I enjoy the older style of Moby, but Hotel is very listenable. I think Hotel appeals to a wider audience making it great ambient music. The second CD is not to be missed for its quiet pieces of music.

I absolutely love the Hotel Cd.
In fact I am going to order it for my daughter for Christmas.
The song I Like It, is just so sensual. I think moby has a very seductive voice. This is my first Cd of his. if anyone knows of one of his others that is very seductive please advice me.
Its awesome!

It really hurts to give such a low rating to one of my most treasured music artists. Mobys CD was a let down by all means. I tried, I tried so hard to love this CD but I have not touched it in three months or longer. The songs sound like pop songs with catchy lyrics, maybe for some people. I hope this is'nt the direction Moby continues to go in because I absolutely love his other music. Im sure these songs sound somewhat better live, I have found that to be true with much of his music.

On another note, how bout that ambient cd? That was amazing. I am so happy it came with this CD because the ambient CD alone is worth your money. I was relieved to find I was not the only customer to think that. The ambient cd is filled with emotion and passion, you can feel it in the music. A song that enjoyed the most was 'Blue Paper,' it is trueley an amanzing song. If you find this stuff boring, you most likely loved the hotel cd!This CD will remain in my top favorites in the Ambient gerne for years to come.

So this was a weird realease. A great Ambient record, and a dissapointing Hotel record.

I hesitated for so long to get this. Having followed Moby's rise since circa 1994 it has been amazing to watch what an impact he has had on music and on various cultural media over the years. I like his early techno/rave stuff and have enjoyed the gift he has for using electronica to score some beautiful and haunting hymns. But I wondered: has Moby gone soft? has he sold out? I was pleasantly surprised.

Look at the cover and add rain. That's the overall mood of this album. I find rain to be cleansing on many levels, often building a mood of pensiveness, reflection and a fragile peacefulness. There is a glorious melancholy in the music, the lyrics and the singing on the album. Take the chilled out moments from Moby's other albums and build on it. That's what he's done here.

Almost every song has singing - primarily Moby's longing, almost cyring, voice - and almost every song is for those rainy nights, when the world doesn't make sense, when longing for companionship and understanding burdens the heart, yet with a subtle hope underneath it all.

It's downtempo, mellow, moody and sometimes sad. But it is beautiful. Don't expect "old" Moby, don't look for the commercial jingles of Play. Just put it on and listen.

I got the limited edition two disc set version of this CD and I recommend you do the same or the experience of this CD will not be fully fulfilling. My review pertains to the two disc version of "Hotel"

This is really my first Moby CD (I've had his 'crossover album,' "Play" on Cassette FOREVER but I never get through the whole album..not sure why..maybe it's just because it's a cassette? Hmm..) and there is always talk about how Moby is so 'techno' and 'electronic' but the first disc is really pop-rock oriented which I really liked because it was something different. The album art is very nice but enough about that..I want to tell you all about the second disc that came with the CD:

Hotel (Ambient), Disc two: I am urging each and every one of you to go out and buy "Hotel" but DO NOT buy it unless it comes with the second disc. This is where you get the real goodies.. It's an ambient/Electronica/Instrumental CD! It's like a more mainstream version of Boards of Canada. Moby did a really nice job on this! such. great. music.

I think fans have to be honest about Hotel: It is a disappointing effort. The album begins with great promise. The intro is an excellent, subtle, synth piece. It suits the sterile, soft colours used in the cd art. From there the album drops off. Moby isn't much of a guitar player-so a near whole album of "post-punk"-ish pop tunes is hard to enjoy. "I like it" is particularly bad. There are some bright spots. "Raining Again" and "Lift Me up" are passable. The cover of New Order's "Temptation" with singer Dawn is actually fairly good. The album ends well with some nice ambient compositions. "Homeward Angel" is excellent.

If you can find a copy with the bonus ambient cd, buy it. The second disc is unapologetically electronic, slow, long, and beautiful. It is one for the fans and more than makes up for the short-comings of the first disc.

