Some background on the guy

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby#Personal_life

DnD gamer

He's made some damn good tunes in the past...





And the rather lesser known but just beautiful...

& film sound-tracks...





Thanks for clip, Mikey, will view it later when I've more time. I like this bloke.

I have a cd of his somewhere.....which reminds me...must have a clearout!

I saw him on RT this morning. Cynics might say he went on largely because he has a new CD out

If doesn't think "an audience" should be punished for illegally downloading music, would he be ok
if someone copied his new CD and made it available for download?

Magpie wrote:
So would people who don't like his political POV.

I guess some people don't believe in anything but enlightened self-interest. And they don't want anybody else to, either.
Magpie wrote:
There's your answer.

www.musicweek.com/news/read/music-indust...o-piracy-moby/056873

Never liked his music, never liked his college boy pretense. Don't rate much he had to say there either. Largely incoherent was my impression.

You both have every right to your opinion. I wouldn't call myself an avid fan but I did really like PLAY back in the day. As for what he had to say: I welcomed it as the answer to the Metallica greedy lot.

mikey mikey wrote:
Fucking new you loved a bit of Moby Dick
Have a word Abs

The music one likes does not make one gay. Not that I feel insulted in the least.

I love lots of music written and performed by gay folks. Their sexuality is rather by the by. Their humanity, OTOH, is very much my concern.

You really need to grow the fuck up.

mikey mikey wrote:
I really liked Play as well I saw him touring it in smaller venues before he licenced every track of the album out to adverts - which spoiled it but made him a fortune!

I guess that it is hard to be a commercial success with music without being somehow "selling out".

That's even true of groups and musicians that always seemed somehow above all that.

Even Robert Smith of The Cure had to make such compromises and let his music be used in advertising even when he is personally against it. (see link below)
www.side-line.com/news_comments.php?id=36843_0_2_0_C

Meanwhile Moby, while hardly a saint, is at least giving something back.

So he is no Robert Smith but he is no Pepsi guzzling George Michael, litigious Lars Ulrich or would-be-saviour Bono either.

mikey mikey wrote:
Thought some choirboy music would be more in line with the pope

I love choir music. At the moment I am listening to a lot of Orthodox sacred music from Eastern Europe.



Lovely stuff, isn't it?

mikey mikey wrote:
Bet the Alpini loved that lesson

I don't know what they're saying, but it sounds beautiful.

entrangermercenary1 wrote:
Why would I have played music from Serbia in an English lesson?

To remind them of their experience in the Balkans?-- Hardly!
Gilly wrote:
Being sacred music, it is the usual scriptural stuff; Psalm 135 in this particular instance. We are usually used to hearing that sung in Latin because of the Western European tradition. Composers such as Vivaldi, Mozart, Bach, Handel, Elgar, etc have all composed sacred music from scripture sung in Latin. What makes, to my mind, this music both hauntingly familiar and yet exotic, is that the texts are the same in Church Slavonic, the Eastern Orthodox liturgical language. Moreover the harmonies come from a different musical tradition.

I am very happy you liked it, Gilly. For me it is just scratching the surface of the Eastern European culture that I am getting really interested in. I will post just one more cos this lady's voice is incredible.