Moby: classic or dud

Our mate Mobe never fails to divide opinion.

"Why you gotta hate on Moby" -Moby

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/0dadfc1070/the-postal-service-auditions?playlist=featured_videos

Wait for it...

ok that made me lol

feeling in a mellow electronic pop mood, so today i picked up 'wait for me', 'wait for me - remixes!', and 'destroyer' today for £3 each from fopp.
so far, so right.
not classic by any means, but not dud either.

I think his first album is pretty classic, along with the Play singles and "Bring Me My Happiness"

THIS forever:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMRibeoPCjI

http://moby.com/long-ambients1-calm-sleep/

4 hours of ambient moby, for free.

it is rather lovely.

Yeah, mark e is right above. His ambient work honestly is Mulholland Drive levels beautiful (esp. that first track)

Classic:
Everything Is Wrong
Play
Debut

Somewhere in between:
Ambient
18
Everything since 18

Dud:
Animal Rights

I would rep for all of these:

https://www.discogs.com/Moby-Go-Remixes/release/51185
https://www.discogs.com/Moby-Ambient/master/2667
https://www.discogs.com/Moby-Moby/master/2829
https://www.discogs.com/Moby-Early-Underground/master/2772
https://www.discogs.com/Moby-Hymn/master/2864 (plus other mixes incl. the "I Believe" mix)
https://www.discogs.com/Moby-HymnAltQuietVersion/release/6432
https://www.discogs.com/Moby-Move-The-Mixes/master/22029
https://www.discogs.com/Moby-All-That-I-Need-Is-To-Be-Loved/master/22156
https://www.discogs.com/Voodoo-Child-The-End-Of-Everything/master/1939

the stuff since Play has been mostly embarrassing

not too keen on Voodoo Child's Baby Monkey but I love this slowed-down version of "Electronics":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGRyv4ovEcE

How does Moby Ambient compare to the LAX ambient recordings he released for free? Those 20 + minute pieces are ideal for coming down or crashing

I'd say he's pretty consistent throughout his career, I keep updating myself on his new stuff once every three years or so and he never really surprises. He's really good at ambient, enjoyable at dancefloor-oriented house/techno, boring-but-effective at the downtempo/pop stuff, and terrible at alternative rock/punk.

the album Ambient is way different from the long ambient releases — it's "ambient" in the early '90s ambient house sense. it's very clearly a Moby album but in this context his primitive/naive approach really works:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Kdxk3qMYhs

I have an iTunes playlist of Ambient and Little Idiot and various other tracks throughout his discography that resemble that material. I think that's where he's the strongest and I wish he had more stuff like that.

Still spin "I love to move in here" very regularly - excellent piece of pastiche house

https://moby-andthevoidpacificchoir.wetransfer.com/

previous album + new one for free.

in 320.

legal link.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmi-MtP969M

In other news, his book left me feeling kind of gross.

these noisy moby albums are actually very enjoyable when you have a ton of crappy paperwork to deal with.

i have no interest in the book.