I remember liking tracks from all the CDs except Experience, where I think only Out of Space was something I found listenable :D

what exactly did you not like about Experience? because I think I know exactly what you mean

I didn't understand it yet Imagine a kid undergoing a transition from listening to radio crap to some music that sounds so old and boring.

No music comes closer to define who I am inside than The Prodigy. I'm a fanboy and I'm proud of it. I work for a huge video game studio packed with people younger than me and my desktop image is a huge Prodigy ant logo.

Every day is my enemy until march 30.

gcx
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For me it was in 1992. I was around 14 at the time.

I remember watching the video for Everybody In The Place on MTV Europe and those synths were engraved in my memory forever.

Then I heard Out Of Space and I played it on loop on a VHS on which I had recorded MTV's The Party Zone (old timers will remember that show). There were a couple of other XL Recordings acts on that show, like Channel X, Cubic 22, Praga Kahn, SL2 and many others that I can't remember now. That really got me into the Hardcore scene and The Prodigy were the best by far. We were always on the lookout for new material by The Prodigy, and I remember that at that time, single releases were often quite different from the album version (Everybody In The Place, Wind It Up, Fire...) so it always felt fresh.

After that, One Love happened with that (now) crappy looking 3D video. At that point I started to lose interest, not that it wasn't any good, but it felt like more of the same. Until No Good that is, which really brought their sound to a new level. Voodoo People was a confirmation of an evident sign of maturity in the sound, something new was happening. After many listens to the album, I moved on to something else, again. Because that's what you do when you're young.

Firestarter took me by complete surprise, I saw the video on MTV Europe, again, but I missed the tag at the start of the song, so I didn't know it was them. I was hooked by that raw new sound (it reminded me of Tied Up by LFO, only better) and I wasn't even close to recognizing Flint. At the end of the song, I saw The Prodigy, and it left me dumbfounded. I left MTV on so that I could catch that video again and recorded on VHS. I couldn't believe it was them.
I remember walking to a record store asking when the new album by The Prodigy would come out and the guy just pointed to a sign next to the register that said "No, we do not know when the new album by The Prodigy will come out".
That's when I understood that this wasn't just an underground thing anymore and I wasn't alone in this.

I went to class with a huge drawing of The Prodigy logo (experience era) on my binder and people started to ask me about it. Those fuckers started to recognize it, and we were in 96/97 at that time.

I loved TFOTL, but didn't like all that exposure everywhere, I felt like I had lost something to a bunch of people who couldn't possibly understand, and they didn't. I grew up and became a man with that early sound, that's something that nobody can take from me. I was annoyed by that TFOTL crowd who asked me to borrow the previous two albums from me because I had that huge logo on my class stuff (uni).

When AONO came out, it felt like a relief, finally something. Sadly, I don't like half of the album and I don't love the other half that much. But at least the annoying crowd was gone. The worst part is that even if I don't think that AONO is that great, I found it still miles better than anything else. I started reading interviews and scrounging for unreleased (or rare) tracks. Found a couple good ones like The Shadow and First Warning and still can't understand how those never got released on a full fledged album.

Then agony until IMD came out, thinking it was over while it felt like something was missing, lurking around here (before registering) and reading Nekosite looking for news. When they deposited the Take Me To The Hospital name, I went on youtube and searched for it. I found this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEYXOlUBtn8
I thought I recognized Keith's voice on it. I thought it was over for real this time. I felt really sad. Then IMD single came out and pheeew... TMTTH is one of my favorite tracks now. For me it's the defining The Prodigy sound :
rave synths
heavy beat
sped up voices
silly lyrics by Flint
ridiculous samples (siren sound)
typical Howlett strings

Close to perfection.

I love IMD, I think it has many elements of all albums put together. I didn't come onto here after it was released and was surprised to see so much hate about it recently, since I consider it like a real fan service album. I guess not all fans are equal. The annoying crowd always goes away, fuck'em.

No music comes closer to define who I am inside than The Prodigy. I'm a fanboy and I'm proud of it. I work for a huge video game studio packed with people younger than me and my desktop image is a huge Prodigy ant logo.

Every day is my enemy until march 30.