Line #9 Music/TheFatOfTheLand


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2	[[caption-width-right:345:''Exhale, exhale, exhale...'']]
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4	''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.
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7	!! Tracklist
8	# "Smack My Bitch Up" (5:42)
9	# "Breathe" (5:35)
10	# "Diesel Power" (4:17)
11	# "Funky Shit" (5:16)
12	# "Serial Thrilla" (5:11)
13	# "Mindfields" (5:40)
14	# "Narayan" (9:05)
15	# "Firestarter" (4:40)
16	# "Climbatize" (6:38)
17	# "Fuel My Fire" (4:19)
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20	!! Smack these tropes up!
21	* TheAllConcealingI: The video for "Smack My Bitch Up" is a rare example of this in visual media.
22	* AlternateAlbumCover: The expanded edition of the album features the shot of a sole crab on the beach changed to a ''crowd'' of identical crabs.
23	* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: "'''You're''' the firestarter, twisted firestarter."
24	* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: Both "Smack My Bitch Up" and "Narayan" have Asian-like tribal chants in their middle sections.
25	* BoastfulRap: "Diesel Power" has elements of this, when it's not running with WordSaladLyrics instead.
26	* BrokenRecord:
27	** "Serial Thrilla" starts and ends off with sounds that resemble a CD stuck on one note.
28	** "Climbatize" starts off with sounds that suddenly slow down in some parts.
29	** Also, "Smack My Bitch Up":
30	--> ''Change my pitch up/[[TitleDrop Smack my bitch up]]''
31	* CoolOldLady: The grandmother on the album cover single for ''Firestarter'', who carries a blowtorch.
32	* CoverVersion: "Fuel My Fire" was originally by Music/{{L7}}.
33	* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The music video of "Firestarter", showing Keith Flint dancing around in an abandoned London Underground tunnel in Aldwych, England.
34	* FadingIntoTheNextSong: "Funky Shit" → "Serial Thrilla" → "Mindfields" → "Narayan" → "Firestarter".
35	* {{Funk}}: "Funky Shit".
36	* 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.
37	* IntentionallyAwkwardTitle: "Smack My Bitch Up".
38	* LimitedLyricsSong: The words to "Smack My Bitch Up" consist entirely of the phrase "change my pitch up, smack my bitch up" playing on a loop.
39	* MundaneMadeAwesome: "Breathe", probably the most epic and catchy song about inhaling and exhaling.
40	* MisogynySong: "Smack My Bitch Up" was interpreted as being an anti feminist song, though The Prodigy maintains it's actually about doing anything intensely.
41	* 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.
42	* [[OminousLatinChanting Ominous Hindi Chanting]]: Appears midway through "Narayan", courtesy of [[Music/KulaShaker Crispian Mills]].
43	* OneWordTitle: "Breathe", "Mindfields", "Narayan", "Firestarter" and "Climbatize".
44	* TheOner: The music video of "Smack My Bitch Up" is filmed in first person like one long, continuous take with a TomatoInTheMirror ending.
45	* PunBasedTitle:
46	** 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).
47	** "Mindfields", a pun on "mine fields".
48	** "Serial Thrilla", a pun on SerialKiller.
49	* PyroManiac: "Firestarter"
50	--> ''I'm the firestarter, twisted firestarter''.
51	* RefugeInAudacity:
52	** "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 portrayals 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.]]
53	** "Firestarter" was controversial to some because it seemed to be a glorification of pyromania and fire vandalism.
54	* {{Sampling}}: Several tracks contain samples.
55	** The most unusual occurs in "Mindfields", which samples Music/JohnBarry's soundtrack from the Franchise/JamesBond film ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun''.
56	** The hook for "Firestarter" comes from Music/ArtOfNoise's "Close to the Edit."
57	* SurprisinglyGentleSong: Proving that this trope is relative, the BoastfulRap "Diesel Power" is significantly slower and less intense than the other songs on the album.
58	* SwordFight: Sound effects used as percussion on "Breathe".
59	* TomatoSurprise: The video for "Smack My Bitch Up". The violent, lecherous, alcoholic drug addict who drives drunk [[spoiler:is a woman.]]

Context Music / TheFatOfTheLand