"Breathe" by Prodigy

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A few comments:

#1 It seems to me that 1997 was the only time this song could have ever gotten as huge as it did. Had it been released in '96 or '98, the hugeness probably would have never happened. (Possibly '98, but people were pretty much over the hype by then, and breakbeat seemed to be the only kind of "electronica" that would ever be marketable ever again.) (Also "Firestarter" might have been the bigger hit in non-American countries, but I do know this was MTV's #6 video of the year.)

#2 There's this sample in the middle of the song that sounds exactly like a girl saying "fuck me" that's played over and over. Except I'm fairly positive this isn't what she's saying.

#3 It's a good song for driving.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:24 (twenty years ago)

This is still my favorite out of all the class-of-'97 poptronica tracks, more so than "Firestarter" or Block Rockin' Beats". The loosely strung guitar bit in the breakdown always sounded like it was sampled off a Joy Division tune, which was a good thing in my book.

Any bets as to when the revival for this kind of stuff kicks off?

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:32 (twenty years ago)

Often overlooked in the UK, I think, as "Firestarter"'s under-achieving cousin, I love "Breathe" tons more. The cod jaw-harp riff is their best non Max Romeo moment. Keith does a soft-shoe shuffle in the video. It sounds timeless to me, like all great pop records.

― Raw, Uncompromising, and Noodly (noodle vague), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:34 (twenty years ago)

"Breathe" is so much better than "Firestarter" it isn't even funny.

― Dan (Simple Truths) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:40 (twenty years ago)

Dan's onto something there. Because he is right (and I love me "Firestarter" well enough). The sheer...nervousness, for lack of a better word, when the bass and drums kick in remains astonishing.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:42 (twenty years ago)

I wonder if anybody would rep for "Firestarter" over "Breathe," Breathe's just so much richer

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:44 (twenty years ago)

"Breathe"'s got about 4 times as many hooks as "Firestarter".

― Raw, Uncompromising, and Noodly (noodle vague), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:50 (twenty years ago)

Girls > Firestarter, for that matter

― harshaw (jube), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:51 (twenty years ago)

That's another obvious one; "Firestarter" is easily my least-favorite Prodigy single (only the Genaside II remix is as entertaining as it should be).

― Dan (Only Good In Isolation From The Rest Of The Corpus) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:54 (twenty years ago)

The rest of the CORPSES.

http://www.maidenfans.com/imc/pictures/pictures04_pom/single10_trooper_a_small.jpg

(Actually there's probably not a lot separating Iron Maiden and the Prodigy in the grand scheme of things.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:56 (twenty years ago)

Great song.

― Harpal (harpal), Monday, 27 February 2006 22:57 (twenty years ago)

Maiden have a lot more great songs.

― Raw, Uncompromising, and Noodly (noodle vague), Monday, 27 February 2006 23:00 (twenty years ago)

Well, yeah. They are also a great group and they have more songs.

― Dan (Hooray Transitive Property) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 27 February 2006 23:07 (twenty years ago)

'Breathe' remains one of the hardest, dirtiest sounding UK #1 singles.

How can Flint be saying 'come play my game'? It never sounded right.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Monday, 27 February 2006 23:13 (twenty years ago)

A friend at the time liked thinking he was saying "Die white boy die."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 27 February 2006 23:14 (twenty years ago)

This is one of those things I say suspecting they are wrong but is this what Aphex Twin was making fun of with "Come To Daddy"?

― Eppy (Eppy), Monday, 27 February 2006 23:17 (twenty years ago)

I dunno if Aphex was "making fun" of anything, though I've read people claim the same thing. I think what they meant was "like 'Breathe/Firestarter', but in a comically insane way unlikely to land a number 1".

― Raw, Uncompromising, and Noodly (noodle vague), Monday, 27 February 2006 23:21 (twenty years ago)

Aw come off it Firestarter's waaaaay better than Breathe. Breathe sounds like fucking Limp Bizkit for fuck's sake. Nah, I think Breathe wasn't a bad song but even at the time it spelled the beginning of the end for Howlett and co. They released Firestarter and that was totally fresh and it got all my rockist grunge friends into techno and hiphop and everything. Then (a lot later) Breathe came along and tried to do the same thing but in an even more rocky way - a way that just seemed cloying and "ooh look at us, we're into the Pistols and the Specials and stuff". Then came Fat of the Land a LOOOOT later on with 10 tracks that did exactly the same thing over and over and over again. Next to the diversity and general "FUCK YOU, TECHNO IS EVIL AND NASTY AND SOUNDS LIKE DRUGS AND IT'S HERE TO STAY" attitude of Jilted Generation, Fat Of The Land sounded like your Dad trying really hard to be hip and rebellious.

