I wonder how mutch would they sold IMD before digital music age, in the age where FOTL was.

I rekon this album would have done alot better than FOTL. IMD is an album that even "casual" music fans fall in love with.

I rekon this album would have done alot better than FOTL. IMD is an album that even "casual" music fans fall in love with.

you are way off mate, sorry! the anticipation and hype for the fat of the land was something the prodigy will NEVER EVER repeat... that album was fucking HUGE in every way not just for the 10 tracks on there, you have to understand the music industry then, totally different to now, the charts meant something, radio airplay meant something, when people heard firestarter then breathe it was something totally out of leftfield, this album was number 1 in the uk and the US at the same time, music stores were opening at 7 am on the morning of the release, i remember going into school very early as it was in a city centre and going into Our Price (music store at the time) and people were standing outside waiting to get in to buy it...

never will that be repeated because of the way music has changed, and mostly for the worse in my opinion

whatever your opinion on IMD and FOTL and which was better or sold more, it wouldn't get anywhere near FOTL or even Jilted for that matter in my opinion..

Stuie Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2009 7:32 pm
freehandjunkie wrote:
you are way off mate, sorry! the anticipation and hype for the fat of the land was something the prodigy will NEVER EVER repeat... that album was fucking HUGE in every way not just for the 10 tracks on there, you have to understand the music industry then, totally different to now, the charts meant something, radio airplay meant something, when people heard firestarter then breathe it was something totally out of leftfield, this album was number 1 in the uk and the US at the same time, music stores were opening at 7 am on the morning of the release, i remember going into school very early as it was in a city centre and going into Our Price (music store at the time) and people were standing outside waiting to get in to buy it...

never will that be repeated because of the way music has changed, and mostly for the worse in my opinion

whatever your opinion on IMD and FOTL and which was better or sold more, it wouldn't get anywhere near FOTL or even Jilted for that matter in my opinion..
Totally agree with freehandjunkie here. Downloading music was unheard of back in 97 which meant the emphasis of album sales was far more important hence the hype surrounding the FOTL release. And in them days the music industry wasn't full of shite pop. Britpop was well in the fore, Robbie Williams was still a fat dancer shoving coke up his conk. Take That, Boyzone, E17 had all finished. The Spice Girls had even put a vibrance back into pop and made it interesting again.

Then we had The Prodigy and its hype machine kicking in, after a very successful run of festival appearances all over the UK and Europe. The music was primed to be unleashed in the summer of 97. Don't forget, when this album was released it went to no.1 in 22 countries. And it outsold Ok Computer 4 albums to 1. That success or hype will never ever be repeated in today's music climate.