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English rock band formed in Oxford in 1988.

With their first records, Ride created a unique wall of sound that relied on massive, trembling distortion in the vein of My Bloody Valentine but with a simpler, more direct melodic approach. The shatteringly loud, droning neo-psychedelia the band performed was dubbed shoegazing by the British press because the bandmembers stared at their pedals while they performed. Along with their initial influence, My Bloody Valentine, Ride stood apart from the shoegazing pack, primarily because of their keen sense of songcraft and dynamics. For a while, the band was proclaimed the last great hope of British rock, but they fell from the spotlight nearly as quickly as they entered it.
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thebandride.com, ride.band, Facebook, instagram.com, Twitter, Twitter, Wikipedia, YouTube
Members:
Andy Bell (2), Loz Colbert, Mark Gardener, Steve Queralt

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4-26462 Nowhere — Ride Ride Nowhere (Album) Creation Records, Creation Records 4-26462 US 1990 Sell This Version
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TCD 0059 In Concert - 512 — Ride Ride In Concert - 512 ‎(CD, Transcription) BBC Transcription TCD 0059 UK 1991 Sell This Version
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26836-4 Going Blank Again — Ride Ride Going Blank Again (Album) Creation Records 26836-4 Thailand 1992 Sell This Version
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WPCR-36 Carnival Of Light — Ride Ride Carnival Of Light (Album) Creation Records WPCR-36 Japan 1994 Sell This Version
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C-CRE 180 Tarantula — Ride Ride Tarantula (Album) Creation Records C-CRE 180 UK 1996 Sell This Version
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WEBB510CD Weather Diaries — Ride Ride Weather Diaries (Album) Wichita WEBB510CD UK, Europe & US 2017 Sell This Version
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WEBB530LP Waking Up In Another Town: Weather Diaries Remixed — Ride Ride Waking Up In Another Town: Weather Diaries Remixed ‎(2xLP, RSD, Ltd) Wichita WEBB530LP Europe 2018 Sell This Version
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WEBB570LPC, 5055036215701 This Is Not A Safe Place — Ride Ride This Is Not A Safe Place (Album) Wichita, [PIAS] WEBB570LPC, 5055036215701 Europe 2019 Sell This Version
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WEBB584LP Clouds In The Mirror (This Is Not A Safe Place Reimagined By Pêtr Aleksänder) — Ride Ride Reimagined By Pêtr Aleksänder Ride Reimagined By Pêtr Aleksänder - Clouds In The Mirror (This Is Not A Safe Place Reimagined By Pêtr Aleksänder) (Album) Wichita WEBB584LP US 2020 Sell This Version
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Singles & EPs
CRE 075T Play — Ride Ride Play (EP) Creation Records, Creation Records CRE 075T UK 1990 Sell This Version
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PRO-CD-4659 Taste — Ride Ride Taste (Single) Creation Records PRO-CD-4659 US 1990 Sell This Version
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CRE 72T Ride — Ride Ride Ride (EP) Creation Records, Creation Records CRE 72T UK 1989 Sell This Version
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cre087t, CRE087T Fall — Ride Ride Fall (EP) Creation Records, Creation Records cre087t, CRE087T UK 1990 Sell This Version
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9 40055-2 Vapour Trail — Ride Ride Vapour Trail (Maxi, Single) Sire, Reprise Records 9 40055-2 US 1991 Sell This Version
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PRO-A-4961 Kaleidoscope (Plus 6 Live Tracks) — Ride Ride Kaleidoscope (Plus 6 Live Tracks) Sire, Reprise Records PRO-A-4961 US 1991 Sell This Version
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CRESCD 100 Today Forever — Ride Ride Today Forever (EP) Creation Records, Creation Records CRESCD 100 UK 1991 Sell This Version
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sleighed 1 Like A Snowflake — Ride Ride Like A Snowflake ‎(7", S/Sided) University Of London Union sleighed 1 UK 1991 Sell This Version
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WPCP-5064 Grasshopper EP — Ride Ride Grasshopper EP (EP) Sire WPCP-5064 Japan 1992 Sell This Version
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CRESCD 150, crescd 150 Twisterella — Ride Ride Twisterella (Single, Maxi, EP) Creation Records, Creation Records CRESCD 150, crescd 150 UK 1992 Sell This Version
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9362-40332-0 Leave Them All Behind — Ride Ride Leave Them All Behind (Single, Maxi) Creation Records, Creation Records 9362-40332-0 Germany 1992 Sell This Version
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PB 05468 She Calls / Leave Them All Behind — Ride Slowdive / Ride Slowdive / Ride - She Calls / Leave Them All Behind ‎(7", Single, Ltd, Promo, Blu) SBK Records, Sire PB 05468 US 1992 Sell This Version
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CRECS 184, crecs 184 How Does It Feel To Feel? — Ride Ride How Does It Feel To Feel? (Single, Maxi) Creation Records CRECS 184, crecs 184 UK 1994 Sell This Version
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CRESCD 189 I Don't Know Where It Comes From — Ride Ride I Don't Know Where It Comes From (Single) Creation Records CRESCD 189 UK 1994 Sell This Version
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CCD 155 Birdman — Ride Ride Birdman (Single) Creation Records CCD 155 UK 1994 Sell This Version
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CRESCD 199 Black Nite Crash — Ride Ride Black Nite Crash (Single) Creation Records CRESCD 199 UK 1996 Sell This Version