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 27 February 2006 23:31 (twenty years ago)

HERE COMES THE MENTALISM

― Dan ("Smack My Bitch Up" Sounds So Much Like "Narayan") Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 27 February 2006 23:38 (twenty years ago)

http://www.cdsound.it/copertine/APACHE%20INDIAN%20NO%20RESERVATIONS.jpg

HERE COMES THE INDIAN

― Raw, Uncompromising, and Noodly (noodle vague), Monday, 27 February 2006 23:45 (twenty years ago)

xpost:

"Breathe" was released only 7 months after "Firestarter", and "Fat Of The Land" was released less than a year later. Prodigy's rock/rave hybrids predate Limp Bizkit's first album by almost a full year.

― It says so right here on discogs.com (Tantrum The Cat), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 00:03 (twenty years ago)

My little brother (must have been 13 or 14 at the time) thought the lyrics went "Bake Sale! Bake Sale! You've gotta get some!"
Wierd Al would be proud.

― Da7e, Tuesday, 28 February 2006 00:14 (twenty years ago)

Also "Breathe" sounds like Limp Bizkit in almost exactly the same way that My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult sounds like Limp Bizkit.

― Dan (IE, Maybe If You're Deaf) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 00:32 (twenty years ago)

'breathe' does sorta sound like my life with the thrill kill kult turned up really loud

― j (IE, Really Bad) blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 00:35 (twenty years ago)

OUT

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 00:48 (twenty years ago)

"firestarter" was immense. "breathe" was, er, immenser.

nb: i've not heard either in a long time, and i'll need to rectify that before altering the tenses in either of those sentences.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 00:50 (twenty years ago)

(ned: did you get that CD?)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 00:50 (twenty years ago)

I did, yes! Thank you! It's quite a treat. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 00:51 (twenty years ago)

Smack My Bitch Up >>>>>>> Firestarter > Breathe

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 00:58 (twenty years ago)

I never knew the lyric was "Come play my game."

"Smack My Bitch Up" is the best song on Fat of the Land.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 01:29 (twenty years ago)

No Tap-Dancing Keith = No Credibility

― Raw, Uncompromising, and Noodly (noodle vague), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 01:31 (twenty years ago)

Okay, you people saying that you didn't know the lyric was "Come play my game" are actually kidding, right?

― Dan (My Deaf Joke Strikes Close To Home) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 03:07 (twenty years ago)

Could you speak up?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 03:10 (twenty years ago)

YOU'RE THE VICTIM

― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 03:12 (twenty years ago)

So is she saying "fuck me" or no?

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 03:20 (twenty years ago)

A friend at the time liked thinking he was saying "Die white boy die."
-- Ned Raggett (ne...), February 27th, 2006 6:14 PM. (later)

yeah i kept hearing it at the time as "die playboy die"

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 03:40 (twenty years ago)

Anyone who likes or listens to "Prodigy" (more like
"Talentless Idiocy"), is by definition a tone-deaf
MORON who is in part responsible for the lack of talent,
lack of instrumental/vocal skill, and lack of
LIFE in the music industry today.

Push the button, scream, refine/filter, top
with an outrageous visual image.Yep, no actual songwriting
skill, and certainly no vocal/instrumental skill.

Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, Rave-Crap, Techno-Crap.. it
all SUCKS if it isn't based on instrumental/vocal skill
and raw songwriting talent.Strip away the machines, rabid
screaming, image and theatrical posing
and ask yourselves... what is the actual SONG ???!!!!!

Anyone who compares Maiden and Prodigy best be careful.
Maiden had gifted duelling guitars (neo-classical instrumental expertise, try executing sixteenth note harmonic minor
scales for starters), they helped pioneer the Guitar-God
worship of the Malmsteenian era.Bruce's lyrical concepts
were profound, but HE COULD ACTUALLY

*******SING*******

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(bloody morons...)

― Musicfan101, Tuesday, 28 February 2006 08:01 (twenty years ago)

for 'actual songs' I'll take "Your Love" or "Charly"

― dave q (listerine), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 08:40 (twenty years ago)

so anyway Howlett's 'Back To Mine' CD:

