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That is some jangly guitar
cool album!
Omg så epic cover??? Kan denna få en oscar!! Jag ->👊 död häst
Decent shoegaze aside from the excellent closer.
I am secret shoegaze fan so was looking forward to this when it popped up this morning. It wasn't as good as My bloody Valentine or Slowdive but was decent enough. 3/5
Ik denk dat shoegaze de weg heeft voorbereid voor de groten zoals Radiohead. Ik vind het wel lekker, al is het af en toe wel ‘veel’. Het dromerige weet mij altijd te boeien. Alsof er een ‘laagje’ onder zit.
Pop-rock noventero, con un estilo que inicialmente parecía más intenso, pero que se va diluyendo según avanza el disco. Me ha ido gustando a menos. Lo dejamos en medio, aunque no aporta nada especial
Some of the songs make me feel Ill. Have to be in the right place at the right time. Vapour Trail is timeless tho.
meh, kind of ok to work to too though. NOthing special
Aighto. If Radiohead and Neutral milk hotel had a child
Like me, this hasn't aged well
I think this is going to be much more my type of thing! Although perhaps not perhaps stretching my taste much beyond 90s indie! - I don't know this album, but I know later ride albums a bit. Looking forward to it. Seagull - not as melodic as I expected. Maybe a bit too much going on, musically. Kaleidoscope - the youtube version seems a bit muted. But nice. Better with the volume up a bit higher! In a different place - love the start. rest is fine! Nothing special - so shoegazey it drifts past a bit Polar bear. like intro again . Gets a bit same-y. Dreams burn down - passed me by a bit. Decay - don't like the singing as much, and a bit sub-Joy Division. Paralysed - stats off nice and noodly. Generally nice feel to it - just slightly more up-beat. I think I just like this singer's voice (Bell ratehr than Gardener apparently). Vapour Trail - apparently this is the single. Jangly - quite like it, but still not love. other trakcs were 'bonus' on various formats (CD and re-issue). Only half-listened to these.
Mmmm it's not a 4, it's not a 2. I could listen to this while laying in the floor doing nothing. Although it can get repetitive.
When I saw "Shoegaze" I was a bit concerned, but it beat my expectations. I enjoy the "dreamy" vocal style.
Not an album that thrilled me - admired rather than enjoyed. There is a repetitiveness to the music and it’s pretty downbeat.
Ok
sufer rock stoner rock
Pretty simple
What a beginning to an album. A little weird turned into almost grunge. Reminds me a bit of Nirvana, but not completely. I think I would have loved this album had I heard it in middle or high school. MAYBE even college. Just about done with the album now. It was good but nothing super special. Kind of run of the mill soft-ish rock album from the 90s. Rating a 3.
Really conflicted about this was. Sounds really special in parts, much of it is very good. But then it is very samey all the way through and god he’s voice is dreadful. A 4 would suggest I love it. A 2 would suggest I’ll never revisit but it was just interesting enough to make me want to go back. So I’ll have to go 3/5
Habs gerade noch nicht so gefühlt, vielleicht später
Not as noisy and unfocused as MBV. I can see the progression towards Leave Them All Behind and Twisterella. OK, probably prefer early Verve for this type of textured music.
Starts off quite promising but then just becomes a bit wishy washy. Best track: Seagull
Das Album dürft ein grower sein, ich mag diese Soundwände. Da hört man aber nicht seine 2-3 Lieblingssongs, sonder muss eintauchen. Interessante Neuentdeckung für mich.
Grad zu müde für ne tiefgründige Analyse. War Gutes dabei.
Kannte ich noch nicht, hätte aber gut auf meine 2005er-Playlist gepasst. Klingt ein bisschen nach Sonic Youth aber reißt mich nicht ganz mit. Hab aber auch nur ein bisschen reingehört.
Gefällt mir, kannte ich bisher nicht - aber auch nichts super besonderes.
Seagull was even schrikken als opener, maar de volgende nummers werden beter. Polar bear was zelfs oprecht goed. Ideaal voor tijdens het werken.
Good for listening whilst working. No big wow effect but agreeable
Niet direct fan van het genre. 'Dreams Burn Down' vond ik als nummer wel goed. De rest leek wat veel op elkaar. Wel een mooie hoes.
Kind of inoffensive 90s stuff but a bit dull on the whole
Generous 3
Memories of my teenage college days. Some real classics on this but a couple don't sound so good this far removed from the shoegaze heyday.
Deuda pendiente, me ha gustado pero tengo que darle más escuchas
Liked it, and probably would have loved it if I’d heard it when I was a teenager, but right now I struggle to listen to a quite same-y album for an hour. A shame.
