Ride

I did something like that, I was young and didn't need the money

ha, me too, but i'm still bitter obv!

like, cosmic rough riders were akin to country-era byrds in precisely the same way that the narrator of "horse with no name" had ingested real acid.

and montgolfier brothers were the new felt/durutti column just as the alarm were the u2 done right

my brother loved the montgolfier brothers. Are you in your very early 30s/perhaps just turned 30? I was already slightly too cynical for that period of UK hype.

erm uh

uh

i turned 30 in 2002

gulp

hahaaaaa

good for you, old man

you're only as old as you feel, eh

anyways, ride were a weird band, their whole career trajectory

i remember reading in the creation records book about how whatshisname was on a plane embarking on a tour in japan or u.s. or something and he came up with the idea for "leave them all behind", like they were so glad to be washing their hands of all the shitty indie bands that they had been automatically lumped in with

that being said, i kinda like "going blank again" better than their previous ep's which might not be an entirely challenging opinion, but...

I mean, I am 28 in ILX years, obv

but all of the shoegaze bands were great singles acts-- there are amazing pale saints, lush, etc. songs.

somehow mbv managed to put together a couple of reasonably coherent lps which the also-rans for whatever reason couldn't seem to do

but leave them all behind is pretty solid as far as a statement from an also-ran. unless i'm completely mistaken and people are jamming down "whirlpool" by chapterhouse while they are shooting up cough syrup

It is funny that Spiritualized are no longer really lumped in with "shoegaze", otherwise LGM or Pure Phase would own all of these, for me

I feel like they were part of this at the time but in retrospect they exist outside of it, maybe because they kept going and now we kind of have a Spiritualized 2.0, or even 2.5

probably our unconscious minds over time accumulate a list of things we would never have thunk would happen during our lifetimes

dude, spiritualized were on letterman a couple of weeks ago. jason spaceman. the heroin addict from rugby or whatever. i mean, it just seems so unlikely. something like if next week the misfits announce that jason alexander of seinfeld fame is their new lead singer.

haha

i totally like "if i were with her now", when he indulged his uh, 'perfect prescription' of beach boys/krautrock synergy moments

but then i lost interest after seeing him live around the time of "ladies and gentlemen" which was for me anyhow a total yawner

but now with his new record he is back into some jonathan richman vibe? or something? break it down for me you heads

I need to listen to the new one again

so, anyone admitting to listening to the heavy stereo album recently ?

or, the diggers ?

some folks say good stuff re that january album, but i've yet to make it all the way through it before boredom kicks in.

xps That's supposed to be a challop?!

man. ok

when i was nineteen i would listen to my college's radio station idly in the background

i almost wish i were joking but hearing "polar bear" and "kennedy" by the wedding presesents was some kind of life revolution to me. prior to that i had been so immersed in the punk world i scarcely realized there was a world of indie music apart from screaming and breakneck tempos. it was a revelation. like i patiently waited for the dj to announce what he had been playing and then scrawled it down and took it with me the next time i went to the local record store

I loved Ride more than life itself at some points in the early 80s but jesus christ their transformation into a classic rock band was one of the more disappointing career trajectories they could have taken. And I say that as someone who actually likes about half of Carnival Of Wife.

But I should really know better than to talk shoegaze on ILX.

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dunno, just thought ppl rated the early ep's over "leave them all behind". i remember it being received as a disappointment by my friends at the time

The best thing that Ride ever did was the Today Forever EP. I mean, the first couple of EPs were nice and I loved Nowhere, but Today Forever was the one that changed everything for me.

see i somehow don't even know that record or at least don't remember it. if you are american you miss out on so many things

You probably got it tacked on the end of Nowhere instead, though.

ah... that makes sense

y'know if you grew up in america you were sold "the smithereens" as being a viable "college rock" band so, just saying...

the fact i can use the word "ride" in conversations not involving a tilt-a-whirl is maybe impressive in itself

I loved Ride more than life itself at some points in the early 80s

Truly before your time (and theirs).

xps That's supposed to be a challop?!

how dare you see thru my cunning plan ...

when i was nineteen i would listen to my college's radio station idly in the background ...patiently waited for the dj to announce what he had been playing and then scrawled it down and took it with me the next time i went to the local record store

pre-internet, and outside of friends lending me stuff, this often was mostly how i found out about new stuff. in the early 90s it was usually WPRB in Princeton, and sometimes Drexel or Temple or U Penn would play indie/punk. I would even let a 100 min tape roll on a show that sounded good when heading to bed and then would skim through it the next day in the car to find new stuff.

