than life stage prescence of Keith Flint and Maxim. A heavy regular on the festival scene and always yore it up
Keith is an absolute legend 😎 journos used to say Keith was "only the dancer" for The Prodigy, so Keith showed them what his role was, to create the energy at the gig...to start the fire 🔥
Yessss you did the official video! Keith Flint was a character Breathe is a great one too! But I want to see the song title guessing game for Smack My Bitch Up 😆
smokey was right on the dot with when it came out, in 1997. the entire fat of the land album was good. the dude with the mohawk is keith flint who passed away in 2019
What I would give to be able to see the video (and as it was back then hear the song) for the first time! This took me straight back to my teen years (I was 14-15 when this came out).
The Prodigy were the first EDM band to develop a serious following of metal fans because of their hardcore sound and high energy presentation and insane volume and their image.
Going on 29 years old now and I’m still in love with this song. Heard it when I was at least in elementary school and till this day it’s still one of my favorites 😂
Fun fact... before this single, Keih Flint was just a dancer for the group and he was kind of sort of ignored by music magazines of that time. Then he did this and suddenly became the face of the band.
Firestarter came out in 1996. I always thought he was dressed as a human cannon ball like in old black and white clips from the circus. More popular songs from the Prodigy: Breathe, No Good, Voodoo People, Out of Space, Smack My Bitch Up (uncensored video)
When I worked as a dj in the 90s, this fitted in perfectly with the rest of the set! Just fill the place with smoke and get the strobes going 😅👍 What's happening to music now? Ffs it all sounds the same and highly sanitised 😣
@@scouseofhorror104 Depends of personal preferece i guess ... Ottaviani, Lilly Palmer, Indecent Noice, Sub Zero Project and Sefa are starting points.... All excellent live ofc.
"Music for the Jilted Generation" and "Fat of the Land" were great albums from these guys. You go on a long drive you could play the entire album and just zone out lol.
The Fat of the Land was an amazing album. My personal favourite was Music for the Jilted Generation closely followed by Experience. Some legendary songs. I was blessed to see them live in 1992 ans 1994. One thing about their songs is that you need an absolutely first class sound system to really appreciate them. Their song "Breathe" is a prime example
When "Firestarter" came out, I wasn't a fan. But as a Teenager, I worked on several concerts and Festivals in Germany. And Festival happened to have The Prodigy as Main Act. And Boy oh Boy, since that day I'm a fan. RIP to Keith!!! And please react to "Breathe" and "Smack my bitch up". I think MTV wasn't allowed to show the MV for "Smack my bitch up" before 10 p.m. (here in Germany). It's a wild trip.
There Energy live was just awsome one of the best days of my life. The Gitarrist was so drunk and coud Hardly play and we had to hold Keith when he jumped on the Barricades to the croud. Damn i miss Festivals! Love from Germany guys!
The Prodigy are amazing, I've seen them live a couple of times and the rush, stage presence and wall of sound was amazing. If you do Smack my Bitch up you need to find the official video. It's brilliant
Interesting story with Prodigy and Tool: Back in 1995, before Justin Chancellor had auditioned for Tool, The Prodigy had asked him to play guitar for them at their live shows while he was still living in London.... he ultimately turned it down. Years later in 1997, Tool headlined the Lollapalooza tour with The Prodigy in the lineup... they were huge Tool fans and would watch Tool play from the side of the stage every night on tour. I believe back in the 90s there wasnt the specific sub-genre descriptions we have today... I always knew them as being 'Electronica' along with artists like Daft Punk, Moby, The Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim, The Crystal Method, to name a few.
Man, I saw Prodigy live in Sweden around 1998 or 97 at a big music festival outside just by a lake and when this song kicked in I was 100% sure the whole venue and land around us was gonna sink down into the water. I could feel the ground actually moving up and down.
This is a form of breakbeat where originally the drum pattern is completely formed from drumbreaks. In the same way original hiphop used drum breaks mixed on turntables breakbeat programs drumbreaks rather than mix them.
Oh, man, you've been hitting all the highschool jams lately. 😄 Love it! Check out Breathe from The Prodigy! That song is just a banger, for me even more than this one.
You guys should definitely check out some of their Live at Rock am Ring songs. Get the feel for how they are live. Probably go for Diesel Power or Smack my Bitch Up
The Prodigy alongside The Crystal Method were my childhood, and some of my favorite artists ever. Some other bangers on Fat Of The Land are Breathe, Smack My Bitch Up, Serial Thrilla, and Narayan which is a 9 minute masterpiece.