One of the two albums is mostly Brian Eno type of background music (good in the appropriate listening circumstances). The other album has a number of very good Moby vocals (with others) and I liked it a lot. I ordered this specifically because it contained songs I recently heard on the local non mainstream radio station

I love this album. From start to finish, I think this is the best Moby CD yet.

I enjoy Moby's music a lot. I realize though that many times he'll make turning point albums and basically gets criticised when he does (and ironically, for not doing it enough like on "18"). I'm one of the few who thought "Animal Rights" was actually great and enjoy the other '90s stuff. This one is interesting since he's stripping away the samples and using actual vocals in most of the songs. Then there's that other singer, Laura Dawn, who kind of shares the vocals with the album. Covering New Order was kind of inevitable for Moby, so it makes sense that "Temptation" appears here, although it's really not done as anything special. Which is kind of how I'd sum this thing up. It can satisfy, has its moments ("Lift Me Up" is one of my all-time favorite Moby songs), but ultimately it doesn't do a whole lot. It is really not terrible though like some critics may have you believe. The ambient disc, which is a limited edition thing I believe, is nice to sleep/rest to, as I did today after feeling the need to rest. It's kind of hard to say if I really recommend it or not. I don't know that it's worth a whole lot, but it doesn't really suck and some fans may like this type of thing.

A very enjoyable CD. "Very" brings this album up. Way up. Reminiscent of 80's dance club stalwarts "Earthquake," "Rain," "Danger for Love," or Sandy Marton's "Exotic and Erotic," Laura Dawn is excellent on this track with its catchy, flirtatious, euro-pop dance club energy that's hard to resist. Other goodies are "Beautiful," "Raining Again," "Lift Me Up." If you don't like Moby, that's fine, but then don't buy "Hotel," and certainly don't review it. Just because you don't happen to like it doesn't mean that it's garbage.

When I read my friends review of this album,I decided to buy it. It's an OK disc,with many great songs and only a few bad songs. I'll rate every song on this album:

1. Hotel Intro (8/10)
An OK intro for a good album.
2. Raining again (10/10)
My second favorite song on this CD. Excellent.
3. Beautiful (10/10)
Very enjoyable.
4. Lift me up (10/10)
Best of the album. I started to love this song from the 1st listening. Simply great!
5. Where you end (10/10)
Another highlight on this CD. I especialy like the piano at the begining of this song.
6. Tempation (5/10)
One word - BORING!
7. Spiders (10/10)
Nice,very nice. Intro is very cool and I also like Moby's voice in this song.
8. Dream about me (8/10)
Very nice duet. And good lyrics.
9. Very (1/10)
Ugh,complete garbage! Terrible,brought this album down!
10. I like it (4/10)
Another pointless song on this album. Awful.
11. Slipping away (10/10)
Good,good. Not much to say about this song - lovely ballad. Lyrics are not that great here but it's still very nice.
12. Forever (8/10)
Great for relaxing. :)))
13. Homeward angel (8/10)
5 minutes long.A good song to close this album.

Overall grade,3 stars. Actualy,3 and a half.
Such a shame this album was brought down with songs like
"Temptation", "Very" and "I like it".

I put off buying this album until very recently because of all of the mixed reviews of it. Upon purchasing and listenting to it, the mixed reviews are certainly understandable. I have all of Moby's albums and have enjoyed them all, but there was a definite standout - Play - and the two subsequent albums (this one as well as 18) have not quite lived up to the bar set by Play.

I actually liked 18, but found the songs personally polarizing - I either loved them or rather disliked them (to be kind). Not a lot of middle ground on that one for me. In my opinion, Hotel is better than 18, but still nowhere near Play. The songs seem to fit together better than on 18, but be warned, if you don't like Moby's vocals, and not many seem to, then you are in for an unplesant listening experience. His vocals abound from beginning to end; from "Raining Again", to "Lift Me Up", to "Where You End", to "Slipping Away", to most of the others. I actually really liked his voice on a few of the tracks such as "Lift Me Up" and "Where You End", they seemed to lend a warm, imperfect, organic quality to the music. On other songs, however, I found myself wondering how much better the song might sound with a trained vocalist. That's not a good thing. When I did encounter a song with a professional vocalist, such as on "Dream About Me", I breathed a sigh of relief...until Moby's voice kicked in on that one as well. Luckily, a couple tracks, such as the throbbing, uplifting "Very", appear to be completely Moby-vocal free.

