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| Artist: Moby
Label: Mute
Category: Music
List Price: £14.99
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 212103
Format: Limited Edition
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
EAN: 5016025911509
ASIN: B00000728H
Release Date: June 23, 2003
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Amazon.co.uk Review
One of techno's prime trendsetters, Moby flashed surprising rock chops on the Joy Division tribute Means to an End in 1995. Here he abandons the dance floor completely for a convincing stroll through a multitude of guitar-based styles. "Come on Baby" is the man's idea of trad rock, "Someone to Love" explodes like the best hardcore, and "Face It" is a swelling progressive epic. Animal Rights also includes Moby's ode to his roots, a cover of Mission of Burma's "That's When I Reach for My Revolver". --Jeff Bateman
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 Undeservedly overlooked July 2, 2007
Mr. M. A. Reed (Somewhere, GB)
This is to prove Moby wasn't always a man whose talent extends only as far as lifting old blues samples and grafting them onto bland corporate coffee-table music. This is to prove that Moby has a heart. At the time of this album's release, only two people in the UK ("The Big Issue", and a student paper in Coventry) wanted to review him. His name was dirt. He supported Soundgarden, and his own headline gigs brought in about 100 people. But why?
"Animal Rights" is about as far away as you can get from the Moby that you know & loathe. "Animal Rights" is a frantic 40 minute essay about how Everything is Wrong. Working almost entirely without guest musicians (a violin player appears on two songs), Moby created this demented, claustrophobic punk-thrash album in isolation. Rarely has a record sounded tighter - probably because this is truly a "solo" album. Every instrument was played by Moby, and the mindset of the record shows this. The sound is locked into a groove where each separate instrument is telepathically locked in to the others.
It's a relentless assault upon the senses. It sounds like walls closing in. It sounds like being crushed slowly to death. It sounds like a man raging coherently yet unintelligably against the cruelty of love, the abuse of trust, against loneliness. That's why I love it so much.
Bookended by two mellow instrumental pieces, "Animal Rights" picks up the pieces of a broken relationship which ended bitterly and appends this theme to a bitter cathartic primal scream. Moby returns to a time of innocence and to his first love, the guitar, and purges himself. Lyrics are largely indecipherable - the feeling Moby expresses within the album are largely beyond language: though one of the few lyrics I can make out is "make me a being without a soul". It's almost as if Moby is saying if feeling is like this, make me without feeling.
The material he deals with here has been unfairly lambasted as being unrepresentative of what Moby is capable of. But this album is Moby doing what he did first, did best, when he was guitarist in US hardcore bands such as The Vatican Commandos, Flipper and briefly in US 4AD indies Ultra Vivid Scene.
And whilst artists such as Beck and Bowie are lauded for their diversity, Moby was lambasted for daring to go against the grain and release an album of unrelenting thrash/punk rock. Look beyond the name on the cover and listen to one of the most underbought, underrated, unusual albums a major recording artist has ever produced. .
 Animal Rights June 15, 2005
F. Quinn (UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am quite recently a fan of Moby and find his music, not only very good but him as a person a very interesting and unique artist for his views which show he is actually a person of some depth there - not some empty headed person. His apparent intelligence makes it not so surprising that he is a good musician.
Animal Rights is very good and different from the other stuff I have heard. (admittedly only really heard usic from his albums Play and 18). The first and last track are very peaceful and calming, very different from all that inbetween which has a very different style. Very loud and quite a bit of screaming. Hmm, I'm not sure of the genre you would put this under... metal?
I prefer Play and 18 to this album but still a really good album. My favourite tracks are Now Let it Go and Love Song for my Mum.
Not everybody's cup of tea March 14, 2005
John David Charles Hilton (Redcliffe, Bristol United Kingdom)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Moby goes punk. Sort of. This is, mostly, a collection of great, abrasive rock songs. It is difficult to see quite where it fits into the Moby canon, but who cares when the music is this good. Obviously inspired, at least in part, by Joy Division, it is an album that I return to often. Just to add to the confusion the first CD is bookended by gentle, viola accompanied instrumentals and the second CD is an effective foray into quite mood music. Not everybody liked Moby leaving dance music so far behind on this album, but I discovered him via this record and I still play it regularly. I recommend it to any rock fan and to open minded fans of Play and 18 who would like to hear something a bit different from Moby.
 Moby's Schizoid Album January 9, 2003
Martin A Hogan (San Francisco, CA.)
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
This album is for the true Moby fan. It's very good, but stretches the limits in both directions with no middle ground. Half of the tracks are frantic, near punk as Moby screams to a frenzied beat. The rest of the songs are mellow, relaxed and hypnotic. The best of these is the Eno-esque, "A Season In Hell". The remake of "That's When I Reach For My Revolver" is a great rock and roll number - and the only one like it on the album. Moby brings out the violin on "Love Song For My Mom" (literally) and it's hard to tell if it's synthesized or real. The best song (IMO) on the album is "Living", simply a pleasant song and worth the price of the entire CD. I could have done without all the pontificating in the liner notes and the pleading message, "please listen to Animal Rights in its entirety at least once", however nice a gesture it was. It's the music that really counts here. Moby seems to have been unsure which direction to take here, but just a few of the songs make it worth the listen.
Beautiful and beguiling July 27, 2000
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
Hype = nil Quality = infinite Enjoyment = don't get me started This album is the most sensational and experimental album since Abbey Road. The only thing is that there is no hype and better quality music. Moby is a musical genius, and in his sensational brain he produces music I think is music of the ears - the perfect music. This album reflects this. I have puchased every Moby album but this is the best and one of the most creative albums ever.
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