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Hotel

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Hotel Intro
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Raining Again
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Beautiful
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Lift Me Up
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Where You End
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Temptation
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Spiders
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Dream About Me
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Very
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I Like It
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Love Should
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Slipping Away
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Forever
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Homeward Angel
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Album Information

Total Tracks: 15   Total Length: 57:21

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Joe Levy

eMusic Contributor

04.22.11
Electro innovator settles for known pleasures on this retro outing.
Label: IndieBlu Music / Entertainment One Distribution

This distinctly minor album finds Moby rooting through his identities — '80s electro fan, '90s electronica innovator, 21st century rock star, longtime Bowie and Eno disciple — and settling on nothing, exactly. Blues-gone-glam guitar tracks like "Raining Again," "Beautiful" and "Spiders" play like an audition tape to produce a Ziggy Stardust follow-up — not a particularly successful audition, either. Far better are a cover of New Order's "Temptation" slowed down to the crawl the world takes on after too many Percodans and "Dream About Me," an update on the robo-disco heartbreak of Yaz. Both feature Laura Dawn, whose breathy vulnerability is a welcome relief to Moby's unadorned vocals on "Slipping Away" and "Love Should." A techno-pastoral instrumental, "Homeward Angel," closes the album with a graceful bit of ambient bliss. In keeping with the album's title, it all adds up to the sort of dance-and-rock mix you hear in the lobby and bars of boutique hotels: vaguely cool, vaguely retro, vaguely now, and pretty anonymous. Hotels are anonymous places where intimate things transpire, but you can bet Moby was after music that captured the intimacy, not the anonymity.

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Second disc was better

Whimper

The version of this I bought on CD came with a second disc of all ambient music. While I do enjoy a number of the songs on Hotel, the ambient disc is more my taste. Moby *should* sing from time to time, but not all the time! He's got more potential to him than his infatuation with the idea of himself as a pop star.

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This man should not sing

keronian

I can never listen to the "Play" tracks with Moby trying to sing... and there's a LOT of that here.

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Underrated

cwarrior

"Play" was an incredible album. "18" was a worthy successor. But "Hotel" is the Moby album I find myself listening to most often. "Temptation" is a beautiful cover of the Human League hit. "Dream About Me" and "Slipping Away" are the highlights for me. "Beautiful" and "Lift Me Up" are steady plays when I work out (esp. "Lift Me Up"). You probably don't know these songs as well as the hits from the earlier albums - but you really should check in to Moby's "Hotel."

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Favorite Moby Recording

bwgentry

This is my favorite Moby recording--yes, I'm a late listener--I still like to play "Raining Again" with my daughter in the car when it's pouring down rain.

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Homerun!!

Drake3420

I love this album. Spiders, Slipping away . . awww . . . nevermind . . . this is a complete set here. Don't listen to those that don't want to hear.

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He made one decent record

EMUSIC-01C9A151

His first one, in 1992. The rest have been vapid, emotionally obvious exercises in bland self-indulgence. I will never understand his wide ranging appeal. Baffling. Savvy marketing hustler though, I will give him that.

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I would love to stay at Moby Hotel

Music-Junkie

The more I listened to this album the more I liked it. It's nice to see an artist trying to step out of his/her comfort zone to try something different.

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Just love beautiful

Nick9090

i ve been looking for the song Beautiful for so long...

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Almost

PurpleRobot

Always preferred the more ambient noodlings of Moby and was hoping to find the limited companion ambient album to Hotel here, sadly it seems to be omitted. For me, the standouts on the main album are the cover of Temptation, Dream About Me, Forever, and Homeward Angel. *** overall. **** for the standouts listed.

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really like this cd

wolves3112

out of all the recent moby cds i really enjoy this cd for its up beat style and feel good feeling to it

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Hotel rarely shows, in any shape or form, traceable inspiration from the new wave and post-punk era Moby advertised as being in full effect. The first half contains simple modern rock songs that tend to be anthemic and soul-searching in nature. Lead single “Beautiful” is one exception, a tongue-in-cheek thing Moby has imagined being sung by vacant celebrity couples. No matter how affable, vegan, liberal, and bespectacled he is, the real irony is that a millionaire and former love interest of Natalie Portman has made a song of this kind. A very gentle version of New Order’s “Temptation” turns out to be the album’s deepest connection to post-punk. This begins the non-rock portion of the program, which fans of Play and 18 might find easier to enjoy. – Andy Kellman

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