Play

Pretty repetitive first track. Boring. Same for second. 4th track holds up Some tracks have a decent groove. Mostly boring by modern standards. Even when considering only other ambient music. Also...like..a lot of cultural appropriation?

I guess the loop music was more innovative when Moby did it, but for me is very quickly incredibly repetitive. Again couldn’t understand how this would work in a live setting

Meh, a couple of songs i knew with a *lot* of filler

Bit Marmite isn’t it … I enjoyed it back then… but is a bit overplayed and doesn’t stand up to re-listening … Massive Attack

My first time ever listening to Moby and I found this album incredibly repetitive. There was one or two songs I didn't mind, but nothing that I'd listen to again.

Dunno!

This album fucking sucks

Meh. All the same - a beat to start, some electronica gets added over it, then the vocals adds some sort of blues variation. But the blues does not mix well.with synths. The worst version of Run On I've ever heard - the Blind Boys of Alabama certainly don't need to worry, there's no competition here.

I have survived this album, barely. Favorite track: Inside

white boy samples the blues

This album does a great job of making you feel cool whilst listening to it, at least it did for me. It started off well, I didn’t mind the music, however we’re now a day on from listening and I couldn’t really identify anything specific that I liked. Probably wouldn’t go back to it any time soon, but I didn’t hate my time listening to it

Interesting. David Lee Roth basically ripped off this version of “Just a Jigalo” inflection for inflection. Enjoyed listening to it.

Way too repetitive

The first two tracks sounded like Moby was lifting songs, throwing an extra beat or two into the track, and calling it done. “Porcelain” though was different and still has that iconic mellow sound, while I forgot that the catchy “South Side” was on this album too. Overall there is an interesting medley of tracks here, but they sound more like they come from a “Much Dance” mix than a single influential artist. Moby’s spoken word songs were noticed due to their slow nature, but then kind of forgotten about. If I was to hear almost any of these songs, I wouldn’t have a clue who made it (as it doesn’t seem Moby sings enough of them). Emphasizing this point, Spotify carried on after the album to a Röyksopp song, and I thought I was still listening to Moby here.

Tracks listed below are cool but the rest is kinda boring and basic. First Listen?: Y Fav. Tracks: Honey, Bodyrock, Natural Blues Rating: 2.5/5

While not my normally preferred genre, I was pleasantly surprised by much of this album. I'm not sure how much of it was sampled from other artists but I did recognize a few. I kind of felt like it was a nice little group of tracks that could all be used as TV opening songs. Once "Machete" started with the heavy on electronica, I was over it.

Can get stomped by Obie

The highlights were due to the strengths if the sample (which, I believe, all come from the Sounds of the South album - which is excellent) The authenticity of the original field recordings disguise Moby's cringey try hard bullshit. I don't think you can just add a drum beat to a song, cut it up and call it your own. kinda musical colonialism. I did enjoy parts but other bits were really quite dreadful

When listening to this album a situation would arise often where I enjoy how a song sounds, and am thoroughly enjoying it, then it goes on another three minutes. That's not to say the songs are long, because they all don't really surpass five minutes, other than the B-Sides, but they don't go anywhere. Often I'll be waiting for the song to heighten or have some sort of climax, and that just never happens, and I understand this is not necessarily something that needs that "drop", this isn't Dubstep or anything, but even comparing it to something like Fatboy Slim, it just comes off as weak, and it really loses steam in the second half, mostly being over prolonged atmospheric music. I mean, three stars is still pretty good, because I didn't dislike the album, it's just hard to praise the album when we live in an age where this style of music has only been improved. Who knows though, perhaps I'm not smart enough for it.

I would’ve thought the album this guy used to catapult himself to mild fame and then be a massive creep would’ve been way better

shmeh

Not a fan, for some reason most tracks gave me anxiety.

Didn't resonate with me. Felt like the blues minus the soul. Just seemed like the album was made for radio play without a lot of substance.

I really wanted more from this album. Listening after its been a few years, it just really feels like walking into the studio of an artist that is incredibly talented but can’t seem to finish what they’ve started. Unglazed vases, half-painted sketches, and unfinished novels strewn about. Lots of enthusiasm in the next project in the center of the room. The only thing finished are the cigarette butts heaped beside the mattress on the floor.

Nothing special about it for me

Real plunderphonics. Trivial.

Favorite Tracks: Porcelain Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad? South Side

don’t care

slow whispers of Moby is not what I would choose to listen to.

Ongegronde hekel aan Moby en zijn electro-beats voor alle leeftijden. Lekker die voetjes van de vloer bij de bejaardensoos.

Ja, dat was wel een plaat destijds, maar heeft het bij mij nooit helemaal gedaan.

So this is the 23rd electronic album that I am being subjected to. God help me... So.....the first 3 songs just repeat lyrics over and over.... HOW ARE PEOPLE SAYING THESE ARE BANGERS! It's so fucking repetitive I want to scream! Please tell me there are no more of these shitty albums

I dunno what Eminem had against this guy. This is just bland inoffensive stuff that runs on too long.

