Ride - Waves

As promised, check out Birdman. I have not listened much to this album but I have put it on my MP3 player to listen to more.


1. Like A Daydream
2. Dreams Burn Down
3. Perfect Time
4. Sight Of You
5. All I Can See
6. Decay
7. Severance
8. Time Of Her Time
9. Not Fazed
10. Mouse Trap
11. Birdman
12. Walk On Water
13. Since Then
14. Crown Of Creation
15. Let's Get Lost
16. 1000 Miles
17. I Don't Know Where It Comes From

A great review on Amazon:
Many people thought that Ride never quite pinned down their live sound in the studio, which isn't really the case, but these sessions hint at that notion. The tracks from the Daytripper-era that would turn up on the overproduced Carnival of Light are much better here...
This collection is a reminder of how great Radio1 were, sessions stemming from the shows of John Peel, Mark Goodier & Marc Radcliffe. The first seven tracks are from the hallowed domain of the Peel Session. The first four tracks are from the first Peel session- opening with a storming Like a Daydream, prior to the timeless Dreams Burn Down (from 1990's Fall&Nowhere)& then another Play-track, the feedback-thrash of Perfect Time: imagine Sonic Youth playing at a Byrds-tribute show, or alternately Buffalo Springfield covering My Bloody Valentine. Curiously, there is a cover version of Pale Saints'Sight of You- there was a slight rivalry invoked between PS and Ride by the media, so this seems to be quite an ironic cover. It's about the only decent track on Pale Saints dated debut, which fails to stand the test of time as Nowhere has...
The second Peel Session comprises three-tracks, the debut ep's All I Can See (superior in sound to the original I think- though this might be down to the mixing by Steve Queralt etc), the funeral/feedback misery of Decay& a transcendetal take on Dead Can Dance's Severance (from The Serpent's Egg, I do believe)
Tracks 8 to 10 stem from the Going Blank Again- though all three of these tracks were delivered wonderfully on the live part of 2001's boxset. The 93 Goodier session is more interesting, tracks that would feature on the last two Ride albums are delivered in a much better form than they would eventually be released- Walk on Water is particularly great (even if this would sound not unlike 94's Magical Spring). The final Radcliffe session has great b-side Let's Get Lost (very Chet Baker, I Know!), Mark Gardener's ode to The Byrds & distance (1000 Miles) & ends on the slightly irritating I Don't Know Where It Comes From (which probably should have been a Britpop hit, being so retro- it's the one that sounds NOTHING like You Can't Always Get What You Want).
Waves is another reminder, alongside the OX4 Best of/Box Set, that Ride were a great band- & appear to have been lost in the shuffle of list-based nostalgia that has become lore since the millennium. It would have been nice if their Sonic Youth-tribute/2001 reform piece 'Performance' (from Coming Up for Air) had been included also. A wonderfully priced reminder of one of the 90s great bands, with a great cover also , that wipes away the mediocrity of TheAnimalHouse & Hurricane#1 (though if you're buying this, Mark Gardener&Goldrush's Falling Out Into the Night is as wonderful- containing a more interesting take of Dreams Burn Down).

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