RIDE - GOING BLANK AGAIN POLL

There is only one possibly winner of this. The best track on the album, the best single they ever released, the best song they ever did. Leave Them All Behind.

0x4 is pretty sick

and I like Time Of Her Time

mouthy otfm

The rest of this album is ok, and Nowhere is pretty good, and the early EPs are good, but LTAB does everything all at once for eight minutes and rules.

I love the consistent breeziness of this album, though. A great one for car trips.

I am driving down to Laguna today and am going to play this all the way down the 5. I may as well be Ned Raggett!!!!

the best single they ever released

was LTAB technically a single or an EP? If the latter, and b-sides are to be accounted for, I might have to give a slight edge to the Today Forever EP - tho LTAB would be a close second, even if only for Grasshopper.

I recall the video was good?

haha check this out

http://vimeo.com/27182654

Revisited this recently and it's a much better album than I remembered. There's a mood here between the noise, the proto-electronica and the coolness in the words and vocals, that is not like any other album I've heard.

Time Of Her Time is what I'm voting for. I'd go for Grasshopper if it was an option, naturally.

No this is actually a really good album. I think the cover is really cool, too.

Anyone know any more than this?
http://www.rideox4.net/qaa/qaa58.html

lol

http://ia600801.us.archive.org/zipview.php?zip=/12/items/olcovers36/olcovers36-L.zip&file=366986-L.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/612NZpaHypL._SL500_AA300_.jpg http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ofiWcAn8U6o/TfVuVHM5EDI/AAAAAAAACX0/nuTToEO7mo4/s1600/DSCF0895.jpg http://cdn.priceprobe.net/i/5990970.73834dd0392263e0b9.61474800

I like Twisterella

always thought the art looked a bit Eric Carle

Curses, I should've voted for Time Machine - why have two 'time' titles side-by-side, damn it?!

Twisterella for being so damn buttoned up and pretty.

But I still think the B-sides from this era KILL the album tracks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka99Ga7o6ho

Oh man I forgot about that image.

Something about all of Ride's images used to really bother me at the time and now I think it all looks pretty smart, if a bit random

Haha wow at that ride/kubrick nexus. It could've used some Eyes Wide Shut but otherwise A+

Actual lol when the marines start chanting on 'Just to see...' too, and then there's a WWI drum fill

There wasn't a third single from this, was there? I wonder why not, 'Mouse Trap' or 'Ox4' would've done the job.

I flip back and forth between loving the long dronerock epics on this album, and the short, sharp pop songs. (That said, I don't really care for Leave Them All Behind, I'm far more about Cool Your Boots and OX4.) Twisterella is so great, though. Argh.

I love the rhythmic interplay at the end of Cool Your Boots, and obviously the samples are great. But I think I might have to go for OX4 because of the combination of 1) postcodes as titles = a good look and 2) I'm a sucker for a love song to a bar.

Lou1s will be killing himself for having already posted this week.

(Aw, man, Grasshopper, why wasn't Grasshopper on the album?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4mBQrgkJPY

haha this is actually pretty great. If you want to know what 1991 looked like, check out a couple of the guys dancing down the front here

and I thought of a possible oblique descendant of this album - Air's Moon Safari

I've always loved OX4, and I like 'Not Fazed' just fine but it's 'LTAB'. Astounding track. Was always more of a 'Nowhere' fan tho.

I said it on the other thread, I'll say it here. Today Forever was their absolute best.

I have visited Sennen (with another ILX0r, no less!) on account of the Today Forever EP!

OTM 'Sennen' is such an amazing track. Is 'Today Forever' the EP that had a shark on the front cover?

YES! It is amazingness.

(Is the sound really out of synch on the LTAB video or is Mark Gardener really dancing that jerkily and out of time?)

Yes. Unfamiliar blew me away so hard I could never hear the other three tracks.

Heh, just dug it out to have a look at it. I don't have a record player anymore so that's all I can do with it atm :(

OMG, but that EP just builds and builds so that by the time I get to Today I'm just a gibbering wreck on the floor. "Wake up to the sun, what's done is done."

I don't even know how many million times I watched the video EP that went with the songs.

Mmmm, floppy Oxford art school boys rolling around in the sand. Do we not like that?

I had the cassingle. iirc it was the fruits of my first time in London.

