@@WocklessGamingforAnimeMoms Two of My Bloody Valentine, Kevin and Colm, are from Ireland, but the band formed in London. Ride are from Oxford, and Slowdive are from Reading. Several other influential shoegaze bands were from the Thames Valley area in England.
Already listened to awesome 'Loveless' and lovely 'Souvlaki' now it's time to finish the Shoegaze BIG 3, great opening for sure! I've heard that Ride is full of energy and I'm feeling it!
Add in Verve A Storm in Heaven and The Cure Disintegration and you have "The Big 5"...and what a big 5...Though I like to call this genre and era from early 90s not shoegaze (that came in the early mid 2000's) ......but more like "Psychedelic Alternative". These albums are psychedelic master works. Like a 60s reborn for a moment in time. Stunning.
Every time I hear this song I return to the bedroom of an insecure teenager trying to find his way in life and suddenly discovering the comfort and certainty of music. God bless you Ride and God bless music.
I remember exactly where I first heard this song -- I was driving home around midnight on a cold winter night in 1990 after dropping my girlfriend off at home. I was sitting at a deserted stoplight listening to KROQ and the DJ (Rodney Bingenheimer) said, "And now this is Seagull from Ride in England". I had read about the band but never heard them so I turned up the volume. It was like a bomb went off in the front seat of my car.
I was in me flat in Plumstead about the same time. Hello from the future. Oh and I just remembered, I saw em in Shepherds Bush Empire with Spiritualized.
What an opening to an album! Really sets out the intent; swirling guitars, noise, dreamy vocals and the drums pushing the whole thing on. Saw them many times in the 90's, probably responsible in part for hearing loss now in my 40's!
Loudest band I ever saw live. Leaning against the outside wall of the club they were playing at the wall was pounding and vibrating during soundcheck. After the show I was walking down the street stumbling around like a drunk due to equilibrium being messed up. I was waiting to cross the street and turned to see my girlfriend talking to me but I couldn't hear her.
@@AllenManor I'm seeing Ride live for the first time next week for the Nowhere 30 tour. Wonder if they'll be louder than My Bloody Valentine. I wear ear plugs to gigs, and I could feel them vibrating in my ears, that's how loud it was.
This album changed my life. Bought the CD at A&B Sound in Kelowna in 9th grade in 1990. I still get goosebumps down my neck when i listen to it. How does that happen? Lucky to have seen Ride live twice in 2017 and 2019. Looking forward to seeing them again in February 2023! Rock on!
Listen to the whole album, then listen to Whirlpool album by Chapterhouse. Then listen to Moose's early EP's. You will probably be a Shoegazer for life after that
Check out Ty Segals little musical associations, he’s out of Frisco (not British) but carrying on the legacy of the likes of The Chocolate Watchband but in a new more sonically afterburned psyched-out ans amped-up numbers of blasted oblivion. Like Phil Spector without the the 357 mag. power trips on a steady diet of amyl nitrate for get up and go on the sound board. Checkout Ty’s band Fuzz or Punk Damage merchants: Ex-Cult recorded right into the soundboard no amps, pure psych mayhem!
i never really listen to the lyrics but damn "Definitions confine thoughts, they are a myth Words are clumsy, language doesn't fit" are some cool lines (and true)
@@etghththe secret to the meaning is to never truly know (one of my own lines from a song I wrote) I think that's the point here. Once you pin it down, it loses some of it's mojo/mystique/intrigue/essence
A most AMAZING DJ at my son's wedding reminded me of these guys! This was on my surf cassett mix heading out to Robert Moses for dawn patrol!!!! God I love this and thank you!!!
My eyes are sore, my body weak My throat is dry, I cannot speak, my words are dead Falling like feathers to the floor Falling like feathers to the floor, ah You gave me things I'd never seen You made my life a waking dream but we are dead Falling like ashes to the floor Falling like ashes to the floor, ah Definitions confine thoughts, they are a myth Words are clumsy, language doesn't fit But we know there's no limit to a thought We know there's no limits Now it's your turn to see me rise You burned my wings, now watch me fly above your head Looking down I see you far below Looking up you see my spirit glow, ah
What an epic opener!!! Always made me think of a terrible breakup, the way he describes his discomfort. I actually got into this not long after my worst breakup (early 2013) and this album healed me and made way for more awesome music as well.
I think it's closer to the bassline of 'Rain'. Andy Bell is a big Beatles fan. He also explains (somewhere) that he wrote this song while learning to play another Beatles song, 'Blackbird'.
My mind is blown! I've been listening to this for 30yrs and I'm a lifelong Beatles lover and I didn't notice! I guess great artists are good at hiding their influences.... unlike another band I'm thinking of which shall remain nameless 😉
@@andydufresne87 bili su i u zagrebu, ja bio s ekipom, u pauku u studenjaku, poslije koncerta smo isli u lap, oni isto dosli , pricao sam malo s bubnjarom, kao da je jucer bilo
for me, this is one of those complete blind buys .. I solely bought it because the jacket cover was sooo cool .. I had NEVER EVER heard of them before and it turned out to be definitely one of the best payoffs in my life ...
so true king, long live humanity and the ultimatum that is rock and roll with the soul (something which silly little artificial intelligence will never get a hold of hehehaha) free the strings jah bless
Yeah remember him well. Steve 'Nowhere' I believe his name was. Remember him staring at me getting crushed at the Melb '92 gig, concerned it might become a Hillsborough situation. Or something. There's not even a Wikipedia entry for Mr Q. Nowhere, great album.
Done listening to souvlaki, loveless, and just for a day. Souvlaki is definitely my favorite and it became my favorite album as of now. Nowhere is next
While my college mates who hated everyone and thought themselves intellectually superior to most everyone were sitting around stoned and boring as they dissected My Bloody Valentine...I was kicking up my Adidas at the club with Ride, enjoying life and just living it. Nothing to do but enjoy and go where they took you.
Shades of the Beatles, the Byrds,, Paul Weller, Johnny Marr, the Edge, even... also early Pink Floyd and The Velvet Underground influences, I reckon. It has such pedigree this song - this band - but manages, still, to be original and compellingly evocative of it's own time - a certain high water period in British rock music and youth culture; equivalent to the late sixties and punk, easily.
@@arguy_4420 Probably the Rickenbacker 12 string Andy Bell sometimes uses. Check this: no-one has been able to get this sound quite like Roger McGuinn got it on this (not even Roger McGuinn! Something in the way it was compressed in the studio): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-58lty4uJerw.html
I bought this and Achtung Baby on the same day and stopped listening to U2 new albums from then on, there was no comparison, Achtung Baby was nothing and let me say I loved U2
@@GeoffreyGentryMusic yeah, George's song for sure, but Paul's bass line (and he played the guitar solo in that song too). But yeah, you're right, Lonesome George's song all the way.
