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Shoegaze * Indie * Post-Rock * Grunge * Dream Pop * Psych-Rock * Ethereal

ARTIST..: Ride
ALBUM...: Tarantula

GENRE...: Indie
STYLE...: Indie Rock, Britpop

YEAR....: 2012
LABEL...: Ride Music

COUNTRY.: United Kingdom
PLACE...: 1988, Oxford, Oxfordshire

ENCODER.: FLAC 1.3.1 -8 -V
BITRATE.: 1042kbps avg
QUALITY.: 44.1kHz / 2 channels

SOURCE..: CD
TRACKS..: 15
SIZE....: 458.95 MB

URL..: http://www.facebook.com/RideOX4

- TRACKLIST

1   Black Nite Crash                        2:33
2   Sunshine/Nowhere To Run                 4:48
3   Dead Man                                3:34
4   Walk On Water                           4:20
5   Deep Inside My Pocket                   5:24
6   Mary Anne                               6:49
7   Castle On The Hill                      3:17
8   Gonna Be Alright                        2:52
9   The Dawn Patrol                         4:04
10  Ride The Wind                           3:45
11  Burnin'                                 5:17
12  Starlight Motel                         3:33

Black Nite Crash EP
13  Nothing Lasts Forever                   3:32
14  Slave                                   3:51
15  A Trip Down Ronnie Lane                 3:38

Total Playtime: 61:17

This is a 2012 reissue by Ride Music (RIDEMSC05)
Originally released by Ignition Records (IGN CD12 - 2001)

Remastered by Nick Webb at Abbey Road Studios, London

Tracks 1-12 originally released as Tarantula on Creation Records, 1996
Tracks 13-15 orginally released on the Single "Black Nite Crash" on Creation Records, 1996

This is Ride's "love it or hate it" album.
The media and Creation Records absolutley hated it. - https://ride.band/1996/03/11/tarantula-lp/
A mixed bag of opinions about it (just check out the amazon reviews) but
obviously the album that led to demise of the 90s Ride.

Luckily they returned gloriously in 2017 :)

It's honestly not as bad as the band makes it out to be, it's just not very
original or inspired and you can tell that this was an album that they forced
themselves to finish and had no real love for. When you hear the passion
behind their other records, you can tell that this is an album that they wish
never happened.
The main issue with this record lies with the production. It literally sounds
like it was recorded out of a tin can for pretty much the entire record. If
it wasn't for this, it would be a decent brit-pop/brit-rock album in its own
right. But that in itself is an issue. This isn't the kind of music that
people fell in love with Ride for. This is like the anti-christ of shoegaze.
There's one band that this sounds a lot like. Which is Oasis. Seriously
"Sunshine/Nowhere to run" sounds like it wouldn't be out of place of a B-Side
from Definitely maybe. And "Deep inside my Pocket" could literally have Liam
Gallagher singing on it and you wouldn't be able to tell the difference
between the vocals. But then there are moments that are clearly not just
taking inspiration from, but essentially ripping off a lot of other brit-pop
bands. "Burnin' " sounds so obviously like them doing their best Stone Roses
impression. And again, it's not as though the instrumentation or vocals or
lyrics are even particularly bad. It's just the lack of originality and them
straying so far from their roots that's really so off-putting about this.
Because of the huge popularity that Oasis gained with the release of their
second album the year before, you can tell that whoever was pushing this
album was trying to get Ride to replicate their own Definitely Maybe. It's
just a shame to see them have to do something like this. But despite all
this, there are some genuinely great songs on here. "Castle on the hill" is a
very self aware tune about the tensions between the band and how much love
Andy Bell has for Mark Gardener and how he won't be replaced in his eyes,
which is why the band dissolved pretty soon after this was finished.

-=- SHGZ -=-

Shoegaze
is a genre of alternative rock that
originated in  the late 80s. The genre is very
difficult to define, and it is even more difficult to evaluate music
within it. Generally, the genre is characterized by its
shimmering vocals, reverberating guitars, and
textural distortion that create
a tranquil, opaque
feeling.