Liam was just going to keep Firestarter as an instrumental track until Keith said he wanted to write and sing some lyrics for it. It's a window into Keith's mind as the vocals are all about him and quite deep/dark in places, how he was the firestarter for the crowds at gigs, the one to whip audiences up into a frenzy. It also completes his transformation into full-on hype man. He now had the aggressive vocals, the hair cut, piercings, energy... a few years before he had none of that, just long hair and was a guy dancing in the background. Critics were comparing him to Bez from the Happy Mondays, saying he had no talent, so he thought "I'll f**king show you lot". Some cool facts about the Firestarter video - Keith bought that top from a second hand clothes shop on the way to shoot the video, cost £5 apparently! It was shot in black and white because they couldn't afford to film in colour - they'd blown £100k on some props and effects in a first attempt and Liam hated it, so they binned it. That left them with £20k to film the entire video. It was also so dusty in the train tunnels that everyone had to wear masks.
I had the good fortune of seeing them live a couple of times and OMG they were simply fantastic, man it was pure energy!! Check out (in no particular order) Smack My Bitch Up (try to find a non edited version of the video it was heavily censored and it was just amazing!! Just google it and it's pretty easy to find but you'll have to blur many parts of the video here on youtube because they won't allow it here!! :p) Breathe No Good Voodoo People Mindfields (part of the Matrix soundtrack) (Watch the Live in Russia video to get a glimpse of the live energy) Poison Their Law Diesel Power (this one is more rap than the others) Funky Shit (the way this song starts is fantastic and then it's pretty trippy!!!) Narayan (probably too long for you guys, 9 minutes but it's great) And that's enough! :)
Their last concert before he died was in NZ, I didn't go to that one but did see them at two Big Day Out festivals, very fun shows very sweaty shows!!! This song and Breathe were absolutely massive in 97, they were on every radio station and music video countdown show regardless of the genre they catered to.
Then you obviously know nothing about Keith, I've met him and you'd never meet a more gentle guy who'd NEVER of wanted to piss anybody off. 🏴🏴🏴
this guy and his buddies left a true legacy after their day, their art is now often featuring in classical orchestra circles and you find their work featuring in modern adverts on our screens,
Hate to be that guy but The Prodigy was considered "Big Beat" in the electronic scene of the 90s, that grew out of the Breakbeat scene, along with groups like The Chemical Brothers, Crystal Method, Basement Jaxx etc. A bit of trivia; The Prodigy gets its name from Liam Howlett's favorite synth the Moog Prodigy. I was in Europe when this song was popular and the big illegal raves were going on. By the time I came back to the US raves were going on here. More trivia; the labels for Industrial music and Rave music both came from the same person, Genesis P-Orridge. With Industrial Records being the label he helped form when his band, Throbbing Gristle, was in operation. Their next project, Psychic TV, would have the long concerts/parties that Genesis called "Raves." These Raves would be full of thge sort of drugs that were popular in the later Rave culture, LSD, Ecstacy, etc. Much of Psychic TV's music would incorporate the characteristic 4:4 drum machine bass drum beat that would become typical of the Rave/House scene. Although, Psychic TV would do different styles from Industrial, Electronic, and Psychedelic music. Satanic Panic went on in the UK at the same time as it was going on in the US with the ritual child abuse scandal. Genesis was accused of this due to Psychic TV's use Satanic imagery and sex magic.
I remember watching Top of the Pops with my parents on the night this was aired & went straight to #1 - wow,Keith was mesmerising..wondering what we just saw but couldn’t wait to see more!
Man you guys need ...like neeeeeeed to check out the British triphop scene from the 90’s...massive attack, leftfield, tricky (they all collaborated at various points)...some truly dope anthems and tracks 😅 ...or not, it’s your channel 😂. The streets were cool too. Prodigy tracks wise...voodoo people was haard, smack my bitch up was another
RIP Keith . Such a gentle soul . He was the living proof that you can’t judge a book by its cover . What a dude .
James Blunt posted a really nice anecdote after Keith died.
"At the Q Awards years ago, when Noel Gallagher was saying he was leaving Ibiza because I’d moved there, and Damon Albarn refused to be in the same picture as me, and Paul Weller was saying he’d rather eat his own shit than work with me, Keith Flint came over, gave me a hug, and said how thrilled he was for my success.
Keith, I only met you once, but I shed a tear at the news of your death. In our business, there are no prizes for being kind, but if there was, that Grammy would be yours."