While Moby's vocals were often disconcerting and disappointing, the music itself was great and generally made up for any lyrical or vocal floundering. I for some reason rather liked this album, but suspect that a lot of people may not enjoy it as much. Give this one a thorough sampling before you purchase it. If Moby's voice doesn't make you stab your ears out, you're golden.

I've been following Moby's work ever since he did his album 'Play.' The song that got me interested in Moby was 'Natural Blues'--one of the best songs ever by Moby! Once I bought 'Play' then I was convinced that Moby was truly one of a kind in his beautiful melodies and simplistic lyrics. Then I bought his album '18' and really enjoyed it, but when I recently heard samples of his album 'Hotel' I thought it was way off the sound that I was used to hearing from Moby. I'm sorry but this album was terrible...although I did enjoy a couple of his tracks--'Forever' and 'Love Should.' These tracks were beautiful...but I just did not feel that this was Moby's greatest work.

There was a limited edition of Hotel released. A 2CD set that had a bunch of bad pop-rock music on CD1 and some soothing, evocative ambient music on CD2. If you can find that 2CD set, good, buy it. Otherwise beware of pathetic, pandering pop music that's more awful than U2 or Coldplay at their worst. The lyrics are uninspired and pleading, the melodies are trite. I felt like I wanted to throw the damn thing away as soon as I heard it!

Hotel Ambient is another matter, it's very much Moby doing what he does best. Those Ambient tracks are not the best he's ever done in the genre but they add to his catalogue, not make you hate him like the asinine pop-rock drivel he produces.

I loved 'Play' by Moby; The samples, the techno/ambient sound, everything! I gave that album 5 stars.

'Hotel' is soothing ambient electronica but features no samples, and more of Moby's vocals. I didn't like it much apart from a few songs the first time I played it. Some songs have a rockier feel; 'Rain again', 'Beautiful', the anthemic throbbing 'Lift me up, and the midtempo cryptic sounding 'Spiders'.

'Where you end' vaguely reminds me of Pet shop boys, upbeat and melancholic at the same time.

The soothing 'I like it' features female vocals alongside Moby's. 'Love should' is a lovely piano ballad. Closing track is the ambient instrumental '35 minutes'.

Hardcore fans of 'Play' and Moby's earlier stuff might not like this but still, a great suite of songs when taken together. Grows on you.

Review by MARK TEPPO at igloomag.com
(03.23.05) Shortly after 18 was released, I seem to remember an interview with Moby where he laid the blame for depressed sales of that record on the shoulders of the peer-to-peer file networks. "Kids," he claimed, "are trading my record instead of purchasing it." I didn't buy the argument because every CD store I visited (and I visit a lot of them, music whore that I am) had four to six USED copies of 18 in their bins. No, Moby, the kids weren't stealing your record; they just weren't buying it because they thought it was terrible.

I'm reminded of this as I listen to Hotel, Moby's latest bid for rawk star status. I must have missed the announcement where Moby came clean with his desire to be a pop star; it's the only rationale I can find to explain why Hotel is a continuation of everything that went wrong with 18. Gone are all the sumptuous textures and orchestral flourishes that propelled the little idiot (and, no, I'm not being an pretentious ass with the name calling, check his publishing credits) into superstardom in the first place. Maybe he never wanted to be remembered as the guy who imported the symphony and the blues singer into the laptop and fused it all together with a drum machine and a series of DSP patches. Maybe Moby just wants to rock out; maybe he just wants to bring the lights down for an intimate power ballad for a stadium full of his newest best friends.

Maybe. If that is the case, he's certainly picked a tepid way to go about it. While a few of the tracks on Hotel have a bit of a hook ("Raining Again" and "Lift Me Up" for example, though even these seem like Moby's only fishing for minnows with the shallow hooks he's using), the majority of the tunes are pale narcissistic pop songs that will be relegated to incidental music for Deepak Chopra seminars and elevator musak for tired urban hotels struggling to stay hip.