Das Debüt der Shoegaze Pioniere wirkt vom Sound etwas blass-dünn, gestreckt auf die Dauer von über einer Stunde unterstützt der wimpy Gesang eine müde Monotonie, was bereits auf „Going blank again“ als Schwachstelle erkannt und aufgepeppt wurde. Immerhin beinhaltet dieser leicht aufgeblähte Erstling so beeindruckendes Material wie „Dreams Burn Down“ oder „Vapor Trail“. 1st coming bonus: 2.5
Mein Teenage-Ich (und gut gefundene Mädchen) haben es geliebt, und mit den Gitarren, dem Schlagzeug und dem Bass, vor allem aber dem fantastischen Shoegaze-Style gab und gibt es ja auch viel zu lieben. Trotzdem war mir schon damals die Produktion zu mies - und ist sie es heute erst recht. Neu aufgefallen - lag aber vielleicht auch an den Boxen - der noch sehr verbessernder Gesang, oder such hier zumindest die Produktion, die ihn stellenweise viel zu weit in den Vordergrund stellt - obwohl Bell und Gardener noch nicht besonders gut waren und beim Harmoniegesang üben mussten. Beim nächsten Album saß das alles besser. 3,3.
good but nothing special
Whoa! Stone Roses 2.0. Or was it 1.0? I'd never heard of them before, but this is really good!
Recuerdo lo poco que había escuchado de shoegaze por Bloody Valentine o Dinosaur Jr como un pop etéreo bastante ruidoso y como mal ecualizado. No me encantaba pero tampoco se me había hecho algo malo u ofensivo a los oídos. Este disco me pareció mejor de lo que esperaba, de hecho en muchos casos creo que aunque se nota la influencia y la similitud en mi opinión todavía no se le debiera de llamar shoegaze como tal. Aquí los géneros se sienten variados y más separados, inicia con algo que se oye como noise tal cual heredado de Velvet Underground o algo que podría estar tocando Sonic Youth, por otro lado pasa a canciones de franca psicodelia; pero psicodelia de rock ácido de sonido sucio del bueno como si fueran de las bandas desconocidas de 25 años antes. Polar Bear se me hizo una canción excelente en la que ya se siente más la guitarra esa fuerte etérea aunque lo suficientemente pop y nítida en la voz como para poder entenderle bien. Un disco ruidoso, correcto en la que se siente la historia de la que viene se puede sentir el Velvet, el Brian Eno incluso, ese postpunk, Cocteau Twins y tantas cosas más. No será mi género favorito, no es un género que haya perdurado e incluso creo que rápidamente paso de una música experimental interesante a hacerse pretensioso y algo engreido pero no hay duda que me agrada haber conocido este disco.
Another late 80’s/early 90’s soft rock album. Nothing super crazy
Confused by the genre. Enjoyed some tracks
Nice fuzzy noise-rock.
I liked this pretty well but like most of the so-called shoegaze genre it had a problem of slipping I to the background and no particular time or lyric ended up really standing out for me.
Raro. Se supone que es shoegaze y es de sus exponentes interesantes pero no todo me suena así. De hecho, me suena bastante inconsistente, con rolas que definitivamente sí cuadran con el género: sin coros, muy planas, muy atascadas de efectos y una sensación oscura. Pero también hay otras rolas que me suenan a algo distinto desde antecedente a los Smashing Pumpkins o incluso a Muse, o en otras ocasiones a una banda de prepa que está aprendiendo a destacar en sus instrumentos y la batería y el bajo hacen casi casi ejercicios de ritmo básicos.
pretty much essential 90's, not bad but nothing great either
punkish , ok nothing striking
3.5 stars pretty solid
Love the genre. Album is good and worth listening again.
Started cool but ended up sounding a bit repetitive. Definitely some gems though, cool unusual sound.
didn't finish, might listen more idk first song is great
A bit long winded and the lyrics are corny.... but the vibe and the feel are what make this album!!
shoegazing at its best 😉
Not aged well. Felt very self indulgent at times.
Another shoegaze album. Each song feels like a fight between an early 90s rock band and a noise rock band and I'm left feeling a bit mixed. The drums, bass and vocals are mostly pretty good and have a kind of melancholy vibe but the repetitive, noisy guitars drenched in effects and feedback bring a sense of being overwhelmed. When the former are high in the mix I'm having fun but when the latter takes over it's a tough listen. I can see what they're going for but it's not really my vibe.
Mid
強いていうならtasteはいい曲かなー？ 正直言って今までのやつで1番微妙、何をしたいのかがよくわからなかった。ロックやりたいんやったらこの声ちゃうし、ロックじゃないんやったらうるさいし 良さがあんまりわかりませんでした
I had never heard of this band before. Shoegaze is not one of the genres I gravitate toward either. I have to say it’s not altogether bad; I just don’t really like the sound of the album. Some of the vocals are pleasant, but not enough to overcome the noisiness of the instrumentation. Overall, the album just isn’t for me, but I do like the cover art.
Kinda mellow. It ok but no oooooos.
That was sooo tedious. Not a fan of wailing style singing
No. Dear God no.
Hatte mich mit denen mal beschäftigt und die Vocals nicht gemocht. Mit diesem Album hat sich daran nichts geändert.
