Moby Songs: 1993-1998: Moby: Amazon.ca: Music

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1. First Cool Hive

2. Go

3. New Dawn Fades

4. Feeling So Real

5. All That I Need

6. Bring Back My Happiness

7. James Bond Theme

8. God Moving Over the Face of the Waters

9. Move

10. Whip It

11. Every Time You Touch Me

12. Novio - Moby

13. The Rain Falls And The Sky Shudders

14. When It's Cold I'd Like To Die - Moby

15. Living - Moby

16. Grace - Moby

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Elektra lived through Moby's wild musical mood swings only to have him jump ship to V2 Records where, on first try, he produced a genius, groundbreaking album that made him a household name. What's a hapless major label to do? Why, put out a quickie compilation attempting to cash in on his newfound fame, of course. Moby Songs is a veiled "Best of the Elektra Years" collection of the techno wizard's singles released under the Elektra umbrella. The problem with this disc is that Moby's discography is Babe Ruthian in its homerun-to-strikeout ratio. Furthermore, his best work occurred before and after he signed with the label. That leaves Elektra pulling 6 of the 13 tracks off of Everything Is Wrong (Moby's only consistent work while signed on). The rest is culled from his famously awful alt-rock offering Animal Rights, his collection of soundtrack work I Like to Score, and the title track from the Move EP. Moby Songs only serves those who are more morbidly curious with a snapshot of the man's scattered track record. Those who are interested in his finest should stick with his self-titled debut (which includes the rave classics "Drop a Beat," "Everything," "Next Is the E," and the original version of "Go") and Play. --Beth Massa

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3.0 out of 5 stars Equivalent to Sonic Wallpaper, Mar 14 2003

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Jack Lokensky (Pomona, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Moby Songs: 1993-1998 (Audio CD)

I found this CD to be pleasant, soothing, unobtrusive background music. I enjoyed "Play" and other of Moby's work; however, I found this CD to be to be the equivalent of sonic wallpaper - it's there, but it is meant to fade into the background.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Music fans can do much better, Aug 17 2002

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"the_fanboy" - See all my reviews

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Moby's "Songs" is basically a collection of some minor work from his stint with Elektra, and as such, is an album that should not have been made. Moby as an artist is overrated to begin with, so a trip into "Songs" is especially unnecessary.

To begin with, Songs opens with "First Cool Hive", a track that is very reminiscent of the most repetitive and irritating elevator music of Enigma, a band which has become nothing but the butt of jokes. There was some hope that the album would improve as "Go" and "Into The Blue", the two most tolerable tracks on the album came on, but they still offered very little for an appreciator of music to sink his or her teeth into. Things head back downwards as sappy, unoriginal tracks like "Anthem" and bad party music tracks like the despicable "I like to Score" and the weak "Feeling So Free" started playing from my stereo. Moby seems to be trying to serve boring and pretentious music to fans that haven't bothered to try the better Stereolab albums over Moby's predictable, one layered collection of songs. In fact, the whole album feels like shallow, predictable, and uninteresting music by a minor talent. That's to bad, because Moby at his best offers up some hypnotically catchy tracks, especially when a talented vocalist backs him up, but then again, Moby at his best is few and far between, and Moby at his worst dominates in Songs.

Those who like music that doesn't challenge them to listen can add a star, and if the purchaser of the album also wants no more than a nice piano segment or a little background music while they read can add an additional star. Those who seek originality and creativity in their music can take the last star away.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting, July 24 2002

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Mark D. Smith "mskarmar" (ocean view, de United States) - See all my reviews
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I hate techno, rave, dance music, etc...but I have found Moby's mobysongs quite interesting. I slip over the dancy, techno tracks and go to the ambient tracks. Here is where Moby connects. He is kind of like the modern version of Brian Eno with a pop flair. In fact, I wish he would become more Enoish and drop the dancy stuff altogether! Mobysongs is a good place to start for someone new to Moby like myself as is the similarly interesting (for the same reasons) Play. Give it a listen.

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4.0 out of 5 stars almost.....but not quite
Actually I am close in rating this as 5 stars..but the problem is that "the other" Moby's masterpiece aside from GOD MOVING OVER THE FACE OF WATER, the poignantly delicious LOVE... Read more

Published on May 3 2002

4.0 out of 5 stars "Everything is Wrong" is a better accompaniment to "Play"
I like this compilation. Don't get me wrong however it is more than apparent that Elektra Records (Moby's old label) was trying to cash in on the success of "Play". Read more

Published on Dec 14 2001 by Erica Anderson