That said, Hotel: Ambient is gorgeous. Packaged with Hotel as part of a limited initial release, this companion CD is an ambient retread of the record. His explanation in the liner notes for the title of the record says, "I don't feel like making music that is airless and lifeless because I also really like people and the messy miasma of the human condition and I want to make messy, human records that are open and emotional." Maybe it says more about me than him that I find Hotel: Ambient to more evocative of the human emotional experience than the trite lyrical content and shallow pop constructs of Hotel, but Hotel: Ambient glistens with charm and innocence, a seductive lure of slow tones and fathomless textures that is far more than just aural wallpaper. This is incidental music filled with longing and heartbreak, loneliness and hopefulness. This is the womb of your hotel room: the space that enfolds you, that holds you tight when you are separated from the ones you love, that tries to alleviate your need for home with its tiny amenities and spartan intimacy. Hotel: Ambient understands how alone you can feel in a numbered room high above the world, and just wants to hold you tight.

If you like what Moby did with Voodoo Child's The End of Everything (and even the ambient bits of Play), then Hotel: Ambient will make you happy. It is just disappointing that you have to put up with Hotel to get to it.

The main problem I find with HOTEL is that it doesn't have any stand out tracks (on the main album) such as his previous back library, like God Moving Over the Face of the Waters, Hymn, or, Porcelain for example. These tracks makes Moby not only a gifted musician - but also a diverse creator of emotionally complexity as well - especially when used in conjunction with other sources (see the finale to the movie HEAT for example).

HOTEL feels very much like Moby is simply going through the motions - and the quality packaging cannot hide the actual content. Glimmers of greatness do trickle through here and there however - such as Dream About Me (my favourite track on the album - after listening to this song on the radio, I bought this album), Lift Me Up and Raining Again. The rest are not filler material, but they seem to lack the strength, production and versatility of his previous albums PLAY, and even 18.

The second CD has its moments, track 4 stands out above the rest. But, since it is ambient, which I find hit-or-miss anyway (sometimes it can create chilling moods and relaxing emotions, but sometimes it just sounds repetitive), I guess if you like ambient music, you will probably love the second CD (maybe even more than the `main event' - CD 1).

Flawed Moby is still good music. He is a man who knows his craft well, and even though his music generally is love-it or hate-it, I feel HOTEL could have been a lot better. Maybe the success (both commercially, and critically) of PLAY, and to a lesser extent, 18, have set up an inevitable anti-climax.

Give it a try anyway - or listen to the samples first.

A few of the tracks on this CD are great - especially tracks 1 and 13. Tracks 4 and 6 are also good and Track 14 is OK. But as for the other tracks on here I don't think to highly on, because I feel they are out of his element of music.

I have heard better from Moby - such as a few of the tracks from previous Moby records - such as Play, Play The B-Sides, 18 and MobySongs.

But I think highly of him as a great musical manipulizer, knowing presciselly which musicial keys to use in order to bring out the full feeling of his music.

His techno, ambient and instumental music is some of the best music of its kind I know and to think he traded his fantasic techno and ambient music for some other kind of music makes me wonder what the future holds for any upcoming records he may create.

Either way, he is a great musician and anything that Moby does is known to bridge the borders now and then, because that is Moby.

Keep on rocking Moby!

this guy freaks me out

This is my fav moby album. I read an article in entertainment mag that said the album was horrible. They said it sounded like one of rem's latest albums. So i bought it because of that review.I have to say thankyou to ent mag cause this album is awesome. The song beautiful is beautiful I love it.

... But Amazon.com has AGAIN chosen to mislabel a copy-controlled "CD" (Philips and Apple have declared that "copy-controlled" discs are NOT CDs, either in a technical or a legal sense and therefore cannot be labelled as Compact Disc Digital Audio; check for yourselves). Anyway, it's one more great release by Moby, who has proven time and again that he's the master of both understanding - as if by some uncany magic skill - what the listener NEEDS to hear and how to keep the listener's interest. The arrangements are very interesting (I particularly loved the slide guitar on "Raining Again"), the songs well thought-out... It's what Mike Oldfield could have been now IF he had finally learned to avoid those horrid-sounding digital distortion boxes for his guitars and IF he still could stay on the cutting edge.

