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"Seagull", preferably live. Loved the early Ride gigs, but even at the height of my regard for the band the albums were kinda flat. Had totally lost interest after the 2nd LP.

― Wandering Boy Poet, Tuesday, 24 June 2003 23:32 (twenty-two years ago)

All due respect to the early records, but their place in Valhalla was secured by their digging up Jon Lord and letting him Hammond all over 'Moonlight Medicine'.

― Jeff Wright, Wednesday, 25 June 2003 02:09 (twenty-two years ago)

seeing the ride and lush tour when i was a teenager changed my life, it didn't actually, but what about those days when you actually wanted to see opening bands ride/lush, ride/slowdive, catherine wheel/slowdive, house of love/catherine wheel, even bloody revolver and the dreadful drop nineteens.

― keith (keithmcl), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 02:24 (twenty-two years ago)

MarkH:

you're not alone, "Taste" is the best one, with "Seagull" a close second.

― beaty (beaty), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 04:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I never actually answers the question. Um, LTAB I guess. Though there are plenty others i might say after just hearing them.

― Alan (Alan), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 10:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I completely forgot about like a daydream , so I'm changing my mind to that.

and also I'm off to buy a cd or two to replace my v old vinyl copies.

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 10:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Ride Reunion?
http://www.nunuworldmusic.co.uk/photos/040303/8.jpg

I still wished I'd done something to Andy Bell.. for being in Oasis and all that.

― jellybean (jellybean), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 10:33 (twenty-two years ago)

"Kaleidoscope", for its aggressive sugary pop-ness. why oh why was it never a single ?

― darren (darren), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 11:06 (twenty-two years ago)

God, he looks so old. What's wrong with his head? That man is the same age as me. That scares me.

DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE... (sorry.)

― kate (kate), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 11:11 (twenty-two years ago)

surely that was Chapterhouse Kate?

HMV in Uxbridge = NOT ONE RIDE CD!!!!!!!!!!

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 11:52 (twenty-two years ago)

What was Chapterhouse?

― kate (kate), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 11:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Chapterhouse? Big swirly dreampop guitars, angelic harmonies, long greasy hair and a drum sample from "When the Levee Breaks."

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 13:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Chapterhouse did DIE DIE DIE didn't they (or am I completely imagining a 13 minute long swirly bit of cool nonsense?)

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 13:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I know what Chapterhouse the band was. DUH! I was asking Chris what he thought I was referring to Chapterhouse in the previous post.

Big swirly dreampop guitars, angelic harmonies, long greasy hair and a drum sample from "When the Levee Breaks."

I am so easily pleased...

Cross-post... whoa...

I was telling Goldrush to DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE. If Chapterhouse want to help, they're certainly welcome to!

― kate (kate), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 13:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't you "DUH!" me, young lady.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 13:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't you patronise me, old man!

;-)

― kate (kate), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 13:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah, you kids today.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 13:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Me and Mark Gardener are BOTH older than you, Raggett!

― kate (kate), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 13:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Think about what you're saying. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 13:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm fat and bald and old? Waaaahhhhhhh!!!

It looks like he's bleached what's left of his hair. What is he THINKING?!?!?

― kate (kate), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 13:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Heh heh -- he HAS. Donut Bitch confirmed this at his recent show in Seattle. Thatch falling out and bleached. Checking mail from yesterday via A Secret Source for more.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 14:12 (twenty-two years ago)

read this thread yesterday, then got out GBA for another spin and i'll be damned if it isn't one of my top 5 of ALL TIME. absolutely brilliant songs, solid production and the track order/progression owns. how can you not like this album?!

― heywood jablomi (heywood), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 17:34 (twenty-two years ago)

gba would have been better if they had swapped out 'not fazed' and 'mousetrap' with the b-sides 'howard hughes' and 'stampede' from the twisterella ep.

― keith (keithmcl), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 23:49 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah those guys losing their hair should all be shot hey

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 23:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Heh heh -- he HAS. Donut Bitch confirmed this at his recent show in Seattle. Thatch falling out and bleached.

He was at the BJM/Lovetones show. Hair massacre confirmed.

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 26 June 2003 03:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I know this, I already know this, and it doesn't make me that sad. I'm just distressed about the Eminem bleachjob. THAT worries me.

― kate (kate), Thursday, 26 June 2003 07:15 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

Just got back from a Melbourne to Sydney drive and played Nowhere through once at the beginning of the trip and again at the end. Awesome too.

