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- #1
- Posted: 09/28/2016 20:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#2130): Play by Moby
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Today's album of the day
Play by Moby (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 1999.
Country: 
Overall rank: 417
Average rating: 76/100 (from 497 votes).
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Tracks:
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 & String
17. The Sky Is Broken
18. My Weakness
About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
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Applerill
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Gender: Female
Age: 30
Location: Chicago
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- #2
- Posted: 09/29/2016 13:50
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It's always been one of my favorite albums ever, but beyond the obviously commercialization of the music, it is also worth wondering about the appropriation of black gospel samples to make a white man rich and sell stuff from big corporations. Oh well.
Actually, Jace Clayton describes the issue really well in his new book Uproot: Travels in 21st Century Music and Digital Culture.
| Quote: | Play’s liner notes contain short essays by Moby on veganism (good), fundamentalism (bad), and his version of Christianity (it’s complicated)— but not consumerism. Licensing the music so widely never presented him with an ethical dilemma. I found Play upsetting not because its core sonic identity comes from the voices of old African American blues singers that Moby sampled and layered with atmospheric beats, but rather because brands such as American Express, Rolling Rock, Baileys Irish Cream, Nissan, Volkswagen, Renault, and many more were so ready to use those cushy decontextualizations to advertise their products.
Moby didn’t sell out, but he did insert his wares into a system that trades on the appearance of authenticity. Of course, black soulfulness repackaged and sold by whites is the very antithesis of what we understand as authenticity— but, as with Play, that mediation consistently makes it more rather than less sellable. The catchiest moments of Play are built on the voices of poor southern blacks, recorded decades earlier by Alan Lomax. The blues voices that loop inside Moby’s pop-friendly arrangements remind us that the central fact of black authenticity in America is dispossession. Which makes Play a profoundly American album, and Moby, with his heart-on-sleeve diatribes and full complicity with this complex machinery, a transitional figure. |
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Norman Bates
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Age: 51
Location: Paris, France
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- Posted: 09/29/2016 17:09
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Fair enough, but the music is so bad though...
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Thad
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- Posted: 09/29/2016 18:47
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I've always wanted to check out Moby, but have barely gotten around to it at all. This is a nice reminder.
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