Music

Plugging this making-of smbu:
https://youtu.be/eU5Dn-WaElI

I've never heard of this before and I have not listened to it but I just really like crabs so I bet it's a good one

Awesome album

Essentially Public Enemy for apolitical pillheads.

Great album. Bought my copy a long time ago. It's the kind of music I sometimes go for when, of all things, cooking.

Great beats, strong lyrics, a well balanced album overall.

One of the greatest albums of all time!

I have it on vinyl and it's so good. One of a kind. Iconic in so many ways. Shame about Keith Flint, hopefully he rests in peace

Wait, that's not Crab Rave?

It was both trendy in terms of sound and packaging/styling, but the whole album was mixed with such mastery that it was one of the best sounding package I've heard until perhaps the mid 2010s. That on its own is incredible, especially in a technologically driven genre.

I enjoy it

Coooommmmmeee plaaaay myyyy game

Certified iridium banger for a reason, without question. My favorite track, voodoo people (pendulum mix) isn’t on this, but I still sing the chant from Narayan. Just as influential as most of the early works of Fatboy Slim, the Chemical Brothers, the Bassbin Twins, the Crystal Method, Fluke, and so many others. The remix album of this is still just as devastating.

Once you heard pretty much any one of these tracks, you knew this was, and probably always would be, the sound for you.

Great music and a innovative piece of history that set us on the course to crab rave.

I think a lot of people don't realise just how much this utterly shifted the British music scene

Ok there was electronic music before it and after it, but this was Sex Pistols level of ground-breaking at the time

Great album, one of my favourites.
Where I'm from Narayan was a summer hit in the dance clubs when it came out, although my friends and I were more into Firestarter and Breathe. I venture saying that it helped bridge punk and dance in a big way.

I still listen to this at least weekly, the album is in my regular gym rotation because

A) it's hard for me to listen to lyric heavy music and count reps correctly (brain no work good during ugga dugga) and

B) It's amazing.

It makes me nostalgic because it was one of the first CDs I owned.

The first was Jock Jams Volume 2, if you were wondering

Fantastic album, like others have said, it was on heavy rotation in my teens, sounds track to manyblate night gane sessions.

"Smack my Bitch Up" being a hugely popular and influential song, is also part of a long running lost media hunt for me. In the late 00's there was a youtube video made by a 3d animator as a demo reel. It was an extended anime fight between a yellow and black sentai/robot and a bunch of other robots. SMBU was the soundtrack to the video of course, lots of bits were synced to it.

That was back in the glorious pre-copyright-bot times, and since it was a demo for an unreleased project using a hugely popular song by someone who's name I've long forgotten, I can't find it! Probably scrubbed off the net by now, the creator moved on to being a cog in the Marvel movie machine.

It's a classic. Back to back bangers. Even some of the more "out there" songs like Narayan. Though there's barely any albums I don't like from them. Maybe "Experience" because it's a little much sometimes. Quite partial to "Invaders Must Die" and "No Tourists" since I grew up with IMD and because NT is their last album before Keith died (RIP)

I've never heard of this but that album art goes so hard, now I have to listen to it

One of their top three albums, possibly the best and most cohesive.

It sounds modern, mainly because modern electronic music was so heavily affected by Prodigy

fucking awesome.

Used to have it on loop while playing doom/quake

Good album, so many great tracks.