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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!
Gear: Hifiman Arya Artwork: 🌊🐬🧘🏻 Mix: 🧏♂️📏💩 Musik: 🥱😬❌ Wertung: 🌊🌊/5
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.
Every. Song. Sounds. The. Same. Can I get a chorus? Or a melody? Or a rhythm? Something?
kind of innocuous. Not particularly good or interesting, background music for some sort of boring movie montage. 2.5.
Boring, couldn't get through it but didn't hate it.
Pitkät introt joka biisissä
Some half decent songs.
Not my thing. Great fuzz tones, but voice is too mellow for me, compared to the music. Songwriting is decent, too, as far as chord structure is concerned.
The band for people who feel that the Smiths were "a bit rowdy"
I didn't recognize any of the songs and don't think I'll ever listen to this group again. +1 because it wasn't terrible. 2/5
It was pleasant enough to listen to in the background but ultimately it left me wanting a bit more, hard to remember any particular songs.
Somehow this entire band passed me by? I had never heard any of this before. Sounds like Stone Roses to me, maybe a bit more noisy. It's not bad or anything, but it feels kinda beige to me. The sound comes out of the speakers and I have no emotional response.
Album 10/1001 this album is epitome of filler music. Just like the title says it goes nowhere, music feels the same throughout and leads towards no significant change or dynamic listens. 4/10
There were some moments I was feeling it but for the most part, I couldn't find the groove with this one. A little more on the psychedelic end of shoegaze. And the vocals are too forward for how weak they are. Best Songs: Dream Burning Down, Today Listen Again: No
Not note worthy. Shoegaze.
A mix between the Smiths, the Stone Roses, and Nickleback, but only if you took the weakest parts of these three. I really did not enjoy the lyrics or the singing and the instrumentation bored me, save the rare moments that felt like the guitarist was freestyling or decided to channel their inner hard rocker. The album felt too late for its time while somehow simultaneously also sounding like it predated much of the “90s sound” of whisper-whining ethereality. It didn’t really carve a name out for itself for me, but I could see how it influenced later music that I do like. Maybe I’m just not the target audience, which is fine, but because this is a review targeted towards myself, I’m gonna rate it based on the vibes: 2.5
kind of sounded like a cross between sonic youth and the cure. twas ok, but not that impressed. a lot of the songs tended to sound the same.
This was fine. But nothing really special. I can appreciate the musicality of it, but there wasn't a single song I really liked... so 2.
Boring. Never heard of it before and I’m pretty sure because it was just so…..boring.
Next 5 songs played by my Spotify Algorithm: Pavement - Perfume V Primal Scream - Silent Spring The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Hey Paul Dinosaur Jr. - Goin' Home Drop Nineteens - All Swimmers are Brothers
This sounded like something I would like, but turns out I didn't like it that much. The instrumentals were good - I really liked Paralysed and the bass in Familiar was 🤤. The vocals are very 80s which took a bit from the experience. I don't think I'll listen to it again in the future, but at least I discovered a new subgenre of 90s British rock.
Mediocre, more noises than anything that makes me disconnect and gets me into the world of music. Or maybe that's just because I listened to it whilst working my 9-6.
Mid Rawk
This was pretty boring, and I did not care for it. Really not a fan of shoegaze. The only reason I’m not giving this a 1 is because I did enjoy the song “Vapour Trail.” Otherwise, pass.
I thought this would be good but I was really disappointed. They definitely didn't hit the level of My Bloody Valentine or Slowdive to my ears.
I don’t think I have the mental capacity to understand the shoegaze genre. It always feels like the music is unfinished. Overall this wasn’t as bad as some of the other shoegaze album but it still lacks anything other than sad vibes and depressed lyrics. I get sad music is deep but how can one enjoy a whole album of music without a pulse. 3.9/10
Relatively mid album. Not bad, not great.
Kinda gay
Noise-rock. You have the constant drone of mono-tone vocals, where inflection is absent. The litany of instruments fly in from all directions and instead off taking a que to diminish upon another’s arrival, they take it as a challenge to play more aggressively and loud, like jazz but with one simultaneous power chord. It’s not bad music, but I don’t particularly care to listen to it.