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alechyper

alechyper

January 10, 2023
Ride's song Lannoy Point was actually a building located between Fulham and Hammersmith, and I was very reminded when I heard the song and had to find out again in Google Maps. In fact, I was walking past it everyday when I was studying for IELTS to get a bachelor outside of the UK (I was only residing there and not British myself), when I lived in Fulham before I left London. The song being from Ride and being shoegaze also holds a special association to these infamous concrete buildings. A memory that will never be canceled from my mind.
JustusMeinFreund

JustusMeinFreund

November 8, 2022
Anyone knows in which bitrate the digital downloads of the reissues are coming?
g0bspeeb

g0bspeeb

November 2, 2022
2022 reissues are being shipped now, got my email confirmation this morning.
sydfloyd

sydfloyd

September 13, 2021
I saw Ride play in 1990 and they weren't even close to being "shatteringly loud" - they played at average gig volume; i.e nowhere near to My Bloody Valentine's usual 'fingers in ears' level. Not sure they "stood apart from the shoegazing pack" particularly either; they were briefly the most celebrated by the press, but they never really transcended the scene. Their popularity evaporated as shoegaze faded and they tried to develop their sound in other directions. Great band though, especially the early stuff.
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sorryitsnotJUDGE

sorryitsnotJUDGE

August 21, 2021
If anyone reading this doesn't know the early 90's Creation records band Adorable, def check them out, you will NOT be disappointed.
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chunkyricesushi

chunkyricesushi

January 18, 2020
For me, as a shoegaze fan, Ride were a band of 4 fantastic EP's and an average LP.

They were a very exciting proposition when they first appeared with the self-titled EP in 1989. Very much influenced by "Isn't Anything" by My Bloody Valentine, their sound was noisy but more melodic, younger and brasher than The Valentines. Subsequent EP's carried on the build, Play and Fall (the drums on "Dreams Burn Down" were colossal) were more accomplished in their songwriting scope and sonics.

But their 1st LP was very much a disappointment compared to those EP's. The sound was thinner and less overwhelming. Andy Bell's snaking melodies had largely gone, replaced by more typical arpeggios and predictable chord sequences. Lyrically as well as sonically, songs were darker, more introspective, sad and tired-sounding. All in all, much less chaos to offset the melodies.

"Vapour Trail" was the obvious standout track, we'd already heard "Dreams Burn Down", so the rest was pretty uninspiring - although the sparser guitar tones did let more of the amazing drumming poke through in the mix!

The "Today Forever" EP was a welcome return to form, especially for the lush last track. They sounded much sunnier and upbeat than on the previous LP.

I don't know why, but from then on, Ride turned rapidly into a fairly standard British rock band, and lost most of the atmospherics and eccentricities that had made them stand out. They cleaned and streamlined their sound.

By 1994, they sounded like all the other Britpop pretenders. I guess they wanted to compete with Oasis, Blur and the burgeoning Britpop scene. We lost a magical scene as everything went horribly "Cool Britannia"!

Lush, Chapterhouse, Ride, Boo Radleys, Slowdive, The Pale Saints etc. were all lost in the aftermath of Nevermind's success and the onset of Britpop!
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Rich.C

Rich.C

December 22, 2016
Beginning with the Smile LP, Ride set overdriven guitars to the hypnotic pulse of Fender vibrato and driven, loopy rhythms. Vocalists Mark Gardner and Andy Bell traded vocal duties, layering each with their richly melodic, atmospheric harmonies and creating the Shoegazer's signature contrast between jet engine guitars and almost deadpan vocals. The band's two minutes began in 1990 with the release of Nowhere, and rather than cow-towing to pop's quick, compressed conventions, Ride increased the throttle with phantom feedback and an elegant sort of rhythmic aggression for album's opener "Seagull." Still, the band didn't confine itself to volume tactics alone; they also showed great pop skills and a penchant for heart wrenching song craft with the album's touted hit "Vapour Trail." Ride continued to profile their structured pop brilliance (see "Twisterella") and jammy, Neo-Psychedelic swirl until their demise in 1995.

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