Play (album)

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Play
Studio album by Moby

Publication
(s)

May 17, 1999

admission

1998

Label (s) V2
mute
EMI

Format (s)

CD, LP, cassette, mini-disk , HDCD , download, streaming

Genre (s)

Electronica , roots , blues , techno , breakbeat

Title (number)

18th

running time

63:12

occupation see cast

production

Moby

Studio (s)

Moby's Studio ( Manhattan , New York )

chronology
Animal Rights
(1996) 		Play 18
(2002)
Single releases
August 31, 1998 Honey
May 18, 1999 Run On
July 26, 1999 Body rock
November 17, 1999 Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?
March 28, 2000 Natural blues
June 12, 2000 Porcelain
November 7, 2000 South side
2000 Find my baby

Play is the fifth studio album by the American electronica musician Moby . It was released on May 17, 1999 by Mute and V2 . The recordings for the album took place in 1998 in Moby's own studio in Manhattan , New York City . Musically, the album differs from the alternative rock influenced predecessor Animal Rights (1996) in that Moby returned to his more original electronica style. He also planned that Play would be his last album.

While Moby's earlier works had critical and economic success almost only in the electronic dance music scene , Play was both critically acclaimed and a commercial breakthrough. The album made Moby known to a wide international audience, not only through a series of single hits that helped keep Play in global charts for two years, but also through unprecedented licensing of the music for films, television series and commercials. With twelve million copies sold worldwide, it is the best-selling electronica album of all time.

In 2003 and 2012, Play was number 341 on the Rolling Stone's list of the Rolling Stones' 500 Best Albums of All Time . It was nominated for a Grammy and a BRIT Award , was the UK's most successful independent album in 2000, and went platinum in over 20 countries.

background

In the second half of the 1990s, Moby's career success in the techno scene began to wane. The 1996 release of Animal Rights , a somber, eclectic, guitar album inspired by the punk and metal albums he listened to as a youth, was a major failure, both commercially and critically. He then considered stopping music altogether and studying architecture instead. In an interview, Moby said:

“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. […] 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. "

“I played in front of Soundgarden and got shit pelted every night. I went on tour myself and played in front of about 50 people every night. […] I got fan mail from Terence Trent D'Arby and a call from Axl Rose, who told me he was listening to Animal Rights on loop. Bono told me he loved Animal Rights . So if you get three fan posts, it should be these. "

- Moby : Rolling Stone

The shots for Play led Moby 1998 in their own Manhattan recording studio by. At this time he did not plan to produce any more albums of his own and to end his musical career. After completion, Moby tried to find a music label for distribution. Major labels such as Warner , Sony and RCA canceled him. After V2 agreed, his press agent sent the album to music journalists, many of whom, however, refused to listen to it. Manager Eric Härle said in an interview that the album's goal was to sell 250,000 copies, roughly the same as Everything Is Wrong (1995), Moby's most successful album to date.

composition

According to Will Hermes of the music magazine Spin , Play was “the top brand for popular electronica” and a “ roots and blues masterpiece ”. Allmusic's John Bush wrote that the album mixes Moby's early electronica sound with "the breakbeat technology evolution of the 90s". The Chicago Sun-Times - critic Jim DeRogatis pointed to the inclusion of such diverse music as the early blues, African-American folk music, gospel , hip-hop , disco and techno, "all in the context of its own unique melodic Ambient -Stilrichtungen." The album was mainly characterized by the extensive use of samples from field recordings of Alan Lomax 's 1993 box set Sounds of the South: A Musical Journey from the Georgia Sea Islands to the Mississippi Delta . Moby came across the collection through a friend who lent him the CDs. Most of the samples were short and repeated regularly in the songs. For example, Honey used a sample from folk and gospel singer Bessie Jones that consisted of a combination of four verses repeated over twenty times. In the liner notes for the album, Moby "thanked the Lomaxes and all archivists and music historians whose field recordings made this record possible."