― piers (piers), Sunday, 19 September 2004 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Very nice, that.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 19 September 2004 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Isn't it? Hadn't actually heard the record in many years, but it really held up. Fantastic.

― piers (piers), Monday, 20 September 2004 00:54 (twenty-one years ago)

"Like a Daydream"

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 20 September 2004 06:46 (twenty-one years ago)

This thread is hilarious. I mean, that's a beginner's guide to shoegazing, isn't it? The pretty bit "cello cello cello cello cello" then the big, ugly, wall of sound MBV explosion "DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE!!!!"

― The 120 Days Of Streatham (kate), Monday, 20 September 2004 07:39 (twenty-one years ago)

mark has been touring solo recently. what is he playing now?

― joan vich (joan vich), Monday, 20 September 2004 09:05 (twenty-one years ago)

half a set of classic Ride songs, and half a set of his (mainly crappier) new solo songs.

― jellybean (jellybean), Monday, 20 September 2004 09:17 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

This thread remains hilarious.

Revive because I've been wtching old Ride videos and listening to the Today Forever EP.

Better that than starting the requisite Ride polll...

Ha ha, the old feud with Truck that got dismantled and burned for firewood in the end, how sweet. ANd all those posts were prior to meeting Mark Gardener down Sonic Cathedrals. What a sweetie! The twinkliest eyes in pop, as well.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 4 June 2007 12:26 (nineteen years ago)

Answer to thread: 'Howard Hughes', closely followed by 'Leave Them All Behind' and then 'Grasshopper'. Or maybe 'Dreams Burn Down'. Or 'Today'. The top 2 are definitely set in stone.

― Just got offed, Monday, 4 June 2007 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

Shame the rest of Going Blank Again is so shite.

SOUTHALL YOU WOUND ME

― Just got offed, Monday, 4 June 2007 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

I've changed my vote to Today Forever. The video EP and all that. Like Rave Music with Rickenbackers. God, I want a rickenbacher.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 4 June 2007 12:49 (nineteen years ago)

"Nowhere" always.

― Pashmina, Monday, 4 June 2007 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

"Dreams Burn Down" is really magnificent. That wall of guitar in the chorus was especially effective live, oh MAN.

― Trayce, Monday, 4 June 2007 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

though I have to say really really early Ride live stuff tat I watched this weekend, Drive Blind was just amazing, with this crazy bottleneck slide and feedback solo in th emiddle them they segued straight back into the riff without missing a beat. how much do I love tis band?

Today Forever wwas where the early noisy stuff merged perfectly with this sort of floating cocteau ethereality.

(plus there was that bit in the video where Mark and Andy were singing so close together it looked like their noses were almost touching and you just wanted them to turn aroud and give each other a big snog and ... whooo, I think that's the painkillers talking! Never mind me.)

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 4 June 2007 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

They were a lot better live than than the other shoegazers too. They used to pound the hell out of their guitars - like a pre pubescent stooges or something.

― flowersdie, Monday, 4 June 2007 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

"In a different place"

― baaderonixx, Monday, 4 June 2007 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

On record: either Seagull or Close My Eyes.

Live: either Seagull or Chelsea Girl.

― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

Like a Daydream.

― Trip Maker, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

vapour trail

― gman, Monday, 4 June 2007 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

chelsea girl

― Stevie D, Monday, 4 June 2007 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

The 1992 Reading festival footage on You Tube is insanely good. Yes, they really WERE that great live. Best live band ever, in my opinion. I wish I still had all my cassette tapes of shows from 1991...but that's probably because god hates me. Please email me if you know how to get hold of shows from them from 1991. Thanx much.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRw8K-YMdIA

― Bimble, Saturday, 14 July 2007 06:02 (eighteen years ago)

Leave Them All Behind. It's like a shoegazed Who's Next being mashed with a 90s boy band. This was a good thing though!

― Cunga, Saturday, 14 July 2007 06:23 (eighteen years ago)

here and now

― Charlie Howard, Saturday, 14 July 2007 06:47 (eighteen years ago)

I was just going to say, as much of a fan of Ride as I am, it doesn't bother me at all that some folks choose Leave Them All Behind as their favourite. The first time I heard that was seeing them do it live, and it's a very special memory for me. It wasn't available on CD or record yet at the time and it was supposed to be this new hint or dawning of where they would go next, musically. But it didn't quite turn out that way.

xpost Howard - I think you are right, I have not yet pulled out Here & Now and it has got to happen right now, no pun intended.

― Bimble, Saturday, 14 July 2007 06:50 (eighteen years ago)

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