Moby - Hotel
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Track List: Hotel
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Disc 1:
- Hotel IntroDownload & Buy
- Raining AgainDownload & Buy
- BeautifulDownload & Buy
- Lift Me UpDownload & Buy
- Where You EndDownload & Buy
- TemptationDownload & Buy
- SpidersDownload & Buy
- Dream About MeDownload & Buy
- VeryDownload & Buy
- I Like ItDownload & Buy
- Love ShouldDownload & Buy
- Slipping AwayDownload & Buy
- ForeverDownload & Buy
- Homeward AngelDownload & Buy
- Bonus Track 1Download & Buy
Disc 2:
- Swear
- Snowball
- Blue Paper
- Homeward Angel (Long)
- Chord Sounds
- Not Sensitive
- Lilly
- The Come Down
- Overland
- Live Forever
- Aerial
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Album Details: Hotel
- Release Date:
- 03/22/2005
- Label:
- V2
- UPC:
- 638812724328
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, March 31, 2005Reviewer: J.Z. - See all J.Z.'s reviews -
TIRED
, March 26, 2005Reviewer: maximo_92105 - See all maximo_92105's reviews1 of 4 Yahoo! Users found this Hotel review helpfulPros: ??
Cons: tired music....
MOby should get back into punk. This sux. I wonder how many commercials will come of this? Oh yeah, all of them...
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Pro Reviews: Hotel
| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews Hotel rarely shows, in any shape or form, traceable inspiration from the new wave and postpunk era Moby advertised as being in full effect. The first half contains simple modern rock songs that tend to be anthemic and soulsearching in nature. Lead single "Beautiful" is one exception, a tongueincheek thing Moby has imagined being sung by vacant celebrity couples. No matter how affable, vegan, liberal, bespectacled, or vertically challenged he is, the real irony is that a millionaire and former love interest of Natalie Portman has made a song of this kind (see also: Aerosmith's "Eat the Rich"). A very gentle version of New Order's "Temptation" turns out to be the album's deepest connection to postpunk; it's telling that Moby opted to leave the vocals to Laura Dawn, since he's less a singer than Bernard Sumner. This begins the nonrock portion of the program, which fans of Play and 18 might find easier to enjoy. A bonus disc containing an hour's worth of ambient techno is good enough for separate release. - Andy Kellman, All Music Guide |
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Pros: More upbeat this time out.
Cons: It isn't Play.
After the depressing tone of 18 which was created after 9/11 this album is much more upbeat. Hotel has little sampling and is rather pop-ish. Not bubble gum pop, but a contemporary pop that is adult and satisfying.
Perhaps Moby is getting more mainstream in reaching a larger audiance. Hard to say. But it does have a 70's retro Eno-esque feel in it's treatments. Yet Moby should take a closer listen to how Eno uses his own limited voice. Moby needs some help in that department.
However, he is accompanied by Laura Dawn who does some leads. Specifically on the song "Very" one can imagine this being something that Donna Summer might have done with Giorgio Moroder.
There is a really beautiful cover of New Orders song " Temptation". As they would say on American Idol; " He made it his own."
This is a double CD. Perhaps in popular responce to the numerous B-Side CDs that have come out over the past few years. The second side is NOT B sides nor are they remixes (With the exception of Homeward Angel). The second disc is ambient. It's great wallpaper music for playing on a sunday morning while cooking eggs while fighting a hangover. Or while reading a good book. Or coming down from some desert rave.
I have been listening to Hotel now for a couple days. And it certainly is growing on me. It has all the passionate swelling I like in his music and the scope of subject matter that I have grown to expect from him. It's a smart CD.
Still, it's not Play. But then, that is a tough act to top.
Outstanding tracks are: Raining Again, Lift Me Up, Where You End,Temptation, Very. ...