Publication and promotion

Moby performing in Union Square, 1999

When Play was released on May 17, 1999, it underperformed commercially. In the United Kingdom it rose to position 33 on the UK album charts , but sales fell in the following weeks, with the album falling off the charts after five weeks. Commenting on Play's release , Moby said:

“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 buying CDs. Maybe forty people came. "

“The first show I played for Play on the tour was in the basement of the Virgin Megastore in Union Square. I literally played music while people stood in line and bought CDs. Maybe 40 people came. "

- Moby : Rolling Stone

Despite positive reviews of the album, Plays songs were barely played on radio or television stations such as MTV . While this lack of airplay further diminished the album's commercial prospects, Moby and his record label soon found another way to promote the album to the general public by licensing its songs to movies, TV series, and commercials. According to Moby, the goal behind licensing Play was “just to get people to hear the music,” and he added, “Most of the licenses weren't very lucrative, but they did allow people to hear the music because otherwise the record wouldn't be heard. ”According to his manager Eric Härle, many people believed that the songs were being used as part of the marketing campaign for an album that didn't fit mainstream radio, but the licensing actually came about through agencies asked for permission to use the music as sound beds, which the popularity of the music was attributed to its suggestive and emotional nature. Despite the strong licensing, the selected ads were still carefully selected and more requests were rejected than expected.

The licensing approach proved to be a success, increasing the level of awareness of Play and subsequently radio stations and MTV playing songs from the album more frequently. On January 15, 2000, the album returned to the UK charts, slowly climbing to number one and three months later, on April 15, 2000, number one. Persisting in the charts for the remainder of the year for a grand total of 81 weeks, Play became the UK's fifth best-selling album of 2000. By October 2000, Play had achieved platinum certification in 17 countries and topped the charts in seven countries. Although the album only reached number 38 on the Billboard 200 chart , it sold over two million copies in the United States, and enjoyed months of sustained sales and popularity. Moby later said:

“Almost a year after it came out in 2000 I was opening up for Bush on an MTV Campus Invasion Tour. 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 UK, 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, around 6,000 copies worldwide. 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. "

“Almost a year after it came out in 2000, I played for Bush on an MTV Campus Invasion tour. It was humiliating. Your audience wasn't interested in me. February 2000, I was in Minnesota, I was down and my manager called me to tell me that Play was number one in the UK, beating Santana's Supernatural . I thought, 'But the record came out ten months ago.' Then I suddenly knew that things were different. Then it was number one in France, Australia, Germany - it kept growing. The week that Play was released, it sold around 6,000 copies worldwide. Eleven months after Play was released , it was selling 150,000 times a week. I was touring all the time, I drank quite a lot the whole time and it was just blurry. And then all of a sudden movie stars came to my concerts and I was invited to fancy parties and suddenly the journalists who didn't call back were talking about cover stories. It was a really strange phenomenon. "

- Moby : Rolling Stone

Play also found its great strength on the basis of its impressive eight hit singles, an unprecedented achievement for an electronica album. Seven of these singles were in the UK's Top 40 charts - Honey, the first single, was already on the market in August 1998, almost ten months before the album was released. The last single was Find My Baby, which appeared on some national charts three and a half years later. Twelve music videos were commissioned for a total of eight different singles, which were produced by numerous directors, including Jonas Åkerlund (Porcelain), Roman Coppola (Honey), Joseph Kahn (South Side) and David LaChapelle (Natural Blues). The result of the marketing strategy was that after an unremarkable debut, the album stayed in the charts for several years and the sales forecast for Moby and the dance music scene rose in the 1990s in the United States (compared to Europe, where Moby initially enjoyed success ) was not considered the dominant commercial genre, collapsed.

reception

source rating
Metacritic 84/100
Allmusic
Chicago Sun-Times
Christgau's Consumer Guide A +
Entertainment Weekly A−
The Guardian
NME 8/10
Pitchfork 5/10
Q
Rolling Stone
Spin 9/10

Play received high praise from critics. At Metacritic , which gives a normalized rating based on reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average rating of 84/100 based on 20 reviews. In The Village Voice , Robert Christgau said that without Moby's work, the sampled recordings of the album would “not scream nearly as loud and clear” and that “his grooves, his tempo, his structures, his harmonies, sometimes his melodies and especially his grooves, which not only honor dance music, but the entire rock tradition in which it is part. ”He found the album“ less focused ”than Moby's earlier“ brilliant chaos ”, but still“ one of those records whose urge to Aesthetics should move anyone who just loves music. ” Allmusics John Bush said that Play Mobys“ harmonized extraordinarily early sound with the breakbeat techno evolution of the 90s. ”Barry Walters of Rolling Stone wrote:“ The ebb and flow Flood of eighteen succinct, high-contrast sections writes a story about Moby's wonderfully torn inner world as he gives the outer planet beats and melodies to groov on. ” David Browne , d He writes for Entertainment Weekly , said that Moby's graceful soundscapes filter out the antiquated sound of the original recordings and "make the singers' heartsache and hopes fresh again." Pitchfork critic Brent DiCrescenzo believed in a mixed review that the "raw attraction ”Of the sampled recordings was lost through“ digital recording techniques ”, which led to music that was“ funny and functional, but still dispensable ”.