The fucking british again. 2/5
I really like some shoegaze music - My Bloody Valentine and Curve are still regulars on my playlists, I never got into Ride though, and on listening to this am still not into them. Do t know why, just didn’t do anything for me like some of the others in the genre.
I had wondered what "shoegaze" was - well now I know and I'm not sure I like it.
Album started as a three star record but the longer it goes the more boring it gets. After listening to it for over an hour I need to give it only two stars.
No, not really my sort of thing. Two stars...
Listens: 2 (with original CD bonus tracks) I don't know much about shoegaze, mostly because I've largely written it off on account of the rather unimpressive contemporary releases I've heard in the genre. It's not that I don't like the *sound* of shoegaze; I love me some tasteful washed-out reverb. But it's often felt to me like the wall of sound is only there to cover up the lack of songwriting ability at its foundation. That said, I was excited when this album came up to educate myself with a foundational record in the genre (by a band I'd never heard of!). Alas, it turns out this album doesn't do that much for me. The far majority of it sounds, to me, like bland twinkly 90s soft rock—nothing wrong with it, but lacking in anything that elicits any emotion in me besides an impersonal feeling of "nostalgia". The only exceptions to this are the first song, "Seagull", whose heaviness and bassline immediately gripped me with high hopes for the album, and the songs "Here and Now" (with its haunting harmonica) and "Nowhere", which close out the 11-track CD version of the album (which appends the three additional songs from their Fall EP, released the month before this LP, to the vinyl's 8-track run). There are other pleasantudes throughout the record, like some fantastic drum sounds (particularly in "Dreams Burn Down") and the Martin Gore-like croon of Andy Bell (a different Andy Bell from the one who formed Erasure with Gore's former bandmate, of course). But otherwise... it's alright.
This is the kind of stuff I’d need more time with to decide. Weirdly, I’d never heard these guys back in the ‘90’s. If not exactly my lane, they were close to it. (Eg I loved teenage fan club who are listed as a a similar artist on Apple Music) But I was never a Jesus and Mary chain fan until recently and Ride sounds like a watered down version of them. So I think I’ll stick with the former. I did download one song so I guess that’s something (home is a feeling- but from a later album)
Would be fine but was like 30 minutes too long.
This was the most “yep that was an album” album I’ve ever heard.
Average album, repetitive sound in not a good way, long winded not easy to get through the entire thing if not your sound.
Heard the name before I'm pretty sure. I don't like shoegaze in general but damn is this bad shoegaze. Genuinely I'd rather be listening to My Bloody Valentine 2/5
I like the melodies and tones, but the singing is just too grading.
It’s ok. Good vibes but overall not particularly interesting
Meh. Didn’t care for it. Too long and nothing stood out.
If only they werent British 😪 Like the cranberries but no good riffs and replace the good woman singer with the mid dude singer.
Here’s another obscure British band, with an album titled “Nowhere”. The internet claims they are a famous shoegaze band, which I now know involves ethereal background and distorted guitars. The album title says it all for me. Nothing memorable.
Now,here's a boring album. Shoegaze is definitely in competition (with Prog and Blues rock) for my least favorite genre. Are there even vocals? Who can tell over all this tedious guitar.
It’s just noise really
It was fine, I guess.
A little mid. Not my favorite
Fine but pretty dull.
mediocre at best
Time and place for this, just now here and not now
Not a huge fan
Eh
2. Didn't do anything for me
boring af
hoooonk shooooo
Just okay.
Meh.
Forgettable
An extraordinary series of events kept interrupting my attempt to listen to this album: fatigue, phone calls, my phone died, etc. It was when I thought I had finally powered through two-thirds of the record, and discovered I was only on track three, that I understood: the universe doesn’t want me to hear this album, the title is perfectly apt, and I just need to move on.
S'alright. Not much else to say, honestly. It's music.
Just sounds like noise, not in a good way
2.5
This sounded like a second-rate Stone Rosrs
Mostly this album just faded into the background and I would occasionally say oh yeah, music is playing.
Not my cup of tea
A big ol’ meh fest, especially in contrast to the generational run of albums Ive been on the past month or so. Try as I might, I can never escape the sad British guy music for too long. “In A Different Place” was alright, but I was good as done halfway through the album. 2/5
2.5
pas mal mais rien de très innovant 2.9
unremarkable
Not my vibe att all. The singing and music all got tangled up in each other and don't know what to think other than that I don't want any more of it. I'm not sure if its the mixing or what but obviously its intended this way and some people seem to enjoy it. To me this is worse of a distortion than some of the early punk bands from this list.
Shoegaze legend, enjoyment is based solely on your enjoyment of the genre, not my thing compared to others from this era but it's just fine
A medio camino de nada. Ni eran los Smiths, ni de Manchester. ni nada. Sonaron en la radio y veo que tienen su público en las islas, pero no creo que sean una banda que represente algo concreto. Prescindibles.
Nothing special
2 1/2. I wanted to like it more.
