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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.
The Limited Edition packaging of PLAY: THE B-SIDES includes new essays, photos and drawings from Moby.
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.
Moby broke new ground in electronica with the 1999 release of PLAY, which found him delving into old field recordings of gospel singers, blues shouters, and work songs, while adding his own electronic wizardry. This mix of past and future spoke solidly to the present, and cast Moby as an individualist in a field too often filled with lemming-like trend-followers.
This limited-edition version of PLAY is a two-CD affair that contains not only the original album tracks, but also a wealth of B-sides from PLAY's single releases. On the latter, Moby experiments even further with his unique mixture of organic and electronic sounds. To sweeten the pot still further, photographs and new essays by Moby are included in the elaborate package.
Includes liner notes by Moby.
Personnel: Moby (vocals, keyboards).
Personnel: Moby (vocals, various instruments, samples); Pilar Basso, Reggie Matthews, The Shining Light Gospel Choir (vocals).
Rolling Stone (6/24/99, p.64) - 4 out of 5 - "...embraces both hip-hop syncopations and...early-twentieth-century African American folk music to create time-traveling beatbox rhythms....Moby sing-speaks, plays innumerable instruments and crafts complex soulful harmonies..."
Rolling Stone (1/18/01, p.56) - 3.5 stars out of 5 - "...Continues PLAY's fusion of traditional blues with house beats and club ambience with old soul..."
Spin (9/99, p.128) - Ranked #20 in Spin Magazine's "90 Greatest Albums of the '90s."
Spin (7/99, pp.125-6) - 9 (out of 10) - "...To hear an electronic dance album looking backward as intently as it dreams forward is a real-time jolt, and Moby rides the groove with a buzz reminiscent of his early, techno anthems....It's as real an image as rave,or alternative, culture has ever imagined."
Entertainment Weekly (6/11/99, p.68) - "...techno imp's best album since 1995's EVERYTHING IS WRONG....setting snippets from old blues and gospel recordings to new rhythmic settings....PLAY is music that truly moves back to the future." - Rating: A-
Q (10/01, p.54) - Ranked #35 in Q's "Best 50 Albums of Q's Lifetime"
Q (1/00, p.84) - Included in Q Magazine's "50 Best Albums of 1999."
Q (6/99, p.109) - 4 Stars (out of 5) - "...Moby's visceral use of early blues samples is at the heart of PLAY, creating achingly emotional pieces...before the choirs, liquid piano runs and swirling analogue synthesizers kick in..."
Alternative Press (8/99, p.67) - 4 (out of 5) - "...pushing the [electronic music] genre in new directions....[PLAY] draws you in with its beautiful combinations of sound...."
Muzik (6/99, p.86) - Stars 4 (out of 5) - "...Moby operates in his own sonic vacuum, where gospel angels ride with outlaw cowboys and b-boy wannabes, just becuase they can. Idiosyncratically brilliant, as ever..."
CMJ (1/10/00, p.3) - Ranked #4 in CMJ's "Top 30 Editorial Picks [for 1999]."
CMJ (5/31/99, p.5) - "...Relying heavily on vocal samples of great Southern spiritual and blues singers, he has crafted an album of uniquely affecting soul....this onetime hardcore kid has found a way to match studio grooves with gospel harmony and deep blues..."
Mojo (Publisher) (1/00, p.31) - Ranked #23 in Mojo Magazine's "Best of 1999."
NME (Magazine) (5/15/99, p.31) - "...PLAY encompasses hip-hop beats, funky grooves, samples of old blues hollering, big house emotionalism and slow, smoldering soul....ploughing a unique furrow in pop music, he demands your enjoyment as much as your respect." Moby Play Songs | 1. | Honey |
| 2. | Find My Baby |
| 3. | Porcelain |
| 4. | Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad? |
| 5. | South Side |
| 6. | Rushing |
| 7. | Bodyrock |
| 8. | Natural Blues |
| 9. | Machete |
| 10. | 7 |
| 11. | Run On |
| 12. | Down Slow |
| 13. | If Things Were Perfect |
| 14. | Everloving |
| 15. | Inside |
| 16. | Guitar Flute and String |
| 17. | Sky Is Broken, The |
| 18. | My Weakness |
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Play Music Review Average Rating: (4.4 out of 5 stars)   List All Reviews hey cmon..
im a fan of all music and this album is good and many of his others are too, but dont be hating on eminem he does what he wants to do, and so does moby that makes both of them hardcore, doing what you want no matter what others think, im sure moby dosnt care that eminem wrote about him its just life man... let live, live life and live it
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Moby was great before he changed his direction in music. 'Play' is a good example of how his music should sound like. Honey, Bodyrock & Everloving are favorites.
Submitted by Frodo Baggins (Middle Earth)
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Great album; better than Eminem!
I hate how Eminem kept on dissing Moby on and on like a moron just because Moby said his music should be more appropriate. Moby even admitted Eminem is an intelligent man so I don't see why Eminem had to go on and on and diss and make people view Moby as a loser.
Moby is quite an intelligent, electronic, cool, hip artist. Play is an awesome album. The coolest song is "Bodyrock." That song pumps me up. The only song that's annoying is "Honey." But the other songs are talented unlike Eminem's Encore album. Eminem could not be as talented as Moby so why do more people by hateful albums like Eminem's. Plus if Eminem did try and fight Moby, Eminem wouldn't beat him up as people think.
If you liked this album you would probably like You've Come A Long Way Baby by Fatboy Slim or Fat of the Land by Prodigy which are electronic albums. Also critics and shows on Vh1 said Moby "Play" was the 12th best album in the past twenty years. Eminem's album was the 13th. That shows Moby tries harder at his work. Also Moby didn't release crap like Encore. 18 was also a good album by Moby.
Submitted by derekp8 (Toronto, ON, Canada)
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This album is the only Moby album you really need. It won album of the year when it came out, and its an electronica album. That is rare as hell considering that electronica isn't that accepted that well in the U.S.
Submitted by Heavymark7 (Lutherville, MD, USA)
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Cd with real style with electro feel to it.songs with a chilled and dance style to them. Favirites honey,inside,why does my heat fell so bad etc.Most of song are cool.
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