Top 10 Best Moby Albums

You've heard the beats. You've felt the moods shift from blissed-out chill to full-blown existential unease. Moby doesn't just make albums. He builds soundtracks for your quiet breakdowns, your middle-of-the-night drives, and those weird moments when you're dancing and crying at the same time. His discography swings like a pendulum between raw vulnerability and electronic precision, serving up ambient journeys, gospel-tinged bangers, and whispered confessions over glitchy loops.

Some albums are perfect for zoning out. Others hit you like a freight train made of synthesizers and sorrow. And let's not forget the ones where he veers off into unexpected corners of sound, just to see if you'll follow him. Spoiler: you probably do.

This list is your chance to speak up. Click the vote button for the albums you think rise above the rest. It's not about what's most popular or most played. It's about which records got under your skin and stayed there. Your choices help shape this list, just like others have shaped it with theirs.

The Top Ten

Play

I feel like I'm the only one who prefers Play over 18. This is some of the best electronic music you will ever hear. It takes you through several different emotions, including happiness (Southside and Bodyrock), sadness (Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad and The Sky Is Broken), and even intensity (Machete). I like to listen to Play before I go to bed since all these emotions make it exhausting to listen to.

Play redefined electronic music and brought it to the forefront of pop culture. This album perfectly melds African American soul from the 1930s with the electronic music of the late 90s and is Moby's best work, being just a hair ahead of his other masterpiece, 1996's Animal Rights.
18

I don't think I can be labeled as a Moby fan, not even an electronic music fan for that matter, but I just love this album. Every single song is a masterpiece.

My favorite Moby album, without a question. To me, 18 is just absolute perfection. I love it. No, I adore it. No, I worship it.
Destroyed.

This is the best Moby album. No contest. I've been listening to 18 on and off all my life, but I just listened to Destroyed today and it's awesome. People just don't know good music when they hear it.
Hotel
Everything Was Beautiful, and Nothing Hurt

Amazing album, but it hurts. Listen to it.
Everything Is Wrong

Love the variety. Moby considers this his first true album for good reasons. You get rave, you get 18-style electronica, and even punk rock. Truly a landmark album not only for Moby but in electronica in general.

Definitely up there with his best. I love God Moving Over the Face of the Waters.
Play: The B-Sides

Sometimes, I prefer the B-sides to the primary album. The ambiance just makes you fall in love all the time.
Moby

His first album, released in 1992. A confirmation that Moby, the artist, would definitely be awesome.

This is perfect music for gaming and dancing. I love this.
Animal Rights
Wait for Me

All of Moby's albums are good, but Wait for Me really stands out. All the songs are unique and beautiful and carry a great sense of sadness through them. It makes the world look ugly but beautiful at the same time. It isn't something that I can listen to every day, and no one should consider it an everyday favorite.
It's a place to go every once in a great while. Overall, I consider this to be one of Moby's greatest masterpieces. Everyone should check it out and experience the trance it puts you in.

The Newcomers

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All Visible Objects
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More Fast Songs About the Apocalypse

The Contenders

18 B Sides

18 has got some pretty awesome B-sides. Awesome stuff, Moby.
I Like to Score
Last Night
Play: The Outtakes
Innocents

Just released last Sunday, I got the whole thing, and it's awesome. But Play and 18 are still the best.
These Systems Are Failing

Not his best, but I love some of the stuff on there.
Ambient

The album is hectic. Some of the tracks are experimental, but the cuts stick and are melodically in tune.