Just...meh
A big bowl of nothingness. Incredibly monotonous to listen to, felt like a bit of a chore. The distorted, not easy to understand vocals throughout the album was grating but some of the music was decent enough. The very definition of the word meh.
Explorative, but they all sound the same. Favourite song: Vapour Trail
I am gazing intently at my shoes as I listen, it's not helping.
I like Ride. My mate Russdog in Texas burned me a CD years ago. That was Going Blank Again, which is a great album. Nowhere is Ride with far less polish, raw emo-shoe gaze. Not nearly as strong as their follow up.
I didn't like this one at all. It's very 90s, meaning I feel in the 90s there were a lot of bands trying this sound that was later catalogued as alternative rock, some of those bands hit the jackpot and the rest sound a lot alike, and that's how this album sounds to me. It could be any alternative rock band from the 90s. It's tryhard.
Now I know what it would sound like if Oasis made surf rock
Same as it ever was…same as it ever was…. (A lot of these middle-of-the road 90s rock albums sound the same to me)
it was pretty mid not awful but definitely background music
Fav song: Taste
mmm... como que no me convenció mucho...
I learned today that a band that hides behind its guitarist’s effects plays shoegaze—and indeed, the 56 mm of a classic Boss pedal aptly describes the height of their musical creativity. The whole thing fits perfectly into the early ’90s, when amateurism was elevated to an art form everywhere. Ride are noteworthy at most insofar as they were quite early to the game with their album, released as early as 1990. It bears the fitting title “Nowhere”—there’s really nothing more to add to that.
Very forgettable
Man, I do not like a lot of 90s music
Overall pretty alright. Definitely all blended together and became nothing by the end, it was way too long for songs that are so similar.
Ride are a new band to me. The music was OK and interesting in parts. Unfortunately like many albums I'm not keen on the vocals spoiled it for me. They're too monotonic and droning to be enjoyable.
Kinda stone roses adjacent but not handsome enough to tempt me
This is pleasant but nothing stands out to me. The band sounds fine and sometimes the singer is pleasant but there is nothing really notable to my ears from this album to make it stand out either way. I am rating a 2 for sameness.
I thought this wasn’t too bad at first then it kept getting worse and worse as it went on. Horrible I say
1001 depressed british men to hear before you die
So forgettable and so long
It is ok I guess but all of the songs start to sound alike after a bit
It’s a little same-y
Yet another mediocre depressed British man album. 1001 albums you have to hear before you die? Go fuck yourself, this is so mid. But congratulations now I’ve heard it, and I’ve been played. It’s like okay at best. Muddy rock noise heavy, repetitive, definitely skippable.
Okk
Way behind so please excuse my brevity. Gonna rip through 9 albums.
Kind if like the stone roses but worse
I don't think this is my genre of music.
forget about the genre, which seems to be the focus of so many people, some ok, some decent tracks, none of which are helped by the whiny sounding vocals.
Eh
De la onda de My Bloody Valentine pero más pop todavía. Me aburrió bastante. No rescaté mucho.
This album is pretty much of the same thing over and over again, repeating a bland style that doesn't seem to go nowhere, actually. And maybe that's the fun thing with the title of the album, because this record gets so long and repetitive that becomes an insipid with no clear direction. I guess it's not my kind of music at all, but this album is very much acclaimed for what it actually contains. I can't find it interesting or exciting in the least.
Guess I'm not a big shoegazer. Nowhere really went nowhere for me. Not the best wave ride, like catching the wake of a speedboat that hits the lake shore. Just a bit lackluster, a collection of peaceful noise. "Vapour Trail" being their most popular track, was the top one on the album. I did pop on some head phones and skimmed back through the album and it was much better. I'll admit that some of my favorite albums require headphones for the true experience so maybe I'll give the the ones on this list I don't much care for a relisten with headgear. 2.24 stars for the ride to nowhere.
Shoegaze as a genre isn't for everybody. You need to be in a specific mood/state to zone out and just enjoy the ambiance, otherwise its just a bunch of wasted time and energy. Ride's Nowhere was a little bit of both. A couple songs worth works for an afternoon ride home through traffic. However, the overall impact of the album is likely lost when consumed sitting in a car instead of at a live venue or chill session with friends. I didn't dislike any aspect of the album, but at the same time it did little to connect with me. Hard to nail it down so it comes in pretty much middle of the pack. I might dig this if I throw on some headphones or run into it again in a different scenario. 2.46 stars
Personally, this album did basically nothing. The taste I got from it matches the cover art but I'm still willing to acknowledge that the style is simply not for me. For those that appreciate this type of song, Nowhere is likely a really good album. Sadly, I am not one of them. Best songs are Dreams Burn Down and Beneath. 5/10, just not for me.
Voix aspirée, longue note nazarde, pas de melodie, assez plat. La voix est pénible. En terme de musicalite, batterie tres presente mais tres classique, sons stereos et garage assez saturé. Les rythmiques instrumentales ne matchent pas avec pas le rythmiques de voix. Je suis decue apres avoir lu les critiques du groupe. Mouvement shoegaze (rock alternatif). Tres bonne critique, les Stones ont dit « masterpiece ».
