Ride 'Nowhere' Poll

Well I'm just hoping someone's got that Coming Up For Air EP up on slsk because it's going for plenty of money now.

I've got a great mix cd of the Today Forever EP and the Going Blank Again B-Sides. I listen to that way more than either Nowhere or Going Blank Again.

I bought the Ride box set on a whim when I came upon it unexpectedly at a record store. It's just the "best-of" (kinda crap) and a "demos + unreleased" (almost completely unredeemable) and their Reading '92 set (really awesome). I'd like to think that the live disc is a pretty good representation of the best of their concerts. It beats the hell out of "Live Light," that's for sure.

My favorite Ride song will always be "Like A Daydream," incidentally.

Structure of "Grasshopper" reminds me more of "Interstellar Overdrive" - massive riff at beginning and end, improv/breakdown in middle. It is a fantastic track. They should have followed this direction instead of copping out on "Carnival of Light". That still feels like a lost opportunity even now to me.

I voted for "Nowhere", I like the way it rises and falls like a swell on the ocean.

Yer damn right they should have followed that direction.

I voted for "Nowhere", I like the way it rises and falls like a swell on the ocean.

this ^^^

glad someone else voted for this track!

First, to clarify: Going Blank Again is a stone cold classic from start to finish.

Apart from "Making Judy Smile," which -- frankly -- is kinda crap.

One day Grasshopper will have its own thread. Maybe even its own poll, where you name your favourite segment like the one a few months back for Revolution 9. Right now I'm digging the breakdown around 10:00, all these aimless little half-melodies until Loz takes it by the scruff of the neck and they crash back into the riff at the end. I love this track.

You mean, where the drums drop out altogether? Yeah, that's obviously the best bit. No poll required. The Interstellar Overdrive comparison is a good one, although the medium of each track is very different. Pink Floyd's wasn't so much a groove as a completely psychedelic voyage through perceived musical dimensions. Ride's song is a kinetic self-propellant.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Coming Up For Air EP...wow....

Wouldn't mean a thing without Loz. Oh no you better believe it.

If he killed me with those drumsticks I don't care. Who could possibly care?

No seriously, gratitude to ILM. I was lost but now am found. THX.

THERE MUST BE 7 OTHER BILLION PARTS OF THIS AND WE WILL NEVER KNOW WHAT KIND OF A BAND THEY MIGHT HAVE BEEN BEAT THE HELL OUT OF PINK FLOYD FOREVER AMEN

BimbZ sTill not PlayeD GRAss Mr. HoPPer tonight...DEPRIVED AT WORK
never AGIIIN

GRASSHOPPER POLL! Who will beat me to it???

t/s: leave them all behind vs. ummagumma live disc

hahahahahhahhahahhahha

Also:

Leave Them All Behind vs. The Who's "Baba O'Riley" (just listen to the way they both start, I dare you)

yeah i know! by the way i regard ummagumma live as the pinnacle of floyd, so it's actually a pretty tough call.

I'm a bit of a virgin...I only associate that album with a woman with long red hippie hair that I could never win...circa 1989

Anyway...Pixies anyone?

I need to listen to more Pixies. You need to listen to more Cardiacs. Fair deal?

Okay okay I promise.

But right now...

GRASSHOPPER

FAN CLUB STARTZ HERE

DO YOU WANT YOUR SHOEGAZE IN A PROG ROCK STYLEE????

no doubt I will be beaten on the head with a 2x4 (Fall) for saying that, but nevertheless.

YOU POST_ROCK SADDOES RUN AND HIDE

ON THE RUN THYE'VE GOT YOU< RIDE

GRASSHOPPER WILL FREE YOUR MIND

YOUR ARSE IS UP TO OBAMA

what

I've never heard Grasshopper. Does someone wanna fix me up?

I listened to it yesterday streaming from here:

http://www.imeem.com/kmfis/music/wdzKV7Yy/ride_grasshopper/

No idea what the site is or whatever, I just googled "ride grasshopper mp3"

Nick, get hold of "Howard Hughes" and "Stampede" as well. They're two of the best songs Ride have done IMO.

The 'Birdman' b-sides (Don't Let It Die, Rolling Thunder #2 and Let's Get Lost) hold up really well too. I don't know what went wrong with Carnival of Light - maybe it's worth revisiting.

"Birdman" is possibly my favorite song Ride ever did.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

kaleidoscope is the big loser here, deserves about 10 of vapour trail's votes

and Seagull deserves the 11 votes that went to songs which aren't on the album!

"paralysed" deserves most of those IMO

but seagull deserves the rest

has any of the stuff that was on the "pink floyd" album they did that was scrapped in favor of carnival of light ever revisited? how much of it ended up on carnival of light? they should have just sit in the corner and let john leckie take control.

Just for the record, I would gladly have voted for Taste or Here & Now except for the fact that THEY ARE NOT ON THE ALBUM.

Also this has been a really fun thread. And thanks for the sorta off-the-cuff Pink Floyd/Cardiacs exchange, LJ!

Okay hey this is really weird. I'm getting flashbacks about the bass player of Ride. No shit. I was there for the soundcheck in '91 in an empty club when they toured with Lush or whatever because my friend was gonna interview Lush I think. Anyway, I just remembered that he (bassist of Ride) played the riff for Jane's Addiction's "Mountain Song" for a little bit during the soundcheck. Also...another weird thing is on this Coming Up For Air EP he does the bass riff for The Damned song "Neat Neat Neat" and he ALSO does the bass riff for Felt's "Primitive Painters" at the beginning of the "Performance" part. I completely and totally respect him for ripping these things off, is the funny thing. I mean how any bassist could really compete with what was going on with the guitars & drums on that is beyond me, so he was wise to just sit back and enjoy the Ride.

Alright last post on this thread tonight until someone else posts:

I don't think anyone has yet made it clear on this thread yet, but anyone who knows Grasshopper and appreciates it MUST hear the Coming Up For Air EP. It's that place beyond Grasshopper. Not quite as good perhaps, but then think how many times you had to play Grasshopper before you felt you knew the whole thing?

Damn u polar bear h8rtz!

not really into ride, but the trespasser's william cover of "vapour trail" is amazing.

Coming Up For Air EP
1 Soundcheck #1 4:20
2 Soundcheck #2 1:26
3 Performance 30:51

is what I need. Does anyone have a link? I've acquired quite a bit of shoegazism from the Tremelo100 site before. Coming Up For Air is listed there, but the link doesn't work. Gah!

Here's a link.

having some of that thanks

Merci monsieur Bimble.

Sire, I am in your debt.

Oh my god...I just heard the beginning of Polar Bear in my head.

Holy jesus. I'm playing it now.

I feel so sorry for people who never saw them live, I really really do. I hate to say that. But they were absolutely the best thing ever live. I can't erase those memories, they are a heavy part of me, those gigs.

I don't think I saw them 6 times like Nasty, Brutish & Short did, but it seems to me I probably saw them about 5 times. I can't forget what Leave Them All Behind sounded like outside at the Belgian festival. It wasn't even available for sale yet. They were poised to conquer the world and then...a fall from grace. But I've accepted this now, you know. It's history.

DECAY = GOTH SHOEGAZE