Few albums were as eagerly anticipated as The Fat of the Land, the Prodigy's long-awaited follow-up to Music for the Jilted Generation. By the time of its release, the group had two number one British singles with "Firestarter" and "Breathe" and had begun to make inroads in America. The Fat of the Land was touted as the album that would bring electronica/echno to a wide American audience; in Britain, the group already had a staggeringly large following that was breathlessly awaiting the album. The Fat of the Land falls short of masterpiece status, but that isn't because it doesn't deliver. Instead, it delivers exactly what anyone would expect: intense hip-hop-derived rhythms, imaginatively reconstructed samples, and meaningless shouted lyrics from Keith Flint and Maxim. Half of the album does sound quite similar to "Firestarter," especially when Flint is singing. Still, Liam Howlett is an inventive producer, and he can make empty songs like "Smack My Bitch Up" and "Serial Thrilla" kick with a visceral power, but he is at his best on the funky hip-hop of "Diesel Power" (which is driven by an excellent Kool Keith rap) and "Funky Shit," as well as the mind-bending /p>
eo-psychedelia of "Narayan" (featuring guest vocals by Crispian Mills of Kula Shaker) and the blood-curdling cover of L7's "Fuel My Fire," which features vocals by Republica's Saffron. All those guest vocalists mean something -- Howlett is at his best when he's writing for himself or others, not his group's own vocalists. "Firestarter" and all of its rewrites capture the fire of the Prodigy at their peak, and the remaining songs have imagination that give the album weight. The Fat of the Land doesn't have quite enough depth or variety to qualify as a flat-out masterpiece, but what it does have to offer is damn good.
Why is it that I'm literally the only person I know who is into BDSM? And,it's not like I can exactly express any of this because I don't like going places alone,and to bring any of my friends/close relatives would just mean brutal judgments that'd irk the hell out of me...I'M TIRED OF DURING ROPE SESSION ALONE...and breathe *sigh*
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Robert W. Westermeyer, Ph.D.Anger, in and of itself, is not dysfunctional. Anger is an emotion, which, like anxiety, affects many systems (emotional, cognitive and physiological). It is typically activated when a person believes he or she has been deliberately provoked. In terms of survival, anger can be looked at as a necessary driving force when "fight" as opposed to "flight" is required. Cog...
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i know its no surprise, but little miley cyrus (aka hannah montana) has been caught not only using a body double but, dare i say it, lip synching.a hush spreads across the crowd...watch at 2:17 (i suggest waiting for it to load so you dont have to watch all the crap) when she poorly gets "covered" with a black sheet and removed from the stage as a double takes her place.i cant stand lip synchin...
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Bee-otch! AP Photo/David J. Phillip(Sorry, Crash. But, ya know...)
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after being a seriously on-and-off Prodigy fan for the past 10 years, and following a serious introspection of my long term musical tastes and directions, i've concluded that the songs Climbatize (Fat of the Land) and Weather Experience (Experience) are the only worthwhile songs they every came up with. The rest of both albums just dribble out and off of my stereo like so much uninteresting but...
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Its a good running, jumping, beating up your little brother kind of song!
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Why is it that I'm literally the only person I know who is into BDSM? And,it's not like I can exactly express any of this because I don't like going places alone,and to bring any of my friends/close relatives would just mean brutal judgments that'd irk the hell out of me...I'M TIRED OF DURING ROPE SESSION ALONE...and breathe *sigh*
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I remember watching this video in my first year of college. They would only play it on MTV after 1:00 am or something like that. I still think it's a great song, album, and video even though the vid is effin insane.
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In a bold yet expected move, MTV has is finally trying to reclaim the title of the place to go for your music video fix. Although armageddon hasn't arrived just yet because this music video revolution is not on the TV in HD, but rather on the net. No longer will we have to suffer [...]
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| 1 Smack My Bitch Up |
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| 2 Breathe |
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| 3 Diesel Power |
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| 4 Funky Shit |
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| 5 Serial Thrilla |
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| 6 Mindfields |
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| 7 Narayan |
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| 8 Firestarter |
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| 9 Climbatize |
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| 10 Fuel My Fire |
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