#the pastels

[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

[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

[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

[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 #rock n roll #glasgow #twee #mine

[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

[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

[spilladabalia]

The Pastels - Worlds of Possibility

#the pastels #worlds of possibility #stephen pastel #aggi #katrina mitchell #jangle pop #mobile safari #1995 #Youtube

[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

[swaninalake]

twee pop slut

#twee pop #the softies #tiger trap #the field mice #the sundays #the pastels #gaze #even as we speak

[themarychain]

THE PASTELS (1983)

I Wonder Why / Supposed to Understand

#just found out that apparently this single is worth $300+ on discogs 😳 #the pastels #records #vinyl #twee #music #indie rock #1980s #1983 #stephen pastel #stephen mcrobbie #annabel wright #single cover #mine

[bandcampsnoop]

7/7/23.

Get ready for some heady comparisons. While Jeanines (New York) have been posted about and mentioned before, this hasn't happened nearly enough.

Jeanines make indie-pop that hits the Goldilocks zone. Sweet, but not too sweet, jangly but not too jangly - you get the idea. They sound like a cross between Japanese and British/Scottish pop with a large dose of Aislers Set. So yes, this reminds one of bands like Dolly Mixture, The Pastels, Television Personalities, Look Blue Go Purple - again, you get the idea.

This is a joint release by Slumberland Records and Where It's At Is Where You Are (WIAIWYA).

By the way, I'm heading out for a two-week East Coast USA trip. Micah may post more often, but I'm sure postings will come less consistently.

#Jeanines #New York #Slumberland Records #WIAIWYA #Where It's At Is Where You Are #Dolly Mixture #The Pastels #Aislers Set #Television Personalities #Look Blue Go Purple #Bandcamp