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“Firestarter”—The Prodigy

60 Songs That Explain the '90s

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The Prodigy Boys, Breathe and Smack My Bitch Up

Both this song, breathe and smack my bitch up now have more plays on spotifi than fire starter does. It seems inevitable, in retrospect, that this entire set of circumstances was not sustainable and that there was nothing more ponk rock than laming out spectacularly. But meanwhile, electronica is a genra is a sweaty marketing scheme ain't going to cut it for long. And daff punk go on to do various notable daf punk things, but they feel tangentle to the whole brief. This is rock and roll now, moment that fire starter exemplifies, there is overlap. I was listening to daf pump's home work yesterday, and this song struck me as

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