2/5 nothing much
Thought I would enjoy this more than I did. Quite samey throughout and not particularly interesting
Its not a bad album but it sounds like many others from that time. One and done.
Is this a Stone Roses cover band?
Shoegaze. The name says it all. Dull, dated and dire. Not my thing really. Must listen? Nah.
This album seemed to have every 1990 hipster music critic on its side, but I saw it as a pretty middle-of-the-road shoegaze album. I feel like I should listen again to really get it, but it didn't seem to rise nearly to the level of something like Loveless that came out the following year. What am I missing here?
I couldn’t shake the feeling of, “The Smiths but trying to be edgier” throughout this album. Then you’ve got a lot of late 80s early 90s classic rock hanging on here. Some of it works when they’re leaning into the surfier, more psychedelic aspects, but overall this is pretty forgettable.
I'm quite the fan of shoegazing, but I've always considered Ride to be a class below the Slowdives and My Bloody Valentines of the world; Nowhere did nothing to make me reconsider that preconception.
boring 90s indie rock
I'd call this a "standard British rock album of its era". Not bad, but not something that should be cherished for all eternity either.
Doesn't float my boat in general, and is way too repetitive.
The Charlatans meets The Stone Roses! Not bad music at all - I am a fan of shoe gazing Brit bands but this just doesn’t add anything original. Made about as much impact as a vapour trail.
I’d never heard of Ride before, and I was pleasantly surprised about the U2-meets-Helter-Skelter feel of the opening track. However, after the nineties psychedelic vibe of “Kaleidoscope” and most of the tracks that follow it, I get bored. Several songs in, it seems like these guys have never listened to anything other than The Joshua Tree, and since this album came out in 1990, that checks out. The main problem, though, is that every song sounds more or less the same as the one before. Many say the same about U2 (and others), but to each their own, I guess. For as reliable of a litmus test as possible I tried distinguishing between by far their most popular song, “Vapour Trail,” and the other songs, but couldn’t decide whether it was any better or more developed. I don’t mind the simplicity of the song titles and album cover from an artistic standpoint, but unfortunately, that simplicity describes the music too. It’s not bad, but it’s far too long and monotonous.
I'm not super into shoegaze, but I would certainly enjoy this album stoned.
It was okay
Here's my trick: When an album gets too dull or unbearable, nip over to Wikipedia and check out how many tracks were on the original release. Have you listened to 9 Ride songs? Well that'll do then, won't it?
Meh. It had hints of decently sounding music and then hints of early indie music. It was not good but wasn't awful. No need to revisit
never really got into this one. it’s just a whiny, noisy, meandering stone roses album that pales in comparison to the better shoegaze bands. there are some enjoyable moments - vapour trail, nowhere, sennen.
I didn’t like this, so we didn’t listen to the whole album.
It's weird that some of my favourite ever bands have shoegazey elements to them, but outright shoegaze I really struggle with for the most part. It really just grinds me down and down, and I find it so dreary and depressing. This album holds mostly true to that, but also just seems really samey and goes on and on. There's nothing here that stands out.
Battle of the Bands worthy performance at best. Bad singing, bland instrumentals. Really? This is one of the 1001 albums I have to listen to before I die? 4/10.
Aika unohdettava ysärirokkilevy. 2/5
Genres: Shoegaze, neo-psychedelia, noise pop Formed: Oxford, England in 1988 Run time: 15 songs, 1 hour, 11 min The band's debut album. The Smiths have been mentioned as the inspiration for forming a band and you can hear that influence in some of the tracks. The least popular song has just short of 400k plays. The most popular is track 8, “Vapour Trail” with over 19M plays. Even that track was a bit m’eh to me. If you want the real thing, listen to the Smiths. Listen Again?: No My Rating: **
Bit samey. Bit boring but easy to listen to I guess
i love the idea of shoegaze but then you get to it and there are no tunes, no tunes at all
Shoegaze pretty consistently lacks the energy
Het begint soms wat U2-achtig, en af en toe schieten ze uit de bocht met gitaargekrijs. Vliegt voorbij, maakt geen indruk, gaat 'Nergens' heen. Gelukkig is het originele album maar acht tracks. En door naar de volgende.