Very un-rock n roll but I always found it quite sweet that every gig of theirs I went to ended with Mark saying "thanks for coming and have a safe journey home" before playing the last song.

I think I will ultimately have to go for 'Leave Them All Behind' on this one, but agree that Today Forever EP is the best.

Mark is like the nicest and sweetest human being who has ever lived, so it's just so in character with his soft loveable cuddly personality that it doesn't matter if it's rock'n'roll or not.

Sorry, I'm going to turn into a gushing fangirl for a minute, but he's one of those people that you would just expect, with everything he's done, and how good looking he is, that he would be kinda arrogant. But he is just one of the actual most sweetest and loveliest and most humble and genuine human beings I've ever met, fullstop. Which is actually far better thing to be than rock'n'roll, I think.

But anyway.

G_d watching some of these videos is bringing back memories of wishing I could trade my afro in for floppy hair like Mark G. and Bobby Briggs from Twin Peaks.

Oh god, this video is just so perfectly "Sennen in the wintertime" argh OMG no wonder I love the place so much, I was preprogrammed to by this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iec4JsG82yo

I had hair so floppy I couldn't do anything with it. It wasn't a good look. Nbs had the full Mark Gardener iirc, conspicuously absent in recent wdylls.

(Actually, watching it again, I don't think the video is actually filmed in Sennen. But it is on a wintry beach.)

Mark Gardener doesn't even have Mark Gardener hair any more so it's OK.

Actually the last time I saw him, he was sitting next to Ed O'Brien and he and Mark Gardener had switched haircuts and it was v v odd.

Twisterella hands down

There is only one possibly winner of this. The best track on the album, the best single they ever released, the best song they ever did. Leave Them All Behind.

― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy)

^^

Mark Gardener doesn't even have Mark Gardener hair any more so it's OK.

Probably go for Leave The Mall Behind just ahead of Twisterella. This album was a big pile of disappointment for me when I eventually heard it though, it's not a patch on what came before it.

What about what came AFTER it?

"There is only one possibly winner of this. The best track on the album, the best single they ever released, the best song they ever did. Leave Them All Behind."

half otm. it's the best on this otehrwise mediocre album, but they released better singles overall

* I love 'Leave Them All Behind' and I quite like Oasis 'Live Forever', and nothing else

leave them all behind seems like it should have been the middle section of a 20 minute epic, it never really leaves its middle level. maybe if they tacked on a 'feel so sad'-ish wistful beginning and a 'the sun, the sea' type blow out with skronky horns at the end. but then they didn't have a nick mccabe. nick mccabe and loz colbert would probably have been pretty great.

That'd probably be my fantasy shoegaze lineup, with the Verve's bassist too. I don't know who'd be on vocals, I suppose it doesn't much matter. Maybe Tina Turner.

If we're playing shoegaze fantasy league I'd like Ian Masters from Pale Saints and Bends era Thom Yorke harmonising in "who is further up the ethereal mountain with a megaphone" mode with Rachel Goswell doing the backing vocals from Pearl, please.

Hell, get Sice from Boo Radleys and make it 4-part Beach Boys harmonies.

OX4 does do that exact trick, that after that long classic rock organ solo and a bit of riffing and chugging along, at about 2:05, the bass kicks in, the phasers drift off, then when the guitar riff comes in at 2:15, the whole song up another gear, and at that point, you feel the liftoff like the cabin starts to slant and the ground out the window goes diagonal and you realise you're airbourne.

OTM and greatly put - OX4 just feels like air travel. I've always made a point of playing that song on the plane whenever I've moved places - it never fails to conjure new beginnings.

Would be interested to see if there's a correlation between ppl who rate LTAB and ppl who can stand early Oasis.

Love LTAB. Hate all eras of Oasis. (and to answer WCC above, I always considered MBV to be too much of an advanced art project to be reduced to mere shoegazing, and I love Lush but I wish they could have gotten their live sound down on record adequately. Lush played with Ride out here and Lush was the better band!)

A "when shoegazers stopped gazing" poll might be interesting because then we would all have to confront Carnival Of Light and Tarantula.

(would vote for Pygmalion and the Global Communication remix of Blood Music)

Also, everyone is aware of the Going Blank Again 20th anniversary release with the DVD?

Ooh Lovelife or Pentamerous Metamorphis. Could not decide

Mark's songs on Carnival of Light are superb; I have no idea how anyone can hate them.

