The music video for The Prodigy’s Firestarter is one of the most menacing in the history of music videos, but without the actual music it looks, well, hilarious.
It might be lost on readers of a younger generation but anyone who was into their music in the early to mid-90s will remember The Prodigy and in particular the song ‘Firestarter,’ the first single from their 1996 album ‘The Fat of the Land’.
Because the song reached number one in the charts, there was mass exposure for the music video that accompanied it, which was filmed in an abandoned London Underground, featured a frightening looking Keith Flint shouting into the camera and was considered so scary that many TV channels wouldn’t show it until after the watershed.
It doesn’t look half as scary when given the musicless music video treatment by YouTube user Mario Wienerroither, who has done something similar with Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ and Queen’s ‘I Want to Break Free’ in the past.
Essentially, Mario has just removed the music from the video completely and added a few sound effects of his own in order to increase our enjoyment of the whole thing and while it’s fine to enjoy it, don’t forget how powerful the song and music video are when you listen to it in its original form.
Video via YouTube/Mario Wienerroither
Hat-tip: The Poke
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