Reviews (page 6 of 7)
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
..
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.
Takler virkelig ikke sånt monotont flerstemt emo-kor 🤢
1. Nowhere 2. Taste 3. Sennen Shoegaze is not my thing for 1 hour and 12 mins
Not a fan, really. Its not terrible, but I really don't love this kind of rock. A couple decent songs in there
4.5/10
- war in Ordnung, aber auch wirklich unauffällig im Hintergrund irgendwie
No es mi línea acustica
can we all agree that british men need to stop making music now im so sick of this. ITS AN OK ALBUM like its not horrible but bruh its NOT something you need to listen to before you die. this is such a generic noise rock album please dont piss me off with this bullshit. fuck this stupid fucking list i hate men.
Occasionally comes slide to being ‘ok’ but fails to really stretch itself out of mediocre. A solid sound for 1990 though.
Noisy and not memorable.
I think I knew 30 seconds into this one that I was not going to enjoy this. I was correct.
Meh. Musically ok, but the lyrics/singing brought it way down.
Pretty boring and average. Ok to listen to, but nothing special.
A few of the tracks stared out ok, but went downhill pretty fast. Long, boring and truly terrible drums. Further confirmation that shoegaze was a blip
Very slow and noisy
This was okay. It would have me for a song or two, but then totally lose me again. Maybe you had to be there.
There was nothing I hated. It just washed over me and left absolutely no impression. 2.5/5
Meh. Sounds like the kind of band that would leave you disappointed and with ears ringing after seeing them live. So many murky guitar layers but no definition.
Did not like it. Never heard of Ride before listening to this album. I feel I haven’t missed anything & have determined from the experience that I won’t miss out if I never listen to Ride again.
Calling this album shoegaze made me reflect on how boring it is to stare at your shoes, is that the point?
Kinda ambient jamming music from 1990. Pleasant and smooth.
Noise
Insufferable, dreary, boring.
En ouvrant le generateur ce matin, j’ai roulé des yeux en voyant un énièmes album rock Indie des années 90. J’ai re-roulé des yeux en écoutant la première chanson, ayant l’impression d’avoir déjà entendu cet arrangement musical et ces vocales lancinantes une vingtaine de fois auparavant dans cette liste. Puis, à la moitié de l’album, un lien c’est créé dans ma petite tête. La trace de la bête se dessinait: la voix chignarde du chanteur, l’instrumentation approximatif mixé en un pain de distorsion, ainsi que l’absence totale de joie. Tout devenait plus clair désormais, mon ennui se transformant en terreur quand mon esprit susurra le nom de la bête: Radiohead. J’arracha les écouteurs de mes oreilles, les balançant du bout de mes bras le plus loin possible, me recroquevillant sur moi même pendant plus de deux heures.
Meh . . .
My highlight was, when they rhymed "fly" with "sky"
Can appreciate 90s grunge but listened to the album twice through and didn't save a song. Missed the mark for me.
Not feeling it today. Finding it monotonous.
Best Song: Today. At least it builds up in a crescendo to the album finally being over. Worst Song: Dreams Burn Down. A flat and shrill song that occasionally jumps into almost unlistenable levels of shrill for contrast. Overall: Although the album seems somewhat interesting at the beginning, the constant monotonous volume of noise without meaningful variation or interruption begins to wear on you and you're left with an endless stream of swirly guitars and shrill, snarling chords. Eventually you're left with the feeling of being trapped tumbling in a washing machine, the water filling your ears, while just outside two cats are fighting.
# 354 : Another snore fest. I don’t greatly dislike this. I just have no interest in ever listening to it again. Shrug
I'll be the first to say that aside from heavy hitters like Slow Dive and MBV, '90s shoegaze has always been very hit-or-miss for me. Sadly, I was on the milder side for 'Nowhere'. I just started phasing out after the song 'Polar Bear'. The individual songs just weren't gripping me in any way, and the washed-out vocals, a shoegaze staple, started to take their toll on my mind. It's just so background-y, not bad at all but trying to stay focused here was a challenge. The songs are very static, and they all sound very similar to one another. For as much as I didn't like the vocals, the lyrics did fit quite snuggly into this atmosphere - constantly projecting these dream-like images onto the music - I especially liked the morbidity of the song 'Decay'. I also really liked 'In a Different Place', the almost metal-sounding opening guitars to 'Paralyzed', and the gorgeous final minute or so of 'Vapour Trail' that leads into this sole violin, sending the album off. Aside from that though, I didn't really get much out of this listen.
