Moby
Moby, Richard Melville Hall, from a Connecticut squat to selling twenty million records. The whole forty-year arc: the hardcore-punk kid, the early-90s rave hero of "Go", the ambitious "Everything Is Wrong", the guitar detour of "Animal Rights", and then Play, the 1999 album that licensed every track and sold twelve million, through 18, Hotel, the David-Lynch-directed "Wait for Me", the Void Pacific Choir, the orchestral Reprise, and his latest work. The music, the videos, the live shows, the story behind the songs, and the lifelong vegan-and-animal-rights activism.
A chronological documentary of 570 moments spanning 1991–2026 on Loreline.
Curated by Olivier · last updated 2026-09-20
Eras
- Music Videos, The official music videos, the visual side of Moby, from the iconic Play-era films to the latest.
- Songs, The tracks themselves, official audio across the whole catalogue, album by album.
- Live, Moby on stage, festival sets, sessions, DJ sets and the Play 25th-anniversary shows.
- Remixes & Reworks, The remixes, versions and collaborations, Moby reworked by others and himself, and the guest-vocalist singles.
- Reprise & Orchestral, The catalogue reimagined with the Budapest Art Orchestra for Deutsche Grammophon, Reprise and Resound NYC.
- Moby Pod & Interviews, Moby in his own words, the Moby Pod podcast, In Conversation series and interviews.
- Story Behind the Songs, The making-of: Moby narrating how and why the songs came to be.
- Activism & Veganism, His "day job", the vegan and animal-rights activism, the TEDx talk, the Punk Rock Vegan Movie.
- Ambient, The long-form ambient work, calm, sleep, and the improvised recordings.
- Photographs, Real photographs of Moby, live and in the world, across the decades.
- - Moby - Go (Official Video). ), Moby's 1991 breakthrough single, whose hit 'Woodtick Mix' was built around a string sample of Angelo Badalamenti's 'Laura Palmer's Theme' from Twin Peaks laid over a rave beat with the shouted 'Go!' hook; it reached UK No. 10 and made him, per Rolling Stone, techno's 'first real DJ superstar.'
- - Moby - Move (You Make Me Feel So Good) (Official Video). ), Moby, from the early-90s rave era.
- - Moby - 'Feeling So Real' (Official Video). ), A euphoric rave anthem from Everything Is Wrong (1995) with vocalist Myim Rose; it hit UK No. 30 and No. 1 in Finland, and Spin named the single the best of 1995.
- - God Moving Over the Face of the Waters. (1995).
- - Moby - That's When I Reach For My Revolver (Official Video). ), Moby's cover of the 1981 post-punk song by Mission of Burma (written and sung by Clint Conley), the centerpiece of the abrasive hardcore/punk turn on Animal Rights (1996) that alienated much of his electronica fanbase; the title is NOT pro-gun, riffing on a line about reaching for a revolver at the word 'culture' as a jab at philistinism.
- - Moby - Honey (Official Video). ), Built around a looped vocal sample of Bessie Jones singing 'Sometimes,' a Georgia Sea Islands song recorded by folklorist Alan Lomax on St. Simons Island in 1959; it was the lead single from Play and among the earliest of Moby's Lomax-sampled tracks.
- - Moby - Everloving (Official Audio). ), Moby, from Innocents (2013).
- - Moby - Inside (Official Audio). ), Moby, from Innocents (2013).
- - Moby - Rushing (Official Audio). ), Moby, from Innocents (2013).
- - Moby - 7 (Official Audio). ), Moby, from Innocents (2013).
- - Moby - My Weakness (Official Audio). ), Moby, from Innocents (2013).
- - Moby - If Things Were Perfect (Official Audio). ), Moby, from Innocents (2013).
- - Moby - The Sky Is Broken (Official Audio). ), Moby, from Innocents (2013).
- - Moby - Run On (Official Video). ), Uses a gospel sample from 'Run On for a Long Time' by Bill Landford & the Landfordaires, a version of the traditional spiritual in the 'God's Gonna Cut You Down' family.
- - Moby 'Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?' (Official video) #WhyDoesMyHeart. 'He'll Roll Your Burdens Away' by The Banks Brothers & The Greater Harvest Back Home Choir (1963), with Moby flipping the lyric from 'glad' to 'bad'; the Play liner notes deliberately credit a fictional 'Shining Light Gospel Choir,' and the 1999 video is animated around Moby's alter-ego character Little Idiot.
- - Moby - Bodyrock (The Official Video). ), Samples the refrain of 'Love Rap' by Spoonie Gee & the Treacherous Three, released 1980 on Bobby Robinson's Enjoy Records; Moby has said he lifted it from a mixtape he'd made around 1981 off Mr. Magic's radio show on WBLS.
- - Moby - Natural Blues (Official Video). ), Built entirely around an a cappella sample of Vera Hall singing 'Trouble So Hard,' a Library of Congress field recording made in 1937 in Livingston, Alabama by John A. Lomax; David LaChapelle's video stars Christina Ricci as an angelic figure who carries an elderly, wheelchair-bound Moby (in old-age makeup) away from a retirement home, a meditation on aging and mortality.
