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1	[[quoteright:369:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ride_5709.jpg]]
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3	Ride are a {{shoegazing}} band from Oxford, England. They were active from 1988 to 1996, made a one-off appearance in 2001, then reunited in 2014 for a 2015 tour in Europe and North America, and are still going today. They were part of the wave of popular shoegazing bands that arrived in the wake of Music/MyBloodyValentine, such as Music/{{Slowdive}} and Music/{{Lush}}. While not having My Bloody Valentine's monstrously imposing sound, Slowdive's DreamPop tendencies, or Lush's spaciness, they distinguished themselves mainly through a more aggressive, faster-paced sound that drew from classic rock and PunkRock, and their all-male lineup (My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive and Lush have/had at least one or two female members).
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5	Their first two albums ''Nowhere'' and ''Going Blank Again'' have been enshrined in the canon of essential {{shoegazing}} albums, with the former sometimes being considered the genre's second best effort after ''Music/{{Loveless}}'', and the latter toning down the shoegaze tendencies in favour of influences drawn from {{Grunge}} (the band-members admit to being inspired by Music/{{Nirvana}}'s ''Music/{{Nevermind\|Album}}'' while recording), PowerPop and classic rock, giving it a sort of proto-{{Britpop}} sound. Once shoegaze collapsed, the band tried to stay relevant by reinventing itself as a full-on {{Britpop}} act with ''Carnival of Light'', which gained them some positive notice but no chart success, and increasing tension between songwriters Bell and Gardener led the band to break up during the recording of ''Tarantula''. During their break-up, Andy Bell formed Hurricane #1 and later served as Music/{{Oasis}}' bassist.
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7	On 21 February 2017, "Charm Assault" premiered, their first new single since 1996's "Black Nite Crash", and first new song in 21 years. The next day, they released another single, "Home Is a Feeling". Their fifth album, ''Weather Diaries'', was released on 16 June. In March 2019, the band announced that they had already finished their sixth studio album, ''This Is Not a Safe Place'', with the producer of ''Weather Diaries'', Erol Alkan; it was released 16 August 2019. On 23 April 2019, the song "Future Love" was released as a single; on 2 July, the song "Repetition" was the second single to be released.
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10	!!Members:
11	* Andy Bell – guitar, vocals
12	* Mark Gardener – guitar, vocals
13	* Steve Queralt – bass
14	* Laurence Colbert – drums
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16	!!Discography:
17	* ''[[SelfTitledAlbum Ride]]'' (EP) - 1990
18	* ''Play'' (EP) - 1990
19	* ''Fall'' (EP) - 1990
20	* ''Nowhere'' - 1990
21	* ''Today Forever'' (EP) - 1991
22	* ''Going Blank Again'' - 1992
23	* ''Carnival of Light'' - 1994
24	* ''Tarantula'' - 1996
25	* ''Coming Up for Air'' (EP) - 2002
26	* ''Weather Diaries'' - 2017
27	* ''Tomorrow's Shore'' (EP) - 2018
28	* ''This Is Not a Safe Place'' - 2019
29	* ''Interplay'' - 2024
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31	!''Acid troping hunchback apparition'':
32	* CoverVersion: ''Carnival of Light'' has a cover of "How Does It Feel to Feel?" by The Creation.
33	* DooWopProgression: The verses to "Twisterella" utilize the I-vi-IV-V variant of the Doo-Wop Progression.
34	* EpicInstrumentalOpener: "Cali" has an extended instrumental portion that [[InvertedTrope ends]] the song.
35	** Played with for "Time Machine", which takes just over half of its 6-minute runtime for any vocals to come in.
36	* EpicRocking: Several of their songs exceed 6 minutes, "Leave Them All Behind" exceeds 8 minutes, "Grasshopper" is almost 11 minutes, and "Performance" (from ''Coming Up for Air'') is over half an hour of {{improv}}isation.
37	** "Seagull", if the vocals are ignored, pretty much serves as an EpicInstrumentalOpener for ''Nowhere''.
38	* FishEyeLens: The cover photograph for ''Carnival of Light''.
39	* FourMoreMeasures: "Dreams Burn Down"
40	* LimitedLyricsSong: "Mouse Trap" and "Not Fazed".
41	* LocalReference: The title to "[=OX4=]" is a postal code for the band's hometown, Oxford; the song's lyrics are about the band's desire to return home.
42	* LongRunnerLineUp: Type 3.
43	* LyricalTic: Hearing "aah"s in their songs is quite common.
44	* MinimalisticCoverArt: ''Nowhere''; its just a picture of an uncrested wave.
45	* NewSoundAlbum: To a certain extent ''Going Blank Again'', practically ''Carnival of Light''.
46	* NonAppearingTitle: Several examples, including "Seagull", "Polar Bear", "Chrome Waves", "Mouse Trap", "Cool Your Boots", and "[=OX4=]".
47	* {{Sampling}}: The intro to "Cool Your Boots" samples a bit of dialogue from the film ''Film/WithnailAndI'' ("Even a stopped clock gives the correct time twice a day").
48	* SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou: ''Tarantula'''s cover art is a revolver pointed at the "camera", showing how listening to the album feels like.
49	* ShoutOut: The ending of "Twisterella" interpolates the chorus from the song of the same name that was featured in the film ''Film/BillyLiar''.
50	* SpellingSong: "Cali", just before the ending instrumental part; "C-A-L-I, summer is gone".
51	* StepUpToTheMicrophone: Loz Colbert, on "Rocket Silver Symphony" from ''Weather Diaries''.
52	* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: "Seagull" swipes the bassline from [[Music/RevolverBeatlesAlbum "Taxman"]] by Music/TheBeatles; "Chelsea Girl" nicks the guitar melody from [[Music/{{Help}} "Ticket to Ride"]].
53	* TextlessAlbumCover: ''Nowhere'', depending on the printing. Some earlier, rarer prints have the album and band name on it; nearly all vinyl copies do.
54	* TitleTrack: Played straight with ''Weather Diaries'' and the song of the same name. Averted with ''Nowhere'' and ''Going Blank Again''; the song "Nowhere" was originally released on the ''Fall'' EP, while the song "Going Blank Again" was released on the "Twisterella" single.
55	* VocalTagTeam: Vocals are split pretty much evenly between Mark Gardener and Andy Bell.

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