well, i think moby is mainstream now, i mean the kids
at school recognize him. he's on mtv. he's on the
charts. which is all very good, I very much respect
him and all, and I hope he becomes bigger than madonna
someday (heehee, yes that was sarcastic ;)
but, i do feel he is part of the mainstream
consciousness now. i've stopped listening to him for
the most part cause i've heard his music so much. but
that doesn't mean its bad music. i still think play is
a great album.... i just can't listen to it now, its
like the chemical brothers of prodigy albums. they
sounded totally cool when they came out, but they got
old. but last time i listened to them (which was about
a year or so ago, i'm going thru my annual listening
of everything in my collection, so i'll get to them
soon again), i thought they were great, i hadn't heard
them in a while, and it was like some sort of
nostalgia. that's what play is like. in a few years,
i'll be able to listen to it and not be sick of it.
now, i can't listen to it. but it still is a great
album, i'm not denying that, and i'm still rooting for
him all the way. meanwhile, there's other things to
listen to.
sorry if that sounded a lil' harsh.... ;)
just remember, i still love moby, and i always will.
and i'm not saying all mainstream music has to suck,
by definition...... it just does, for the most part.
kids are into predictable, polished, happy pop tunes,
cause that's what sells. however, a band like Outkast
will ocasionally come along and do something radical
sounding, and it'll work. christ, listen to the BEATS
in 'ms jackson'! can you believe that shit is number 2
on the charts? and rising?
i'll also say that rap-rock hybrid music could also be
good, but very much more often than not, sucks. i
mean, there's lots of great rap music, and lots of
great loud, hard guitar music, right? so you'd think
somehow it would be easy to combine them. but more
often than not, they just don't work together. but
there is some great rap-rock stuff, i mean it was
started by Run DMC and stuff. and you can't argue with
the Beasties (and if you can, you SUCK. ;) And even
listen to the Judgment Night soundtrack. Not all of it
is great, but Sonic Youth and Cypress Hill kick ass,
as do Del The Funky Homosapien and Dinosaur Jr.
BUT Moby is neither rap nor metal so.......... I'll
shut the fuck up!
ROCK!
DJ PAUL
np: Rainer Maria on kcmu.org
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"I don't really have any interest. I mean, everybody is related, everybody shares the same DNA to some extent. So there is somebody in the world whom I share a little more DNA with. Maybe if I need a blood transfusion or something I should find him.... I am actually a space alien myself." Moby, about his long-lost half brother
ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DJ PAUL, host of Chester's Blanket Fort, 89.5 FM/wpkn.org
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Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 20:11:53 +0100
From: "Bart van Eijck" <j.vaneyck@chello.nl>
Subject: Re: (mobility) moby mainstream?
>and i'm not saying all mainstream music has to suck,
>by definition...... it just does, for the most part.
With your permission, I think I'm going to use this as a quote at the end of
my emails!
heehee :)
>however, a band like Outkast
>will ocasionally come along and do something radical
>sounding, and it'll work. christ, listen to the BEATS
>in 'ms jackson'! can you believe that shit is number 2
>on the charts? and rising?
It's number *1* in the Netherlands!
>i'll also say that rap-rock hybrid music could also be
>good, but very much more often than not, sucks. i
>mean, there's lots of great rap music, and lots of
>great loud, hard guitar music, right? so you'd think
>somehow it would be easy to combine them. but more
>often than not, they just don't work together. but
>there is some great rap-rock stuff, i mean it was
>started by Run DMC and stuff. and you can't argue with
>the Beasties (and if you can, you SUCK. ;) And even
>listen to the Judgment Night soundtrack. Not all of it
>is great, but Sonic Youth and Cypress Hill kick ass,
>as do Del The Funky Homosapien and Dinosaur Jr.
Not too fond of those, but I do love the house/hiphop crossover
in the early '90s called Hiphouse (artists like Tyree, King Bee, Fast Eddie
etc.)
Oh how I love the time before that stupid gangster rap ("I shoot you, you
shoot me
let's get fuckin' stoned and shoot eachother"... you know the kind....) no,
I like raps
about partying, about saying "yes yes y'all I'm the best of all" and about
real social
problems other than finding out you ran out of weed at 3am in the morning...
Ok, back to Moby :)
I promised to review some great classic Moby 12"es I recently received, but
please be
patient, school work is killing me! I will write some when I have some time.
The same with
the Moby discography... I'll notify everybody when an updated version is
available.
By the way, the Beasties do SUCK for not putting the Moby remix on the
"Alive" single!
Bart, the little alien (<>,,<>)
==============================
and i'm not saying all mainstream music has to suck,
by definition...... it just does, for the most part. [Dj Paul Simpson]
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Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 15:45:33 EST
From: Arcya@aol.com
Subject: (mobility) Hug for DJPaul & thanks to everyone
Okay so maybe I'm already feeling all lovey-dovey cause it's one of those rare years when I have someone for Valentine's.
But as for info-packed emails like DJPaul's, I TOTALLY read them. Even when I erase massive amounts of mobility email (like after a trip) I keep yours. It's like the newsletter I get from mobility or something. I just usually don't know how else to respond than thanks. So I'm thanking you now!
Also, I love when people post their top 20 albums or recommend an artist. I totally save those emails so I can check those artists out. Like right now, thanks to someone on here, I'm all balistically into the Avalanches from Australia - a group I would've otherwise not heard of ever or not for a few more years. So thanks a million to that Mobyhead for sharing!
Last of all, thanks to mobility, 'cause that's where I found my current Valentine (haha, mobility as matchmaking service? uh....no!). So I guess thanks to Moby, specially for playing at Coachella where we met...
Oh!!!!! I'm all verklempt (spelling?) now...
love&more love, all squishy & guck,
malfunctiongirl
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Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 14:13:22 -0700
From: "Tyler Holt" <intotheblue_@hotmail.com>
Subject: (mobility) Where did everyone go?
Hello?
I used to get like 129 new messages if i didn't check my email for a couple
of days and now i don't check it for a week and there's like 21.
Did everyone go to the moby-online boards? Did everyone abandon Moby because