No way, the Apple Music description directly references My Bloody Valentine. What kind of twilight zone are we living in. Where’s another album like Liquid Swords?! Regardless, I like this cover, big water fan. Unfortunately, and expectedly, nothing stood out to me on this one either. The week started strong with GZA and ends like a ripple in a vast ocean of UK duds.
What a miserable dirge. And making it even worse, it's way too long.
Shoegaze always starts at a 3, and then inevitably drops in rating as it whines on and on.
Started interesting, got boring.
Sort of forgettable shoegaze drone saved by a bit of vocal harmony and occasional heaviness
why so long
Ahh noooo not feeling this one at all. Not for me at all. There was one track I thought was pretty cool and I can't remember which one it was but the rest are too stressful with the noises for me and my sensitive brain. Also in between the stressful noises there wasn't much else which I liked either it was a bit bleh to me. Maybe I'd enjoy this live though actually because it's reminding me of Just Mustard which I liked seeing live! Not an album for me to listen to at home at all though.
Nowhere: Music to eat a bowl of broken glass to.
“Paralysed” and “Vapour Trail” were my favorite tracks. I imagine every member of the band has hair hanging in front of their face as they stare at guitar pedals.
Meh. I can't imagine why this genre died out...
NGL - this sounds like every average-ish indie album that "music people" praised in teh 90s. Not bad musically, but the leader singer lacks something
So blah
I’m not into this one
No idea why this is supposed to be good.
Really irritating. Style without substance.
Offensively dull, voice overpowered by instruments
Quite boring alt-rock. 1.5/5
A bit too rocky?
För konstigt
I dunno, I tried this one about three times and every time I completely forgot what it was like. Seems extremely bland
boring mediocrity
Meh.
gay
Bit twangy
Can music be out of focus? This just feels like a muddy Stone Roses and 'm not getting into it. Not the worst but not for me.
But I don’t wanna have a shoegaze brunch :(
Shit sucks 2 Some ok shoegaze
I'm not sure why this should be in 1001...
Even listening to the remastered version, it sounds like there was 1 microphone next to the hi-hat. Even looking past that, nothing from this album impressed me.
Meh
meh.
As I've learned from previous shoegaze albums it's not a genre for me. The songs blend together and are generally uninteresting and dull. However it's very well produced so I've got go give Ride that. It's also better than the dream-pop albums I've heard.
Slipped into the background and never left it for me.
2/15, 13%
My least favorite genre in my least favorite decade from my least favorite country on this list! I literally avoided this for days! My expectations were so low that I actually kind of come off impressed by this. It's alright.
2,5
The Cure, but make it shoegaze and boring. This might as well be a list of 1001 Albums that Certainly Do Exist, because that's where this record belongs. Besides Kaleidoscope and Paralysed which both had a cool signature '90s sound, it's hard to see what makes this influential or worthy to stand against these other albums.
Though exited to listen to this album again, it fell flat on these aging 2024 ears. Nowhere felt limp and flaccid after the the first few tracks of whirring tin-y reverb and earnest, yet failing, vocals. When this was released, this may have been hailed as a groundbreaking shoegaze or back step in rock (much needed at the time), but it's hard to hear this in 2024 and not think of a couple of unsophisticated young teens playing on a parent's vintage guitar amps while the router is being reset. I can see the appeal of Nowhere to a younger generation in this age of abundance and hype over 'what's old is new again' and the desire to find something that doesn't sound like everything. But this is not the album that lingers as a memento and is more like a forgotten relic to be casually discarded when cleaning out your parents house after they've moved on. "Yep, I remember that. More importantly, the internet is back..."
Mediocre rock fronted by subpar vocals.
Not bad, not great
All very indistinct. The sounds all seem to blur into each other and non of the tracks are able to stand out from the Wall Of Noise. Interesting to hear the influence on some of my favourite bands from around that time - early Blur and The Charlatans. My sister was into Ride but they never made much of an impact on me. The art work made more an impression on me than the music.
Lo que más rescato de este disco es haber aprendido el término "shoegaze" al leer lo publicado. En cuanto a la música es decente pero no muy distinto a tantas otras bandas.
Average
Utrolig lite minneverdig
Pretty generic English rock
One long song
I dont like it. I feel like a bully cause I want to punch the singer stright in his emo face.
Rock indie, aburrido y monótono.
