Nowhere
by Ride

Album
Nowhere by Ride
Year: 1990
Release date: 1990-09-15
Overall rank: 364th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
81/100 (from 708 votes)
  Ratings distribution   Average rating history
Accolades:
Award Top 5 albums of 1990 (3rd)
Award Top 100 albums of of the 1990s (67th)
Award Top 500 albums of all time (364th)

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Nowhere is ranked as the best album by Ride.

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Nowhere track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 85 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Seagull
Average Rating: 87 (180 votes)Comments: View 2
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Kaleidoscope
Average Rating: 83 (156 votes)Comments: View 2
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In A Different Place
Average Rating: 85 (156 votes)Comments: View 0
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Polar Bear
Average Rating: 83 (157 votes)Comments: View 0
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Dreams Burn Down
Average Rating: 87 (170 votes)Comments: View 1
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Decay
Average Rating: 80 (145 votes)Comments: View 1
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Paralysed
Average Rating: 83 (153 votes)Comments: View 0
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Vapour Trail
Average Rating: 89 (225 votes)Comments: View 6

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Nowhere rankings

Nowhere rankings summary
Overall rank: 364th | 1990s rank: 67th | 1990 rank: 3rd  Overall chart history
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Nowhere ratings

Average Rating: 
81/100 (from 708 votes)
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 !		08/24/2026 18:17 spinout  Ratings distribution  3,49481/100
 
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 !		08/07/2026 07:33 barethman  Ratings distribution  20780/100
 
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 !		07/30/2026 01:11 xhitmanx  Ratings distribution  1,60475/100

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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 80.8/100, a mean average of 79.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 80.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.4.


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From BestEverAlbums 08/24/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5414): By Graeme2
“Today's chart of the day Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by Graeme2 () 1. (1973) 2. by (1989) 3. by by (1988) 5. (2002) 6. by by by (1972) 9. (1996) 10. by by (2003) 12. (1994) 13. by (1984) 14. by by by (1973) 17. by by (1977) 19. by (1979) 20. by (1970) 21. by (1992) 23. by (1969) 24. by (1993) 25.…”
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90/100
From 05/27/2026 23:51 | #314623
Insane album !
Personal favourite is Vapour Trail so not really extravagant. (Edited)
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From 07/14/2025 03:56 | #310090
'60s psychedelia has been given a noise-rock treatment. Strong and dreamy melodies throughout are what makes it all work. A brilliant achievement and very enjoyable album. (Edited)
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From 12/29/2024 03:40 | #306694
Back when shoegaze was just finding its feet, Ride were flying the flag for this new genre. Not quite as groundbreaking as what would come a year or so later, but a great effort by this band to discover a sound they were comfortable with. (Edited)
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From 03/18/2024 08:01 | #302578
I moved to England with a girlfriend in 1999. We ended up living in Oxford. Her favourite band was Ride. Mine was Radiohead. Coincidentally both bands formed in Oxford around the same time in the 80s before becoming seminal 90s alt rock bands. While I liked what I had heard of Ride at the time it wasn’t until we broke up that I found the time to fully immerse myself in this album and boy was I taken by it! It’s superb and I wish we’d had the chance to bask in its glory together more than we did. My bad! (Edited)
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From 12/10/2023 19:26 | #300396
Not always a fan of shoegaze but this is one of the better albums of the genre. There are times where I find the instrumental noise a bit grating, eg. on Dreams Burn Down, where most of the song is great but there's a phase of it where the background guitar is a bit too much for me. In A Different Place and especially Vapour Trail are excellent. (Edited)
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