In 2014, right now (not in 1999), most young people (including most users on this site), don't look at
Moby and say, "Man, this guy's a genius." For example, I rarely see his albums on lists for "bests" or
"favorites," his current work is not widely discussed among the users, and his album that came out
almost a year ago has just over 30 ratings. Maybe I should have said "currently underrated" ??? It's
not hard to select one album from a group that has released 11 LPs and say, "______ is one of the most
commercially successful albums of all time. How is he underrated." Well, clearly that album was not
underrated; but, an album does not define an artist's entire status. It was hard for me to even find
his latest album, Innocents, in a store near me (Best Buy, Hastings, the local record store, etc.)
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