There are few people in the world who do not know the name of the American DJ Moby. This talented individual is known for iconic singles such as "Porcelain", "Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?", "Extreme Ways" and "A$AP Forever". He also wrote music for a studio album and wrote soundtracks for cult cinematic works.
Childhood and youth
Richard Melville Hall (real name of the musician) was born in the USA, in the city of New York. However, Moby spent his childhood and youth in Darien, which is located in Connecticut.
It is noteworthy that Moby's parents are uncreative people. His mother is a medical doctor, and the head of the family, James, was a professor of chemistry. Do not exclude such an option that Moby's great ancestor was American writer Herman Melville, who delighted bookstore regulars with Moby Dick. Actually, that's why the musician got such a pseudonym.
When Richard was two years old, his dad died in a car accident, so the boy never learned what fatherly care and love are. The future performer of popular songs grew up and was brought up by his mother, who was a fairly progressive woman. After the death of her husband, the widow moved with her son to Denbury: an incomplete family settled in a house, which is located near the city prison.
Life in Denbury did not suit Elizabeth, especially since she did not want the boy to “admire” the views high walls places of detention. So two years after the housewarming, the woman went with Moby to Darien and settled in the big house of her mother and father; there young Moby went to school.
From the biography of Richard it is known that he was lucky with his mother, because she was progressive and modern woman, encouraging the creative impulses of the son. Elizabeth tried to instill in Moby a love of music: the boy enjoyed learning to play the guitar and piano. By the way, passion string instrument played a decisive role in the life of Moby, because he defined his goal and began to participate in various punk bands. The young man was a member of such groups as Vatican Commandos, Ultra Vivid Scene, etc.
Music
Richard had no doubt that he would connect his life with music forever. In the eighties, the young man moved to his homeland, to the city of opportunity New York. There, Melville began to learn the basics of new musical genres: the guy began to move away from the heavy sound in the punk genre and began to study electronic music created by disc jockeys in Chicago.
Moby became so interested in "house" that in the late 1980s the musician began performing in nightclubs and delighting the dancing crowd with new tracks. It is worth noting that Richard's first live solo performance was witnessed by his manager, Eric Hurl, who noted:
“The music was amazing, but the show was riddled with technical failures. It intrigued me a lot and impressed me in a strange way.”
In 1990-1991, Moby released his debut singles with the support of the Instinct label. It is noteworthy that a single called "Go", released in 1991, hit the top of the British charts. Perhaps this success was facilitated by samples from the then-famous detective series, which tells about the mysterious murder of a high school student.
Moby's song "Go"Of course, Moby clearly declared himself. Therefore, in the future he was waiting for cooperation with popular performers and musical groups, including Brian Eno, Erasure, The B-52s and Orbital.
The first collection of songs by Richard Melville appeared in music shops already in 1992, and his single "I Feel It / Thousand", released a year later, immediately got into the Guinness Book of Records. Therefore, the contract with the famous label Mute Records was not a surprise, but rather a seminal event.
Moby's song "I Feel It"In 1995, Moby pleased music lovers with an album called "Everything Is Wrong", where he declared himself as an original songwriter: Richard experimented, mixing different genres in one bottle, and, it would seem, the DJ tried to combine opposite things: electronics, pop music, rock and punk. Also on the disc, music lovers heard the sound of pseudo-industrial thrash, ambient trance, breakbeat and other styles. Not surprisingly, the popular magazine "Spin" awarded the collection "Everything Is Wrong" the title of album of the year.
Moby released his next album already in 1996, giving it the non-trivial name "Animal Rights". This time the fans enjoyed a musical triptych, which consisted of a mix of speedcore, punk and instrumental. Moby also rewarded some songs with his own vocals and favorite guitar sound. Despite the fact that, according to Melville, this album was the apogee of his work, sales showed the opposite. The collection did not gain popularity among the fans of the artist.
Against this background, the musician developed depression, which almost turned into a creative crisis. Also, Moby's life is overshadowed by another tragic event: his mother died of lung cancer.
