Nowhere

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

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.

The Good: We were warned… The Bad: We still ended up nowhere… The Ugly: Total waste of a ride to get there… It’s so interesting how regionality colors the music that you listen to. Imagine that you were living in Bozeman, Montana, when this album came out… This ain’t no Bridger Creek Boys! I’t is hard for someone who missed the shoegaze phase, and doesn’t have suppressed anger hidden down deep in his soul, to listen to this and think “golly, that is some soothing music”. I listened to this album… check it off the fucking list—pardon my language there, but the noise just got to me and I guess that I did have some suppressed anger hidden down deep somewhere, and this music has pulled it out and ruined my day… 1* for being shit

They another generic indie album, nothing innovative and have probably skipped their songs on a shine album

Wow. That was horrible. One of the least enjoyable albums on the list.

Oh neat. More whiny emo music

The most vanilla shit I’ve listened to. Each song sounds the same.

Too droney for me

A droning cacophony of lukewarm piss and sludge. Boring as hell.

bah

What a waste of talentless dribble, what record executive got payola for this one?

Wasn’t for me. Went nowhere 🥁

This was painful to listen to. It felt like I was listening for 3 hours and then I looked down and I was only halfway through the 4th song. 1.5 stars

“Tiiiiiiiiiiime. Why is it measured in hourrrrrrsssss?” Deep lyrics, man.

Boring

Dull…

This a good album, just not my genre tbh. I don't really know how to rate this, cause like idk. None of them are really playlist worthy for me, but then again I don't really fuck with shoegaze, kinda a slow and boring genre for me. I will accept I am wrong with this rating, but 1/5.

Monotonous drivel.

That was so hard to muscle through. At times I got REM vibes, but I love REM and I hated Ride. Just couldn’t wait for it to be over.

This album was terrible. I'm kinda floored it's on the list. I had never heard of them before, now I know why.

I fail to see where's the charm on this record

this is boring! 1/5

Kut album

Nothing but noise

Bloody boring and tedious, terrible. Showgaze is the perfefct name for this terrible style of music. 0 stars if I could.

Album 390 of 1001 Ride - Nowhere Rating : 1.5 / 5 I just don't really have any real interest in this "Shoegaze" genre. Does nothing for the music lover in me.

Meh meh

Why are they so miserable? Did their mummy's ask them to do the washing up. Poor kids. Waste of an hour.

Geese farts on a muggy day.

Not my cup of tea.

Quite Boring 😔

If a Ride album is playing in the woods, and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? Doesn't matter, this album is of no consequence to anyone or anything. 1 falling tree out of 5 🌳

Kısaca hayır.. Albüm kapağından güzel bir şeyler ummustum ama bulamadım. Shoegaze olayını çok anlamadım + doğru düzgün müzik de söz de yok. Ve bütün şarkılar aynı gibiydi, bana hitap etmedi. Vakit kaybı:( Overall :3.5/10

I just don't get this type of music. Morose indie kids with lots of guitars and nothing to say. It plods along without touching me at all.

Probably cool to someone

Incredible boring album, nothing stood out as good, it all just felt like I was listening to waves crash on the beach but with vocals. At which point I would rather just listen to waves crash on the beach.

I like rock, just not any of these tracks. So I guess I'm saying I don't like Nowhere based on this album. Not my thing at all.

Not great, couldn't finish

sucks

Found this one boring

Kind of liked the first song, but then noticed every other one is the exact same muffled sound, so you don't hear anything clearly ever (except drums, which I found to be the only enjoyable thing).

ah the english...

WTF! Wikipedia gives the music genre as Shoegaze / Neo-Psychedelia / Noise Pop, and then defines Shoegaze as a subgenre of Indie and Alternative Rock characterized by its ethereal mixture of Obscured Vocals, Guitar Distortion and Effects, Feedback, and Overwhelming Volume - what a load of pretentious bullsh*t! It's just a wall of noise.

Is it all one song, or is it the same song over and over again? Who can say? 1.0

On paper, this seems like a home run for me. Noisy guitars, aggressive drums, vocal harmonies. All things I like. But boy did I struggle (and fail) to get through this. I just couldn't grab on to the melodies. The production seemed frail. And the vocals really had no personality or life in them to the point where I groaned any time they started singing. I like shoegazer music, but I really did not care for this album.

