Run On (Moby song)

"Run On"
Single by Moby
from the album Play
B-side
  • "Spirit"
  • "Running"
  • "Sunday"
  • "Down Slow (Full Length version)"
  • "Memory Gospel"
Released April 26, 1999
Format
Recorded 1998 at Moby's home studio (Manhattan, New York)
Genre Blues, Trip hop, Breakbeat
Length 4:23 (extended)
3:44 (album version)
3:33 (single version)
3:10 (radio edit)
Label
Songwriter(s) Moby
Producer(s) Moby
Moby singles chronology
"Honey"
(1998)		 "Run On"
(1999)		 "Bodyrock"
(1999)

"Honey"
(1998)		 "Run On"
(1999)		 "Bodyrock"
(1999)

"Run On" is a song by American electronica musician Moby. It was released as the second single from his fifth studio album Play on April 26, 1999.[1] The song incorporates prominent vocal samples from "Run On for a Long Time" by Bill Landford and the Landfordairs.

Background and composition

Recorded by Moby for his fifth studio album Play, "Run On" features samples from "Run On for a Long Time", a 1949 recording by Bill Landford and the Landfordairs of the traditional folk hymn "God's Gonna Cut You Down", which make up the song's vocal content.[2][3] Moby was unaware of the original hymn's considerable popularity in country and gospel music as a standard while recording the song.[4] He later recalled that "Run On" was "really hard to put together, because it has so many samples in it. I didn't use computers at this point, it was all done with stand-alone samplers. When it was finished, I collapsed in exhaustion."[4]

Music video

The music video for "Run On" was directed by Mike Mills.[5] Mills' video depicts Moby working at an office whose employees all wear white. A flashback is then shown involving a workout instructor who faints while teaching a class; Moby then arrives and puts an inhaler in her mouth, reviving her. The video proceeds through subsequent flashbacks to explain the entire plot: the office Moby works in is heaven, the instructor is self-conscious and unsure of her capabilities, and heaven is a self-help phone line. Towards the end of the video, Moby is seen dead in a parking lot, with a man checking his pulse. The video concludes similarly to the opening scene, with Moby working in an office while still living, only everyone is unkind and emotionally distant.[5]

Track listing

Charts

Chart (1999) Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[10] 93
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[11] 33
UK Dance (Official Charts Company)[12] 27
US Dance/Electronic Singles Sales (Billboard)[13] 49

References

  1. ↑ "Run On – Moby". AllMusic. Retrieved February 24, 2018.
  2. ↑ Play (liner notes). Moby. V2 Records. 1999. 63881-27049-2.
  3. ↑ JeffK (July 22, 2013). "Johnny Cash and the Many Versions of "God's Gonna Cut You Down"". No Depression. Retrieved February 24, 2018.
  4. 1 2 Weingarten, Christopher R. (July 2, 2009). "'Play' 10 Years Later: Moby's Track by Track Guide to 1999's Global Smash". Rolling Stone. New York. Archived from the original on May 10, 2013. Retrieved May 10, 2013.
  5. 1 2 Moby (September 4, 2012). "Moby 'Run On' – Official video". YouTube. Retrieved January 8, 2017.
  6. ↑ "Run On – Moby (CD – Mute #CDMUTE 221)". AllMusic. Retrieved February 24, 2018.
  7. ↑ "Run On – Moby (CD – Import #LCDMUTE 221)". AllMusic. Retrieved February 24, 2018.
  8. ↑ "Run On – Moby (12 inch Vinyl Single – Mute #)". AllMusic. Retrieved February 24, 2018.
  9. ↑ "Honey / Run On / Memory Gospel: Moby". United States: Amazon. Archived from the original on May 14, 2013. Retrieved May 14, 2013.
  10. ↑ Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010. Moonlight Publishing.
  11. ↑ "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved February 24, 2018.
  12. ↑ "Official Dance Singles Chart Top 40". Official Charts Company. Retrieved February 24, 2018.
  13. ↑ "Moby – Awards". AllMusic. Archived from the original on May 14, 2013. Retrieved March 17, 2013.
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