Nevertheless, Moby did not give up, but continued to work hard: in 1997, Richard takes the stage name Voodoo Child and releases his third album, The End Of Everything, as well as a collection of remixes and soundtracks for films, I Like To Score". Fortunately, the third record of the songwriter was well sold out, thanks to which he set to work with renewed vigor.
Moby's song "Porcelain"In 1999, the singer and musician breaks his laurels: his album called "Play" became almost the bestseller. The disc combines blues, gospel, techno and other genres. Critics call "Play" the first album that was successful with the general public. By the way, in this work, Moby also shared his views on life with fans. Inside the disc was a booklet on which Melville's essays were printed, telling about his views on vegetarianism, humanism and other things.
In total, there are 15 albums in Moby's discography, which are strikingly different from each other. Moby continues to delight the audience with experiments in music, for example, on the disc "Last Night", which was released in 2008, the sound of the nineties is clearly heard.
In 2009, a studio disc called “Wait for Me” was released, and the video for the song “Shot in the Back of the Head” was shot by himself, who presented the Twin Peaks series to the moviegoers. Also on Richard's track record are the albums Innocents (2013), These Systems Are Failing (2016), More Fast Songs About the Apocalypse (2017) and others.
Personal life
Moby is a versatile person, so his interlocutors appreciate him. In addition to writing songs, the man also participates in cinematic work, for example, he can be seen in the role of a cameo in the films Joe's Apartment (1996), Studio 30 (2009), The Mindy Project (2012), etc.
It is known from Richard's personal life that he is a vegetarian: the songwriter gave up animal products in the 1980s. Among other things, Moby is a philanthropist and Christian, but the musician does not identify himself with any religious denomination. As for politics, the singer is an adherent of the Democratic Party. In 2012, Moby voted for.
It is known from Melville's personal life that he never married and had no children, and his fleeting novels are hidden from the eyes of fans. However, news was leaked to the media that at one time Moby met with, but the couple broke up on the basis of jealousy. The girl admitted that they maintained friendly relations.
Moby now
Moby lives in Los Angeles and runs his own restaurant TeaNY. Released in 2018 new album musician called "Everything Was Beautiful, and Nothing Hur".
The musician continues to release new videos and give concerts in major cities, and also pleases fans with photos in "Instagram".
Discography
- 1992 - Moby
- 1993 – Ambient
- 1995 - Everything Is Wrong
- 1996 - Animal Rights
- 1999 - Play
- 2002 – 18
- 2005 – Hotel
- 2008 - Last Night
- 2009 - Wait for Me
- 2011 - Destroyed
- 2013 – Innocents
- 2016 - Long Ambient 1: Calm. Sleep.
- 2016 – These Systems Are Failing
- 2017 – More Fast Songs About the Apocalypse
- 2018 – Everything Was Beautiful, and Nothing Hurt
Richard Hall(Richard Melville Hall), known around the world under the pseudonym Moby, was born in September 1965 and grew up in the town of Darien, Connecticut. When the boy was two years old, his father died in a car accident and he stayed with his mother. She named her son Moby, after the work "Moby Dick" by their distant relative Herman Melville Hall.
In his youth, he was the guitarist of the most different groups, for example, performed hard rock and punk in The Vatican Commandos. There were drugs, alcohol and sleepless nights in his life.
– The only tattoo I have is a cross that I got in Dallas by an artist named Luj, who was over 7 feet tall, something like three meters! I have several scars that I have earned during my performances. Do you know this group Black Flag? So, during their concert in 1982, I performed with them and jumped off the stage into the crowd ... And no one caught me!
Moby's creative path
The musician left for New York in the late 1980s and began performing at the console in city nightclubs, exploring the world. electronic music.
In 1991, his single "Go" hit the Top 10 of the English charts, and Moby began to release remixes of hits. famous artists. He presented his first album Moby in 1992, loudly declaring himself as a master of mixing musical styles. In the same year, Richard acted as a composer for the comedy cartoon "Parallel World" ("Cool World").