Fine as a chill background. Nothing jumped out at me though.
Shoegaze as a genre is strange. I don't really like the music itself. Too boring, monotonous, whiny. Although the album sometimes reminded me of The Cure. But if you judge it by how well you can bob along to it as an angsty teenager while staring down at your shoes lost in thought, it's top-notch. However, that's not how I rate things.
Just more pop out of the UK. This list is peppered with it.
It did me no harm but I feel that shoegazing is not really my thing.
Sorry Ride - unremarkable.
Listened Before? N This felt like 80s alternative without the spirit or feeling. I guess that's sort of just shoegaze for you, but I don't think I (or anyone) needed to hear this before we die. Taste was a nice "upbeat" change of pace. Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist: Taste
Ok
I feel like this would be better live, as if I came across them playing on a beach. I could come and go, listen with a beer or a seltzer water.
Correcto
Meh there is too much going on to enjoy the individual parts
Ok
54. alrightt
Eh, I think I stopped half way through. Kinda soft rock.
Boring
Ziemlich eintönig
Meh
Ngl - I didn’t even realise this album finished lol
Boring ahh shoegaze 😪
I was going to give this a 3 for being in a style that's interesting, talked myself out of it in starting to write the review. not an exciting band as far as 90s alternative guitar rock goes. the most Britpop of shoegazers. it's ok, only ok. I'll never listen to it again. that's a 2. music: hated. (⌐■_■)
Oh the joy when I discovered the 71 minute version on Spotify was not the original! Thirty-seven minutes was plenty.
So this is showcasing music? I don’t think I’m a fan.
This album gives me anxiety.
Started as a bad Stone Roses tribute act, ended different to that but no better
I never heard it before. A good start, but within 3-4 tracks I got bored. This is the shoegaze way, I suppose. Then I kept listening and thought it was just OK. When I got to the end, I was relieved.
Ok 2/5
This album is very boring. Not BAD but boring. Even attempted to give it a second listen but just not for me.
I couldn't get with this. Maybe it was the plummy English voice (and I have a plummy English voice, myself!), maybe it was the guitar tones, maybe it was the lack of tunes, maybe it was the slightly underwhelming production. It does sound better when played really loud, but it's still not enough. I do love the cover art though.
2.5
Found this fairly forgettable, quite drone-y guitars
Good album to play in the background. Basic yet layered. The bass performance stood out for me. 2.7/5.0
There were a couple of songs I liked but overall it wasn't really for me.
Meh
Didn't like and all sounded the same.
Not my favorite, nothing memorable and wouldn't listen to it again. Not awful, but meh.
This isn’t my pot of tea but hey maybe I just don’t like the genre bc Wikipedia says this is considered the best in the genre. Most of the songs sound like that mid80s/90s cover that you use the bathroom during on the Jersey shore. You don’t hate it, but you don’t need to do any active listening. I was close to giving this a 1 just considering the sheer length of the album but then I realized Spotify forced the extended version on me…
Don’t think I’m a shoegaze fan. To me this sounded like someone had sucked all the life out of The Stone Roses. I must admit I didn’t give this as close a listen as I could - maybe listening to it with headphones on while out for a January walk would suit the mood better.
Obscure Britpop, but it's not bad. I expect I will find out that they featured in the Teachers soundtrack if I look them up. (I was wrong, but they would fit right in.)
so bland
It's a bit of nothing really. It's not good, it's not bad, it's not interesting, it's not irritating. Audio blancmange. 2/5.
мене ця музика дуже швидко втомила. передоз шугейзом, тяжко таке слухати довго. кілька пісень звучали трохи більш слухабельно, але це не вплинуло на загальні враження
Todella geneeristä rokkia. Ei herätä mitään tunteita
On kyllä taas niin ankeeta ja yllätyksetöntä, että meinaa nukahtaa. Muutamassa biisissä on edes jotain yritystä, niin annetaan nyt sitten kakkonen.
So boring
I was not particularly impressed with this album. I feel like all of the songs sounded quite similar and there was just nothing that stood out. Just sounded like 90s rock. I would have to listen a few more times and maybe a couple songs would grow on me. For now, it is a 5/10.
The second half of the album was more upbeat and more enjoyable than the first half. Some of their crescendos reminded me of Explosions in the Sky. Maybe a second listen would give me a better understanding of the album. I thought it was a little too long for the style of music.
Just bog standard shoe gazery with annoying vocals (in the main). Feels very much like a band who managed to ride the coattails of others, rather than significant in their own right. Much prefer Andy Bell’s post Ride output(solo, Hurricane #1, Beady Eye and Oasis)
This sounds like every early 90s indie band - which is fine, if that’s your thing.