1. The Prodigy - Wake The Fuck Up
2. Queens Of The Stone Age - Feel Good Hit Of The Summer
3. Public Enemy - Welcome To The Terrordome
4. The Third Bardo - I’m 5 Years Ahead Of My Time
5. Vatican DC - Smiling Dogs
6. Dolly Parton - Jolene
7. P.I.L - Rise
8. Max Romeo - I Chase The Devil
9. Meat Beat Manifesto - Radio Babylon
10. Wood Allen - Airport ‘89 (quite surprised by the inclusion of this - iirc it's Daniele Davoli aka Blackbox)
11. Method Man - Release Yourself (Prodigy Mix)
12. Noreaga - Nothing
13. The specials - A Message To You Rudy
14. The Stranglers - Peaches (the second time this has featured on a Back To Mine following Audio Bullys pick, pah)
15. The Jam - In The City
16. ELO - Living Thing

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 10:38 (twenty years ago)

It seems to me that 1997 was the only time this song could have ever gotten as huge as it did. Had it been released in '96 or '98, the hugeness probably would have never happened.

well, yes, quite, but don't let the fact it came out in '96 stop ya.

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 10:56 (twenty years ago)

he couldn't have called it 'dirtchamber v. 2'?

xpost

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 11:02 (twenty years ago)

does he sing something about saddam hussein, or did the NSA implant that?

― dr x o'skeleton, Tuesday, 28 February 2006 11:17 (twenty years ago)

That Release Yourself remix on the Back to Mine comp was the best thing the Prodigy ever did post bleepy rave stuff, IMO. (x-post)

― Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 11:29 (twenty years ago)

what are people's favourite Prodigy b-sides? I suppose 'Your Love' would count. I recently rediscovered 'G Force (Energy Flow)' meself.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 11:43 (twenty years ago)

Any bets as to when the revival for this kind of stuff kicks off?

I don't know if it counts as a revival, but I have heard some DJ's playing it here in Beijing recently. But it could be for the first time.

― Laowai, Tuesday, 28 February 2006 11:59 (twenty years ago)

the first time it's been played since the late '90s?

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 12:03 (twenty years ago)

Good grief, it is 'come play my game', clear as anything. I could never work that bit out, but I also thought it was 'die, something, die'. However, billstevejim, I've just listened to it twice, and can't hear anyone saying 'fuck me, fuck me'.

When Breathe came out, I wrote it off as a retread of Firestarter, but now it sounds far more vital and imaginative.

― davidsim (davidsim), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 14:02 (twenty years ago)

Always my favourite Prodigy single. Fucking storming.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 14:06 (twenty years ago)

When Breathe came out, I wrote it off as a retread of Firestarter

Whoa, a retread? I'm kinda amazed, how did you think the two songs sound alike?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 14:08 (twenty years ago)

To some poeple all Techno is alike.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 14:20 (twenty years ago)

Skipping 14 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

I think you have to be British to get "Their Law"? Or maybe just not me?

I thought you liked PWEI!

Would swap 'Their Law' with 'Poison' tho.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 15:27 (twenty years ago)

I do like PWEI! That makes "Their Law" even more tragic to me because I can't stand the Jilted version (there's a live version floating around out there that I do like a lot).

― Dan ("Poison" Is The SHIT) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 15:34 (twenty years ago)

their law is ace! i really don't understand the love for breathe, i really don't. i mean, it's not bad but it came out way too late after firestarter to merit the OMG response. also you crazy yanks, of course it's "come play my game".

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 15:37 (twenty years ago)

Whereas if it had been released a nanosecond after "Firestarter" came out it would have been good.

― Dan (Nonsensical Arguments 101) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 15:42 (twenty years ago)

"it came out way too late after firestarter to merit the OMG response"

well, the response was 'OMG wotta chune' rather than 'OMG they have redefined music'. and it was only six months.

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 15:42 (twenty years ago)

Apparently I was really into this song in Nov. 2004. Haven't listened to it in a while.

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 15:59 (twenty years ago)

'Firestarter' hasn't really stood the test of time, but when it got to number one there was a real felling of shock amongst middle england and the impression that something was changing within the musical landscape. It didn't.

― Leeroy, Tuesday, 28 February 2006 16:05 (twenty years ago)

that's true.

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 16:06 (twenty years ago)

That's nice. Take off your top.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 17:20 (twenty years ago)

I do like PWEI! That makes "Their Law" even more tragic to me because I can't stand the Jilted version (there's a live version floating around out there that I do like a lot).

T/S!
Prodigy - Their Law (live)
PWEI - Their Law (live)

― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 18:14 (twenty years ago)

well, yes, quite, but don't let the fact it came out in '96 stop ya.

I won't. Stateside, "Breathe" was an early '97 single. It happens.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:37 (twenty years ago)

I like "Their Law" a lot, its probably my fav off Jilted, apart from the start of that last track I can never remember the name of.

Unfortunately "Breathe" is ruined completely for me due to the endless, weekly saturation it got in goth clubs in Melbourne in the mid 90s. Also, I can't listen to Firestarter thanks to ugly personal of-the-time associations I wont go into.

