Other mixes, of which this Alley Cat Mix is the best maybe
The not-as-good remix that was actually on the album Experience.
Here's a mix I never came across before - "Beltram Says Mix". From '92, Joey's own handiwork, not a clever joke.
At this precise point - "Charly" through "Everybody in the Place" to "Ruff in the Jungle" - the Prodigy are the best pop group on the planet.
Possibly the best rock group (even before "going rock" with "Firestarter" and "Breathe" - when they were once again, briefly, assuredly, the best pop group on the planet).
"Charly" hit at almost exactly the same time as Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and really ought to have knocked the latter (great as it is) completely out of contention with alla da youth. "Smells Like" was the last gasp of rock; "Charly" and "Everybody" were the first breath of some kind of transubstantiated future-rock (as essence if not generative methodology or sound per se). The Nirvana song is about teen-spirit (as lost, betrayed, compromised, coopted); the Prodigy singles reeks of it. Innocence and insolence.
This is back when hardcore was chartcore ("Everybody" kept off of #1 in the UK only by the reissued and Wayne's World-boosted "Bohemian Rhapsody").
Hardcore Continuum, yes.... but the Prodigy are also part of what I call pop's Cartoon Continuum
So right then that the samples in "Charly" come from a kiddy-targeted animated publication information film
All six episodes of Charley Says
Bonus beat
Suggested by Matthew McK in comments, a killer B I'd never heard B4, on the flip of "Your Love"
