Moby reckons it's a pretty good album and when he was doing the support tour thing he was pretty up front about saying it was almost the same as his big "hit record" Play, and he's right I suppose.

When I first heard the album I gave it a five bones rating but never actually got around to writing the review and now I haven't listened to it for a while so I can't really remember how good it was or why I gave it five bones - which I guess is a fairly good review of 18 in itself.

In fact, now that I think about it, just about everyone was giving 18 rave reviews, calling it the best album Moby has done, and saying how he was a genius and how good it was that he wasn't writing songs about not killing animals anymore and that he wrote about September 11 (or 9/11 or 11/9 depending on what part of the world you're in).

I think some people were even predicting which songs off 18 were going to be made into commercials (like half of Play was) and I think one magazine even went as far as listing the type of commercials they would be made into.

Let me go watch TV for a bit....

Hmm...

No...






Still no...





No: No Moby.

Britney Spears and Austin Powers have teamed up to promote a soft drink though - aren't they funny. Tee Hee.

So maybe that's why Moby's wearing a space suit on the album cover. Maybe he was so scared Eminem would hit him (or get stomped by one of his band members) that he released the album, appeared on the MTV awards and then went off into outer space to write essays about silence.

Maybe 18 is the kind of album you listen to and think it's the greatest thing you've ever heard, and then put it in your CD stack in the slot under Play (because albums by the same artist have to be filed in historical order not alphabetical order) and then you don't really listen to it again.

Maybe, I dunno'. It's still worth five bones.

I really liked Play though. All those choirs and blues and stuff.