How many people know the band Ride
I love them and always have and when i show people they love them too but they are very unknown by most
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1Dg2xGxl74
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6DmnpgelqI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN663J292io

check these out I hope you like them too. Andy Bell joined Oasis later

I'm only familiar with and have their 'OX4 - Best of', but, have to say, it's brilliant. Love it. Maybe they were perhaps too much 'of their time', but, from what I've heard they probably deserved far more success than they actually had.

I've heard of them but thought they were one-trick-ponies. Not exactly challenging to listen to but their sound does make me nostalgic for the time when there used to be music programmes on television worth watching.

One of the great shoegaze bands and one of Oxford's greats, I've all their EP's and the song Sennen is in my top twenty songs of all-time.

Saw Ride live and they were awesome, Vapour Trail and Polar Bear are great tracks. Bought everything they ever did!

Andy Bell went and joined Oasis. Left Hurricane #1 to do it. **** him

Saw them live from Chelsea Girl EP onwards , though I went off them post-Nowhere, and walked past the stage when they were on at Glastonbury 94.

The Kilburn National, Town and Country Club (twice I think) and a festival type thingy in Slough I think along with (iirc) Slowdive, The Mock Turtles, Curve and a few others. Possibly Chapterhouse.

Glorious days

I think I might still have one of Mark's guitar strings in my bedside drawer, along with all my old vinyl of course.

They were brilliant live, really fierce. I read somewhere they did a show of all the old stuff a year or so ago?

Decent enough band but nothing spectacular. They toured last year, I was going to go and see them but had something else on when they played near me.

Did you ever see them live in their first few years in an intimate venue? They were bloody amazing!!!

Definitely agree with this -especially witnessing Loz Colbert's drumming live - a remarkable performer. I too was at the 'shoegazing Woodstock' that was the '91 Slough Festival

Although perhaps their some of their early effects pedally stuff hasn't always aged favourably, at the time hearing songs like Drive Blind, Dreams Burn Down, In A Different Place and pretty much all the Nowhere-era stuff totally blew me away.

Still think their third album was underrated too: From Time To Time, Endless Road and Only Now showed a musical progression and maturity. Less said about Tarantula the better though

I've definitely heard of them and I love them. Shoegaze seems to be making a bit of a comeback these days.

I didn't, I was only 9 when the first album came out!

That would be no bad thing IMO, some Swervedriveresque sounds again, more recently, I discovered this band, anyone else heard of them?

https://vimeo.com/27047480

Pfft, excuses excuses


Ooh is it? I really must pick up the newest My Bloody Valentine album, it's meant to be another classic. To Here Knows When was an incredible EP, absolutely mesmerising.


Hurrah, a fellow Slough goer!!! Such a great day that, a culmination of that particular 'scene' and time in many ways, we had a blast, sure you did too, I'll never forget Ten Little Girls Live

You're right about the ageing I'm sure, I haven't listened to the vinyl in for decades. I'm sure the early stuff wasn't particularly well produced or mixed etc, but it got better with Taste EP and Nowhere onwards I think. After that my tastes quickly changed somewhat and I lost interest, so I missed any decent later stuff, but those early gigs were so intense. Being able to just stroll down to the front row at the Town and Country Club after paying a tenner or whatever and watch them smash Drive Blind and Dreams Burn Down with all the strobes firing and whatnot was pretty amazing.

I think they may also have played a short set at The Brits 'alternative night' with The Cure headlining and Jesus Jones and New Model Army and others (?)


Thanks! Will give that a listen once I've come down from seeing The Stone Roses in Manchester yesterday, what a gig that was!!!

Slightly different but another very much underrated band of the time imo was Levitation, anyone heard of them? I think I only saw them once but they were cracking, and their recorded stuff really deep.

I haven't heard of Levitation. And do let us know how the Stone Roses went.

I think I only saw Levitation once, but they were amazing, as is their recorded stuff (if you like that very deep, light and dark, intense and intricate musicianship style).

The Stone Roses - I've tried twice to write reviews, but I can't in any way touch how amazing last night was, they have got to be - once again - the greatest band on the planet. 2013 in London was a festival with a celebratory crowd and an almost tentative setlist that made a few wrong turns - this was both a statement and a performance beyond belief. The bars closed at 9:45 so I'd only had a few pints over many hours which i think were watered down anyway. I basically felt sober, and yet have never been lifted so high by a gig in my life (and I've seen thousands). There are no words basically how good they were

If anyone has any practical questions though I'll start a thread here (because the organisation and travel last night was a mess) or anyone can PM me

To add... 14 Iced Bears - not strictly shoegaze but this song has the hallmarks... hold on!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvV0fZ82cVg

Blimey Lush are still going in some form or other

Only saw them once supporting The Cure at Party in the Park, Crystal Palace along with James and apparently All About Eve (who I don't remember which is strange as I liked them at the time).

Only four or so songs as I recall but setlist has them at 10 including Sweetness and Light, but I loved that song and thought this was well before that came out. I'd only had a can or two of beer that day too

Classic Ride, great Taste

Wow, is that Taste? I don't remember it sounding like that at all

That's so weird because that track sounds really pretty decent to me now (says a lot about modern music, no?!!), but 'the penguin cover EP' was where they started to lose me as a fan (Dreams Burn Down I'd already heard live for a year or more by then, so knew anyway). I chose to spend my dinner money elsewhere that week I guess, and they lost me to tomato sauce spaghetti and chips!!!

I did buy and love Nowhere, though it was mad no to include Fall EP songs on cassette (and vinyl?) copies of the album and only on the CD release, whether I like all the tracks or not. Suddenly some fans were cut off from the stuff they concentrated on live.

I just found this live version, it's really good I think I was almost certainly at this gig, and it was probably my last of theirs as a 'fan'. Again it's so weird that this was the song that drove me away from them but as I listen now if music like this came out today I'd re-live my youth!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yByN3f31Hvw



Negative caveat!:

It does though sound like a far weaker and pale imitation of The Stone Roses' Elephant Stone imo, which was around three years earlier at least and a far better track - probably while, being a decent song listening to it now, they lost me at this point.

@nattoyaki - yes, the Nowhere EP version of Taste and the best version for me as it is the only one I know, totally stunning track and possibly second to Sennen which is my favourite.

Ooh I got confuzzled a bit in my last post

Right you are! Taste was from third EP Fall (nowhere/penguins EP) which I didn't buy. Then they released the album without three of the tracks from it unless you bought the CD and all we had were tape players and record players! So their big 'hit' at the time, three or four of their live set (and in fact the title track from the album!) weren't even on it for most fans, bit silly!

That's probably the only reason I don't remember how it sounded, that it was their 'big tune' I suddenly only heard a couple of times at gigs. Bought and loved the album but that sour taste around the EP/short tape version of Nowhere lead to a bit of a 'meh' feeling and Today Forever was where they lost me as I didn't bother with that one either.

Yes indeed though, Sennen was/and is glorious!

Absolutely love Ride.

Of course you are spot on about the EP's and album situation when some obvious songs weren't included. How annoying it is when that happens!

I agree too on Taste being their BIG tune.

I have this passion so much for Sennen that although they made an official music video I have some ideas for a film that would create a new video that would mean travelling down to Cornwall over a weekend and the shooting scenes there. This would have to be during winter though because the feel I have is of starkness and desolation but also of salvation ultimately.

They'll never invade her now

It is something I am driven to do but have not yet got around to doing it. But if you have a connection with a song then you know that you have the passion to do it well.