Music for the Jilted Generation

Occupation

Music for the Jilted Generation is an album by English big beat band The Prodigy, released on 4 July 1994 on XL Recordings.

Genesis

Due to the success of the album Liam Howlett The Prodigy Experience had the opportunity to experiment a lot. The album contains many hard breakbeats, jazz and funk grooves, electric guitars and a hard dance song ( " No Good (Start the Dance )"). In the song " Poison" the song of the MC Maxim Reality has been used for the first time.

The album debuted in the UK charts from zero to one and sold over a million copies. This success was followed by appearances in the world. Building on this success, the band won the MTV Europe Music Award 1994 in the category "Best Dance Artist".

In early 1998, the album was chosen by the readers of Q magazine number 62 of the best ever released albums.

Importance

Content, it is largely in response to the increasing mainstream within the rave scene and the UK Criminal Justice and Public Order Act of 1994, a law that raves, the techno scene and even the music itself criminalized.

The image of the artwork of the plate was analyzed in a cultural-critical articles 2007 and compared with a later pastiche. The political and social conditions of techno parties in the UK are lit mid-1990s, which are represented in the image. Similarly, on the basis of the artwork the marketing strategies of The Prodigy with the album "Music for the Jilted Generation " section. In the article it says:

" The Prodigy refer to the image position in the former conflict Raver vs. police. At the same time this opinion is the commercialization of a rebellious attitude. The image is part of a phonogram artwork. The goods are to act rebellious and the young (and probably male ) consumer to identify with the presented rebellion. About the Artwork The Prodigy should be set to a certain image. The anti- stars who define themselves through denial and resistiveness (...). "

Title list

Singles

The following singles were released from Music For The Jilted Generation:

  • One Love ( October 1993)
  • No Good (Start The Dance ) (May 1994)
  • Voodoo People ( August 1994 )
  • Poison ( March 1995)

Chart positions

  • UK Albums Chart - # 1
  • The Billboard 200 - # 198
  • Heatseekers - # 15
Record label Genre Electronic keyboard Singing England No Good (Start the Dance) Pop Will Eat Itself One Love (The Prodigy song) Experience (The Prodigy album) Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned Charly (song) Fire/Jericho Wind It Up (Rewound) Firestarter (The Prodigy song) Smack My Bitch Up The Prodigy discography
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