Emily: For having such a scary looking dude on the album cover, Music for the Jilted Generation provided surprisingly inoffensive background music for my afternoon of Internet surfing and homework. It's electro-rave music, certainly not my favorite, but it blended into the background well enough that a few times I didn't even realize a song ended until halfway through the next song. There are pulsing backbeats minus the headache-inducing bass. I even caught myself typing to the beat a few times. The Prodigy's music may not have been the most engaging to me, but it served its head-bobbing purpose. And it certainly wasn't the worst electro we've encountered thusfar. I'll take The Prodigy's steady beats over a pastiche of clanging noises any day.
Favorite Tracks: No Good (Start the Dance); 3 Kilos; Voodoo People
Zack: I’m not positive, and I’m too tired to look
this up, but I think this may be our first rave music album. We’ve done techno
and electronic dance and chillout and ambient, but I don’t think we’ve done
rave until this point. So…was it good for me? Eh, I’ll just say this time it
wasn’t over too quick. It was kind of a hit-or-miss thing, much like Daft Punk
although probably less cool. The biggest hit was definitely 3 Kilos, which just
kicked all sorts of ass. The biggest miss was probably the song that directly
followed it: Skyline. It was clearly meant to sound like a futuristic
dystopian drag racing rave party. Obviously. But that just wasn’t too enjoyable
to me. I think that’s really where the problem lies. When this album tries to
create songs meant to be background music for movie scenes, it just fails.
Merging that raveness with the ambient elements that excel for such songs just
doesn’t work. When the music itself is allowed to shine through, it can be
pretty damn entertaining, though.
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