Eh, it was okay. The second disc on the special edition was great, lots of great remixes on that bonus side

invaders must die rules you commies but i dont know anything about electronic music soooooooooo

Album Rating: 5.0

Love this album to death, but Mindfields prevents it from getting to a 5 for me.

Never got into that song for whatever reason.

Album Rating: 4.5

Change my pitch up!

Album Rating: 3.5

Man,i fucking despise the type of people that likes a band for one music

Album Rating: 4.5

Diesel Power is my fucking jam

Album Rating: 5.0

Diesel Power is my fucking jam



Love to drink and dance to that track myself

Man,i fucking despise the type of people that likes a band for one music

Is it bad that I like MFTJG and Invaders Must Die more than this? =/

MFTJG no, you might have a problem with Invaders though

Album Rating: 4.0

climbatize is the shit

Their debut album, Experience, owns this left, right, and sideways. This album, The Fat of the Land, sounds like crap when you turn the volume up. It has poor mastering with some mediocre tracks, although it does have some good tracks in its favor. Experience is genius; I don't see what is genius about this album. Most of the tracks are quite simplistic relative to Experience, and did I mention the mastering is horrible?

Album Rating: 5.0

Disagree, oh I so disagree. Having played this and heard it played in clubs I find myself questioning the mastering, because both the DJ's and the crowd would have pointed this out and cried foul by now (14yrs later).

There is nothing to question. Open a song up in Audacity and look at the waveform if your ears are too bad to actually tell the difference. Or stop using $5 speakers. Either way it is a scientific fact that Experience is mastered so much better than this album. I am not the only one that has pointed this out, btw. Several posts on amazon point this out as well if I recall.

Album Rating: 5.0

a scientific fact



This seems a tad much, even for me. I don't think questioning the audio equipment used, be it mine or a venues, will help your argument either.



I'd also like to point to the bands subtle or drastic changes from album to album as a reasoning for differences in the levels, what worked for their debut wouldn't necessarily work for their later albums and vice versa.

I'm guessing you have never heard of The Loudness War...

I don't mind a different sound, I mind butchered recordings that have no punch to the beats/snare drum and everything is at an annoyingly loud level with possible distortion and/or clipping.

Please research The Loudness War.

Album Rating: 5.0

I still can't say honestly that I feel this album is afflicted with that, if anything I enjoy this because the vocals are not as subdued as select tracks from Experience are. Even though this phenomena might affect a lot of electronic music I don't believe that every release is so, nor do I believe that this album has this issue.



A re-release might suffer from this, and it's a viable complaint. I'm also curious to see Deviant's opinion on the subject.

The mixing on the original version of Experience is horrid, hence the re-master by Howlett himself

Case closed

Go to Amazon and look at what people prefer from The Prodigy(hint: it isn't this album). Bands do "remasters" to make more money, so people buy the new album because they think it's "better". Every album that has been remastered that I have seen/heard is awful except for The Beatles. Sepultura's are horrible, Slayer's are horrible, Amon Amarth's are horrible, and Ozzy Osbourne remasters are oh so horrible. Metallica's latest album Deaf Magnetic was so horribly butchered the fans had to attempt to remaster what they could of the steaming turd to bring some sense of dynamics back to it and stop the clipping and distortion.

I was around when music sounded great. When you were just getting into music, the recording industry had already started to butcher releases. This album in particular was one of the early victims of the loudness war in the late 90s. By 2000, almost every album that was released was mastered poorly. If you knew anything about dynamics in recordings, you would know that. If you had an ear for music you would know that as well, because as soon as you put this album on you can hear the static and distortion, and if you switch to Experience it sounds so much better. If you can't tell the difference you are either deaf, have crappy speakers, or you cant look at a waveform and tell it's a bad master.

Album Rating: 4.0

gd album