Play

Love

I admit, I only listened to half the album. Pretty repetitive, so I don't feel I missed anything earth-shattering

Not too bad

I knew I knew some stuff by Moby, specifically off this album in particular, but he was never an artist I ever did a deep dive on. I was surprised by how many songs I already knew off this album just by having existed in the world. Definitely used a lot for soundtracks and probably even commercials over the years. Realistically some probably would come up on electronica radio mixes on streaming services back in the day when this came out and I was listening to those. Anyway, in my opinion this album holds up. It's held in high regard for a reason and one of the few electronica albums I feel like has overly broke big into the mainstream. At least to my awareness! This is smooth and relaxing while still having enough of a beat to groove to. I love the fusion of blues into the electronica. Also love the samples he picked and how he utilizes them. Realistically a 4.5 for me for reasons I can't quite define at the moment but I am going to go ahead and round up to a 5.

i like: whispering wind summer i really like a lot of this album great for focus/background music

Considering I hate this genre this was OK!

Quite literally what others have said: blues sample, drum loop, synth, repeat.

Przesłuchana , do kupienia

Don’t really care for money, but this album is ok

Down the middle for me, nothing too terribly memorable, but also not offensive either. Not one that I will actively. Reminds me of high school.

This is a great album. So many good songs on it. This will be listened to again. Favourite song: Bodyrock, natural blues and porcelain Least favourite song: all good tracks Artwork: great album cover

Moby's Play is a mixed bag. It has some real gems, like "Porcelain" and "South Side," that are absolutely stunning. It's the kind of music that sticks with you. But there are also parts that feel a bit drawn out. It's like a box of chocolates – some are amazing, others just okay. Overall, it's a big album that made a huge splash, but it's not perfect.

Really good album.

Honey 3 Find My Baby 2.4 Porcelain 2.2 Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad? 2 South Side 2.1 Rushing 1.7 Bodyrock 1.9 Natural Blues 2.5 Machete 2.3 7 2.4 Run On 2.2 Down Slow 2.4 If Things Were Perfect 2.3 Everloving 2 Inside 1.8 Guitar Flute & String 2 The Sky Is Broken 2.1 My Weakness 1.7 Score: 2.166666667

Pretty cool electronic

...(.

Not listening to this, but still giving it a 1 star. I don't need to listen to it, I was alive when it came out.. and the 5 if not 10 years after where it was in TV programmes, TV adverts, on the radio, allover the internet. And why? This must be cultural appropriation week as yesterday I had Malcolm McLaren, who is it tomorrow? The fucking black and white minstrels? This was not only the most naked pilfering of the black people of America's heritage and culture, but it's also a complete waste. This was after ambient, after house, after trip-hop and any kind of electronic chill-down music, it was after sampling... this is the most laggardly and kleptomaniac of all the famous electronic albums. It's bland, derivative. exploitative and breaks less ground than a chocolate pickaxe. Obviously this made it hugely successful... The Coldplay Effect I like to call it. Fuck off Moby and take your background music from a dental plan advert dross with you.

This reminds me of 1999. It's fine but was too long

Another album that shouldn't be on the "must listen" list.

An unlikely music pioneer. I’m sure after this album made it big things changed for skinny, bald and unattractive guys. I’m a sucker for samples so based on the type of music this is, this album hits in the area of my wheelhouse for this genre of pop/dance. Clearly aware that his singing is the weakest thing on the album, I feel Moby does a good job singing a lot when the music matches his tone and cutting back on the vocals when it could really bring down a song. This album doesn’t disappoint if you have an open ear to dance music. It did reign supreme over the music landscape for a handful of years. Choice Cut: Southside

Honestly I thought this album was incredibly boring and repetitive. It's like rock for people who either think they like rock or are just getting into it. The vocals were abysmal.

I didn’t hate it, but I also didn’t think it did anything groundbreaking. Not really my kind of music, super repetitive

With the progression of tools allowing more ease in sampling and re-use of other recordings, this album highlights some of the possibilities. At the same time, it raises the issue of attribution of those artists and recordings that one is lifting information from. I look forward to the future of samples being taken from albums like this to become sample of samples in future music. Art sits on the back of art--and its art all the way down.

Starts like a Ferrari with a handful of annoying hits. Then becomes forgettable.

I've heard this so much it feels like white noise now. There are some really excellent tracks in the middle, but i'd never choose to listen to the whole album. 2.5

1. honey - 1.5 2. baby - 1.5 3. porcelain - 3 4. heart - 1.5 5. zouth - 0 6. ruzhing - 1 7. bodyrock - 1.5 8. BLUEZ - 3 9. machete - 1 10. zeven - 1 11. run on - 1.5 12. douun - 1 13. perfect - 1.5 14. loving - 1 15. inzide - 3 16. guitar - 1 17. zky - 1.5 18. uueaknezz - 1.5

- dieses Album sollte mir viel zu eintönig und repetitiv sein; ist aber nicht. - ich finde es total catchy und moody. Dazu kommt, dass ich das Gefühl habe, dass Moby hier nur ikonische Remixes/Samples gebastelt hat. Hat man alles irgendwie schon mal gehört. - Ein geiles Album, vor allem zum im Hintergrund hören 4/5

I would rather slowly drown than listen to this again.

I keep on knowing some of these songs, i love this album!

This record is rather anthemic for obvious reasons, Moby had a free for all letting anyone and their mother use his tracks for TV, commercials, ect. And the bangers don't disappoint. Side bar: I love how Led Zeppelin always gets absolutely shit on for "stealing" American blues music, however, since them, many musical generes have been literally FOUNDED on the use of past material, aka hip hop and electronic

I wasn't excited about seeing this album. I remember this album because it was everywhere you turned - tv shows, commercials - EVERYWHERE, and Moby kind of became a bit of an over-exposed joke. I was even less excited when I saw that the album is 2.5 hours long, which, no. Turns out the album was combined with a B-sides, so I found out where the original album stopped and committed to that - a still long but much more manageable 63 minutes. And it's terrific. Like, it's very, very, VERY good. The mixes, the vocals, the samples are all perfect and give this album an incredibly upbeat yet still chill vibe that is outstanding. I think it's aged awesomely well, and to be honest, I probably like it more now, 24 years later, with fresh ears. If you like electronica, especially downtempo, you're gonna like this. I'm not sure it's *quite* the rarified air of a 5 star as I think a song or two could have been trimmed, but it's a 4.5 for sure.

I think the songs that have made it off this album into my general knowledge are the ones with staying power. The rest was just drum and base.