At the end of 1999, Play was named the best album of the year in "Pazz & Jop", an annual survey of American music critics published in the Village Voice . Christgau, the organizer of the survey, put the album in second place on his own list at the end of the year. The following year the album was nominated for Best Alternative Album at the 42nd Grammy Awards . Since then it has been consistently referred to as one of the best albums of all time; According to Acclaimed Music , it is the 316th best-ranked album among critics' leaderboards. NPR named Play one of the 300 most important American albums of the 20th century, determined by the news and culture editors, prominent critics and musicologists of the network. It also ranked 341 on Rolling Stones' 2003 and 2012 lists of the 500 best albums of all time . In 2005, a panel of music industry professionals put together by UK television broadcaster Channel 4 voted Play the 63rd best album of all time. It's also featured in Robert Dimery's book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die .

Review

According to Rolling Stone , “ Play was n't the first album to turn a rock star out of an island-like techno nerdnik , but it was the first to create a pop sensation. [...] Play has the postmodern made cuddly and slowly but surely hit a nerve with critics and record dealers "According to the. Wired - Magazine the songs on were play - the first album ever all his songs for use in movies, TV shows or commercials had licensed - "Sold hundreds of times ... a licensing deal that was so staggeringly lucrative that the album was financially successful months before it reached multi-platinum sales." In a retrospective for Wondering Sound in 2011, Robert Christgau wrote:

"Although some techno futurists still disparage the gorgeous Play , it qualified as a futurist work simply by redefining the concept of" commercial. "Clubs would never take a CD mega, and no way could these anonymously sung tracks crack any hit-based radio format . So Moby's handlers swamped the mass market through the side door, placing swatches of all 18 songs (most many times) on movie and TV soundtracks and in ads for the likes of Volkswagen , Baileys Irish Cream and American Express . FM exposure followed. But the main reason this album will sound familiar the way Beethoven's Ninth does to a classical ignoramus is that little bits of it have seeped into most Americans' brains. ”

“Although some techno-futurists still despise the splendid play , it has qualified as a forward-looking work by redefining the concept of the 'commercial'. Clubs would never play a successful CD, and there is no way these songs, sung by strangers, could be heard in any hit-based radio format. Moby's helpers flooded the mass market through the side door and placed the 18 songs (mostly several times) in film and television soundtracks as well as in commercials for Volkswagen, Baileys Irish Cream and American Express. Radio broadcasts followed. But the main reason this album will sound as familiar, like Beethoven's Ninth for a classical ignorant, is because it seeped into the brains of most Americans. "

- Robert Christgau : Wondering Sound

In an interview with Rolling Stone , English singer-songwriter Adele also named Play as a major influence on her 2015 album 25 :

“There's something that I find really holy about that Play album ... The way it makes me feel. Even though there's nothing holy or preachy about it. There's just something about it - maybe the gospel samples. But it makes me feel alive, that album, still. And I remember my mum having that record. "

“There is something that I find really sacred about this play album… how I feel about it. Even if there is nothing holy and preaching. There's just something to it - maybe the gospel samples. But I feel alive, this album, still. And I remember my mother having this record. "

- Adele : Rolling Stone

Track list

Bessie Jones' song Sometimes is sampled on the album's title track
No. title length
1. Honey 3:27
2. Find my baby 3:58
3. Porcelain 4:01
4th Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad? 4:23
5. South side 3:48
6th Rushing 2:58
7th Body rock 3:34
8th. Natural blues 4:12
9. machete 3:36
10. 7th 1:00
11. Run On 3:44
12. Down slow 1:32
13. If Things Were Perfect 4:16
14th Everloving 3:24
15th Inside 4:46
16. Guitar flute & string 2:07
17th The Sky Is Broken 4:16
18th My weakness 3:37
Overall length: 63:12

