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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!