Going Blank Again
by Ride
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Ride bestography
Going Blank Again is ranked 2nd best out of 16 albums by Ride on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Ride is Nowhere which is ranked number 367 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 4,484.
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Going Blank Again track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 83 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Going Blank Again rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 3 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  neilgee | Creation Records | 18/100 | - |
| 2026 | wizardalien | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums (One Album per Artist) | 95/100 | - |
| 2026 |  dihansse | Top 91 Music Albums of 1992 | 10/91 | 5 |
| 2026 | LittleM1971 | Top 92 Music Albums of 1992 | 5/92 | 5 |
| 2026 | Cheboygan74 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 97/100 | 1 |
| 2026 |  Purplepash | Top 62 Music Albums of 1992 | 23/62 | 3 |
| 2026 | Exist-en-ciel | Top 100 Music Albums of 1992 | 28/100 | 4 |
| 2026 |  zwiebel | Top 70 Music Albums of 1992 | 34/70 | 3 |
| 2026 | bonnequestion | Best albums from '85 to '94 | 73/100 | - |
| 2026 | Juneof44 | Top 50 Music Albums of 1992 | 37/50 | 1 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 213 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 898 | |||
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Going Blank Again ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 07/12/2026 02:50 |  AAL2014 | 4,330 | 75/100 |
| ! | 05/18/2026 16:43 | JeffN999 | 1,511 | 80/100 |
| ! | 04/11/2026 16:15 |  flamingyesdept | 2,944 | 77/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.3/100, a mean average of 76.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.8.
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dihansse 04/28/2022 20:25 in My discoveries per yearGoing Blank Again comments
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Jimmy Dread TOP 100 COMMENTER 12/20/2011 21:13 | #33366 | TOP COMMENT
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I truly, truly believe that to appreciate this album fully you had to have 'been there'. For some reason Nowhere got all the plaudits and attention, but GBE hangs together beautifully, and is all the better for it. Seeing Ride live was an epiphany - and my hair was all long and shaggy for about 6 years as a direct result. (Edited)
Graeme2 TOP 100 COMMENTER 08/11/2014 19:37 | #119239 | TOP COMMENT
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Not heard this in years. I was a massive ride fan from when nowhere was released and remember telling a mate when this came out that it was the best album ever made. Just shows you how many albums i'd heard then but i must have thought it was better than PE and The Roses at the time. Strange. Ha. I need to dig it out to see what it's like now. I too had a mark Gardner haircut and look a bit like him in my old band photo. (Edited)
One of the most overlooked albums of the nineties. A classic record, and along with, nowhere, Ride's best album. I can never make up my mind which one. Both brilliant. (Edited)
Classic shoegaze with proper tunes in it. I've listened to the first 8 minute single "leave them all behind" recently and strangely it made me think of children choir classical music covered with a wall of guitars. Nice. The weak point is perhaps the frail vocals, but then again, it's a shoesgaze attribute. (Edited)
johnner TOP 100 COMMENTER 08/05/2012 13:44 | #47850 | TOP COMMENT
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Their last great lp, should have continued with the sound they pioneered on this and previous releases instead of the corny psychedelica found on subsequent lps.
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