"Black Nite Crash" is a single by English

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band

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, from their album ''

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''. It reached number 67 on the UK Singles Chart on 24 February 1996. The single was released shortly before the band's break up, and was awarded single of the week by the weekly music magazine ''

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''.

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

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(a single from 1994), which in turn uses a sample of a track from 1931 by

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entitled "Black But Sweet"

Personnel

Ride *

Loz Colbert Laurence John "Loz" Colbert (born 27 June 1970) is an English musician, best known as the drummer in Ride and formerly of The Animalhouse, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Supergrass and Gaz Coombes. His drumming style has been characterized as fu ...

– drums *Steve Queralt – bass guitar *

Mark Gardener Mark Stephen Gardener (born 6 December 1969) is an English rock musician, best known for being one of two singer-guitarists for the shoegaze band Ride. Career Ride Gardener formed Ride with Andy Bell (guitarist), whom he met at Chen ...

– vocals,

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* Andy Bell – vocals, lead guitar Additional musicians *Nick Moorbath – piano,

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*Jeff Scantlebury –

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Technical personnel *negativespace – design *Paul Motion –

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*Richard "Digby" Smith – producer *Mark Freegard – mixing

References

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