Going Blank Again (studio album)
by Ride
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 374 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 4,516.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 83 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| ! | 4 days ago |  Kingturtle | 6,216 | 72/100 |
| ! | 08/20/2025 00:53 | Ilovesuicide | 322 | 68/100 |
| ! | 08/07/2025 20:03 | Hyggevinyl | 4,168 | 72/100 |
| ! | 05/09/2025 13:48 | bonnequestion | 1,582 | 70/100 |
| ! | 04/29/2025 17:33 | wizardalien | 760 | 47/100 |
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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 77.1/100, a mean average of 76.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.8.
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Great album. Those first two tracks, Leave Them All Behind and Twisterella, are dynamite. But the rest of the album does not disappoint. Incredible guitar sounds throughout.
It is a sunny version of shoegaze, upbeat and catchy. Not as great as previous record, but different and still very good.
A disappointing follow-up. The crashing, dynamic whirlwind heard previously on "Nowhere" seems to have given way to an unmemorable crop of washed-out pop tunes. Ride assaults their noisy shoegaze sound with a glitzy hi-fi production job, and cakes a load of compression on top. The result is a messy wall of sound with no sense of nuance. With dynamics removed, Ride exposes themselves as uninspired pop songwriters who can't write a catchy hook or progression to save their lives.
The few highlights here ("Chrome Waves", "Time Machine") take a spacier and more minimal approach, providing welcome refuge from the droning lull that is this album.
Boltzmann 07/05/2020 14:04 | #255047
This was the exact moment where the drugged-out fever dream of shoegazing woke up into the upbeat hyper-positivity of britpop. A change that wouldn't last long, but which has sparked some of the last great examples of classic rock 'n' roll (not Oasis).
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.
discojets1 03/27/2017 16:59 | #188218
An essential for lovers of 90s music and shoegase. Arrangements arent as complex as MBV but still a very rewarding listen
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.
While not as iconic as Nowhere, Going Blank Again is definitely more versatile than its predecessor, proving that Ride's talent wasn't limited to shoegaze. Highlights include "Leave Them All Behind", "Twisterella", "Chrome Waves", and "Grasshopper".
reverendgreen 01/10/2015 19:03 | #131228
Better than nowhere??
Shoegaze indie...ah them were the days
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