Re:Keith Flint, Prodigy front man, dead at 49
by eric_b on Monday March 04, 2019 @11:23AM
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eh, fighting about musical genre is like arguing tabs and spaces. I often call Prodigy "techno" to people who don't closely follow electronic music, as it gets the point across. And certainly you could make an argument that some of their music was "electro-pop" depending on how you define it, as it hit pop radio stations for a time, and was predominately electronic...
Re:Keith Flint, Prodigy front man, dead at 49
by Angostura on Monday March 04, 2019 @11:25AM
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Shouldn't you be off correcting their Wikipedia entry, or something?
Re:Keith Flint, Prodigy front man, dead at 49
by rchaud on Monday March 04, 2019 @02:25PM
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Fat of the Land album hit #1 in the US at a time when "techno" was absolutely the catch-all term used to describe dance-oriented rock/electronic music. Chemical Brothers, Crystal Method, Prodigy, Moby all fell under this moniker in the popular press, but so did Madonna, U2, and David Bowie, who had also released electronic-tinged albums at the time.
Lots of '90s bands labeled as "grunge", "shoegaze" or "Britpop" weren't any of those things, but for the benefit of the reading public, it was easier to connect them to a "scene" using those terms.
> Keith Flint, singer on hits like ‘Firestarter’ for British electro-pop pioneers The Prodigy, has died aged 49
CNN shows again its ignorance, The Prodigy is not techno and not electro-pop.