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Play: The B-Sides [Limited] | ![Play: The B-Sides [Limited]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51VC1M36YYL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Artist: Moby
Label: Bmg/V2
Category: Music
List Price: $21.98
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 219876
Format: Limited Edition
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Tracks: 18
UPC: 638812708526
EAN: 0638812708526
ASIN: B00004ZDU1
Release Date: November 7, 2000
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Disc 1
| • | Honey | | • | Find My Baby | | • | Porcelain | | • | Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad? | | • | South Side | | • | Rushing | | • | Bodyrock | | • | Natural Blues | | • | Machete | | • | 7 | | • | Run On | | • | Down Slow | | • | If Things Were Perfect | | • | Everloving | | • | Inside | | • | Guitar, Flute & String | | • | Sky Is Broken, The | | • | My Weakness |
Disc 2
| • | Flower | | • | Sunday | | • | Memory Gospel | | • | Whispering Wind | | • | Summer | | • | Spirit | | • | Flying Foxes | | • | Flying Over The Dateline | | • | Running | | • | The Sun Never Stops Setting | | • | The Sun Never Stops Setting |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com's Best of 1999
Those who have followed Moby's career are familiar by now with his deep convictions and spiritual connection. On his 1999 release, Play, he celebrates his faith in a masterful, unobtrusive way, channeling gospel and other inspirational samples through beats so earthy they could grow grass on a cement dance floor. It's impossible to separate the joy of the message from the joy of the grooves. --Beth Massa
Amazon.com Artist Essentials
The great iconoclast of techno returns with a smooth, sacred, and exhilarating record. Play's concoction of breakbeat rhythms, ambient mixology, and inspired blues and gospel samples cry out across musical genres and histories, imparting a time-tested wisdom to beat-driven ears. Moby's devout faith--in both God and his own musical whims--give this approach a sort of legitimacy that another, less sincere artist would never have. That sincerity reverberates through the beats and instrumental eclecticism like a pulse. The soulful refrains and proclamations in "Find My Baby" and "Natural Blues" somehow nestle between straight-up dance-floor rave-ups ("Bodyrock") and melt-in-your-mouth ambience ("Inside") with an effortless grace. Moby reaches across his turntables and finds something pure--almost organic. In fact, the album feels more natural than techno is ever supposed to feel, more spiritual than what DJs are supposed to be able to muster, and more alive than it has any right to be. --Matthew Cooke
Album Description
This limited edition double CD contains the CD Play plus an extra CD of rare B-sides.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 7 more reviews...
 Moby's first true 'ambient' album July 31, 2008
Said Head (MN, USA)
Aside from the original album in this box set, you get the b-sides collection. Keep in mind that not all the released b-side material is available here (there are a few songs floating around here and there in singles). These b-sides are predominantly instrumental, much like what you hear on Play. The mood that these songs radiate is a mix of tranquility and relaxation. I really feel this is more of an ambient companion to Play, because all the tracks are excellent, not quite b-side worthy (some tracks get a bit monotonous, but if you listen to them thinking of it as an ambient album they fit much better).
I've been a Moby b-side collector for some time now, and this is a worthy purchase on many levels other than just to collect obscure tracks. If you're a Moby fan, well, then I probably shouldn't have to tell you to get because you already have it, but the box set edition is very nice; comes with the two individual CDs in their own cases with an outer carboard case. It's really the perfect way to bring these two great albums together.
 There's a reason why they're called B-sides, people... January 11, 2004
Greekfreak (Pusan Korea (South))
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I picked up this album about a year ago. That it took me this long to write a review is about how memorable the album actually is, but it necessitates a mention at least."Memory Gospel" figures prominently in Oliver Stone's "Any Given Sunday" (albeit remixed), and "Flying Foxes" probably should have been left on "Play". The rest is strictly fair-to-middling pap that you'll probably find as uninspiring as I did. In short, if you were a fan of the low-tempo stuff on "Play", you'll probably find this worth owning. But for pure ambient soundscape brilliance, check out KLF's "Chill Out" or The Orb's "Live'93".
Sometimes we want more (and get it!) October 29, 2002
W. JOHNSTON (Orange County, Ca USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
You know how you hate to see a book end after having thoroughly enjoyed the content? Well, Moby's Play: The B-Sides fulfills that wish in giving the listener even more of the wonderful music which Play provided. It's almost as if the original CD never ended in the first place.
I discovered the B-Sides when searching for the mesmerizing Whispering Wind. Like other reviewers, I find myself baffled as to why the B-Sides didn't sell like Play itself. If you like Moby, you're sure to find several of the cuts just as enjoyable. Subjectively, after Whispering Wind, I found the followup cut Summer to be fascinating.
Bottom line, it's just plain good listenin'!
 Moby Scores Again... February 25, 2001
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
As a devout Play fan, I was excited to hear the B-Sides album. To my delight, I was not disappointed. Moby has taken some of the best sounds and worked them into this more-mellow but equally amazing album. Although some tracks are reminiscent of those on Play, the disc has a distinct sound of its own. As in Play, Moby uses his vocal blues loops, simple piano melodies, and euphoric guitar licks to draw in the listener. If you liked Play, and particularly the more mellow tracks, check out the B-Sides.
We all love Moby December 2, 2000
Elizabeth Starkey (Paris, France)
5 out of 15 found this review helpful
Wonderful CD. Flower and Whispering Wind are the only vocals, and they're great. The rest is music. It's by Moby. It's great. Buy. Buy. Buy.
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