Does anyone else find Moby's music to be highly over-rated
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- KVRAF
- 14111 posts since 20 Nov, 2003 from Lost and Spaced
Does anyone find answering a post from 2005 redundant?
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- KVRian
- 630 posts since 11 Nov, 2003 from Vancouver. Canada
No. I think it's amazing to be able to continue a conversation over 20 years. Also; That Moby is kinda bland sometimes is timeless, so....
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- KVRAF
- 5444 posts since 15 Feb, 2020
With your only post!
On one level it’s garbage, on another it’s brilliant.
I lost my heart in Cap de Creus
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- addled muppet weed
- 111253 posts since 26 Jan, 2003 from through the looking glass
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Constructed Identity Constructed Identity https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=288890 - KVRian
- 1303 posts since 29 Sep, 2012 from Minnesota
Yes, he's reading this and it brought a tear to his eye.
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- KVRAF
- 13719 posts since 19 Jun, 2008 from Seattle
... quit picking on MobyConstructed Identity wrote: Sun Jul 13, 2025 1:09 amYes, he's reading this and it brought a tear to his eye.
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I'm not a musician, but I've designed sounds that others use to make music. http://soundcloud.com/obsidiananvil
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- KVRAF
- 26033 posts since 20 Oct, 2007 from gonesville
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- KVRian
- 829 posts since 7 Oct, 2005
No, I don't think so. Mobi' music is still nothing. Nothing changed after 20 years.
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 1143 posts since 6 Oct, 2004 from berlin
God, I'm so embarrassed by the bullshit I wrote 20 years ago. Two decades later, ya Moby is great. Voodoo Child Baby Monkey is great. Play and 18 went on to become fav records of mine, over the years. Sorry I ever wrote that. God, I was so pretentious
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 1143 posts since 6 Oct, 2004 from berlin
Lol, also been listening to All Visible Objects and Wait For Me over the years too. Hope he never read that shit, lol. Saw him at Area two with Bowie and it was amazing. No idea why I wrote that shit
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- KVRist
- 333 posts since 15 Jul, 2007
What a 21 year trip... Fun read. Glad you're still kickin', deggy.
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- KVRian
- 630 posts since 11 Nov, 2003 from Vancouver. Canada
To be honest Deggy, I could have written your original post myself. I loved the early rave stuff, I loved Everything Is Wrong. I met him at a release party for Play and I could barely form a sentence. 
But while Play WAS interesting, it kind of illustrated some of his musical tendencies. (if that's a fair way to put it)
And more crucial to me .. Listening to some of that stuff, I can really see my own musical habits that come from the Moby-isms that I don't love. Hah. So he is/was a big influence.
It's funny that this is a 20 year old thread knocking Moby.. and fair play to his output and all that. He doesn't need to answer to me for anything, hah. But ya, it hasn't really spoken to me for a while either.
edit.. I can see I kind of already said the same thing last time.. sorry
But while Play WAS interesting, it kind of illustrated some of his musical tendencies. (if that's a fair way to put it)And more crucial to me .. Listening to some of that stuff, I can really see my own musical habits that come from the Moby-isms that I don't love. Hah. So he is/was a big influence.
It's funny that this is a 20 year old thread knocking Moby.. and fair play to his output and all that. He doesn't need to answer to me for anything, hah. But ya, it hasn't really spoken to me for a while either.
edit.. I can see I kind of already said the same thing last time.. sorry
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- KVRAF
- 8678 posts since 24 May, 2002 from Tutukaka, New Zealand
I like some of his stuff, dislike other stuff, same as many acts. I have to say though that he covered Roxy Music in 2020 (My Only Love) and I think it's one of my favourite ever cover versions of anything. It proved he can branch out from his archetypal early hit machine style and is not a one-trick pony. When I first heard it I almost didn't recognise it as Roxy and it has a beautiful atmosphere.
Anyway, it can't be over-rated. All music by everyone is under-rated if YT is anything to go by in the comments. The Beatles and even Beethoven are under-rated y'know.
Anyway, it can't be over-rated. All music by everyone is under-rated if YT is anything to go by in the comments. The Beatles and even Beethoven are under-rated y'know.
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- KVRAF
- 14111 posts since 20 Nov, 2003 from Lost and Spaced
People change people grow, people's taste change. I personally love Moby. Porcelain used reverse synths so well. Very was about his mom's mental illness and one of my faves. The best was him taking those old field recordings and making them danceable. (Natural Blues, Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad.)
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