Moby - Play
NME.COM feature on Moby - Play album including album review, artwork, tracks, listen now, tour dates, discography and more.
Album Review
Release date: 21 November 2000
Play
'Baldy dance bloke, vegan Christian, sampled [I]Twin Peaks[/I], went metal, then went back, allegedly big in America.'...
'Baldy dance bloke, vegan Christian, sampled Twin Peaks , went metal, then went back, allegedly big in America.' So reads the current entry in the rock history books for New York maverick Moby . But that's barely the half of it. After his less than convincing foray into industrial techno metal on 'Animal Rights' , as white, inhuman and sexless a record as...
- Apr 12, 1999
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Moby - Play: Wikipedia Album Entry
Play is the sixth studio album by the music artist Moby. While some of Moby's earlier work garnered critical and commercial success within the electronic dance music scene, Play was his first true pop success. The album introduced Moby to a worldwide mainstream audience, not only through hit singles, but also through unprecedented licensing of his music in films, television and commercial advertisements.
One of the notable aspects of Play, as opposed to other electronic albums of the time, was the way in which it combined old gospel and folk music rhythms with modern house sensibilities. Moby sampled heavily from the collected field recordings of Alan Lomax in songs such as "Honey," "Find My Baby," "Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?" and "Natural Blues," while the track "Run On" was inspired by the traditional "God's Gonna Cut You Down." The album also has more purely electronic tracks, as well as the rock-influenced single "South Side" and the more ambient "Porcelain."
Inside the booklet included with the album, there are five short essays written by Moby, on topics such as veganism, fundamentalism, and humanitarianism. After the essays is a disclaimer written by Moby: "These essays are not really related to the music, so if you hate the essays you might still like the music, and if you like the essays you might hate the music. Who knows, maybe by some bizarre twist of fate you'll like them both."
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Moby - Play Lyrics
Moby - South Side Lyrics
See myself in the pouring home
See the light, come over now
I see myself in the pouring rain
I watch hope come over me
Moby - Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad Lyrics
Why does my heart feel so bad?
Why does my soul feel so bad?
Why does my heart feel so bad?
Why does my soul feel so bad?
Moby - The Sky Is Broken Lyrics
See the storm is broken
In the middle of the night
Nothing left here for me
It's washed away
Moby - Run On Lyrics
Lord God Almighty let me tell the news
My head got wet in midnight dew
Great God I been down on my bended knees
Talking to a man from Galilee
Moby - Porcelain Lyrics
In my dreams, I'm dying all the time
Then I wake it's kaleidoscopic mind
I never meant to hurt you
Moby - Natural Blues Lyrics
Oh Lordy, trouble so hard
Oh Lordy, trouble so hard
Don't nobody know my troubles but God
Don't nobody know my troubles but God
Moby - Machete Lyrics
Yesterday I felt so cold, I felt like I could die
Took the needles from my arms and put them to the sky
Watched the cold come take me
Pull me down like I did know
Moby - If Things Were Perfect Lyrics
Give me summer
Give me summer
Give me summer
Moby - Honey Lyrics
Get my honey come back, sometimes
I wanna rap like that, sometimes
I get a hump in my back, sometimes
I'm going over here, sometimes
Moby - Body Rock Lyrics
Rock ya'all
No stop ya'll
To the beat ya'all
The bodyrock ya'll
Moby - Find My Baby Lyrics
I'm gonna find my baby before that sun goes down
I'm gonna find my baby before that sun goes down
I'm gonna find my baby before that sun goes down
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