The best album of the 90's - Music for the Jilted Generation vs Homework

[milo]

The second game of the first round sees The Prodigy facing Daft Punk. Again the poll will be open for 24 hours.

The Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation

Music for the Jilted Generation is the second studio album by English electronic dance music band The Prodigy. The album was released through XL Recordings in July 1994.

The album was re-released in 2008 as More Music for the Jilted Generation, including remastered and bonus tracks. Similarly to their previous record Experience, Maxim Reality is the only group member, besides Liam Howlett, from the then line-up to contribute to the album.

Daft Punk - Homework

Homework is the debut studio album by the French electronic music duo Daft Punk, released on 7 January 1997 by Virgin Recordsand Soma Quality Recordings. The album revived house music and departed from the Eurodance formula. The duo produced the tracks without plans to release an album. After working on projects that were intended to be separate singles over five months, they considered the material good enough for an album.

Homework's success brought worldwide attention to French house music. Homework charted in 14 different countries, peaking at number 3 on the French Albums Chart, number 150 on the United States Billboard 200 and at number 8 on the UK Albums Chart. By February 2001, the album had sold more than two million copies worldwide and received several gold and platinum certifications. Overall, Homework received positive critical response. The album features singles that had significant impact in French house and global dance music scenes, including the U.S. Billboard Hot Dance/Club Play number-one singles "Da Funk" and "Around the World", the latter of which reached number 61 on the Billboard Hot 100.

 

[monkeybarry]

Wow that's hard.

Jilted Generation for me. Just.

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[Kandi1977]

Ohh! Really tough one. Both are among those I played the most at the time. Think Daft Punk still sounds good. The Prodigy album sounds a bit dated now. It's Daft Punk for me.

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[milo]

It's going to be Homework for me. I bought Da Funk when it was originally released a couple of years before the album and loved it. Around the World is a great track too and it's a track I still occasionally play out when DJing.

 

[milo]

Ohh! Really tough one. Both are among those I played the most at the time. Think Daft Punk still sounds good. The Prodigy album sounds a bit dated now. It's Daft Punk for me.

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I'd agree with that.

 

[monkeybarry]

I boiled it down to the Narcotic suite giving JG a tiny bit more diversity than Homework.
I am going to spend the next week listening to both on a loop.

 

[Baleforce]

easy for me, I've always been a rock/metal guy really but MFTJG is awesome, the guitar work in their live performances hauled me in

Their Law, Poison, Voodoo People and No Good are stand out tracks full stop, let alone for the 90's

 

[milo]

This poll closes tonight. Let's get those votes in.

 

[AuroRaman]

easy for me, I've always been a rock/metal guy really but MFTJG is awesome, the guitar work in their live performances hauled me in

Their Law, Poison, Voodoo People and No Good are stand out tracks full stop, let alone for the 90's

This just nailed it for me. Was a tough decision for me otherwise.


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[scaramanga]

Daft Punk have always been one of those background sounds of the 90s to me, no more than that.

The Prodigy defined a whole new sound (or at least brought it to my attention).

I'll give Homework another listen as I've not heard it for decades, but in my mind Daft Punk will always be the disappointing moment in an indie club where the dj runs out of material so everyone goes and has a sit down or gets a drink.

 

[milo]

Daft Punk have always been one of those background sounds of the 90s to me, no more than that.

The Prodigy defined a whole new sound (or at least brought it to my attention).

I'll give Homework another listen as I've not heard it for decades, but in my mind Daft Punk will always be the disappointing moment in an indie club where the dj runs out of material so everyone goes and has a sit down or gets a drink.

It's boy music vs girl music for me. I think that this will be a recurrent theme for me during these polls because there are a lot of blokey bands on the list. For me, girls tend to go for more interesting, forward looking music, blokes more idiot, cheap thrills.

 

[dawaxman]

Homework all the way for me....top, top album. With a couple of clear stand out tracks.

Both albums created new sounds (commercially at least), but daft punks album takes it

 

[thingonaspring]

Wow, both of these were high on my list. Damn you. Going to have to spend today listening to both, I think...

 

[scaramanga]

It's boy music vs girl music for me. I think that this will be a recurrent theme for me during these polls because there are a lot of blokey bands on the list. For me, girls tend to go for more interesting, forward looking music, blokes more idiot, cheap thrills.

That's probably quite true.

Though not their fault, they're also partly responsible for the next couple of decades of kids who can't play instruments making albums in their bedrooms. Some might see that as a democratisation of music, I see it as a cheapening of it. Putting an album together should be hard and that hard work is part of the value of the album. Letting a computer make an album for you doesn't cut it for me.

 

[Kandi1977]

That's probably quite true.

Though not their fault, they're also partly responsible for the next couple of decades of kids who can't play instruments making albums in their bedrooms. Some might see that as a democratisation of music, I see it as a cheapening of it. Putting an album together should be hard and that hard work is part of the value of the album. Letting a computer make an album for you doesn't cut it for me.

Making a GOOD album is just as hard on a computer as with a guitar. I've had a few "hits" making remixes with some buddies. Actually we made them to show how easy it was to make the charts. Making a whole album, not to mention a good one, is bloody difficult.

 

[scaramanga]

Making a GOOD album is just as hard on a computer as with a guitar. I've had a few "hits" making remixes with some buddies. Actually we made them to show how easy it was to make the charts. Making a whole album, not to mention a good one, is bloody difficult.

I wasn't implying any of them were good!

There was a guy on R4 around a year ago showing just how easy it is to make a pop song on a computer. He had garage band, and using only the entirely licence-free (and mostly default) samples and options he made Umbrella by Rihanna.

Now I know that having a very good singer with a lot of charisma (and a body I'd like to do really bad things to) makes all the difference in that particular track, but I was amazed at how he put the whole thing together in about 30 seconds.

 

[milo]

Though not their fault, they're also partly responsible for the next couple of decades of kids who can't play instruments making albums in their bedrooms. Some might see that as a democratisation of music, I see it as a cheapening of it. Putting an album together should be hard and that hard work is part of the value of the album. Letting a computer make an album for you doesn't cut it for me.

I don't see how one of these acts can be considered more musically accomplished than the other. Technically they are cut from the same cloth. As for influencing a generation of bedroom musicians, I think that goes back further and was well established by the early/mid-nineties.

I don't hold any truck with graft in music. If that was what it was all about then we'd all be listening to the Stereophonics and what a fudging dull world that would be.

 

[scaramanga]

I don't see how one of these acts can be considered more musically accomplished than the other. Technically they are cut from the same cloth. As for influencing a generation of bedroom musicians, I think that goes back further and was well established by the early/mid-nineties.

I don't hold any truck with graft in music. If that was what it was all about then we'd all be listening to the Stereophonics and what a fudgeing dull world that would be.

Do they work hard? It doesn't sound like it.

 

[milo]

Do they work hard? It doesn't sound like it.

I never had you down as someone who would advocate Gareth Barry rock

 

[Rorschach]

The home recording movement was in full swing long before Daft Punk came on the scene.

The medium that produces the music is irrelevant. The creativity that goes into the song is the crucial factor. I can make a bad song on a guitar just as easy as making one using samples and soft synths. The snobbery around real instruments versus electronically produced sounds has long evaporated. As a musician I do appreciate the skill that goes into playing an instrument, and I'm sure this affects my enjoyment of the song on some level, but ultimately I listen to the final song and judge it accordingly.

The fact that more people can make music from their own bedroom has surely increased the amount of dross out there but equivalently the amount of good stuff has also increased. It is not all purely electronic stuff that gets produced in these environments. Most that do this have musical ability to a lesser or greater extent and I'm all for it.