There is an atmosphere about the album. Dreams Burn Down and In a Different Place, have an intensity that slowly burns inside you. It could make you cry. Walls of sound rise and fall throughout this album.
The closing song is Vapour Trail. When that is played I am transported back to being a curtained haired 16 year old shuffling around the local indie disco.
In shoegazing circles they had everything. The were accomplished musicians, they had the look, they were outrageously cool and Mark had nice hair. There was not a single indie kid who did not like Ride. They were extremely popular with the student fraternity. This was well publicised by the Mary Whitehouse Experience .
It came out in the short period of time, that was the golden era of indie music.
I loved my Nowhere T-Shirt. Those were the days :)
ReplyDeleteStill have my nowhere t-shirt somewhere, a bit tight around the neck now though
ReplyDeletewow, one of my favourite albums (Going Blank Again is my favourite Ride album though). I just wish I knew who they were at the time, discovered them 15 years after Nowhere's release... a little too late :/
ReplyDeleteI have noticed that it is easier to pick up T-Shirts now, then back in the 90s. In those days it was a matter of writing for a catalogue and sending a cheque in the post. Now you can get nearly everything from the internet. Except a Loop Retina Burn t-shirt, which I would dearly love.
ReplyDeletewhat an album! still get blown away by this and the today forever ep.
ReplyDeletegoing blank again was still great, but nothiing after this really seemed to have the same emotional intensity imo.
great blog btw!
Such a great album. Have any of you compared it to the reissue? I'm wondering if it was remastered and sounds better -- not that the original didn't sound good.
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