Moby is a true successor to the throne of Mike Oldfield, The Art Of Noise and other such great ambient acts. And he can rock out too!

Now, let me explain the "1 star" rating. PLEASE, all you accountants, ditch this "copy protection" stuff. All you do is pay - without any reason whatsoever - tons of money to Macrovision, annoy thousands of consumers who simply cannot play the discs they bought, because the transports of so many CD and DVD players today (and especially car CD players) will NOT (and don't have to, anyway) recognize this unauthorized "variation" of the CD Digital Audio format... So, they often go out looking for equipment that will tolerate this useless gimmick or just rip the discs and copy them, as Macrovision's "copy protection" (which was developed with the blessings of IFPI) DOES NOT prevent the ripping of the "protected" discs! Why bother then?

And, please, Amazon.com guys, when you see the "Copy Control" sign, label it accordingly - it's NOT ENHANCED, it's "COPY CONTROLLED" (or, better yet, "playback controlled").

A few cool songs but the truth is you shouldnt buy this album its a waste of money!

I am thinking to self > drinking all day, almost run over old lady on street. Maybe I find something mellow to calm the nerves

I see Telly Savalas on CD. WOW! Kojak busts a hard co' beat. I buy it and take home. Stop drinking for an hour to listen.

Oh my Adolf! I can not even think to myself "what the hell is this?" I look again at CD. NOT Kojak, oh no! Some guy named for whale is making electro-waves in my head!

I get up to destroy CD player but can't make it across room. Suddenly my legs starts moving and I am dancing to crazy guy with Captain Picard look playing xylophone with stale twinkies!

Finally wheat beer Hefeweisen wears off and time to sleep. Moby is now quiet, because my shoe went through speaker and ruined 4000 $ stereo.

Buy this CD if and only if --- you can find no other way to torture your neighbors who are too old to handle phunk-transe-ssycho-electro in their walls.

'Hotel' is a solid release from the very talented Moby, but it's certainly not his best work (I highly recommend 'Play' for its inventiveness). It is a consistent album that's always listenable, and although there are a few standout tracks, it never reaches greatness as a whole. The best part of the album is the second half, with such standouts like 'Love Should', 'Slipping Away', and 'Where You End'. The best song on the album for me is 'Raining Again', a great techno song that has some very clever lyrics: 'it's raining again, out on your car like bullets on tin'. 'Hotel' is predictable Moby, but it's quite an enjoyable experience for fans who know what to expect from this gifted artist.

So I was at tower records the other day, picking up some CDs I was looking for, when I spotted Moby's Hotel. I shrugged and decided to throw it in the pile.

The first disk was OK. Some good tunes, interesting variety, generally solid. I'd give it 3 stars, not great, not bad. Then I remembered I got a bonus disk of ambient music, which I've always loved, so I popped it in.

Turns out Moby can still write ambience, and he's as good at is as ever. I sat there for a while enjoying the tranquil sounds, uninterrupted bu human voices, guitar solos, loud drums, or anything rock-like, which is where the first disk turned. What a pleasant surprise.

It seems, after reading the short paragraph in the disk sleeve, that Hotel Ambience is what the first disk should have been. More peaceful, less human, more descriptive of the strange living place that Hotels provide.

I reccomend this for Disk 2. Disk 1 is a nice bonus.

Moby knows his music is junk. He just wanted to create another crappy album as an excuse to put the back of his flaky baldhead on the front of an album cover.

I loved "Play", I liked "18"... But "Hotel" really just didn't do it for me. Nothing on this album really stands out. He would have been better off making a lot shorter album with better quality music. This cd is worth owning if you are already a fan of Mobys. It definately sounds like moby.. I was just disappointed to see that he doesn't seem to be growing with each album. Most of it was pretty generic. If this is your first Moby purchase, I'd recommend you go with Play or 18 for a better experience.

