Does anyone else find Moby's music to be highly over-rated

[androidlove]

one time, i saw him on sharon osbourne's show and the guy looks like a dork. he even talks like a dork.

I can't defend Moby's music, but that statement is so grade school.

of all the titles/album titles in the whole world, his are the most plainish and simpliest . he calls his album 18 because there's 18 songs on it. brilliant. then there's play and now hotel.

Yea, a bad title just ruins music for me.

Damn, was yer post some sort of troll joke?

[Reverse Engineer]

My answer is yes (for his recent stuff) and no, because he really was a pioneer early on.

[atomic_(no)afro]

I remember that in Alan Ball's highly innovative 1999 sit-com "Oh Grow Up", there was an episode where the daughter of one of the roomates obsesses about going to a Moby concert. I couldn't believe my ears, as it was the first time that I heard an electronic musician being talked about on network television in a positive light. Before that, it was all after-school specials and rave-clichés involving DJs dealing drugs. So at the very least, I thank Moby for using his positive image to help lift electronic music up, even at the cost of watering down the formula.

ATA

[Jbravo]

maybe he's not so highly overrated after all - the consensus seems to be that his music is not so amazing, and that's the impression I get from people in the real world too. I think even the people that like his music might agree. Just because he's sold so many records doesn't mean that all those people that bought one think he's a great artist

[momus]

Yes I think so. His songs could compete in charts of indifferent music but he is quite good in composing of such tracks.

[Perfect Solitude]

The video where he plays that 0ld d00d is cool.

Else... "go" was cool in it's day.

[HelloDave]

I googled Moby Sucks Sh!t in 2025 and this thread came up . guy has always been a clown, moby 1000 . fart

[thecontrolcentre]

I paid to see him play back in the mid-1990's. He came on dressed in a teddy bear suit and pretended to play "live" when it was obvious he was simply DJing his own tracks. Totally lame. I left after 15 minutes or so.

[jancivil]

what's overrated is rating stuff.
speaking of 2005, because of a (much younger) roommate and things getting mixed up in the house, I encountered a Moby CD. Frankly there was no musical interest and not much music at all on it. That's a limited example but it def. didn't make me want to hear or know more.

[Constructed Identity]

He peaked on ‘Everything is Wrong’ and that’s the last album I have of him.
The only reason people still talk about him is because there is little to no interest/promotion of electronic music in the US so at this point we are just looking back.

[cryophonik]

The only reason people still talk about him is because there is little to no interest/promotion of electronic music in the US so at this point we are just looking back.

Do people actually still talk about him, though? I never got into his music and I had pretty much forgotten about him until somebody necro'd this 20-yo thread (and, yes, I'm in the US).

[zerocrossing]

I never can figure out why people who basically repackage someone else's great music and then are branded a genius. Kanye is in this camp as well. The good parts of his songs are not his. I heard this a little while ago and found it fascinating.

https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/heavywe ... ate-gregor

[Constructed Identity]

The only reason people still talk about him is because there is little to no interest/promotion of electronic music in the US so at this point we are just looking back.

Do people actually still talk about him, though? I never got into his music and I had pretty much forgotten about him until somebody necro'd this 20-yo thread (and, yes, I'm in the US).

Yesterday I read an article about the rise and fall of the term “selling out” and it stated that, in music, Moby’s album Play (1999) was the turning point when it wasn’t stigmatized anymore. Whereas, in the 1990s, it was a common insult etc.

[Bunny_boy]

[Danno]

This is my take as well. EIW is his best work. The remixes+EPs around this era are great too. Everything after was disappointing to me. His 'tendencies' with keyboard/synth/chord parts are super idiosyncratic. (and worse, they're too close to my own terrible playing)

I even got to meet him for a local Play release party and I must have completely embarrassed myself, gushing over EIW.

He peaked on ‘Everything is Wrong’ and that’s the last album I have of him.
The only reason people still talk about him is because there is little to no interest/promotion of electronic music in the US so at this point we are just looking back.