I like it, it's an unusual choice to open the album, but I think it works... :mellow:

That one.

Excellent song, great opener.

ditto.
Couldn't see it fitting anywhere else.

Fantastic song from start to finish. Can't get enough of it.
They're all so sparing with everything they play, but at the same time, so generous :girl2:

Who votes for 'it's weak'? Notice they haven't got the guts to pipe up here. Great song and great opener. Especially the way he never seem to have enough time to say the lines.

Felix

It's less than weak. Saying it's weak is an insult to weaklings. The whole fucking album is almost as bad. TRNFLP was an aberration, it's back to not-giving-a-shit-just-crank-it-out-and-pay-me-because-I-deserve-it mode. As useless a dinosaur as any dottering old Jagger or McCartney.

I like it a lot, but I think it might have been better somewhere in the middle of the album... A bit of a 'white relief' after Blindness or something...

I like it a lot--great choice for an opener. If I'd never heard the Fall before and someone put this on, I'd instantly be intrigued. A lo-fi, catchy thing with this weird sounding singer over it...I'd want to know more right away.

Brilliant choice for an opener. Definite piss-take. A song like this (and even its title is suggestive in this sense) would normally close an album.

it's a good song. I only wish the rest of the album was like it instead of this fucking power chord shit.

It's spot on - as I've already mentioned elsewhere, any song which kicks off an album which doesn't sound owt like the rest is top dollar - eg Frenz :)

It's just OK.

A good B-Side.

Haven't got the time for this song. I find it extremely dull which is a pity because I think that most of this album is superb-except Trust in Me-which sounds like a awful Foo Fighters cover.

I didn't get it to start with, but I like it now.

It would be great with a couple of guitarists.

I always liked the way Frenz kicked off that lp also, however, I feel that FE is one of their weaker albums.

Not so FHR though I must add. Ride Away is just OK, I like the idea of starting off with this kind of track. What I do particularly like is the almost playful way MES sings this song -- Hey , hey.

it's okay. he's making those lyrics up on the spot, isn't he?

sounds 99% likely to me.

He used to be very good at doing that.

played the album to a couple of mates last night

one of whom had never heard the fall before

they both liked the album

and when it was on for the second time :ohdear:

both thought the 1st track was best

also big ups for aspen blindness and early days of channel furher

from them

:huh: Naaahhh. It's quite structured. Were these not the lyrics he sang live before?

he might have already had the lyrics... but it is not structured at all... he's all over the place.

Unusual but a fine idea for an opener, I would say.

i like it but i wouldn't have it as an opener to be honest i'd have put blindness there.

tin helmet on!!! :zip:

Me too. Get the weak ass version of Blindness outta the way early, I say.

Tin Helmet, Riot Shield and Full Body Armour on ^_^

great song very sexy sounding, eleni sounds very sexy on it

I played the album to some uninitiated frenz.
Ride Away - is this a fucking joke??? :o
Pacifying Joint - That's more like it!
Quite reassuring really :D

It's my favorite track on the record by far.......

same here.

Revived poll alert!!!
I think the consensus is it's sort of alright, really, but people have heard better.
You know, nothing special.
Meh.

I'd say it's good, rather than Ok.
Not brilliant, obviously.
There isn't a Fall song that strikes me as being poor, to be honest.

Have you still not heard IWS?

Piss weak! <_<


I can be a miserable bastard you know...

Not in your regulation festive FOF hat, you can't.
That's unpossible!

Mostly agree with this sentiment. Ride Away is an exceptionally weak song, opener or otherwise. And FHR is the only Fall studio album that seems worse to me as time goes by, rather than better.

IWS is better than sex.

You can tell you're from Essex.

Give a dog a name, etc...

Eh?
I dunno - Rover?
No, sorry, you've completely lost me, dear.