Sad to hear of untimely death of Keith Flint today. Music for the Jilted Generation is a landmark album. A great talent lost. https://t.co/R5sK9k8Ncl
— Leo Varadkar (@campaignforleo) March 4, 2019
Seems credible.
Or is it?
. @broadsheet_ie @olivercallan @shockproofbeats see that @campaignforleo so “with it” for the peeps. So much so, coincidentally verbatim @Newsweek reporting 😂😂😂 #PR #smackmytaoisup pic.twitter.com/Z88xYuW3yP
— Brian (@briansammon) March 4, 2019
Hmm.
Real fan or twisted copy and paster?
Only YOU can decide.
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I’d say Leo’s an expert on Land of the Fat OK.
so he used the word “landmark”? big wow
Fair play to him. Can’t imagine Micheal Martin or Gerry Adams getting away with it.
Jesus christ, is the man not allowed to have a taste in music?
Thing is with The Prodigy, that era that they evolved with & the ideologies it encompassed it are the polar opposite of Leo’s.
So he can sling his hook!
No. Surely you already knew this.
No, because the very epitome of that album is a massive 2 fingers to proto fascists like Varadkar.
So no, the nerdy twit is not allowed to pretend he was something he wasn’t without us commenting on it. I know you don’t like people commenting, much like Leo doesn’t, but that’s how it is.
He was a sad, unpopular, unlikable clown and he still is. The funniest thing of all is that he is responsible for our own current jilted generation.
Leo is the enemy in the sort of narratives that you might find in an album like this.
Now practice your pro FG onanism elsewhere.
This is one of the worst posts I’ve seen here.
1. Do you know what verbatim means. Saying landmark album is an entirely normal and common thing to say.
2. He’s hardly trying to be cool. They were a mainstream act from his youth who were still filling stadiums.
3. You’ve completely missied the only dumb thing about is tweet. Flint had nothing to do with that album being only a dancer at the time.
Thing is with The Prodigy, that era that they evolved with & the ideologies it encompassed it are the polar opposite of Leo’s.
So he can sling his hook!
Nice bit of gatekeeping. He’s a fan so tough breatsicles.
Fair enough Bodger.
Except he is referencing an album that he didn’t sing on. So not much of a fan.
Few people on reddit saying that they saw him at some of their gigs
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
“Thing is with The Prodigy, that era that they evolved with & the ideologies it encompassed it are the polar opposite of Leo’s.”
Keith Flint (RIP) lived in a big house in the country with lots of money, where he enjoyed pursuits such as fox hunting, so I would not be so confident that his ideology was so far removed from Leo’s.
Quote: ‘In regards to a story going around about me right now – yes I live in Essex and have a couple of horses. I went riding with the local trail hunt, it was a ride out and NO ANIMALS WERE HUNTED OR KILLED, so my conscience is clear, it wasn’t my thing and I won’t be going again.’ Guardian Music 4/1/2016.
My point was more that Flint was normal-enough Essex resident who is rich enough to own horses, rather than the foxhunting bit, but fair enough.
Tom, valid points. Any excuse to use the headline was the ‘thinking’.
Actually that’s completely fair enough
It really is a tour de force of a headline, Bodge.
@Tom
I’d like him to concentrate on his job
how’s that?
Great point. How many hospital beds did his tweet cost?
who knows @Tom
however I hear the going rate nowadays is about €3mil per
Flint had nothing to do with the album at the time as he was only a dancer? Eh, he was credited with with co-writing 2 of the tracks (the 2 biggest selling singles) and was vocalist on 4. Yeah just a dancer. /rolleyes
Which songs were they?
Google it
You’ve got the wrong album mate. Flint wrote songs on Fat of the Land, not Music for the Jilted Generation. He had bascially nothing to do with the follow up album either, but for the non album single “Baby’s got a temper” and the odd vocal.
oh hey Leo
Eh….Please continue and name those tracks big man.
