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Prima di recensire questo Greatest Hits mi sembra doveroso fare un salto indietro, precisamente di otto anni, in realtà la carriera di questo artista è molto più lunga, ma fu nel 1999 che riuscì a raggiungere la fama mondiale grazie ad un album capolavoro di nome “Play”, stiamo parlando ovviamente di Moby, un piccolo genio che è riuscito ad unire sapientemente due generi musicali completamente diversi come il Blues e l’elettronica, catturando gli appassionati di entrambi i generi. Una carriera fatta di continue trasformazioni artistiche, da scatenato Dj di rave parti e musica techno a raffinato compositore di melodie spirituali!, da Disc Jockey a musicista vero e proprio.
Dopo una carriera di martellanti ritmi techno house Moby scopre il Blues, si chiude nel garage di casa sua e inizia a campionare vecchie melodie blues dai mangianastri dell’epoca, usando un campionatore casalingo acquistato sotto casa… fantasia, immaginazione, e una forte conoscenza musicale hanno dato alla luce il capolavoro di “Play” con brani indimenticabili come “Porcelain” “Natural Blues” “Why does my heart feel so bad?” “find my baby”, questa mutazione artistica di Moby sembra essere quella definitiva, i sui successivi album hanno tenuto fede al suo stile unico, come dimostra il suo successivo album “18” in cui le melodie si fanno sempre più strappalacrime (e forse esageratamente mielose!), fino ad arrivare al suo ultimo lavoro in studio “Hotel” un disco suonato dall’inizio alla fine, dove la componente elettronica è solo di contorno.
Questa camaleontica e prolifica carriera è ora raccontata attraverso questa raccolta dal nome “Go-The Very Best Of Moby” che racchiude 15 canzoni più una traccia multimediale che permette di accedere al sito privato dell’artista. Vengono ripercorsi gli episodi più significativi della sua carriera con brani che si alternano tra melodica e dance, a partire dal singolo “Natural Blues” che ci ricorda i bei tempi di “Play” fino ad arrivare agli inizi della sua carriera da Dj con il brando Techno/ambient “Go” che insieme a “James Bond Theme (Moby’s re-version)” e “Move” danno un tocco dance alla raccolta. Nonostante la buona intenzione di Moby di soddisfare i suoi vecchi fan e avvicinarsi alla new generation l’album non convince. Alcuni singoli sono stati ritoccati e remixati (senza avviso sulla copertina), una decisione assai infelice per presentarsi ad un nuovo pubblico, le Hit single sono presentate nella versione Radio, ovvero accorciate, inoltre alcuni capolavori (esempio “In My Heart”) sono stati decisamente rovinati aggiungendo delle basi da discoteca che imbruttiscono le intere canzoni, una scelta meno infelice ma pur sempre pessima è quella di rendere House una ottima canzone come “Slipping Away”. Neanche il nuovo singolo “New York New York” riesce a risollevare una raccolta a mio avviso sottotono.
In definitiva “Go-The Very Best of Moby” è un Greatest Hits adatto a chi vuole risentirsi le Hit Single di Moby in maniera spensierata (magari in macchina o in cuffia), e per chi crede che Moby è solo un musicista per spot pubblicitari di telefonini… per chi invece ha intenzione di scoprire appieno questo artista poliedrico a mio avviso di un talento musicale straordinario consiglio vivamente di riascoltarsi i suoi vecchi album, in particolar modo “Play” e il meraviglioso “18”.
Un buona raccolta ma niente di più.
Elenco tracce e testi
02 Natural Blues (03:02)
Oh, lordy, troubles so hard
Oh, lordy, troubles so hard
Don't nobody know my troubles but God
Don't nobody know my troubles but God
(repeat three times)
Went down the hill, the other day
My soul got happy and stayed all day
Went down the hill, the other day
My soul got happy and stayed all day
Oh, lordy, troubles so hard
Oh, lordy, troubles so hard
Don't nobody know my troubles but God
Don't nobody know my troubles but God
(repeat twice)
Went in the room, didn't stay long
Looked on the bed and brother was dead
Went in the room, didn't stay long
Looked on the bed and brother was dead
04 Porcelain (03:30)
In my dreams, I'm dying all the time
Then I wake it's kaleidoscopic mind
I never meant to hurt you
I never meant to lie
So this is goodbye
This is goodbye
Tell the truth you never wanted me
Tell me
In my dreams, I'm jealous all the time
Then I wake I'm going out of my mind
Going out of my mind
05 We Are All Made Of Stars (03:37)
Growing in numbers
Growing in speed
Can't fight the future
Can't fight what I see
People they come together
People they fall apart
No one can stop us now
Cause we are all made of stars
Efforts of lovers
Left in my mind
I sing in new reaches
We'll see what we find
People they come together
People they fall apart
No one can stop us now
Cause we are all made of stars
People they come together
People they fall apart
No one can stop us now
Cause we are all made of stars
Slowly rebuilding
I feel it in me
Growing in numbers
Growing in peace
People they come together
People they fall apart
No one can stop us now
Cause we are all made of stars
People they come together
People they fall apart
No one can stop us now
Cause we are all made of stars
People they come together (people they come together)
People they fall apart (people they fall apart)
No one can stop us now (no one can stop us now)
Cause we are all made of stars (we are all made of stars)
We are all made of stars (people they come together)
We are all made of stars (people they fall apart)
Cause we are all made of stars (no one can stop us now)
We are all made of stars (we are all made of stars)
We are all made of stars....
