Last Tuesday, was in the car with my buddies and they kept playing songs by the Prodigy. Here’s one of my most fave tracks from Liam Howlett & Co.
“Poison” was released in March 1995 as the fourth and final single from the Prodigy’s second studio album, Music for the Jilted Generation (1994).
“Poison” was a number one hit in Finland, while peaking inside the top five in Ireland and Norway. Additionally, it peaked with the top-30 in Sweden and Switzerland.
Billboard noted that it “marks the rave outfit’s first foray into hip-hop,” adding that “it’s an inspired move. The act’s penchant for quirky loops and industrial sound effects melds perfectly with the track’s approachable downtempo groove.”
Melody Maker wrote, “You musta been dancing to this for weeks already so you know the plot: lunging bass, razing wah-wah over a surprisingly slow and punishingly phat beat. This is surely Howlett paying dues to all those Ultramagnetic MCs and Schooly D LPs that got some of us through the Eighties.”
NME said, “Distilled excitement, strangely enough. ‘Poison’ is atonal, incendiary slab technofied trip-hop.”
Meanwhile Music for the Jilted Generation was widely acclaimed for its innovative approach to electronic music, pushing the boundaries of dance and rave genres at the time. David Bowie named it among his favourite music from the 1990s. It is also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.
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