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� V2� Mute� EMIProducerMobyMoby chronologyI Like to Score(1997)Play(1999)Songs 1993�1998(2000)Singles from Play� " Honey"Released: August 31, 1998� " Run On"Released: May 18, 1999� " Bodyrock"Released: July 26, 1999� " Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?"Released: November 17, 1999� " Natural Blues"Released: March 28, 2000� " Porcelain"Released: June 12, 2000� " Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?

/ Honey (remix)"Released: October 16, 2000� " South Side"Released: November 7, 2000� " Find My Baby"Released: February 2001Play is the fifth studio album by American electronica musician Moby. It was first released on May 17, 1999 by V2 Records. Recording of the album began in 1998, following the release of his fourth album, Animal Rights (1996), which deviated from Moby's electronica style; his goal for Play was to return to this style of music. Originally intended to be his final record, the recording of the album took place at Moby's home studio in Manhattan, New York.While some of Moby's earlier work garnered critical and commercial success within the electronic dance music scene, Play was both a critical success and a commercial phenomenon.

The album introduced Moby to a worldwide mainstream audience, not only through a large number of hit singles (that helped the album to dominate worldwide charts for two years), but also through unprecedented licensing of his music in films, television, and commercial advertisements. It eventually became the biggest-selling album of its genre, with over 12 million copies sold worldwide.

[1]In 2003, the album was ranked number 341 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. [2] It was nominated for both a Grammy Award and Brit Award, was the UK's biggest-selling independent album of 2000, and certified platinum status in more than 20 countries.

[3] Contents� 1 Background� 2 Composition� 3 Release and promotion� 3.1 Licensing of songs� 4 Critical reception� 5 Legacy� 6 Track listing� 7 Personnel� 8 Charts� 9 Certifications� 10 Re-releases� 10.1 Play: The B Sides� 10.2 Play: The DVD� 11 References� 12 External linksBackground [ edit ]The second half of the 1990s saw Moby in career turmoil after years of being a successful techno wunderkind. The release in 1996 of Animal Rights, a dark, eclectic, guitar-fueled record built around the punk and metal records that he loved as a teenager, proved a critical and commercial disaster that left him considering quitting music altogether and going back to school to study architecture.

He explained: "I was opening for Soundgarden and getting shit thrown at me every night onstage. I did my own tour and was playing to roughly fifty people a night." However, he claimed, "I got one piece of fan mail from Terence Trent D'Arby and I got a phone call from Axl Rose saying he was listening to Animal Rights on repeat.

Bono told me he loved Animal Rights. So if you're gonna have three pieces of fan mail, that's the fan mail to get." [4]The recording of its follow up, Play, took place during 1998 in Moby's Mott Street home studio in Manhattan, New York. At the time, Moby planned on making the album his last before ending his career. [5] When he finished recording, there was no sign that the album would perform any moby play than Animal Rights.

According to Moby, he shopped the record to every major label (from Warner Bros. to Sony to RCA) and was rejected every time. After V2 finally picked it up, his publicist sent the record to journalists, and many of them made a huge production of saying they weren't even going to listen to it. According to manager Eric Harle in an interview with HitQuarters, their original goal was to sell 250,000 copies, which was what Everything Is Wrong, Moby's biggest-selling album at the time, had sold.

[6] Composition [ edit ]According to Spin magazine's Will Hermes, Play was "the high-water mark for populist electronica" and a "millennial roots and blues masterwork", [7] while John Bush from AllMusic said it balanced Moby's early electronica sound with "the breakbeat techno evolution of the '90s". [8] The album was particularly notable for its extensive use of samples from the field recordings as they were collected by Alan Lomax on the 1993 Sounds of the South: A Musical Journey from the Georgia Sea Islands to the Mississippi Delta.

Most of the samples were short and constantly repeated throughout the songs. For example, "Honey" used a sample from Bessie Jones that consisted of a conjunction of four verses that was repeated over twenty times. In the liner notes for the album, Moby gave "special thanks to the Lomaxes and all of the archivists and music historians whose field recordings made this record possible." [9] Release and promotion [ edit ]When Play was released on May 17, 1999, it underperformed commercially at first.

Moby stated, "First show that I did on the tour for Play was in the basement of the Virgin Megastore in Union Square. Literally playing music while people were waiting in line buy"Play" 10 Years Later: Moby's Track by Track Guide to 1999's Global Smash� News� Video� Music� Politics� TV� Movies� Sports� Long Reads� RS Country� More� RS Country� Long Reads� Sports� Movies� TV� Politics� Music� Lists� Culture� Galleries� Glixel� Interviews� Artists� Album Reviews� Ram Report� Movie Reviews� Country Sessions� Live Reviews� Momentum� Coverwall� Had to Be There� Podcasts Trending 50 Best TV Duos of All Time Watch Miley Cyrus' Steamy Bob Dylan Cover With the Roots.

