Ride 'Nowhere' Poll

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

Bimble is still more goth than you.

VAYPOOR TRAYLE

TASTE

HERE & NOW

NOWHERE

best sequence of Ride songs ever outside of Grasshopper/Today Forever EP.

Cannot wait

p4K:

Ride don't get treated with quite the same hushed reverence as their shoegaze peers My Bloody Valentine, but they sat comfortably in the top tier of late-80s/early-90s effects-pedal abusers. This year, their landmark 1990 debut album Nowhere turns 20. On December 21, Rhino will release an expanded double-disc reissue of the album.

The new edition includes a remastered version of the original album's U.S. edition, as well as the 1991 EP Today Forever and an unreleased 1991 live show. It'll come packaged as a hardback book, along with a 40-page booklet featuring photos and an essay by critic Jim DeRogatis. Check out the tracklist below.

Nowhere: 20th Anniversary Edition:

CD1 (Nowhere and Today Forever):

01 Seagull
02 Kaleidoscope
03 In a Different Place
04 Polar Bear
05 Dreams Burn Down
06 Decay
07 Paralysed
08 Vapour Trail
09 Taste
10 Here and Now
11 Nowhere
12 Unfamiliar
13 Sennen
14 Beneath
15 Today

CD2 (Live at the Roxy, 1991):

01 Polar Bear
02 Seagull
03 Unfamiliar
04 Dreams Burn Down
05 Like a Daydream
06 Vapour Trail
07 In a Different Place
08 Perfect Time
09 Taste
10 Nowhere
11 Chelsea Girl
12 Drive Blind

I think I might already have that Roxy set & if it is what I am thinking of, it is one of their best live recordings. I would certainly invest in a remaster of the same show.

♡_♡

Okay, up for that. Twenty years old though - when Nowhere came out, Abbey Road was only a year older than that.

shhh..

Woahhh

jeepers thats an amazing stat/fact.

Yeah that would definitely be the same Roxy set that's partially circulated for a while; seven songs from it were on a promo single.

so is this out then? can't find it listed on any of the online retailers

Future ILX poll: The original 8 songs on Nowhere or the 7 bonus tracks?

So is this not being released in Europe??
can't imagine I'm the only one interested in this

Turned thirty years old this week. Yes you're old. Burbled this just now:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/covid-coping-42820529

CLASSIC, great driving album.

Ride, along with The Charlatans are playing live tonight in Los Angeles and I'm not going. 😒

I love this album to death as I have been recently proclaiming.

Voted "Polar Bear" and still comfortable with that choice but also...

My brother-in-law once admiringly described them as “the best school band you ever heard”. Re-reading Dave Cavanagh’s book about Creation (recently reissued in paperback) and it all goes tits up when Twisterella isn’t a big hit like everyone is expecting. It’s a pretty sad story after that. Blows my mind how much bigger Slowdive are nowadays. I’m glad they came back and made it work, saw them in Manchester last year on the Nowhere anniversary jaunt, still great.

Saw them over the summer and they were great. Read an old Nitsuh review of the Field Mice that noted a surprising sonic connection between the bands.

"Seagull" really is the best opener of any shoegaze album isn't it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy44DgD_F6g-