Play - Moby

...who have read my Moby Play DVD review you will know that I am a massive fan of this extremely talented musician. I have purchased this particular album, 3 times since its release in 1999. This just proves what a fan I am of this highly acclaimed and powerful album that has sold over 8 million copies worldwide! I can't live without the inspirational tunes of this album! Each track means so much to me emotionally and I am about to tell you why with ...
...is of….. …..Moby - Play (The no.1 selling album) Please note: The CD listing is slightly different to the DVD (As I reviewed previously). **Genre** For those who don't know a lot about Moby's music, this CD Album is different from most mainstream chart music you would hear. It features great beats, rhythmic tempo and you can really feel yourself within the music. If I was to assign this CD album to a genre I would classify it as down tempo - ...

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Right, cards on the table. The contents of this universally acclaimed 1999 offering on the Mute label from Herman Melville’s most famous great-great-great-great-nephew surprise me – I had expected a cascade of top-notch up-tempo dance tunes when I recently lifted a copy from CD WOW’s bargain basement for a mere £6.99. However, Moby is one of dance music’s most eccentric artists, recording work as the mood takes him and not ...
...not hard to see why this album has won him many friends though. “Play” is a superb collection of eighteen mostly easy-paced ambient tracks, with the occasional faster beat for contrast, that blend together to form a cohesive relaxing whole. In fact, the album opens with one of the contrast pieces, “Honey”. The vocals on this track are typical of the type employed by the man when the mood takes him to use the human voice (which ...

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...here. With so many quality songs to choose from how they ever decided what to release as single must have been nigh on impossible. In Play Moby has created an album that deserves to go on every wish, birthday and play list around the world. An essential purchase. ...

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Moby - Play The title is so because every song in this album has been used in one form or another. Many have appeared in adverts, others in television shows, and some on the wireless. As with many of my opinions on albums, I will give you a list of songs with a few sentences about them. 1. Honey 3:29 A lively start (you could hear this a lot.) The lyrics consist of "come back, some time." There is a fast beat with this song and there is an occasional ...
...can get repetitive. 6/10 2. Find My Baby 3:59 The video of this song is very amusing and so is the song in general. Again, the lyrics comprise of "Find my baby" and not much else apart form a few WOO-HOO's. Again, the song is very lively and good for adverts as it does make you feel good. It follows a regular pattern for Moby of fast start, fast middle, and fast ending with a few seconds of slow beats in the middle. 8/10 3. Porcelain 4:01 This ...

christopherj84 18.01.2001 (20.07.2001) · Read full review
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...can an album offer. Play hasn’t left my CD player or car since the day I bought it. It even gets the thumbs up from my Top of the Pops watching 9 & 11 year olds who don’t tolerate my choice of music that easily. I’m sorry if my descriptions don’t make sense, I’ve tried to be honest and give you MY interpretation of a great album – if you are in any doubt BUY IT ALRIGHT ...

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...one . I know I play one. Simple folky tune. Track 17- "The sky is broken" Drum beat…speaking again! Nice thoughts though."The sky turns black" "There`s nothing left here for me"…oooh now I feel so cheerful! Gosh aren`t I sarcastic Track 18 - "My weakness" Picture those Hawaiian people welcoming you in to shore…actually again clever use of a reverse sample!Nice and drifty again..peaceful. Relax and feel warm!! In conclusion then, ...

debrini 10.03.2001 (12.03.2001) · Read full review
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'Play' has been Moby's most successful album by a long way. Many of the people who loved 'Play' are now looking to some of Moby's earlier work, extending back nearly a decade, and finding a lot more quality music. Moby's earliest work was as a techno-house DJ, releasing a number of large underground tracks on 12" vinyl in the early nineties. Much of this can be found on his 1993 release on the Instinct label, 'The Story So Far.' This album includes ...
...name in the dance music scene - 'Go'. This was a fairly simple but effective house tune, massive in clubs across Europe. Even at this early stage with such basic electronic instruments, Moby dabbled with other styles of dance music. His 1993 album, 'Ambient' comprises twelve low-key tracks, far more subtle than the pounding sounds of 'The Story So Far'. He also released a compilation of B-sides and 'other' tracks on the Pinnacle label as 'Early Underground'. ...

