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Rating:  - Everything is wrong? NOTHING is wrong with this CD!!!!
Everything is right with this album. This must be Moby's most eclectic and hence most innovative release, coming as it did in 1995, a year still dominated by alternative music in the post-Cobain era.There's the standard techno "Feeling So Real," "Everytime You Touch Me," and "Bring Back My Happiness." and "Anthem." The last two have more BPM's. After the opening synthesizers of the latter, get ready to jack your body into rave overdrive! "Anthem" would definitely fit in a car mix-tape, but be careful not to get too carried away with it, because when BPM begins to equal MPH, a B&W will give you a speeding ticket. There are simple piano compositions like the opener, "Hymn," and the title track. "What Love", with Moby's distorted and monstrous vocals, contains an industrial NIN sound. It's like Pearl Jam's "Spin The Black Circle" being given a Trent Reznor remix job. This is the hardest track on the album. "First Cool Hive" and "Into The Blue" fall into Enigma-style ambient. The last two songs constitute another glass from the bottle of pleasant melancholy I constantly drink from. "God Moving Over The Face Of The Waters" is a 7:20 orchestral instrumental with piano. The rhythm keeps repeating, along with a single pound of a bass drum, with a cymbal crash added later, slowly gaining in volume until it reaches a majestic crescendo before sinking back down in volume. Part of this song is played at the end of Heat, after Robert de Niro dies. "When It's Cold I'd Like To Die" is a nominee for a song I'd like to here as I'm drawing my last breath. The mental image I form in my head is myself floating down the Thames. London's bright lights are the candles at my vigil, and as the song fades, I slowly sail down the river's mouth and into the ocean. It's a lovely song of. I don't want to swim the ocean/I don't want to fight the tide/I don't want to swim forever/When it's cold I'd like to die". Mimi Goese's forlorn vocals give it a blissfully heavenly ambience. The essays included in the album sleeve demonstrate how thoughtful, intelligent, and conscientious Moby is. He promotes a vegetarian diet, priority in caring for the environment, tolerance of race, creed, and individual beliefs, and decries the agenda of the Christian right. And if the list of facts he's collected in the sleeve doesn't stir you, you must be six feet underground. Yes, everything is wrong, including not listening to this eclectic masterpiece.
Rating: - I Use to be alone, Now I feel so Glad !
. .Ok. Get this album and read the liner notes. If this album was just a loop of pop corn popping, what he writes in the liner notes says more than 90 percent of the music out today. The fact that this album contains some of the best techno and neo-classical music you will ever hear is musical equivelant of winning the lottery and Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes in the same day. That Moby, he's got brains and beats! If you like classical music but want something more 1990's rather than 1890's heres your chance. If you love the beety-beat-beat of techno but wished the DJs had more of a voice and said something worth while, heres your chance. If you like PLAY by Moby and want to learn more about his sound HERE IS YOUR CHANCE! If someone were burning all the records in the world and I could only save 10, this would be one of the 10 I would choose to save. ITS THAT GOOD!
Rating: - It Paved the Way for Play
Everything Is Wrong which was Moby's 6th CD (counting the EP, Move) is a very important album in his career. It helped establish the fact that he's a very eclectic artist. Before Everything Is Wrong, Moby was primarily known as a techno artist, and a pretty good one at that. However, on this album, he gives the listener a variety of different styles: ambient, dance/techno, punk rock, and pop. As a matter of fact, his next album, the infamous Animal Rights would see him concentrate on only 2 types: punk rock and ambient. It is IMHO, though, that he's at his best when he does pop/dance/techno and ambient. Whether people like him or not, they have to admit that he's an incredible musician. This album with its different styles would definitely foreshadow his 9th and breakthru album, Play. Here's the best tracks on this CD:1) Hymn -- A great piece to open, it's a very soothing and ambient piece featuring the piano. 2) Feeling So Real -- A very infectious dance song that will have you singing the hook all day long. 5) Everytime You Touch Me -- Another infectious dance song that is alot like #2. It, too, has a catchy hook. 7) What Love -- A very hard rock song that at times reminds me of a Beck song when Moby sings during the parts that are not fast. This type of song along with track #3 would dominate his next album, Animal Rights. 8) First Cool Hive -- A great ambient and mellow piece, it may be the most recognizable track on this album because it was used in Scream as well as in TV commercials (VH-1 uses in their own ad for their morning mix). It reminds me alot of something that Enigma would do. 10) Anthem -- Another mellow, ambient piece that is a little more frenetic than First Cool Hive. It has somewhat of a techno feel to it. 12) God Moving Over the Face of the Waters -- A 7 minute plus masterpiece of visual music. One can't help but picture water when hearing this stunning tour de force of music. One of Moby's all-time greatest tracks. 13) When It's Cold I'd Like to Die -- A somewhat eerie song and way to finish the album. The woman who sings vocals on track #9 also sings the vocals on this one and does a good job. A major music magazine hailed this album calling it one of the 20 most important albums ever. I won't go that far and say that because I feel Play is a better album and Moby's unquestioned masterpiece. However, Everything Is Wrong is no chopped liver. If you enjoyed Play then you will enjoy this album.
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