10 Bands Who Justifiably Should Have Been Huge

6. Ride

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4JZIfx36Bg One of the great white hopes of the early 90's, Ride had the tunes, the musicianship and (whisper it) the looks, to be utter world-beaters. They flew out of the blocks with two EP's that showed a band that could harness the sheer power and noise of their label-mates My Bloody Valentine, but also had an ear for a mean tune. Their debut album 'Nowhere' was cocky enough (as well as good enough) to ignore their first flurry of fantastic songs and not have any singles on it either. At one point it looked like they'd cracked it, their eight minute-plus opus 'Leave Them All Behind' got them into the Top 10 of the UK singles chart and they seemingly had the world at their feet prior to the release of their sophomore album 'Going Blank Again'. However this separated them and they sounded like a band torn between playing what they perceived was a more commercial, crisper sound coupled with the droning space-rock noise of their early records, which effectively saw them falling between two stools and the jump into the big league didn't happen. After that it all got very silly and the egos well and truly kicked in, with their third record 'Carnival of Light' essentially split in two; the A-Side featuring Mark Gardeners songs, the other side with Andy Bells. They called it a day after the release of their last record Tarantula, which was recorded without any rehearsals. There's always the hope that they could do something again but ironically Andy Bell ended up in one of the biggest bands on the planet playing bass for Oasis, and now wastes his time in Beady Eye. Which is a shame because Ride were head and shoulders above both of those bands. They should have been The Who of their generation. Revisit songs as wonderful as 'Sennen', 'Seagull' and 'Like a Daydream' and marvel at a band who should have been filling stadiums to this day.