I hope I'm making someone smile
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Among the people here on MOG that like the band Ride, I stick out like a sore thumb. Why? you ask. Well, here's why: this isn't my favorite Ride album:
Nowhere is generally acknowledged as Ride's masterwork. I'm in no position to argue with that; I love Nowhere, it's a fantastic album, and I have extolled its virtues "*elsewhere*":http://mog.com/Dale/blog_post/59440.However, since Nowhere came out in late 1990, its existence was unknown to me. I had only heard _of_ Ride, but hadn't ever heard them, until I saw this video on 120 Minutes:*Leave Them All Behind*After picking my jaw up off the floor, I made note of the band name and song title. However, I was a newly married starving college student, and in those days before MP3's, getting new music was tough to justify. I lucked out, though, when a friend happened to have it, and I was able to swap a mixtape, and get a first listen to the album Going Blank Again.
Oh my Valentine! (Yeah, I said it back then! What?!?) I thrilled to hear all EIGHT minutes of "Leave Them All Behind", but then the _real_ fun started. "Twisterella", to me, is the perfect pop song, short sweet and tasty. I already posited on Lizzie post, that "Mouse Trap" is a near-perfect song, and I could say the same about "Cool Your Boots", "Making Judy Smile", or album-closer "0x4". And so it goes, between glorious noise and purest pop, for almost exactly one hour.After I got this album, money woes forced me to leave college and take a job in a call center. It was mindless, soul-crushing work, and it drove me crazy. My therapy was to run out to my car during lunch, slap in the cassette of Going Blank Again, lean the seat way back, and sing along at full volume. After having done so, I could once again slap on the headset and answer calls, and suppress the desire to yell at people. Barely.Later on, when I was able to afford more music, and when a used-record store opened in Tucson, I picked up Nowhere and Smile. I love those albums, like I said before, but there's always something special about your first love.
Nowhere is generally acknowledged as Ride's masterwork. I'm in no position to argue with that; I love Nowhere, it's a fantastic album, and I have extolled its virtues "*elsewhere*":http://mog.com/Dale/blog_post/59440.However, since Nowhere came out in late 1990, its existence was unknown to me. I had only heard _of_ Ride, but hadn't ever heard them, until I saw this video on 120 Minutes:*Leave Them All Behind*After picking my jaw up off the floor, I made note of the band name and song title. However, I was a newly married starving college student, and in those days before MP3's, getting new music was tough to justify. I lucked out, though, when a friend happened to have it, and I was able to swap a mixtape, and get a first listen to the album Going Blank Again.Oh my Valentine! (Yeah, I said it back then! What?!?) I thrilled to hear all EIGHT minutes of "Leave Them All Behind", but then the _real_ fun started. "Twisterella", to me, is the perfect pop song, short sweet and tasty. I already posited on Lizzie post, that "Mouse Trap" is a near-perfect song, and I could say the same about "Cool Your Boots", "Making Judy Smile", or album-closer "0x4". And so it goes, between glorious noise and purest pop, for almost exactly one hour.After I got this album, money woes forced me to leave college and take a job in a call center. It was mindless, soul-crushing work, and it drove me crazy. My therapy was to run out to my car during lunch, slap in the cassette of Going Blank Again, lean the seat way back, and sing along at full volume. After having done so, I could once again slap on the headset and answer calls, and suppress the desire to yell at people. Barely.Later on, when I was able to afford more music, and when a used-record store opened in Tucson, I picked up Nowhere and Smile. I love those albums, like I said before, but there's always something special about your first love.
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