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OX4_ The Best of. Three
CD set includes the OX4 live at Reading 1992 set and Ride rarities.
The web link has more details. Sleeve covers see below here. Good
book is included as well. White slipcase, with RIDE embossed
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RIDE: OX_4 - The Best Of Ride Review from Atomtan.
Many, many moons ago, NME was heard (or read, rather) to utter the
words "right now, Ride are the only band that matter".
However, unfortunately, that was then and this is now. Today Ride
sound like a band who wanted so desperately to be The Smiths, but
just weren't depressing enough to make the grade. Opening track
"Chelsea Girl" is the perfect example of this. In fact,
Ride are absolutely the sound of late 80s & early 90s indie music
in one nice tidy little package. Unfortunately, it's totally
irrelevant now, and just sounds dated and... well, boring. |
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Webmaster. There are a lot of similar guitar effects (on Chelsea Girl
for instance), which you don't hear too often today. However the
music all sounds genuine and "felt", as opposed to
artificial like so much today! The "Best Of" CD shows how
the band changed over time. |
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Ride
One of the first bands on the new "Creation" label. |
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One of the "Shoegazing" bands? There was stress between
Mark and Andy which eventually led to breakup. Mark is now in "The
Animal House" and Andy in Oasis,
playing Bass, not lead! I show the US sleeve of "Going Blank
Again" from 1992. Later albums have been reissued.A new US band, Ultragrey
quote Ride as an influence. |
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Nowhere. Seagull, Kaleidoscope, In a different place, Polar
bear, Dreams burn down, Decay, paralysed, Vapour trail, Taste, Here
and now, Nowhere. |
The album was released in 1990, one of the early Creation albums. It
shows the band in an almost improvisatory phase, with little sign of
the Byrds like style which emerged later. The "shoegazing"
label could apply here I guess. There are, I think videos available
from this stage. (checking that) I think enough exists for a DVD release. |
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SMILE is a special US album. Chelsea girl, Drive blind,
All I can see, Close my eyes, Like a Daydream, Silver, Furthest
sense, Perfect time. |
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Guitar effects dominate here, in a set of tracks produced by the
band. Andy Bell clearly shows skills not reflected in his current
position in Oasis. Thus
far he has really only been, in effect a session musician in that
band. Whether any co-operative compositions will emerge remains to be
seen, but the Gallagher brothers history does not augur well! A new
OASIS release is due soon. |
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UK 1990 CRESCD 87 |
Fall EP 1990
Dreams Burn Down, Taste, Here and Now, Nowhere |
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The guitar work on Dreams Burn Down is strongly similar to that of Felt,
with Maurice Deebank. The second track Taste is a little Byrds
like, guitar wise, and the overall sound is very clear and clean. |