"why does my heart feel so bad?" cause I listened to all this album without pauses

too easy loungie from 1999

Better than some of the other electronica I have received on this list so far due to its great use of older samples and consistent style, but I ultimately found this one a bit dull despite its reputation as one of the top albums of all time from this genre. This might work better in a setting outside of listening to it through earbuds at work (I go through most of the albums on this list this way) as it does feel rather epic in scope at some points, but to me, it was just good background music with nothing really sticking with me after the first listen. I could see this being great music for commercials as every track is very ambient but fun with some blues/R&B elements thrown in here and there. Although I wasn't very impressed with this one, I will give it a slight boost in that it did not feel its length at all. I usually dread listening through any album over an hour, but this one really flew by. Probably will not come back to this one, but I didn't mind it. 2.5/5.

not terrible

Fine and sometimes good. Didn't ever dislike it, but overstayed its welcome--poor ideas:length ratio. Instrumentals better; spoken word stuff not so much. Other 90s groups did the trip hop thing much better; others before and after did D&B, soul sampling much better.

Niet verkeerd ofzo, maar begon me te vervelen na een tijdje

Very disappointing as a "must" album. Does not provide in a way that is worth the length. The hits I knew from the album have already pretty much faded and there are no hidden points that can save it.

I contiuously get Moby and the Chemical Brothers mixed up, even to this day, and that's not saying much in my book. The soundscapes are richer and not as entirely monotonous, but I still feel like I can see the repetitive layering and unlayering in every single track. The formula is laid out bare within a few songs, and then every track thereafter just feels like a reskin of the same thing. What ultimately kills it for me though, is Moby's voice. There was a time when the guy would get on any microphone within his greater radius and he would rant on and on about whatever political topic he felt compelled by at the moment. That's entirely within his right to do. Ultimately though his voice, in my head, became inseperable with the sense of impending agenda bombardment, and now I can't unhear it. I wonder what I would think of this album, if it was new to me again? As an aside, I swear the chorus and mid-song bridge on "South Side" is the musical and spiritual ancestor to "Friday" by Rebecca Black. That flasetto is horendous.

An hour long car ad soundtrack devoid of any heart.

Porcelain and Why does my heart feel so bad are great, rest was meh.

Börjar gött men blir för trökigt allt eftersom

Not that great to be honest

You can discover far better artists in the genre these days.

Nobody listens to techno

Background music that you could stick behind any moving image and it would fit. Made me listen to some of the songs he sampled.

my previous experience with moby is hating his live show at a festival and like two songs that were on the radio. I did not want to listen to this. but then to my surprise the first two tracks were actually sick as hell. and then as the album went on, the songs that weren't complete garbage were basically just the same song as the previous song that I liked. also every track where moby just talks over his music should be deleted from the internet and thrown into a volcano

It feels harsh to give two star but I couldn't enjoy the album. Grateful to listen to Moby, but its 20 minutes too long and difficult to engage with

Not generally a fan of this type of music. There were a couple decent tracks. Could really tell a lot of care was put into mixing this one.

Used to think some of this was alright but after about 20 minutes of this I found it dull as dishwater

Didn't finish it. Felt relatively generic in 2021

Collection of Beats to Rap to Viel Instrumentals und Samples Sehr Emotionales Ende

This is a rough bit of business, this is. The good songs are good for about one to two minutes and then I'm just waiting around for them to stop. It felt like this album went on forever and I didn't even listen to the B-sides on the dang deluxe version.

Gives me such strong 90s energy. Weird album progression, feel like I go from strong positive bops to slow moody ones over and over (tbh it was released during his drug era so I can understand) also fuck me albums are so long why can't they be like 4 songs long

Moby Dick

Meh, album muzyki reklamowo filmowej utrzymanej w klimatach downtempowym, bez calosciowego konceptu, bardzo bialy miks murzynskich sampli, nawet chorki gospelowe i skrecze rodem z dja premiera sie znajda, kawalki ktore najbardziej mi trafily, to te ktore sample juz znalem z innych materialow, same "wokale" mobyego to raczej liryczna recytacja, bardziej niz samego albumu jestem ciekawy jaki musial on miec marketing zeby osiagnac status "kultowego" i "rewolucyjnego", ale zarazem jestem w stanie zrozumiec czemu ktos niezbyt osluchany muzycznie moglby sie tym zachwycic, na plejke leci utwor pod tytulem porcelain, bo akurat go kojarze z najwiekszej ilosci reklam

Apart from the recognisable track of Porcelain, which is quite atmospheric, this album never really got out of the traps for me. Two stars for some pretty piano at times

Didn't age well

mehhhhchno

Whatever. Lol

If I wanted loops, I would search loops on GarageBand. It’s fine, but repetitive. Not sure what the artist was trying to achieve with this album but it unfortunately is not my cup of tea

Not bad but mostly boring.

repetitive and samey.

+ Porcelain + Flower (Sally Up)

Simple forgettable beats

Not my cup of tea electro music ain’t for me it seems

Woof.

