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Keith Flint - Prodigy Front singer - dead at age 49.
- Thread starter hanmik
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Yep. Though, I'm black in the US. I felt like the only black kid on this slate of land that heard of them.
I never looked at music the same way after hearing them. They introduced me to the British sound.
RIP.
Didn't expect to see the name again so soon and under such circumstances. Sunday I was watching the Guy Martin Pikes Peak run and a piece of trivia was that the bike used had a frame built by Martek and only two were made, Guy Martin's and the other that was originally owned by Keith.
Didn't expect to see the name again so soon and under such circumstances. Sunday I was watching the Guy Martin Pikes Peak run and a piece of trivia was that the bike used had a frame built by Martek and only two were made, Guy Martin's and the other that was originally owned by Keith.
Awful news, I love The Prodigy and they just released an album a few months ago and Timebomb Zone was one of the better tracks of all 2018 for me. That scene in the 90s was so drug influenced and booze influenced.... I know he was cleaned up from all of that but the "rockstar lifestyle" can take its toll. Not my place to speculate anything though, just know that music was insane. So much good tracks all around.
Easily those guys are among one of my favorite bands and they are so big for the EDM scene, they were up their as pioneers of the infamous Euro electronica scene of the 90's. Music still holds up today.
Flint had such a crazy look, his stage prescence was great and he was HUGE for the band's success. Poster boy of songs like Breathe and Firestarter. His energy was something else.
I don't know how the two other guys can carry forth The Prodigy. Don't think anyone can replace Keith Flint's presence.
What a bummer to hear.
Easily those guys are among one of my favorite bands and they are so big for the EDM scene, they were up their as pioneers of the infamous Euro electronica scene of the 90's. Music still holds up today.
Flint had such a crazy look, his stage prescence was great and he was HUGE for the band's success. Poster boy of songs like Breathe and Firestarter. His energy was something else.
I don't know how the two other guys can carry forth The Prodigy. Don't think anyone can replace Keith Flint's presence.
What a bummer to hear.
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They just released an album last year, literately Q3 or Q4 of 2018 and they always bring it on tours with fans. An absolute shock if he wasn't safe financially.
Maxim with guest vocalists in the studio would be my guess OR Howlett does more instrumental focused records with occasional guest vocals like Always Outnumbered/Jilted/Experience
Jesus Christ the same age as me. And damn! Prodigy were all around me when I was partying (years ago now). RIP.
Yeah true. I think they can transition maybe to more instrumental, just that void is always gonna be there on stage presence. Sucks. Went right away to "3 Kilos" while at work. All day the replay button for some of these tracks, still mindblowing as ever 20 years later.
The Prodigy introduced me to electronica as a kid (along with Neil Voss's Tetrisphere soundtrack) and were a major factor in shaping my taste in music; The Fat of the Land was my JAM in HS. I never got to see them live.
This news is terrible. RIP Keith.
This news is terrible. RIP Keith.
No Tourists is their best work since FotL. There's never a good time to go but at least he left us with a final gift. So fucking sad.
Grew up with a Jilted Generation poster on my bedroom wall, loved their early output at the time. Really sad news.
Great shout. Can totally see the connection, both are brilliance and are timeless.
Shit, I guess I could have phrased that better. The Police we're literally checking to see if he is ok. That's what's known as a welfare check here.
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Firestarter was a guaranteed way to make any late 90s movie trailer seem way more badass than the movie actually was.
Absolutely legendary band. Wipeout XL introduced a lot of Americans like me to the electronic invasion and shortly after, we began seeing Keith's face all over MTV in the Firestarter video. Very saddened to see this news.
Really sad about this.
Prodigy is probably my fav group of all time, and I just had been listening to more Experience and Jilted Generation again (didn't have the albums on my PC because I had listened to them so, so much in the 90's). Literally in the last 2 weeks I loaded em up and started listening a lot again.
Prodigy is probably my fav group of all time, and I just had been listening to more Experience and Jilted Generation again (didn't have the albums on my PC because I had listened to them so, so much in the 90's). Literally in the last 2 weeks I loaded em up and started listening a lot again.
Crushed. Loved their work and I was really excited to be seeing them play at a local festival in May. :(
I saw them in 94 and 05. Superb act. 94 was the best. They were doing FotL tunes before it came out and it was HYPE!
Keith was an icon, and for a long while everything he and the rest of the band did, was downright incredible. Bunch of my friends and I grew up with this band, and our tastes evolved with their music and style. Absolutely gutted to hear this.
I first heard The Prodigy in WipEout 2097 on the PS1.
Never a band I was massively in to, but one that has always been about and I'd listen to. Absolutely one of those acts that bled into other the music catalogues of fans of other genres.
49 is no age.
Never a band I was massively in to, but one that has always been about and I'd listen to. Absolutely one of those acts that bled into other the music catalogues of fans of other genres.
49 is no age.
The track Jerhico on Experience was my introduction to Prodigy. I am very saddened to hear this news. RIP
Man I was just planning on seeing The Prodigy in Boston. :(
They were still making magic too. This more recent song is straight fire to me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1AaKBbNGkk
RIP. This SUCKS!!!
They were still making magic too. This more recent song is straight fire to me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1AaKBbNGkk
RIP. This SUCKS!!!
Spent all day feeling a bit numbed from this.
They were the soundtrack to a lot of my life, introduced me to a lot of things and experiences over the eleven times I got to see them.
Remember buying the first album on cassette and only last week ordered the Invaders Must Die anniversary vinyl.
This one will hang heavy on me for a long time.
They were the soundtrack to a lot of my life, introduced me to a lot of things and experiences over the eleven times I got to see them.
Remember buying the first album on cassette and only last week ordered the Invaders Must Die anniversary vinyl.
This one will hang heavy on me for a long time.
A great friend of mine, who pretty much always had an impeccable taste for music introduced me to The Prodigy. It was the video for 'Everybody in the Place". I remember being absolutely overwhelmed by it, it turned my music world upside down, completely. Keith at the time was a dancer in the band (and not quite as memorable as Maxim was) but he became so much more on their later albums.
Same for me. I've only seen them live once though, but it was simply amazing.
I remember buying "More music for the jilted generation" because I heard "Voodoo People " In the radio and thinikng it was the coolest shit ever and that's how I got hooked. I'm really sad.