A "when shoegazers stopped gazing" poll might be interesting

totally seconding this!

Might work better as a S/D rather than a poll. Have to think about this one...

'Song For The Lovers' ftw

You sick fuck

But that's if you want to label Verve as a shoegaze band and they were so much better than that back then.

Yeah, always more a flag of convenience at best.

I have no problem at all with Mark's or Loz's songs on Carnival of Wife.

I don't suppose anyone's got a rip of 'Rolling Thunder #2', which is a pretty solo guitar version that was on the b-side of Birdman? I'd like to hear it again, but it's ungooglable (a massive drawback of one-word bands btw, lord alone knows how anybody goes about finding stuff by Can)

try this

http://www.sendspace.com/file/giq0n4

Fabulous! I never expected to hear that again.

(it kind of makes me want to run an iPhoto slideshow now)

moose would win the after gazing poll no? surely they are the only ones that became better after they stopped gazing. well i suppose you could say that the boo radleys stopped gazing after 'everything's alright' and they released their best records after that. maybe between those two which makes sense since they recorded their best records across the hall from each other.

i would say mojave 3 if they count. i would take their debut over any boo radleys or moose (or ride, or probably valentines frankly)

(don't mention The Valentines)

There was a very swift decline with Mojave 3. The first album was so great and the second so dull that I got off the bus immediately. Did I miss anything?

Glad someone mentioned Moose, as they were the band the term "shoegazing" was coined for, and made lovely records right up to their demise. Saw them live (with Submarine supporting, did they count?) and though it was a short set (B songs) they were marvellous, conjuring up all the magic and swirl of their records.

There was a very swift decline with Mojave 3. The first album was so great and the second so dull that I got off the bus immediately. Did I miss anything?

not really. i like a lot of the 2nd album but the first is all-time for me.

I bought "Ask me tomorrow" at the same time as "Pygmalion" and couldn't believe the difference between them, but with the same spooked atmosphere on both. "Love songs on the radio" ended up opening my first lithotripsy cd (theres a thread about it on here from 2003) and hey I've got more litho next week.... And this time I've got The Telescopes' "Flying" leading the way (well I will be pumped full of morphine and flying myself).

Nobody's mentioned the Telescopes have they? Shame.

I tend to think of the Telescopes as being to weird and arty (not to mention early) to get lumped in w shoegaze. I tend to file them next to Loop & Spacemen 3 in the "not really gaze" category.)

The media seemed to take against the Telescopes from the start, claiming they were bandwagon jumping on the MBV / Loop style, then signing to Creation and going baggy didn't help. There was progression in their singles but they were too early or too late and fell between too many stools.

Oh I like them, I just don't think they're shoegaze.

They fall through too many cracks. ;_;

A true shoegazer can always avoid the cracks.

LTAB isn't a great (or even a good) song in terms of songwriting in a "great even when you play it with an acoustic guitar" way.
there's not much happening melodically and it's pretty repetitive.
but the arrangements, dynamics and production are fantastic.
the intro is one of the most exciting thing ever !

Yeah I love the intro-intro (who keybds) and the second intro (guitars kicking in) but then it just loses the momentum I find

Really enjoyed listening to this again today as the sun returned. Twisterella, Mouse Trap, Cool Your Boots all sounding great but its all about OX4 really. Beautiful.

I've always loved it, but I feel like it's only really now I'm listening to it on headphones that it's really kicking in for me - the last couple of minutes are extraordinary.

I'm talking about Leave Them All Behind there.

Alan Moulder did a good job, it would've been easy for that to just sound like loud static. I didn't know he was married to Toni Halliday!

Making Judy Smile is the only real clunker

I wasn't too impressed with Not Fazed tonight after hearing it again for the first time in a few years.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

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

sad no one voted for Not Fazed - my #2 pick and an underrated track, from the looks of things

Happy birthday admrl!

Happy birthday admrl but I'm still disappointed in these results TBH.

making judy smile is a great pop song, don't understand the dislike as much as i don't understand the love for ltab.

Zeroes seldomly signify dislike. It's usually "perpetual third favourite".

Come on, it's terrible!

^ otm

Still hoping that one day we get a proper ranking poll system as opposed to a pass/fail one.

Just played Twisterella five times in a row. Addictive like salted caramel