I've never read a bad word about Keith Flint, who despite his scary appearance was by all accounts utterly nice. There's a lovely story from James Blunt, of all people. When Keith died James tweeted: "At the Q Awards years ago, when Noel Gallagher was saying he was leaving Ibiza because I’d moved there, and Damon Albarn refused to be in the same picture as me, and Paul Weller was saying he’d rather eat his own shit than work with me, Keith Flint came over, gave me a hug, and said how thrilled he was for my success. Keith, I only met you once, but I shed a tear at the news of your death. In our business, there are no prizes for being kind, but if there was, that Grammy would be yours."
James Blunt showing class himself there. Can't stand his music, but I have a lot of respect for the man himself. His tweets are on occasion legendary. Metalheads and punks tend to display more empathy, and are a far safer option for kids to hang with than the average chav or jock type, in my experience.
@@TfL1901 Forty years or so ago I spent a sizeable chunk of my youth in Jilly's, a rock club in Manchester. So, mostly denim and leather clad denizens with a sprinkling of punks and Goths, the 'weirdo' was the middle aged balding bloke who used to turn up in a three piece suit, looking like an accountant who'd just emerged from a meeting. He never got any grief and he hit the dance floor like everyone else. Good days.
Keith Flint was friends with my brother. He used to come round our house when i was younger. I lost my brother 4 years ago so kinda hope they're both having a laugh together somewhere!
I hope so too. The circumstances of Keith's passing were just so utterly sad, that while I'm not in the slightest bit religious, it was such a lovely thought of yours, which painted a picture of two young fellas without a care in the world - it really made me smile, so cheers @mikes747!
I feel you man. I lost my best friend Greg in a tragic accident two months ago. I couldn't even say goodbye properly because he was cremated privately in China where he lived. Look after yourself...x
I photographed Keith in 2014. He was a genuine gentleman and an absolute pleasure to shoot and hang out with for the day, The portrait from that session still remains one of my favourite shots to this day. RIP.
Thank you for capturing him, i only ever hear good things about keef, any chance you’d share said portrait purely for my own love for the Ant army generally. 👊 🐜
I had the honour and privilege to be the assistant engineer (read ‘tape op’/‘tea boy’) for the vocal sessions for ‘Fat of the Land’. When it came to firestarter, it was decided that, for the vibe, Keith should do his vocals in the control room. He had a handheld SM58 with the lead trailing out through the control room door , into the live room, and plugged directly into a 4x12 Marshall stack. The stack was miked up and recorded. Can’t have the speakers bleeding over the vocals so everyone had headphones. Except there weren’t enough headphones to go round so I was the only one that didn’t have headphones. So the track starts playing and Neil MacLellen (producer), Liam, Maxim and Keith et.al, are nodding in sync and all I can hear is the ‘tis tis tis’ of the headphone overspill. And Keith heavy breathing. Keith is at the back of the room in long shorts, tattooed calfs, and double Mohawk. Suddenly Keith bends over double and screams “I’M THE FIRESTARTER” into the mic. Neck veins throbbing, snorting like a bull. Remember I’m the only one that can’t hear the music. I got to hear the whole acapella of firestarter sung at me by Keith himself. I absolutely concur with the other commenters- outside of his onstage persona, he was an adorable man. “Your mum would love him “. Miss him. P.S. : I also drove him in my mini round London looking for W H Smiths to get Letrasets to find fonts for his “Inflicted“ tattoo. Double Mohican touching the roof liner in the passenger seat xx
Keith Flint terrified a generation of kids in that Firestarter video, but he lived the very opposite of an intense lifestyle. He lived in the most idyllic manor house cottage in Essex, he rode motorbikes but he also loved bird watching and kept a bunch of animals.
How do you unite old school E'-head ravers, Metal heads, Indie kids, hip hop fans and sexy student girls and get them on the dance floor? What the Prodigy did was genius.
i mean, yess for sure but also very derivant from what was happening in the european music scene of that days. They mention that one of the very firsts albums was a response to the "Criminal Justice Act". This has been a strick set of laws put up in the UK in response to "Castel Morton Comon Festival". An illigal festival where the acid tekno rave scene that was already influenced by punk and the freak movement meat up. This brought the Spiral Tribe to embrace the van life culture and follow up in the illegal underground scene living UK to travel across Europe and some more pieces of world. The France influence took a lot from the hip hop scene (francecore) while here in Italy we was more in the punk crossover. Check to "Foward the Revolution" by Spiral Tribe from almost same period. Prodigy influenced world wide charts, Spiral influenced and fueled generations to come of european underground culture... and Prodigy. In italy totally unrelated and never followed up in the rave scene but musically similar we had a group called Narcolexia in that timeline too. "Danza" and "Sovraccarico Sensoriale" realy deserve a spot in the tier list.
My mum danced firestarter every time it came on with me back in the day. She hated prodigys' first style of music but loved their last. Rip mum, Rip Keith. I hope you are both firestarting up there and dancing your best dance.
Keith Flint sadly missed, he loved motorbike and ran a motorcycle racing team, Team Traction Control, which won four Isle of Man TT races in 2015 and 2016.
You may be interested to know that Keith Flint is parodied/homaged in a video game. Assassins Creed Valhalla. in a side mission you come across someone called Keith who"s fighting against a clergyman who accuses him of playing the devil"s music. After defeating the clergyman, Keith then sings "Smack the bishop" It made me titter when I played it.
Right? In the bathroom we would non stop hype each other up and shower each other with compliments. Even shed tears of joy just loving every random girl in sight to bits
I met Kieth Flint in a pub in Camden he was as much like his Firestarter character as the Pope is like Mohamed Ali. He was quiet and a really nice guy and as you say a really good guy to chat with. I was very sad when they announced his death
@@prodigy84bg Still hate them, and I play guitar, bass,keyboard and Ukulelee so not musically challenged. It doesn't take a musician to program a drum machine.
