The Prodigy - Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned
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Album Review
Release date: 14 September 2004
Prodigy : Always Outnumbered Never Outgunned
In a long-awaited, messy return, Liam Howlett kicks up just enough of a storm to cover up the lack of any really new ideas...
Undeniably, 'Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned', used in the way intended - slapped into a CD player, volume turned up to a point where Scottish crofters would get complaints from their neighbours, and let rip - is a marvellous, thrusting beast. Unfortunately, it's at volumes like this your brain starts to liquefy and wearing mirrored sunglasses, making jokes about Rohypnol...
- Sep 17, 2004
Tracklisting click track to read more
- Spitfire
- Girls
- Memphis Bells
- Get Up Get Off
- Hot Ride
- Wake Up Call
- Action Radar
- Medusa's Path
- Phoenix
- You'll Be Under My Wheels
- The Way It Is
- Shoot Down (Alternate Track)
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Vulgar, garish and perfectly old skool: Keith, Liam and Maxim are back and as incendiary as ever. Cardiff International Arena, Sunday, April 5
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The Prodigy - Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned: Wikipedia Album Entry
Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned is an album by the electronic act The Prodigy. It was released in the UK on August 23, 2004 by XL Recordings, and in the US on September 15, 2004 by Mute Records/Maverick Records. It is the first The Prodigy studio album after 1997's The Fat of the Land. Its title is a play on words of the title to the Walter Mosely novel Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned.
Of the three The Prodigy members, only Liam Howlett is present on the album musically. Contributors included actress Juliette Lewis, Oasis frontmen Liam and Noel Gallagher, Kool Keith and The Magnificent Ping Pong Bitches. "This album is about reminding people what The Prodigy was always about — the beats and the music", Howlett wrote to an internet zine after finishing the album. He also notes that his intention was to use vocals mostly as an extension of the sound rather than the main focal point, as was the case in The Fat of the Land. A limited edition of 5000 was released, sporting a black, inverted cover variant and no other extras. In Japan the album contained a reworked version of Girls, entitled "More Girls" which features Maxim on vocals.
The album peaked at Number 1 on the UK album charts, although for one week only, and performed decently in Australia reaching Number 6 on the Aria Album Chart. With three singles the album yielded no big hits in any country. It was promoted by a promotional double A-sided 12" "Girls/Memphis Bells", released in very limited quantities in UK on June 21, 2004. On June 28, 2004, the track "Memphis Bells" was exclusively available online as a digital download via alwaysoutnumbered.com. Available in a limited edition, each of the 5,000 downloads had a unique variation of the track, accompanied with a unique variation of the artwork.
On 30 August 2004 "Girls" was released, entering the charts at #19. "Hotride" – released November 1, 2004 in the UK – was not eligible to enter the UK charts as the CD was released in EP format with 3 additional 'b-sides' and so did not conform to chart regulations. Finally "Spitfire" was released on March 28, 2005 as a promotional single for the 2005 film, House of Wax.
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The Prodigy - Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned Lyrics
The Prodigy - Spitfire Lyrics
Fire
If I was in World War Two, they'd call me Spitfire
If I was in World War Two, they'd call me Spitfire
The Prodigy - Shootdown Lyrics
Shoot the gun, shoot the gun
To the bang, bang, bang
Shoot the gun, shoot the gun
To the bang, bang, bang
The Prodigy - The Way It Is Lyrics
That's just the way it is
That's just the way it is
That's just the way
The Prodigy - You'll Be Under My Wheels Lyrics
Rock, rock, rock
I roll, I roll, I roll
...
The Prodigy - Phoenix Lyrics
Can't you here my love buzz?
Can't you here my love buzz?
Can't you here my love buzz?
The Prodigy - Action Radar Lyrics
Give 'em what you got
Go give âem all your action, baby
Give âem what you got
Go give âem all your action, baby
The Prodigy - Wake Up Call Lyrics
Itâs been a long time
Itâs been a long time
But I just canât wake up
Just canât wake up
The Prodigy - Hot Ride Lyrics
You hear me, you hear me, you hear me
Up, up and away in my beautiful, my beautiful
Up, up and away in my beautiful, my beautiful balloon
Up, up and away in my beautiful, my beautiful balloon
The Prodigy - Get Up Get Off Lyrics
You got to get up if you wanna get
I hate people that ainât movinâ their shoes
And I hate everybody that I see not feelinâ my groove
The Prodigy - Memphis Bells Lyrics
C'mon put that shit on ice
Lick it once, lick it twice
C'mon put that shit on ice
The Prodigy - Girls Lyrics
Imagine how it would be
To be at the top making cash money?
Go and tour all around the world
Tell stories about all the young girls
The Prodigy - More Girls Lyrics
Imagine how it would be
To be at the top, making cash money
Go and tour all around the world
Tell stories about all the young girls
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