Artist · chart history
Ride
Band Oxford United Kingdom Formed 1988 English rock band
Ride formed in 1988 in Oxford, United Kingdom. Ride has 28 chart appearances on 23 radio countdowns from 12 stations on RockLists, spanning 1990–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Vapour Trail”, which appears on 19 lists with a best position of #33. The station that charted Ride most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 7 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1990.
Ride formed in Oxford in 1988, with Andy Bell and Mark Gardener sharing vocals and guitars, Loz Colbert on drums and Steve Queralt on bass, and they came roaring out of the gate on Creation. The Play and Fall EPs in 1990, with "Like a Daydream", "Dreams Burn Down" and "Taste", paired pretty, harmonized melodies with a gale of guitar noise and Colbert's thrashing drums, and made them key pioneers of shoegaze.
Nowhere, the debut album later that year, took it further: "Vapour Trail" floats on chiming guitars, and "Polar Bear" sinks into a slow, bruised haze. Going Blank Again followed in 1992, and its lead single, "Leave Them All Behind", a churning, swirling epic, got to 9 in the UK, their biggest hit. Both of those first two albums are still counted among the finest shoegaze records ever made. Going Blank Again and Carnival of Light, in 1994, both reached 5 on the UK albums chart.
The band broke up in 1996 before the poorly received Tarantula came out, and Bell went on to play bass in Oasis in 1999. They got back together in 2014 and have since released Weather Diaries, This Is Not a Safe Place and Interplay.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Ride on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vapour Trail | 19 | #33 | – | 1991 | |
| 2 | Leave Them All Behind | 3 | #40 | – | 1992 | |
| 3 | Dreams Burn Down | 1 | #3 | – | 1990 | |
| 4 | Like A Daydream | 1 | #4 | – | 1990 | |
| 5 | Taste | 1 | #25 | – | 1990 | |
| 6 | Last Frontier | 1 | #253 | – | 2024 | |
| 7 | I Came to See the Wreck | 1 | #318 | – | 2024 | |
| 8 | Polar Bear | 1 | #736 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
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