Black Nite Crash Explained

Black Nite Crash
Cover:	blacknitecrash.jpg
Type:	single
Artist:	Ride
Album:	Tarantula
Released:	12 February 1996
Recorded:	London 1995
Length:	2:34
Label:	Creation
Prev Title:	I Don't Know Where It Comes From
Prev Year:	1994
Next Title:	Charm Assault
Next Year:	2017

"Black Nite Crash" is a single by English shoegazing band Ride, from their album Tarantula. It reached number 67 on the UK Singles Chart on 24 February 1996.^[1] The single was released shortly before the band's break up, and was awarded single of the week by the weekly music magazine Melody Maker.

Track listing

• Track 4 features a short untitled bonus track after "A Trip Down Ronnie Lane" and 11:08 of silence. The track, which is approximately 0:23 in duration uses the same tune as "Wilmot" by Sabres of Paradise (a single from 1994), which in turn uses a sample of a track from 1931 by Wilmoth Houdini entitled "Black But Sweet"

Personnel

Ride

• Loz Colbert – drums
• Steve Queralt – bass guitar
• Mark Gardener – vocals, rhythm guitar
• Andy Bell – vocals, lead guitar

Additional musicians

• • Nick Moorbath – piano, Rhodes, Hammond Jeff Scantlebury – percussion

Technical personnel

• negativespace – design
• Paul Motion – engineering
• Richard "Digby" Smith – producer
• Mark Freegard – mixing

Notes and References

1. Web site: Ride - Black Nite Crash . . 1996-02-24 . 2012-01-16.