the link is gently off topic, the rest is decidedly ON…

if any admins care to fix it, that’s cool… it was just supposed to be on “this post”

any of my examples, any of yours?

I think Ripleys pretty spot on about superstructural forces of mass marketing and distro/advertising etc turning this into a deeply troubled project.

As much as I do- I dont really have a bone to pick with Moby per se- but of course at some point my juridical impulses want and individual to lay blame on.

Also there’s a whole nother essay to be written and ambiguities of sound that would cover foley rooms, wire tapping, and why you cant get my above analysis just from listening to the album on a pair of headphones in a white box.

My response to Matt’s question is that whether the project could have been done in an ethically sound way.. it would likely not have been popular in the mass market if it was.

I didn’t read this post as solely a negative comment on moby, but at least as much a description of the mass audience -or at least mass marketing & distribution– which is racist. I don’t think it’s often possible to become broadly marketed in the way that album was without fitting in, at least in part, to the demands of that market.

This all being said, do you see a way that this project (play) could have been completed in an ethically sound way? More documentation? Or is the enterprise itself doomed? I know I’ve polemicized on these topics myself but it’s fun now that I’m down here in the comments section to get all socratic method and just throw rocks.

I’d just like to say to James Healy as well, let’s try and stay off personal attacks, whatever one may think of Moby’s music what he does with his pecker is of very limited relevance to this discussion. Lord knows I don’t want anyone talking about my own sex life on the internet.

When anything becomes overly dependent on history and nostalgic, it goes nowhere.
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A conversation about paying off your loans is basically ALWAYS boring.

With respect to the liner notes and, in my mind, mentioning Lomax, specifically, I wonder to what extent just putting the artist and song is actually MORE just than citing Lomax, whose work has done more to build up *his* name than the “folk” artists he compiled, who were just as often from Baleares, Latin America, the Caribbean, or Galicia as they were from the Southern US.

i’m not really ready to make any criticisms OR completely agree, but i just wanted to let you know i appreciate the work.

i bet others are waiting a bit too because it’s a lot to digest.

and bytheway, what is the sample source for the tune “honey”… it was always the only tune on the album i dug.