End of Everything

Moby, Voodoo Child | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 29, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Elektra / Wea
• ASIN: B000005ITO
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #66,437 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #94 in Music > Indie Music > Dance & DJ > Techno-House

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars VOODOO CHILD is MADE OF STARS!, December 24, 2003

By 

analog1 "gorilla76" (FLY LAND) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The End of Everything (Audio CD)

If you Like MOBY; and if you like strings and pianos, and really
robotic drumbeats, then this is the greatest record ever made!
It is like a factory singing the most awe inspiring sounds.
I love MOBY but i have always prefered his b-side, and quiet instrumental songs to his hits. This is MOBY making his most
passionate and brilliant music. Released around his brilliantly
dark Animal Rights Album; this carries the most challenging, and
listenable music. If after you listen to this record you LOVE it...find the UK version...it is different...it includes a song
called "Animal Sight" which is as epic and amazing as everything
else on this record; and the song "Dog Heaven" is a much sexier,
and funky version with a 4/4beat and tribal percusion underpinning an breathtaking strings break.
If you dig this record buy Play: the B-sides (because some of
his moments on that LP have the same genius).
MOBY is always best when no one is listening and he lets his heart make the music.
Let me put it this way...i walked around in a trance for 3 days
when i heard this record. It changed the way i saw everything
around me. After listening to this record i threw away my car!
Truth.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hauntingly Beautiful, February 19, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: End of Everything (Audio CD)

Let me start off by saying that while each listener may interpretate this work of art differently, it cannot be disputed that this composition is truly a masterpiece; one which belongs in the collection of any fan of beautiful, moving music...I often listen to this CD before I go to bed. As I drift off to sleep, I experience terribly depressing , yet cathartic feelings. Moby has managed to write the score for the end of the world. The tracks on this CD seem to take one on a journey from life as we know it to the extinction of all life. In my opinion, the four songs of love represent the apparent (and I emphasize "apparent") equilibrium and calm that exists in our world; the "love" that we claim to know. The pulse-like percussion and simple, beautiful melodies of these first three tracks are trance-inducing. By the fourth track, this pulsating has faded as mankind has begun to realize the err of his ways. He relaxes into a state of shock. "Slow Motion Suicide" tells of the way in which man has been killing himself for centuries, by way of self-destructive behavior, which can no longer be redressed (interesting how Moby does this all with no words). "Dog Heaven" resembles an ordered chaos, as humanity scrambles to make sense of natural disasters and catastrophes alike, preparing for the end. "Reject" allows one to picture the aftermath, a horribly calm planet littered with the silent debris of worldwide extinction. As I listen to the CD right now, I am afraid. I'm afraid not of the end of the world, but of how closely Moby has portrayed it in these seven beautifully composed tracks. I'm afraid that I'm actually listening to the end of the world.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The only Moby CD I own..., May 15, 2000

By 

DAC Crowell - See all my reviews

This review is from: The End of Everything (Audio CD)

Yeah, this is Moby. The US issue of this album gave thataway...The interesting thing is that this seems like Moby minus thecommercial pandering that's characterized nearly everything he's had his mitts on over the past several years. As opposed to composing for the marketplace, this sounds more like Richard Hall composing for himself, and as such, it's a lot more satisfying as far as I'm concerned...although I'm sure lots of candyraver types will disagree. Still, as nice as this is, it seems to owe a lot of its parentage to Aphex Twin's two "Selected Ambient Works" releases, with which it shares more than a few ideas. However, Moby often works here in a more stripped-down manner, such as on "Great Lake", where the underpinning beats simply act as propulsion for the harmonies and melodies (which will likely be too harmonic or melodic for most raver types these days) which are the real focus of the work. Eventually, this pushes into a really beautifully-done modulation about 2/3rds of the way in, and the way the track develops is sort of like watching a time-lapse of a flower unfolding. And the closer, the 18-minute-ish "Reject", is an ultra-slo-mo chordal ambient sunset...goes pretty much nowhere, but then, it works very well in that way. To my ears, this is an interesting alternative to the commercial hype-monster Moby that's currently appearing on Letterman and in concert and all that sorry rock-star crap. It might pay, but to those with eyes to see and ears to hear, it's got no integrity. Too bad Moby doesn't do more work like this...although I'm sure the kiddies who want the next rock-rave-teKKn0 partydown track won't like it. Eh...screw 'em, Moby...you've got enough cash at this point; let's have another workout like this.