The best thing that Ride ever did was the Today Forever EP. I mean, the first couple of EPs were nice and I loved Nowhere, but Today Forever was the one that changed everything for me.

― They have fangs, They have teeth! (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Friday, May 18, 2012 2:20 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

see i somehow don't even know that record or at least don't remember it. if you are american you miss out on so many things

― dell (del), Friday, May 18, 2012 4:34 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You probably got it tacked on the end of Nowhere instead, though.

― Ismael Klata, Friday, May 18, 2012 4:40 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

Three of the tracks got tacked on a CD EP for Vapour Trail. I never realized they were a part of something else until Sire put "Today" on one of those Just Say ____ comps.

yeah, totally! if a dj was playing a bunch of songs that appealed to me i would hurriedly search around for a blank tape and also would be scribbling down the names of the artists. i'm guessing that kind of thing has been talked about here before but it was so real and fun to discover new artists in that way.

...except when there was no back-announce, or you had to leave your car before you could hear it.

I prefer pulling up a station playlist on my phone now.

Less mystery, more clarity.

And don't overlook Ride's BBC sessions!

Truly before your time (and theirs).

― Pacific Trash Vortex (Nasty, Brutish & Short),

Actually my personal musical memory and state of being obsessed with music started in about 1981, though thanks for the compliment of thinking I'm younger than I am...

But anyway, it was a typo. Stupid iPhone typing on the bus. Early 90s obviously.

Also, I was living in the States when the Today Forever EP came out! If I could find it, other people could find it!

(That said, I was kinda working at or involved with two college radio stations around the late 80s/early 90s)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Original-Album-Ride/dp/B00DDVPXW8/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1378297865&sr=1-1&keywords=original+album+series

Mark and Andy from last night. All of a sudden I feel very, VERY old.

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Where was that, The Social? I thought about going to that Lord Tarquin thing, but wasn't sure I could handle a geriatric scene celebrating itself. :-/

the scene that wets itself

Was just about to post this elsewhere:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6fEJ7q_MsE&feature=youtu.be

(Mark on new Telepopmusik track)

Now that the Year Of Slowdive is nearing completion, here comes the year of Ride.

It appears UK shoegaze outfit Ride is on the brink of a reunion. This morning, the band’s one-time label, Creation Records, posted a photograph of a Ride poster along with caption, “Ride Reunion 2015 photo from Primavera this morning,” and a #RideReunion hashtag. While the image has since been re-uploaded with one sans the caption and hashtag, the cat is already out of the bag: Ride appear set to reunite for the first time in over a decade for an appearance at this year’s Primavera Sound Music Festival in Barcelona, Spain.

over a decade?? that's selling it a bit short. they haven't played live together in almost 2! great news though either way.

acquaintance of mine saw Mark Gardner at some tiny solo thing a month or so ago and she said something like this was in the works.

Never understood why the Sonic Youth thing was worthy of being the sole occasion they previously reformed

Reunion officially on:

http://m.pitchfork.com/news/57511-ride-reunite-announce-world-tour/

what's Mark gonna do without the fringe?

just kidding. this will be cool

OH MY GOODDDDDD they better announce more dates

this is amazing news! have seen Ride around nine times.

Swervedriver are touring soon, too, I think.

live on BBC6 RIGHT NOW

http://www.roundhouse.org.uk/whats-on/2015/ride/
"RIDE are the band who slammed the door firmly shut on the (by then) flailing 80s pop movement and paved the way for bands like Primal Scream and Oasis to shine in the Britpop era."

Eh?

Someone is claiming tickets start at £27.50 for London on another forum. Anyone know what they are to be for the rest of the tour? Already got a Primavera ticket but thinking about Glasgow too.... hmmm

Nice to hear Fyt by This Mortal Coil as Ride's intro music from the 1990 gig. (I assume the INXS playing before that was not their choice).

xp Oh!? I had no idea that it was back in their sets, great news, i always thought they hated it.

They've played it a lot since they reformed. Check this out: http://ride.band/songography/

Nice to hear Fyt by This Mortal Coil as Ride's intro music from the 1990 gig

That was one of the great things about the 2015 reunion gigs, that they used that same track to come on stage to as they had back in 1990. (Not that I remembered it from the gigs, I remembered it from the bootlegs of the gigs)

last song that played before they went on last night was Reward by the Teardrop Explodes, tape intro was the first song from the new album I think?

glad you had fun last night, makes me look forward to the show in two weeks.

on my way, pretty excited for this as Ride are one of my favorites from back in the day. also the reviews, from their live shows, here are encouraging. i even sort of like a few songs from the new album.

enjoy! hope you get to hear Chrome Waves!