@@TheTimeProphet Liam Howlett can play the piano, keyboard, drums, guitar, bass (while also being a DJ) and all but one of his albums have reached Number 1 in the charts, some even in multiple countries. Do you even have one successful record to be in a position to criticise his music?
As a lifelong rock and metal fan, The Prodigy slip nicely into my playlist. Fat of the Land is one of the best albums of the 90s. Keith Flint is sadly missed.
Same really. I love Fat of the Land in the same way as I love Paranoid. It's a twist of the tail that just need to jump into when you're in the mood...
I love and loved seeing the Prodigy at their gigs. I'm from Ireland and they came here every year., since the 90's, Ive been at over 10 prodigy gigs. RIP Keith
@@JJLAReacts think epic and go omf god., better craic than crack. Keith was fire. I'm nearly 50 but what they came up with when I was late teens early 20's... the combo of what was going on was electronica/rock live... Drugs may have enhanise it'. That was standard at the time
I saw The Prodigy in the early 90’s at the Cliffs Pavilion in Southend Essex. I was 14 there was about 100 people. During their set both Keith and Maxim jumped into the small crowd from the stage and were dancing right with us. Amazing moment that only a year later you’d be 1 in thousands. RIP Keith (legend)
OMG.. memories of Grandmaster Flash. "don't push me coz I'm close to the ...edge". I used to horrify my sons rapping that line when they were irritating me. LMAO. Both my sons made music in their bedrooms..one at each end of the house, one into rap and hip hop (with his friend Lord Dazastah - known to me as Daz, his workmate, who loved my cat), the other techno./EDM - later became a teacher by day, DJ by night. I was in the middle. I used to play a music quiz game online where your opponent could choose the category and the young players always chose categories they thought I wouldn't know judging by my profile pic, but I'd beat them every time and they'd be like "how do you know Wiz Khalifa" or "What? You know Skrillex?". Don't judge a book.. hehe. I did like Firestarter from the first time I heard it too- the raw energy of it. I even liked "Smack My Bitch Up" but my sons requested I never say that title as it sounded so ridiculous coming from their well-spoken mother's lips. 😅😅😅 If you made it this far, thanks for humouring me.
Thanks for this video by the way... ... I'm from the UK and grew up with their singles and had no idea they were such a complex, ingenious band. What a great backstory and I'm glad their reach has transcended the Atlantic ocean! Have a good one!
16:38 Way to go Keith ! - that made me cry 😭😭. I would give anything to go back to his pub and talk to him again over a pint, he was so down to earth and without a ounce of celebrity holier than thou. We end up bonding up by the love of snowboarding. Rest in Peace my friend, we will be Shredding the Gnar soon, i promise.
I credit hearing Firestarter & Breathe coming through my teenage neighbour's smokey window as being the tracks that were the trigger for 9-year-old me becoming a lifelong metalhead & industrial music lover - thanks Dan❤
I can definitely confirm they crossed genres with Firestarter and gained a whole new audience of metallers. I've always been into metal but I mix in some EDM, trip-hop, jazz, classical etc, but even among my metal friends who were usually very elitist about their limited taste The Prodigy made an impact. I remember trying to see The Prodigy when they played the second stage at Download Festival (rock/metal/alt fest not used to dance music at all) and you couldn't get near the stage. It felt like the entire festival was there to see them. Keith was something special. By all accounts he was a lovely guy, one of the sweetest people you could ever meet. But isn't that usually the way? The people who look intimidating are often completely opposite when you actually start to talk to them. His funeral was a testament to his impact on music and Britain. Thousands upon thousands of people stopped and showed their respects. I don't think anyone really expected how it impacted the country. No one knew he was a national treasure until it was too late to tell him.
I used to go to a Rock/Metal night when I was at Newcastle Uni and the place went wild every time The Prodigy came on. Had the pleasure of seeing Pendulum at a festival but gutted I never got to see them.
I remember being really put-off music by boy bands singing mushy lovey songs about girls at the time. I was 9 years old. Keith and the Prodigy were my first exposure to the idea that music could be shouty and ugly and angry and scary and I fucking loved it!
Keith Flint was one of the quiteset, introspecive, thoughtful person you could ever meet. He was so far removed from his persona you'd never believe, he will be forever missed by true children of the rave culture. RIP Keith,
I am a metalhead and The Prodigy is the only reason i like electronic music, well and Trentemøller but The Prodigy oh man, i saw them live at a festival many years ago and i was blown away, i had never heard their music before and it was the same day i discovered Pendulum, they were playing later the same evening. Is there any better introduction to electronic music than that? Among the greatest live shows i've ever seen. I was absolutely mezmerised.
Seeing Prodigy is probably one of my strongest memories of live music. It was as if you could see the bass wave up through the crowds. Everyone was on their feet dancing in front of their seats. During the heavy beats it felt like a sonic boom travelling through each and every person in the crowd to hit you in the solar plexus. I’ve never experienced anything else like it in the roughly 20 years since. Phenomenal!
Completely and utterly gutted when Keith passed away. The Prodigy will never be the same without him, especially live as he was so energetic on stage. One of the best I've ever seen get a crowd jacked up so he could feed off it and go even more wild. R.I.P. Keith you absolute legend
Personally think "Breathe" is the better record, but admit "Firestarter" packed the roundhouse / haymaker knockout punch, "Breathe" was the more subtle, tactical uppercut that took you out from no-where ...
@@laynz.h yeah, he worked on it when he was an artist working at a studio in Liverpool, called Psygnosis, later became a Sony PlayStation studio though. He still works for Sony but at their London studio now and in their R&D department. It’s all depressing AI stuff now! Crash Bandicoot is a brilliant game!
I made my fingers bleed playing Wipeout, haha. I also had the visuals burned into the back if my eyelids for a few weeks. My fave game I think. Also massive Prodigy Fan.