I knew absolutely nothing about this going in, which is always interesting. Seagull is very discombobulating while wearing earphones as it pans back and forth. It also reminded me massively of Let Forever Be by Chemical Brothers, because of the drum/bass. It did not need to be 6 minutes long, but it did feel like a decently high energy start to an album. Kaleidescope sounded fairly similar to track 1 and I started to think this was going to feel like a very long 1 hour 11 minute album. It was at that point I read the Wikipedia, learned the Amazon Music version of this has 15 songs but the original only had 8, and breathed a sigh of relief - an easy point to bail out if things didn't change. In A Different Place, slowed things down a bit and I realised who the singer reminded me of: Damon Albarn, but if Damon Albarn couldn't sing.... And I recognise that I'm in the 5% of the population who thinks Damon can actually hold a tune. By the time we got to Decay, I was very much done with the vocals, and didn't find the music interesting enough to balance out my dislike of the singing. I absolutely bailed out at the end of Vapour Trail. 2/5 P.S. My favourite bit of the band Wikipedia: "The album was not well received by critics, Bell explaining "These were good times but the music took second place. When we recorded the Carnival of Light album we got indulgent". By the end of 1994 even the band themselves were critical of the album, referring to it within the group as "Carnival of Shite".". (I am relieved to know, that album did not make the cut for the Generator)
4/10
I don't mind shoegaze, it's not something I often turn to though. I really like that album cover. I don't think it's an album that one would have to hear before they die though.
Should be called Snoozegaze. 2 stars or D.
Definitely goes nowhere.
Do you like listening to the same song over and over again, because if so, I sure do have a suggestion for you!
I’m a bit shocked at all the haters in the reviews. I think it’s pretty good. Especially for, uch, shoe gaze.
15 Songs which basically all sound the same. Brit pop with a singer voice pushed by echo effects. Boring.
weird boring imitation of better music. Outside of a few outliers 90's British Rock just feels so flat, like much of this album. I guess you could say its a precursor to 2000's emo given the subject matter. Other bands did it better. Dreams Burn Down couldve absolutely been a song by Live or Goo Goo Dolls, not to mention a few others.
Like the Monkees meets Soundgarden… bad and almost certainly on here because it’s British
It was ok. Just ok.
Great, just what I need, another shoegaze album. And to think, before this list, I was blissfully ignorant about what shoegaze music was. Starts off less annoying than My Bloody Valentine, the other one I pulled. Has more rock energy. But the whole thing is a little bland. Not bad--a high 2 I guess.
I really wanted to like this. It was just boring though
If you listen to this: Open a window, your room REEKS of incense
Droning begins to all sound the same
Tried many times. Cool cover. Perhaps a good EP. Still a no on this one.
No shoegaze please
This journey has led me to discover the Shoegaze subgenre of Rock 'N Roll Music, and these out stops haven't been fun. Favorite Track: "Polar Bear".
For starters, I had to Google "Shoegaze." Ok, got it. The definition promises a "wall of sound" but this album just sounded amateurish and unpolished, and the vocals are not keeping pace with the music. In the words of Randy Jackson, "It's a no for me, dog."
Nothing to write home about
meh. rocky. synthy.
Second straight borefest. Its fine enough just has no consequence to my life at all. It exisists and thats almost all I have. I listened to all the cd tracks and they also had the 01 extended tracks and I couldnt bring myself to go any further. I didnt need 40 minutes or the 55 I listened to. I for sure didnt need the 75 minute version. Spacey bullshit if thats your thing go for it, but I will never listen to this again.
Not so inspiring for me. Felt derivative
Meh
This one likely didn’t get the intense headspace from me while I was listening to it because I fear it turned into background music for most of the listen. Likely something that I would enjoy more with a few listens but one initial listen was a resounding meh. I feel like they’d be good live though? Idk
Listened to 3.25 songs. Did not like the first two. Did not want to continue. Do not like music that sounds far away. Why cannot this music sound up close? Then I actually did like song three, In a Different Place, so I went on to song four. Then, the opening guitar thing on Polar Bear is the same guitar thing as The Smiths, How Soon is Now and that reminded me both of the show Charmed and of how I don’t want to listen to any more bands that sound like this. Maybe the rest of the album rules though.
432 albums in and this list is starting to turn into a bit of a chore. There's just got to be better options out there. This album is totally fine, but just so unmemorable. Another Heavy British bias inclusion. Stopped after a few songs. 4.5/10 (2.25/5)
Not at all memorable.
Basic
This is boring. Fucking hell it just keeps going. It might be talking itself into 1 star. Picked up a bit at the end but still ass.
It's fun for a few songs
I think maybe I don't know what shoegaze is? This felt louder and long. Not sure I'd revisit.
I want to experience more shoe gaze, although I didnt love those one
The vocals and harmonization are virtually interchangeable from song to song. The sameness is numbing. This wasn't painful but I wouldn't revisit this. 2.5/5
Pretty same-sounding throughout
Early grung sounds, but every song sounded the same
It's easy listening but didn't catch my ear. Related groups are Jesus and Mary Chain
I just can't with this type of music.
Hadn’t heard this one in a long time and knew I wouldn’t like it as much as when I first found it, but I liked it even less than I thought. Just a bit too bright and visible for me, I like my shoegaze a little more spacey and dreamy.