It's like someone is talking to you when your mind is on something else. You know that something is being said, but it's just not interesting enough to really pay attention to. It's there but it doesn't really make an impression. But maybe that's the point? Best Tracks: Seagull; Polar Bear; Vapour Trail
I found this, literally, monotonous to start with. It gre on me towards the end but I wouldn’t revisit so a harsh 2*
Again not really for me. I think you have to be in the right mood for this shoe-gazey type stuff and it just didn't hit me today.
I guess we have to cover this genre in 1001. Too bad
Not my jam, not much here resonated with me.
2.5 / 5 Listened to this all day and every time it started again, it was like hearing the songs for the first time. This one would really take some time to get used to. I might like it better in the future.
Well that's a whole lot of nothing
Je pensais adorer le shoegaze après avoir écouté loveless de my bloody valentine, là c'est beaucoup moins bien. Aussi j'en ai marre d'avoir du rock bordel
-Nowhere Shoegazer is a genre I enjoy, but few of its biggest contributors are ones I come back to; Cocteau Twins, Lush, Slowdive...but Ride is one of those "oh hey, that's a song" and I never commit it to memory because it's so forgettable, I'm just glad I got a break between other tracks I enjoy. Nowhere is an album of mostly forgettable tracks, except for its title track which has so much feedback and reverb that it's painful to listen to. The rest of the album is...just there, filled with meek vocals, lazily-strummed guitars, melotron, slathered with way too much chorus/reverb... it's like a thick smear of spackle between the notes. But I'm thankful this Ride exists, they pad out many of my favorite Shoegazer playlists.
Above average for the genre, but that’s like saying you were served an above average plate of lutefisk.
Not a big fan.
this album has drained me. probably going for a 2, although there are good elements of it, the bad tracks bored me.
Joutava, tylsä ja muutenkin tusinakamaa
Ten album jest definicją obojętności. Nic złego, nic nadzwyczajnego, nawet jednego dobrego bangera nie ma :(
I knew nothing of this, but as I listen I think that this must be either highly derivative Britpop bilge, Ride being an act that prowled the scene in the mid-90s, but were only picked up by incredibly poncy public school journos writing for NME while trying to convince scene chicks that they were the son of a chip shop owner from Stoke rather than of the EMEA commercial director of a mid-tier bank from Surrey, or the incredibly influential progenitors of britpop bilge, only listened to by whiny Mancunian teenagers. Turns out to be the latter. These guys have clearly heard The Smiths, Inspiral Carpets and The Cure, but manage to take their music away from shoegaze towards the britpop tropes that became relevant four years later. Musically, it's too sweeping melody, wailing guitar for me. But I can see how they'll have shaped music.
Pretty poor production but interesting 80s/90s crossover. Not enough in it for me but can see where they were trying to go with it. 2/5.
Pretty middle of the road 2/5. There's the odd bit of cool sound in there, hints of Stone Roses type music, but nothing particularly notable. Probably would've been better with the original, shorter version than the remastered one that Spotfiy hoists upon you, but can't say I was ever hooked.
Pretty poor. Terrible singer.
Shoegaze genren er ikke mig. Den der mur af lyde og forvrængede guitar med insistererende trommer bliver simpelthen stressende at høre på. Jef kan godt høre der er noget kvalitet i det, men bare ikke for mig.
Sub-par Stone Roses. All a bit same-y and forgettable
So it turned out I'm the only person of my age who didn't know what the 'Shoegaze' genre of music was (Creation Records Bread & Butter). Well this is it. A tedious blending of instruments and music, so all tracks sound identikit & mortifyingly dull.
Ah, shoegaze. A genre that excites me for about three minutes. Loved the drum work on this album but the vocals seemed to drone on. Lots of repetitive noise and not much in the way or hooks.
Not what I expected, not as good as I’d hoped.
Not too bad.....for one or two songs. After that they all sound exactly the same.
Ok. Can hear some influences but didn’t light me up.
forgettable kinda
Ik heb dat hele shoegaze genre nooit helemaal begrepen. Het verzandt toch te vaak in eindeloze stofzuigersessies. Nou viel dat hier mee, maar toch boeide het me te weinig
Mooie albumhoes. Verder vind ik het niet spannend.
OK.