I totally agree! Met him in person - a very kind and sweet guy, a great artist and their music was revolutionary these days and is still completely outstanding until today! And on top me one of the most energetic, greatest live bands I’ve ever seen!
Yeah he was a legend even before his passing
Oh for real! Didn’t realise he’d passed.
His talent and his musical ears were amazing . He took music to a new level that no one thought was possible.
The last things Keith did before he passed away was cut his elderly neighbour's hedge and have a Birthday party for his dog, he was punk as f*ck but just as kind, absolute Legend 🤘
Never knew that
Love is punk as fuck
dude was a legend
Might be punk these days to be kind eh
Awe. What a loss to the world.😢
I loved The Prodigy, as did a lot of other metalheads.
This metalhead definitely loves them.
Hell yeah!! Ther was a metal night club in Manchester UK called Jillys rockworld, sadly closed now, but this would get the floor jumping on a Friday all nighter
Yep can confirm, was popular among us metal heads
Yep. I was a total metalhead when this came out and fell in love straight away as I saw this video. Never even had considered I could dig this kind of stuff.
@@evelynmaughan664 I miss jillys 🤘
Nearly 30 years later and this tune still DROPS.
Keith Flint was an amazing guy on and off stage. He was and is known as The Chief. Was honoured to attend his funeral and admit I cried like a baby when his dog led his coffin into the church. His microphone was on the coffin. Was an emotional day for all the fans that turned up. Miss this great man.
As a kid from the UK growing up in the 90s, I can categorically say that my parents generation did not hate on my generations music. My dad would listen to his old Led Zeppelin records, as well as as my Prodigy and Rammstein CDs. My dad even brought a Fugees album that I used to "borrow" from time to time. My dad was not unique in this sense.
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Same here. My mom digged alot of my metal music I was constantly listen to. I made her alot of mixtapes and she was listening to them in her car or when working in her room. But I also digged alot of her music and still got alot of her vinyls she used to listen to.
GenX man. We're the best. ;)
Pretty much my Mother as well. She schooled me in the UK Blues/Rock and psychedelic rock of her late teens, yet my Goth records, Electronica records, Indie records of my late teens she would practically devour (and point out some 60's/early 70's act that they may have cribbed a few ideas from leading me to discover stuff) and even into the 90's it was much the same. We both cheered when we saw this was number 1
For real! My dad showed me the smack my bitch up music vid. He was 50yrs old, and an accountant
RIP Keith Flint. Saw these guys live some years ago, and they killed! such a great band. You really need out their song "Smack My Bitch Up" as well.
BTW we played Prodigy in the metal clubs here as well. They were the first band to crossover between the worlds of electronic and metal music.
The video to smack my bitch up is an eye opener 🤣
Wow! Is Flint dead? Damn....
yea dude saw these guys at big day out in auckland years ago
@@hextatik_sound yeah, died about 3 years ago.
It's imperative you do the uncut music video for Smack my bitch up though
Paid up rock / metal fan here. The Prodigy were one of the finest bands I ever saw live, they were a force of nature.
Through my work at a hotel I looked after them after an appearance at a festival, a nicer, more amicable group you couldn’t wish to meet. We had a wedding in the hotel at the same time as they were staying and at about one in the morning I’m stood in the hotel bar looking across a gathering of wedding guests who are rubbing shoulders with The Prodigy who are happily chatting away about missing their families ‘cause they were on tour and all are showing each other photos of their children on the phones, weirdly enough The Streets were with us the same night, sadly he’s a jumped up prick who refused to talk to anyone and he brought an entourage to fill a tour bus, The Prodigy? A people carrier and a quiet assurance that they didn’t need an entourage. Top band, top blokes and a blast live. RIP Keith.
i am 42 and live in Serbia. i remember when this came out. I was 13 when i bought CD. I blasted this so hard that people who lived in my building bought me a headset xD
The Prodigy...One of the only groups in their genre tolerated & liked by us Metalheads. They had a darkness to their style that we respected.
Yeahhh see im a metal head that also likes other genre's where as most metal heads only like metal, and don't listen to anything else which is a shame.
@@Parkerlee1000 Im a metalhead that enjoys other genres too,one can't subsist on a diet of metal and nothing else unless their a one dimensional idiot with no culture or advanced appreciation for musical diversity but where i grew up the genre that Prodigy belonged to was considered antithetical to Metal & therefore it was universally loathed. It was considered almost sacrilegious or heretical to even tolerate techno let alone seriously listen to it...until The Prodigy came along. Thats how much of an impact they had that they actually broke down longstanding musical barriers & pryed open many a closed mind with their unique darkness. They challenged the norm shattered perceptions & ultimately changed things for the better...Respect.
