Moby ‘Best Of’ - Interview

Q19: When you were making "Play", did you have any inkling you were making something with the potential to be a huge success, commercially?

MOBY: When I was making "Play", I was convinced that my career was over, because the album before "Play" had been "Animal Rights" and "Animal Rights" was critically and commercially a disaster. Of course, it's my favourite of all the records I've made, so when I was making "Play", I thought I was making a very strange obscure record that no-one would every pay attention to.

I thought maybe if it sold 100 000 copies worldwide, that would be a great success, so my expectations were really, really low and the truth is when "Play" was first released, it got terrible reviews and no-one really liked it and it didn't sell well. It was only through constant touring and a slow spread via word of mouth that it actually ended up being successful. I mean, some of the reviews when it was first released, I remember the Los Angeles Times, who ended up championing the record, the first review they wrote of it said, "There's a song on "Play" called "Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?" and the answer is, 'Because I just had to listen to this terrible record!'" So…
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