Music for the Jilted Generation

Music for the Jilted Generation is an album by British band The Prodigy. The album was released through XL Recordings in July 1994. The album was re-released in 2008 as More Music for the Jilted Generation. The re-release includes remastered and bonus tracks. The album was originally going to be titled "Music For Joyriders." It is largely a response to the corruption of the rave scene in England by its mainstream status as well as Great Britain's... more

Music for the Jilted Generation is an album by British band The Prodigy. The album was released through XL Recordings in July 1994. The album was re-released in 2008 as More Music for the Jilted Generation. The re-release includes remastered and bonus tracks. The album was originally going to be titled "Music For Joyriders." It is largely a response to the corruption of the rave scene in England by its mainstream status as well as Great Britain's Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, which effectively criminalised raves, rave culture, and by implication, rave music itself. The latter is exemplified in the song "Their Law" (predominant lyric: "Fuck 'em and their law"), and the spoken word intro, which paraphrases a quote from The Lawnmower Man. When Liam Howlett came to the cutting room for the final phase in the album production he realized that all the tracks he had originally planned for wouldn't fit onto a CD so One Love had to be edited, The Heat [The Energy] was slightly... less