Ride

Verse of Charm Assault keeps getting stuck in my head now

I like what I've heard of this. Not quite the breathtaker that the new Slowdive is, but definitely cool. Hard not to be down with new Ride.

I really like Cali. Trying to work out what it reminds me of...I'm thinking late-era Pixies (but not vocally).

It's stuck in my head permanently now. Not sure - maybe it shares DNA with Catherine Wheel at their most American? Blur? Sonic Youth? Really it just feels like Ride perfecting themselves again

Melodically bits of Cali remind me of Beulah. Which is odd.

I think it's Letter to Memphis that it reminds me of

Their Glastonbury set is on iplayer now (and is good)

Yeah. Basically all my favourite Ride songs.

my god, I've been putting off the new Ride album bcz I was worried it wouldn't be great and it is... very not great. Depressingly unremarkable and mediocre and completely generic; I'm not getting Ride from this at all

it's not _actually offensive_ to me other than being associated with the name ride. its completely unspecial, not actually good.

Erol producing too, which used to mean something.

Surely the best Ride LP in 25 years?

nah that'd be Three Fact Fader

;)

why do they suddenly fade the drums at the end of 'leave it all behind'? fairly jarring. the live version is way better

So new one coming out. Mildly excited since I really liked the stop-gap EP they put out a year ago. New single however is pretty slight (reminds me of a 2nd tier Real Estate track).

https://open.spotify.com/album/6h5jv9bwnNkYPyfOQMEA0p?si=2DMmQoGJSOG6O4vSuZkCGg

I really like this

"Jump Jet" should be a single

I'm seeing these guys in two months but had no idea there was also a new album. Thanks for letting me know.

Jump Jet definitely seems to be the Cali of this album (deep cut that was so great it became a single well after the album cycle)

I'm seeing them today (an acoustic set and CD signing at Rough Trade).

Their lyrics are SO bad.

that...has never not been a thing

Twisterella lyrics are sublime

Enjoying this new album. “Eternal Recurrence” is the standout for me so far.

Early on the lyrics were acceptably adolescent because they basically were adolescent, and so was I. Now I'm 40 and they're pushing 50 and the lyrics are STILL adolescent, I'm not quite as tolerant...

Yeah the lyrics, i mean even as a kid i realised it had been A Bad Idea to print them on the sleeve of the 2nd album, as opposed to REM style '1 line from each song' like they had on the first. They were a classic 'nothing to say' band but i never really wanted that from them anyway.

i mean even as a kid i realised it had been A Bad Idea to print them on the sleeve of the 2nd album, as opposed to REM style '1 line from each song' like they had on the first

Absolutely OTM, especially 'Not Fazed' and 'Making Judy Smile'.

I am digging this album although there is very little to it that tells me it was made in 2019. I think they could’ve made this exact album 10 or even 20 years ago. That’s not a slight, just noting that it feels like it time traveled to my ears.

last week i bought Bauhaus ticket, today i bought Ride tickets. i hope i warm up to the new album. this band has always been great live and have seen them around 15 times now.

Listening to the new album 'cos I found out I can see them live tonight... Jump Jet and Future Love sound pretty great!

Jump Jet and Fifteen Minutes probably my favourites.

Fun show last night, sound was amazing. Such beautiful guitars. Mostly stuff from the new album (Repetition sounded like 80s Wire live) and some classics - Leave Them All Behind and Seagull sounded pretty fantastic - would liked to have heard Chrome Waves, and I guess Carnival of Light and Tarantula have been stricken from the live record? Hope I can catch them again.

Did they ever do Black Nite Crash live i wonder? Love that one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78uYU-u3pVI

xp they played Black Nite Crash 4 days ago according to setlist.fm

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.