Canāt remember now, but Iād be surprised if I didnāt give Billy at least a 4
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I think I abstained with the caveat that We Didnāt Start the Fire and Zanzibar are tunes.
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My mate absolutely adores Billy Joel! 
Have to say, when heās put stuff on, I havenāt minded it!
my dad was a big fan, and I heard all those songs so many times in the car etc that I cannot treat them objectively in any way at all
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My mate (who actually has a decent voice!) Performs a couple of his songs on sing star and rock band and all those which makes me like Billy Joel more btw!
Saw moby once supporting soundgarden, I think. I only knew the song Go and he played some punky noise stuff and engaged in a lot of edgelord banter - I think I was only 15 or 16 and thought who the fuck is this bellend?
Was a bit surprised years later to see him become bloody ubiquitous for a while. Quite liked the odd song on Play but Iām gonna have to stay true to 16 year old me, particularly given his apparent sleaziness, and give him a 1.
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a deeply, deeply weird man, even without the (extremely) problematic stuff
K***** would get a 1/5 for me now for how much he has poisoned my appreciation for music
Some nice sounds, Iām pro- 90s chill out in general. Conjures up nice Ibiza fantasies, the kind you can only have if youāve never been to one of those resort islands. Unfortunately Moby also makes me think of middle-class London and the guardian for some reason. Gave the famous album a spin about six months ago, turned it off halfway through. Donāt think Iāll ever listen to it again. Always thought it was probably weird for him becoming so massive, though I donāt know anything about him, seemed like a normal geezer
Not RHCP. I gave them a 5 and half of their points in the vote off.
Should have guessed 
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Donāt get the musical hate for the Chillies. By the Way is a power pop classic. Loads of wonderful songs across other albums too.
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I bought a Moby CD from a charity shop for 20p last year. Back home to load it into iTunes and the CD was missing. Just an empty box. 1/5.
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Quite impressive that heās the first whale to have a no.1 album
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Kilroy?
Play was a great album of its time. Never listen to it now. Probably never will again because Moby is a creep. 2
Iām mainly indifferent to him, but Animal Rights album is fantastic, and unlike the rest of his catalogue (that Iāve heard, anyway). Raw, passionate and angry. Remember Melody Maker and NME panning it at the time but I listened to it again recently and I think it has stood the test of time. Would love to have seen the live show.
Given it had a vinyl re-release recently maybe itās had a critical reappraisal? Having done a quick search, looks like DIS reappraised it in 2002, itās a good review and captures the ādemented, claustrophobic punk-thrashā album well:
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Really like Go and God Moving ā¦ . Vatican Commandos were decent-ish too. Everything else Iāve heard Iāve hated. Play was absolutely everywhere in the late 90s and it fucking sucked. That article that Steved posted above absolutely nails it - just the worst record for so many reasons.
Wouldnāt give him a 1 cos I like some of his music, but he barely scrapes a 2. Couldnāt find that much evidence of him being a āsexual predatorā tbh, so not going to mark him down, but heās obviously a bit of a bellend on top of everything else. Find it absolutely hilarious that Pitchfork think he epitomes ātechnoā as well
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Does Moby even make techno? I always thought Eminemās āitās over, nobody listens to technoā line was a great diss because it implies he hasnāt even bothered to find out what kind of music Moby makes. But now Iām not sure, and Iām not going to actually listen to Mobyās music to find out.
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