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Rating: Premise: this album is wonderful, epochal, powerful, tough, exciting, disturbing, adrenaline-pumping. It's useless to search for musical definitions, it is simple and crystalline techno-punk.
Compared to the previous albums (Experience is naive, there's no denying it) here there's really little angry techno, in fact, it seems a work much closer to breakbeat and much more "polished". Kool Keith (the excellent singer), is not Keith Flint (who was the dancer), he is the rapper ex-leader of the Ultramagnetic MC's, whom Prodigy sampled repeatedly, even in "Smack My Bitch Up" (the vocal sample is taken directly from a track on their "Critical Breakdown", literally plundered by Liam Howlett).
Among the standout tracks are certainly the already mentioned "Smack My Bitch Up", then "Breathe", where you can really hear the rapper Maxim. Even "Firestarter" is very beautiful, although I think "Fuel My Fire" and "No Good" on the previous CD feel more intense.. that way we also compare them in position on the CD.. No Good is for raves, Firestarter is for punk pogo. "Serial Thrilla" is not hardcore techno, as one might mistakenly think, but a mix of breakbeat crossover: it is a fusion song style. Overall, I believe this CD explicitly changed the musical tastes of millions of people it's worth a 5 for the influence it generated… it's thanks to it that many choose a raw and massive base and not a refined and dancefloor one.
The European crowd needed a bomb like "The Fat Of The Land" to blow off steam, in fact, it was a worldwide success.
Thanks to the following users: The Punisher, ZiOn, Ghemison, (sic)VII, killgod.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Smack My Bitch Up (05:42)
Change my pitch up.
Smack my bitch up.
Change my pitch up.
Smack my bitch up.
Change my pitch up.
Smack my bitch up.
Change my pitch up.
Smack my bitch up.
Smack my bitch up.
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Smack my bitch up.
Change my pitch up.
Smack my bitch up.
Change my pitch up.
Smack my bitch up.
02 Breathe (05:34)
Breathe with me.
Breathe the pressure,
Come play my game I'll test ya.
Psychosomatic addict, insane.
Breathe the pressure,
Come play my game I'll test ya.
Psycho,-somatic addict, insane.
Come play my game.
Inhale, inhale, you're the victim.
Come play my game.
Exhale, exhale, exhale.
Breathe the pressure,
Come play my game I'll test ya.
Psychosomatic addict, insane.
Breathe the pressure,
Come play my game I'll test ya.
Psycho,-somatic addict, insane.
Come play my game.
Inhale, inhale, you're the victim.
Come play my game.
Exhale, exhale, exhale.
Breathe with me.
Breathe with me.
Breathe the pressure,
Come play my game I'll test ya.
Psychosomatic addict, insane.
Breathe the pressure,
Come play my game I'll test ya.
Psycho,-somatic addict, insane.
Come play my game.
Inhale, inhale, you're the victim.
Come play my game.
Exhale, exhale, exhale
Breathe with me.
Breathe the pressure,
Come play my game I'll test ya.
Psychosomatic addict, insane.
Breathe the pressure,
Come play my game I'll test ya.
Psycho,-somatic addict, insane.
Come play my game.
Inhale, inhale, you're the victim.
Come play my game.
Exhale, exhale, exhale
03 Diesel Power (04:17)
Yo, I used to check out lyrics upon the format
Build with skill with technique. Computer A-DAT
My lyrical form is clouds on your brainstorm
I get hyped think thought flow. Acrobat, sink the track, pump the track
Dance missions,clubs like spores react by. Strong visions
And hurrying more. Reflects on the dancefloor
Flow it up and having now people showing up
Packing crowds jam packed venues
Needles collapse, while atmosphere continues
Sprinkle that,
Winnin' like that, movin'like that, hittin' like that
The melody is phat
Yeah, I'm on the energy source
The cosmic force
With Prodigy
Kicking astrology
My intellect's the power
With Diesel Power
Blows your mind drastically, fantastically
Blows your mind drastically, fantastically
Blows your mind drastically, fantastically
Blows your mind drastically, fanta..
We spin back rewind. Diesel Power
Blows your mind drastically, fantasically
It has to be, automatically
Check it out. You better work it out
Change to another route
My techniques, strategies, abilities.