His composition "I Feel It / Thousand" got into the Guinness Book of Records as the fastest track in history.
Four years later, his second album, Animal Rights, was released, but it was not very successful - on top of that, the musician's mother was dying of lung cancer. All this suddenly fell on Moby's shoulders, but in the spring of 1999 he had the strength to record the third disc "Play", which made a splash in the world of electronic music.
The album has sold over ten million copies, has been nominated for three Grammy awards in a row, and won other music awards.
In 2005, the artist again blew up the scene with the hit "Lift me up", which sounded from speakers in clubs around the world. Moby included this composition in his disc "Hotel" at the very last moment, the reason was a dream that the DJ had on the eve of the release.
In 2008, Moby created the MobyGratis project. Thanks to this, any director of an independent film could make the composition of the musician his soundtrack.
In 2009, his next studio album, Wait for Me, was released, and a year later, Moby announced that he was working on a new record, Destroyed:
- This disc will have a lot more acoustics and less electronic music than all my past tracks. It's very melodic and atmospheric. I would call it music for the deserted streets of big cities in the predawn hour, when hard workers have their last dream, and clubgoers go home.
Moby's personal life
Until June 2009, the musician was a co-owner of a small restaurant in New York. He is a vegetarian and an animal rights activist.
What is the most important thing in this life? I painfully choose between honesty, humility, search, dogs, swimming, forgiveness, the piano... Perhaps the most important thing in life is to treat people well. As the saying goes old proverb: "It's good to be important, but it's more important to be good." In general, I'm happy. And I have very, very many goals - to find a way to travel through time and space and live as long as I want. Swim and play with dogs as much as possible. Better understand the world. Making music even better. And I would die to see a whale in the ocean, the northern lights, a tornado, the earth from outer space. And also fall asleep next to the person I truly love.
Moby discography
- Destroyed, 2011
- Wait for Me, 2009
- Last night, 2008
- Hotel, 2005
- 18, 2002
- Play, 1999
- Animal Rights, 1996
- The End of Everything, 1996
- Everything Is Wrong 1995
- Ambient, 1993
- Early Underground 1993
- Moby, 1992
- Filmography of Moby
- In the woods / In the Woods (2011)
- Sip / Suck (2009), Beef
- Your Mommy Kills Animals / Your Mommy Kills Animals (2007)
- Manufacturing Dissent (2007)
- Joe's Apartment (1996)
He plays keyboards, guitar, bass and drums. AT early years played in the hardcore punk band The Vatican Commandos, but in 1989 changed punk to electronic music. Moby's first album was released in 1992 (Moby), which contained 12 techno songs. This album was later re-released under a different title (The Story So Far).
Moby's famous songs include "Go", "Porcelain", "Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?", "Natural Blues", "Lift Me Up". He has also released albums under the pseudonyms Voodoo Child, Schaumgummi, Barracuda, UHF, The Brotherhood, DJ Cake, Lopez and Brainstorm/Mindstorm.
Biography
Richard was born in New York but grew up in Darien, Connecticut. When he was two years old, his father died in a car accident and later the boy was brought up by his mother, a rather progressive woman who encouraged her son's creative inclinations. At the age of nine, little Moby starts taking piano and guitar lessons. Richard got the nickname "Moby" because he was a distant relative of Herman Melville, the author of "Moby Dick". As a teenager, he played guitar in various bands, from the punk band The Vatican Commandos to the anarchist band Flipper and with the well-known band ULTRA VIVID SCENE.
In the late 1980s Richard moved to New York - one of the centers of the emerging house culture - and began to master the DJ craft in local clubs, as well as create his own electronic material. In 1990-91 he released several debut singles on the independent label Instinct.
In 1991, the single Go with samples from the famous television series Twin Peaks hit the British Top 10 and sold over one million copies. After the first high-profile success, Moby remixed the work of a number of famous and unknown bands and musicians, including Michael Jackson, Pet Shop Boys, Brian Eno, Depeche Mode, Erasure, B-52 "s and Orbital.