@@KateSander22 wow, I didn't know it was made in Liverpool, that's my home town. AI has certainly ruined a lot of things and it's only the beginning. We have a lot of AI interaction in my job too
I've heard them Live few years back and that was the best ever control that any band ever had over crowd! Keith wanted us to duck we all people did it! All of us knew their lyrics and at one point they allowed us to sing and that was POWERFUL! RIP Keith and thank you The Prodigy for existing. Your music truly allowed to keep my rage at bay!
I saw Prodigy a total of 4 times in the early 90's. I was into the Rave scene in a big way at the time. I've listened to their music ever since, they feature regularly on my playlists.
I was one of those metalheads.. I re,member exactly the first time I watched this video.. I was stunned.. and spooked.. THIS BAND AND DAFT PUNK CHANGED MY HEAD FOREVER.
Flinty was a legend. He owned a pub in my local town in Braintree, Essex. He would always buy drinks when he was in. I loved his little cottage in Bocking with that ridiculous TVR he had. RIP chap. So missed.
Until you saw The Prodigy live, they WERE just Liam. That’s all I knew him as. When a music video has a pre-watershed ban, you know you’re doing something right. Also: Faithless, Orbital, Underworld. All truly next level, then and still now. Jilted was fkn INCREDIBLE when that arrived
For some reason when I first heard Skinny Puppy in the late 90's and hadn't seen the band I imagined Ogre having a gothier version of the Keith Flint look.
British inquests seldom record a verdict of suicide unless its pretty much categorically proven. Suicide used to be illegal in Britain (with attempted suicide treated the same as attempted murder); and suicide victims were not allowed to be buried in consecrated graves and were hell bound as a result. Thus there was a general reluctance to record suicide as the cause of death unless it was irrefutable. My Gr Gr Grandad hung himself in 1905. He went upstairs on his own, as witnessed by his entire family who then found him hanging from a beam along with a suicide note. The death was recorded as caused by temporary insanity. Even with irrefutable evidence of suicide the inquest accepted a different cause.
Thanks for this video, you brought back memories long gone. I first landed in London in the second half of the 80's, I lived the decade plus of the rave scene, I remember Keith popping up randomly at 6am throwing his crazy dance moves, the days of "Spiral Tribe".... I can bet that Keith got his American flag top in the legendary shop just before the lock on the right coming up from Camden station, the one that had as signage a small purplish pink punk mohican head. Prodigy, and Chemical Brothers to a certain extent, were the showcase of our generation and culture, pure freedom of expression and 100% commitment to embrace and rejoice, lust for experiencing and celebrating differences.
I was 14 when "Charly" came out. I think I still have the tape single. I also still have the CD single of "everybody..." ( It was the first CD I ever bought). ❤
I saw them live at the bizarre festival in 2001 and was completely blown away. When they came on stage and had a real drum set, electric guitar, bass guitar plus their synths and a turntable and actually played their songs I couldn´t believe it. I also saw them as a techno/electronic music act only and I could never have imagined that this music could look like this on stage until then.
i'm in the uk. my mate taped over a rental copy of boyz n the hood to record their number one performance of this on top of the pops when i was 11. one of my favourite memories. hope all the subsequent renters of that film enjoyed it as much as we did.
Keith flint was and is a legend I was soo lucky to see them perform at creamfields 2006 tiesto was the highlight with adio for strings n that was awsome but prodigy walking out was somthing else it was raw natural talent
There was a club in Cardiff that played Dance upstairs and Metal on the floor downstairs. Liking both types of music I'd flit between the floors. Guaranteed I'd hear Prodigy played on both. Can't believe it's almost 30 years I've been telling those close to me that I want Breathe played as my coffin enters the crematoria😮😂
Loved the Prodigy. Keith Flint took his own life. A very sad loss for us. He was a well known and very well liked man. Ask anyone who encountered him, and you will hear that he was gentle, quiet, humble and kind. Very opposite to his onscreen image. RIP Keith Flint.
All the videos where they show the sample clips that made classics, all the Prodigy ones are so easy to follow an appreciate. You can see exactly how they got the ideas and evolved them. Been a huge inspiration when I'm cutting loops and samples.
Keith was driving the Isle of Wight ferry one time (they let artists take the helm on the way to the festival sometimes) (I think Maxi Jazz did it and Bono). He was asked by a journalist (probably Jo Whiley) "what made you do what you do?" [ ]. And he said something like "God gave me a broom and told me to get to work... So I did"/ He was a pub landlord and should have been my friend - and yours.
My dad loves out of space since I first played it in early 90’s. Bearing in mind he hates dance and prefers classical, particular old rock (Beatles, Elvis and like) ABBA and glen miller. Probably why he let me see them at 14 live where Keith & Maxim jumped off stage and danced with us. So they were also playing to under 18’s. They weren’t just playing to non substance takers but they really appreciated their roots. As Essex boys they often revisited the county for sets. RIP&firestarting Keith Flint. I’ll neva forget dancing next to you to Jericho & everybody in the place ❤❤❤
I was in on Prodigy from Charly, outrageously great. Prodigy Experience was one of my first CD albums, (After CD's introduced). I did local road crew stage setup for Prodigy at Milton Keynes Bowl, Alton Towers and V-Festival in the UK in 2009-2010 Invaders Must Die tours. Truly incredible band performances to die for...
I'm honored to have seen them live 3 times in my 47 years. I still have the unused tickets for what would have been my 4th time. 😢 These guys are everything this video says they are, and then some. R.I.P. Firestarter
Top video, enjoyed it a lot. I was hardcore metal from mid 80s to mid 90s and Jilted Generation won me over and got me listening to new electronic stuff. Getting covered in Kerrang was a BIG deal at the time and a sign that genre barriers were breaking down and music was becoming less tribal. In my view anyway. Love your relaxed manner BTW, a refreshing change from hectic, no pause videos!