Play is the fifth studio album by Moby, originally released in 1999. The story behind this is pretty interesting. Apparently Moby made this record with the intention of it being his last before he had to quit music to find a more reliable source of income. His previous albums were met with OK ratings but failed to break into the mainstream. That was the case with this album too.. initially. It bombed on release. Moby had to license pretty much every song from here for use in commercials, movies, etc. just to make some sort of profit. For some reason, this album eventually blew up months after its release. As for the music, I was surprised by the variety on here. Moby does a good job at incorporating different genres such as downtempo, trip-hop, ambient, and more. The samples are well curated as well. The main downfall for me is the repetitiveness. Sure, the samples are good but they repeat throughout the whole song, and it can get tiring after a while. Also, the spoken word parts were a bit cringe and definitely didn't age well.

After listening to an entire Moby album for the first time I firmly believe this is all music made to be in the background on movies/TV shows and in commercials. With the exception of South Side, I cannot see myself intentionally listening to any of these songs. Only South Side feels like an actual song. The rest? Cool sounds…..but they are a collection of samples with some piano, drums, and guitars added. I sorta get where Eminem is coming from…….i am just not as angry about it.

as always bringin some good vibes

I flicked between 5 and 2, so am averaging out at a 3 - to me, it feels very smug and like it's too busy trying to be clever that it forgot what it was trying to say. It does have a vibe, but it's one that rubs me the wrong way.

Forgot how many hits were on this. Enjoyed it! 3.5/5

Not really my thing but I'll say I've enjoyed this more than the trip hop and most other electronica albums popping up on this list so far. I was also surprised by how chill some of this is.

There are some good songs here, but I think my favorite is "Natural Blues." Reading other reviews explains why some of these tracks feel so familiar- good on the artist for finding a way to make money from the album!

Could have been a 4 star for me but there is a lot of filler tracks.

Hypnotic

Late to the party - Vini Reilly and Colourbox and others had been masterfully mixing in vocal samples in the 80’s. Moby marketed it better and sold it to everyone for commercials, but that doesn’t make it a great album. Too repetitive and way too long.

Wait .... didn't I hear that song in a commercial once?

I thought this was great at the time, on replay I didn't love it as much

7.5/10 Početak je bio groovy i funky, kad sam došla do kraja sam pala u tešku depresiju. Čudno da mi se svidio ovaj album jer lirički nije nešto jak, a inače takve volim. Ponekad mi je bio repetitive. Favs: Porcelain, South Side, Bodyrock, Run On, If Things Were Perfect, The Sky is Broken

Why??? Mediocre, repetitive and uninterresting music by a pathetic creep. So why is this on this list???

Favourite Song: Run On

First time I heard of Moby, probably 1995, it was not my thing. By the time Play came out, I guess my musical taste had evolved to one accepting more modern music. I bought the CD, I played the CD, I loved the CD. Giving this 4**** as I was unable to fully enjoy the album--there are a couple of tunes skip-worthy for sure.

Love this album

Great album. You can definitely feel the influence of bands like the Prodigy in a lot of these tracks but there’s no denying this album and Moby himself left an indelible mark on electronic music. Some of it seems formulaic nowadays but it has that 90’s edge to it that definitely sets it apart. I prefer this to a lot of today’s cookie cutter, overproduced, ecstasy-fueled DJs that are plastered all over electronic festival bills.

A couple of cool tunes. Most of the songs are a bit odd, repetitive. And like everything he does, ego centric. Maybe I just don’t trust young bald guys.

A lot of catchy hits that make me very happy. Great party album.

Moby! An amazing album.

In 1999/2000, Moby's album was everywhere and extremely popular, appealing to a wide range of music lovers, from a wide range of backgrounds. That's because the album featured a mix of pop, uptempo dance, ambient, and a unique blend of old blues vocals with electronic beats by Richard Melville Hall. The second half of the album, with tracks like "Everloving" and "My Weakness", added depth to the more dance-oriented singles from the album. A classic.

A few great tracks in Honey, Porcelain, and Natural Blues but the rest of the album doesn't quite reach the same heights.

A blast from the past

Torn. Moby is pretty cringy (Natalie Portman?), but I remember some of these songs fondly from when they first came out. Some of it is fun easy listening, some of it is annoying or boring. And the album as a whole feels a bit too formulaic to be interesting.

Peak 90s!

I recognized more than I thought.

5/5. Back to back bangers, all danceable and great use of R&B and Rock mixed with clean and steady electronic beats. Even his vocals are good enough to keep the song enjoyable on some of them. The highlights are very much the ones with excellent sample choice. I feel like this very much inspired a lot of electronic artists today as well as Rap artists, especially Kanye. Hard pressed to find a bad song on here and even a great album to listen to front to back, which also having great singles. Best Song: Find My Baby, Bodyrock, Honey

Colour me impressed, I expected it to be a couple of well known hits surrounded by songs nobody knows of for a good reason. There isn't one.

it was ok but mostly didnt interest me that much. some good songs

This is decent. But this is not my type of music. I found this to be a bit long as well.

I really like this album, although the vocals can be repetitive on many songs, the overall vibe of the album is chill.

The hits are good, everything else is probably a bit meandering/repetitive or just not quite as good, but overall enjoyed it.

I wish Moby would've been more selective on what made it on this album. There are some real highlights. Flower is probably my favorite track on here. But man there are some snoozers on here. Probably not an album I'll return to, but I'd happily listen to a much more curated version.

Some beautiful tracks, but way too long as an album

Aside from Porcelain and Honey I'd never listened to this album. It flows so nicely. Lovely, warm beats I'd happily listen to again.

So happy to see this album come up. I have used three of Moby’s songs in my yoga classes: Porcelain, Natural Blues and Everloving. Each time I put Moby in a playlist, I have students come up after class to ask who I played.

Bit of a shocker really, but I ended up loving this. I have to admit some preconceived (and apparently inaccurate) bias against Moby, since I assumed that he was somewhat of a one trick pony artist who rode the wave of success by taking advantage of the latest recording techniques and mixing them with appropriated “field recordings” of African-Americans singing traditional blues & R&B. In fact, after the first song or two I was still in a bit of an eye-rolling critical state… but then by “Natural Blues” I was hooked. You can tell Moby has a DJ background; he definitely takes you on a journey through the course of the album. I was moved at moments; the sequencing of the album and the storytelling elements were tight. I get now why this was considered a masterpiece at the time. Give me more Moby like this!

Very groovy. Great house music. I loved the samples and creativity between tracks. Favorites are Honey, Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?, and Machete.

I liked this one quite a bit. Cool samples and good usage of other instrumentation as well. Favorite songs were Honey, Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?, South Side, Bodyrock, and Run On.

Masterpiece from start to finish. Just loved every moment of this album. A must own in my opinion.