Richard's first full-length album appeared in 1992. The following year, he released the single "I Feel It / Thousand", which enters the Guinness Book of Records as the fastest track in the history of music and signed a contract with Mute Records, where his next release "Ambient" was released. , in which materials were collected for 1988-91. On the disc "Everything Is Wrong" (1995), Richard declared himself as really original master, who created a unique hybrid of various styles and directions of music, from breakbeat to pseudo-industrial thrash, ambient trance and dance-pop. The popular music magazine Spin awards this album the title of "Album of the Year".
The next album, Animal Rights (1996), was a triptych of industrial punk, speedcore, and heartbreaking instrumentals. Imagine something between Nine Inch Nails and Smashing Pumpkins, you can understand what "Animal Rights" is with its pseudo-industrial guitars, ambient textures hidden far in the background, and subtle, specific vocals of Moby himself. The author himself is proud of the work done, but the album is sold very poorly. Against this background, Richard develops depression. In addition to all this, his mother dies of lung cancer. In 1997, under the pseudonym Voodoo Child, Moby released The End Of Everything, as well as I Like To Score, in which Moby collects remixes of his own songs that he wrote and used as movie soundtracks. Luckily, this album outperforms Animal Rights, giving the musician strength to write his next album.
The next album "Play" (May 1999) brought great success to the musician. At its core, this is a rather slow work, combining downtempo beats and perfectly worked out melody. The first two tracks of the album "Honey" and "Find My Baby" are made very cleverly and not without mockery. Here, Moby combined short gospel and blues vocal samples with breakbeat techno, which makes these compositions comparable to the work of Fatboy Slim and the Chemical Brothers of the late 1990s. «Bodyrock» is another breakbeat anthem, but already flavored with good old school rap instead of blues. The thin piano line and ragged violin samples on "Porcelain" sound meaningful enough, and "South Side", the album's pop track, integrates vocals that can't be heard properly without a transcendent chorus to completely transform it.
I was born on September 11, 1965 in Harlem, New York. At birth, he received the name Richard Melville Hall, and the nickname " Moby"Received in honor of his ancestor Herman Melville. He lived on the basement floor in New York with his parents: James Hall and Elizabeth Hall, three domestic rats, a dog named Jamie and a cat.
1967: James Hall dies in a car accident.
1967: I move to Danbury, Connecticut with my mother, Elizabeth Hall, to a strange house near the city jail.
1968: Loved CCR's "Proud Mary" a lot. Refused to leave the car when he heard this piece on the radio.
Summer 1969: Trip to San Francisco for Summer of Love. Blurry memories of meeting John Wayne.
Fall 1969: Moving to Darien, Connecticut for a big Vacation home grandparents: Myrona Warnenra and Jeannette McBride Warner. From 1970 to 1975 he attended the Royle Grammar School. strange fact: Haven't seen Robert Downey Jr.'s best friend since.
1975: Richard moves to a hippie hunting lodge in Stratford, Connecticut.
1977: Return to Darien, Connecticut.
1978: Starts taking guitar lessons from girlfriend James Taylor.
1978: Learned to play the first song "Crocodile Rock". Disappointed that the young "teacher" has no romantic feelings for him.
1979: Forms the first band to perform two songs: "Money" Pink Floyd and "Birthday" Beatles.
1980: First punk band called "The Banned", then another "Uxb", and another "DD" and finally "Vatican Commandoes". Begins to imitate the Clash and the Sex Pistols. the first own compositions in the style of punk rock: "Housewives on Valium" and "Wonder Bread".
1982: Founds the AWOL group.
1983: Release of the first "Hit Squad for God" record with Vatican Commandos.
1983: Purchase of the first 4-cassette recorder. According to Moby he was Brown color. He installed it in the basement of his mother's house and then realized that he could record his own songs and not depend on other musicians.
