History Music / TheFatOfTheLand

* {{Sampling}}: Several tracks contain samples. The most unusual occurs in "Mindfields", which samples Music/JohnBarry's soundtrack from the Franchise/JamesBond film ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun''.

* FadingIntoTheNextSong: "Funky Shit" → "Serial Thrilla" → "Mindfields" → "Narayan".

* VariantCover: The expanded edition of the album features the shot of a sole crab on the beach changed to a ''crowd'' of identical crabs.

* [[OminousLatinChanting Ominous Hindi Chanting]]: Appears midway through "Narayan", courtesy of Crispian Mills.

* SwordFight: Sound effects used as [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic percussion on "Breathe"]].

* TheAllConcealingI: The video for "Smack my Bitch Up" is a rare example of this in visual media.

'''The Fat of the Land''' is a 1997 album by Music/TheProdigy and their third studio recording. It became an international bestseller thanks to hits such as "Smack My Bitch Up", "Firestarter" and "Breathe". In 1999 it even entered the Literature/GuinnessWorldRecords for being the fastest-selling UK album.

* SwordFight: Sound effects used as [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome percussion on "Breathe"]].

* [[OminousLatinChanting Ominous Hindu Chanting]]: Appears midway through "Narayan", courtesy of Crispian Mills.

** "Smack My Bitch Up" caused controversy because of its offensive refrain. The music video too caused outrage and was banned from various radio and TV stations for showing someone on a night out in London, filmed from a first-person perspective with protrayals of alcoholism, violence, vandalism, drug use and a sex scene, [[spoiler: all revealed in the final shot to have been the deeds of a woman.]]

* {{Sampling}}: Several tracks contain samples. The most unusual occurs in "Mindfields", which samples John Barry's soundtrack from the Franchise/JamesBond film ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun''.

'''The Fat of the Land''' is a 1997 album by Music/TheProdigy and their third studio recording. It's generally considered to be their MagnumOpus and became an international bestseller thanks to hits such as "Smack My Bitch Up", "Firestarter" and "Breathe". In 1999 it even entered the Literature/GuinnessWorldRecords for being the fastest-selling UK album.

'''The Fat of the Land''' is a 1997 album by Music/TheProdigy and their third studio recording. It's generally considered to be their MagnumOpus and became an international bestseller thanks to hits such as "Smack My Bitch Up", "Firestarter" and "Breathe". In 1999 it even entered the Literature/GuinnessBookOfRecords for being the fastest-selling UK album.

'''The Fat of the Land''' is a 1997 album by Music/TheProdigy and their third studio recording. It's generally considered to be their MagnumOpus and became an international bestseller thanks to hits such as ''Smack My Bitch Up'', ''Firestarter'' and ''Breathe''. In 1999 it even entered the Guinness Book Of World Records for being the fastest-selling UK album.

* TomatoSurprise: The video for "Smack My Bitch Up".

* CoverVersion: "Fuel My Fire" was originally by {{L7}}.

* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: Both ''Smack My Bitch Up'' and ''Narayan'' have Asian-like tribal chants in their middle sections.

** ''Serial Thrilla'' starts and ends off with sounds that resemble a CD stuck on one note.
** ''Climbatize'' starts off with sounds that suddenly slow down in some parts.
** Also, ''Smack My Bitch Up'': ''Change my pitch up/[[TitleDrop Smack my bitch up]]''

* CoverVersion: ''Fuel My Fire'' was originally by {{L7}}.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The music video of ''Firestarter'', showing Keith Flint dancing around in an abandoned London Underground tunnel in Aldwych, England.
* FadingIntoTheNextSong: ''Funky Shit'' → ''Serial Thrilla'' → ''Mindfields'' → ''Narayan''
* {{Funk}}: ''Funky Shit''.
* GiantEnemyCrab: The album cover shows a crab who looks giant and menacing due to being shot in close-up. The single of ''Breathe'' has a fish on its cover.
* MundaneMadeAwesome: ''Breathe'', probably the most epic and catchy song about inhaling and exhaling.
* MisogynySong: ''Smack My Bitch Up'' was interpreted as being an anti feminist song, though The Prodigy maintains it's actually about doing anything intensely.
* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: The music video for ''Breathe'' shows the band members in a dirty apartment where creepy images such as a crocodile, a centipede, cockroaches and Maxim as a tattoed ScaryBlackMan with weird eyes appear.

** The album cover title is based on the old English phrase ''living off the fat of the land'', which means living well or being wealthy. In this context it also has a DoubleEntendre meaning the songs are ''fat'' (=great, cool, heavy).
** ''Mindfields'', a pun on ''mine fields''.
* PyroManiac: ''Firestarter''

** ''Smack My Bitch Up'' caused controversy because of its offensive refrain. The music video too caused outrage and was banned from various radio and TV stations for showing someone on a night out in London, filmed from a first-person perspective with protrayals of alcoholism, violence, vandalism, drug use and a sex scene, [[spoiler: all revealed in the final shot to have been the deeds of a woman.]]
** ''Firestarter'' was controversial to some because it seemed to be a glorification of pyromania and fire vandalism.
* {{Sampling}}: Several tracks contain samples. The most unusual occurs in ''Mindfields'', which samples John Barry's soundtrack from the Franchise/JamesBond film ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun''.
* SwordFight: Sound effects used as [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome percussion on ''Breathe'']].
* TomatoSurprise: The video for ''Smack My Bitch Up''.
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