Ja dikke plaat dit, wel lang altijd, maar nice

And Moby? You can get stomped by Obie You thirty-six-year-old bald-headed fag, blow me You don't know me, you're too old, let go It's over, nobody listens to techno

Oehh classic heel erg goed

A lot of very solid background tracks. It would be five stars if it was about a third shorter

I would instantly be suspicious of anyone who got excited about dancing to this aural wallpaper. It is fine for what it is - a load of other peoples work over a beat, but it is greige in the extreme Fat Boy Bald

There are so many good songs on here, and I had actually forgotten many of them for many years until I re-listened today. It gets a little repetitive for my taste, but definitely not as much as Fatboy Slim. The last handful of tracks are real nice surprises

It was honestly very surprising to me to hear that this album was so big. I truly truly did not see the hype surrounded by it and I found it rather boring. I tried to understand but it just kept going and so could not find any interesting part. Props to them for making such a big album, but not for me.

I've always resented people talking bullshit about "the good old days" ... but truthfully holy hell do I miss 1999. My hockey team was good, fascism was just a history lesson, we still talked to other people, and sampled electronic music was still kinda unique - certainly not mainstream before this album... I've never known how to feel about "Play" even though I listened a whole heck of a lot to it back then. At the risk of simplicity, I remember almost every song being catchy but ending up too repetitive. Which is probably the point. OK though - I hadn't listened to this in probably 20 years and I'm sure this is a familiarity grade but I am finding myself bopping to pretty much all of these tracks - I like it better than I remember. Although yeah, it's crazy-repetitive - would have been better around 12 or 13 tracks tops. I suppose in a slightly different universe I could ask myself why I like this album but think Fatboy Slim is the shittiest form of this genre... 7/10 4 stars. n.b. I cut myself off after 18 songs - the length of the original album (18 is quite enough).

This was a welcome return. I had the album when it came out and the nostalgia was strong. I found it very good on a relisten and loved will come back Moby seems like a bit of a twat though

Gestural and surfacey and Muzak-ian in the end, however intriguing and attractive upon first (or distant) hearing. Closer attention begs questions: Does he deserve credit for seeking to inject some soul into the sterility of club music? Was it inspired insipid to seek to instill gospel and blues into a clubby context? Is it a dilution, a corrupting by way of compromise, even an incompatible marriage? And shouldn’t there have been a merger with Fatboy Slim? Editors are right; ultimately this is a play for the pop mainstream, for broad acceptance. Clearly some thought went into the layerings and pairings, but it lacks flow and feels overcontrolled, as if it had to be just so. These rather anodyne assemblages may have marked a moment, but not very distinctively. And Stipe had every right to be annoyed for being mistaken for Moby.

I mean, it’d be hard to make an album 2.5 hours long that didn’t have a few hits—there are some beautiful, meandering tracks and some pop-y dance songs that make it enjoyable but it’s just….so…..looooong.

Moby found his perfect sound after some previous tries. Tecno lkounge mixed with some pop/rock tunes makes a very enjoyable record.

Pas écouté en entier mais nice en ambiance sonore

Did not like this

Great piece of art, it takes you places while hearing it :) Would recomment to anyone who wants to listen something unique.

I didn't like it back then and didn't like it at first this listen, but it's not bad after all.

Somehow Moby comes across as the biggest douche in those Woodstock 99 documentaries that also feature Fred Durst and the promoter who ran it all. Boring album that sounds like the music from every airline video about the nearest exits. Every track has basically the same structure: looped sample + default drum machine pattern + some ambient keyboard chords or a twinkly piano melody. Can anyone explain the appeal of this and Fatboy slim? Why was there such an audience for tedious loops repeating the same stuff over and over in the 90s? I guess this is on here because the more interesting downtempo and electronic artists he's copying didn't work in the album genre? It's pretty relaxing though and at least he has the courtesy to not put a loud track on the second half to wake you up if you doze off...

I listened to the version that also had B-sides. And it was pretty clear most of them should have stayed B-sides. I feel like Moby always had an image of being soft. Some of the jams really challenged that notion. Good energy, vibes and grooves. Overall good. Just avoid the B-sides.

The whole album just feels too long and pretty discontinous. However, I did enjoy a few of the tracks, such as 'Bodyrock', 'Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?' and 'Machete'

lame and soulless. 💰💰💰💰💰 see also: corporate training videos.

8/10 Fav track: Honey

Every track has a great groove. I’m not a big listener of electronica, so I don’t have a lot of background/input for this album. Something I’d surely put on at a party for easy going ambience. High 3

This was a revolutionary mix of black roots and electronica music that still holds up today.

Such a strong start that made a quick descent into utter self indulgence

Im not or have ever been into electronica misic ogerall bit thos album was a gamecjanger as it hit the airwaves and got on top of the charts. Got hammered with it as they tried to push the genere. I can say I started digging into the genere after this album came out and I wondered if there could be another playable album of that genere. There were not many for me. A group of my friends did have a short molly swallowing acid tripping raveish moment and I had to put up with all that crap. Drugs I didnt mind much but the crappy music that came with it was horrible. Album is slow and boring great for reading or sleeping. Some good sampling form blues and jazz music but thats about it. Not a fan of this. Took me all day to listen to ot again.

4.0/5 listened to extended album 2x

This album is tied to so many memories of my father and me when I was just little thing. and its just a really good album in general. it mixed DJ with different types of music and I don't even know how to describe it its just amazing.

I had this album on repeat when it came out and still find it relaxing. Related, I once went to the tea shop that Moby had? has? on the Lower East Side and didn’t really like it.

Play is a good album, and a well-made album , but it’s one with diminishing returns. This was my first listen, and I was immediately impressed by the sample blending, which is incredibly unique, even today, as well as Moby’s brand of downtempo, spacey electronica. Especially on the first half, it comes in strong and feels energized, but the back half is more laid back, more textured. But then I replayed it, and it started to lose its luster immediately. Now that I’d seen Moby perform the trick once, it stopped being cool. The more I focused on the blues and roots music samples, the more I thought about the inherent politics of using disembodied black voices in white art, and it reminded me of a novel I read a few years ago, White Tears, which frames this issue throughout history as a horror story. And that thought couldn’t leave my brain. No matter how respectful Moby may have been when he made this, it’s still, well, a political act, and as a listener, it’s hard to not sit with the politics of this choice. The issue, though, is that those are the best songs Play has to offer. They’re the most energetic, the most complex, and the most engaging. Without this trick, you’re left with Moby, on his own. That means a lot of downtempo trance. A LOT! Sometimes, it also means you have to tolerate his voice, which isn’t great. And I think ultimately this became Play’s Achilles Heel for me. These downtempo trance songs all blend together. They don’t really go anywhere, they don’t evolve, and they’re either given no space or too much space. With little meat on each song’s individual bones to warrant a track-by-track revisit, I found myself growing bored with the whole venture of the album itself. By a third listen, Play’s back half barely registered in my brain, and I accepted that this is the exact type of electronica I would never listen to by choice. What’s more, it sounds so distinctly ‘90s, the sonic equivalent of the iMac G3, and that dated quality made it even less interesting. Play is a cool idea, and cool for its time, but that coolness has a half life. An active listen expedites that half life. If you get through a handful of listens without that half life being an issue, then Play will always work for you. For me, I have to tap out and accept that a truly enjoyable electronic album would not make me question its creation, and also would actually get my ass moving. Play does neither. Interesting and important, sure, but I won’t relisten any time soon.

