Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned Mosely novel "Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned". Despite achieving commercial success upon release, the album is among the band's lowest-sellers. As a result, XL and Maverick dropped the group after the release of the compilation album "". In 1996, The Prodigy rose to fame outside their native UK with "Firestarter", the lead single from "The Fat of the Land", which was released in 1997 and topped several charts, including the "Billboard" 200. The band ended the tour that promoted the album, taking a break from touring and recording and writing material for their fourth studio album. To coincide with the departure
Firestarter (The Prodigy song) their violent nature. The music video further boosted these controversies. In 2004, the song was covered by Gene Simmons of KISS and in 2012 by De Staat. The songwriting credits include Kim Deal of alt-rock group The Breeders. The looped wah-wah guitar riff in "Firestarter" was sampled from The Breeders' track "S.O.S." from the album "Last Splash". The drums are sampled from a remix of the song "Devotion" of the group Ten City. The ""Hey Hey Hey"" sample came from 1984 single "Close (to the Edit)" by Art of Noise. Then-members: Anne Dudley, Trevor Horn, J. J. Jeczalik, Gary Langan