THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.
151-The Prodigy-Firestarter.
1996-Number 1 single.
Best Bit-At 1.52.By a happy coincidence Flint is a material used to start fires.
‘Firestarter’ started out life as an instrumental written by Prodigy band member Liam Howlet. It boasts many samples,the guitar riff was taken from The Breeders song,’S.O.S.,’ The ‘Hey,Hey,Hey’ refrain was borrowed from The Art Of Noise’s ‘Close(To The Edit’) and the drums are sampled from the song ‘Devotion‘ by Ten City,hence there being eight names appearing in the songwriting credits.
This was the first Prodigy(see also best songs 925) song Keith Flint sang on and provided the lyrics for,he said ‘It was so ridiculous because my English isn’t my strong point,so I end up singing in this weird accent(puts on a daft yokel voice,) Oi’m a muckspreaderrrr,but it ended up sounding quite…menacing.’Flint has also said that the lyrics were written about him being onstage,’this is what I am,some of it is a bit deeper than it seems.’
Keith Flint committed suicide on the 4th of March 2019 by hanging himself.
‘I’m the self inflicted,mind detonator,yeah I’m the one infected,twisted animator.’
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