POLL: PLAY by Moby (upon completion, it will be stomped by Obie)

"Run On"

porcelain

WHAT IS THIS "FEATURING GWEN STEFANI" SHITE?

Yeah, whoa whoa!

You guys never heard the version with Gwen on it? All US pressings from 2000-on feature it instead of the original.

really?. that blows.

Well, that's a drag. NO COMPULSORY GWEN STEFFANI I SAY!

And I would have voted that one, otherwise.

So, I voted Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad...

"Run On"

"Porcelain". Because it is the one that lets his techno past shine through the most.

@Mark G - both versions of "South Side" are in the poll, btw.

oh buggr.

Never mind, I decided Moby sounds too much like Zilly off Dast&Mut in their Flying machines. So, "heart sad" it is...

i just realised i've never heard 'Machete' (unless he did it live at the time)

Run On or My (Eno) Weakness tho

run on

'honey' is the one with kelis, yeah? that.

Kelis??? "Honey" has a sampled male vocal, IIRC.

I've never heard of the Gwen Stefani version either, my copy doesn't have it. Was it a later single or something?

"Honey" samples "Sometimes" by Bessie Jones

I'm voting for "Everloving"

Goddamn this album is so great. Fuck the haterz.

Ah, okay, so it's a female vocal with a low voice. But no Kelis on the album.

She re-recorded the vocal hook for the single's re-release

Really? Sounds kinda stupid, the whole charm of the vocal is that it's so obviously a sample, and from an old recording. Kinda like the rerecorded version of Jürgen Paape's "So Weit Noch Nie".

Anyway, I think this album, like all of Moby's pop albums, would be better if he didn't sing on it all, so that all vocals would be sampled or by guests. He has such a thin, unimpressive voice.

That's one of the reasons I prefer Everything Is Wrong to this album... EIW has only two short songs with his own vocals, and on neither of them does he try to be a proper pop singer like he does here.

Under the rules at the time, Moby had to sing when he appeared on Top of the Pops, for the track "Natural Blues"... it was not good.

surely they had long dispensed of that rule by that point and he just wanted to sing anyway

funny: despite their ubiquity, i can't remember what a lot of these sound like.

i might just give the whole thing a listen again. maybe.

Ohhh lordy, trouble so hard . . .

so many good songs on this album

(voted "Run On")

Ohhh lordy, trouble so hard . . .

Yeah, that's the best one, but I can't remember what it's called. Is it Natural Blues?

yes.

"Run On", "Honey" and "Natural Blues" are all so amazing.

sympathy vote for "Find My Baby," which was my favorite track off this in 7th grade but maybe not today.

I was going to start an Everything Is Wrong poll!!!

is the premise of this video that moby is a pedo

Director: "so this song has baby in the title? great we can work with that..."

I wish I had the proper distance to really enjoy this album again. I loved it so.

"Honey" gets my vote, but "Run On" is close behind.

I find the easiest way to enjoy this album is to only listen to individual songs intermixed with others on playlists.

"Whispering Wind" pwns everything on this album btw

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All artificial new-agey fodder for the marketing folks to overuse on their crappy commercials.

The techno artist Moby, as hip as they come, openly boasted of having sold every track of his breakthrough album "Play" to an advertiser, or to a film or TV soundtrack. The album should perhaps have been called "Pay."

- washington post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/12/AR2007101200496.html

"as hip as they come"

All artificial new-agey fodder for the marketing folks to overuse on their crappy commercials.

This is actually why this album is so awesome!

Inside = good ambient, but not ambient (if that makes sense)

The techno artist Moby, as hip as they come, openly boasted of having sold every track of his album "18" to an advertiser, or to a film or TV soundtrack. The album should perhaps have been called "$18."

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"Porcelain" 7

Weird, as it's the one on the album that probably sounds the most tied to its time (ie "dated").

oh shit I forgot about "Inside," I prob would have voted for that instead of "Find My Baby." "Porcelain" is prob one of the most creative pop songs texturally ever but "Inside" is just some serious out there Pure Moods masseuse soundtrack shit that is unfuckwithable

good lord, I certainly didn't mean "one of the most creative pop songs texturally ever." I mean more like I think it's the perfection of its particular kind of '90s aesthetic which was mostly shit but "Porcelain" is one rare exception

Man I owned this album back in the day and didn't give a shit about it for the past 5 years or so but now I really want to hear it again.

the results look about right though

I would have voted for "Run On," with "Honey" as runner-up.

I still like my idea that this should have been pitched as a narrative concept album about a hip-hop artist whose Honey has been stolen away by the local monarch in a "Prince of Persia" type story: Can my honey come back, Sultan? I wanna rap atcha, Sultan. On one long car ride, I and my lady friend at the time worked out the whole rest of the plot, whose details I can no longer remember - certainly "Natural Blues" was the lamentation of the damsel in distress, singing out the window of the palace tower...

"South Side" is awesome, haters

terrible thread title

Don't bust my balls.

The shoddy materials of this album shatter like flimsy porcelain.