Total “music you hear from someone else's headphones while passing them on a busy train” of an album.

oh my gosh this album was boring. is shoegaze a synonym for boring?! i mean, nowhere is fine on the whole. there were some pretty strings and encompassing music, but i could not wait for it to end. i typically reserve 1s for albums that are unlistenable or the artist is a dbag. well, ride is a special case. byeeee

Could not finish. Was really boring, and nothing stood out. I liked bandwagonesque more than this surprisingly.

Good god this was boring. Like a dad rock version of My Bloody Valentine. All the edges sanded off. British rock was in a dire place on 1990 wasn't it, if this is a high watermark. Couldn't even hate my way through it, it was too dull. Actually celebrated it ending.

Could not get into this one. Give me more Laibach instead

Into the first track. Get lost later.

Instrumental, kind of just noise

Yeah, as obnoxious as Oasis. Has a few great songs and the eponymous Vapour Trail, but it was just the angry opening album and Bell would go on to greater things and eventually join aforementioned boyband.

I want to say this will be world music? Something like Enya? The cover and song titles would suggest that. Maybe some very chilled out electronica? Ok I was WAY off. It's alternative, a bit shoegazey, etc etc. Ahhhh, it's from the UK!! what a fucking surprise. And it goes for over an hour, because what else do you want from a style that involves no musical variation whatsoever? Ok, that was a real bloody chore. Once I'm done with this project, I'm never listening to anything from the UK again. Excruciatingly long, dreary, monotonous, boring, etc etc. 1/5.

The whole album sounds like something you’ve heard before even though you haven’t. It’s basically 1990s noise.

My 1001albums listening buddy liked this album enough to add it to her listening library and now I’m not sure we should be listening buddies any more. 😂 I did not like this album. Not even a little bit.

No expectation as the only information I had were the cover art and the date, never having heard of the band before. First impression, a minute into the first track is that of a less competent Hawkwind - we'll see. It flattered to deceive in that it started as reasonably good psychodelic rock but migrated quickly (by track 3) to very boring indie rock. Still, have to give it more time yet, it might be a temporary aberration. No, not temporary it goes on with more boredom. What could be interesting songs absolutely demolished by flat and uninterested vocals. Even the 'hit' Vapour Trail does not manage to alleviate the tedium. I suppose that there are people in the world that like being bored, there is no other explanation for 17 million plus streams of this track! I gave up at track 10 to go and watch the paint dry

Pop ambiental. Repetitivo y mareante.

Disliked this a lot. All the songs sounded the same to me, it got boring. Don't know why it made it to this list.

Belle merde

Must start by saying that I am not a big Shoegaze band fan. This album displays on obscene amount of distortion with the common sad bastard lyrics. I do know that drummer was in the wrong band. He is the bright point of this album. If we could strip away all the other instruments and the vocals this would be a much better album. Will not be a listening party involving Ride.

lightly Byrds-y, tinny guitars jangling away with no songs, no swing, and a weird mix where the slightly fey, whiny vocals are mixed way way back, behind the guitars that never really develop into anything

I wish I could give this album negative stars This is such a muddy mix. Muddy guitar, bass guitar, and drums. With soft spoken vocals make listening a chore. This is like four angsty 17 year olds got a band together after only spending a year with their instruments. Then got their dad’s audio engineering friend that used to record using analog methods in the 60’s and 70’s. And he is trying to figure out how to record digitally. Just do yourself a favor and skip this album

Nope

Meh

I don't get it

Drowned in th le chaos of the sound. Bad

oh my lord this was BAD. boring annoying vocals meh each song was the same ew

lozer beller and gardener the lads noise popping it up but nothing special for me. probably heard bits of this before but it's hard to tell. lots of flying, birds and references to words innit.

noisey, couldn't get through it all

meh

No thanks.

Wenigstens weiß ich jetzt was shoegazing ist. Die langen Intros machen ungeduldig auf das, was noch kommt. Meistens kommt danach aber nur unbedeutendes Rauschen. Das CD Cover gefällt mir.

Meh. Not my bag at all. Melodic, but nonsense.

Pop ambiental. Repetitivo y mareante.

confusionario

dated noise pop. gets really tiring after a while. not for me