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 Up Discography
01. Exploration Team
02. Mandarin
03. Yoga [mp3]
04. Mobile Deli
05. Exotic Arcade
06. Classic Line-Up
07. Flightpaths To Each Other
08. Basement Scam
09. Strategic Gear
10. Token Collecting
11. Coolport
12. Worlds Of Possibilities
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UP #025
The Pastels
Mobile Safari
CD/LP
1995 Up Records
Stephen Pastel: guitar, vocals
Aggi: bass guitar, vocals, keyboard, guitar, percussion
Katrina Mitchell: drums, vocals, percussion, keyboard, guitar
with
David Keegan: guitar
Gerard Love: guitar, vocals
and
Norman Blake: guitar, vocals, percussion
Dean Wareham: guitar
Sarah Ward: flute
Laura Mitchell: viola
Judi Mitchell: cor anglais
Dawn Kelly: french horn
Maureen McRoberts: saxophone
Darren Ramsay: trumpet
Luke Williams: trombone
Recorded at CAVA Sound Workshops and
Stuffhouse, Glasgow by Paul Chisholm
Assistant engineers (CAVA): Tony Doogan and Gregor Reid
Produced by the Pastels and Paul Chisholm
Mastered at The Exchange by Mike Marsh, 9/94
Sleeve assemblage and photography: Aggi, Stephen, Katrina
Paintings by Aggi

exploration team
everyone should have a friend / to share your life and your heart / it's not all you need / but you would bleed for them / everyone gets hurt, everyone gets stuck / everyone should have a friend / to lead and to follow / to open up and to lose control / someone to explore / the north pole, south pole / exploration team / soft core hard core / polar extreme / and we'll be lost / and we'll be found / and we'll be bound / to the friendship that we found

mandarin
my happiest memories are Mexico / when you didn't have to go / why are you so far away? / sleep down, sleep down, sleep and stay / how much gold is in a ton of dirt? / one whole dollar worth / and if we meet just one more time in the year / does that make me more or less dear? / i don't want you always just my guest / wrap in my mexican blanket and rest / you are so sweet to love / but we're never never really together / you're my one the only dear to me / a thousand miles across the sea / you're not here, i'm not there / we're apart and i'm lonely / let's do some truthful talking / cause i'm tired of walking nowhere; / this framework doesn't work / kick the dragon, nothing else i'm fired up truck / you're not here, i'm not there / we're apart

yoga
it might not last / so we're gonna record everything / trip the power on / and we'll set up our equipment / and we'll be there for that moment / when our world is transformed from night to dawn / it's an outside chance / that the light will be reflected / and our lives will be connected / in the same sphere, as we glance each other's eyes / open up the mic / 'cos we're gonna record everything / this is a moving part / this is a big idea, just waiting to spark / clank out those random parts / a kinetic freedom's reaching / between the earth and the stars / there'll be magic errors meeting

exotic arcade
penny parade, exotic arcade / swimming pool mansion / a family disgrace / jack pot queen, slot machine / i don't want on / but i do want on / what have you got? / tell me you're feeling so hot / 'cause i bet you anything you've got / that you will lose it / and i will lose it / swimstar queen, / i am outside your scene / and i don't want in / but i do want in / what can i win? / show me how to swim for the prize / when the prize is in your eyes / everything i am is covered in you / you're my eyes for seeing through / every mirror reverses through / everything i see is you / i'm fake king, i'm faking / i am king to the queen of the pool / there's no rules, king of the fools / king of the worst, king of the cursed / king of the frown, upside down crown / king until sundown

classic line-up
see the sunshine split those buildings / and i'll feel my heart uplifting / 'cause the city casts a magic spell / and my life seems so special / before i met you i always knew / pretty soon you'd be marching through / to the beat of your favourite record / making my life seem so special / and the music blew ? / and our hearts just knew / here comes a sound rushing all the way down / here comes a feeling closing in on me / here comes a sound turning all our life around / here comes a sound rushing all the way down / when the tenement world reveals its charm / you better grab it fast with both your arms / there's really nothing to understand / let's go and see our favourite band / early evening cheer / ringing loud and clear / here comes a sound rushing all the way down / here comes a feeling closing in on me / here comes a sound turning all our life around / here comes a sound rushing all the way down / here comes a sound pulling everything around it / here comes a feeling deep and soulful to me / here comes a sound turning all our world around / here comes that sound rushing all the way down

flightpaths to each other
aircraft buzz, airport lights / are we closer to the world at night? / the city scape is neon draped / it's so late, are you awake? / secret watchers of the world / follow flightpaths to each other / there's so much air when you're not there / the sky is free, think of me / night-time heavy breathing / feel your senses reeling / hear my heart beating / (it's for you)

basement scam
i can't twist / those landmarks that you've missed / when your life is such a social whirl / i am still / i can't stand / those basement scams you plan / can't say that your heart won't land / when it will / your guitar is lying broke / your friends think it's all a joke / rundown glam, basement scam / i can't stand / those basement scams you plan / can't say that your heart won't land / when it will / you drove an old sportscar / maybe thought that you would break some hearts / seems mad, basement scam / what's the plan, basement scam

strategic gear
scratch out the negative / 'till i don't know what it is i'm seeing / and when history starts disappearing / then it's time for some forgetting / and i'm good at forgetting you know / and we should have said goodbye / a long time ago / there was no crime committed / there was a band that split / and they were so remote / that no-one even noticed / and they were good at forgetting you know / and they should have said goodbye / a long time ago / is there always a ghost i should remember? / is there always a heart i can't unsever? / are there no new songs to be learnt? / cause if there's not, / i'd say the idea's been spent

token collecting
rug is keen and seaweed queen / my eyes are green my mind's serene / recommend it hurry and send it / this is day twenty-eight / now i've started token collecting / firth descending hearts for mending / shell hoards and gold loads / downward looking flower / every hour there's a sky / unearth the sea discover me / your mind is clear your life is real / serpentine shaped shallow mine / a liquid pool a secret sign / now i've started token collecting / firth descending hearts for mending / shell hoards and gold loads / thanking without asking / hopes are banking on your climb

coolport
3 boat rendezvous / sub-moonlight serenade / respect is due to you / for coming all this way / when the consensus was to wait and see / there's so much music that isn't free / and i wish that we could make it disappear / shut some record companies down / run some bands out of town / shed light on a corporate situation / consensus rock on the air / using up all the electricity / and leaving us feeling empty / float down boats of wood and metal / in the same direction on the same river / sooner or later they'll arrive together / i know it won't let us down / but sometimes we've had to take a long way round / to a coolport, coolport / sooner or later we'll arrive together / coolport, coolport / sooner or later we'll arrive together / coolport

worlds of possibility
truth shimmers like palaces in the sun / and your inventions will never be too far flung / imagination's worthwhile taking / and gravitation, cause i don't want you to fall / i'll surprise you / gliding through / i'll surprise you / unbounded by languor or longitude / everywhere is the centre of someone's world / panorama getting calmer / senses warmer / i don't want us to fall / we'll be true / never blue / we'll be true

 
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