Eh, like 2 good songs. Nothing too special here. Sometimes the music was way louder than their voices and it got annoying.
I guess this is how I learn that shoegaze isn't really my thing. It's good for what it is, I guess.
This was solid.
I'm not quite sure why this is on the list. Maybe because it was popular at the time? I listened, but I won't ever come back to it.
I forgot these guys existed. Middle of the road album for shoegaze fans. I prefer Jesus and Mary Chain far more than this. Lush, Curve, and Catherine Wheel are also valid Shoegaze acts.
It was okay
It's such a whatever album. 2/5
Sounds like 80’s alternative mashed with Oasis-era British pop. It’s ok - nothing novel or extraordinary. I enjoyed it for what it was.
Did not enjoy this
God i hate his whiny british voice!
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Bet they were good live! Zzzzzz
Its the same song all over again. Not good
2+
Had some decent points, but overall kind of dragged on and never really caught my attention. 2/5 Won’t listen again
At first this album felt like if you took George Harrison's more psychedelic Beatles tracks and replaced all the sitars with guitars, effectively proving George's use of the former instrument correct. The album just became boring, British neo-psych as it went on, however, and the album was all in one ear and out the other, with some mild hearing damage in-between. I'm no shoegaze expert, but this just doesn't stand up to the likes of My Bloody Valentine or even more modern acts like Candy Claws. It just feels like cashing in on a sound. Like a Pearl Jam to grunge. It is quality, it pulls off the sound well, but something is off, and it really feels like it doesn't belong.
Dreary!
No joo taas ihan kiva taustamusiikkishogaze. Hyvä tunnelma, mutta mikään biisi tai osuus ei erotu edukseen (tosin se on shoegazen helmasynti HUOM ei luonne! Eli niin ei tarvitsisi olla!). Mun sielu ehkä kuulostais melkein tältä mutta en silti kovasti innostu. Mut ehkä voisin laittaa uusiksi taustalle soimaan? Vahva kaks puol.
Utopia: yksi idea riittää biisiksi, kun sitä soittaa niin kauan että turtuu. Okei, joskus heillä on kaksikin ideaa. Mutta kykyään poimia kivoja pop-kulkuja he eivät osaa hyödyntää loppuun saakka.
Some bangers but overall felt very repetitive for a 1hr 10min album. Best Song: Seagull Worst Song: Sennen
Sounded like they were playing all their songs at the same time. Track after track. Same thing.
I have a feeling there might be some good music underneath all that distortion, reverb and all the effects. 2 stars
Kind of like a 90s version of The Who, but without the nuance in production that made The Who so special. A decent sound and album but I'd rather listen to some other stuff.
Not for me
I think shoegaze is over represented on this list. It’s fine and maybe influential but not my jam.
Good album but I didn't enjoy it terribly much. It's weird but they seem influenced by bands I don't like. But oh well just my opinion
If I'm going to take a trip down this memory lane, I'm reaching for Teenage Fanclub, Stone Roses, or even Luna before this. Ride sound like they were an amazing live band; especially in a field on a hot August night with glow sticks and ecstasy. But like so many great live bands, their songs don't quite translate to recording.
Yeah. Ok. Kinda nice? Kinda background noise in many ways. Not really inspiring. I had no idea of this genera or that it mattered to some folks. Nice is my overall review. Thanks for the discovery. Moving on. 2 stars.
Typical 90s noise-rock music
Noisy oasis? I think I would have liked this better without the vocals. It has a vibe, but it’s not for me.
Just noise
I don't like how the vocal performance matches with the lyrics and instrumentation to which I'm vibing more with. It does acomplish at making the listener wander off while listening. Left feeling super overwhelmed specially as someone who enjoys shoegaze.
