Ride. Any fans?

DrCornelius

I heard Taste for the first time in about 15 years on 6 music last week and it brought back so many fantastic memories - its a brilliant tune . I’ll have to delve a bit on spotify as they are one of those bands I didn’t really get into at the time despite loving that song 

MagicPigDetective

The rhythm section gets overlooked, Loz is a brilliant drummer (Seagull, Cool your Boots), and Steve Q, with his dubby influences with the phat and driving melodic bass lines. Going Blank Again has one of my favorite bass tones. Andy Bell with the wah soaked solos and soaring melodies, Mark Gardner with more textural stuff. Shoegaze combined with 60’s power pop. Magnificent band. 

St_Hubbins

MagicPigDetective said:

The rhythm section gets overlooked, Loz is a brilliant drummer (Seagull, Cool your Boots), and Steve Q, with his dubby influences with the phat and driving melodic bass lines. Going Blank Again has one of my favorite bass tones. Andy Bell with the wah soaked solos and soaring melodies, Mark Gardner with more textural stuff. Shoegaze combined with 60’s power pop. Magnificent band. 

Agree 100% with Loz observation. Incredible drummer!

Greatape

Prefer the Swervies but yeah, like them. 

Placidcasual79

unpopular opinion ahoy - I was 14 years old in small town in North Wales far from the looming cultural zeitgeist - music was either rave (I hadn't yet ingested the drugs required to understand it) or grunge (terrible clothes, no girls or football). Oasis dropped live forever and suddenly music seemed like a viable option. I had NO IDEA what I was doing after getting Definitely Maybe and didn't know how to find any other like minded music. I literally wandered round Virgin (remember that horrific faux industrial decor) and picked up Carnival of light because it had the same logo on it as Defiantly maybe - that was Creation records - see the power of branding (just ask Naomi Klein). That served me well as I found records by MBV and SFA among others - anyway point is I really like Carnival of Light - I understand its not rated by Ride fans and it may be because of its significance to me - but I really rate the album, dense interesting production, excellent musicianship and songwriting, evident tension between the two sides and a well realised ideas - I actually prefer it to their earlier stuff but havent hear their two new albums