When Moby scored success with his album Play six years or so ago, he did prove that when it comes to making danceable tracks, age ain't nothin' but a number. I never got around to picking up his next album, 18, but I decided to get my hands on his most recent outing, the double-disc Hotel. There are a lot of mixed reviews for this album, but I'd like to say that it's pretty decent -- well, the first disc, anyway (more on that later).

First off, if you're expecting funky tracks like "Bodyrock" and "South Side", you may not like this album. It's clear here that Moby is maturing with his sound and music (which may or may not have to do with the fact that he's about to turn 40), and he still impresses with selections like "Raining Again" and "Spiders". And guest vocalist Laura Dawn also helps things along, as evidenced by "Temptation" and especially "I Like It". But the hidden track doesn't help or hurt matters.

The second disc is all instrumental songs. Several reviewers complain that these songs are boring, and I'm sorry; I have to agree. The only song that really stands out on this disc is the piano-driven "Blue Paper". But even with that song, the disc sounds like one long single. This is especially true with the unnecessary extended version of "Homeward Angel" (the song is almost 11 minutes long; come on). And not to sound too cruel, but this disc is so dull that it would put Enya to sleep.

In fact, Disc 2 is the reason why I almost gave the album 3 stars instead of 3-1/2. All in all though, if you've enjoyed Moby up to this point, then you should still consider checking into this hotel.

Anthony Rupert

I got to know Moby with "Play" around 1999 and I was seriously impressed since I have always liked techno and keyboard synth music. To my surprise, several tracks contained in this album were included in some episodes of my favorite series, the X Files, so I was pleasantly surprised. Then with 18 he managed to produce that especial sound that he only can make once more. Now Moby comes with Hotel, and he is once again, great. The album comes with 2 CD's. The first CD is the album per se. There are great "Moby" tracks here like "Dream about me", and "Forever" and some more dance-like tracks like "Lift Me Up", "Very" and "Raining Again", this last one has been remixed. Look for Steve Angello's Mix of Moby's Raining Again if you like good dance music. Other great tracks in this album are the short but hypnotical opening track "Hotel Intro" which sets the mood for what is coming up and "Homeward Angel" which you can find in the other CD on a longer version.

The second CD which lots of people say it is bad, well it is simply great. It is the kind of CD you want to listen to just on your own looking at the sky while lying down. It is pure ambient music, so if you are looking for something else, simply forget it. It is music to have on the background to think (or meditate). Full of Moby's magic and amazing keyboards compositions, aerial music would be a good term to define these songs. Summarizing, if you are a Moby fan like me whose favorites album are play, and 18 you will love this one. And don't forget to get the 2-CD edition. ENJOY!

Oh wow, I was really expecting more than what I got. I heard "Beautiful" on the radio and was very impressed with the sound and feel of the song. I popped the cd in and was hit with a feeling like I should be on a yoga mat finding my inner self. That's what I expected but I already had a cd like that.

I was bored with this cd and I would suggest that you don't waste your money.

Moby's latest effort removes him entirely from his former identity of "U.S. leading electronic producer", and affirms the Popularity he's been gaining since "Play". This record sounds very much like it was written by a rock star in search of hit singles. "Lift Me Up" and "Spiders" are good examples...they feature some dance beats and blips, but are overwhelmingly in the vein of "We are all made of stars": big choruses, power guitar, vaguely Bowie-esque vocals. And the slide blues of "Beautiful" is worlds away from anything in his back catalog, because it's simply a guitar driven pop song, not electronic dance music. Not that there's anything wrong with Moby evolving toward a more popular and well-selling genre (case in point: people know "Bodyrock" and "South Side" because of marketing and super-exposure, but ask them if they know "Next is the E" from 1992, and they'll have no clue it was made by the same guy!) So, Moby wants to make a more straightforward, calm record. That's fine. But here it's so calm it sounds like the sketches of incomplete songs. "Temptation" is way downtempo from its New Order original, stripped of beats, keyboards, and in general, emotion. "Love Should" and "Slipping Away" also suffer from being by the numbers synth-pop. When Moby does increase the BPM, as on "Very", there are vestiges of what he did so well on "Everything is Wrong" and parts of "Play"...integrate diva vocals with great beats. But after the huge hit of Play, and the ret-Play that was "18", "Hotel" sounds like Moby's determined to sound different from his past. Unfortunately, the songs al start to sound the same.