SkyscraperFanClub 18.01.2001 · Read full review
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After hearing this newest release from Moby, I'm convinced that he really enjoys throwing people for a loop. After being on the scene for quite some time, he released the critically acclaimed Everything Is Wrong, but followed it up with the bipolar Animal Rights. Even though it contained some nice moments (and even some nice ambience of old), it garnered a fairly weak response from people in general and faded away fast. Over the course of the next ...
...working on music for films (including a re-working of the James Bond theme) and released the related disc called, I Like To Score. Fast forward to last year when the first single, "Honey" from his new album dropped and people were again confused. Instead of reverting back to the dancefloor beats and things that he was known for, it seemed that he threw another monkey in the wrench. The song revolved around a repetitive old-time sample and sounded ...

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...or 'sad.' Not one to play when you've been dumped. Despite what i've said I do like this song. 8/10 South side: Quite catchy, slow to start off with a faster chorus. Has a certain feel good factor. 8/10 Rushing: Slow despite the title, very calming and relaxing, perfect to wind-down to. Although a bit too slow for my liking. Has a contrast where it speeds up abit into an instrumental to interpret the theme of rushing. 6/10 Bodyrock: Very up-beat, ...
...Natural blues: As the title suggests a 'blues,' type song. Sounds like it's meant to, Moby singing the blues. 7/10 Machete: Very different from the above song. A bit of a rock tune that you could mosh to, if you ask me. 6/10 7: A slow instrumental, not one of the best tracks on the album. 5/10 Run on: A bit of a blues style song, different and quite catchy. 4/10 Down slow: Slow, depressing, instrumental. 5/10 If things were perfect: Moby seems to ...

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This album my brother bought and although I do not particularly like dance music and anything remotely similiar to dance music. However Moby's album has some of the catchiest tunes, (but not exactly annoying) I have ever heard! Sure enough after hearing only a couple of the songs I could not stop singing along to the tunes (and even dancing whilst making very strange guitar movements to the music). Some of Moby's tracks are reasonably slow and quite ...

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...one of the trackls has been used in an advert somewhere in the world. This seems quite unusual when you consider that Moby threatened legal action when his breakthrough classic Go was used in an American advert. But that's Moby. Unusual. And that's what made Play such an amazing album. ...

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...that, for the main part, Play is repetitive, boring, and thoroughly uninteresting. All the tracks revolve around a grooving beat and the occasional piano, string or keyboard chord. Which is fine if you like that sort of thing, ie most dance music. But I find it a bit tedious. And very few tracks actually feature Moby singing. Now, I very much suspect that this is because Dicky-boy here can’t sing. Certainly, judging by his Glastonbury performance, ...
...few soul singers scattered around the stage, and ropes in the odd Elton John to sing on a few numbers. I wonder how many people who own this album ever listen to the whole thing? I'm pretty sure that most people will just listen to the singles. And admittedly, there are some fine moments on those tracks: the gorgeous piano solo of “Porcelain”, some of “Natural Blues”, most of “Honey”, and pretty much all of “Why ...

thegrinder2k 03.03.2001 · Read full review
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This album was recommended to me by a friend, so I decided to borrow their copy. It was songs like 'Porcelain' and 'Natural blues' that made me go out and buy the album for myself, but the rest of the album is just as good to chill out to. I also saw Moby live on MTV not so long ago, and there is nothing better than seeing them live in front of thousands of fans who are screaming for more. I will try and see them live for myself so that I can be ...

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Apparently every track on this album is used on television or in films and rightly so. The off the wall sound is appealing and easy to listen to. It isn’t pop although the tracks should appeal to pop fans. I first came to hear of Moby after his rewrite of the James Bond theme and I really liked that at the time. I don’t usually make a habit of listening to popular artists or buying their records but having heard the albums at a friends house I felt ...

MarcusPerkins 31.08.2000 · Read full review
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...first thing I did was play it. Damn!, why did I wait so long? Excellent value for money aswell,because it has eighteen tracks on it. From the moving "Why does my heart feel so bad?" to the haunting "Porcelin", virtually every track is a classic. Not surprising that every single that Moby has released has been used as the soundtrack for a commercial somewhere in the world.Would I recommend it?, I think sales in excess of twenty million copies gives ...

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