Lots of styles I don't like mashed together. Loud in headphones it was actually ok in parts, then moving to normal speakers it was wet and horrible.
a bit too rowdy for me
Pretty cool. Kinda boring to be honest. I like when they get heavy
Day131 - shoegaze is a term i’ve never heard. ride sounds like oasis and blur had a baby that tried to be different and it didn’t work
El shoegaze y yo definitivamente no congeniamos.
Decent background music. But nothing more than that Standout songs: Dreams burn down Vapour trail
Shuegaze... Kedeligt... Tænkte på dirty dancing... Og glemte alt om den her...
Ekkert mikilvægt að gerast þarna. Rann í gegn án þess að ég tæki eftir því.
I think I just fundamentally don't get shoegaze
Boring, repetitive, gave up on it.
Instrumental rock.
Shoegaze is not a genre I enjoy. This album had some small moments, but the almost conversational vocals detracted from the experience for me. In general, the lack of tempo change across albums just isn’t for me. 2/5
Mildly interesting. To me, this album is unseasoned rock. Sure it has all the elements and I catch myself rocking my head to it in moments. But at the end of the day it's just too bland to be memorable.
Ok
If my friend recommended this album to me as a pretty good 90s rock record, I would agree with them. It certainly has some good songs. However, if a friend recommended this album to me and said if I do not listen to this before I die I will fail to live a full life, I would question their sanity. There is nothing incredibly special about this album to me. It is simply ok.
Shoegazey and boring as hell. I have heard more emotion from a baked potato
I didn't check to see if all these tracks were part of the original album or not, so I listened to a lot of extra Ride today. Things started off ok with Seagull... but by the end of the song the increasing noisiness began to wear on me. Then a lot of other noisy songs followed... and a lot more wear... until midway through what I thought was the album I started to enjoy it a bit more and think about adding a star. Just before writing this I realized my enjoyment came after the end of the original album when I headed into the CD bonus tracks. So no extra stars for this one.
Nothing grabbed me. Nothing stabbed me. It existed and so did I, together probably only this once somehow completely unaware of each other’s presence.
Pretty cool album, but shoegaze is not really my thing.
Not my favorite.
No
I skimmed this album. I feel like everyone says this of albums they don't like but...every song sounded the same. For real. I won't be revisiting this band. What the hell is shoegaze?? 2/5
Aiight but not my cup of skittles
Another album that there's nothing wrong with per se. I quite enjoyed the sound on the whole, but the album is just too long. There's no way that this needs to be more than 70 minutes in length - it could have been in the sweet spot between 35 and 45 minutes and then had an EP only release or B sides or what have you. A function, I imagine, of being produced in the CD era. It's the over length that brings this from 3 to 2 stars. There's really no excuse for it here.
It was fine. Nothing special, and the sound was pretty samey, but I didn't hate listening to it.
Shoegaze, melodisk rock, lidt langtrukkent
Not sure about this one
Totally forgettable
Boredom on repeat
shoegaze is shoegaze is shoegaze. Makes one think of sitting in a room of pot smokers listening to shoegaze and discussing how deep and philosophical they are. Talking about how I don't understand the meaning of anything, when the only thing I don't understand is why people listen to shoegaze.
Very 90s. Wasn't a huge fan of it.
Inoffensive but dull, struggled to make it through the whole album
A lot of chorus, a lot of layering, a bit repetitive. A very 90s album but not particularly the brand of 90s I'm usually drawn to.
I have come to realize during this project that the shoegaze genre does not appeal to me at all. I think it’s kind of dreadfully boring.
This is one where in theory I should like this. I enjoy alt rock. I enjoy rock from the early 90s. But this one just didn't do it for me. To much just... noise in this album.
Not bad but not anything amazing. the whole album kinda sits in the background.
Nope. Sludgy samey and unmemorable. Swear I had this album back in the day, probably because I thought I should. Don’t think I ever listened. Did not come across well on my earphones. Not sure why this one is here. Wanting to give it 1.5
Liked the noise, the vocals and lyrics were eh.