Artist......: Ride
Album.......: OX4_ The Best Of Ride
Source......: CD
Label.......: Sinnamon
Genre.......: Indie
Tracks......: 15
Bitrate.....: 1061kbps avg
Playtime....: 01:07:33 (537.MB)
Rls date....: 2020-11-15
Store date..: 2003-08-02
Encoder.....: FLAC 1.3.1
Url.........: http://www.thebandride.com/
01 Chelsea Girl 2:58
02 Drive Blind 4:45
03 Like A Daydream 3:06
04 Taste 3:17
05 Dreams Burn Down 6:04
06 Vapour Trail 4:17
07 Unfamiliar 5:09
08 Leave Them All Behind 8:16
09 Twisterella 3:42
10 OX4 5:05
11 Birdman 6:37
12 From Time To Time 4:39
13 How Does It Feel To Feel? 3:39
14 I Don't Know Where It Comes From 3:25
15 Black Nite Crash 2:34
OX4: The Best of Ride brings together the best tracks from Ride's brief but
bright reign. Much maligned throughout the Britpop years, Oxford's Ride
were to be remembered as the progenitors of shoegazing, a movement that
dominated the early 90s indie scene with a personality-free strain of
skyscraping noise-rock. Fortunately, in hindsight, a listen to OX4: The
Best of Ride displays a very different band: a group determined to break
out of the self-imposed boundaries of British rock music by drawing on the
extremities of the Velvet Underground, My Bloody Valentine and The Jesus
and Mary Chain, and harnessing their explosive rush to pop songs that
fizzed with the enthusiasm of youth. From their glorious, passionate
inception on their first two EPs, Ride and Play (see the starry-eyed
clatter of "Chelsea Girl", and the heart-stealing harmonic jangle of "Like
a Daydream") to their growth into champions of retrodelica, with Carnival
of Light-era tracks such as "I Don't Know Where It Comes From" summoning
classic tunes out of the ether, Ride sounded like true pioneers. The
closing, Rolling Stones-pillaging "Black Night Crash", from the
poorly-received Tarantula LP is the only really pointless inclusion here,
the sound of a band burnt out. But that leaves OX4 with a pretty impressive
strike rate.-- Louis Pattison