Music for the Jilted Generation

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Music for the Jilted Generation
Studio album by The Prodigy
Released	4 July 1994
Recorded	Earthbound Studios and The Strongroom
Genre	Techno Hardcore Industrial Rave Electronica
Length	78:07
Label	XL Recordings
Producer(s)	Liam Howlett, Neil McLellan
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Q October 2000
The Prodigy chronology
Experience (1992)	Music for the Jilted Generation (1994)	The Fat of the Land (1997)

Music for the Jilted Generation is an album by hard dance/rave act The Prodigy. The album was released through XL Recordings in July 1994. It is largely a response to the corruption of the rave scene in England by its mainstream status as well as Great Britain's "Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994", which effectively criminalised raves, rave culture, and by implication, rave music itself. The latter is exemplified in the song "Their Law" (predominant lyric: "Fuck 'em and their law").

The album was voted the 62nd greatest of all time by Q readers in early 1998.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Intro" (Liam Howlett) – :45
2. "Break & Enter" (Liam Howlett) – 8:24
3. "Their Law" (Liam Howlett/Pop Will Eat Itself) – 6:40
4. "Full Throttle" (Liam Howlett) – 5:02
5. "Voodoo People" (Liam Howlett) – 6:27
6. "Speedway" (Theme from Fastlane) (Liam Howlett) – 8:56
7. "The Heat (The Energy)" (Liam Howlett) – 4:27
8. "Poison" (Liam Howlett/Maxim Reality) – 6:42
9. "No Good (Start the Dance)" (Liam Howlett) – 6:17
10. "One Love" (Edit) (Liam Howlett) – 3:53
    The Narcotic Suite
11. "3 Kilos" (Liam Howlett) – 7:25
12. "Skylined" (Liam Howlett) – 5:56
13. "Claustrophobic Sting" (Liam Howlett) – 7:13

[edit] Chart positions

• UK album chart - #1
• The Billboard 200 - #198
• Heatseekers - #15

[edit] Personnel

• Liam Howlett - Performer, Producer (on tracks 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 11, 12 and 13) at Earthbound studios, Co-producer (other tracks) at The Strongroom
• Neil McLellan - Co-producer (on tracks 4, 5, 7, 9 and 10) at The Strongroom
• Maxim Reality - Vocals on "Poison"
• Pop Will Eat Itself - Performer on "Their Law"
• Phil Bent - live flute
• Lance Riddler - live guitar on "Voodoo People" (Liam originally sampled a Nirvana track called "Very Ape", but he claims the guitar riff used in "Voodoo People" was a recreation performed by Lance Riddler, possibly in an effort to avoid getting sample clearance.)
• sample: Baby D "Casanova" on "Break & Enter"
• sample: Kelly Charles "No Good For Me" on "No Good (Start the Dance)"
• sample: Star Wars IV: A New Hope "We're going in Full Throttle" reversed on Full Throttle

The Prodigy

Liam Howlett - Keith Flint - Maxim - Leeroy Thornhill

Discography

Albums: Experience - Music for the Jilted Generation - The Fat of the Land - The Dirtchamber Sessions Volume One - Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned - Their Law: The Singles 1990-2005

Singles: What Evil Lurks - Charly - Everybody in the Place - Fire/Jericho - Out of Space - Wind It Up (Rewound) - One Love - No Good (Start the Dance) - Voodoo People - Poison - Firestarter - Breathe - Smack My Bitch Up - Baby's Got a Temper - Girls/Memphis Bells - Girls - Hotride - Spitfire - Voodoo People (Pendulum Remix)/Out of Space (Audio Bullys Remix)