I was 10 when I 1st heard Charley and that was it, I was hooked. Dance music took over and I indulged in all of those mind blowing acts like Orbital and Leftfield. But then came 'Their Law' and things really did start to change. People that loved rock started paying attention to The Prodigy and I started venturing out in to rock music too. Fat Of The Land was it, that bringing together and opening up new worlds for people on both sides of the rave/rock divide was now The Prodigy's home. Their albums are genius and 'visionary' really is the word! I'm lucky enough to have seen them live 12 times since 2002. If you ever get the opportunuty, you absolutely have to go and feel that energy! I'll be back again later this year 🤘🐜
I fell in love with them right at the start, not sure how I heard them, being in Australia, but got to see them live in 99, Keith in his straightjacket, Liam surrounded by 3 towers of 5 keyboards each, was so glad I got to give my youngest brother his 1st concert and he saw them, he does Djing these days. I legit cried when news broke of Keith's passing, "Breathe" is my anthem, to this day
Prodigy was the first music live in my life. Had all the CDs, T-shirts, went to their show. Liam’s mixing is genius, no one males drums and bass line the way he does. His solo stuff is great as well.
I was very lucky indeed that during my work life I got to meet and work with, for hours on end, Keith Flint. Already liked the full-on experience of their music and transfixed by his natural intensity and movement.. he was an absolute sweetheart.
Seeing Prodigy live was definitely a bucket list thing, so glad I got to see them live. One of the greats. Was a fan from like 94-ish. Pretty much all my life, I've bounced between hard rock/metal and everything electronic. Started with bands like KISS and W.A.S.P. at like 6-7 years old, moved onto power metal etc., did years of clubbing, found metalcore etc :D Been a cool journey. Nowadays it's just a ton of melodic death metal, metalcore, deathcore and chill electronic genres like phonk, prog house/trance and minimal techno.
Iconic. I remember MTV playing this constantly & we all used to wait through all the other tunes until Firestarter came on.. I was 9… Prodigy was unapologetically raw & angsty - peak mid 90s, tail end Gen X era coolness! My days, life & culture was so much more fun back then! My brother & I even went to see them about 8 years ago in London, few years before Keith died. Absolutely awesome & still starting fires 🔥 rip Keith Flint!
RIP Keith Flint
Gone far to soon, and greatly miss by far too many.. Rip Keith thank you for the experience..🇬🇧🇬🇬🇬🇧👊🏼👊🏼🍻
came to say the same thing, saw them in their prime an his energy was contagious
When I passed 50 I was finally older than him.
@@philiprowneySame - I’m 52 now, and it still feels unreal that Keith has gone.. Long live The Prodigy 👊🏼
Brother Keith is now a official Firestarter ! (Twisted Firestarter) RIP Legend,
I've never read a bad word about Keith Flint, who despite his scary appearance was by all accounts utterly nice. There's a lovely story from James Blunt, of all people. When Keith died James tweeted:
"At the Q Awards years ago, when Noel Gallagher was saying he was leaving Ibiza because I’d moved there, and Damon Albarn refused to be in the same picture as me, and Paul Weller was saying he’d rather eat his own shit than work with me, Keith Flint came over, gave me a hug, and said how thrilled he was for my success. Keith, I only met you once, but I shed a tear at the news of your death. In our business, there are no prizes for being kind, but if there was, that Grammy would be yours."
I learned from a very young age that people with "scary" looks, including punks are usually the safest loveliest people
James Blunt showing class himself there. Can't stand his music, but I have a lot of respect for the man himself. His tweets are on occasion legendary.
Metalheads and punks tend to display more empathy, and are a far safer option for kids to hang with than the average chav or jock type, in my experience.
His scary appearance came with firestarter, before that he always had long hair from outta space and you're no good for me.
@@TfL1901 Forty years or so ago I spent a sizeable chunk of my youth in Jilly's, a rock club in Manchester. So, mostly denim and leather clad denizens with a sprinkling of punks and Goths, the 'weirdo' was the middle aged balding bloke who used to turn up in a three piece suit, looking like an accountant who'd just emerged from a meeting. He never got any grief and he hit the dance floor like everyone else. Good days.
I’m not a fan either, but JB is feckin hilarious. I really like how he portrays himself, a genuinely nice, witty bloke
Keith Flint was friends with my brother. He used to come round our house when i was younger. I lost my brother 4 years ago so kinda hope they're both having a laugh together somewhere!
i think they are making fun of their own where ever they are and annoying close by sourminded afterlife people!
I hope so too. The circumstances of Keith's passing were just so utterly sad, that while I'm not in the slightest bit religious, it was such a lovely thought of yours, which painted a picture of two young fellas without a care in the world - it really made me smile, so cheers @mikes747!
I feel you man. I lost my best friend Greg in a tragic accident two months ago. I couldn't even say goodbye properly because he was cremated privately in China where he lived. Look after yourself...x
Are you somewhere around the Braintree area mate.?
I photographed Keith in 2014. He was a genuine gentleman and an absolute pleasure to shoot and hang out with for the day, The portrait from that session still remains one of my favourite shots to this day. RIP.
Thank you for capturing him, i only ever hear good things about keef, any chance you’d share said portrait purely for my own love for the Ant army generally. 👊 🐜
Whoa, that's a memory to treasure, mate. Now I'm dying to see your photographs... Any chance of a link or owt?
@@conollytom7049 If you Google my name, James Cheadle, you'll find my site.
dude there's some pretty sick stuff on your page how come you stopped?
@@kurtlee3198 I haven't stopped. Still going.
I had the honour and privilege to be the assistant engineer (read ‘tape op’/‘tea boy’) for the vocal sessions for ‘Fat of the Land’. When it came to firestarter, it was decided that, for the vibe, Keith should do his vocals in the control room. He had a handheld SM58 with the lead trailing out through the control room door , into the live room, and plugged directly into a 4x12 Marshall stack. The stack was miked up and recorded. Can’t have the speakers bleeding over the vocals so everyone had headphones. Except there weren’t enough headphones to go round so I was the only one that didn’t have headphones. So the track starts playing and Neil MacLellen (producer), Liam, Maxim and Keith et.al, are nodding in sync and all I can hear is the ‘tis tis tis’ of the headphone overspill. And Keith heavy breathing. Keith is at the back of the room in long shorts, tattooed calfs, and double Mohawk.