4.5. Felt it was slightly too long and fell off towards the end, otherwise it would have been a stone cold 5.

This was pretty bland - just repetitive loops of songs that sound like they would be better as a whole piece rather than a 15 second sample. It also massively gives up in the last 5 or so tracks, and meanders off into almost nothing.

2.5 idk there were definitely some tracks on here I really like and would listen to again but the album overall eh not for me

Totally listenable, but not all that interesting

Fabulous

Hate this album

Good, but massively overrated. Some tracks are awesome but some really haven't stood the test of time. Plus his "essays" in the cd sleeve are cringe beyond belief

8/10. It was a really pleasant listen. Somehow, the two hours of length didn't seem too excessive. There was a nice variety. I like electronic music. :)

Maravilhoso

Elegantly constructed - a relentlessly commercial sheen over solid beats and blues/gospel samples – it is all very familiar, having been used on so many adverts and so many tv beds. Sometimes in this listening process there is a very familiar album that, when I listen to it as an album, sounds much better than I remember it (for example - Rumours). Not the case here.

Maybe inventive for its time, but felt mundane and flat listening today. Some cool flow but otherwise just left me wanting.

Very nice.

I want to play with Moby.

Ta bueno

The soundtrack to too many late 90s bar shifts.

Like one very long ad.

So many jams.

I mean. It’s alright like. Overrated

Easy 4 star, maybe more. I remember liking Moby. plus he's vegan, which should mean nothing for his music but it does to me. OK -1 star for being a douche to Natalie Portman when they "dated"

Each song is a microcosm for my feelings on the entire album. I start out thinking, wow that's a cool musical idea, I wonder where he is going to take this? The answer every time - nowhere - he's just going to play it on loop and run it into the ground. This one was tedious to get through.

Besides the two 5-star singles the rest was good but not completely 5 star worthy. That’s why the record gets 4 stars. Though some tracks would deserve more.

I don’t get it.

The album that convinced thousand of mediocre dudes that they could be a musician/dj. Definitely a product of its' time. The tech has come so far since then. First half of the album is fine. Latter half tapers off a bit. I did always enjoy learning that he worked on an Atari ST. I might know some of the guys that programmed the tools he used.

I have never (knowingly) listened to Moby. The first two tracks sample the same soundbite over and over again and, while it may appear reductivist at first, it gives off this attitude. Like Moby is talking to you directly and saying \"look at what I can do with one drum loop and this voice line.\" It's cool. *Update* I'm on track 4 now. I see the comparisons to breakbeat. This was probably groundbreaking in 1999, but every other SoundCloud artist makes music like this in 2024. The music is starting to get a little repetitive. I find myself comparing this to other music instead of evaluating it in a vacuum. It's good, but I think similar music I'm more familiar with will get a listen before this album.

It’s weird that this review is taking this path, but it is, so oh well- there were mouth sounds in the spoken words bits on some of the songs. This bothered me. You’d think that there would be some kind of quality control. But I definitely heard lip-smacks and suchlike, and I don’t wanna hear lip-smacks and suchlike. Drink some applejuice or something, eh? I also don’t understand people who are into mouth sounds as ASMR. Or really, any ASMR. It puts me on edge, but people think it’s relaxing? What? If I’m gonna listen to something I wanna, you know, listen to it. I think that ASMR broaches the liminal aurally. It’s also kinda voyeuristic, no? IDK- I hate ASMR and don’t wanna hear mouth sounds. South Side was good though.

Solid album. I need a break from electronica. This one is very good though. I liked the samples and eclectic array of genre influences. I just don’t really see a venue (other than a party) where I’d listen to it. ***

Free the Gwen Stefani version of "South Side"!

Honey Natural Blues I really wish this was a hip hop album because some of these tracks would absolutely slaughter with someone spitting on them. Just about as repetitive as every other electronic albums. Snooze fest

I like Moby. But this album felt more repetitive than I remembered, and went on way too long. Guess fro me - it didn't age well.

All in all, I enjoy this album.

Music you’d hear in an empty bar that you’d want to walk through and not stay in

This album is such a huge cultural phenomenon that I’m almost surprised that the list compilers haven’t removed it in one of the later editions * But what does genuinely surprise me is how forgettable the second half is. I think it would be fun to play the B side first and ask people to guess what album they are listening to. Some beautiful music on here - for sure, but even some of the “hits” are a little dated, repetitive and formulaic. It’s almost a 5 for me but not quite there. *because they are idiots and the list kinda sucks.

I knew it was a mistake letting this guy out of prison.

I've always found South Side kinda pleasant in a nostalgia/inoffensive kind of way. But it's not particularly exciting, and everything else on this album is even more boring. Sry Mobe

2.5. Nothing about this record sounds revolutionary to me. Sure, the songs are catchy, but a lot of the songs get old after about 2 minutes, especially given how repetitive some of them are.

Strange collection of songs. It was bearable.

Tolles Album mit noch immer hörbaren Hits.

Meh. I remember a few of these songs from back when they came out. I was deep into my late teenage punk phase at that point so this wouldn't have done much for me then. Can't say a lot has changed in 24 years tbh. There's a bit of nostalgia here but honestly I don't think that I would choose to listen to any of these songs again. Top tracks: South Side, Bodyrock

The cd was a car staple for a while. Vegan, Moby boils piss in people who need their piss boiled.

Nice that it is 2 hours. I came upon Moby way after he came out, and really like his work. Like Brian Eno. I enjoyed

A lot of really good songs and some just okay ones. Great production throughout. A lot of people are discrediting sampling as if he is just pushing a button to take a sample and then he releases it as a song. There is an art to sampling and it takes a lot to make these short samples compelling. Moby gets a lot of mileage out of 20 - 30 seconds of vocal samples per song. FYI My Weakness is the last official track before the B-Sides according to Wikipedia

Pretty nice and upbeat but too repetitive. Favourites: porcelain, why does my heart feel so bad?, rushing, everloving, guitar flute and string. Overall pretty good but I think it would be improved if some songs were cut/edited out because it dragged on for too long. 3/5

Why did I actually really love this. Some of those instrumentals were so good they made me ascend while drafting meeting minutes. I honestly liked pretty much every song on the album, with a few exceptions. I just felt like it was SO long, especially as I was getting to the second half. Then I got excited that a professor I emailed for a URA position responded to me and don't know what happened during the last few tracks. Pretty solid 4 though

A ver, es un discazo hasta la mitad, saqué 8 temas de ahí (de los 18 que tiene el disco); pero después se vuelve una electrónica básica y aburrida.

lovely

I like a lot of the songs on this album. The issue is, if I listen to the whole thing it gets on my nerves. I have to be in the right mood and then I listen to maybe 4-5 tracks total and then I’m loving it. So as an album this is going to get a low rating from me but the songs themselves, especially Porcelain and My Weakness, would get five stars.