Too long couple of good songs

ok but repetitive

Moby's Play during Lent seems like an appropriate listen for a few reasons. Off the bat, there's the nearly-too-obvious veganism, which I argue is fair to bring up due to its prominence in the packaging. Then there's the blend of melancholy with heavily sampled dance music, which over the course of an hour loses most of its power to invite dance. That last part is my perception this time, at least, which makes me uncertain about rating the thing. One part of me agrees that the album is a classic: The blend of sampled music and sadness into dance tracks is adept and unique. On the other hand, the concept wears thin quickly, leaving the melodies, which are catchy but fail to inspire beyond that. The last few cuts are especially flat in context, but taking too much context into account brings me close to review-as-reaction-to-popularity. There's something very good about Play, but I don't like it very much. That's something I don't think about music very often.

Liked it for a dance album. Just not my thing.

ew!

I already hate what I know is his near constant use of old timey blues vocals repeatedly. 2 for 2. Porcelain was the hit, it was in ads and movie trailers all over the place. South Side was big too, no Gwen Stefani though? Eminem was right, this guy could get stomped by Obie. Natural Blues...more old blues singing with electronic music behind it. Why are these electronic albums all so long? Run On does it again...thank god Johnny Cash took that one back. This album feels never ending. I'm picturing Moby "playing" the flute on his synthesizer. It's probably the worst song on the album. It sounds like a cover of a track from The Princess Bride score. Thanks for the spoken word moment Suzanne Vega. My Weakness was the alternate music for The Truman Show when he's trying to escape on the boat.

mannnnnnn this dude is such a poser clown. every song on the first half is basically the same song. oh! youve heard a blues song! and you think its time to sample a blues lyric with some corny tepid key samples! oh my god! bless be! fuck this album. its trash. it came out in ‘99 and it was old fashioned and cheesy in ‘92. a truly vapid artist lacking any soul. except for the soul he smushed from other artists. yucko.

It takes me straight back to working in Virgin Megastore and people seeking out certain albums for collections that contain Moby, Dido, Enya and other BBC Radio 2 background music classics for people that like to be distracted rather than entertained. This is one of the most Vanilla albums ever made.

no just no 1/5

Remember when Moby wrote in his book about how he had a relationship with Natalie Portman and she had to come out and say that never happened? Anyway, this shit sucks ass. It's probably a 2, but Moby is such a pretentious douchebag I'm giving it a 1.

Porcelain is great. Otherwise it's just Moby ripping off more talented musicians.

First listened on 22nd and 23rd April 2026. This album is not for me, but I like Porcelain.

This is apparently a techno album relying heavily on blues samples. I have never heard of this album or artist. My original characterization of the album is slightly incorrect; it's literally blues samples looped with techno beats added to them. Essentially, that's like serving the reheated leftovers of a gourmet steak after they've been in the fridge for about a week. It's not going to be anywhere near as good as the freshly served steak(the blues originals) was. Steaks aside, this album lacks any form of real artistry. I, a random 15 year old kid, could recreate this incredibly easily. No real good lyrics, no real songcraft, just looped samples and beats that are usually uninteresting. It's not good, and it's definitely not essential listening. It's just a boring waste of time.

I was aware of Moby from the time I started being interested in music as a kid, because of dad's CDs. His music was underwhelming to me then, when I was enthralled by the contemporary electronic music being made, and it's still just as underwhelming to me now. It seems so uninspired; lazy beats with vocal samples doing most of the work on top of weak chords. I guess it works as background music? It really doesn't hold my attention

Repetitive garbage.

red lobster music is actually better

Okay.. I’m gonna be harsh with this one. I’m genuinely shocked at how good of an overall rating this album has and how popular it is in general. This is bad. There are instances in music where repetition can be effective… this is not an example of that. This album has no right being as long as it is. Even the stronger songs can be best described as dull and uninspired, and the album as a whole was a painfully mind-numbing experience. Over half of the songs follows the same formula: an old blues/soul sample repeated over and over again with some boring electronic beat behind it. It’s an insult to the actually talented people who made those samples. On this album, if you hear the first 10 seconds of a song, you’ve basically heard the whole song. No variation whatsoever. Needless to say, I was not a fan of this at all and will not be returning to it. “Favorite” songs: Porcelain, Run On

He seems to be a nice guy and has been vegan for a long time, but I really wish he would make better music.

Deeply cringe. Felt like the dance through time scene in Sinners.

Gracias por el pack de beats loco

Top álbumes malos. 0,5/10

Pedophile

Everything terrible about electronica in one album

Sweet, let's sample some blues music and loop that with a dance beat.

No tiene nada relevante realmente

It's bland and repetitive and listening to it felt like being locked in an unfurnished room for an hour with only junk mail to read

Sorry I hate it

I have tried very hard in this 1001 conquest to remain open-minded and rate albums for their musicality and quality - even if the genre is not my favorite. But this no-talent ass clown repeats the same annoying lyrics sample over and over and over for every one of his tracks and it absolutely drove me mad. This is my first album to be rated a 1/5. To be fair, about half of the beats were acceptable and even catchy at times, but even the beats never really grew or transitioned or blossomed throughout the songs. If there were a 0/5 I would still rate this a 1/5 for the ability to at least form a simple beat. I will most certainly skip any and all future Moby albums that come up from this website. It is cyclical, repetitive, and masturbatory.