Suddenly Keith bends over double and screams “I’M THE FIRESTARTER” into the mic. Neck veins throbbing, snorting like a bull. Remember I’m the only one that can’t hear the music.
I got to hear the whole acapella of firestarter sung at me by Keith himself.
I absolutely concur with the other commenters- outside of his onstage persona, he was an adorable man. “Your mum would love him “.
Miss him.
P.S. : I also drove him in my mini round London looking for W H Smiths to get Letrasets to find fonts for his “Inflicted“ tattoo. Double Mohican touching the roof liner in the passenger seat xx
That's proper tell the grandkids shit that like.
That might be the most amazing Keith story out there.
You realise you are the only person who ever heard the real, unfiltered version of that song?
I got chills that’s such an amazing story 🖤 you’re so lucky
epic story - thanks for sharing
Keith Flint terrified a generation of kids in that Firestarter video, but he lived the very opposite of an intense lifestyle. He lived in the most idyllic manor house cottage in Essex, he rode motorbikes but he also loved bird watching and kept a bunch of animals.
How do you unite old school E'-head ravers, Metal heads, Indie kids, hip hop fans and sexy student girls and get them on the dance floor? What the Prodigy did was genius.
❤❤❤
Agreed. They were visionaries. I love them ❤️ still
i mean, yess for sure but also very derivant from what was happening in the european music scene of that days.
They mention that one of the very firsts albums was a response to the "Criminal Justice Act". This has been a strick set of laws put up in the UK in response to "Castel Morton Comon Festival". An illigal festival where the acid tekno rave scene that was already influenced by punk and the freak movement meat up. This brought the Spiral Tribe to embrace the van life culture and follow up in the illegal underground scene living UK to travel across Europe and some more pieces of world. The France influence took a lot from the hip hop scene (francecore) while here in Italy we was more in the punk crossover.
Check to "Foward the Revolution" by Spiral Tribe from almost same period.
Prodigy influenced world wide charts, Spiral influenced and fueled generations to come of european underground culture... and Prodigy.
In italy totally unrelated and never followed up in the rave scene but musically similar we had a group called Narcolexia in that timeline too. "Danza" and "Sovraccarico Sensoriale" realy deserve a spot in the tier list.
My mum danced firestarter every time it came on with me back in the day. She hated prodigys' first style of music but loved their last. Rip mum, Rip Keith. I hope you are both firestarting up there and dancing your best dance.
Keith Flint sadly missed, he loved motorbike and ran a motorcycle racing team, Team Traction Control, which won four Isle of Man TT races in 2015 and 2016.
Isle of Man 🇮🇲 mentioned . Present and correct😂
😅😂@@littlemy1773
You may be interested to know that Keith Flint is parodied/homaged in a video game. Assassins Creed Valhalla. in a side mission you come across someone called Keith who"s fighting against a clergyman who accuses him of playing the devil"s music. After defeating the clergyman, Keith then sings "Smack the bishop" It made me titter when I played it.
Just had to look that shit up!
Class!
People were so much nicer in the ecstasy days.
😂😂 yes! No more words needed!
Should be available on the NHS. I'm first in the queue...
@affalaffaa I'll be behind you lol.
We still exist and haven't given up on the world ✌🏻❤🇬🇧
Right? In the bathroom we would non stop hype each other up and shower each other with compliments. Even shed tears of joy just loving every random girl in sight to bits
I met Kieth Flint in a pub in Camden he was as much like his Firestarter character as the Pope is like Mohamed Ali. He was quiet and a really nice guy and as you say a really good guy to chat with. I was very sad when they announced his death
I met him at Ilford Island in the mid nineties, total nice guy!🏴
The prodigy were a great unifier, Dance, pop, rock, metal, indie, nobody hated them in the 90.s
Yes I hated them.
My mum did.
Musically-challenged people hated them.
@@prodigy84bg Still hate them, and I play guitar, bass,keyboard and Ukulelee so not musically challenged. It doesn't take a musician to program a drum machine.
@@TheTimeProphet Liam Howlett can play the piano, keyboard, drums, guitar, bass (while also being a DJ) and all but one of his albums have reached Number 1 in the charts, some even in multiple countries. Do you even have one successful record to be in a position to criticise his music?
As a lifelong rock and metal fan, The Prodigy slip nicely into my playlist. Fat of the Land is one of the best albums of the 90s. Keith Flint is sadly missed.
Same, we loved them from the start. No idea what this guy was talking about, Metalheads, Rockers and Dance fans have always blended and got along.
Same really. I love Fat of the Land in the same way as I love Paranoid. It's a twist of the tail that just need to jump into when you're in the mood...
I love and loved seeing the Prodigy at their gigs. I'm from Ireland and they came here every year., since the 90's, Ive been at over 10 prodigy gigs. RIP Keith
Their gigs look transcendental! I wish I could have experienced one. 🤘
@@JJLAReacts think epic and go omf god., better craic than crack. Keith was fire. I'm nearly 50 but what they came up with when I was late teens early 20's... the combo of what was going on was electronica/rock live... Drugs may have enhanise it'. That was standard at the time
I saw The Prodigy in the early 90’s at the Cliffs Pavilion in Southend Essex. I was 14 there was about 100 people. During their set both Keith and Maxim jumped into the small crowd from the stage and were dancing right with us. Amazing moment that only a year later you’d be 1 in thousands. RIP Keith (legend)
OMG.. memories of Grandmaster Flash. "don't push me coz I'm close to the ...edge". I used to horrify my sons rapping that line when they were irritating me. LMAO. Both my sons made music in their bedrooms..one at each end of the house, one into rap and hip hop (with his friend Lord Dazastah - known to me as Daz, his workmate, who loved my cat), the other techno./EDM - later became a teacher by day, DJ by night. I was in the middle. I used to play a music quiz game online where your opponent could choose the category and the young players always chose categories they thought I wouldn't know judging by my profile pic, but I'd beat them every time and they'd be like "how do you know Wiz Khalifa" or "What? You know Skrillex?". Don't judge a book.. hehe.
