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| Track Listing 1. Honey Honey 2. Find My Baby 3. Porcelain 4. Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad 5. Southside 6. Rushing 7. Bodyrock 8. Natural Blues 9. Machete 10. 7 11. Run On 12. Down Slow 13. If Things Were Perfect 14. Ever Loving 15. Inside 16. Guitar Flute And String 17. Sky Is Broken 18. My Weakness 1. Flower 2. Sunday 3. Memory Gospel 4. Whispering Wind 5. Summer 6. Spirit 7. Flying Foxes 8. Sunspot 9. Flying Over The Dateline 10. Running 11. Sun Never Stops Setting
Album Notes Personnel: Moby (vocals, various instruments, samples); Pilar Basso, Reggie Matthews, The Shining Light Gospel Choir (vocals).Includes liner notes by Moby.PLAY was nominated for the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Performance. "Bodyrock" was nominated for the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance."Natural Blues" was nominated for the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording.A marked departure from the sound of his groundbreaking EVERYTHING IS WRONG and his subsequent hard-edged output, PLAY finds Moby charting new territory. Abandoning the breakneck drive of techno punk for looser, groovier structures entrenched in dance-oriented hip-hop brings a whole new feeling to Moby's vast and varied sonic canvas. Several songs, including the hit single "Honey," are distinguished by the appearance of early American field recordings, looped bits of African American spirituals and folk songs culled from the Alan Lomax catalogue.Moby's penchant for complex composition is in evidence here, as layer after layer of keyboard ornamentation, percussive effects, guitar, vocals (Moby sings and also plays all the instruments), and pulsing, echoing beats create a rich, deeply textured tapestry. PLAY shows that Moby's sophisticated sense of sound collage hasn't dulled, and the combination of these wide-ranging sonic experiments with unique historical samples and rootsier, more accessible beats indicates his ever-changing vision as an artist. | |||||||||||
Reviews  Nice version of a modern classicReview created: 03/06/07 by:  Most people know of this album, indeed most people probably own it by now! I bought it when it actually came out, back in 1999, to poor reviews and little fanfare. I even bought all the singles, as I have nearly all of Moby's singles to date; so why do you ask, did I buy it again, when I probably have all the tracks anyway? Well, as you can probably deduce, I'm a bit of a Moby fan and collector, having gotten the bug when 'Everything is Wrong' came out. There are other reasons for buying this box set however; firstly some of the b-side tracks differ slightly from the versions released on the original singles; secondly, it's nice to have these great tracks, which I never really get round to listening to, in one place; thirdly, the packaging is superb, a decent thick card slipcase with differing artwork, better quality paper for the CD booklets, etc. and it looks good on the shelf! My recommendation, especially if you don't have the standard album, is that this is the version to go for. The b-side tracks are a little harder, more 'experimental' than the album, but still classic Moby. If you have the standard album, but not the singles and have yet to hear the b-sides, this really is a great purchase and costs little more than the stand-alone 'Play - The B-Sides' CD, but you get a great box too! Review ID: 10000000003680916 Was this review helpful? Report this review |
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