Shoegaze pioneers Ride were falling apart by the time they recorded their fourth album Tarantula. But the opening tune, Black Nite Crash, was a fitting finale.

I never really jumped aboard the shoegaze bandwagon myself, letting My Bloody Valentine’s wall of noise and Cocteau Twins’ wobbly warblings wash over me.

And I was too busy having babies in the early ’90s to keep up with trends but The Jesus & Mary Chain were big favourites before that, and I enjoyed Curve after that.

Andy Bell and Mark Gardener were apparently at odds during the recording of this album in 1995, with Bell writing and singing nearly all the songs himself, including this one – while Gardener was becoming more interested in dance music.

Anyway, they broke up before its release and Bell went on to form Hurricane #1, who flared briefly before he took a more lucrative job playing bass in Oasis (having wisely turned down the same role in Gay Dad, whose brief moment in the spotlight was more like 15 seconds than minutes).

They reunited after the turn of the millennium and have released three more albums in their second phase, to generally favourable reviews.

Meanwhile the shoegaze genre has undergone something of a revival, with Ride as poster boys, leading to an amusing observation in one review of their latest album: “Ironically, the shoegaze revivalists often sound considerably more attached to classic Ride than Ride themselves do these days.”

Anyway, I think I would have enjoyed them at the time.