While digging up our old Prodigy records in anticipation for their concert on the third day of the annual Rockwave Festival in Athens, it dawned on us that The Prodigy are the Rolling Stones of our generation. The similarities are striking: both bands took an underground genre to the mainstream among widespread accusations that their "noise" was not music, they both made revolutionary anthems with controversial messages and themes in periods where the clean-cut boy band aesthetic ruled the airwaves, they both wrote powerful and energetic music that resonated in the youth of their generation and, finally, years after their peak, both bands surpassed all expectations refusing to stop doing what they do best. Admittedly, with the exception of a few good singles here and there, both band's latest records are nothing to write home about...yet it is in the live environment where even these 'lesser' songs come to life and approach the greatness of their classic siblings. Simply put, the confines of our home stereo systems don't do justice to the visceral music of these bands.
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