@@luiscypher1307 there's not many people I know that like metal and alot of other genres they're prone to only metal and rock.
I was hugely into metal back as the rave scene exploded and no metaller was into the Prodigy back then, except for me. It was only after Jilted when they used Pop will Eat Itself guitarist on "Their Law". Even then largely ignored until Fat of the Land dropped. Then they went total mainstream.
Prodigy would be on the lineup with metal bands in festivals and people would mosh to their songs. Absolute legends.
Prodigy was my jam in the 90s. RIP Keith Flint.
RIP Keith Flint. The Prodigy started out as a EDM (Electronic Dance Music) band, but they later started adding punk rock elements to their music. Some of their hit songs are "Breath", "Smack My Bitch Up", "Poison", Voodoo People", "Take Me To The Hospital", "Omen", "Run With The Wolves", "The Day Is My Enemy", "Under My Wheels", and "Wild Frontier".
Working with PWEI on "Their Law", and Doctor Octagon on "Diesel Power". 90's were a wild time man.
RIP Keith the absolute legend. Breathe next as that's 🔥 (pun intended)
They're a techno band but live they played with a guitarist, drummer and bassist and were fully accepted in the metal scene.
Firestarter started and I remembered the lyrics to Breathe.😁
Not really a techno band, but rather an electronic band, as techno is just a sub-genre of electronic music. Their first official biography is titled "Electronic Punks", which I think describes their style pretty well. Also, they only had a live guitarist who occasionally might have played bass guitar for some tracks, which originally don't have guitar riffs, rather than a dedicated bassist. When they first added a guitarist to the live line up, he would come out on stage only for the tracks that had guitar riffs, which were only a couple at that point, but in later years he would remain on stage for pretty much the whole show, even if less than half of the tracks had guitar riffs.
Yea not a techno band actually came out in the rave scene absolute legends to this day can not pigeon hole this band ..Keith flint absolute legend ❤ still missed r.i.p 👑
Their not a tecno bang my freind they came out In the late 80s British rave scene
They are absolutely not a techno band, they are a big beat band.
The Prodigy created a unique British sound that was felt round the World. RIP Keith, utter mad, gentle soul. Missed greatly.
I'm very proud this got to number 1 in the UK. How cool are we?!
@@leec6707 Haha, u could say Prodigy is one of the reasons I'm kind of a fan of the UK, that and all the cool history (Romans, vikings, pirates, kings queens and knights, inventors-scientists-engineers, trade and business, so on and so forth).
As a fellow metal head I've always had the love for the prodigy much respect to them all R. I. P keith flint your music will live on forever 🙏🏼
Metal fans, real fans, dance dance, punks, everybody loved the Prodigy
The prodigy just give it all , from rave to metal , love it
A much-missed grand bloke is Keith. Along with music he was nuts about motorbikes and was a fixture for many years at the TT where he could just be one of us. I'll always remember him with a grin on Douglas prom clutching a can of pop chattering about his bike, your bike or someone else's. You really need to check out 'Smack my Bitch Up' because it's F-ing class.
The music is Liam Howlett. They started with dancers but two of this three dancers became hype men: MC Maxim Reality and Keith Flint (rip). Leroy was the other dancer. As others have said, they’d tour also with a guitarist and drummer. Their electro sound crossed over to punk/metal and brought listeners in from these genres.
Saw a video that explained this song a bit more. Keith had never sung on a Prodigy song before and after Liam wrote it as an instrumental, he decided it needed some lyrics. Whilst looking for some samples, Keith said "let me sing on it." This what he came up with... Apparently the lyrics are basically about himself in the band. His job was to get the crowd fired up - the firestarter....
Maybe as a total “frontman” but Keith did tons of stuff cobalt before that, like “Poison”
I started listening to The Prodigy thirty odd years ago, I was at school when they released “Charly”. I’m now 46 and still listening to them, complete bangers, the lot of them.
Rest in peace Keith.
"Breathe", "Voodoo People", and "Poison" are all great songs by these guys. And that's just naming a few.
Breathe !!! defo the next best nest too Firestarter
...and "Smack my Bitch up" !
People sleep on hot ride, and i reckon narayan is pretty underrated.
