Song · Moby
“Bodyrock” by Moby
From the album Play (1999)
“Bodyrock” by Moby appears on 23 radio countdowns from 13 stations between 1999 and 2022. It was first released in 1999 on the album Play. Its best result is #23 on the WEQX Top 102.7 of 1999. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #52 alternative song of 1999, #2,619 alternative song of all time and #376 of the '90s.
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"Bodyrock" came off Moby's fifth album, Play, as its third single on July 12, 1999, and it's the record's party crasher: a hip-hop track at heart, built on vocal samples from "Love Rap" by Spoonie Gee and the Treacherous Three. Moby lifted it from his very first mixtape, recorded off the Mr. Magic Show on WBLS, by his reckoning around 1981. The chopping guitar line nods to Gang of Four's "What We All Want", Nikki D adds extra vocals, and Moby, who produced, engineered and mixed it himself, threw an orchestral chorus on top because the idea of strings on a hip-hop song struck him as funny.
It got to 38 in the UK. Not everyone was charmed: AllMusic's John Bush pegged it as big beat that sat a little too snugly beside Fatboy Slim and the Chemical Brothers.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 65 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1999 | 107 |
| 1999 | 82 | Live 105 San Francisco, CA | Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1999 | 106 |
| 1999 | 33 | Q101 Chicago, IL | Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1999 | 101 |
| 1999 | 59 | WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD | WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1999 | 100 |
| 1999 | 46 | WFNX Boston, MA | WFNX Top 99 Songs of 1999 | 99 |
| 1999 | 83 | 107.7 The End Seattle, WA | The End Top 107 Songs of 1999 | 107 |
| 1999 | 23 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 1999 | 103 |
| 1999 | 58 | WBER Rochester, NY | WBER Listener Countdown 1999 | 101 |
| 1999 | 79 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 1999 | 100 |
| 2000 | 27 | WBER Rochester, NY | WBER Listener Countdown 2000 | 100 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 432 | WHFS | WHFS Top 500 Songs of the '90s (December 1999) | 500 |
| 2000 | 338 | WOXY 97X | WOXY Modern Rock 500 (2000) | 500 |
| 2005 | 1119 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) | 1994 |
| 2007 | 371 | KROQ | KROQ Top 500 Most Requested Songs of the '90s (Labor Day 2007) | 500 |
| 2007 | 1245 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007) | 2008 |
| 2008 | 1303 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008) | 2009 |
| 2009 | 1320 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009) | 2010 |
| 2010 | 1357 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010) | 2011 |
| 2011 | 1418 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) | 2011 |
| 2013 | 1461 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) | 2012 |
| 2014 | 1509 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) | 2013 |
| 2021 | 435 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '90s | 908 |
| 2022 | 600 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 900 Songs of the '90s | 900 |
Also listed as: Body Rock.
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