Tweets when Avicii and Keith Flint die. His twitter account was silent for the death of Emma Mac Mathuna.
Fine Gael, the ‘voodoo who do what you don’t dare do people’
ugh.
pfo
Leo – I got the poison, I got the remedy.
Rather ironic that millionaire Varadkar is the antithesis of the “Jilted Generation” with his cushioned living standards, bloated salary and massive pension pot. Plus, the kind of politics which he now spearheads – the kind that’s causing huge wealth disparity, unaffordable housing, greatly diminished job security, etc – has been creating a whole new jilted generation.
As per above – Keith Flint (RIP), once he had earned some money, decided that actually it was pretty good, and bought a big house in the country and lived the conventional life of a well-off person, as basically all famous musicians do once they hit a certain age.
HOW DARE HE
but what’s that got to do with the phrase “jilted generation” which was around before Liam Howlett used it in the Prodigy album name and over the years has become a firmly established part of the pop culture lexicon?
I don’t see any connection between the Taoiseach, the music of the Prodigy, and whatever socio-economic trends that you are talking about either, tbh.
I don’t either. But then again I wasn’t talking about the ‘music‘ of the Prodigy. I was talking about the cultural reference made in the title of their album – but you probably knew that anyway, tbh!
Howlett wasn’t making a cultural reference with the title, he literally just thought it sounded cool and later regretted it
You forget that politicians were once young and innocent and may have liked the same music as yourself. I guess they never really understood the messages in the music maybe? Or just went along with the rest of their peers. That’s teenagers for you.
A real fan would know that Flint never appeared on Jilted generation as he only danced with them on stage. The album after The fat of the land is where he first appeared singing and co-writing.
“Real Fan” aka Anorak. You really think the taoiseach hasnt better to do than worry about trivia?
MFTJG came out when Leo was a teenager and it was indeed a groundbreaking album. FOTL less so, but Leo was probably studying medicine at this stage.
And honestly, to suggest that Keith Flint wasn’t an integral part of the Prodigy from the very beginning (The Experience) really shows how little you know about the Prodigy and how much of a fool you are.
Yeah got to agree with Robert, I’d listen to Prodigy on a regular enough basis (mostly The Experience and Jilted Generation as they came out when I was teenager so best memory of them) and wasn’t aware he didn’t sing on them at all.
Jilted generation came out when Leo was 16ish so very good chance he could have been a fan and had the album.
He was integral to the live act, he’d been around with Liam since the 80s. But musically wasn’t really at all involved until after MFTJG.
That is the seminal album, FOTL less so as you say, but FOTL was the true crossover album that sold by the bucketload (outsold the previous 2 combined)
Either way, he may well be a fan. But he’s a try hard. His silence on the passing of others as noted above says more about him than these tweets about Flint and Aviici.
Seriously, Keith Flint was the reason most people knew the prodigy in the first place, dating back to his and Leeroy’s melbourne shuffle in the early videos
When good music goes bad…
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/lcd-soundsystem-synth-player-says-taoiseach-is-a-liar-who-got-a-free-concert-and-taco-36185911.html
He’ll be sporting an undercut and a pair of X-worx jeans next time we see him.
lololol
Oh Jaysus – thank God our Teasock is “down with the kids” Yah?
You should have just left it as smack my bitch up. Even SOQ would agree
This post is No Good.
Just got that!
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Gemma O’Doherty supporter anyone?
I am a textbook middle aged spinster, on the cusp of 50. Yesterday, leaving work, Firestarter came on the radio so I rolled down the windows, turned up the volume and drove into town blaring this like an old style political address. I felt like a 20 year old without a bad back all evening. Don’t judge a book by the cover, kids!
I notice Leo didn’t comment on the untimely passing of Luke Perry. Maybe he was more of a Brandon fan.
Yesterday made me sad and nostalgic.
I just wanted to say, excellent heading pun, bravo.
Grab a dictionary and look up the meaning of verbatim. Jesus wept.