Ride killed it at Desert Daze this weekend. Added last minute.

hey bee, how was the show? i didn't even know they were playing, but i drive past the observatory pretty much everyday, as i live about a mile from there. saw the marquee on my way home yesterday and just kind of had one of those, "welp (shrug)" moments.

i feel sorry for Ride. i saw MBV just last year and the place was gigantic and it felt overbooked. when i saw Slowdive two years ago they also played a fairly big place. Ride played in LA on Monday night and then in the OC on Wednesday night. in this Observatory venue they have a small room and a bigger room. they sold these Ride tickets for the bigger room but they didn't draw enough fans so they switched it to the smaller room. the problem was, besides not being able to sell out the bigger room, is that there were too many people for the smaller room. by the time we realized that Ride was actually on stage we could not get into the space, it was way over packed. so the beginning of the show sucked because the five of us could not see a damn thing. we eventually made our way in to see the band.

Ride were amazing though. one thing that struck me last night was that they are Mark Gardener's band. i remember thinking, back in the 90s, that it felt like it was 50% Andy Bell and then 50% Mark. that is not reality as it seems like Mark is m ore like 80% of Ride and Andy is just sort of there. no wonder Andy was able to take a back seat to Oasis so easily. Ride played like 12 songs from the last two albums and they sounded great live. i have not been the biggest fan of the newer stuff but it sounds great live. they did play "Chrome Waves" and opened with "Cali." "Seagull" was the highlight, as they closed with that song and was beyond stunning. if you get a chance to see Ride and are on the fence i say go, you wont be disappointed in the least.

Built to Spill is playing there next month and do really like the venue. i hope to catch that show but i am seeing Bauhaus that same week so it is a toss up right now.

Austin that is funny about where you live, i work right across the street!

well that sucks about the venue. sounds like it was good once you actually got in the damn place.

also one of the offices of the program i work for is right off warner a few blocks up so i'm in and out of that area daily haha.

Increasingly convinced that Cali is in their all-time top 5 songs, glad they're opening with it

The Ride EP came out 30 years ago today.

So it would have been 30 years ago when I saw this, most of my mates rushed out and bought it the following Saturday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1FZjgggSFE

Has anyone worked out the lineup order for the various US dates?

Isn't it a double header with the Charlatans?

Yup so early rejecter is asking who headlines what night.

Ah. No idea.

"headliner to change each night" - 50/50 then

(I read that here, btw - https://spillmagazine.com/spill-news-the-charlatans-uk-ride-unite-for-north-american-co-headline-tour/ )

https://static.stereogum.com/uploads/2024/01/Ride-Interplay-Packshot-1704569025-1000x1000.jpg

Interplay

1. “Peace Sign”
2. “Last Frontier”
3. “Light In A Quiet Room”
4. “Monaco”
5. “I Came To See The Wreck”
6. “Stay Free”
7. “Last Night I Came”
8. “Sunrise Chaser”
9. “Midnight Rider”
10. “Portland Rocks”
11. “Essaouira”
12. “Yesterday Is Just A Song”

Out March 29, 2024 on Wichita Recordings/PIAS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGnClWTNQRQ

saw them last week playing all of Nowhere and a few new songs, all of it sounded GREAT. i don't think I've ever heard such a great sound out of a Rickenbacker! I think the tour is basically just starting, if you're thinking of going- go fer it!

I saw them last night here in Austin... they indeed sound fantastic. Mark Gardener needs to learn some dance moves from Tim Burgess though, liven things up a little.

saw them in l.a. and co-sign all of the above

I've seen them a ridiculous number of times now, it's almost a compulsive thing

Smoked weed with them out of an apple once, A+ would do again

I have seen Ride countless times too. Last time was in 2019, saw the Charlatans around that time too. Couldn't make it this last week tho

Funny, no one is saying anything about this new song. It does sound 80s influence but not sure that is what I want from Ride.

Take that back, majorairbro did say something...

they played Peace Sign last night, it was fine... I'm not a nu-Ride hater, Lannoy Point kicked off the encore and sounded great!

I saw them in SF. The new song sounded pretty lame, and 1 or 2 of the oldies/goodies had audio mixing that didn't quite come together. Overall it was a great show though.