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He was a lovely bloke gutted he’s gone. I worked in Braintree and one of the tour managers brought camera films in to be processed!! I saw all the backstage of their concert and pics from the side stage! Saw them at V Festival still my top 3 performers x
Pioneers and legends of rave music. Keith was an amazingly talented and vulnerable soul, may he rest in peace. Check out 'Diesel Power' and 'Voodoo People'.
Diesel Power is Heavy!
@@tubelious letsnbe honest..95% of their songs are fucking awesome
Take away the awesome rap vocal and Diesel Power is incredibly repetitive. It's basically 4 seconds on constant loop.. but that 4 seconds is beautiful! Love listening to it on headphones, eyes closed, head nodding.. Fucking thing hypnotizes! I can never listen to it just the once!
prodigy is it's own genre. they're a mix of D&B, breakbeat, techno, metal.
I can also attest, I was a metalhead who also had to throw Firestarter or Breathe on nearly every burnt CD's back in the day. The band always hit hard and seemed to mesh well with other aggressive genres like Industrial.
You could have put The Prodigy as headliner on every metalfestival, people would go crazy.
This band was loved through all genres and I have never been on better live-shows than theirs. I have been to 15 or more shows of them. They were always fantastic.
Pure f@cking power and energy.
Rest in peace Mr Flint.
The fact that we're at the prodigy is amazing. RIP Keith Flint!
Lived in the same county as this guy/Keith and he was really well known by all the locals and loved by everyone, you'd see him out around the place all the time when they weren't touring.
Were you a Braintree native?
The Prodigiy are pretty much the only "dance" band who were welcome at heavy metal festivals and dance festivals
What about Pendulum ?
@@thewatcherofawesomecontent bit late to the party with that
@x absolutely! kids reinventing history again....
The download festival pit they played, was mosh city.
The hey hey hey is from Art Of Noise Close To The Edit, the grinding on the tracks is from that video
Keith Flint the singer was a gem. Unfortunetly he took his own life a few years ago.
He didn't want to live to be 50, mission accomplished.
That’s unfortunate. I don’t care for this style of music, but I don’t wish depression on anyone. May he RIP. Reminds me of Ian Curtis of Joy Division. Wish I was alive when they were around.
@@jenpru3825 Too many greats have had to endure such agony.
Personally, despite avidly listening to the first couple of Linkin Park records ever since they came out (I was 9), as someone to whom lyrics have never been important, only recently I started relating to the pain Chester shared on those albums.
The Prodigy was one of my favorite groups growing up. Every album had a different, unique sound to it so everything they released sounded new, but they all sounded like "The Prodigy." This song was off their 3rd album "Fat of the Land" and had a much heavier, industrial sound compared to their prior album "Music for the Jilted Generation" (should definitely check out Voodoo People). RIP Keith.
It warms my heart you found one of my old favourites with the prodigy, being English I'm proud to have bands like this, saw them live back in the 90's and nowadays I'm a metalhead but man the prodigy were fking dope, sadly the singer Keith Flint died a few years back. To many great front men and musician take their lives these days, its heartbreaking...
The prodigy were pioneers and their music is timeless
True Legends and MEGASTARS over here in Europe!I saw them the last time 2 Month before Flints Suicide.What a Blast.Moshpits during the whole Concert.What a Lost for the Metal Party Scene.The Concerts were always Mindblowing.Saw them 5 Times Live....You have to watch the LIVE Videos ,for example Live at the RED SQUARE MOSCOW at 5 Grade Fahrenheit...in T Shirts!
RIP Keith Flint. What a guy. Incredible band. The Prodigy will live on forever. No matter what genre you’re into, everyone loves The Prodigy. Voodoo People and Poison are a couple of my favourites of theirs. Then there’s also Out of Space, if you wanna see some 90’s dancing!
The Fat of the Land is one of my favorite albums of any genre of all time.
I LOVED this track and it was played regularly, when it was No 1 (1996), on Top of the Pops! Keith was a lovely person by all accounts. He lived in a large manor house in Dunmow Essex. R.I.P Keith Flint
The Prodigy - Breathe is even better
I was privileged to see The Prodigy live in Brighton on their last tour. I am 50yrs old and was with my musician 19yr old son. One of the best nights of my life, I felt so free and alive, couldn’t sit down! The Prodigy is the ‘DJ’ and the front man in this song is Keith Flint who lived in a village, owned the local pub and was mush loved and sorely missed. Shame you don’t get to see Maxim front with him, epic!
