Juggernaut Rides released

In the beginning of 2005, the group convened in a collaboration with Castle Music to decide on songs for a retrospective. Juggernaut Rides ’89–’98 compiled 33 tracks remastered from the original DATs (almost half of which being non-album tracks) and was released on 14 March 2005. The two-CD anthology featured four previously unreleased songs, including Shake Appeal’s “Son of Mustang Ford” demo from 1989 and the remainder of Swervedriver’s 1998 recordings, “Just Sometimes” and the orchestral string accompanied “Neon Lights Glow”. Regarding the production effort for Juggernaut Rides , Franklin told Tape Op magazine, “Me and Jimmy sat there [during the remastering] and said, ‘Wow this is pretty great.’ You do forget things about the various tracks,” and said to Australia’s The Vine , “I quite like the fact that it’s not chronologically laid out, so you just jump straight into the middle.” Reviews touted it as “Swervedriver’s beautiful corpse” and asserted that it “proves they were so much more than just another underachieving T-shirt band.”