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O_O Keith Flint, the singer of prodigy is dead. R.I.P.
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Prodigy singer Keith Flint dies, aged 49
I'm just....stunned. He's 49 which is no age at all. There have been absolutely no news of Keith falling off the wagon (ie, going back to his drug habits) or being ill. So I'm pretty darn stunned. The Prodigy was a huge part of my childhood god damn it and he was only a decade older than me.
Keith Flint, vocalist with the Prodigy, has died at the age of 49, it has been reported.
The singer was found dead at his home in Essex on Monday.
An Essex police spokesman confirmed that a 49-year-old man had died. “We were called to concerns for the welfare of a man at an address in Brook Hill, North End, just after 8.10am on Monday,” he said. “We attended and, sadly, a 49-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene. His next of kin have been informed. The death is not being treated as suspicious and a file will be prepared for the coroner.”
With his punk aesthetic of spiked hair and intense stare, Flint became one of the UK’s most iconic musical figures in the 1990s. He joined the Prodigy – originally formed by Liam Howlett in 1990 – as a dancer, later becoming a frontman alongside rapper Maxim. Aside from their 1992 debut, all of the group’s seven albums have reached No 1 in the UK, the most recent being No Tourists, released in November 2018. Flint performed the vocals on the Prodigy’s best known singles, Firestarter and Breathe, which both went to No 1 in 1996 – the former became their biggest US hit, and the group are often credited with helping to break dance music into the mainstream in the country.
Tributes have been made from his peers, including Ed Simons of dance duo the Chemical Brothers, who called him a “great man”.
He later went on to become a motorcycle racing team owner and manager.
I'm just....stunned. He's 49 which is no age at all. There have been absolutely no news of Keith falling off the wagon (ie, going back to his drug habits) or being ill. So I'm pretty darn stunned. The Prodigy was a huge part of my childhood god damn it and he was only a decade older than me.
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What sad news.
It's pretty depressing that the instant I saw the headline I immediately assumed it was suicide.
Prodigy were a defining part of my teens. Watching their old videos makes me smile, 90s as fuck. Sad sad news.
They released Charly, Everybody in the Place and Out of Space in 1991. They topped the charts with The Day Is My Enemy in 2015.
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They had just put out new music and were touring again too.
Dang.
I had heard "dance" music before but it was all cheesy dance music, or instrumental computer nonsense.
When I first heard Firestarter it was like - what are these SOUNDS? I couldn't wrap my head around it because I had no idea how it was created. And Keith being such a cool looking punk rock guy made it somehow more "acceptable" to me. Like, legit - this was a "band" and not some guy with a computer making bleeps and bloops.
From Prodigy I found Chemical Brothers and Crystal Method and it may be the last band that opened me up to an entirely new sound.
the Prodigy was such a big part of my middle school years and a big gateway into electronic music for me.
Yeah, while I have moved away from the kind of music The Prodigy has put out they were hugely influential to me and really opened up my musical world.
They introduced me to Kool Keith and Lee Perry by sampling them on the same song (Out of Space).
Keith's passing has hit me in a way I wasn't expecting.
This is probably my favourite track from Jilted Generation (which is a really good album by the way)
Some levity to his legacy:
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Flint was always the big visual identity of the Prodigy for me. I'm sad that he didn't feel he could get help.
They did opened a door for me into a genre that I didn't appreciate at the time so I didn't miss that boat. What I do regret is not following after. It sounds like there is a discography I should really go back and explore as they continually put out albums that were well regarded but I wandered more to the acts they helped me find rather than the one that got me there.
Steam
Song is all Keith and has been a steady staple in my pump up mixes since.
It samples firestarter in a cool way and really feels like a sequel to that song.
This is a bummer, but it is nice to know that they have more of a catalogue I should check out
As with most things I remember Wierd Al jesting on him before seeing/hearing the real thing. After that Breathe was a major pump up song for my brother's minor hockey team.
Shows Flint going absolutely nuts on the dance floor, too.
Luckily I managed to get into them with Jilted Generation because the son of the babysitter I went to after school was really into them. So at age 9 or so in 1994 I wasn't in the "anything but dance and rap" phase of my teens.
I managed to wear out my CD of Jilted Generation and I remember the case of Experience just disintegrating one time from being opened and having the CD taken out too many times
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