1984: release of the second single "AWOL" by AWOL. And also graduating from high school and entering the university in Connecticut, which did not last even a year.
1984: first DJing experience: playing in a New York club from 3 to 5 in the morning, when everyone was drunk and asleep! Great experience for me. Ah, those memories… I lived in Darien until the middle of 1985. In 1986 he moved to Greenwich, Connecticut. By the way, he lived next door to George Bush's mother. Very strange. I lived in the woods in a trailer on wheels, which a friend kindly provided me. Then Connecticut in 1988, lived on the floor of an abandoned factory, with no amenities at all.
It was illegal, but I liked it that way. In my "house" cockroaches reached the size of a chihuahua. I could hear them running around. Disgusting. But I kind of liked it. In 1987 I started sending demo versions of my creations to a recording studio in NYC. 2 years of continuous failures.
1989: NYC finally showed some interest in Instinct Records. That same year, I move to New York, to a dirty and dark apartment on 14th Street across from a Mexican restaurant and a 24-hour sex shop. New York has definitely changed me. The release of my first single "Time" s Up ", sales reached as many as 8 copies! at this time I was moonlighting as a DJ in clubs: Mars, Palladium, MK, Palace de Beaute, etc. My first electronic performance took place in the summer of 1990 in MK.
1990. I'm in a suit. I'm very nervous. My second electronic show at the Palladium in the fall of 1990, 5000 people. Everything went fine, but the nerve cells were irretrievably lost. Sold over 2,000 copies of singles. Honestly, I was shocked. I thought they would buy a maximum of 100 records. The release of the third single "Voodoo Child" took place in the winter of 1991, sold 4,000 copies. Life began to improve. The fourth release of the single "Go" - spring 1991. Hoped to sell 4000 copies.
Sales reached one million! I even got on the pages of Rolling Stone as the creator of the best single of our time. Just imagine how surprised I was. Crazy times were starting, the rave was on the rise. At this time, I managed to travel around Europe ..
1992: First American tour, missed home, was away for 6 long weeks.
1992: He terminated his contract with Instinct and signed with Elektra records and Mute Records. In 1993 I'm going on tour in America with The Prodigy and Richie Hawtin. Much more fun than the first time.
1993: release of the single "Move", which becomes the third among 40 best songs Great Britain. unexpected success for a kid from Connecticut.
1994: Third American tour with Orbital and Aphex Twin. Yes, the tour turned out to be rather sad. Everyone hated me. It's sad because I loved them. Oh yes, what am I talking about?
1995: My first full album "Everything is Wrong" finally came out and won Album of the Year by Spin. this year I also toured with Lollapalooza and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, by the way, according to the same Spin, the single "Everytime You Touch Me" was recognized as the best single in 1995. It was a great year, and then ... then everything is dark ...
1996: I began to suffer from acute attacks of panic disorder, worked on "Animal Rights"; I really liked it, but it looks like it's just me. After the relative success of 'Everything is Wrong', the criticism and low sales of 'Animal Rights' hit me - all this makes me depressed. But I still really like this album, thanks to the record companies for letting me record it. Among other things, my mother is given a terrible diagnosis, and she suddenly dies of lung cancer.
1997: Stopped touring and started writing film scores, remember the James Bond single? No. 8 on the UK Top 40 chart. Some relief from the fiasco of a previous job. May 1999: Recording of "Play", several months of waiting for a new record deal, finally signing with V2 Records. We were hoping to sell 250,000 copies worldwide and imagine our surprise when we sold 10 million in total! "Play" set a record in all countries, broke platinum sales 25 or 26 (!) times. I still don't understand how this could even happen.
Moby(English Moby, real name: Richard Melville Hall / English Richard Melville Hall, born September 11, 1965 in Harlem, New York) is an American musician, as well as the name of his band. Works in various genres - from electronic music to pop, rock and punk. The pseudonym is borrowed from the work of Herman Melville "Moby Dick", the author of which is a relative of the musician.Moby's famous songs include "Go", "Porcelain", "Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?", "Natural Blues", "Lift Me Up". He also released albums under the name Voodoo child, Barracuda, UHF, The Brotherhood, DJ Cake, Lopez, and Brainstorm/Mindstorm.