Matt Taibbi: Stop Whining About 'False Balance' Roanoke: The Truth Behind New 'American Horror Story'. "Play" 10 Years Later: Moby's Track by Track Guide to 1999's Global SmashHow scratchy field recordings, Gwen Stefani and a Leonardo DiCaprio flick transformed him from a "has-been" into an international star DMX Joins Puff Daddy's Bad Boy Family Reunion Tour Watch Sting Debut Bowie, Prince-Inspired Song '50,000' See Bill Maher Grill Trump's Campaign Manager About 'Enabling Pure Evil' New Rolling Stones Doc Captures Band's Historic Havana Show Watch Miley Cyrus' Steamy Bob Dylan Cover With the Roots on 'Fallon' All Stories � When Play was released, I kind of thought my career was over," says Moby.

He's speaking from the sparse, utilitarian Manhattan studio where he recorded the 1999 smash in the years before the walls were dotted with awards documenting its 10 million copies sold. Play wasn't the first album to make a rock star out of an insular techno nerdnik, but it was the first to make one a pop sensation. An effortless blend of atmospheric swoops, block-rocking beats and bluesy a cappellas nicked from 40-year-old field recordings, Play made post-modernism cuddly, slowly but surely striking a chord with critics and record-buyers alike. DMX Joins Puff Daddy's Bad Boy Family Reunion Tour Watch Sting Debut Bowie, Prince-Inspired Song '50,000' See Bill Maher Grill Trump's Campaign Manager About 'Enabling Pure Evil' New Rolling Stones Doc Captures Band's Historic Havana Show Watch Miley Cyrus' Steamy Bob Dylan Cover With the Roots on 'Fallon' All Stories �But before that, Moby was basically bumbling around New York as a "has-been." After years of being a techno wunderkind, he released Animal Rights in 1996, a dark, eclectic, guitar-fueled record built around the punk and metal records that he loved as a teenager.

It was a critical and commercial disaster that left him considering quitting music altogether and going back to school to study architecture. "I was opening for Soundgarden and getting shit thrown at me every night onstage," says Moby.

"I did my own tour and was playing to roughly 50 people a night." Career-wise, it was a low moment. Although, he adds, "I got one piece of fan mail from Terrence Trent D'arby and I got a phone call from Axl Rose saying he was listening to Animal Rights on repeat. Bono told me he loved Animal Rights. So if you're gonna have three pieces of fan mail, that's the fan mail to get."When he finally recorded its follow-up, Play, there was no sign that the album would perform any differently that his last flop.

Moby says he shopped the record to every major label � Warner Bros., Sony, RCA � and was soundly rejected every time. After V2 finally picked it up, his publicist sent the record to journalists, and many of them made a huge production of saying they weren't even going to listen to it.

Released in May of 1999, Play had some good reviews, but wasn't pushing units out of the gate. "First show that I did on the tour for Play was in the basement of the Virgin Megastore in Union Square," says Moby. "Literally playing music while people were waiting in line buying CDs. Maybe 40 people came."As slow as slow-burners get, Play didn't pick up steam until the following year. "Almost a year after it came out in 2000 I was opening up for Bush on an MTV Campus Invasion Tour," says Moby.

"It was degrading for the most part. Their audience had less than no interest in me. February in 2000, I was in Minnesota, I was depressed and my manager called me to tell me that Play was Number One in the U.K., and had beat out Santana's Supernatural.

I was like, 'But the record came out 10 months ago.' That's when I knew, all of a sudden, that things were different. Then it was Number One in France, in Australia, in Germany � it just kept piling on."The week Play was released, it sold, worldwide around 6,000 copies. Eleven months after Play was released, it was selling 150,000 copies a week. I was on tour constantly, drunk pretty much the entire time and it was just a blur.

And then all of a sudden movie stars started coming to my concerts and I started getting invited to fancy parties and suddenly the journalists who wouldn't return my publicist's calls were talking about doing cover stories.

It was a really odd phenomenon."Keep reading, as Moby goes track by track through his breakthrough album explaining the birth of each song:"Honey"My friend Dimitri Ehrlich, who is a music journalist here in New York, got this ABrooding Sensual Sophisticated Stylish Tense/Anxious Theatrical Aggressive Bittersweet Calm/Peaceful Campy Clinical Detached Melancholy Nocturnal Organic Passionate Plaintive Reflective Restrained Smooth Somber Trippy Energetic Cerebral Following a notorious flirtation with alternative rock, Moby returned to the electronic dance mainstream on the 1997 album I Like to Score.

