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Everything Is Wrong | 
 enlarge | Artist: Moby
Label: Elektra / Wea
Category: Music
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Rating:  71 reviews
Sales Rank: 3447
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 61701
UPC: 075596170123
EAN: 0075596170123
ASIN: B000002HGD
Release Date: March 14, 1995
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| Tracks:
| • | Hymn | | • | Feeling So Real | | • | All That I Need Is To Be Loved | | • | Let's Go Free | | • | Everytime You Touch Me | | • | Bring Back My Happiness | | • | What Love | | • | First Cool Hive | | • | Into The Blue | | • | Anthem | | • | Everything Is Wrong | | • | God Moving Over The Face Of The Waters | | • | When It's Cold I'd Like To Die |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com essential recording
Moby is an ambitious man, both musically and philosophically, and that quality seeps into every aspect of Everthing Is Wrong, from the wunderkind DJing that stretches the genre limits of techno to the angry, antiestablishment manifesto on the CD sleeve. The record's opening salvo of dancey club music sets the listener up for "All That I Need Is to Be Loved," which, out of nowhere, bludgeons would-be club kids with tuneless, mad vocals and punked-out guitar solos. The same bait-and-switch formula repeats twice on the CD at almost regular intervals in the industrial shriek of "What Love" and the sudden, slow, and acoustic bent and folksy vocals of "Into the Blue." All three shifts are jarringly abrupt. However, dance-floor continuity is in Moby's blood, and he uses these songs as parts one, two, and three of the underlying rage that drives the record's concept. Without these three tracks, in fact, you'd have a moody yet convincingly cohesive danceathon, bouncing between house breakbeats ("Feeling So Real," "Bring Back My Happiness") and blissed-out trance ("God Moving Over the Face of the Waters"). Instead, Moby expresses his bewildered and desperate view of modern life by periodically yanking away the escape of blind, danceable ecstasy, using that discontinuity to express the eyes-wide-open ruminations of a furious idealist. --Matthew Cooke
Amazon.com
With the release of Everything Is Wrong, Moby procured an entry into the major-label circuit. Covering many techno genres, the album shows Moby's desire to be all things at once. Flaunting breakbeats, noisy industrialism, acid trance, ambient textures, and techno-pop, the mix is often hard to grasp. Although this speaks of Moby's versatility, the liner notes should contain a disclaimer warning the listener of the elastic moods which may be produced by the dubious nature of the tracks. Whereas the songs are noticeably varied, the essential song-writing techniques often fail to progress beyond minimal chord structures and predictable measures. While it's apparent that Everything Is Wrong in Moby's realm, his lack of focus demonstrates that it can be equally wrong to tackle everything. --Lucas Hilbert
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| Customer Reviews: Read 66 more reviews...
 Everything Is Wrong April 29, 2008
I cannot put this album down. Moby released it in the 90s, but it resonates loudly, even today.
Moby's talent is obvious here.
I recommend it highly.
i don't want to swim forever. May 25, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
well, the year is 2006, and the album "Everything is Wrong" came out in '95. How sad (but absolutely amazing) it took me THIS long to actually discover this album and give it a chance.
Putting all the wonderful songs aside, I would like to mention one song on this album that is absolutely incredibly breath-taking. Its not even breath-taking, you can't even breath to lose your own breath!
"When It's Cold I'd Like To Die"
This piece is just brilliant. I've listened to it non-stop today and probably tomorrow and the next day. Being an artist/actor - I have written a performance art piece to the minute I heard and in hopes of performing it and getting it out there. Its just gorgeous and I don't even think my words can explain it. I come across many songs as so, but I never ever expected this of Moby (not a bad thing) but like everyone else here, I think I can speak for everyone else here, that this really displays Moby as an artist, and an amazing one.
The ending of the song is perfect, as if the song is just a moment in time, an epiphany, and at the end - it just ALL fades away in an echo. Its as if the song will continue in its next life.
If my piece ever gets performed, i'll be glad to share it with all the fans.
Techno heaven January 16, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
In terms of depth, this is the pinnacle of electronic music. It may not be as cohesive as Chemical Brothers' Dig Your Own Hole, but what Moby does here is breathtaking: he takes every kind of emotion, whether it's love ("Everytime You Touch Me"), elation ("Feeling So Real"), longing ("All That I Need is To Be Loved"), hope ("Into the Blue"), rage ("What Love"), or peace ("When It's Cold,I'd Like to Die") and abandons the notion of techno as pure dance music, and for that, Moby revolutionized electronica. This is the most important Moby album because of the diversity. This album has trance, classical, rave, hardcore...it is simply amazing. Everything great about Moby is right here. Play is also a great album, but if you want a tighter collection of songs, this is the place to start-no doubt. Brilliant. A
A TRUE MASTERPIECE IN ELECTRONIC MUSIC.... May 4, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
"HYMN", AND "GOD MOVING OVER THE FACE OF THE WATERS" ALONE MAKE THIS ALBUM AN ESSENTIAL PART OF ANY ELECTRONIC / AMBIENT MUSIC FAN...BOTH ARE TIMELESS PIECES OF BRILLIANCE, LIFE-AFFIRMING MELANCHOLIC EMOTION THRUST UPON THE LISTENER LEAVING YOU IN A TRANCE OF DEEP THOUGHTS AND CONTEMPLATION... THE UPTEMPO TRACKS ARE DATED BY TODAYS STANDARDS OF SYNTH MANIPULATION AND SOUND COUNSTRUCTION, BUT THEN AGAIN, THE BEAUTY OF ITS AMBIENT AND DOWNTEMPO MOMENTS ARE WHAT YOU ARE REALLY BUYING THIS ALBUM FOR ANYWAY...A MUST-HAVE...
one of my favorites January 22, 2005
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is one of my favorite Moby albums...it's after his really techno-y days, and before his newer work, so it's a nice mix of both.
I love it!
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