I leave cords of mikes hanging like spring leaves
You would try so fast. Beyond the human eye
Lyrical tactics, vocal gymnastics
E's and pepped up
You get swept up
Smacked up, backed up, your crew's all cracked up
Checking flow
Quick choose quick
You can't stick
My medical brain's a stranger's angles
You get tangled. Twisting side effects us
Channels repeat, complete. Can't compete
Check that our texture
Mind adventure
Exploit the point
It attracts to devour
My intellectual seed
With diesel power
Blows your mind drastically, fantastically
Blows your mind drastically, fantastically
Blows your mind drastically, fantastically
Blows your mind drastically, fanta...
Back attack
And wack patch you're faxing me
You don't want none
High quality acts should be still standing
Damaging your other manic
Quick reverse
Potent as the first verse
My amplifier blows on your world's higher
World's sire
Cuts like a barbed wire
Record player
I pull up on you every day
Fast forward
I move And I swings forward
Exit load
Put your brain in right mode
Selected mix
The man with perfected fix has lightly bite me
Copy zimmer. Cops' handblocks
You can't knocks some out there
I've been lifting, shifting, persisting
Intelligent kingpin
Keep the strategy
As I roll with Prodigy
With Diesel Power
Blows your mind drastically, fantastically
Blows your mind drastically, fantastically
Blows your mind drastically, fantastically
Blows your mind drastically, fanta...
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Blows your mind drastically, fantastically
Blows your mind drastically, fantastically
Blows your mind drastically, fantastically
Blows your mind drastically, fantastically
04 Funky Shit (05:16)
Oh my god that's the:
Funky shit!
Oh my god that's the:
Funky shit!
Oh my god that's the:
Funky shit!
Oh my god that's the:
Funky shit!
05 Serial Thrilla (05:11)
Damage destructor
Crowd disrupter
Youth corrupter
Every timer
Damage destructor
Crowd disrupter
Mind liner
Every timer
Taste me, Taste me
Succumb to me, succumb to me
Taste me, Taste me
Succumb to me, succumb to the
Serial thrilla, serious killa...
06 Mindfields (05:39)
This is dangerous..
Open up your head feel the shell-shock.
This is dangerous,
I walk though mindfields, I watch your head rot.
This is dangerous,
Open up your head feel the shell-shock.
This is dangerous..
Open up your head feel the shell-shock.
This is dangerous,
I walk though mindfields, I watch your head rot.
This is dangerous,
Open up your head feel the shell-shock.
This is dangerous,
I walk though mindfields, I watch your head rot.
I watch your head rot.
[Pretty much carries on like this all the way thru..]
07 Narayan (09:05)
If you believe the western sun is falling down on everyone
If you break it free and the morning's come
If you would now your time has come
If you believe the western sun is falling down on everyone
And you feel it burn, don't try to run
And you feel it burn, your time has come
And I feel it
You feel another energy and I feel a power growing
You feel another energy and I feel a power grow
You feel another energy and I feel a power grow
If you believe the western sun is falling down on everyone
If you break it free and the morning's come
If you would now your time has come
If you believe the western sun is falling down on everyone
And you feel it burn, don't try to run
And you feel it burn, your time has come
I feel it!
You feel another energy and I feel a power growing
You feel another energy and I feel a power grow
You feel another energy and I feel a power grow
Om Namah Narayana
Om Namah Narayana
Om Namah Narayana
Om Namah Narayana
Om Namah Narayana
I feel it
I feel it
You feel another energy...
08 Firestarter (04:41)
I'm the trouble starter, punkin' instigator.
I'm the fear addicted and danger illustrated.
I'm a firestarter, twisted firestarter,
You're the firestarter, twisted firestarter.
I'm a firestarter, twisted firestarter,
I'm the bitch you hated, filth infatuated-yeah.
I'm the pain you tasted, well intoxicated.
I'm a firestarter, twisted firestarter,
You're the firestarter, twisted firestarter.
I'm the self inflicted, mine detonator-yeah
I'm the one infected, twisted animator.
I'm a firestarter, twisted firestarter,
You're the firestarter, twisted firestarter.
I'm a firestarter, twisted firestarter,
Starter... starter... starter...
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