Far enough into this list where ratings are becoming less about a given album and more how it compares to the others. Not my thing but it ain’t Kid Rock 🤷

Run On, Honey, and Porcelain are very familiar to me, with their near-constant use as backing music in the early 2000's, but I still like them, and the basic idea of remixed blues and gospel tracks is very cool. Still, a lot of the tracks here go on too long and the lesser-known tracks are lesser-known for a reason, I would say. I definitely understand this album's inclusion on the list, it captures music of the period and it was influential, or influenced, but I don't know when I would listen to most tracks for enjoyment.

I reeeeeally don’t like constant repetition so this album is quite annoying for me. Every song could be about 30 seconds and I would get the picture. There are some bangers but they ALL go on too long and are one idea again and again. I can imagine someone who thinks they ‘know about music’ absolutely insisting that this is an amazing album at a party but… nah.

It’s funny to me that there are people that actively choose to listen to Moby

What a 2000s album. Many of these songs were recognizable and it was a pretty enjoyable listen with a couple standouts, like Porcelain and Natural Blues. As for sample artists go, I liked this more than the Avalanches, which I didn't expect. At times the music does blend into the background, especially with the B sides, but overall I liked this and could see myself throwing it on when I'm looking to zone out and relax.

Another artist I had heard of but never listened to their music. I'll check out more.

It's okay. I'm just not that interested

Some nice sounds me

There was a bit of good stuff on this, but it really wasn’t worth trudging through everything else to get to

Played regularly since the day of release

This album helped me get through a very rough time in my life. There were a few years when I was very depressed over losing the first girl I seriously fell in love with, and this album really helped me cope during that period. It also had a few B-sides that were very strong tracks, and to be honest, I don't know why they didn't make it onto the final album because, if anything, they were better than some of the original tracks. Anyways, this album will always hold a special place in my heart.

bruh. idek what to think. he sounds.............. like okay? i guess? just repeats the same word over and over. oh i think i know porcelain lol 3 wow okay its pretty nice. chill. bump up to 4

The highs are great, but overall has not aged well

Loved it, discovered some songs that I never knew were used by some artists as samples

Well, I expected to hate this, since it is categorized here as electronica. But it's alright. Not great, but solidly alright. Nice enough for background, at least 3/5

Fun album. Great music to work to or drive to. I think it's a 3.5/5 for me

I thought this album would be a "4" after I started listening to it the first time. I listened to the first half in my car and it had a lot of great emotion behind the songs. However I didn't feel as strongly about the second half. When I listened to the album again, it was much less evocative for me, so it bumped down to a "3"

Man, Moby wasn’t kidding when he said he stacked the back half of this album with songs to put you to sleep. I thought the album was fine in the first half, but that kinda ruined the whole experience. I enjoyed the unique synthesis of old recordings with modern digital sequencing in the first few songs, but it just goes so downhill after that.

That was fun! Keeping it on the phone for biker rides

3,5

One of the better electronica albums i've heard on here 3.7/5

Play Don't need to spend too long on this, I have a lot of familiarity with it and 3 listens today is more than enough. There’s absolutely no doubting the excellence of 8 of the 18 songs: Honey, Find my Baby, Porcelain, Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad, South Side, Bodyrock, Natural Blues and Run On. All brilliant, and despite their ubiquity remain excellent bits of music. Obviously we all know about the field recording samples on some of those songs, but their combination with the electronic foundations and occasional live instrumentation is a great idea and is superbly executed. The samples have space to breath and are supported sympathetically and very cleverly by his arrangements. Tthey still sound fresh, exciting and moving a quarter of a century after release, no matter how many times you hear them. But there’s also no doubting that the rest of the tracks are a bit of a mixed bag, ranging from very good to pretty run of the mill 90s electronica. Rushing, If Things Were Perfect, Everloving and the cinematic My Weakness are the pick of these remaining tracks. Well crafted, evocative and very human sounding ambient and downbeat electro. The Sky is Broken could be excellent if not for the excessively wet and sticky sound of his saliva in the spoken word part. The other issue though, is the length. At 63 minutes it’s too long, and the excellence of those songs that tower above the rest contributes to it feeling so long. Despite some very good tracks after Run On it does feel like that should be the natural end point of the record. Indeed editing this down to 12 tracks (and re-arranging as you see fit); Honey, Find my Baby, Porcelain, Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad, Southside, Rushing, Run On, If Things Were Perfect, Everloving & My Weakness would bring it to around 45 minutes and would undoubtedly make it a 5 star album. Of course it’s still a great album but the mixed bag of tracks outside the ‘big’ songs and the resulting length means it can’t be a 5, so its a 4, albeit a high one, for me.
 ⭐⭐⭐⭐️

Just not my sort of music :( Felt like I was watching a motivational YouTube video with royalty free music for the most part.

Funky experience, really loving the old-school sounds. Percussion and progression are top notch. Fun little dive between different styles, speeds and beats. Top Songs Find My Baby Porcelain South Side Machete Run On My Weakness

Wasnt huge on this, made decent reading music though 😎

2024-05-15...

ridiculously chill. we are getting out of hand.

Some nice individual tracks but overall meh

It might be because we've had 25 years of electronic/sample music since this but I found a lot of the album quite bland and uninteresting. There are some interesting and fun moments on the album, but especially when the Avalanches or DJ Shadow were doing much more unique stuff with sampling in this era, I was left wanting a lot more from this. Best Track: My Weakness Worst Track: If Things Were Perfect

Best song Contender: Bodyrock Worst Song contender: If things were perfect

I am not very familiar with his songs. Album cover was familiar. First seconds I was liking it but definitely sounded very repetitive sampling/loops without contributing enough I think. Porcelain I liked most- felt the most complete. Nice Decent background music especially at the second half. 3.5

It was fine, but I got bored and didn't bother finishing the album, and already can't really remember a single song from it

Too repetitive for me. Could have branched out a little. 2 stars

Maybe I just don't get it

not exiting or good

Didn't listen let me see the fucking reviews

Fine but can't be arsed.