But yeah Their Law is ace! It has all the crowd-bounce, fuck-you fun of a PWEI number.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 01:42 (twenty years ago)

(Mind you that PWEI version Si just posted is EVEN BETTER).

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 01:45 (twenty years ago)

Strip away the machines, rabid
screaming, image and theatrical posing
and ask yourselves... what is the actual SONG ???!!!!!

"The best part about this is that you can say the EXACT same thing about Iron Maiden! Yet another way they're like The Prodigy!"

You are wrong.

Maiden never used drum machines, samples, or techno-crap
tricks.

Each member of Maiden was a virtuoso.They could actually
play acoustic forms of their instruments, so if the
power went out, they could still play, though much less volume of course.

Now Prodigy, OTOH, are/were completely dependant on techno-power
to create the ILLUSION of musical/instrumetal skill.

Again, Dickenson could ***sing***, with amplification or without.

"The Prodigy" (actually, talentless idiocy) SUCKS.

― Musicfan101, Wednesday, 1 March 2006 02:08 (twenty years ago)

Where can I buy this techno-power?

― jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 02:10 (twenty years ago)

would it be fair to say that FOTL-era Prodigy had a much bigger impact Stateside than it did in the UK? I remember reading an import mag circa 1997 telling the reader all about this amazing new music that didn't even use guitars, and no no it's nothing like Industrial music... etc..

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 02:11 (twenty years ago)

Again, Dickenson could ***sing***, with amplification or without.

Anyone who can sing is capable of singing without amplification.

― Dan (Just So You Know) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 05:18 (twenty years ago)

"firestarter" is a lot less melodic than "breathe", it's basically a drum loop, a hoovering bass line and some siren-y samples. "breathe" has a lot more going on in it, but most of what's going on there (the snarling, the bassline, the slightly less frantic drum track) makes me cringe. they sound like dopey goths on "breathe", less so on "firestarter" (though it helps if you deliberately don't work out the words other than "i'm the firestarter, snffleg-ing firestarter")

― yuengling participle (rotten03), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 05:30 (twenty years ago)

Dopey goths????? What?

Well okay, it does kind of sound like a Bigod 20 track with guitars but I like that kind of thing.

― Dan (Or Maybe Cyberactif) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 05:33 (twenty years ago)

Christ, these guys pretty much never put out a bad single. "Breathe" and "Firestarter" are pretty much exactly equal in my book (both great videos as well--crocodiles!!).

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 05:46 (twenty years ago)

some siren-y samples

That's a Breeders sample!

Virtually every Prodigy single fits that simple description, which isn't a huge surprise considering that until 1997 or so, Liam H. was writing with a sampler, Roland 505, and not much else.

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 05:49 (twenty years ago)

Strip away the machines, rabid
screaming, image and theatrical posing
and ask yourselves... what is the actual SONG ???!!!!!

Speaking of stripping, you'd be way more comfortable if you stripped down to that cute little thong that I just KNOW you're rockin' under that hot little denim mini.

Don't be shy, baby. Shake whatcha Mama gave ya!!!

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 23:28 (twenty years ago)

Fat Of The Land did have a bigger impact in the US. There was hardly any charting electronica prior to its release, and then there was for about 3 years, and then it disappeared.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:53 (twenty years ago)

I am with Dan now - how in gods name are so many people incapable of understanding what they're singing in either song? Does not "caahmm play moi gaayyme" in snarly cockney accent sound clear as a bell?

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 2 March 2006 02:01 (twenty years ago)

FWIW, I remember people who were like, actual fans of the Prodigy (like, they owned the pre-FOTL albums - in the US these are utter obscurities as far as the mainstream is concerned, not sure if it's different in the UK but it seems like it is) insisting to me that the line was "Down bye bye die," and that the people who thought it was "come play my game" were "sheep."

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 2 March 2006 05:57 (twenty years ago)

Virtually every Prodigy single fits that simple description

uhh... it's been a long time, but where are the snarling vocals and hoovering bass line in "out of space" or "charly"?

― yuengling participle (rotten03), Thursday, 2 March 2006 06:03 (twenty years ago)

I liked it back in '97.

― zeus (zeus), Thursday, 2 March 2006 08:08 (twenty years ago)

"Speaking of stripping, you'd be way more comfortable if you stripped down to that cute little thong that I just KNOW you're rockin' under that hot little denim mini.

Don't be shy, baby. Shake whatcha Mama gave ya!!!"

-- Tantrum The Cat

Wow, it's a delusional gay cat.

Or maybe just one who uses hard-drugs.

