[Brazelton] Keith Flint, lead "singer" for the Prodigy

[GasBandit]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/entertainment-arts-47442312

Age 49, suicide.

:/ Breathe and Firestarter were huge hits while I was in high school, used to listen to them all the time.

 

[Dave]

I had heard of the band but had never heard any of the music. So I gave a listen. Meh.

 

[Fun Size]

Had anyone ever seen this dude and Luke Perry in the same room together? Asking for a group of meddling kids.

 

[PatrThom]

Yeah the Internet's been mourning him since 5am or so, figured you'd be familiar with him.
I know most of their music as soundtracks from YouTube videos rather than clubs.

--Patrick

 

[Ravenpoe]

I had heard of the band but had never heard any of the music. So I gave a listen. Meh.

Old man says music in his day was better

 

[Dave]

Old man says music in his day was better

Young man puts words in the mouth of his disrespected elders.

 

[Celt Z]

Even though I already knew how The Prodigy were, the thing I will remember most them, or Mr. Flint in particular, is that one of my freshman roommates had a weird poster of him on the wall of her bunk. Like, a million pictures of frogs everywhere, and this guy. I had the bottom bunk across from her, so it was sometimes unsettling to have that be the first thing you see when you open your eyes in the morning.

I wasn't really a fan of their music, but it is a shame he took his life.

 

[Bubble181]

I'm...surprised at the reaction the Prodigy gets here. At least in Belgium they're considered one of the great bands of their time...I'd class them i nthe same level as, say, Oasis, or Radiohead, or the Cure, easily. Perhaps it's because they're British, I dunno?

 

[Gruebeard]

I'm...surprised at the reaction the Prodigy gets here. At least in Belgium they're considered one of the great bands of their time...I'd class them i nthe same level as, say, Oasis, or Radiohead, or the Cure, easily. Perhaps it's because they're British, I dunno?

Personally, it's because they're on the same level as Oasis, Radiohead or the Cure.

 

[sixpackshaker]

... or the Cure

NOW YOU TAKE THAT BACK!!!!111!!

 

[GasBandit]

I had heard of the band but had never heard any of the music. So I gave a listen. Meh.

Acid Electronic is not for everybody, I'd be the first to admit.

But I was big into The Prodigy, Front 242 (Look, Bubble, Belgians!), Lords of Acid (More Belgians!), Thrill Kill Kult, KMFDM, and so on.

I mean, I kinda grew out of it when I got into my 30s, but I still fire up their hits every once in a great while.

 

[Cheesy1]

"He just keeps saying that he's 'the firestarter'!"

 

[GasBandit]

"He just keeps saying that he's 'the firestarter'!"

"I'm TRAPPED in a SEWER with a CONFESSED ARSONIST, Brock! HELP ME!"