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B.E.E. - Moby - 9/12/16

Bret Easton Ellis Podcast

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The Importance of Ideology in Music

Moby's 1989 Play was an electronic dance music masterpiece that spawned nine singles and was endlessly played as a de facto soundtrack at the end of the century. It sold upwards of 12 million copies and went platinum in more than 20 countries, every one of its songs was licensed to various films, advertisements, TV shows and nonprofit groups. Records do not come along like this anymore and it is one of the last major works before YouTube redefine the industry. Moby has a very good memoir out now called Porcelain,. Though it stops just short of the recording of play, letting us drift on a cliffhanger moment of Moby drunk and defeated by the disastrous reception of his last record animal

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