THE PASTELS Up For A Bit With The Pastels - Original UK LP - Indiepop Twee C86

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THE PASTELS

Up For A Bit With The Pastels

Original UK LP released on Glass Records in 1987. Includes printed innersleeve.

Classic Indiepop / C86 / Twee trailblazers.

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Whether (unjustly) qualified as either shambling, twee, or the ultimate C-86 band, the Pastels remain practically unparalleled for their influence on alternative music. Combining classic '60s pop with the D.I.Y. ethos of punk, Up for a Bit with the Pastels evokes -- in retrospective -- the same air of mystery and excitement as Belle & Sebastian's Tigermilk. Both records made you want to cherish a newfound pop gem and share it with as few people as possible. Unfortunately, that's exactly what a few too many people did from 1987 onwards. A five-year prologue of scattershot single releases for different labels preceded the Pastels' debut.

Pioneering a typically mid-'80s branch of jangling guitar pop, they distinguish themselves through an eclectic mix of apocalyptic orchestration (the opening "Ride," sweeping closer "If I Could Tell You") and swagger ("Get 'Round Town"). Both approaches brilliantly come together in the album's title track, enlivened with assorted woops, hollers, and bells. Another standout is the single "Crawl Babies" with its classic bed-sitter's line: "I want to build her up/Up as tall as a church/Just to watch her falling down." Elsewhere, there's a slight psychedelic edge to "Baby Honey," a classic from the Pastels' canon which would be revamped several times. With its hypnotic drone and free jazz saxophone, it makes the band a certifiable contender for the '80s answer to the Velvet Underground.

Unwittingly, the Pastels found themselves at the front of saving pop music from the claws of the majors intent on sanitizing rock. Ever since, they seem to have been condemned to forever being a band's band, hailed by the likes of Kurt Cobain. Now that's, to quote one of the band's later album tracks, an "unfair kind of fame."

Tracks Are :-

Side One

Ride
Up For A Bit
Crawl Babies
Address Book
I'm Alright With You

Side Two

Hitchin' A.
Gets 'Round Town
Automatically Yours
Baby Honey
If I Could Tell You

Released on 'Glass Records' in 1987

Catalogue No. GLALP 021

Disc is in VG+ condition (some surface wear)

Sleeve is in VG+ condition (light shelfwear)

Innersleeve has some edge splitting. I will supply the record in a spare inner to prevent further splitting to the original.

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