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Porcelain

A Memoir

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Porcelain

Auteur(s): Moby
Narrateur(s): Moby
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 From one of the most interesting and iconic musicians of our time, a piercingly tender, funny, and harrowing account of the path from suburban poverty and alienation to a life of beauty, squalor, and unlikely success out of the NYC club scene of the late '80s and '90s.

There were many reasons Moby was never going to make it as a DJ and musician in the New York club scene. This was the New York of Palladium; of Mars, Limelight, and Twilo; of unchecked, drug-fueled hedonism in pumping clubs where dance music was still largely underground, popular chiefly among working-class African Americans and Latinos. And then there was Moby—not just a poor, skinny white kid from Connecticut, but a devout Christian, a vegan, and a teetotaler. He would learn what it was to be spat on, to live on almost nothing. But it was perhaps the last good time for an artist to live on nothing in New York City: the age of AIDS and crack but also of a defiantly festive cultural underworld. Not without drama, he found his way. But success was not uncomplicated; it led to wretched, if in hindsight sometimes hilarious, excess and proved all too fleeting. And so by the end of the decade, Moby contemplated an end in his career and elsewhere in his life, and put that emotion into what he assumed would be his swan song, his good-bye to all that, the album that would in fact be the beginning of an astonishing new phase: the multimillion-selling Play.

At once bighearted and remorseless in its excavation of a lost world, Porcelain is both a chronicle of a city and a time and a deeply intimate exploration of finding one’s place during the most gloriously anxious period in life, when you’re on your own, betting on yourself, but have no idea how the story ends, and so you live with the honest dread that you’re one false step from being thrown out on your face. Moby’s voice resonates with honesty, wit, and, above all, an unshakable passion for his music that steered him through some very rough seas.

Porcelain is about making it, losing it, loving it, and hating it. It’s about finding your people, your place, thinking you've lost them both, and then, somehow, when you think it’s over, from a place of well-earned despair, creating a masterpiece. As a portrait of the young artist, Porcelain is a masterpiece in its own right, fit for the short shelf of musicians’ memoirs that capture not just a scene but an age, and something timeless about the human condition. Push play.


Song Credits:
‘Saints’ (p) 2013 by Little Idiot (from the album Innocents)
‘Slow’ (p) 2011 by Little Idiot (from the album Destroyed) Divertissement et célébrités Musique Célébrité Mémoires New York Spirituel Drôle Succès
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Very cynical, very detailed account of what it’s like to be a super star DJ. Honestly not glamorous and a lot of it was being a starving artist and trying to even maintain that success. If you’re a DJ trying to make it I feel like this is a great book cuz it’s written by a guys who’s 56 and had a very long time to reflect on the highs and lows of his career. It’s a very honest take on how much of a struggle it is to earn a living in the music industry and all the things you have to do to survive. I will definitely read his book next. This guy is apparently related to moby dick coincidentally.

Very honest review of being a DJ in the 90s

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Like most, I became a big fan after hearing his colossal album Play so I was eager to read this. Full of great stories, the book was very enjoyable though he could have left out 25% of what felt like filler. As there is a second book, a part 2, I feel that he could have condensed both into a single book to make it a more captivating read.

I enjoyed the rags to riches portion but felt that his (s)excapades ran on a bit too long. I will definitely read the second book as I’ve already committed 10+ hours to part 1, and am eager to hear how Play (an album I adore) changed things. Moby is a phenomenal artist and an even better person who deserves all of the praise he’s received.

An Intriguing ‘part 1’ memoir full of entertaining insight

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Amazing book and narration by Moby ! I highly recommend to anyone who likes music and Moby.

Flawless

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I listened to this book following a friend's recommendation. The first part of the book is interesting and follows a certain "rags to riches" narrative pattern. The second half is a medley of r/ihavesex and r/iamverysmart: an endless description of the author's random sexual encounters and "clever" remarks with very little focus on his art. Moby describes his transformation from a kind hearted yet insecure artist into an insufferable dick. Maybe there's redemption in the second book, but I won't know as I don't have another 10 hours to spend wondering wether there is little or no redeeming feature to this trajectory.

The writing is obtuse and full of unnecessary fluff when describing people and objects, yet minimalist when it comes to the unending "I said/she said" dialogues. Would not recommend.

Narcissistic time travel

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