Didn’t hate this but never need to listen to it again

I must have played this CD a lot when I got it when it came out, because the first 8 tracks were all very familiar and all great. The second half lags a bit, so a 4 instead of a 5. Nice to hear it again, which may have never happened without this app we’re doing.

Here’s a question: do I like this album, or have its songs so ingrained themselves in pop culture that they’re inescapable and therefore familiar? Is sampling field recordings exploitative, innovative, reverential, all of the above? Are the folk songs enhanced by Moby’s reimagining or are they stripped of something essential and turned into something soulless? Is the second half of the album a peaceful meditation, a metaphor for a breakdown, or Muzak? Is licensing literally every song on this album a genius marketing move, savvy business, or evidence that perhaps it isn’t about exposing more people to folk music or anything so “artistic” at all? Is Moby intending these questions or is he just a hack who stumbled into a profitable gimmick? I think if I thought he were intending them, I could forgive a lot more, but nothing about Moby suggests to me that he is that dude. I don’t think he cares if we think deeply about this. I think he just wants us to dance. Not to diminish that goal, which is fine, but then I’m going to evaluate things differently than if I thought this were a social commentary. I see on previous listens I have liked five songs here (honey, find my baby, bodyrock, natural blues, and run on). Today natural blues, find my baby, and why does my heart feel so bad are the only three that hit for me. (Also, flower, always, but that’s a b-side.) Bodyrock especially feels … let’s say, of its time. Seeing that “like” is physically painful. It feels very much like a “I was 16 when this came out, this song made everyone dance, I have some nostalgic feelings tied up with it” like and not a “this song is actually good on its own terms” like. I also didn’t hate “my weakness” but I had to force myself to listen to it because I was ready to quit a couple songs from the end. I think I come down on the side of liking the folk/electronic mashups while having conflicted feelings about them. I found an article from 2000 saying Moby hadn’t paid the Lomax estate (who recorded the originals) or the estates of the performers themselves: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2000/08/09/for-blues-artists-a-sad-refrain/5c0fdb33-682e-4feb-b03d-93edc7c81491/ And more googling didn’t uncover a satisfactory resolution to that story. So let’s try to add that all up. +1: introduced a lot of people to the Alan Lomax recordings +1: incalculable cultural impact +1: some bangers, for sure +1: you have to have the idea to mix genres like this and then execute it -1: exploitative refusal to share credit or profit -1: the songs that don’t build off others’ work kinda suck, including one of the most lyrically boring rap(?) songs in existence and a generally bland second half -1: I suspect I’ve thought more about the politics of this album this morning than Moby did while making it I think we’re landing around a 2 or 3, and I have all weekend to consider whether I should separate the art from the artist/background, be less of a killjoy, just lay back and submit to the inevitability of Moby, and round up to a 3. I’ve already given plenty of terrible people high scores and when we get to Led Zeppelin (for example) that’ll continue, with more exploitation of black artists to boot.

decent electronic

Never heard of this before - it was nice enough.

I forgot how many singles from this were saturating the radio for years after this came out. Moby's chill turn isn't without its issues. At the time, we didn't think much of the skinny white kid using so. many. samples from black artists. Now that we know better, it's more than a little cringey. Aside from that, there are so many great tracks on here. Second half of the album isn't as in-your-face as the front, but that's okay. The whole experience is a gradient between Moby before and after.

Amazed at the amount of house music this website gives you

Highlights: "Porcelain" I only remembered him as being possibly the most forgettable bland music on 90s-00s radio, but the more I learned about him the worse it got. Sure Moby was a relentless sellout and a blatant appropriator of black culture, but on the other hand he was also living in Manhattan and creeping on teenage girls. I was looking for even one reason to actually listen to this, even one nice thing to say. You'd hope that such an anodyne, talentless album would at least age tolerably, but it's highly repetitive and marred by obnoxious file stretching artifacts that come off as incompetent today. He really does represent everything wrong with the music industry! Against the odds, a rare 1-star abomination. He can burn in hell with the critic that put him on this list.

schön zu hören

I'm not listening to 2+ hours of techno crap.

Was on heavy rotation for me in the late nineties and holds many happy memories of travelling.

So very very very very very very very very very very repetitive. Tedious background musak.

Usually, I don't listen to the Electronic music. So, I don't know much about Electronic music and musicians. The only thing I can speak of about this album is that it's enjoyable to me. Some tracks remind me of the music of "Secret Garden". I'm not sure if there is some musical connection between them. Just my impression.

Moby is just a better version of Fatboy Slim. Now that I've finished the whole album, yeah he's way better. It was a decent album, but it got pretty slow towards the end.

Not for me

Better than I remember it being. Southside was overplayed when it was released, so I got sort of sick of it.

I liked the album and I liked the review from the guy getting his first period ❤️ maybe a little too long for what it's offering but that's ok

Most of the album is like secret Lofi girl mix. I never knew that.

I guess it’s whatever.

Love this album

Good album. Appreciated it when it came out. Just got terribly overplayed, and became redundant. And overuse in ads made it feel like kind of a sell out after a while.

Holy repetitive batman. Glad the genre evolved beyond this or it would be long gone by now. Lots of catchy beats but the repetition kills me.

Some of it is OK, a lot is boring. Favorite song: Run on

🎧Good stuff here. I’ve long known Porcelain and South Side (still a banger). There are other nice techno grooves here like Natural Blues. Everloving with its tender acoustic guitar was unexpected and quite beautiful. Couple snoozers/skips on the back half—If Things Were Petfect and The Sky is Broken are basically just Moby doing spoken word over boring instrumentation.

Harmless toe tappers. Nothing remarkable. You will know 1 or 2 songs...

Going into this album, pretty much the only thing I knew about Moby is that Eminem hated him 20+ years ago. Reading a summary of that "feud" with some retrospective comments by both parties, Moby seems by far the more sympathetic figure. As for the music itself - I really liked it! Usually I'm not into techno, but pretty much every track on this album is a blend of techno and other styles of music. Pretty much every track is good quality and I'm likely to give this record more spins in the future for accomplished and pleasant background music. What keeps it from 5 stars is that I can't see it as much more than nice background music though.

Escutei um pouco e achei legalzinho, mas achei muito genérica, música de elevador

Mix of electro “hits” and deeper vibes w a melancholy tone

I’m a kid of the 90’s, but my parents certainly didn’t listen to Moby. I listened to this for the first not too long ago actually, and it’s a fine album front to back. Porcelin is fantastic, as is Natural Blues. There’s not a bad track. I’ve been slow to electronic dance music, but I have really enjoyed getting into this genre a bit more the last few years, and this is one of the top examples.

