Ride--Nowhere 20th anniversary edition...

[girlwithnoname]

This is one of my favorite albums, so I'm giving it a plug!

Ride--Nowhere 20th anniversary edition

[withahip]

Are you buying it, though? If you do/did, does it sound better than the original?

[girlwithnoname]

No, still listening to my old CD.. it's actually the second. The first one snapped in half, so I had to replace it. I wonder if it's worth the cheddar to pick it up?

Hmm...

[JackT]

One time, in grad school, this Phillipina chick I knew bought "Schubert Dip" and it had two copies of the CD inside. True story.

[Voodoo Billy]

There's no answer to that is there.

[withahip]

It sounds wonderful on so many levels!

[withahip]

The Schubert Dip story.

[Dave Smith]

I saw Ride a few times but live never really cut the mustard for me.But I still love that first album/singles run.Bit nancy boy-ish from Oxford as well.Boring in interview.Slowdive stole a march on everyone at that time for me.Obviously Bell now plays pub-rock bass with Beady Eye.

[withahip]

It is called shoegaze.

[fat cherry]

love this album though the original will do for me. heres my star story. Back at the beginning of the century i organised a bit of a reunion dinner for the company we had all left about a year before, and one of my ex-colleagues phones up at the last minute and says can I bring a guest - hey you know where this is going already dont you? Have I dont this one before? - and I moaned a bit about having to phone the place and move the seating plan etc but anyway in she comes..... with loz the drummer from ride. She'd also primed hm with my bunnymen fetish so we chatted about all things related, plus his new band (animal house at the time). Nice chap, but with a strange idea about wearing shirts with harry hill colars.

[fat cherry]

It is called shoegaze.

thanks hip. never knew that. around these parts the press like to say that ride opened the door for the likes of radiohead, also from up the road, not to mention all the britpop stuff. NOt sure how true any of that is but thats the local press for you.

[Dave Smith]

Ride were probably the better looking of the shoegazers.....they took on the House of Love mantle post-Bickers.Gardner was a bit fey though.I saw Animal House in Brum-ok, nothing special.Ride ran out of steam when Gardner/Bell fell out.Bell's Vapour Trail was mega though.I remember driving around Brum with it on constant play.I reckon Noel Gallagher ripped that off for Wonderwall as well.

But for me Slowdive had the melodies and live had this awesome biting flanger sound that cut straight through.Chapterhouse-good first album,shit live.

[fat cherry]

when i lived in coventry a student band, whose name I forget, were supporting the buzzcocks at the tic-toc and the singer tried to get the audience going with the suggestion 'you can stand up you know, its not a chapterhouse gig'.

[Dave Smith]

Twas at that gig FC.Once saw Slowdive in Northampton and the crowd were sitting down.Neil Halstead goes straight to the mic and says "Stand up you cunts".Briiliant.

[withahip]

thanks hip. never knew that.

Glad I could be of help.