No Good (Start the Dance)

"No Good (Start the Dance)"
Single by the Prodigy
from the album Music for the Jilted Generation
Released16 May 1994 (1994-05-16)
StudioEssex, England
Length
  • 6:17 (album version)
  • 4:01 (edit)
LabelXL
SongwriterLiam Howlett
ProducerLiam Howlett
The Prodigy singles chronology
"One Love"
(1993)
"No Good (Start the Dance)"
(1994)
"Voodoo People"
(1994)
Music video
"No Good (Start the Dance)" on YouTube

"No Good (Start the Dance)" is a song by English electronic music group the Prodigy. Written and produced by group member Liam Howlett, it was released on 16 May 1994 by XL Recordings as the second single from the group's second studio album, Music for the Jilted Generation (1994). Commercially, the track was presented with the slogan, "Hard dance with attitude" and is built around a repeated vocal sample from "You're No Good for Me", a song released by American singer Kelly Charles in 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 peaked at number four on the UK Singles Chart and was certified gold in Germany and the United Kingdom. The accompanying music video was directed by Walter Stern and filmed in London. In 2012, NME ranked "No Good (Start the Dance)" at number 33 in their list of "100 Best Songs of the 1990s".