This was stronger than I remembered. I knew the bit was looking back on field recordings and folk music while looking forward into the emerging potential of electronic music. But that could have sounded like a project, and instead it sounds like a cohesive album that still feels fresh. Anyway, now I want to go and play FIFA.

Easy to listen to and not bad, but sonically repetitive.

Drags at times but a modern classic for a reason.

It's cool, not my favourite.

I won this CD from a local radio station back when it first came out. I played it numerous times right after I got it, but had completely forgotten about it until it showed up in this list. It was good to listen to it again.

Wow. Dude made some hits.

BL: Aware of "Porcelain" on this album, I've always intended to listen to this album the whole way through but never had a chance to. So will be good to finally hear it AL: This was an even better listen than I expected. I've almost become a little bit dull to "Porcelain" after all the years of listening to it, I forgot how much of a master Moby is at sampling and building complex ambient and yet danceable soundscapes. Truly one of the greats, its a shame he is such a creep. FT: "Find my Baby", "Porcelain", "Why does my heart feel so bad", "If things were perfect", "The sky is broken" 5/5

Das beste und einzig gute von ihm.

I gotta say, I actually liked this album when it came out, but now I'm not sure what to think. I don't think it has aged particularly well, or maybe I haven't. Listening to this is like looking through some blurry photos from a disposable camera in 1999. Green lawns, fake Oakleys, butt cuts, faint glow of youth.

Excellent chill out album

I obviously hate electronic dance music, I obviously bought this album like everyone else. It still sounds good, it's seeped into the consciousness of my brain and it is as good as this terrible genre will ever get.

An interesting mix of ambient and house-y tunes but sooo long. Was surprised to hear the track flower too haha

And Moby? You can get stomped by Obie / You thirty-six-year-old baldheaded f–, b–w me / You don’t know me; you’re too old, let go / It’s over, nobody listens to techno / Now let’s go, just give me the signal I’ll be there with a whole list full of new insults.”

Brings me back a little bit. This was my genre back in the day! Porcelain, Southside, Bodyrock . . . good tunes.

2.5/5 cool album that’s made well. However, not an album I would listen to for anything besides a party. Definitely gets a little repetitive and stale for an everyday listen.

A thoroughly enjoyable album. Not strictly an electronic album with heavy samples and fantastic tracks built around said samples. South side is forever a banger but the nuanced tracks in between hits really help this album flow.

It's a good album, but not to my taste. It's mostly calm, it has songs that I liked, such as "Porcelain", "Inside" and "My Weakness", but I didn't like the others as much because of their repetitive rhythms and lyrics.

Love Porcelain, almost made me cry Very moody and atmospheric Felt like being transported to another world in the last couple songs Didn't think this genre would affect me as much as it did

Love this album, reminds me of a misspent youth. Solid 4

I was Rushing through this so I could listen to a new album on Friday, but If Things Were Perfect, I wouldn’t have been Running through this album.

Not my favourite by Moby

I forgot how many songs I know and like from this one. This is as good as electronica gets for me. 3.75

Man, this album...1999. What an interesting year that year was. Porcelain is such a pretty song. Why Does My Heart Feel so Bad.. another beautiful song on here. Such a great album here. 5 stars.

Really love this album. So much variety. 90s electronic music is pretty sweet because it is so musical. There seems to be a lot of effort put into it when now electronic music just feels too electronic. Favorite song was Sunday. Added to my Spotify playlist.

I really enjoyed this album. It’s very much a product of the late 90s/early 00s, but still has a great sound. I added several tracks to my album project playlist and a chill mix playlist. The album is a nice mix of dance tracks and chill tracks and makes great background music for working or hobbies. Favorites: Everloving, Rushing Rating: 5

Favourite song -Honey

Play is at it’s best when it’s being beautiful chill out electronic music, Porcelain and Inside being the best examples. I actually think that the Soul and Blues samples that should be it’s most interesting part are where the album is at it’s weakest. Anyway, I’m here to talk about Moby as a cultural figure. How weird is it that he keeps turning up as jokes in sitcoms I love, with the same actor who sort of looks like Moby playing him both times. He’s had this very noticeable impact on American pop culture, while not necessarily leaving much of his own work behind. I don’t remember ever having heard a Moby song in the wild before, but I know what he looks like, I know who he is and what he does, all because of my consumption of TV shows. And I find that fascinating.

If it’s from the late 90s, the music put me to sleep. For an album with 8 singles released, I recognized 1. Must’ve been a deep sleep.

This was pretty groovy. I liked the variety of the songs. Cool writing and sampling

Pretty good. Gets a bit redundant.

Pretty good first, part, later songs bit weird

fun, energetic

These are brilliant backing tracks. Had he collaborated with songwriters and performers he may have actually made something more than (admittedly gorgeous) sonic confections.

okay so a few of them were too dreary or too 80s but most of this was TIMELESS. the harmonies… what can be said. Women win every time it copied my review of trio into the review for play by moby which i think is great so i’m leaving it. that said i was incredibly bored by this and don’t care. men lose every time

elevated muzak. sometimes just elevator music

Surprised I recognized a few songs. No idea what was he saying half the time. Good background music

This was a quick skip for me. Sounds like being on hold

Very good. I’ve listened to Porcelain a ton and some other songs but don’t think I’ve ever done the album. Great for work.

Opinion still a bit colored by Eminem being a hater

Big fan. Fun vibes

Eminem improperly prepared me for Moby. I actually quite liked this. More like chill focus music than techno that I thought

You don’t know me. You’re too old. Let go, It’s over. Nobody listens to techno. But actually pretty good tbh

Seems like a playlist in an album. Love the tracks that have the soul samples. Will definitely play it a bit, it’s a chiller.

I didn't realize how much of this album I have heard strictly from hearing the songs in movies. A lot of recognisable songs. This album was better than I thought. Its faults lie with how repetitive it is. Most of the song follow the same formula. The music is great but as I said, very repetitive to a fault. I'm happy that the version of Southside isn't the one with Gwen Stefani... Because that version is cancer. C. A. N. C. E. R. THAT VERSION IS CANCER! Anyways.... This album was pretty solid. But heavily relied on a formula. Despite that I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Really surprised I liked this as much as I did. Listened to it twice in a row. Very enjoyable and easy to do some coding work at the same time.

Liked it back then, now... It's okay!

This was cutting edge EDM. 5/5

Brings back memories but perhaps I’ve heard it too many times… not really my vibe anymore

5 out of 5

Ya desde los dos primeros temas, "Honey" y "Find My Baby", Moby deja claro en "Play" que lo suyo es la música con base electrónica. Si en esos dos temas la entreteje con muestras vocales de blues y gospel, en el tercer tema, el muy conocido y uno de los que más me gustan, "Porcelain", adquiere el tono evocador y melancólico característico de su obra hasta entonces, y ya no lo abandona en el resto del álbum. "Why Does My Heart Feel so Bad" sigue su estela y consigue emocionar, mientras cabe destacar la incursión en la tendencia electrónica del momento, el big-beat, con "Bodyrock".