The Prodigy have so many HYPE tunes. they had 20 years of non stop bangers up until Keith took his own life
I remember randomly seeing Keith flint waking around Download Festival. Some guy shouted ‘Ozzy eats midgets’ at him and when Keith turned around he shit himself
RIP Keith 🙏 these guys absolutely slapped anytime they hit the stage. The big beat heavy baselines from Liam Howlett to the larger than life stage prescence of Keith Flint and Maxim. A heavy regular on the festival scene and always yore it up
Keith is an absolute legend 😎 journos used to say Keith was "only the dancer" for The Prodigy, so Keith showed them what his role was, to create the energy at the gig...to start the fire 🔥
Yessss you did the official video! Keith Flint was a character
Breathe is a great one too! But I want to see the song title guessing game for Smack My Bitch Up 😆
What a beautiful kind soul, RIP Keith.
smokey was right on the dot with when it came out, in 1997. the entire fat of the land album was good. the dude with the mohawk is keith flint who passed away in 2019
The instrumental was released on PlayStation in 1996
Wipeout 2097 - Original Soundtrack (1996)
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@@Tommysimonsen my favourite instrumental on wipeout and also one of my favourite games at that moment.
What I would give to be able to see the video (and as it was back then hear the song) for the first time! This took me straight back to my teen years (I was 14-15 when this came out).
The Prodigy were the first EDM band to develop a serious following of metal fans because of their hardcore sound and high energy presentation and insane volume and their image.
I've been listening to the Prodigy since 94, and I did get to see them live once. Took me 20 years, but I finally saw them.
This, followed by Leftfield and Lyndon's 'Open up', at the time guaranteed to have me gasping for breath after a good work out on the dance floor.
Funny thing is Kieth used to go to bingo with his granny looking like that. He loved her to bits RIP Kieth.
Two of my favorites are Breathe and Smack my Bitch Up. Both videos are pretty cool too.
Going on 29 years old now and I’m still in love with this song. Heard it when I was at least in elementary school and till this day it’s still one of my favorites 😂
I saw them live once. There was no oxygen in the arena, just pure adrenaline!!!
R.I.P. Keith
Again, the live version of this is BANANAS
Fun fact... before this single, Keih Flint was just a dancer for the group and he was kind of sort of ignored by music magazines of that time. Then he did this and suddenly became the face of the band.
EDIT: It’s “Voodoo People”, from The Prodigy.
I do believe this was on the “Hackers” soundtrack, from the movie.
Amazing song, Amazing movie
@@BUTTONBASHERGAMING I absolutely love that movie and soundtrack!
Firestarter came out in 1996. I always thought he was dressed as a human cannon ball like in old black and white clips from the circus. More popular songs from the Prodigy: Breathe, No Good, Voodoo People, Out of Space, Smack My Bitch Up (uncensored video)
When I worked as a dj in the 90s, this fitted in perfectly with the rest of the set! Just fill the place with smoke and get the strobes going 😅👍 What's happening to music now? Ffs it all sounds the same and highly sanitised 😣
You´re looking in the wrong places ;)
@@Tabacish I dunno. Me and my partner are usually all over music.. where should we be looking?
@@scouseofhorror104 Depends of personal preferece i guess ...
Ottaviani, Lilly Palmer, Indecent Noice, Sub Zero Project and Sefa are starting points....
All excellent live ofc.
I had the privilage of seeing them in concert and it was an experience that can never be repeated. Totally amazing!!
"Music for the Jilted Generation" and "Fat of the Land" were great albums from these guys. You go on a long drive you could play the entire album and just zone out lol.
......And get alot of speeding tickets!
Experience is amazing too.
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Fat of the land. My first album
TrashTheory did these guys justice with a short documentary on this, the time, the vibe, the man..
The prodigy really were ahead of their time. Genre crossing and very unique.
The Fat of the Land was an amazing album. My personal favourite was Music for the Jilted Generation closely followed by Experience. Some legendary songs. I was blessed to see them live in 1992 ans 1994. One thing about their songs is that you need an absolutely first class sound system to really appreciate them. Their song "Breathe" is a prime example
You guys would love Prodigy 'Diesel Power'. Also, check out their track 'Under My Wheels'.
Diesel power is an awesome track of that album! My favorite!