No chance, I lived through the time when this was EVERYWHERE. I'm not listening to it.

I don't think I've ever even heard of this artist before? Let alone heard one of their songs? I mean, maybe in a movie or commercial or something, and I just never realized, but we'll see. I have no expectations for this album. 1. Honey - I'm annoyed after the 3rd repetition of this refrain, holy fuck. This feels awful to my brain, like sandpaper to my skull the way NOTHING is really changing. It's just the same thing over and over again. AHHHH. I have to skip this halfway through, I don't have the patience for this. And i have the patience for my 2yr old niece singing "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" on repeat for 20 minutes. 2. Find My Baby - WHY IS IT JUST SAYING THE SAME THIGN OVER AND OVER AGAIN. I"M GOING TO JUMP. Also, what an uninteresting beat. Skipping halfway through again 3. Porcelain - Okay, this one is more okay/interesting. I don't love or even like, but it's fine. The repetition in the background between different verses is a good mix instead of just repetitiveness 4. Why Does my Heart Feel So Bad? - So, I'm vibing with the production of this one, but once again the repetition of the lyrics is like nails on a chalkboard to me. Like, it genuinely physically hurts me. This one is more tolerable than the first two tho. It actually changes it up a little. I didn't have to skip this one cause it's actually okay. 5. South Side - I'm really not vibing with his voice like this lol. I like the guitars coming in on the chorus. Okie dokie besties, I think I have to quit this album here. I'm REALLY not vibing with this I've not had a 1 star in a while. This might be one? Maybe there's gems hidden just a little further down the tracklist? I just...I don't have the mental energy to put up with this album for now. I'm sorry. Bodyrock just *okay*, I got to there, but honestly...yeah this isn't for me. It's funny cause I've been vibing heavy with electronic music lately, Porter Robinson, Ninajirachi (I LOVE HER STUFF SO MUCH), Madeon, Underscores, etc. and I grew up in the Dubstep/Avicii Era. This kind tho, idk what it is or whatever, this style does not vibe with my brain at all. God, that felt like a chore

This is the first album since the David Gray album that I was excited for it to be finished. This is just so extraordinarily boring. Moving on.

Disjointed and not enjoyable 1 star

Tf bro 😭

It's ok

absolutely not for me

Did not like this

No es un disco que encaje con lo que suelo escuchar; de hecho, algunos ritmos me resultan repetitivos y el estilo de ambient que propone no llega a atraparme. Muchas canciones serían un skip directo para mí. Sin embargo, debo admitir que la segunda mitad del álbum sube bastante el nivel. Natural Blues y 7 son, sin duda, las canciones que más me han convencido dentro de un repertorio que me genera sensaciones encontradas

Dnf this pissed me off too much Why tf is a dj on here and in what world is this a cohesive album

favs: down slow everloving flower arp rating 1/5

Eh

Not a fan

like whatever

Prefacing this review by saying I am not a fan of Moby. While there is a talent to DJing, sampling, etc., that’s what this is. It isn’t original music. It’s easy to bob your head to some of these songs but they weren’t the work of Moby. The obsession over the talent of mixing and matching songs and beats has always confused me. If the counter argument is that he plays some instruments, insta the point? Shouldn’t he be playing all of what he’s claiming to be his work?

Definitely a nope from me

DNF

First 3 tracks were boring and repetitive, 4th track almost had lyrics, but there again mostly repetitive. Gave up because I couldn’t stomach the idea of a whole hour of this slop.

I've tried to get into Moby's music... It's just not happening. :(

I didn't understand his popularity when this album was released. I REALLY don't now that I have listened to it. It's boring, repetitive, and unending. I ended up skipping to the next song halfway through each track because it was either that or my sanity. It was frustratingly repetitive. I understand breaking the mold of the verse, chorus, verse type of song but damnit this is a terrible way to do it. My wife said she had this album when she was younger and played me a few tracks she likes. I knew she liked to go clubbing but she always showed better taste in music than this. We might need couples therapy after 20+ years together.

music for people who think the breakfast club is a good movie

Couldn’t finish the album. It’s so long & most of the songs are very repetitive. Just not my cup of tea.

GOING IN: No strong feelings LISTENED WHILE: Cleaning house FAMILIARITY: Know a few songs SKIP RATE: Gave up entirely REPLAY VALUE: Once was plenty DISCOVERY CURVE: Never happened ALBUM ARC: All over the place VERDICT: Bit disappointing BODY'S VERDICT: Statue mode FAVOURITE TRACK: My Rating: 1 Cultural apropriation. Repetative. Ugh. So many things. This hasn't aged well at all. I listened to this while cleaning the house and felt like I was in an advert for a cleaning product or a kitchen appliance.

Dean Pelton has really let himself go

I did it. I listened to it. I don’t have to listen to it again.