Hard listen after you read glowing reviews about how this is a "shoegaze" classic. Droning and uninteresting but I guess that is the shoe gaze genre in a nutshell. If they cut the run time down to about 40 minutes it would greatly improve this. The vocalist might be the worst part.
Musically OK, don't care for the vocals.
Not an experience I care to repeat
It wasnt dire, but that album cover set me up for a fail
Nowhere I really like Seagull and Vapour Trail, nice drums, bass and psychedelic guitar haze but the whole album dragged a bit thereafter, it all being a bit one note. And while that My Bloody Valentine, Sonic Youth, Stone Roses note is fine, it doesn’t really feel like there is enough there to sustain interest over the whole album. It doesn’t have the immersive wooziness of MBV at their best, or the rhythmic interest of SY, or the pop nous of the Stone Roses (and while he’s not that much worse a singer than Ian Brown, the vocals have very little character to them), so it just kind of flattens out into one monotone 8 tracks, with only Seagull and Vapour Trail really emerging from the soup I can’t really see myself revisiting this. There’s a couple of good songs, but it's just not that interesting overall for me. 🚲🚲 Playlist submission: Vapour Trail
Meh. Mild. Soft. Nothing worth nothing.
2 - sounds ok but shoegaze always gets so tiring after a couple songs
bleh
This is the most "that was music" I've felt in a while. Nothing piqued my interest. Nothing offended my sensibilities. I couldn't tell you any good parts, or any bad parts. Shoegaze tends to be like that for me, but this epitomized it. This is, in fact, some music.
Seemingly aimless noise, mixed by someone without ears.
Not my thing
** Not my Sound. Too boring songs. No.
It’s a long ride. Not a lot of curves, mostly downhill. Not much see, time to get off.
Blah
I've seen the band twice and think the same thing when I listen to this album. They start out really cool and then I am fucking bored for like 6 tracks until I get enticed at the very again. I think there are more important and better shoe gaze (JAMC and My Bloody Valentine).
Just discovered the shoegaze genre from this album! Not quite a fan though. Tracks to Track: Seagull
Boooooring...
Meh
I really need multiple listens to get into shoegaze like this. Maybe someday but for now this sounded like weird shit and dragged waaaaay on. 4/10
Album cover had me expecting something like massive attack which had me fired up, so the tonal switch took me a second and maybe left me feeling meh about it. Love British rock and can see why they’re influential/ great 90s band for a lot of people who discovered them at the time. Coming to them 30 years later with no relationship or nostalgia though left it a little meh.
Ride: Nowhere: I cannot say this was awful, but it is not for me. I found it very boring and every song has the exact same sound and vibe. Its alright objectively but I will not be listening to this band again. 5/10
I felt like ive heard this album 100 times already
I really wanted to like this album as I have memories of playing their track "Leave Them All Behind" on college radio back in the day. This album is moaning punctuated by constant cymbals... A bad reminder of a poor 90's sound.
All a bit samey-samey. It’s definitely not bad, like in general I don’t mind the sound, but it’s pretty generic and drones on after a while. It’s got a kind of genre-typical mixing/production I don’t really like either where everything is sort of at the same level. The middle section of the album (Here and Now, Nowhere, Unfamiliar) was better than the rest but again just pretty ‘nothing’ to me in the grand scheme of things. (2.5 stars)
Yawn.
Interesting music. Kinda monotone after a while but still a good listen.
58/1001. I think I used to own it. But haven't missed it if I sold it. I also recommend listening to only the original LP length, which is 8 songs. That is probably enough shoegaze for mid 2020's for a while. 2 for the nostalgia.
Just couldn't keep me engaged.
This album is the obvious result of a number of very specific aesthetic choices, the apparent aim of which was to upend a number of rock conventions such as having clearly-delineated lead and rhythm guitar parts, and having the lead vocal as the central element of the song. Fair enough. But does it work? Well, the trouble is that those conventions came into being because they're *effective*. If you rip up the rulebook, you better bring something else to the table, but Ride fails to do so on *Nowhere*. Compared to albums like *Psychocandy* and *Loveless* which *did* break with rock's norms (the former with its wall of feedback, for example), Ride's debut record seems like a half-step towards well, nowhere in particular.
I have tried to listen to this 3 times, and not be able to finish it at any point. It's only 50-something minutes, but it feels much, much longer.
Some of these songs don't sound that different from Hillsong crap. Boring, uninspired background noise.
Just not interested in this sound. It’s not bad, but it has little draw for me.
I don’t know why but I don’t really like this. Average, boring, kind of blah?
I never heard of Rise or listened to any shoegaze, other than a song or two. I like “In a Different Place” and “Vapour Trail” as they are more melodic than the other songs. This isn’t a bad album at all. Just not for me.
2,4/5
Forgettable
This album goes nowhere. inoffensive, yet boring.
If I was going to use one word to describe this album it would be "generic".