Samples used

  • Honey is sampling Sometimes Bessie Jones
  • Find My Baby samples Joe Lee's Rock by Boy Blue
  • Bodyrock samples love rap from Spoonie Gee and the Treacherous Three
  • Natural Blues samples Trouble So Hard by Vera Hall
  • Run On samples Run on for a Long Time by Bill Landford and The Landfordairs

occupation

The line-up of the album is as follows:

  • Moby, 1999

  • Mario Caldato Jr., 2014

  • Moby - sound engineering , mixing , producer , songwriting , instruments, vocals for the songs Porcelain, South Side, Machete, If Things Were Perfect, and The Sky Is Broken
  • Pilar Basso - further vocals at Porcelain
  • Mario Caldato Jr. - Mixing at Honey
  • Nikki D - further vocals at Bodyrock
  • Graeme Durham - Mastering
  • I Monster - Mixing at Natural Blues
  • Reggie Matthews - further vocals on If Things Were Perfect
  • The Shining Light Gospel Choir - more vocals on Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?
  • Ysabel zu Innhausen and Knyphausen - artwork design
  • Corinne Day - Photography

Chart placements

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
1999 Play DE21st
gold
gold

(207 weeks)DE 		AT7th
gold
gold

(13 weeks)AT 		CH12
gold
gold

(76 weeks)CH 		UK1
Six-fold platinum
× 6
Six-fold platinum

(108 weeks)UK 		US38
Double platinum
× 2
Double platinum

(94 weeks)US
Albums sold through 2000 in Europe: 3,000,000
Albums sold through 2008 in the US: 2,700,000

more publishments

Play: The B Sides

Play: The B Sides
Compilation album by Moby

Publication
(s)

October 24, 2000

Label (s) V2

Format (s)

CD, cassette, download, streaming

Title (number)

11

running time

60:34

production

Moby

At the end of 2000, Play was reissued as a "Special Edition" with the title Play: The B Sides , including an additional CD with B-side titles (which was also released separately in 2004). In addition, the song was South Side, sung as a duet with No Doubt - frontwoman Gwen Stefani , as a single released (Moby's single song ever in the Billboard Hot 100 was released and peaked at 14 its peak). Thanks to the music video and the intense airplay, the song helped make the album even more successful. Play was later reissued with the new South Side single, in which Stefani's version replaced the original. Other editions had an additional CD with the newer version of the song wrapped in the same packaging. The original version was re-released on the American edition of Go - The Very Best of Moby compilation.

Moby explains, “ The B Sides is a collection of songs that weren't quite suitable for Play , but that I still love so much that I wanted to release them as B sides. Some of these songs may not be immediately available, but I find them (immodest) all special. ”Some of the songs on the album are similar to the Play titles . They were criticized as weaker by AllMusics John Bush, who gave the album three stars out of five. Moby recognized this and even admitted that, had it not been for the overwhelming success of Play , the songs would not have gotten widespread release. Rolling Stone's Neva Chonin gave the album three and a half stars and wrote that it was "more of a meditative sound poem" than a masterpiece that was play .

No. title length
1. Flower 3:25
2. Sunday 5:03
3. Memory Gospel 6:42
4th Whispering wind 6:02
5. Buzzer 5:58
6th Spirit 4:08
7th Flying Foxes 6:16
8th. Sunspot 6:49
9. Flying over the dateline 4:47
10. Running 7:05
11. The Sun Never Stops Setting 4:19
Overall length: 60:34

The following B-sides were not published in the compilation:

  • Ain't Never Learned from the single South Side
  • Arp from the single Bodyrock
  • Down Slow (Full Length Version) from the single Run On (Extended)
  • Micronesia from the single Honey
  • Princess from the single Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?
  • Sick in the System from the single Natural Blues

Play: The DVD

A DVD entitled Play: The DVD was released to accompany the album. It contains most of the music videos from Play (except South Side), an 88-minute “mega mix” of all remixes on the album (accompanied by graphics), an appearance on Later with Jools Holland , a touring diary from Moby entitled Give an Idiot a Camcorder and a DVD-ROM component that allows users to remix two Moby songs (the DVD also includes a separate CD with the “Mega Mix” on a single track). The DVD was produced by Moby and Jeff Rogers and was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2002 in the " Best Long Form Music Video " category.

Web links

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