#the pastels

[slicedupapple]

The Pastels Playing With Strawberry Switchblade in Glasgow, Scotland, 1982.

#the pastels #strawberry switchblade #80s new wave #80s rock #80s #goth #trad goth #stephen pastel #1980s

[guessimdumb]

The Pastels - Heavens Above (1982)

I was watching a documentary Teenage Superstar about the Glasgow music scene in the early 80s, and it featured this song, the Pastels' first single (which I think I still own). Absolutely brilliant, lo-fi, shambolic, perfect pop.

It's even better in my dreams

#The Pastels #Heavens Above #Songs for Children #Whaam! Records #Stephen McRobbie

[leclercskiesahead]

Beautiful colours

#the pastels #carlos sainz jr #scuderia ferrari #f1 #japan 2024

[casimirt]

Dear Readers,

I'm literally crying over Good Omens right now.

This is what I wanted, OK? This is the pastels?

AND THIS IS WHAT I GOT?!

#aziraphale x crowley #good omens fandom #ineffable idiots #ineffable partners #crowley and aziraphale #good omens #ineffable husbands #literally crying #what i got vs what i wanted #the pastels #good omens 2 #good omens s3 #good omens season 2 #ineffable #idiots in love #crowley x aziraphale #aziracrow #meme #tiktok

[tweehearts]

STEPHEN PASTEL, YOU WILL ALWAYS BE FAMOUS.

#twee pop #indie pop #jangle pop #c86 #the pastels #stephen pastel

[themarychain]

Vintage passport photos of Stephen McRobbie, of indie rock group The Pastels, late 1980s.

#he’s like a puppy. I want to scruff his hair #stephen mcrobbie #stephen pastel #the pastels #1980s #indie rock #post punk

[wheniwakeupiwanttobe]

over my shoulder ~~ but im dying to meet you

design mockup

#the pastels #dean blunt #t shirt

[bandcampsnoop]

3/14/24.

lightheaded are a 3-piece band from Long Branch, New Jersey. Their cassette release last year on Slumberland. It received a fair amount of attention and rightfully so. It's great indie pop with a 60s flair. Now, the band is set to release a full LP on vinyl no less.

In an interview in 2021, the band described their influences as such:

We love The Pastels, mark that down first. Probably the reason we started the band. They set the template. The Feelies, New Jersey legends. Got to mention them. Stephen used to live in the same town as Stan! Dwight Twilley and Phil Seymour, we love all the sorta one-off power pop bands! Felt are very special to us. Belle and Sebastian. The Clientele’s first couple records... The Go-Betweens never missed... just cut us off now, we’ll take up the whole interview.

I still really feel there is a clear Aislers Set/Tele Novella sound going on here.

#lightheaded #Long Branch #New Jersey #Slumberland Records #The Pastels #The Feelies #Dwight Twilley #Phil Seymour #Belle and Sebastian #The Clientele #The Go-Betweens #The Aisler Set #Tele Novella #Bandcamp

[spilladabalia]

The Pastels - Crawl Babies

#the pastels #crawl babies #stephen pastel #aggi #brian superstar #martin hayward #bernice simpson #jangle pop #garage pop #up for a bit with the pastels #1987 #Youtube

[historicalaltstyles]

Stephen Pastel of The Pastels holding up a tambourine and a Sex Pistols vinyl

#stephen pastel #the pastels #twee pop #indie pop #indie #alt fashion #80s #the sex pistols

[tiredsoundsofagnes]

just made the sickest fucking poster for my new indie club. tried to fit in as many icons as possible

also if you're in malmö then, you should 100% come. i play all killer no filler.

#indie club #indie pop #robert smith #morrissey #strawberry switchblade #karen o #ian curtis #paul banks #broder daniel #jarvis cocker #the pastels #kele okereke #rozz williams #siouxsie sioux #noel gallagher #ian brown #debbie harry #alice glass #julian casablancas #björk #damon albarn #nick cave #kom gordon #henrik berggren #goth #indie sleaze #post punk #jamie pastel

[sonofshermy]

#the pastels #illumination #modern and pro #1997 #promotional item #stephen pastel #katrina mitchell #annabel wright

[boywifeineu]

Finding music through samples that other artists use is a really fun thing to do and I think the best artist for doing this with (for me at least) is Dean Blunt. Aside from the fact that like I’m such a massive fan of his music it is kind of ridiculous how he samples stuff like it’s not even weird or super out there necessarily but it’s just like… idk. every song he samples is just so cool and also just a good song on its own and I have a few bands that I want to talk about that I found through these samples. 1/4