I did like Firestarter from the first time I heard it too- the raw energy of it. I even liked "Smack My Bitch Up" but my sons requested I never say that title as it sounded so ridiculous coming from their well-spoken mother's lips. 😅😅😅 If you made it this far, thanks for humouring me.
Top mum ✌🏻❤🇬🇧
My wife met Keith and the rest of the band. She said Keith was so nice and an absolute gentleman. RIP Keith
Thanks for this video by the way...
... I'm from the UK and grew up with their singles and had no idea they were such a complex, ingenious band.
What a great backstory and I'm glad their reach has transcended the Atlantic ocean!
Have a good one!
I was part of the UK Acid House scene (Rave Scene) 1988 - 1993 it was something very special.
16:38 Way to go Keith ! - that made me cry 😭😭. I would give anything to go back to his pub and talk to him again over a pint, he was so down to earth and without a ounce of celebrity holier than thou. We end up bonding up by the love of snowboarding. Rest in Peace my friend, we will be Shredding the Gnar soon, i promise.
Never forget seeing them live when I was 14 … The system was beyond loud and it truly smashed my face in … The best
I credit hearing Firestarter & Breathe coming through my teenage neighbour's smokey window as being the tracks that were the trigger for 9-year-old me becoming a lifelong metalhead & industrial music lover - thanks Dan❤
I can definitely confirm they crossed genres with Firestarter and gained a whole new audience of metallers. I've always been into metal but I mix in some EDM, trip-hop, jazz, classical etc, but even among my metal friends who were usually very elitist about their limited taste The Prodigy made an impact.
I remember trying to see The Prodigy when they played the second stage at Download Festival (rock/metal/alt fest not used to dance music at all) and you couldn't get near the stage. It felt like the entire festival was there to see them.
Keith was something special. By all accounts he was a lovely guy, one of the sweetest people you could ever meet. But isn't that usually the way? The people who look intimidating are often completely opposite when you actually start to talk to them.
His funeral was a testament to his impact on music and Britain. Thousands upon thousands of people stopped and showed their respects. I don't think anyone really expected how it impacted the country. No one knew he was a national treasure until it was too late to tell him.
Very sad. 😢
I've been a Metalhead since long before The Prodigy began, immediately loved them as did all my metal and rocker mates, long before Firestarter.
I used to go to a Rock/Metal night when I was at Newcastle Uni and the place went wild every time The Prodigy came on. Had the pleasure of seeing Pendulum at a festival but gutted I never got to see them.
By all accounts Keith was a lovely and kind man who did a lot for his community and of course his beloved dogs and horses. RIP Keith.
I remember being really put-off music by boy bands singing mushy lovey songs about girls at the time. I was 9 years old. Keith and the Prodigy were my first exposure to the idea that music could be shouty and ugly and angry and scary and I fucking loved it!
Keith Flint was one of the quiteset, introspecive, thoughtful person you could ever meet. He was so far removed from his persona you'd never believe, he will be forever missed by true children of the rave culture. RIP Keith,
Agreed. He was sweet and funny and had a “your mum would love him “ vibe. Devastated he could feel so low as to leave us 😢
I am a metalhead and The Prodigy is the only reason i like electronic music, well and Trentemøller but The Prodigy oh man, i saw them live at a festival many years ago and i was blown away, i had never heard their music before and it was the same day i discovered Pendulum, they were playing later the same evening. Is there any better introduction to electronic music than that? Among the greatest live shows i've ever seen. I was absolutely mezmerised.
Prodigy and pendulum are both amazing
-signed a rock/metal head
Seeing Prodigy is probably one of my strongest memories of live music. It was as if you could see the bass wave up through the crowds. Everyone was on their feet dancing in front of their seats. During the heavy beats it felt like a sonic boom travelling through each and every person in the crowd to hit you in the solar plexus. I’ve never experienced anything else like it in the roughly 20 years since. Phenomenal!
Completely and utterly gutted when Keith passed away. The Prodigy will never be the same without him, especially live as he was so energetic on stage. One of the best I've ever seen get a crowd jacked up so he could feed off it and go even more wild. R.I.P. Keith you absolute legend
I was a young metalhead at the time. First time I heard Firestarter, I loved it. The Prodigy never disappointed.
R.I.P. Keith Flint.
Prodigy, soundtrack to my life.have loved them since 1990, great music and influence.
Soundtrack to my youth too, what a time, best years for music, loved the early 90's rave culture...
One of the best acts I've seen live. Both times at metal festivals. Was mad, and got me into way more genre melding groups. RIP Keith
Your name's Flint and you're best known for Firestarter.
I've been listening to them since the start and that's genuinely the first time I've thought of that! How did I never think of that?!
Personally think "Breathe" is the better record, but admit "Firestarter" packed the roundhouse / haymaker knockout punch, "Breathe" was the more subtle, tactical uppercut that took you out from no-where ...
Narayan will always be my favourite from FotL, but yeah prefered Breathe over Firestarter.
I think as a metal head I’m more predisposed to firestarter, but god the bass on breathe is iconic
I loved playing Wipeout 2097 back in '96, Firestarter was the background music for that game
My husband was part of the team that made Wipeout 2097, he says they had to listen to Firestarter a lot in the office at that time! 😂
@@KateSander22 wow how amazing, that was my favourite game at that time, closely followed by Crash Bandicoot 🤣
@@laynz.h yeah, he worked on it when he was an artist working at a studio in Liverpool, called Psygnosis, later became a Sony PlayStation studio though. He still works for Sony but at their London studio now and in their R&D department. It’s all depressing AI stuff now! Crash Bandicoot is a brilliant game!
I made my fingers bleed playing Wipeout, haha. I also had the visuals burned into the back if my eyelids for a few weeks. My fave game I think. Also massive Prodigy Fan.
