Off Topic Keith Flint dead

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Bizarreknives said:
I dont believe for one second that you have never heard of them. Even my 81 year old dad has heard of them.
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believe it mate, i've seen action all around the world, as youngster in the service,up until the time i left as an auld fart, in my social group of peers we all enjoyed the same music, so didn't listen to much rock music i do remember only the truly great ones though. and wouldn't listen to that type of music by choice
 
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Gordon Armstrong said:
I'd never heard of Keith Flint, though I've heard of Prodigy, and I'd never heard of 'Firestarter' !
I've just listened to it on youtube, I've never heard it before (has it been 'everywhere' ?) and I don't want to listen to it again . . . . it's absolutely dreadful :emoticon-0101-sadsm
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As above. Yes. Yes it has.
 
Nads said:
Mad really, cos for me it’s not even one of their top 20.

I was never a fan of that track, iconic as it became.
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Completely reinvented Dance music adding a new subgenre. It was a spearhead for one of the most ground breaking dance albums ever. It sucked the likes of goths, rock fans and alternatives right back into the dance scene. I went to one of the fat of land dates and variety in subcultures was just unbelievable. Can't think of any piece of musical work that brought so many differant types of people together.

Agree it not my favourite Prodigy track but as Disco said, defo as iconic as anything which has been produced. The older crowd sure to disagree given the nature of the beast means nobody thinks their golden age can be topped but it's sheer effect across subcultures demands it's counted imo. Very important track off a very important album.



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Brian Storm said:
Completely reinvented Dance music adding a new subgenre. It was a spearhead for one of the most ground breaking dance albums ever. It sucked the likes of goths, rock fans and alternatives right back into the dance scene. I went to one of the fat of land dates and variety in subcultures was just unbelievable. Can't think of any piece of musical work that brought so many differant types of people together.

Agree it not my favourite Prodigy track but as Disco said, defo as iconic as anything which has been produced. The older crowd sure to disagree given the nature of the beast means nobody thinks their golden age can be topped but it's sheer effect across subcultures demands it's counted imo. Very important track off a very important album.



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Agree with most of that.

In its way it was very similar to some of the Primal Scream and Roses tracks that dragged lads like me (rave, house, electronic) more into bands. That developed and it was Oasis and The Verve through the week then dance music weekends. Mind, even at that stage several years prior to Firestarter, well the Prodigy were already significant and blurring the lines.

I remember them on TV at Reading festival doing Voodoo People and that was from the previous ‘fat of the land’ album.

Such an important band and for all that Liam Howlett was the main man Keith was for everyone the face of them.
 
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Nads said:
Agree with most of that.

In its way it was very similar to some of the Primal Scream and Roses tracks that dragged lads like me (rave, house, electronic) more into bands. That developed and it was Oasis and The Verve through the week then dance music weekends. Mind, even at that stage several years prior to Firestarter, well the Prodigy were already significant and blurring the lines.

I remember them on TV at Reading festival doing Voodoo People and that was from the previous ‘fat of the land’ album.

Such an important band and for all that Liam Howlett was the main man Keith was for everyone the face of them.
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Oh yeah their early stuff was ground breaking too. They've reinvented themselves so many times. Sign of a top act. Their early stuff helped those of the rave culture transfer into other dance genres. Without the likes of the Prodigy, KLF and 808 State many rave fans would have stayed rooted in the past. These acts offered them transition and roots to various other style of dance like house, trance, break beat, electronica and so many others. Dance acts who bridge into other realms of dance will always be most important to me as they've helped me become an eclectic music lover. Same as Primal Scream, the roses and happy Mondays bridged over to band music. Music depended on these people just like it once depended on acts like James brown and the rolling stones before.

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Brian Storm said:
Oh yeah their early stuff was ground breaking too. They've reinvented themselves so many times. Sign of a top act. Their early stuff helped those of the rave culture transfer into other dance genres. Without the likes of the Prodigy, KLF and 808 State many rave fans would have stayed rooted in the past. These acts offered them transition and roots to various other style of dance like house, trance, break beat, electronica and so many others. Dance acts who bridge into other realms of dance will always be most important to me as they've helped me become an eclectic music lover. Same as Primal Scream, the roses and happy Mondays bridged over to band music. Music depended on these people just like it once depended on acts like James brown and the rolling stones before.

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This entire post is basically my youth defined.

All of that is exactly what happened with my musical tastes, tossed in with a deep rooted love of soul and Motown picked up from my mother.

I went from helium sounding happy hardcore to Stone Roses in about 3 months, and then it filtered through everything from there. I’d have been maybe 12/13.

Prodigy were a massive deal to me, always will be.

I love how diverse and extension my taste in music is and all of the above had a huge roll in removing pigeon holes.

‘There’s no such thing as bad music, just music you like and music others like’
 
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I much prefer Experience and Music for the Jilted Generation to Fat of the Land but you can't deny that the big tracks on that album had a massive impact on the music scene at that time and are still excellent tracks more than 20 years later.
 
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Brian Storm said:
You've never heard of invaders must die? Our team has been coming onto the pitch to it all season fella.

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no mate moved the end of last year from Amsterdam to Germany hence the new avatar difficult to get over for me at the moment
 
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I much prefer Experience and Music for the Jilted Generation to Fat of the Land but you can't deny that the big tracks on that album had a massive impact on the music scene at that time and are still excellent tracks more than 20 years later.
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Experience for me too, and not the obvious ones. At that point they were far more a ‘rave’ band and that’s very much who I was then. I ****ing loved the live version of ‘death of the dancers’ on the reissue, I was too young for clubs then but can imagine the absolute scenes.

As Bri said, every bit as big as your monster bands of the 70s etc, let’s nobody forget that whether you like it or not electronic music has outlived any other ‘fad’ and just keeps growing.

There’s thousands of different sounds, house will always be my first love and I remember being overcome with pride hearing my mam hoovering singing a D-Mob and Jocelyn Brown tube she’d only heard blaring out my bedroom while she hoovered!
 
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Nads said:
This entire post is basically my youth defined.

All of that is exactly what happened with my musical tastes, tossed in with a deep rooted love of soul and Motown picked up from my mother.

I went from helium sounding happy hardcore to Stone Roses in about 3 months, and then it filtered through everything from there. I’d have been maybe 12/13.

Prodigy were a massive deal to me, always will be.

I love how diverse and extension my taste in music is and all of the above had a huge roll in removing pigeon holes.

‘There’s no such thing as bad music, just music you like and music others like’
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Obviously haven’t heard bagpipes then<laugh>
 
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