One of several Invaders Must Die tracks crawling into the upper echelons of this list, Piranha has Maxim detail, erm, a piranha ripping you apart. Howlett was weaselling away at this batch of tracks as early as 1998 they can’t all be zingers, but Spitfire alonewas worth the six year wait. While the album’s easily the weakest of the band’s six full-lengths, it’s by no means cack opening track Spitfire, featuring Juliette Lewis, is a venomous, vocal-led assault that also focuses on the guitar/drum crunch the band would perfect on their following two LPs.
Many regard the Prodigy’s fourth record, Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned, as a turd in an otherwise tasty sonic broth. Skunk Anansie’s Selling Jesus and another Nirvana track, this time Smells Like Teen Spirit, are both pilfered for samples plonk that atop obnoxious turntable usage, beefy beats and Flint’s lip curling to the tune of Johnny Rotten, it’s as much a riposte to nu metal as it is a nod to fellow brits Pitchshifter.
SPITFIRE THE PRODIGY SERIAL
Nu metal was yet to reach its dregs, and some of these tracks – Serial Thrilla in particular – seem almost a response to that burgeoning, mostly American scene. You all know what went down surrounding Smack My Bitch Up and its accompanying video, but one of the record’s most endearing qualities is its acknowledgment of rock music’s trajectory. The Fat Of The Land was released in 1997 and established the Prodigy as genuine legends.
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