The sound of every advert back when people used to watch television. Lowest common denominator soulful samples over derivative beats. Nothing music.

Not interested

I admit some of this is fine for a passive listen, and it's easy music to plug into a movie soundtrack or whatever. But for real, this shit sucked 25 years ago and it sucks now. The worst songs are the ones where Moby does "vocals."

tried to give this an honest listen, but never been a fan. 1/5

Over an hour of this shite? No way.

utter crap. strips down music to its worst parts and builds it back up to complete garbage

Ni puta idea. Sinceramente mi vida ha sido más entretenida que la idea de escuchar a un tipo que se hace llamar Moby. Señores del mundo:pónganse un nombre de hombre y canten. Lo demás es adorno.

the most cliche and uninspired electronic music ive ever had the displeasure of listening to, atrociously boring

Album 54/1001 The first truly unlistenable album on this list so far. I'm well aware of Moby's music but in the sake of this challenge I thought I'd try to brave it. Got half way through the first song on the album and I'd had enough. Sorry, but no. 👨🏻‍🦲

Background music.

Think I get what he was trying to do, just didn't do it very well...

this gotta be racist somehow

Background music

Self indulgent lobby music. 1/2 star

A droll, daft and deft album by the second most hated bald artist of the 1990s.

A musician who isn’t really a musician, but wants to be a musician. No feeling, no depth. No real emotion. Sort of like a hipster trying to dress a certain way to fit in. Good at what he does, but he knows he’s a fake and he wonders how he got his as popular as he did. This isn’t music, kids.

This really sucks. It is an example of the power of MTV at its zenith in the late 90s early 00s that Moby could have such success with this lazy and predictable dance music album.

Ultra repetitif, super pour en entendre quelques extraits mais en tant qu'album pas vraiment. J'aurais essayé, Moby ça ne passe pas.

It's just the same line over and over. South Side was kinda nice though, as were the samples in Bodyrock and Natural Blues. Still, hard pass. Best song: South Side

Pre-listening notes: Shit. More techno/dance/edm nonsense. Listening notes: For Christmas one year, my sister gave me a bar of soap that she had made for me. I was pretty impressed, as she's never made soap, at least to my knowledge. So, I asked, "wow, you made this? how?" She explained the process: she had somehow melted down her favorite soaps and combined them into one ultimate soap, reformed it into a bar state, gift wrapped it, and handed it to me on Christmas. "So, by 'making soap', you actually mean that you basically took other soaps and mashed them together to form a new bar of soap?", I asked. "Yes," she said, and we had a good laugh over how she didn't actually make anything; she just combined a bunch of pre-existing soaps into a different format of soap. That is exactly how I feel about Moby. The difference is, I enjoyed that bar of soap. Moby's restructuring and reformatting of pre-existing music by other people is just tedious to listen to...but more than that, I cannot believe that a man as pretentious as Moby can look in the mirror and take himself seriously as an artist. He's just a re-soapmaker, but without the sense of humor. 1.4/5

grating.

It was so dull, and he really REALLY cant sing the blues.

Every production choice on this is wack

Here's some words that pop into my head as I listen to this: repetitive, formulaic, predictable, soulless, artificial, unexciting. I have heard some electronic albums I can respect, but this probably isn't one of them

vsf porra

mais um pra lista de trilha sonora pra filmes de hacker dos anos 90 o problema eh que eu nao gosto de filmes de hacker. nem do moby.

I just can't get behind the vocals being repeated over and over and over for 4 minutes. You're just taking two of the components of music (lyrics and vocals) and completely writing them out. Sure, there are some catchy beats, but without two of the three components of music all I have to judge it by are the instrumentals, which didn't hold hold up as anything inspiring.

Decent, I was able to finish this one. I'd much rather listen to the original recordings the samples were from though.

Moby was "beached" early. Not my cuppa at all!

Utterly pointless and embarrassingly shallow. Am I supposed to feel something when I hear samples of old bluesmen repeated ad nauseum over generic dance tracks? Be awed by a mumbled poem about the nature of life and love? Maybe I'm just not hip enough to get it.

I HATE YOU MOBY STOP SAMPLING SONGS THAT ARE GOOD AND MAKING THEM BAD!!!!!

Man I’m so tired of getting electronic stuff. This is an hour long and super repetitive and not interesting at all. I was not in the mood for this today.

I’m only three songs in and I hate this. I hate repetitive stuff so much. We’ll see how the next seventy million song go. I’m back now that I’ve finished this. It didn’t get any better. Man this might be the worst one I’ve heard so far.

88 albums in, and this is the 34th one star piece of crap that I did NOT need to listen to ever. 1. And that is generous.

Whale noises for agile coaches and lean experts… or for IKEA showrooms.

Canciones super repetitivas, muy cansino

This isn't really my thing so I went in to it not expecting to like it. What surprised me is just how much I hated it. Every second of it.

Not for me

0/10

Aparte de que no ha sido nada mi estilo, no siento ninguna coherencia entre las canciones del álbum y la voz del cantante no me ha gustado mucho

Well, this album sure put me on to some solid blues classics. When you take the small imperfections and uniqueness out of a sample, you gotta add something truly spectacular back in otherwise it just becomes a car commercial. oh wait...