Sounds like a Sunday night MTV band from 1990. Up my alley but by sing 3 I’m a bit bored. Not bad at all though. It really captures a time and place. I can see myself in my basement bedroom in 9th grade playing this while I talk on the phone to my friends and avoid homework.
Shoegaze just isn’t for me.
Meh. This album was pretty bland.
This really did go nowhere
I really don’t get shoegaze at all but not on par with some of the shite I’ve rated as 1 star. Wouldn’t listen again.
Middle of the road tunes with yet another vocalist who can't sing.
Meh
The Clone Roses
Boring
Ik vind het wel iets van filmmuziek weghebben. De meerstemmige zang is wel erg monotoon, maar de muziek maakt veel goed. Leuk albumpje voor erbij, maar kan mij niet meteen bekoren. Over koren gesproken, het klinkt af en toe of ik het amateurkoor hoor zingen in een kerk of zo. **
Mwah
Wave in picture, called ride... surf album?
Drum heavy jangly alternative rock. I can imagine this going down a storm with sensitive young men of the era. Not exactly my cup of tea but eh.
It was okay.
Meh. Not terrible. Shoegaze is not my bag. But the songs are well written.
Feels like a caricature of 90s stoner rock
Angenehmer Rock um im Hintergrund zu hören
Ok in places. Nothing special.
Introspective, ethereal lyrics, mixed with jingly jangly drums and guitars . The first time I've heard of the genre "shoegazing" it basically means the artists and audience all look at the floor and sway as the music plays. To be honest it's not that bad, sounds a little bit like James, crossed with The Stone Roses, crossed with Oasis but without any of their emotional high points. Guitarist Andy Bell has played with Oasis and was lead guitarist in Beady Eye. Best track: Vapour Trails.
That first song was a banger at least
Okay-ish for background music but nothing noteworthy (to me).
Not my genre. But I must say, playing it on the background made it disappear and it did not irritate me so that's something.
No shoegaze for me, thank you.
This ride took me nowhere, sadly.
This album falls into a genre characterized by distorted guitars, 'dreamy' vocals, and feedback. But that doesn't excuse an unrefined sound and overly hollow lyrics. Maybe I wasn't paying close enough attention, but I mostly just heard noise from this album.
Pietra Miliare
With an opening track named Seagull, I was pretty hopeful for this album. A bit dreary with some dreary harmonising to really drear it up. A few tracks a bit more ironed where the music drowned out the vocals
Int så bängeri Rock/neo-psykadelisk. Vissa bra låtar men blev långtråkigt
2,5/5
Sounds like a budget version of the Stone Roses
Song intros were far too long and then the pay off of the verse / chorus was not worth the wait. Instrumentation mostly felt like sound rather than music. Safe to say a bit shit.
not for me, it was headache inducing
it's a no from me
1.47
Forgettable.
They wish they were The Stone Roses. They aren't
I’d rather gaze at my shoes
1.5-2
Wow this list was really made by a middle-aged British man.
Cure for insomnia
For the majority of this album we were in one star territory. I found this unbelievably boring, my mind started to wander by track 3. Then we got to Taste, banging track. Really enjoyed it. The next two were really good to give a strong finale to quite a dull album. I wish I had found the rest of it as entertaining. Top Track - Taste Edit: found out after writing this that the only tracks I liked were bonus ones which I do not count.
Day 34 — Ride — Nowhere (1990) Listened: May 2–3, 2026 Genre: Shoegaze / Dream Pop / Alternative Rock Vibe: Dense walls of distorted guitar washing over buried melodic hooks — atmospheric and hypnotic but anxiety-inducing in its relentlessness. Highlights: ★ Unfamiliar Impression: Two listens and couldn't get through it comfortably. Anxious tone that was hard to settle into. Hooks are there if you dig but felt nothing overall. Not my world. Rating: 1.1/5 Keep songs? Yes Revisit album? Maybe — pending a few more days
The music is ok. Much or it is overproduced synth pop, but tolerable. There’s a couple of songs that are pretty good musically. But man, I HATE how he sings on this. The whiny thing is clearly intentional but I don’t find it good at all.
Much like the albums title, I was left a bit adrift here. Noise rock noises, loads of static and mumbles.
There really is no such thing.
