its all a matter of personal tatste...no right no wrong...listen to what you want to and disregard the rest

go drink a beer and chill...me i will do the same

+1. Fucking thirsty.

Reading some of the stuff in this thread is pissing me off. Kingdom pretty much hit it on the head though. jilted, how you can not like Weather Experience from MK is just hypocritical. You say you like the old stuff, then when it's brought back you think wtf. I'm thinking wtf are you bloody going on about. I was at MK and that was one of the best moments of my life, and nearly all of the crowd would agree...

IMD is an amazing album, I love it and the only part I'm not so keen on is Stand Up, and the stupid cutting up of the synth in WOF. Other than that it's outstanding. I like AONO too, but come on, IMD is just better and more in the Prodigy spirit. Both albums work at home for me, although AONO gets weak in the later quarter...

I think the IMD era has been one of the best times to be a Prodigy fan, no fan could have asked for much more than what they've given us these past couple of years...

So we get a couple of old demos thrown at us and everyone starts bickering about the band?

Put the hand bags away guys. There's voicing your opinion and there's shoving your opinion down someones throat......

Chill

bang on mate, to think IMD is probably the 3rd best album out of the 5 shows the incredibly high quality music we have gotten in 20 years! its so hard for bands and musicians these days to get an album out that makes an impact because you have to wade through the shite that floods the radio and internet, people have wrote the prodigy off for years but i was not surprised how good IMD was, the genius has always been there, even in AONO, which is a boss album, the prodigy never copy anyone, to this day you cannot put them in any genre of music, i've got it down to electronica, but thats as close as i can get, totally unique in sound and one of the greatest live bands EVER..that is a fact.

Liam doesn't actually trigger anything much on the live show apart from pressing play on his laptop with Ableton.. As far as i'm aware. His just rests his fingers on the keys, and takes them off when a new melody or beat starts. Then he jumps around all excited pretending he's actually performing when he's really just spazzing out on the keyboard

i do the same

Haha, naa, lets not go there, I'm certain Liam does the occasional bit of tweaking on Ableton during the live shows (ie when the beats repeat n slow down to a stop during the end of Invaders Must Die live), to say all he does is just press play n pretend to play shit throughout the entire gigs isn't entirely true, yeh maybe he doesn't do as much to the tracks on Ableton when they're in full force as he'd be willing to admit, but what he does do live isn't all that different to what Leo n Rob do, he just adds a few extra synth parts n licks over the top of the tracks to give them more energy live, simple as that...

Back on topic, the demos that we heard on the Zane Lowe radio programme was definitely nothing more than just an insight into how IMD sounded in its early stages. Even Liam himself would probably admit that these demoes will more than likely never develop into future tracks n thats why he's let them be heard now rather than just be forgotten about like so many other ideas he's probably demo'd over the years.

On the topic of IMD, to me, although it may sound pretty shitty production wise n thats what turns people off of it, I really do think AONO is a much more creative album. If Liam had produced the album with a 'better' sound, similar to the demo versions of Shoot Down (Guns) n that then people would probably be giving it the recognition it deserves. I just think, as he often says, he just hit on a sound that he was into or 'feeling' at the time n just worked on a load of ideas that followed that particular sound n style.
I'm sure I'm not alone n theres quite a few ppl here that can see past the sound n production quality of AONO n see it for what it was, a really creative time for Liam where it was more about him himself rather than Keith n Maxim, similar to how it originally was back in the early days...

Really can't wait to hear how the next album will sound, hopefully it will be more original than IMD n there will a few more guest collaborations, but sadly I really don't think we'll be hearing it anytime soon...

one last post about it - where the fuck is this fu(n)kin great punk tune?!

when i heard it (the first gig of AONO) i was only: oh my god oh my god oh my god... excited like fuck!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkLjIGifWxY

i contemplate it too

weather experience was ruined on MK by adding shit noise on it

and i'd love Liam dropping cocaine

peace mates

lol.


yeah, first i was blown away by the atmosphere and the lasers and the pure awesomeness of the track. but then this noise kicked in and it totally ruined the moment for the 65.000 in attendance.

Aono demo's were so fucking nice....If he took the IMD production spirit (not being lazy...plenty of variation and drumfills etc) and applied it to aono tunes....
I mean check it out:

1. Trigger; great beats, excellent ending.
2. Guns: Great psychedellia sound...
3. Guns Reprise: probably one of the tunes that could rival weather experience.
4. Nuclear: the main melody of the guitar was super catchy...could have been worked out much further.
5. Warning; the version of pinkpop 2005 was rocking....
6. dead ken; heard this on it's first play in amsterdam...got all the girls going.

I'd LOVE a "More Aono"

ps; the evil synth in memphis bells and the garage tune in the aono demo on the dvd were ace too...

you on a wind up?

none of these tracks were any good, barring warning which was a decent track.. AONO is no where near IMD in any shape or form.. the production on AONO was amateur like, it would take a lot more than better production to make that album stand toe to toe with the other albums, and you know what the big giveaway is mate, none of this album is played live, maybe except spitfire. shows what liam thinks of it, they toured the album and that was it, they went on and did the singles tour.. in truth i dont mind AONO i listen to it, but it will never stand next to anything else the prodigy have done, no where fucking near...you would love a "more AONO", stop talking rubbish..when IMD album tour is done its done, on to the new sound, the new album, no looking back, a lot of these tunes will be still on the live set, you cannot ever say that for AONO, it may as well be called the lost album. gun reprise, trigger, nuclear are all very poor offerings...awful in fact