Prodigy - Always Outnumbered Never Outgunned
Product Details
| Artist(s): | Prodigy
| | Media: | 1 Discs | | Classification: | |
Track Listing
| Spitfire | Listen  | | Girls (Featuring The Ping Pong B****es) | Listen | | Memphis Bells (Featuring Princess Superstar) | Listen | | Get Up Get Off | Listen | | Hot Ride (Featuring Juliette Lewis) | Listen | | Wake Up Call (Featuring Kool Keith) | Listen | | Action Radar | Listen | | Medusa's Path | Listen | | Phoenix | Listen | | You'll Be Under My Wheels | Listen | | The Way It Is | Listen | | Shoot Down (Featuring) Liam Gallagher (Vocals) & Noel Gallagher (Bass Guitar) | Listen |
Product Description
This is an album of raw energy where the beats are the stars, and the voices just samples in Liam's sonic armoury. The guests whose vocals have undergone Howlett's subverted cut up techniques include Liam Gallagher, Juliette Lewis, Kool Keith, Princess Superstar, Ping Pong Bitches, Twista, Shahin Bada (better known as the spine tingling chanteuse from 'Smack My Bitch Up') and unknown lo-fi singer songwriter Paul Jackson from Dirt Candy.
With the opening cut 'Spitfire' Liam lays down his manifesto. From the swaggering, low slung break, contorted guitars and pulsing Bomb Squad style b-line to the lysergic Arabic refrains and petulant cut-up vocals 'Spitfire' screams 'Prodigy is back!'. The first single 'Girls' spins on the ground where tech-funk meets old skool electro while 'Memphis Bells' offers a twisted, dirty take on Timbaland's future sci-funk. The energy is still there, and so is the tuffness.
Elsewhere Liam rips through funked up Prodigy-style hip hop on 'Get Up Get Off' and punk rock meets phycobilly mayhem with 'Hotride' (featuring vocals by Juliette Lewis). 'Action Radar' finds stretched out 80's trash synth lines beaten into submission by a Paul 'Dirt Candy' Jackson vocal. 'Under My Wheels' is a stripped down bass and beats instrumental featuring backward guitars and a vibrant classical hook. It also finally brings the Prodigy live favourite 'Rock n Roll' by Kool Keith bang up to date.
Cinematic edginess is explored on 'Medusa's Path' (a fusion of Iranian artist Gholam Hossein and Soul Sonic Force style synth) and subverted bootleg strangeness throttled on 'Phoenix' (aka Shocking Blue's 'Lovebuzz' in a stabs, bleeps and thunder showdown). Other key tracks include 'Wake Up' where Kool Keith can be heard sparring with Liam's beats. It's a personal message to Liam from himself, via the onetime Ultramagnetic MCs don. 'The Way It Is', the album’s funk fuelled piece de resistance with a bassline chopped from Michael Jackson's 'Thriller'. The album comes to a close with sound of Liam Gallagher as rewired through the Howlett sonic weaponry. 'ShootDown' rocks as the album's most garage guitar driven tune.
Written on a laptop in a bedroom in Essex, mixed in London and mastered in New York, 'Always Outnumbered Never Outgunned' is the sound of Liam Howlett reclaiming the Prodigy and putting the beats back in their rightful position - centre stage. And the end result is an album that deserves to be The Prodigy’s 4th album, back and fresh. The King of the Beats is back - 2004 style.
Customer Reviews for Always Outnumbered Never Outgunned:
Number of Reviews: 2
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Author: Aaron D'Costa
From: WANAGARA, Western Australia
10 Sep 2004 01:06:36
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check it out
Oh yeh, Their back. The one and only "The Prodigy" with their highly anticapated/long awaited follow-up to the record breaking "The Fat of the Land" album "Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned".
Yes folks I am so glad i purchased this album. Although i was expecting more of the record breaking material from the past. How ever dont expect the same hardcore heavy beats. This is a very unique, different yet strangly addicative album.
the opening track titled 'spitfire - has some resemblance to 'smack my bitch up' and is really cool.
as are all the songs, however if i had to choose my top 4 songs. i would have to say
1. Medusa's Path - strange 30s horror theme mixed with wicked heavy bass/break beats.
2. Hot ride - featuring the lovely Juliette Lewis3
3. Memphis Bells featuring (princess superstar (bad-babysitter) / Girls / Spitfire
4. the rest of the album.
Listen to it before you buy. You might be slightly dissapointed but seeing as i am a die-hard prodigy i love this album
its not heavy club beats but sleazy, sexy street levels sounds for the urban society.
This ablum will rock any r&b hip hop or pop shit that comes out of record companys these days.
BUY IT NOW!!
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Author: Kirk Bushell
From: Crows Nest, NSW
9 Sep 2004 08:43:39
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What happened to 'The Prodigy'?
I have been a huge fan of 'The Prodigy' for many years now, dating right back to their first album. Tracks like 'Breathe', 'Firestarter', 'Diesel Power' and many others, have had me on the dancefloor cheering like a hooligan many times over. However, their latest CD, 'Always Outnumbered Never Outgunned', is quite possibly their worst release ever.
Its nothing like what they have ever released in the past, where it was more akin to breaks or drum 'n' bass. Their latest album reminds me more of alternative rock with an electronic background. I'd advise those of you who have come to love the 'Prodigy' sound, to stay away from this album.
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