@@KateSander22 wow, I didn't know it was made in Liverpool, that's my home town.
AI has certainly ruined a lot of things and it's only the beginning. We have a lot of AI interaction in my job too
I've heard them Live few years back and that was the best ever control that any band ever had over crowd! Keith wanted us to duck we all people did it! All of us knew their lyrics and at one point they allowed us to sing and that was POWERFUL! RIP Keith and thank you The Prodigy for existing. Your music truly allowed to keep my rage at bay!
Love this reaction 🤩🤩🏴
Charlie Says, Trumpton, Rhubarb and Custard and Sesame Street were great tracks.
Overall Prodigy was and still is one of the best Rave bands going.
Yeah I have fond memories of the toy town techno tunes lol. They might have been chancers, but there were bangers among them!
Trip to Trumpton in particular was a banger. Still listen to it fairly often.
Firestarter!! Been my ringtone for 20+ years!
I loved this. Thanks
They were fantastic, I was lucky to see them live a few times....
Love to hear your insite on the singer .REN,,
I second this. Ren's work, and his story, are fascinating.
Definitely worth a dive down the Ren rabbit hole. A genuine genre bender
I adore Ren, he is extraordinary.
there are plety of reactions to him on rap chanels
@@lillired857but he's not exclusively rap, he mixes folk, rock, jazz, classical and more
Love listening to a bit of Prodigy when I’m at the gym, best way to make you run faster on the treadmill! 😂
That's the thing with rock/metal, it blends with all genres.
I saw Prodigy a total of 4 times in the early 90's. I was into the Rave scene in a big way at the time.
I've listened to their music ever since, they feature regularly on my playlists.
Seeing the band now is amazing. Wish I saw it years ago when Keith was still alive.
RIP Keith, I'll have a drink in your honour.
Summer 97 after a house party in Yorkshire I heard a DJ drop firestarter and the hills are alive from the sound of music.
"You're not getting a job as a paralegal with that look!"😂😂
A fascinating source video- and your discussion points added a lot of value too!
Saw The Prodigy play Reading Festival 20 odd years ago. Still pumped the crowd full of energy after 3 days of drinking in a field. RIP Flinty.
Prodigy - out of space. classic
23:08 rip that man.
I was one of those metalheads.. I re,member exactly the first time I watched this video.. I was stunned.. and spooked..
THIS BAND AND DAFT PUNK CHANGED MY HEAD FOREVER.
Flinty was a legend. He owned a pub in my local town in Braintree, Essex. He would always buy drinks when he was in. I loved his little cottage in Bocking with that ridiculous TVR he had. RIP chap. So missed.
Great video dude, it's took me back to the good old days, keep it up brother, awesome channel
The Prodigy experience was the 1st CD I bought.
Until you saw The Prodigy live, they WERE just Liam. That’s all I knew him as.
When a music video has a pre-watershed ban, you know you’re doing something right.
Also: Faithless, Orbital, Underworld. All truly next level, then and still now.
Jilted was fkn INCREDIBLE when that arrived
Seen them in 95 next band up we’re rage..next band up we’re cypress hill..what a gig that was, mighta been the other way round I was high as feck😂🎉😂
I listen to Death Metal and The Prodigy.
You're quickly becoming one of my favorite channels. This video mentioned The Specials a few times. You might find them interesting to review.
I remember the outrage at the video. Keith smashing it 😂😂😂
saw them so many times keith was so GENTLE and down to earth nothing like his image gave off
Camden baby, in the good old days
Double thumbs up. The Prodigy completely opened my mind.
really impressed at all the comments on here. lovely.
I will also now say I miss the 90's, the music the vibe everything about it.
For some reason when I first heard Skinny Puppy in the late 90's and hadn't seen the band I imagined Ogre having a gothier version of the Keith Flint look.
British inquests seldom record a verdict of suicide unless its pretty much categorically proven. Suicide used to be illegal in Britain (with attempted suicide treated the same as attempted murder); and suicide victims were not allowed to be buried in consecrated graves and were hell bound as a result. Thus there was a general reluctance to record suicide as the cause of death unless it was irrefutable. My Gr Gr Grandad hung himself in 1905. He went upstairs on his own, as witnessed by his entire family who then found him hanging from a beam along with a suicide note. The death was recorded as caused by temporary insanity. Even with irrefutable evidence of suicide the inquest accepted a different cause.
Thanks for this video, you brought back memories long gone. I first landed in London in the second half of the 80's, I lived the decade plus of the rave scene, I remember Keith popping up randomly at 6am throwing his crazy dance moves, the days of "Spiral Tribe".... I can bet that Keith got his American flag top in the legendary shop just before the lock on the right coming up from Camden station, the one that had as signage a small purplish pink punk mohican head. Prodigy, and Chemical Brothers to a certain extent, were the showcase of our generation and culture, pure freedom of expression and 100% commitment to embrace and rejoice, lust for experiencing and celebrating differences.
Howlett's Dirtchamber Sessions Volume One is a superb DJing album, well worth a listen.
I was 14 when "Charly" came out. I think I still have the tape single. I also still have the CD single of "everybody..." ( It was the first CD I ever bought). ❤
Roobarb & Custard was also the slang for and casing for a lot of MDMA pills in the UK 90's . 💊
I remember their law being very popular with the metal heads. Fire starter drew EVERYONE in, it was a revelation at the time.
Can I just say I love your voice, and demeanor. Such a chill way to react instead of all the shouty channels... Keep it up !
I saw them live at the bizarre festival in 2001 and was completely blown away. When they came on stage and had a real drum set, electric guitar, bass guitar plus their synths and a turntable and actually played their songs I couldn´t believe it. I also saw them as a techno/electronic music act only and I could never have imagined that this music could look like this on stage until then.
What fantastic times.
They took rave samples and added wizardry .Their first tour was insane .
i'm in the uk. my mate taped over a rental copy of boyz n the hood to record their number one performance of this on top of the pops when i was 11. one of my favourite memories. hope all the subsequent renters of that film enjoyed it as much as we did.
