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| | Hotel | | | Music Artist : | | Moby | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | V2 | | Release Date : | | 2005-03-22 | | Store Price : | | $13.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $13.98 | | Usually ships in 4 to 6 weeks | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Hotel Intro
2. Raining Again
3. Beautiful
4. Lift Me Up
5. Where You End
6. Temptation
7. Spiders
8. Dream About Me
9. Very
10. I Like It
11. Love Should
12. Slipping Away
13. Forever
14. Homeward Angel
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Someone should tell Moby that he can't sing
Submitted on: 2008-12-02 |
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| Moby is a talented guy, so let's get that out of the way. But his talent is in the area of music composition. Someone somewhere heard him sing and encouraged the poor man, and now we have this, a dismal disaster from a pampered misguided sould who's otherwise brilliant. The man can't sing, and if his fans care about him at all they should tell him to shut up and instead put his fingers to the keyboard and do what he does best: compose music and sample other people's voices. |
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oh dear
Submitted on: 2007-09-14 |
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Sorry to say, but this is one (well 2) expensive coasters.
I listened to it all the way through & was more than unthrilled.
The next time, I got as far as the diabolical cover version of New Order's Temptation & threw the discs in the bin.
Moby needs to go back to his punk roots & keep this rubbish to himself.
I had to give it a star or my review can't be submitted, but I can award a star for the cd case which is handy to replace any broken ones I might have.
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 A disappointment
Submitted on: 2007-09-05 |
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| I am a big fan and have all his cd's. But this one won't get played a lot. Double music doesn't mean more enjoyment when the songs are so monotonous they might just be one long song. |
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 Pretty good but definitely not Moby's best album
Submitted on: 2007-08-30 |
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| I have to admit I had been a bit wary of hearing Moby's last studio album HOTEL. I had been hearing mixed reviews for it, some good and some bad. I decided to check it out finally after I heard the irresistably catchy "Dream About Me" on Moby's best of compilation. I have to admit I enjoyed this cd a lot more than I thought. Yes HOTEL is not PLAY or even 18 but I think it had some pretty decent songs. It was a bit odd hearing Moby's version of New Order's "Temptation". Hearing the whispy vocals of Laura Dawn sing one of my favorite New Order songs set to a downtempo beat was strange but I loved it. There were some filler tracks that were pretty forgettable for me. The second disc of HOTEL was even better. I find myself listening to the second disc of ambient tracks more than the first disc. The music is perfect to sit back and relax to while reading a good book. While I am glad that HOTEL isn't as a bad as I thought it would be, I definitely do think it could have been better. Here is hope for better music for Moby's next studio album. |
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 Pop music, with a flow
Submitted on: 2007-06-28 |
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If you do some digging on this album, you should find that almost every publication panned it, despite its decent record sales. It's often interesting when critics don't like an album, but lots of *real people* do. Inevitably, sometimes it's the public's water-downed tastes, but occasionally it's the critics' pretentiousness and self-indulgence. Regarding Hotel, I suspect it's the latter. In fact, most of these negative reviews consist of harsh personal jabs towards Moby. You get the impression that these critics want Moby to make albums specifically for them; fortunately, Moby hasn't.
To me, Hotel makes a lot of sense. In relation to his best past music, the big change with Hotel is that it's essentially more of rock/pop album, often with the synths remaining in the background. But in spite of this superficial shift, I find that some (not all) of the same elements that originally drew me to his earlier work (from "Everything" to "18") are present here. The music often has a similar effect on me as his past music: It's somewhat introspective and bittersweet but still life-affirming; none of its emotions are simply distinctly happy or sad, they're more real. Likewise, all the songs are still impeccably produced, and the best songs have a similar structure as his electronic material: Numbers like "Slipping Away", "Spiders", and "Lift me Up" almost have a linear cut-and-paste feel. At times this does make for an awkward pop-song verse/chorus structure, as many songs seem more like choruses with filler verses. But a great amount of attention is given to the transitions between parts of a song; similar to the different pieces of his great song "Feeling so Real", but less *out there*. The production feels clean and impersonal, but in the same way that some great electronic music feels clean and impersonal. Vocals and lyrics are used as instruments, along with strings and subtle shifts to push the songs forward. It feels like pop music, but what distinguishes it and makes it great Moby is the focus is on the overall flow; this is best done on "Slipping Away".
At its worst some songs do feel very simplistic (especially "Beautiful") or uninspired (maybe "Where You End" or "Forever"). But there's enough variety on the album to prevent it from getting in a rut. Overall, many songs could use a lot more complexity, but I'm still endlessly intrigued by Hotel, and I'm curious about where Moby will go from here. Did I mention that it's also his catchiest album?
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