No-talent hack. Layer a few samples and collect a paycheck. Fuck this guy.

Not a fan of the repeating samples from old time songs just with reverb attached. Repetitive. There are some good beats and piano work on the more original work. I recall fondly Southside and Bodyrock when they came out. This could have been an LP instead and they could have cut a lot of this low effort stuff on here.

Like a dish that's got loads of great ingredients cooked at the wrong temperature, disappointingly slow, smug and thin-sounding in places, I should like Moby, but I don't. During the first half, I wanted to listen to better ambient music, actively bored. Some great samples of better music. Warmed to the album as it came became an ambient album proper in the second half.

😏

There were a few good songs on here. But as an album? An hour straight of elevator ass music? Don’t piss me off.

Moby is notable in that the main reason anyone remembers him is because of his arguments with Eminem. Otherwise he seems like a nice enough human, maybe he just needs to calm down a bit telling everyone that he's a vegan. Looping other people's music over a drum track might have been interesting in 2000, but it's boring and derivative in 2025. Literally sellout music used for commercials. I'm not going listen to 2 hours of it. I lived through it in my younger days, and didn't enjoy it.

The only good thing about this are the field recordings. Moby’s “additions” sound like AI has been asked to harmonise them. This is embarrassing.

Yikes. Very repetitive, and so boring. Might be good to use as a white noise machine, but I’m not seeing any other use for this.

This is the hundred tenth album I’m rating. I only know him because of How I Met Your Mother. Adding to my Playlist - Honey, Find my Baby, Porcelain, and Run On. Not Adding to my Playlist - Why Does my Heart Feel so Bad?, South Side, Rushing, Bodyrock, Natural Blues, Machete, 7, Down Slow, If Things Were Perfect, Everloving, Inside, Guitar Flute & String, The Sky is Broken, and My Weakness. If Things Were Perfect - Sound a lot like Maxinquaye but bad. All in all I liked 4/18 songs. Sorry Moby like a month ago you would've gotten three stars but not today.

I never liked Moby as a person. Couldn't tell you why, but after listening to this album, I know why. Half of it is pretentious crap. The other half is some brilliant sound, but he just repeats it for the entire song, ruining anything interesting. Do better, Moby. Or don't. You suck.

Don’t know why this guy had such a chokehold on the 2000s. Like why did both himym and community have him mentioned in multiple episodes . Why. Anyway this album is very meh. Not quite as bad as David Byrne but did not enjoy. Specific rating- 1.5 Fav song - body rock Least fav- the sky is broken

Shite

Alright lets see how badly this has aged. Its all just kind of fade in and fade out various looping sequences, with the occasional bar for a breakdown. There's no timbral progression which is the opposite of what good electronic music should be. Hell even guitar dudes have had pedals for 50 years. The sample in Porcelain is clever I guess. Some of the melodies are evocative but some of them (I'm looking at you South Side) are naff. Hell they would have been naff if the Happy Mondays sung them 20 years earlier. In 1999 breakbeat hardcore AND jungle AND trip hop had run their course and this would fail to have impressed anyone who was across those scenes (I took a break halfway through the album to check out some of his early 90s work and it feels like exactly the same concept as this album except way more taught and credible). The last half are just half realised sketches and random bits he pulled off the DAT and chucked together. Last track is like some shitty video game OST? Is this actually just library music? That explains the car ads. The album is a three until it gets to the bit where he just starts putting all his half finished sketches on it which pisses me off so I'm giving it a two. But then I remember Moby is the Morrisey of electronic music so I'm giving it a one.

Elevator music

The only good thing about this album is that I now know I never want to listen to it again.

This was pretty horrible. Just a drum and piano on repeat while nonsense is mumbled in the background. One of the worst albums on the list.

Electronic music is not my style

Just couldn't get through this album

This is an absolute piece of shit. I like Porcelain and wasn't prepared for his music to be so terrible. Who is this kind of music for and when do you put it on? I wouldn't want to dance to it but I wouldn't want to play it at a coffee shop either. It is too repetitive and lacks the energy to be paid attention to, but it's also too distracting to be background music. It's gimmick music. Every song is a gimmick. Why does this album exist?

Ein bis zwei hörbare Songs, der Rest Einheitsbrei. Fastfood!

Boring and way too repetitive. No track is memorable

Seems mad that this album was so popular in its day. Some really insipid rubbish on here. It doesn't help that the few ok jams are completely played out. Plus Moby is such an unlikeable Celebrity I find it hard to admit there's any value in anything he touches. The typical expression on his face belongs on an old man in the local paper complaining about dog poo on the pavement outside his house. Didn't he rip off some old black lady?

soulless piece of trash

Yeah..... no

I actually don’t think we need to take music from black artists and put beats on top of it

aburrido

1.5 i guess. not for me

So corny

Tragically I missed out on seeing David Bowie as a teen because I didn’t want to pay to see Moby (for whom Bowie was OPENING; what a travesty). I thought there would be more chances! And that’s middle-age disappointment in a nutshell. Anyway, this is music for commercials; it makes me feel less than nothing.

