The Samples The Prodigy Music For The Jilted Generation Edition

This video focuses on The Prodigys 1994 album Music For The Jilted Generation and the songs and sources that Liam sampled to help create this masterpiece. Heres a bit of information about the album. The album is largely a response to the corruption of the rave scene in Britain by its mainstream status as well as Great Britain s Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, which criminalised raves and parts of rave culture This is exemplified in the song Their Law with the spoken word intro and the predominant lyric, the Fuck em and their law sample. Many years later, after the controversy died down, Liam Howlett derided the title of the album, which he referred to as stupid, and maintained that the album was never meant to be political in the first place. When Liam Howlett came to the cutting room for the final phase in the album production, he realised that all the tracks he had originally planned for wouldn t fit onto a CD, so One Love had to be edited which resulted in a cut of approximately