- - Moby - 'Porcelain' (Official Video). ), Moby wrote it about a woman he loved but felt he 'had no business being romantically involved with,' and he nearly cut it from Play entirely, finding his own production 'mushy' and his vocals 'really weak'; Danny Boyle's 2000 film The Beach used it, a placement Moby credited with turning it into a hit, and he later named his 2016 memoir Porcelain after the song.
- - Moby - South Side (Official Audio). ), Gwen Stefani recorded vocals, but production problems forced Moby to leave her off the Play album version (a solo cut); her vocals were restored for the 2000 hit single, which became Moby's first US Billboard Hot 100 entry, peaking at No. 14.
- - Moby (2001). Moby, Moby, Area One (2001).
- - Moby - We Are All Made Of Stars (Official Video). ), The lead single from 18, Moby wrote it in New York after the September 11 attacks as an intentionally hopeful song rooted in the literal idea that we're made of stardust; Joseph Kahn's video puts Moby in a spacesuit amid satirical celebrity cameos including Verne Troyer, Corey Feldman, Todd Bridges, Gary Coleman, Dave Navarro, Tommy Lee, Sean Bean, Ron Jeremy and Thora Birch.
- - Moby - Sleep Alone (Official Audio). ), Moby, from Innocents (2013).
- - Moby - The Rafters (Official Audio). ), Moby, from Destroyed (2011).
- - Moby - 18 (Official Audio). ), Moby, from 18 (2002).
- - Moby 'Sunday (The Day Before My Birthday)' - Official video. (2011).
- - Moby - Signs of Love (Official Audio). ), Moby, from Innocents (2013).
- - Moby - Sunday (Official Audio). ), Moby, from 18 (2002).
- - Moby - Another Woman (Official Audio). ), Moby, from Innocents (2013).
- - Moby - One of These Mornings (Official Audio). ), Moby, from Innocents (2013).
- - Moby - Look Back In (Official Audio). ), Moby, from Innocents (2013).
- - Moby - Great Escape (Official Audio). ), Moby, from Innocents (2013).
- - Moby - At Least We Tried (Official Audio). ), Moby, from Innocents (2013).
- - Moby - I'm Not Worried At All (Official Audio). ), Moby, from Innocents (2013).
- - Moby - Fireworks (Official Audio). ), Moby, from Innocents (2013).
- - Moby - Harbour (Official Audio). ), Moby, from Innocents (2013).
- - Moby - 'Extreme Ways' (Official Video). ), Released in 2002 as the second single from 18, it became the closing-credits theme for every Bourne film, first chosen by director Doug Liman for The Bourne Identity (2002); Moby re-recorded distinct versions for the sequels ('Bourne's Ultimatum' 2007, 'Bourne's Legacy' 2012, 'Jason Bourne' 2016), the run cementing it as his signature track.
- - Moby - 'In This World' (Official Video). ), Built on a gospel sample of The Davis Sisters' 'Lord Don't Leave Me' (lead vocal by Jackie Verdell, singing 'Lordy, don't leave me, all by myself'), which Moby paired with swooping synths.
- - Moby - In My Heart (Official Audio). ), Samples the traditional spiritual 'Lord, I Want to Be a Christian' and features gospel choir vocals; no notable standalone anecdote beyond the sample.
- - Moby - Forever (official audio). ), Moby, from the All Visible Objects era.
- - Moby - Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad? (Moby: Live The Hotel Tour 2005). ), The plaintive vocal is a pitch-shifted sample of 'He'll Roll Your Burdens Away' by The Banks Brothers & The Greater Harvest Back Home Choir (1963), with Moby flipping the lyric from 'glad' to 'bad'; the Play liner notes deliberately credit a fictional 'Shining Light Gospel Choir,' and the 1999 video is animated around Moby's alter-ego character Little Idiot.
- - Slipping Away. (2005), its big European success came via the 2006 duet re-recording 'Slipping Away (Crier la vie)' with French superstar Mylene Farmer, which debuted at No. 1 in France - Moby's first French No. 1.
- - Moby (2006). Moby, Moby by night (2006).
- - Moby 'Alice' - Official video. (2008).
- - Moby (2008) (2 of 8). Moby, Mobylive (2008).
- - Moby - Disco Lies. (2008), whose video (directed by Evan Bernard, 2008) follows an anthropomorphic chicken that escapes a poultry farm and takes revenge on a KFC-parody chain whose owner - played by Moby himself - it beheads, an expression of Moby's veganism and animal-rights activism.
- - Moby (2008) (8 of 8). Moby, Moby - Virgin Megastore (Union Square, NYC 6.2.99) (2008).
- - Moby (2008) (7 of 8). Moby, Moby - Virgin Megastore (Union Square, NYC 6.2.99) (cropped) (2008).
- - Moby (2008) (5 of 8). Moby, Moby - Virgin Megastore (Union Square, NYC 6.2.99) 03 (2008).
- - Moby (2008) (4 of 8). Moby, Moby - Virgin Megastore (Union Square, NYC 6.2.99) 02 (2008).
- - Moby (2008) (6 of 8). Moby, Moby - Virgin Megastore (Union Square, NYC 6.2.99) 04 (2008).
…and 520 more moments.
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