Up For A Bit With The Pastels
by The Pastels
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 07/12/2026 18:26 | JamesMowbray | 5,621 | 69/100 |
| ! | 05/08/2026 00:34 |  cestuneblague | 8,252 | 80/100 |
| ! | 03/19/2026 01:20 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,464 | 70/100 |
| ! | 03/01/2026 22:49 | snailmail500 | 278 | 83/100 |
| ! | 01/22/2026 06:48 | Sumbody | 1,914 | 75/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 4% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.2/100, a mean average of 77.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.7.
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Brad1770 06/01/2022 02:24 | #285875 | TOP COMMENT
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Stephen Pastel and friends and this album in particular had a massive impact on my music tastes first falling for the NME C86 collection and finding my way to bands such as Jesus and Mary Chain, Shop Assistants, The Vaselines (yes even prior to Nirvana) and even the Soup Dragons.
Word to the wise - opening track is “Ride” is awesome and easily the best track here and one of the best songs of the Scottish Twee Pop era
drstuey 03/30/2021 03:03 | #267952 | TOP COMMENT
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After the string of amazing singles, expectations were high for their first album and so inevitably some disappointment, but it is a good collection of songs even if there were some I would prefer were on here. The opener, 'Ride' is probably my least favourite so make sure you get past that. The single 'Crawl Babies' is probably the best song, but my favourite is probably 'Get Around Town' which is about transport options in cities.
dihansse 03/04/2021 20:55 | #266968 | TOP COMMENT
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This is the quintessential DIY band and this first album of them fits that label even more. To me even a bit too much DIY because one of the big features is the off-key singing of Stephen Pastel which on many tracks is a bit annoying but becomes a feature on the long Baby Honey. So a bit of a mixed bag but still good.
LadyGodiva 03/25/2015 00:15 | #137710 | TOP COMMENT
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I saw the Pastels many years ago at the Boardwalk in Manchester. They were utterly brilliant. That gig started a life long love that never seems to wain... I agree with Lancashirerab - everyone should have some Pastels in their life. :)
SingingPeasant96 12/07/2013 09:41 | #96653
It's no wonder that Pam has crushed on Stephen Pastel :)
lancashirearab 04/27/2012 18:45 | #41060 | TOP COMMENT
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Everybody should own a Pastels' album. Stephen Pastel is such a great front man. I remember travelling through to Paisley to see the Pastels. We were all so excited at the prospect. It was a great night. We all bought Pastels badges to wear.
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