With 1999's Play, he made yet another leap back toward the electronica base that had passed him by during the mid-'90s. The first two tracks, "Honey" and "Find My Baby," weave short blues or gospel vocal samples around rather disinterested breakbeat techno. This version of blues-meets-electronica is undoubtedly intriguing to the all-important NPR crowd, but it is more than just a bit gimmicky to any techno fans who know their Carl Craig from Carl Cox. Fortunately, Moby redeems himself in a big way over the rest of the album with a spate of tracks that return him to the evocative, melancholy techno that's been a specialty since his early days.

The tinkly piano line and warped string samples on "Porcelain" frame a meaningful, devastatingly understated vocal from the man himself, while "South Side" is just another pop song by someone who shouldn't be singing - that is, until the transcendent chorus redeems everything. Surprisingly, many of Moby's vocal tracks are highlights; he has an unerring sense of how to frame his fragile vocals with sympathetic productions.

Occasionally, the similarities to contemporary dance superstars like Fatboy Slim and Chemical Brothers are just a bit too close for comfort, as on the stale moby play anthem "Bodyrock." Still, Moby shows himself back in the groove after a long hiatus, balancing his sublime early sound with the breakbeat techno evolution of the '90s. iTunes iTunes is the world's easiest way to organize and add to your digital media collection.We are unable to find iTunes on your computer.

To preview and buy music from Play & Play: B Sides by Moby, download iTunes now. iTunes ReviewSampling blues legends over sensual downtempo beats, Moby masterminded the soundtrack to a million dinner parties (and scads of TV commercials).

"Bodyrock" exudes big-beat cool, "South Side" connects electronica with alt rock, and "Natural Blues" dips into misty-eyed piano house. Long before Las Vegas' EDM boom, the pool party was getting a stylish early start. by|_ !

|| k ! || P/- K!!!This album is by far Moby's greatest achievment. Sure, people say the real Moby was before this or he just got better. But there's a reason this album went to sell ten million copies worldwide and have its singles used in almost every commercial and movie you've ever seen.

The B-Sides are not as good, but they show a different side to Moby and his music.Best Tracks:Honey PorcelainWhy Does My Heart Feel So Bad?South SideNatural BluesFlower byMatt336I love this album by far the best one, great melody's that make you fly.in electro lounge I also download the new ARNO ELIAS "Paradise Overdose Album and for the people who like this type of music i really recommend it. bydiscoboyOk do not believe the review provided by itunes.

the B-sides collection contains some real gems.a few songs like "Memory Gospel" and "Spirit" are far superior to the weaker songs on Play.like "Inside" and "the sky is broken". i only wish i didnt moby play 3 copies of Play and the B-sides collection twice or i would buy this.

$9.99 is a great deal there are 29 songs here! and this is Moby at his most inspired. i hope he records another album and huge collection of b-sides this heartfelt and brilliant again. Moby was one of the most controversial figures in techno music, alternately praised for bringing a face to the notoriously anonymous electronic genre and scorned by hordes of techno artists and fans for diluting and trivializing the form.

In either case, Moby was one of the most important dance music figures of the early '90s, helping bring the music to a mainstream audience both in England and in America. Moby fused rapid disco beats with heavy distorted guitars, punk rhythms, and detailed productions.

Full Bio Singles from this album:" Honey"" Run On"" Bodyrock"" Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad"" Porcelain"" Natural Blues"" Find My Baby"" South Side""Honey" and "Run On" were released as a double a-side by V2 in the US: " Honey And Run On""Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?" was re-released as a double a-side with a new version of "Honey" (featuring Kelis): " Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?

/ Honey"Related releases:" Play Interview"" Play - The B Sides"" Play - The DVD" Honey3:27Find My Baby3:58Porcelain4:01Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?4:23South Side3:48Rushing2:58Bodyrock3:34Natural Blues4:12Machete3:3671:00Run On3:43Down Slow1:34If Things Were Perfect4:17Everloving3:24Inside4:47Guitar Flute & String2:07The Sky Is Broken4:17My Weakness3:37 Does anybody know if there's a difference between this reissue and STUMM172X?

On the Mute website they have two listings: STUMM172 with the May 2016 release date and STUMM172X with a July 2016 release date. I'm assuming it's the same reissue and they simply had to press more copies due to demand. Does anyone know if this is the case? Mute records are ahead in the LP pressings game. This record is dead quiet, gorgeously mastered, the sleeves are thick and sturdy - same thing goes to the LPs which feel like 200G pressings.

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