Richard was born in New York but grew up in Darien, Connecticut. When he was two years old, his father died in a car accident, and in the future the boy was brought up by his mother, a rather progressive woman who encouraged her son's creative inclinations. At the age of nine, the boy begins to take piano and guitar lessons. Richard got the nickname "Moby" because he was a distant relative of Herman Melville Hall, the author of "Moby Dick". As a teenager, he played guitar in various bands, from the punk band The Vatican Commandos to the anarchist band Flipper and with the well-known band ULTRA VIVID SCENE.
In the late 1980s Richard moved to New York - one of the centers of the emerging house culture - and began to master the DJ craft in local clubs, as well as create his own electronic material. In 1990-91 he released several debut singles on the independent label Instinct.
In 1991, the single Go with samples from the famous television series "Twin Peaks" ("Twin Peaks"), directed by David Lynch, hit the British Top 10 and sold over one million copies. After its initial high-profile success, Moby remixed the work of a number of famous and unknown bands and musicians, including Michael Jackson, Pet Shop Boys, Brian Eno, Depeche Mode, Erasure, B-52 and Orbital.
Richard's first full-length album appeared in 1992. The following year, he released the single "I Feel It / Thousand" which enters the Guinness Book of Records as the fastest track in the history of music and signed a contract with Mute Records, where his next release "Ambient" was released, which collected material from 1988- 91 years On the CD "Everything Is Wrong" (1995), Richard declared himself as a truly original master who created a unique hybrid of various styles and directions of music, from breakbeat to pseudo-industrial thrash, ambient trance and dance-pop. The popular music magazine Spin awards this album the title of "Album of the Year".
The next album, Animal Rights (1996), was a triptych of industrial punk, speedcore, and heartbreaking instrumentals. Imagine something between Nine Inch Nails and Smashing Pumpkins, you can understand what "Animal Rights" is with its pseudo-industrial guitars, ambient textures hidden far in the background, and subtle, specific vocals of Moby himself. The author himself is proud of the work done, but the album is sold very poorly. Against this background, Richard develops depression. In addition to all this, his mother dies of lung cancer. In 1997, under the alias Voodoo Child, Moby released The End Of Everything, as well as I Like To Score, in which Moby collects remixes of his own songs that he wrote and used as movie soundtracks. Luckily, this album outperforms Animal Rights, giving the musician strength to write his next album.
The next album, Play (May 1999), brought great success to the musician. At its core, this is a rather slow work, combining downtempo beats and perfectly worked out melody. The first two tracks of the album "Honey" and "Find Me Baby" are made very cleverly and not without mockery. Here, Moby combined short gospel and blues vocal samples with breakbeat techno, which makes these compositions comparable to the work of Fatboy Slim and the Chemical Brothers of the late 1990s. “Bodyrock” is another breakbeat anthem, but already flavored with good old school rap instead of blues. The thin piano line and ragged violin samples on "Porcelain" sound meaningful enough, while "South Side", the album's pop track, integrates vocals that can't be heard properly without a transcendent chorus to completely transform it.
The album "Play" sold over 10 million copies. It was certified platinum in 26 countries, received three consecutive Grammy nominations, and received several MTV and VH1 awards.
In 2002, Moby's eighth album, "18", was released, in which not only Moby himself, but also Sinead O "Connor, Angie Stone, MC Lite, Azure Ray participated in the recording.
In 2005, Moby released a new album "Hotel", in which he combines ambient and pop rock. The main popular track from this album was "Lift me up", which Moby included on the disc at the very last moment, because of his dream, where he saw the performance of this song live.