Kjedelig
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Ughhhh it's fine, it's 90s shoegaze. Exactly what I expected going in despite some occasional sparks of promise that quickly fizzled out.
I felt like I should have liked this album more than I did. Maybe I just wasn't in the right mood for it.
About as interesting as the cymbal they are named after being hit again and again with nothing else
Nowhere is a good name for this mob. Each song goes nowhere. Just an aimless, amorphous blob of music.
Ok
A ride to nowhere with a meager vapor trail in its wake.
This was intensely boring. Really difficult to enjoy any of this, but then I realized it came out in 1990. At the time this was probably mind-blowing. Coming to it now Shoegaze as a genre has progressed so far I am incapable of enjoying this.
2.4 I always thought bands like Sonic Youth or newer bands like Metz or Vietcong were shoegaze bands and that I liked shoegaze. Maybe its a bigger genre? I didnt dig this or MBV or the like. There are certain aspects I like (sonic scapes, effects) but man, I find myself skipping through alot of it
jumping back and forth across the line between weird (respectful) and weird (derogatory)
whatever. kind of long and samey to be paying attention to the whole time
On sellasta london calling kamaa. Räntäntänttää.
bleh
5/10 First band of my 1001 albums project that I'd never even heard of. Turns out I also didn't really know what shoegaze was. The first song had me hooked, thinking I was in for the treat of discovering something completely new that I really liked, but from there the album didn't really feel like it went anywhere, just dragging along. At their best, Ride are reminiscent of the Stone Roses, but the overall effect fell a long way short. Maybe in a different mood this album would resonate with me more but I can't imagine going back to it. Listens: 2
I think I only like shoegaze when it doesn’t wreck the songs through distortion. This was kind of irritating to hear.
Well that was different, and what an opening track! I mean, why did they bother? Thankfully after that they did actually make an attempt at playing music, and he proved he could sing if he wanted. Have never appreciated this type of guitar work, and only Velet Underground have ever made tracks where it sounded correct. It did improve massively after the opener (not difficult), but not enough for me. 2
I think I should like this, and shoe-gazing stuff, more than I do. It has all the components that I like. But it just seems to wash over me without leaving any real impression. Maybe that’s the point. Maybe it’s just a meditative thing, but I’m looking for more than that when I choose what to listen to. It’s ok enough for a mid 2.
It was a nice album but it doesn’t stand out as anything special. Maybe I’m missing something.
Absolutely nothing interesting happens on this album. Why did they tune the drums to sound like buckets? The drummer clearly knows what he's doing, som why make it sound so flat?
che noiaaaaaa
Tidal only has the "expanded edition" of this album with 15 tracks. The original album had 8. After making it more than halfway through this album, I'm sure I won't be listening to any of the "expanded" content. 1. Not much of a fan of this 2. This either 3. First listenable track 4. Couldn't take the droning anymore. I had to skip ⅔ of the way through 5. Meh 6. Listenable 7. Listenable. Didn't skip 8. I'm quite enjoying this track, actually 9. Alright, I'm into the expanded content now. I'm out at the first inkling of trouble! 11. See ya, Ride. I'm out
2.5. Listening to this was acceptable background music, but I wouldn’t play it again.
This album is okay. I’ve always found Ride to be fairly standard indie—nothing groundbreaking, but still worth a listen. This record follows that trend. It has a strong Cure influence, with dark tones and melancholic lyrics. Definitely not an album to put on if you're looking for something uplifting. Favorite song: Vapour Trail—it was decent. Least favorite: Nothing stood out as particularly bad, but nothing really stood out as great either. The album is the definition of average. Album artwork: I actually really like the cover.
1.5 not for me
This did absolutely nothing for me.
seemed like poppy stoner music to me, didn't get into it
Melancholic shoegaze. This will definitely do it for some people. But in my current state of mind, this isn't what I want out of listening to music. It's alright, but I want more than minor chords and nasal singing.
Likes the first song and then was too shoegazey for me
Yawn
Das Debütalbum Nowhere der britischen Band Ride erschien 1990 und zählt zu den frühen Werken des Shoegaze-Genres. Die Band nahm das Album in den Blackwing Studios in London auf, einem Studio, das für seine Arbeit mit verschiedenen Indie- und New-Wave-Künstlern bekannt war. Musikalisch verbindet Nowhere melodischen Gesang mit hallreichen Gitarren und einem dichten Klangbild. Die Produktion schafft eine Atmosphäre, in der die Instrumente ineinanderfließen, ohne an Struktur zu verlieren. Stücke wie Seagull oder Vapour Trail zeigen die Vorliebe der Band für Repetition und Klangflächen, während der Rhythmus meist treibend bleibt. Das Album wirkt in sich geschlossen und vermittelt eine Stimmung, die zwischen Zurückhaltung und Energie schwankt. Nowhere ist ein Beispiel für den Sound der frühen 90er-Jahre und verdeutlicht die klanglichen Möglichkeiten, die professionelle Studios in dieser Zeit boten.