Firestarter is written in 1995, and realeased early 1996. With Firestareter Liam found new prodigy style/sound/vibe and start writting new TFOL tracks and begin to testing them live in 1996.



Here is some info for you:

Liam: “I wrote that in ’95, only a year or so after Voodoo People. I seem to have waves where I’m quite creative and I was writing very quickly at that point. I’d heard Foo Fighters’ Weenie Beenie and I really loved that song and the whole album. I loved the sound because it just sounded like a band in a room and there was so much energy in that room. I got together with Jim Davies [former Prodigy live guitarist and former Pitchshifter guitarist] and we created this riff.

“This was Keith [Flint’s] first vocal track and, up until that point, it had always been me on my own with the band on the couch chopping one out, pouring a glass and going, ‘Fucking yeah, come on!’ I’d got the rough cut of the track and Keith popped in to see what I was working on. I played it to him, thinking of it as an intro for the record. He said, ‘If ever there’s a track that I can sing on, it’s that one.’ I thought, ‘OK, well let’s try it’. I hooked a mic up and it worked straight away.

“After we finished the track, we drove home with it blasting on the car stereo and I just knew it was the next single. I didn’t have any other tracks but I just knew that one had to go out straight away. I was on the phone to the record company the next day going, ‘This tune is going to fuck you up’.

“It led to the media saying that we should be banned. It was just fucking ridiculous. What were they worried about? They didn’t like what he was saying? That’s his fucking personality. Also lots of people started comparing Keith to John Lydon just because he shouts down a mic and that was unfair. I didn’t give a shit about the tabloids though. But that song took everyone by surprise. Chris Evans was on Radio 1 at the time and wouldn’t play it and then no-one at Radio 1 would play it.

“I knew that would go to Number One, everyone was talking about it, you could just feel it. Something was happening, you could feel it was important. We were lapping it up too, we weren’t scared of anything. The only problem we had after that song was that I couldn’t get the album done fast enough.”

It's interesting what Zane Lowe said yesterday during his show regarding the new track and album.

"Check this out. The Prodigy are back. The Day is My Enemy. Forthcoming new album and the title track, ONE OF MY FAVORITES ON THE RECORD HAVING BEEN PRIVILEGED ENOUGH TO HEAR THE WHOLE THING, will be premiered this coming Monday, 7:00 p.m. on this show on Radio 1. Brand new Prodigy title track of the new album coming soon. THE ALBUM IS JUST WALL TO WALL, FLOOR TO CEILING AGGRESSION. YOU'LL LOVE IT..."

Also I've been thinking. If the poison fill is in tdime then will poison be cut from the live setl? That would absolutely suck since it's one of the best live tracks.

Wrong. FOTL was released end of June '97. SMBU was a single end of November the same year. You obviously weren't there at the time.

Thanks for the info. I was there at the time and I purchased Firestarter in the spring of 1996 so yes, it's pretty obvious it was written in 1995 (Liam's most creative period) as it was a number one hit for 3 weeks in March 96.

I bought Breathe the very same day it was out (11th november 96, maybe the 18th?).

There was no album as much hyped as was TFOL during the wait from November 96 up to 30th June 97.

All I could hear was some kind of Narayan edit (maybe it was edited by the radio dj) a few days before.

Fuck man im so excited. Hope we get a track every few weeks until release. What if we get all of them

Nice marketing tbh. We preordered the album, The Day Is My Enemy goes available, we have to buy it cause we cant wait

Those drums at the start of the TDIME facebook clip together with the vocals would make great new intro for the live shows like the old army march intro.

What if the video of the track is about a wolf.

Then its pretty much confirmed the next track is rok-weiler. Because dogs.

I am really excited for The Day Is My Enemy! Nasty did grow on me in the past couple of days but I felt like it couldn't be their best work of the album. Hope I'm right.

so we'll hear The Day Is My Enemy on monday? that would rock

Inb4 "man its shit omg Nasty is better"

Hope not

So, what do you expect from new track? To be something totally diffirent, or 90s prodigy track, or you scared like I am

i'm scared it's going break my speakers

or i tell you how it's going to be...

swiss secret drum corp drums emerging slowly, going louder and louder... the sweet vocal part comes in, drums go louder, more dangerous.... 1-2-3-4 AND iT HITTS, BAAANG, HArd vocal punch with bass, guitars and synth.. ripping it apart. u mosh hard alone in fron of the speakers, u hit your face on the corner of the table... blood bursts from the wound... you jump up again with fist tighter then a rock destroying the lamp.. until you hit the floor again, covered with blood and sweat.. then it's NASTY

There is a lot of music which already causes similar effects, that bang-destroy ya speakers thing you all talk about.

I think what we are waiting for is some good music, whether it bangs or not is not the most important thing.

I hope it will. Guess this track wont get free download like nasty, video too. So who is up for some radio riping?

Thank you. There's actually people here who care about something other than "violence", "bangin' speakers" and "wiping the floor with style XYZ / artist ZYX".