06 Dream About Me (03:24)
Babe, oh dream about me
Lie on the phone to me
Tell me no truth if it is bad
There's enough in my life to make me so sad
Just dream about colour fills our lives
Just dream about someone else tonight
And babe, oh dream about me
On the phone talking quietly
I want to be yours, oh won't you be mine
Against red skies for all time
So dream about us when you're alone
Just dream about how I will let go
And
And
Babe, oh dream about me
Lie on the phone to me
Tell me no truth if it is bad
There's enough in my life to make me so sad
Just dream about colour fills our lives
Just dream about someone else tonight
Just dream about colour fills our song
Just dream about how I will let go
08 In This World (03:26)
(4x)lordy don't leave me
all by myself
(3x)good times the devil
i'm a force of heaven
(3x)lordy don't leave me
all by myself
(3x)so many times i'm down
down down
with the ground
(4x)lordy don't leave me
all by myself
(3x)whoa, me in this world
(2x)lordy don't leave me
all by myself
09 South Side (03:49)
I see myself in the pouring home
I see the light come over now
I see myself in the pouring rain
I watch hope come over me
Here we are now, going to the east side
I pick up my friends and we start to ride
Ride all night, yeah, we ride all day
Some may come, love, and some may stay
Here we are in the pouring home
I watch the light man fall the comb
I watch a light move across the screen
I watch the light come over me
Here we are now going to the west side
Weapons in hand as we go for a ride
Some may come, love, and some may stay
Watching out for a sunny day.... where there's
Love and darkness and my sidearm
Hey, elan, elan....
Here we are now going to the north side
I look at my friends as they start to ride
Ride at night we, yah, we ride all day
Looking out for a sunny day
Here we are now going to the south side (to the south side)
I pick up my friends and we hope we won't die (hope we won't die)
Ride at night, ride through heaven and hell (heaven and hell)
Come back, love, and feel so well (feel so well)
10 Beautiful (03:13)
Come on baby,
Come on girl,
Come on baby,
Come on girl,
I love you baby,
I love you now,
I love you baby,
I love you now,
Look at us we’re beautiful,
All the people push and pull but,
Let’s just go out and ride,
Talk about the things we’ve tried
Look at us we’re beautiful,
All the people push and pull but,
They’ll never get inside,
We got too much to hide
Come on baby,
Come on girl,
Come on baby,
Come on girl,
I love you baby,
I love you now,
I love you baby,
I love you now,
Look at us we’re beautiful,
All the people push and pull but,
Let’s just go out and ride,
Talk about the things we’ve tried
Look at us we’re beautiful
All the people push and pull but,
They’ll never get inside,
We got too much to hide
Look at us we’re beautiful,
All the people push and pull but,
Let’s just go out and ride,
Talk about the things we’ve tried
Look at us we’re beautiful
All the people push and pull but,
They’ll never get inside,
We got too much to hide
Look at us we’re beautiful [x7]
Look at us we’re beautiful (yeah!)
Look at us (yeah!) we’re beautiful (yeah!) [x 3]
Look at us (yeah!) we’re beautiful
Look at us we’re beautiful [x4]
11 Extreme Ways (03:31)
Extreme ways are back again
Extreme places I didn't know
I broke everything new again
Everything that I'd owned
I threw it out the windows, came along
Extreme ways I know
Will part the colors of my sea
Perfect color me
Extreme ways that help me
Help me out late at night
Extreme places I had gone
But never seen any light
Dirty basements, dirty noise
Dirty places coming through
Extreme worlds alone
Did you ever like it planned
I would stand in line for this
There's always room in life for this
Oh baby, oh baby
Then it fell apart, it fell apart
Oh baby, oh baby
Then it fell apart, it fell apart
Oh baby, oh baby
Then it fell apart, it fell apart
Oh baby, oh baby
Like it always does, always does
Extreme sounds that told me
They helped me down every night
I didn't have much to say
I didn't give up the light
I closed my eyes and closed myself
And closed my world and never opened
Up to anything
That could get me along
I had to close down everything
I had to close down my mind
Too many things that caught me
Too much can make you blind
I've seen so much in so many places
So many heartaches, so many faces
So many dirty things
You couldn't even believe
I wouldstand in line for this
It's always good in life for this
Oh baby, oh baby
Then it fell apart, it fell apart
Oh baby, oh baby
Then it fell apart, it fell apart
Oh baby, oh baby
Then it fell apart, it fell apart
Oh baby, oh baby
Like it always does, always does
12 Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad? (03:46)
Why does my heart feel so bad?
Why does my soul feel so bad?
Why does my heart feel so bad?
Why does my soul feel so bad?
Feel all alone
14 Honey (03:20)
When my honey come back, sometimes
I wanna rap that jack, sometimes
I get a hump in my back, sometimes
I'm goin' over here, sometimes
Way down yonder, sometimes
Gonna get my pal, sometimes
15 Lift Me Up (03:20)
Plain talking (Plain talking)
Take us so far (take us so far)
Broken down cars (broken down cars)
Like strung-out old stars (like strung-out old stars)
Plain talking (Plain talking)
Served us so well (served us so well)
We travelled through hell (travelled through hell)
We know how we felt ( We know how we felt )
Lift me up, lift me up
Higher now ama
Lift me up, lift me up
Higher now ama
Plain talking (Plain talking)
Making us bold (making us bold)
So strung out and cold (so strung out and cold)
I'm feeling so old (feeling so old)
Plain talking (Plain talking)
Has ruined us now (has ruined us now)
You never know how (you never know how)
Sweeter than thou (sweeter than thou)
Lift me up, lift me up
Higher now ama
Lift me up, lift me up
Higher now ama
[4x]
Oooooooohhhhhhhhhhh
Higher
Lift me up, lift me up
oh la la la la
Lift me up, lift me up
oh la la la la
[4x]
(Feeling so old)
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