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No Good (Start the Dance)

"No Good (Start the Dance)"
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Single by The Prodigy
from the album Music for the Jilted Generation
Released 16 May 1994
Format 12", cassette, CD
Recorded Essex, England
Length 6:17 (Album version)
4:01 (edit)
Label XL
Writer(s) Liam Howlett
Producer(s) Liam Howlett
The Prodigy singles chronology
"One Love"
(1993)
"No Good (Start the Dance)"
(1994)
"Voodoo People"
(1994)
"No Good"
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Single by Fedde Le Grand and Sultan & Ned Shepard
Released 23 September 2013
Length 3:00
Label Spinnin' Records
Writer(s) Liam Howlett
Fedde Le Grand chronology
"Long Way From Home"
(2013)
"No Good"
(2013)
Sultan & Ned Shepard chronology
"Long Way From Home"
(2013)
"No Good"
(2013)
Music video
"No Good" on YouTube

"No Good (Start the Dance)" is a song by English electronic music group The Prodigy. The song was written and produced by group member Liam Howlett. It was released in May 1994 as the second single from their second studio album Music for the Jilted Generation.

The song is built around a repeated vocal sample from "You're No Good for Me" by Kelly Charles (1987). Howlett initially had doubts whether to use the sample because he thought it was too pop for his taste. The song also contains samples from "Funky Nassau" by Bahamian funk group The Beginning of the End.

The song's music video, directed by Walter Stern combines the humorous flavour of that for the band's previous video for "Out of Space" with the menace of "Firestarter" and "Breathe" videos to come. Filmed in a disused, underground cellar below Spitalfields market in the East End of London, the video features characters dancing to the song, including a very manic Liam Howlett, whilst other band members prowl around moodily. After Howlett breaks down a plaster wall with a sledgehammer, group member Keith Flint is seen in a straitjacket, eventually being locked into a Plexiglas box-prison.

In 2012, the music video became the last music video to be played on the music channel NME TV directly before its closure.

A drum and bass remix of the song was made by DJ SS. Since the Prodigy's use of the samples, several other artists, including Oxide & Neutrino, Plan B, Ultrabeat and Kollegah have sampled "You're No Good for Me" by Kelly Charles.


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