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) and Paul Morley also receive songwriting credits. The "Empirion Mix," which does not include these samples, is credited solely to Howlett and Flint. In October 2011, "NME" placed it at number 52 on its list "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years". Writing for pitchfork.com in 2005, Jess Harvell said, "'Firestarter' sounds like Trent Reznor in one of his all-too-rare moments of self-aware humor, like the Bomb Squad at +5 with a pink-haired British bulldog bellowing about how tuff he is." "Weird Al" Yankovic created a loose parody of "Firestarter", titled "Lousy Haircut", for an episode of "The Weird