It's Tuesday, June 13th 2000 and I'm driving home from (mechanical engineering) school where I've just aced a test, listening to a mix tape I made. Trying to overtake a huge truck I realize I won't make it, hit the brakes, the wheels lock, i release the brakes with wheels pointing right, they unlock and the car turns violently to the right and out of the road, the car falls into a pit and start rolling. After it rolls 3-4-5 times, I don't know, it lands upside down, I 'm hanging upside down from the safety belt, but the stereo it still playing. I hear the lyrics "you seem concerned and say I should slow down but how can I see stars if my feet are on the ground". I saw some stars alright.. RIDE are THE best band of the 90s.
Across fifty states of mind I didn't feel inclined You waited yesterday I didn't come your way Now time is moving on I know it won't be long Till I'm shuffling away With nothing more to say When I'm printed on your wall My face won't change at all The smile beneath my hair Hangs lifeless in the air Like a net in water I'm running through it all And I'm shuffling away With nothing more to say It's been preying on my mind And now I'm just resigned You smile for yesterday I think I'm in the way You seem concerned And say I should slow down But how can I see the stars If my feet are on the ground?
Love this song and this album! Criminally underrated band. Along with MBV, Lush and Suede, Ride was constantly in my playlist rotation in the early 90s. Saw them twice...at the Roxy on the "Nowhere" tour and at the Hollywood Palace on the "Going Blank Again" tour. Both were great shows.
Always thought this should have been the immediate follow-up to ‘Leave Them All Behind’ because for me, ‘Twisterella’, no matter how good, was vastly different and, at the time of release, was lost on many fans of Ride’s earlier eps.
It’s 25th February the world is slowly falling apart with news of the war in Ukraine and stuck here in hk with no end in sight to the pandemic, I revisited listening to this band a little over a few weeks ago and oh boy the memories it brought me back. I started listening to rock and metal earlier on in my teenage years but never really appreciated it until the last two threee years when I really started diggin in to music I went out today at noon for a run with a playlist that had ride right in the middle of my one hour and something list and I listened to this song thrice over my 10 k run It made me run faster I was absorbing all the beats to the beautiful song and was so glad to have stumbled upon this good piece of music and to have finally revisited this again recently when I’ve started appreciating all the good songs so much more The lyrics just perfect ❤️ thanks for the beautiful track
there are perfectly normal and nice guitar pop songs.....and then there are normal and nice guitar pop songs with BASS AND DRUMS AND PRODUCTION like this.
Fuck me. 1997, a gang of us expats are driving from Sydney to Canberra, 2 of us adored this album, so we became stereo nazis and put it on repeat. By journey's end we has converted 4 others. We were also drinking heavily :-)
So does the line "Cool your boots, man" uttered twice in the last minute of the song. The opening line is said by Marwood (the 'I' character), and the title line is uttered by Danny the drug dealer. Headhunter to his friends. Headhunter to everybody: he doesn't have any friends.
Subject to misguided teenage loathing on my part, I hated 'em, Loved the Manic Street Preachers but this is fucking brilliant! Lyrics are acutely well observed too, wish the author every happiness Across fifty states of mind I didn't feel inclined You waited yesterday I didn't come your way Now time is moving on I know it won't be long Till I'm shuffling away With nothing more to say When I'm printed on your wall My face won't change at all The smile beneath my hair Hangs lifeless in the air Like a net in water I'm running through it all And I'm shuffling away With nothing more to say It's been preying on my mind And now I'm just resigned You smile for yesterday I think I'm in the way You seem concerned And say I should slow down But how can I see the stars If my feet are on the ground?
LADIES AND GENTELEMAN THIS IS THE BEST INDIE GROUP EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NO BAD SONG TILL THEIR REAL INDIE PERIOD ( GOING BLANK AGAIN ALBUM0 ALL SONGS GREAT NOT EVEN ONE MEDIOCRE
El baterista le pega como si quisiera destruir la batería, todos tocan súper firme en cada uno de sus instrumentos, se puede sentir esa presencia de cada uno...
wow me acuerdo q cuando comenté esto estaba en mi casa pintando una puerta toda oxidada con esmalte sintético sin ningún futuro a la vista. ahora cambió todo. q buen disco laptm
5 meses de ese último comentario. ahora estoy un poco menos loquillo que en ese entonces (sólo un poco xd) ya me mudé a un departamento lindo tal cual quería y dejé de vivir en la pensión, en el laburo me va bien, pero siempre pienso en mi vieja casa pintando la puerta oxidada escuchando Going Blank Again
I had never got around to reading any of the Narnia books, but then in my first year of teaching I read The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe when preparing a unit of work on it. At the same time GBA had just come out, and I was giving it its first playthrough while reading LWW. The section here from 1.43 and especially from 2.07 meshed magically with the sequence where Aslan shows Peter Cair Paravel in the distance "shining like a star on the sea". Two ideas forever bonded in my imagination. Still a golden track from a wonderful album.
Agree with most of the comnents below. Obviously Nowhere was THE album but this has some great tunes. I dislike the cover though. I always have it turned over.
I think but could well be wrong that the song is Withnail's all encompassing apology to I, finally heartfelt. It posits a situation where Withnail did find fame and was then at a remove from his friend ' printed on your wall'.... I don't know that's how I read it, fuck it it's just a great piece of music