Gross
Vocals far too buried beneath the guitar, as I struggled to hear the lyrics throughout. For those i read, the lyrics were palatable yet generic and weak. The vocal style seems out of place, a low energy 80s whisper which seems out of place on an album with a louder, more 90s sound. Would've enjoyed more with no vocals, and making the album a 90s movie background guitar soundtrack
I keep seeing the term “shoegaze” when looking up this album. I have no idea what it means, but I don’t think I like it. This is another album where I genuinely cannot fathom the praise it receives. As a listening experience, I found it was overly long (however, I think the linked Spotify version includes extra tracks), vocally weak, repetitive to the point that individual tracks blurred together, and frankly, a bit annoying. Production wise, Nowhere was heavy. Guitars are INCREDIBLY layered with so much reverb and distortion that it creates this big clashing sound and almost drowns out any drums/bass for over an hour, without any contrast. The progressions and tone didn’t vary much across tracks and instead relied on heavy effects to add texture/contrast, leaving them indistinct. However, the vocals are the worst part of the album for me. Not only were they emotionally quite flat, I found them to be generally bad. I’m not sure I even really listened to the lyrics very well because I hated the vocals so much. I’m sure there was a lot of technical skill involved in creating this album, with so many effects, feedback control, texture, etc., but for it to sound like this, honestly, what is the point?
Das ist für mich nicht hörbar. Ab in den Papierkorb!
Ugh. Early '90's shoegaze rock makes me want to lobotomize myself. We get it, you're depressed, women probably don't like you, and you do too many drugs. Stop singing about it and drawing every damn note out.
Dire sub REM dirge that wouldn’t be on a 1000001 list
God, that was boring.
In the right circumstances this album is phenomenal. For instance, if you want to make the weekend seem longer, just stick this album on. Album length is officially 1hr 11mins but it feels more like 4 or 5 hrs.......
Not good
More like poogaze. This was so forgettable. Except the song that ripped off When the Levee Breaks, but I don't like Led Zeppelin that much. And I liked this even less. 1 Star.
No nyt oli kuraa. Aivan sietämätön äänimatto jokaisen biisin taustalla, ja laulaja hönki kuin Ian Brown huuruisimmillaan. Ei taas mitään havaintoa, että millon biisit on vaihtuneet, ihan yhtä pahanmakuista puuroa koko paska. Taas oikein harmittaa että tuli aikaa tuhlattua tähän, vihasin jokaista sekuntia levyn parissa.
Typical sound from most alternative bands. Songs all sound the same.
Total crap I’m afraid.
1. zeagull - 0 2. kaleidozcope -0 3. place - 1 4. Polar -1 5. Dreams - 1 6. Decay - 1.5 7. Paralyzed - 1.5 8. Trail - 1 9. Taste - 0 10. Now - 1.5 11. Nowhere - 1 12. Unfamiliar - 1.5 13. Sen - 1.5 14. Beneath - 1 15. Today -1.5
It's get better on the second part of the album, but really no. Just noise but in a bad way, the voice of the lead singer is terrible, look like an endless assurance add.
So meh, it's not even worth talking about. Meh, meh, meh.
I know this sound. There are plenty of other 90's groups that I love that have this sound. Unfortunately for "this group" and "this album" they don't seem to do it as well. Or maybe they're falling victim to not getting me at the right moment....because in this moment I REALLY am not feeling it.....
p654. 1990. 1 star. Tedious indie guitar driven noise that desperately wants to be the Stone Roses, but lack the songs or the talent. And at 1hr 15mins it outstays its welcome big time. Utterly forgettable. WTF chose this for the list?
I like the idea of shoegaze and the wall of sound in theory, but in practice I can't stand listening to this music. I can really get into an atmospheric sonic trance experience, but there are so many more actually enjoyable examples of that. This music hurts my ears and reminds me of stoner boys from Connecticut in college trying to convince me to get high at 2:00 pm on a Tuesday and listen to this stuff.
My first from the Shoegaze genre. Soft airy vocals are submerged in layers of noisy, swirling, reverb-drenched guitars, where bright, chiming tones crash into waves of distortion. Overall my ears were strained.
Not on Amazon music
Boring.
Shoegazing is literally just as fun as gazing at your shoes.
Trite lyrics, stock shoegaze sound; not much else to recommend it.