Most all the songs are just 30 second loops stretched out to 4 minutes. And it’s just too long. An hour for the base album and an hour for the B-sides (the double album is the only version on Apple Music). Honey and Natural Blues are standouts.

Just a bunch of samples repeated over and over for 3-5 minutes per song. Not interesting at all.

probably like 1.5, pretty meh not exciting

I keep talking about video games I played as a youth and once again, SSX Tricky comes to mind. DO AN UBER TRICK. And of course, the Australian (?) character in a wet suit, Moby is my reference point. I assume he doesn’t make an appearance. This sounds like the jaunty intro to an early 2000s family movie. This song could’ve been 1 minute. That would’ve been all I needed to hear. After that it’s complete garbage. This makes me want to listen to where the samples came from rather than the Moby song itself. This one is kind of funky but it again goes on too long. WAY TOO LONG. Let’s see what one idea we can stretch over 4 minutes this time. Guess what. He stopped doing that. He has gone ahead and just decided to do a song filled with different bad ideas. See previous track review. This one was actually a little better. The heart feeling bad was at least sort of emotion adjacent. Meh. Repetitive malarkey. I am “rushing” to get this over with. Oh man. Noooo. The pain. Look at this guy and listen to how corny this is. Please. Even if it’s some ironic commentary on the fleeting nature of youth and its expression through diasporic disparity or whatever, it still fucking blows. Moby is a troublesome guy. Is that what he’s saying? Who cares? Machete eh? Hmm. I could think of a few things I could do with that machete. Sugar cane fields mostly. Something happened on “7”? Didn’t catch it. I like this old timey shit, but it’s probably not this guys song. He just put his GarageBand piano and drum sample behind this gospel song that would’ve been better on its own. Are we going to hear that Fatboy Slim song? Is Moby Fatboy Slim? What a dumb sentence. There was a song here! Whoa. Hold on. Is this almost interesting? Still repetitive, but it has some semblance of atmosphere. It’s super pretentious and too close to the mic but I think I have Stockholm syndrome. Way to go Moby. Whoa Moby is really exiting the same sounding area. Oh wait never mind, that shitey piano has returned. Yup! Another song. This one is kind of nice. Gentle, soft, but ultimately a voyage of boredom on an already arduous trudge through electronic autofellatio. The Sky may be broken, but these are my favourite moments on the album. He sounds deranged. Like a captor saying these things to his prisoner. Terrifying. Well. A muted outro to a muted album. Not the moment I think he hoped it would be. The repetition kills these for me. I’m sitting here listening to a record. I’m not in a movie, I’m not at a weird dance. I’m sitting and listening to the same sound over and over again. It gets frustrating to endure the same sounds for an hour. If that’s the objective of the artist, then maybe I’m not prepared for the fast paced world of art studio electronics shows. The darker stuff was alright, and the gospel samples make me want to listen to old gospel, but as far as Slimboy Fat over here, a big pass. 1 HIGHLIGHTS: If Things Were Perfect, The Sky is Broken

Ah yes Moby, I listened to it and I am a little mad. Box checked...

Almost gave it an extra star for that one song, but then listened to the rest.

The soundtrack to white privilege

Dont Like it

Ugh this dude…

Could finish this album. It was full of hits that I remember. But not really hits for me.

horrible

Boy, did I not enjoy this. Felt exploitative just to spin it. So I stopped after five tracks.

god this guy enrages me

Almost gave it an extra star for that one song, but then listened to the rest.

I hated it in the 90s. Still hate it.

sucks

You can get stomped by Obie

Meh

Moby is ass lol

Ughhh

So damn repetitive. Three or four of the tracks got my foot tapping but I got sick of them halfway through. Second half of the album is absolute trash.

No

Not for me at all.

A few songs in and I was a little surprised that I didn't hate it. The blend of early soul/R&B samples over beats was a little weird but not totally off-putting as background music. But hIs spoken "vocals" over repetitious ambient beats really annoys me when that's going on. This is nothing I would reach for to listen to again, ever. The deeper I got, the more I just got bored with the predictably formulaic approach. The singular moment he mixes it up (machete) and gives me what I initially expected the whole album to be (frenetic dance club bullshit), I simply cannot stand it. Pure garbage. Once again I am mystified at how so many people regard this as an essential listen.

Imagine if this was hip hop instead of literally fucking nothing at all. I am genuinely amazed by how little Moby packs into over an hour of "original music." I put that in quotes because it isn't original music. It's literally something that already exists with a stock keyboard and drums put behind it. This is nothing at all, which is an extremely offensive thing to be on a list of albums you must hear.

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.

I would rather slowly drown than listen to this again.

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...

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

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.

Hate this album

I don’t get it.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.”

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

Opinion still a bit colored by Eminem being a hater

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.

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.

extremely boring and repetitive, the essence of some good beats are in there but the same bits loop for most of each song. nothing fun or hard hitting

fucking bad

DNF A couple of tracks are decent, the rest I listened to are meh.

