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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!