I knew there'd be negative reviews on this album because it's quite a big change from Moby's previous works (at least those which I am most familiar with). It seems common for long-time followers to express their distaste for an artist's 'experimental' phases on Amazon. However, I think he's still being true to his roots on this one, he's just turning into a new direction. This can be a risk for some artists as they struggle to work in new territory but I think Moby has settled
onto his new ground quite comfortably. The new sound he has developed is both refreshingly new and modern and ties in with his overall body of work quite smoothly. It still incorporates the same elements as his previous achievements. The music is very melancholy, jazzy and sophisticated. Lush, catchy melodies mixed with simple soft-spoken lyrics, a softcore pop and folk rock influence with spiritual and sentimental undertones. I am not a particularly big fan of Moby. I appreciate his work but I wouldn't ordinarily rush out to buy his CDs. What influenced my decision to buy 'Hotel' was being rather impressed by the singles I've heard released from it and also seeing him speak about the intriguing concept behind this new album on TV which I could relate to personally. I was not disappointed by this purchase in the slightest way. In fact; it has turned out to be surprisingly better than I'd initially expected with the contrasting worlds of new-age ambience and luke-warm rock skillfully blended together to offer something that sounds like a whole new style of music all together. This is something an artist would need a lot of knowledge, talent and heartfelt dedication to pull of this well.

This was only a mediocre album for me. I doubt I'll listen to it much in the future. Oh well.

Moby's new album "Hotel" is a wonderful collection of musical sounds, personal thoughts, and intimate emotions. I found this album to be quite different from his past two albums in the way Moby mixes serious feelings with an upbeat sound. Moby also uses a female vocalist to reflect an intimate side of himself. I would higly recommend this album to old and new fans alike!

I've known about Moby for quite some time, but I never was compelled strongly enough to get one of his albums. Yet when I heard his music video on Vh1 for awhile and I loved the song Beautiful. The music video was a bit strange, but the song was good. I could not get the song out of my head and finally I saw the album and decided 'why not?' I've liked a lot of Moby's songs in the past, why not get one album of his? My assumption was not wrong. This album is very good, a true four star album, which is a very good rating for me, most c.d.s get this rating for me and it's a good thing for they are c.d.s I play a lot of the time. There are a few songs on here I love, and others are just nice to hear. I cannot say I hate one song on here, they're all with good sound. I love Moby's sound and even his voice. He isn't no Josh Groban, but he proves that you don't need a voice that can break glass to make good music. He instead makes music where the background music is more stand- out than the voice itself. Most singers have their voices in front of the background, but Moby instead makes it a bit more different and makes the background the true stand- out on his album, while his voice is a hauntingly deep sound in the background, and that does not sound at all too bad. It's different and I at times embrace difference, as long as it's done right and it's obvious Moby knows what he's doing. On some of the songs there is a female voice, which is soft and plesant to hear, but I actually prefer Moby's voice over hers. Moby's voice is just the right combination with his music.
Anyway, I think his second disc where it is just all sound is good to have, unlike what other reviewers say. It is relaxing and creative. I like to hear it when I just want to unwind. Like I said, Moby knows what he's doing. This c.d. invites you in Moby's own hotel and makes you smile and sets your toe tapping.

Best songs on his first disc- Raining Again, Beautiful, Lift Me Up, Where You End, Spiders, and Love Should are great songs sung by Moby. The female singer holds a good song or two on here as well like Temptation and Very. Dream About Me is one they sing together and it's a good combination to me. Homeward Angel is very nice to hear. Honestly though all the songs are good. The only song I think is a tad weak on here is I Like It. The rest though I find it so hard to press skip on.

Overall this c.d. is great and I think if you're just getting hooked on Moby like I am starting to, this is a great album to start on. No song is filler, and the second c.d. shows a lot of Moby's talent non- verbally. I highly recommend this c.d.- enjoy!