This is music that was scientifically formulated to be included as background music in oceans eleven. Sorta like if Fatboy slim was dogshit

If there is a feature that defines Moby´s music, it is forgettable.

Nerd

Also das, was er macht, macht er schon sehr gut. Viele Samples zusammengemixt mit irgendwelcher total egalen Popmusik. Reingeskippt und Techno gehört. Ich bin raus!

Found my attention wandering which can't be great. Prefer 18

You guys don’t get me.

I'm largely unsure as to why Moby is a respected artist and isn't selling used cars in Toledo. This album is just, bad. It's like he realized he had an album due at 11:59 and he hasn't even started yet.

Nice beat, but lack of lyric creativity. Can't understand most of what he says, but he keeps repeating the same line ad nauseum anyway, so who cares. Can't believe this one is in a top 1000 list; must be listed in the high 900s.

Hard no

Moby, you're too old, let go, it's over, nobody listens to techno.

NOT GOOD

Not my thing and the songs drag on way too long.

Idk

İts been a while since I've waited for an album to finish. Just boring and moody.

Previously, my positive opinion of Moby was pretty much solely based on Spiders, Lift Me Up, Raining Again and Natural Blues. Another review called this aural wallpaper which is a perfect description. It's inoffensive, unobtrusive, and wildly repetitive.. Credit to Moby for helping to evolve the electronica genre, but this album is just a part of the fossil record now. I think Hotel is a better album for me.

things i am not impressed with: moby's music things i AM impressed with: moby's high jump could have sworn i had never heard anything if his but some of the songs sounded familiar 1.5

Tää on tylsää

I can only accurately describe this album in Latin: ad nauseum. I want to find the artistic merit and understand the critical reception of this album, but I just can't. I know it's in there, and I know what this work has done for the EDM scene, but I can't listen to the same two bars of vocals repeated for an entire five minute piece. It grinds at my ears and I just keep craving something interesting, but it never comes.

Not really a fan of electronica.

Ei pysty

No.

I’m 5 songs in and tapping out, it’s already too repetitive, I can’t handle 2 hours of this…

Couple of good songs but most songs have some repetitive beat the whole time and banal to listen to.

Starts off ok, couple catchy songs. Second half of album is dreadful. Too boring even for background elevator music

take away the blues singers and it's the blandest type of starbucks music

Bailed after three tracks. Bland as fuck

Some noises for sure

I don’t like Moby, sorry

Simply hated it

Garbage. Those first two songs were unlistenable Picks up a small bit after that. I feel like it’s a mix between 90s/00s UK indie scene and techno. Really not for me . Had to skip through some songs they were that repetitive Favourite song - South Side

Who wants a Volvo estate? A Renault Scenic? Maybe a Volkswagen Passat diesel? Shit cars. Shit adverts. Shit music. Shit man. 0/5

I'm not sure why, but this album felt like a punishment. 63 minutes is far too long. Mostly watered down and plodding overuse of samples. Porcelain is a fine song, but that's about the only bright spot for me. Whenever I could hear the actual lyrics, I hated them. I'm sure there's an audience for this, but I'm not in it. Eminem tried to warn me, but I set out on this journey with the mission to keep an open mind and to not skip any album no matter how much I thought I would hate it going in, and this is one of those days that I regret making that promise to myself. South Side fucking sucked ass. That was a single? Jesus christ. Also, for the one or two people that may read this review and take umbrage with it: I have no problem with his methods (sampling) or supposed "sell out" status, it's just that I think this is an inoffensive, anodyne piece of crap that is at it's worst facile and at it's best just fuckin' boring. Standouts: Porcelain

Why?

Confesso que foi difícil passar da primeira faixa. Downtempo é muito lento, não sei, parece-se com música de shopping, elevador, enfim... Faz jus ao termo "ambient chill", posto no Spotify.

Pop EDM with Motown vocals, no thanks

Well that was beyond boring. The best thing about repetitive drivel is that you can press skip after 30 seconds and be guaranteed to have missed nothing.

Mmh

I bought this CD from Goodwill because they had 5 copies and Rolling Stone said it was good. Actually terrible. 1/5.

This is not music. This is torture.

why. just. why.

Tråkigt och del lät som proto-electro swing

I don't know, struggled to stay focused on the music but maybe that's just because it's not my thing "Guitar Flute & String" was alright RIP Spotify wrapped

There’s a Song for every Advert imaginable. An Ad Man’s wet dream.

No.

I have really tried to find something positive to say about this album...

Didn’t like

No

Oh god, another stinker.

hm

gay retard

kind of boring. songs sounded repetitive could only find b sides B side album wasn’t that good. All i could find. Found an ASAP rocky sample though

Y2K loop music - not my thing

Liked the vibe that the opening 'Honey' set. It feels like an eclectic album so far by the sounds, it reminds me of Fetch The Bolt Cutters in that aspect. Person seems problematic + personal takes kinda soured my opinion now Still am liking the vibe, it feels like a grower that I would have on replay

I already hav this album saved, amazing

This is really unique lol, i like it!