When I started listening to Moby's new album Hotel I was seized by this horrible feeling of de ja vu. Suddenly it was 1999 again, people were still scared about the Y2K bug, Britney Spears was in the middle of exploiting her jail bait look, tech stocks were all the rage and the best album on the planet was Moby's Play.
Play was everywhere, all over MTV, in all the car commercials, on movie soundtracks, played incessantly on the radio and stuck in my CD player. Six years and two albums later, Moby is still releasing albums that sound too much like Play. He might as well rename Hotel to Play III (Play II was his 2002 album 18).
I know a lot of artists strive for consistency, but what happened to the ever-evolving Moby? Somebody please kick him; the crazy, little, bald-headed vegan is stuck in a rut that is perpetually looping him through 1999.
On the flipside, limited editions of Hotel also come with a second disc called Hotel Ambient. Missing from Hotel Ambient is Moby trying to sing and most of the reused soundscapes that populate Play and Hotel, making Hotel Ambient a half-way decent record to listen to.
Stuff to Sample: Moby - Raining Again off of Hotel and Swear off of Hotel Ambient
I miss 1999...smoking pot, blowing off classes, going to Moby concerts at Anderson Arena...I'm kinda getting misty!
Technically, you could probably still do all of those things, except see Moby at Anderson Arena. You'll have to go to Detroit for that. But you could get high, skip your class and then go.
Whoa...If he is playing at the Newport, than it still is 1999. LOL... "I love you mary jane!"
Speaking of blowing off classes, who's going to Bloc Party on friday?
[3] Oh shit, forgot about that one...and they're playing with the Ponys, huh?
Well, I'll sees what I cans do.