Ahh yes, the days of VHS 😂
Born 1980 in uk and raving at 17 (where back in day began) and remember it well.
Outta space will be played at my funeral.
Prodigy and then some ✌️
Rave on my brother 🙌
Keith flint was and is a legend I was soo lucky to see them perform at creamfields 2006 tiesto was the highlight with adio for strings n that was awsome but prodigy walking out was somthing else it was raw natural talent
There was a club in Cardiff that played Dance upstairs and Metal on the floor downstairs. Liking both types of music I'd flit between the floors. Guaranteed I'd hear Prodigy played on both. Can't believe it's almost 30 years I've been telling those close to me that I want Breathe played as my coffin enters the crematoria😮😂
Loved the Prodigy. Keith Flint took his own life. A very sad loss for us. He was a well known and very well liked man. Ask anyone who encountered him, and you will hear that he was gentle, quiet, humble and kind. Very opposite to his onscreen image. RIP Keith Flint.
All the videos where they show the sample clips that made classics, all the Prodigy ones are so easy to follow an appreciate. You can see exactly how they got the ideas and evolved them. Been a huge inspiration when I'm cutting loops and samples.
Keith was driving the Isle of Wight ferry one time (they let artists take the helm on the way to the festival sometimes) (I think Maxi Jazz did it and Bono). He was asked by a journalist (probably Jo Whiley) "what made you do what you do?" [ ]. And he said something like "God gave me a broom and told me to get to work... So I did"/ He was a pub landlord and should have been my friend - and yours.
I’m so impressed by him now! I underestimated him for a long time.
My dad loves out of space since I first played it in early 90’s. Bearing in mind he hates dance and prefers classical, particular old rock (Beatles, Elvis and like) ABBA and glen miller. Probably why he let me see them at 14 live where Keith & Maxim jumped off stage and danced with us. So they were also playing to under 18’s. They weren’t just playing to non substance takers but they really appreciated their roots. As Essex boys they often revisited the county for sets. RIP&firestarting Keith Flint. I’ll neva forget dancing next to you to Jericho & everybody in the place ❤❤❤
I was in on Prodigy from Charly, outrageously great. Prodigy Experience was one of my first CD albums, (After CD's introduced).
I did local road crew stage setup for Prodigy at Milton Keynes Bowl, Alton Towers and V-Festival in the UK in 2009-2010 Invaders Must Die tours.
Truly incredible band performances to die for...
I’m a metalhead who grew up in the 90’s in England. Always had big love for the rave / jungle / dnb / dubstep scenes. Wild music is wild music
When Firestarter first appeared on TOTP it caused loads of kids to have nightmares! Epic song. All of their albums still stand up really well.
The Fat of the Land...Great CD (still have it)
The Prodigy are definitely the premier band of their genre.
Liam is a musical genius.
Pretty much the UK's Trent Reznor.
Both of them musical genius'.
Liam's quote about being revered came true. The band is definitely seen up there as a genre-defining act now by anyone who knows anything about music.
Between 1994 and 1999 this band was my life.
I'm honored to have seen them live 3 times in my 47 years. I still have the unused tickets for what would have been my 4th time. 😢 These guys are everything this video says they are, and then some. R.I.P. Firestarter
Top video, enjoyed it a lot. I was hardcore metal from mid 80s to mid 90s and Jilted Generation won me over and got me listening to new electronic stuff. Getting covered in Kerrang was a BIG deal at the time and a sign that genre barriers were breaking down and music was becoming less tribal. In my view anyway.
Love your relaxed manner BTW, a refreshing change from hectic, no pause videos!
I was 10 when I 1st heard Charley and that was it, I was hooked. Dance music took over and I indulged in all of those mind blowing acts like Orbital and Leftfield. But then came 'Their Law' and things really did start to change. People that loved rock started paying attention to The Prodigy and I started venturing out in to rock music too. Fat Of The Land was it, that bringing together and opening up new worlds for people on both sides of the rave/rock divide was now The Prodigy's home. Their albums are genius and 'visionary' really is the word!
I'm lucky enough to have seen them live 12 times since 2002. If you ever get the opportunuty, you absolutely have to go and feel that energy! I'll be back again later this year 🤘🐜
I fell in love with them right at the start, not sure how I heard them, being in Australia, but got to see them live in 99, Keith in his straightjacket, Liam surrounded by 3 towers of 5 keyboards each, was so glad I got to give my youngest brother his 1st concert and he saw them, he does Djing these days. I legit cried when news broke of Keith's passing, "Breathe" is my anthem, to this day
Prodigy was the first music live in my life. Had all the CDs, T-shirts, went to their show. Liam’s mixing is genius, no one males drums and bass line the way he does. His solo stuff is great as well.
I was very lucky indeed that during my work life I got to meet and work with, for hours on end, Keith Flint. Already liked the full-on experience of their music and transfixed by his natural intensity and movement.. he was an absolute sweetheart.
Didn’t notice Union Features’ comment below, but same here. A pleasure to work with.
Seeing Prodigy live was definitely a bucket list thing, so glad I got to see them live. One of the greats. Was a fan from like 94-ish.
Pretty much all my life, I've bounced between hard rock/metal and everything electronic. Started with bands like KISS and W.A.S.P. at like 6-7 years old, moved onto power metal etc., did years of clubbing, found metalcore etc :D Been a cool journey. Nowadays it's just a ton of melodic death metal, metalcore, deathcore and chill electronic genres like phonk, prog house/trance and minimal techno.
Iconic. I remember MTV playing this constantly & we all used to wait through all the other tunes until Firestarter came on.. I was 9… Prodigy was unapologetically raw & angsty - peak mid 90s, tail end Gen X era coolness! My days, life & culture was so much more fun back then!
My brother & I even went to see them about 8 years ago in London, few years before Keith died. Absolutely awesome & still starting fires 🔥 rip Keith Flint!