Ge-nius \'jen-yes; n, Moby, technological wonder?.. (Animal Rights - Moby)

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Product:	Animal Rights - Moby
Date:	24/06/00 (11 review reads)
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Advantages: Great songs

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Extraordinary intellectual power especially as manifested in creative activity: a person endowed with transcendent mental superiority: a person with a very high intelligence quotient: a person named Moby.

When I first listened to this album, I didn't think much of it. To be honest, I was wishing I didn't buy it. But then I decided to give it a second chance. And then I really LISTENED to it. Not until you swim deep into the water of the music do you really hear it all. It's not until you get to that point. The point where you really hear the notes and understand the genius behind it all. You have to get under the waters of the music to really understand and comprehend all it is that you're listening to. It took me to the song called "That's When I Reach For My Revolver" to get to that point. I believe it is truly the best Moby song of all time.

This album mixes a curious mix of heavy metal and techno. And it becomes a harmonious marriage of the two. But there are three songs that it's almost the complete opposite of the marriage. It's the child of the marriage. The songs, "Now I Let It Go, Love Song For My Mom, and Living" are the problem child of the marriage. They're all three slow songs, with quiet piano and soft lyrics (if any) as the song just floats like a river down the river Moby. But most songs start out quiet and slow, and either leads up to deafening noise, or it will suddenly startle you with its discord. Waking up your senses with a fuzzy guitar and a reassuring voice.

Now I got the Limited Edition of Animal Rights and that includes a 9 track CD entitled "Little Idiot". It's a great album to listen to if you're trying to get something done. It's great if you have lots of homework, or doing basically anything. It's just soft tones going on and on, almost putting you to sleep. So you have to be doing something when listening t
o this album. And although these songs don't have any lyrics to speak of, they are greatly made songs. It's like sitting outside on a perfect day. Sitting outside all day. He captures that whole experience in an album. An album called "Little Idiot". Both albums are great for anything. Both albums are great for everything.

And although the lyrics have almost nothing to do with animal rights, the inside booklet does. It goes on for about four pages on his essays about the Christian Coalition and about animal rights. My favourite two sentences in the essays both are:

"Would you eat your housecat, or force a mentally retarded child to ingest oven cleaner? If not, then why is it ok to eat cows and test products on sentient animals?"

I love those two lines, because I personally (being an animal lover and at the same time, one who eats meat) cannot honestly answer. I own three birds (cockatiels) and the thought of eating them just makes me sick. And yet I have (almost) no problem with eating chicken. It's just not right. Animals should have (almost) all the rights that we as humans do. But listing them would get way off the subject, and I'd lose myself in my own thoughts. But this CD is not only well represented by Moby, but also well created by him and well recorded too. All in all, it's a wonderful CD for the rocker and the techno freak alike.

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Jon Hoover

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