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| Artist: Moby
Label: Mute
Category: Music
List Price: £13.99
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Rating:  27 reviews
Sales Rank: 3593
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 5016025612024
ASIN: B000063JBY
Release Date: May 13, 2002
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | We Are All Made Of Stars | | • | In This World | | • | In My Heart | | • | Great Escape | | • | Signs Of Love | | • | One Of These Mornings | | • | Another Woman | | • | Fireworks | | • | Extreme Ways | | • | Jam For The Ladies - featuring Angie Stone and MC Lyte | | • | Sunday (The Day Before My Birthday) | | • | 18 | | • | Sleep Alone | | • | At Least We Tried | | • | Harbour - featuring Sinead OConnor | | • | Look Back In | | • | The Rafters | | • | Im Not Worried At All |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Admittedly, 18 isn't a million style miles away from its predecessor, but this can only be a good thing. If it ain't broke (and let's face it, Play was a pretty hole-free record all told), then don't fix it. Hence the dominance here of Moby's heartbreaking way with strings, pianos and those sampled gospel vocals he's so cleverly made his own. "In My Heart" is familiar territory: a mournful blues voice sat astride the epic swell of military drums and tear jerking symphonia, while further tales of love gone bad surface on the bass-driven "One of These Mornings" and the subtle house simmer of "Another Woman". Is there anyone else out there that can do grief you can dance to? Thankfully "We Are All Made of Stars" does shed a little optimism, and there are some cool collaborations here too. Sinead O'Connor lends fragile breath to "Harbour" while MC Lyte and Angie Stone bring sassiness to the funky hip-hop anthem, "Jam for the Ladies". Welcome back, little man. --Claude Walls
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| Customer Reviews: Read 22 more reviews...
 I Can't listne to this.... May 12, 2008
A. Dunn (SE-UK)
I'm a pretty big fan of Moby but I have never really got on with this album. It's almost as if he picked his favourite part of Play (the end Gospel bit) and stayed there. The result is an album that doesn't go anywhere and has none of the dynamism of earlier work. No matter how many times I listen I find it depressing and hard to enjoy. A real shame.
 requires many listens to truly reveal it's virtues.. first impressions are misleading.. July 2, 2007
Mr. M. A. Reed (Somewhere, GB)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Moby is the antichrist. I don't need to tell you about 1999's gigamillion, original selling 'Play' do I? Well at least it was original once, before it was licensed to 417 adverts, before it came bundled with every coffee table sold in the country, and even I, a fan of maverick genius, got sick of him.
18 is more of the same. For the first time in his career, Moby has stopped moving. Every album prior to this was a enormous leap forward in style and content; be it 1990's minimalist house of 'Instinct', 1995's eclectic ambient gabba rave of 'Everything Is Wrong', 1996's psychotic-metal 'Animal Rights', or 1997's gentle, electronic 'The End Of Everything', Moby was always trying something new, moving somewhere. And now he's reached the end of his journey. He sold about 6 million of 'Play', and only a fool, or someone with integrity, would dare mess with the formula.
18 is a sequel to 'Play', and like all sequels it contains the same ingredients rehashed in a slightly different way to fool the people. Sampled gospel vocals rebuilt over mellow grooves? Check. Guest vocals from anonymous session musicians? Check. A complete lack of excitement throughout the whole of the second half? You betcha.
There are a handful of great tracks on here - the title track '18' and 'Look Back In' are interesting excursions into a territory he visited briefly on 'The End Of Everything', but other than that, this isn't a record that has any sense of urgency, vision, or personality in it.
In the booklet he claims he has 3,000 unreleased songs. 3,000! And this is the best he can do? Anodyne, uninspired, catatonic repetition of an idea that was interesting in 1999, but now just seems oddly past its sell by date.
It seems with this release he's lost his vision, and is travelling rudderless in circles. I know the album's only been out a day, but it's got none of that niggling, infectious sense of wonder or innovation - the compelling desire to listen to it again - that 'Play' had on it's first few exposures.
Great albums feel as if every time you hear them you're discovering something new in the sonic painting. This just feels like I've heard it all before, and done better, on another record Moby made.
18 might be a competent, well performed, well produced record, but its lacking the vital ingredient that makes records great: passion, vision, and the quest to take music somewhere it hasn't been before.
Come in Moby, you've lost the plot and your time is up.
Probably his best album December 8, 2006
Mr. Clark Gillies (West Kilbride, Ayrshire Scotland)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is my favourite Moby album, because in my opinion "Play" gets to much hype and I can only listen to the first 5 songs before moving on!
With this, it is a great album from start to finnish, with "Extreme Ways" being my stand out track (which is not even on "Go-Best of"!!!!)
If you have just got in to Moby, start off with "Play" then move on to this!
MORE STELLAR WORK BY MOBY May 30, 2006
miss s (dirty jerzey, usa)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
"18" IS A GREAT CD...A LITTLE MORE DOWNTEMPO/AMBIENT THEN "PLAY" BUT ALL IN ALL STILL A VERY STRONG SHOWING...SOME OF MY FAVORITE MOBY TRAX EVER ARE ON THIS CD...YOU CANT GO WRONG
 Moby back for more June 14, 2004
Jamie E. I. Wright
2 out of 12 found this review helpful
18 maybe even better than play depends really sort different style.We are all made stars a loving tune very cool.A flava of alot mixes and emotions of good a low moby keeping the talant in.
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