Up for a Bit

Pastels | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 12, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Fire UK
• ASIN: B000067CJF
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #456,523 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Ride

2. Up For A Bit

3. Crawl Babies

4. Address Book

5. Im Alright With You

6. Hitchin A

7. Get Around Town

8. Automatically Yours

9. Baby Honey

10. If I Could Tell You

Editorial Reviews

2003 reissue of the Scottish indie pop act's 1987 debut album. The Pastels collaborated with & inspired Bobby Gillespie (Primal Scream), Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub) & Jad Fair. Slipcase. Fire Records. 2003.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Slightly sinister singalongs, April 24, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Up for a Bit With the Pastels (Audio CD)

Rather light and airy sounding music here, but the lyrics tell of deeper thoughts and musings. Great music for the open road and singing along, though if you stopped to ponder the content, you find yourself thinking about your own relationships, ie: "I don't mean half the things I say/Just don't believe the half that you don't like".

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Come On Up!, February 4, 2006

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Thomas Horan (Chapel Hill, NC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Up for a Bit (Audio CD)

The Pastels have an amateurish, indie-pop jangle that mixes uncomfortably with John A. Rivers synthesizer-slick production. They remind me a lot of The Wake, another mid-eighties group from Glasgow, but they have more homespun charm and weaker vocals. Unfortunately, their strongest, purest record "Sittin' Pretty" is long out of print, but their hipster cult is widespread and slavish enough to almost guarantee a reissue. On longer, more cacophonous tracks like "Baby Honey", they remind me a bit of The Jesus and Mary Chain and Spacemen 3. But for the most part, they sound like The Stone Roses, Ride and other Brit-pop bands you can't resist singing along with. It's a style that's been around for years, but they were one of its earliest exponents.