Their tunes nearly 3 decades later still sound fresh as fcuk. R. I. P. Mr flint
BTW Keith flint was a decent bike racer had his own racing team
When "Firestarter" came out, I wasn't a fan. But as a Teenager, I worked on several concerts and Festivals in Germany. And Festival happened to have The Prodigy as Main Act. And Boy oh Boy, since that day I'm a fan.
RIP to Keith!!!
And please react to "Breathe" and "Smack my bitch up". I think MTV wasn't allowed to show the MV for "Smack my bitch up" before 10 p.m. (here in Germany). It's a wild trip.
Im a 44 year old mum and smack my Bitch up is one of my favourite tracks by them and the video to it was genius Rip mr Flint
There Energy live was just awsome one of the best days of my life. The Gitarrist was so drunk and coud Hardly play and we had to hold Keith when he jumped on the Barricades to the croud. Damn i miss Festivals! Love from Germany guys!
Unfortunately, you can’t hang out with him, Keith Flint. He passed away, I do believe in 2019.
I saw these guys at Lalapalooza '97 with Snoop and Tool!!!
The Prodigy are amazing, I've seen them live a couple of times and the rush, stage presence and wall of sound was amazing. If you do Smack my Bitch up you need to find the official video. It's brilliant
Interesting story with Prodigy and Tool:
Back in 1995, before Justin Chancellor had auditioned for Tool, The Prodigy had asked him to play guitar for them at their live shows while he was still living in London.... he ultimately turned it down.
Years later in 1997, Tool headlined the Lollapalooza tour with The Prodigy in the lineup... they were huge Tool fans and would watch Tool play from the side of the stage every night on tour.
I believe back in the 90s there wasnt the specific sub-genre descriptions we have today... I always knew them as being 'Electronica' along with artists like Daft Punk, Moby, The Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim, The Crystal Method, to name a few.
Im a metalhead and i absolutely love The Prodigy, The Experience was such a sick album.
Man, I saw Prodigy live in Sweden around 1998 or 97 at a big music festival outside just by a lake and when this song kicked in I was 100% sure the whole venue and land around us was gonna sink down into the water. I could feel the ground actually moving up and down.
Rip Keith.
*Smack my bitch up" back in the day Mtv wouldn't play the video till after 9pm.
Yep unfortunately they ran the video for two weeks between the hours 2-4 am and always with a disclaimer
This is a form of breakbeat where originally the drum pattern is completely formed from drumbreaks. In the same way original hiphop used drum breaks mixed on turntables breakbeat programs drumbreaks rather than mix them.
Oh, man, you've been hitting all the highschool jams lately. 😄 Love it! Check out Breathe from The Prodigy! That song is just a banger, for me even more than this one.
God I'm old enough to remember when they came out. Clubs were rocking back then.
Shoutout to KLF as well.
It's automatic...see the letters KLF and the first thing that pops in my mind is "a-ha a-ha a-ha a-ha" lol
Breath was another one of their big hits.
And: Smack My Bitch Up.....is also a great song.
On the original playstation 1 there was a game called wipeout with anti gravity ships on a racetrack and they did the soundtrack, absolute legends
You guys should definitely check out some of their Live at Rock am Ring songs. Get the feel for how they are live. Probably go for Diesel Power or Smack my Bitch Up
The Prodigy alongside The Crystal Method were my childhood, and some of my favorite artists ever. Some other bangers on Fat Of The Land are Breathe, Smack My Bitch Up, Serial Thrilla, and Narayan which is a 9 minute masterpiece.
2 songs from The Prodigy that you need to hear are "Poison" (my favorite prodigy track) and "Diesel Power" (pretty decent rap track)
Poison is a fucking banger
Firestarter, the one who starts the conflict, the one who lights the fuse. Pure philosophy of punk anarchism. I'M LOVIN 'IT
gotta do breathe now, surely you heard that
Liam was just going to keep Firestarter as an instrumental track until Keith said he wanted to write and sing some lyrics for it.
It's a window into Keith's mind as the vocals are all about him and quite deep/dark in places, how he was the firestarter for the crowds at gigs, the one to whip audiences up into a frenzy. It also completes his transformation into full-on hype man. He now had the aggressive vocals, the hair cut, piercings, energy... a few years before he had none of that, just long hair and was a guy dancing in the background. Critics were comparing him to Bez from the Happy Mondays, saying he had no talent, so he thought "I'll f**king show you lot".
Some cool facts about the Firestarter video - Keith bought that top from a second hand clothes shop on the way to shoot the video, cost £5 apparently! It was shot in black and white because they couldn't afford to film in colour - they'd blown £100k on some props and effects in a first attempt and Liam hated it, so they binned it. That left them with £20k to film the entire video. It was also so dusty in the train tunnels that everyone had to wear masks.