Maybe BOTH !!! A gay, desperate, aggressive, delusional cat addicted to crystal meth !!!

LOL !!!!!

― Musicfan101, Thursday, 2 March 2006 10:18 (twenty years ago)

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― last post ever (fandango), Thursday, 2 March 2006 10:24 (twenty years ago)

which breeders track is sampled?

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Thursday, 2 March 2006 10:24 (twenty years ago)

Does not "caahmm play moi gaayyme" in snarly cockney accent sound clear as a bell?

No because the way he pronounces 'play' was totally alien - nobody in Essex says it like 'buy' which is how it always sounded to me.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Thursday, 2 March 2006 10:45 (twenty years ago)

I agree that Breathe is more like a traditional song than Firestarter, which is why like the latter more. Event though I dislike Keith's vocals, on Firestarter work more like an effect, a loop that's a part of the mix (just like on previous Prodigy material), whereas Breathe is structured like a "proper" song (with a beginning and ending instead of a continuous flow of sound). Anyway, wasn't Prodigy's future direction evident with "Poison"?

As for undecipherable lyrics, what the hell is the second line of Firestarter. "A keen instigator"? "Punkin' instigator"? "Funkin' instigator?" "Fuckin' instigator?"

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 2 March 2006 11:47 (twenty years ago)

which breeders track is sampled?

"S.O.S."

― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Thursday, 2 March 2006 11:48 (twenty years ago)

'firestarter' doesn't have a beginning and an ending?

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Thursday, 2 March 2006 11:50 (twenty years ago)

No, it's twisted, Firestarter, into a Moebius, where time becomes a loop.

― ratty, Thursday, 2 March 2006 11:53 (twenty years ago)

No because the way he pronounces 'play' was totally alien - nobody in Essex says it like 'buy' which is how it always sounded to me.

He has more of an Estuary accent on there than Essex.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 2 March 2006 12:02 (twenty years ago)

big distinction.

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Thursday, 2 March 2006 12:03 (twenty years ago)

Well, of course techno tunes have beginning and ending too, but what I meant to say is that Breathe follows the traditional song structure much more closely - Firestarter would be easier to loop, on a semantic level at least if not physical.

(xx-post)

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 2 March 2006 12:05 (twenty years ago)

maybe. that doesn't make it better anyway!

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Thursday, 2 March 2006 12:07 (twenty years ago)

Maybe not, but that has dated better than Breathe. Breathe is much more like other big beat tunes of the time, i.e. techno done in rock format.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 2 March 2006 12:11 (twenty years ago)

Maybe not, but that explaind why Firestarter has dated better than Breathe. Breathe is much more like other big beat tunes of the time, i.e. techno done in rock format.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 2 March 2006 12:12 (twenty years ago)

Whoops!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 2 March 2006 12:12 (twenty years ago)

When Breathe came out, I wrote it off as a retread of Firestarter
Whoa, a retread? I'm kinda amazed, how did you think the two songs sound alike?

Firestarter sounded like nothing I'd ever heard before. Breathe at least sounded a bit like something I had heard before: Firestarter.

― davidsim (davidsim), Thursday, 2 March 2006 15:06 (twenty years ago)

"Firestarter" sounded like "Poison" sped up.

― Dan (To Me, Anyway) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 2 March 2006 15:43 (twenty years ago)

wooooooooooo, mad drugs u got, dan.

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Thursday, 2 March 2006 15:44 (twenty years ago)

Well the beat is similar if you match them bpm-wise.

I can remember the first time i heard every Prodigy single EXCEPT 'Breathe', strangely. Most of the time it would be late Thursday or Friday night on MTV's Party Zone so I'd see the video as well.

I think the most WTF reaction I had to a new single was 'One Love'.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Thursday, 2 March 2006 15:49 (twenty years ago)

That's exactly why "One Love" is their best single!

― Dan (OOOOOOONE LOOOOOOOOOOOOVE) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 2 March 2006 15:51 (twenty years ago)

I've always thought of it as the weakest despite loving it (and the EP as a whole).

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Thursday, 2 March 2006 15:54 (twenty years ago)

i never really felt 'one love'.

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Thursday, 2 March 2006 16:09 (twenty years ago)

Wow, it's a delusional gay cat.
Or maybe just one who uses hard-drugs.

Maybe BOTH !!! A gay, desperate, aggressive, delusional cat addicted to crystal meth !!!

LOL !!!!!

Sweetheart, the song's almost over and you haven't even taken your top off yet. And you're not even really moving, you're just kinda shuffling from side to side.

This is the worst lap dance I've ever had.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Thursday, 2 March 2006 16:39 (twenty years ago)

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