Immediately after pressing play, I have the answer to what that song that mumbling that gets stuck in my head is from. I've been trying to figure that out on and off for a few years, but it's difficult to google a mumble. That might be the most positive thing I have to say about this before it's over. Ok, I suppose I should give Moby some credit for not making each track drag on for 7 minutes like so many other electronic albums on this list have done so far. However, it's still too long as a whole, and that's without the b-sides they've tacked onto the end of any streaming copy of this album I could find outside of youtube.

Absolutely blown away by how much of this album I recognized without thinking I'd listened to it.

Actually liked it quite a bit

The singles brought me back to high school and driving aimlessly around smoking cigarettes. The rest of it - meh. Lots of a filler for a record that probably could have been 35 minutes and a good listen.

I was a little surprised that I recognized at least four of the tunes on this record. Apparently it was played a lot when it came out. I am generally a Moby fan, though I don't own any of his records. The music is approachable and catchy, with interesting samples. Creative.

Some definite solid songs. Too many ethereal tracks that are just filler

kaffihúsatónlist æsku minnar. ekki slæmt en missir hálfan af því moby er tussa. 3,5.

Mest megnis gott, fílgúdd stöff. Minnir mig alltaf á eina systur mína.

он не плохой но как он меня достал, не могу это слушать

Downtempo electronic. Really don't know how I feel about this album. It's really just a collection of repetitive songs using repetitive samples. But then occasionally it's just really good electronic/pop instrumental. A very mixed bag but overall I really like pretty much all of the instrumentals, it's just the samples and other vocals I didn't really vibe with. Especially the ones where you can still kind of hear the background instrumentals to the vocal samples, just drew me right out of it. I think as background music it fits pretty good, not so much if I am actively listening. Might revisit to put on in the background, especially the second half. 3.5/10

Good album

Honey - 82 Like the clapping, beat, the loop, the strings the beat switch in the middle is alright Find My Baby - 75 Like the strumming, Porcelain - 86 the piano in the back is nice, and having lyrics is a nice change from the previous songs got a little too repetitive, the different musical elements merge the best out of the songs so far. Like how it repeats the start at the end. Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad? - 83 Like the sample, reminds me of Fred Again's style South Side - 89 Like the hip-hop East Coast vibe beat, i like the singing, inspirational Rushing - 85 chill, the sample is used sparingly the quiet yeah yeah, the clicking around the 2:15 mark is a bit annoying on its own, and feels like a long interlude Bodyrock - 80 Different vibe straight away more pop, the drum pattern is cool, the electric guitar Natural Blues - 78 Machete - 75 Don't like the woop woop sound, the techno beat synthesiser isn't unique like the beat switch at 1:47 a lot, in my mind part really good and further is still good dont like the first half too much 7 - 70 solid interlude, just to slow down the pace after the heavy song before Run On - 84 Like the sample and the hum, Down Slow - 70 Another solid interlude, slows down the tempo, nice to have just a beat If Things Were Perfect - 68 like the beat and record scratch, the vocals are a bit odd, the 'Give me summer' is a nice sample, maybe would like it more on a relisten Everloving - 87 not a fan of it only playing in the left earphone for the first minute but is satisfying when it starts playing both, the humming and strings are really nice, the drums coming are good, Inside - 82 very nice chill instrumental Guitar Flute & String - 82 also a very nice instrumental The Sky Is Broken - 70 One of my lesser favourites on the album, again not a fan of the vocals and the background track isn't a standout My Weakness - 80 A nice calm end to the able, interesting vocals

Besides his biggest hits, I discovered a few more tracks that I really like. I don't enjoy the tracks with Blues influence also some tracks are only sketches that I wouldn't consider full songs. So I don't think I will go back to this album and listen to it in its entirety. Still, he created a near-perfect soundscape on many of the tracks.

Freaking obsessed. Makes me feel like I’m in the coolest 90s teen film ever made

I wasn't sure I was going to know anything off this album, then the first song started.

Yo. I thought I had never heard of this mans and then I'm hit with that one song from the movie Holes (Honey) right off the bat. Runs into the same issue as Fatboy Slim though, where it's just the same 10-15 second clip looped for minutes at a time. Many songs could have been half the length and I would have honestly been happier with the result. Makes for decent background music at least.

The magic of this album is its ability to weave excellent blues and gospel samples into compelling electronica without sounding like a misappropriation. I won’t lie, I hated on Moby when this album came out. It was everywhere, the videos were everywhere. I distinctly remember thinking Gwen Stefani was a sell out for South Side (really she was a sell out for Hey Baby). Listening to this 20 plus years later I realize teenage me was wrong about this music. It’s actually an excellent example of how accretive sampled music can be, basically proof of the adage as it’s greater than the sum of its parts. The downbeat and mostly instrumental back half is fine mood music, but doesn’t hold up as well as the vibrant front.

Moby, you bald, tattooed, tofu eating musical genius!!

Not for me, necessarily. I can respect that it's an important electronic record. The hits are great. I feel a certain way about sampling classic blues recordings and repackaging them this way.

I actually enjoyed this more than I thought I would. Some really cool sounds. I think a few of the tracks continued on for a little too long.

Cool vibey early 2000s jams

Moby dick

One of the best EDM albums of all the time

yea same feel like im in a soulless commercial lol

I only listened to half and was tuned out most of the time. It did not really grab my attention.

Forgot about Moby!!!

Have always LOVED this album!!

Sounds like a never ending apple commercial.

Classic listen all the way through. Very easy to play from start to finish

Cool songs but they were repetitive

Kinda drops by the end but for a few years this was the background radiation of my life. Good stuff.

Repetitive most of the time, that made me get bored at the middle of it, but i have to say that it's not bad, but there was nothing special for me to love this.

good but not great

I didn't understand the acclaim of this album when it released, I still don't now. All it is is crappy beats with poorly edited samples, if repetitive melancholic electronica is your thing then I guess this album could be the tits. But I think it's undercooked and overvalued as a musical work.

This was already on my no skip playlist, bangers galore

I grew up with this album, but I'm not ignorant of it's many flaws. A ton of the songs are repetitive and rely too heavily on their samples. This makes some songs unlistenable (looking at you "Find My Baby"). Three of the big hits are pretty great: Porcelain, Run On, and Natural Blues. South Side isn't my favorite, the simplistic lyrics, short little verses, and Gwen Stefani feature stinks of generic soulless radio fodder for the time A number of the other songs are pretty good, but now that years have passed, on relisten, this record scores below the 50th percentile for me. 2.4/5 -> 2/5.