RIP Keith.
Yeah, not much chance of hanging out with him sadly.
Totally love that by the end, you had your own 2-man rave going! 🤘 Still a banger!! Thanks for doing this one, you guys! Keep it coming! ❤
I had the good fortune of seeing them live a couple of times and OMG they were simply fantastic, man it was pure energy!!
Check out (in no particular order)
Smack My Bitch Up (try to find a non edited version of the video it was heavily censored and it was just amazing!! Just google it and it's pretty easy to find but you'll have to blur many parts of the video here on youtube because they won't allow it here!! :p)
Breathe
No Good
Voodoo People
Mindfields (part of the Matrix soundtrack) (Watch the Live in Russia video to get a glimpse of the live energy)
Poison
Their Law
Diesel Power (this one is more rap than the others)
Funky Shit (the way this song starts is fantastic and then it's pretty trippy!!!)
Narayan (probably too long for you guys, 9 minutes but it's great)
And that's enough! :)
Their last concert before he died was in NZ, I didn't go to that one but did see them at two Big Day Out festivals, very fun shows very sweaty shows!!!
This song and Breathe were absolutely massive in 97, they were on every radio station and music video countdown show regardless of the genre they catered to.
Keith Flint was one of a kind,a great talent that wasn't afraid to piss off anybody!💖💖💖
Then you obviously know nothing about Keith, I've met him and you'd never meet a more gentle guy who'd NEVER of wanted to piss anybody off. 🏴🏴🏴
There were several reports that grannies were fans of his in the 90s. We're smart enough in the UK not to take things at face value.
this guy and his buddies left a true legacy after their day, their art is now often featuring in classical orchestra circles and you find their work featuring in modern adverts on our screens,
"I bet he's fun to hang out with"
Ouch, right in the feels!
#RIPKeith
Hate to be that guy but The Prodigy was considered "Big Beat" in the electronic scene of the 90s, that grew out of the Breakbeat scene, along with groups like The Chemical Brothers, Crystal Method, Basement Jaxx etc. A bit of trivia; The Prodigy gets its name from Liam Howlett's favorite synth the Moog Prodigy. I was in Europe when this song was popular and the big illegal raves were going on. By the time I came back to the US raves were going on here. More trivia; the labels for Industrial music and Rave music both came from the same person, Genesis P-Orridge. With Industrial Records being the label he helped form when his band, Throbbing Gristle, was in operation. Their next project, Psychic TV, would have the long concerts/parties that Genesis called "Raves." These Raves would be full of thge sort of drugs that were popular in the later Rave culture, LSD, Ecstacy, etc. Much of Psychic TV's music would incorporate the characteristic 4:4 drum machine bass drum beat that would become typical of the Rave/House scene. Although, Psychic TV would do different styles from Industrial, Electronic, and Psychedelic music. Satanic Panic went on in the UK at the same time as it was going on in the US with the ritual child abuse scandal. Genesis was accused of this due to Psychic TV's use Satanic imagery and sex magic.
You have to watch any of their songs live in Russia. You don’t know what a hype crowd is until you watch that…..
Seriously watch The Day is My Enemy live in Russia.
Saw them live 4 times, first time in '93. Full on everytime.
So lucky! That must have been an smarting show every time!! Makes me want to get to a rave asap.
check out some old school prodigy, charlie or outer space would be great
Would love to see what they make of Charly lol
@@Grimlock1975 me too lol
I remember watching Top of the Pops with my parents on the night this was aired & went straight to #1 - wow,Keith was mesmerising..wondering what we just saw but couldn’t wait to see more!
Man you guys need ...like neeeeeeed to check out the British triphop scene from the 90’s...massive attack, leftfield, tricky (they all collaborated at various points)...some truly dope anthems and tracks 😅 ...or not, it’s your channel 😂. The streets were cool too. Prodigy tracks wise...voodoo people was haard, smack my bitch up was another
Man, some Tricky would be amazing. Kinda interested to see what they'd think of Portishead
Don't forget 'Charly', 'Out of Space' or 'Fire'!!
@@lovelyweeburd charlie says don't take sweeties from strangers
@@eZTarg8mk2 Safety First!! 🙂
He was a human being, like no other. R.I.P Bro
You should definitely give The Prodigy „Smack my bitch up“ a go. The official video is bonkers
RIP KeithFlint