His next work is the album "Last Night" (2008). This disc contains dance rhythms 80s discos, techno, as well as the hip-hop song "Alice". In the same 2008, the musician launches his MobyGratis project, the essence of which is that any independent filmmaker can use Moby's tracks for the soundtrack to his film.
The release of the new studio album "Wait for Me" will take place in June 2009; already in April, the video for the track "Shot in the Back of the Head", shot by David Lynch, was available for download on Moby's website, after that Moby releases the single "Pale Horses", and then from time to time adds short animated videos to his website ( blips) to each of their songs. This summer, Moby embarks on another tour of Europe and North America.
Other
Moby is an experienced vegetarian (since the 1980s). He is a Christian, but does not belong to any religious denomination. Collaborated with PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) and MoveOn.
Lives in New York(part of the city - Manhattan). He owned a small restaurant and cafe called TeaNY.
Discography
Albums
* The Story So Far (aka Moby) (Instinct 1993)
* Ambient (Instinct 1993)
* Everything is Wrong (Mute 1995) #21 UK
* Animal Rights (Mute 1996) #38 UK
* Play (Mute 1999) #1 US, #1 UK
* Play: The B Sides (Mute 2000) #24 UK
*His Greatest Moments(2000)
* 18 (Mute 2002) #4 US, #1 UK
* 18 B Sides + DVD (Mute 2003)
*Hotel (Mute 2005) #28 US, #8 UK
* Last Night (2008)
* Wait For Me (2009)
Bonus discs for limited editions
* Underwater (to Everything is Wrong)
* Little Idiot (to Animal Rights)
* hotel.ambient (to Hotel)
Albums released under other names
* Instinct Dance (Instinct 1991)
o Moby/Barracuda/Brainstorm/Voodoo Child
* The End of Everything (Mute 1996)
o Voodoo Child
* Sugar Baby (Trophy 1996)
o DJ Cake
* Baby Monkey (Mute 2004)
o Voodoo Child
Collections
*Early Underground (Instinct 1993)
* Rare: The Collected B-Sides 1989-1993 (Instinct 1996)
* Everything Is Wrong - DJ Mix Album (Mute 1996)
* I Like to Score (Mute 1997)
*MobySongs: 1993-98 (Elektra 2000)
Singles
* 1991 "Go" #10 UK
* 1993 "I Feel It / Thousand" #38 UK
* 1993 "Move" #21 UK
* 1994 "Hymn" #31 UK
* 1994 "Feeling So Real" #30 UK
* 1995 "Everytime You Touch Me" #28 UK
* 1995 "Into the Blue" #34 UK
* 1996 "Bring Back My Happiness" (Feb 1996)
* 1996 "That's When I Reach For My Revolver" (August 26, 1996) #50 UK
* 1996 "Come On Baby" (November 4, 1996)
* 1997 "James Bond Theme (Moby's Re-Version)" #8 UK
* 1998 "Honey" #33 UK
* 1999 "Run On" #33 UK
* 1999 "Bodyrock" #38 UK
* 1999 "Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad" #16 UK
* 2000 "Natural Blues" #11 UK
* 2000 "Porcelain" #5 UK
* 2000 "South Side" (feat. Gwen Stefani) #14 US
* 2000 "Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad / Honey (Remix feat. Kelis)" #17 UK
* 2002 "We Are All Made of Stars" (UK) #11 UK
* 2002 "Extreme Ways" (UK) #39 UK
* 2002 "In This World" (UK) #35 UK
* 2003 "Sunday (The Day Before My Birthday)" (UK)
* 2003 "Jam For The Ladies" (UK)
* 2005 "Lift Me Up" (UK, February 28, 2005) #18 UK
* 2005 "Raining Again" (Europe, May 23, 2005; Australia, June 6, 2005) #52 Australia
* 2005 "Spiders" (UK, 30 May 2005) #50 UK
* 2005 "Beautiful" (Europe, September 12, 2005)
* 2005 "Dream About Me" (UK, August 8, 2005)
* 2006 "Slipping Away" (UK, Jan 23, 2006) #53 UK