The Pastels

Ok like the most iconic sample Dean Blunt has yes I know - but also "100" is a hit for a reason and "Over My Shoulder" is like so gorgeous and Dean Blunt's additions to the track are so good. I think I heard this song at first just out of the blue and I was like "oh my god. The Dean Blunt song!" but last summer I actually took the time and started getting into "Truckload of Trouble" as a whole. I have very fond memories of this album from spending a weekend up at a cottage with my friends - specifically, there was a moment on the trip where most of us were in the car going to get groceries and "Firebell Ringing" came on. We had a group playlist sort of thing and I sort of felt bad because I think there were a disproportionate amount of tracks from me on there. Part of the reason for this saturation was because I put like 6-7 songs by The Pastels on there. At this time I was really obsessed with Firebell Ringing - mostly because Katrina Mitchell's vocals were really catchy and the repeating sequence at the end of the track was cool too, although, maybe not the best for a car full of people wanting to hear their own music (maybe I was just nervous about my song suggestion getting good reception though). As time went on I slowed down listening to The Pastels a fair bit but certain songs are still really incredible to this day. Recently, I have found myself gravitating to "Nothing to Be Done" alot. I think I might just really love back and forth vocals in general and on this track its really lovely. It really doesn't feel like a love song from the first few seconds but immediately when the verse starts it just transforms into this very loving track. I don't think The Pastels are the most talented musicians, and a fair number of their tracks definitely fall flat for me; but I still really enjoy returning to them on occassion and listening to the ones I really love.

#short essay #text post #dean blunt #the pastels #indie music #music blog #music review

[mywifeleftme]

331: V/A // International Pop Underground Convention

International Pop Underground Convention Various Artists 1992, K Records

My entrée to basically every art scene I’ve ever been involved in was basically just going to whatever extremely DIY festival that scene threw in my city and hoping. You see what seems like an unfathomable number of artists good and terrible (and very occasionally great), hit most of the venues, bars, and spaces worth knowing about, and sometimes even strike up some conversations with people who eventually become your friends. 1991’s International Pop Underground Convention in Olympia, organized by Candice Pedersen and Calvin Johnson of K Records, was the indie model for these fests as I’ve known them, and so it’s as directly responsible for a lot of the good stuff in my life as any musical event I can think of. Everything I’ve heard about it sounds like absolute paradise—the platonic ideal of all the times I’ve picked through mountains of sick screenprinted t-shirts by bands I’ve never heard of, eaten some weird and great food by a tattooed baker, and then ridden my bike on shrooms to catch bits of four shows on the same night, all on a dime.

The lineup on this double-live compilation is all over the place musically, but it does a beautiful job of summarizing the thing indie/alternative music of the era shared despite its sonic diversity: a sense that the music you liked and what it represented could be a space of legitimate opposition to corporatism; that there was something worthwhile in wearing that belief on your sleeveless t-shirt; that the notion of “selling out” had some real conceptual worth; that we’re in this thing together. So, the International Pop Underground Convention LP serves up first-wave riot grrl (Mecca Normal, Bratmobile); DC post-hardcore (Nation of Ulysses, Fugazi); twee indie pop (Beat Happening; Spinanes); noise rock (Melvins; Unwound); grunge-y stuff, primitive singer-songwriter folk, surf rock, plunderphonic DJ sets, and more and more besides, all recorded live and kinda badly but “real.” As individual performances, few are essential, but collectively they are a powerful document of the alternative scene as it existed in the moment right before Nevermind changed everything.

I always think about how crazy it must be for someone like Nikki McClure, an Olympia visual artist who designed a bunch of early K Records sleeves and released a handful of EPs on the label, to have a performance preserved on the same disc as all these icons. On the one hand, it's not like she sits around in awe of like Beat Happening in the same way a fan would—they were friends and part of the same community, and probably still are to this day. But on the other hand, I’m sure when she comes across a copy of this LP there’s sometimes a dazed moment when it seems like that young Nikki singing her funny little a cappella song must be someone else entirely, the record itself an object manifested from a dream. But the International Pop Underground Conventional was real, and in its way, it carries on to this day.

331/365

#k records #international pop underground convention #olympia #fugazi #unwound #l7 #scrawl #beat happening #calvin johnson #candice peterson #nation of ulysses #riot grrl #bratmobile #spinanes #the pastels #mecca normal #the melvins #nikki mcclure #fastbacks #shadowy men on a shadowy planet #indie rock #'90s music #alternative rock #grunge #diy #music review #vinyl record #pacific northwest #post hardcore

[heavenhillgirl]

#the pastels #music #Spotify

[advancedcorpsematerials]

I am also posting my 5x5 here

#mf doom #madvillain #thee oh sees #aesop rock #the pastels #pat the bunny #dry cleaning #baroness #talking heads #glocca morra #juana molina #dogs on acid #suicide #the mall #future of the left #ovlov #kalaalit nunaat #holy fuck #sunbloc #the mountain goats #black eyes #black sabbath #fogweaver