Pacific - Jet stream (Audio)

Song from the little known creation band Pacific. A powerful song.

I was lucky enough to find this on the Creation compilation lp "doing it for the kids".

Lyrics: "what in the hell does it mean, jets firing down on the stream, lifeless you lie as you dream, I thought of this so much before, as though I see sense I'm not sure, sometime I'll learn how to search clear. Take a boat and sail once round the world, chart all the hates and the gains and start your life over again, the truth is much more than one time, the falling of trees cuts and winds and saves us the sea for the wise. "the decision was taken in order to protect British lives"

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• Pacific
• Creation
• records
• indie
• 80's
• 90's

[shriftspace]

i've started a pacific page on bandcamp with the idea of documenting the things we did and offering them as free downloads.. I've posted Barnoon Hill (and the original super 8 vid I made) I've got good intentions about uploading more but never quite get time to do it.. it will happen one day.

[nicck]

@shriftspace That's brilliant! I'll have a look around for it and get a link out to everyone :]

[shriftspace]

lovely that people still respond to this.. its possibly the most enduring thing we did.. (apart from the nasty sounds from our little synth). The lyrics for this were written moments before recording so they kind of surprised me too which was nice. I love found sounds.. the short wave radio snippet provoked a moral dilemma in the studio .. was it a distress call .. was it bad taste to use it etc.. we found out much later that it was a kind of coded language used by the east german stasi!

[nicck]

@shriftspace Thanks for getting in contact, Dennis! It's great that you can tell us about the song...I'm still really moved by it. Out of all the creation bands, Pacific always stuck in my mind.

[nicck]

@shriftspace And maybe radio snippet works. The fact that it's coded possibly means that it doesn't matter what's being said, just how it makes you feel to hear it.

[chrislocal]

One of the most beautiful songs of the eighties, perhaps one of the most beautiful pop songs ever... I've been looking for information on this band for ages. Can anyone help?

cheers!

[nicck]

I don't know much about them myself. I don't think many people do! I was hoping one of the members would get non youtube and see this and tell us a bit of history about it!

Apparently there was a video for 'Barnoon hill'

[shriftspace]

lyrics are "what in the hell does it mean, jets firing down on the stream, lifeless you lie as you dream, I thought of this so much before, as though I see sense I'm not sure, sometime I'll learn how to search clear. Take a boat and sail once round the world, chart all the hates and the gains and start your life over again, the truth is much more than one time, the falling of trees cuts and winds and saves us the sea for the wise. "the decision was taken in order to protect British lives" dennis

[1980deadsouls]

Wow, Doing it for the kids. That takes me back abit. There is a cd 'Inference' on Creation.

[notthill7]

Thank you SO much for posting this. Been searching for this song for years... :-)

[dermot51]

fantastic tune, just beautiful

[therealparanormale]

@chrislocal

creation records released their work on 12 inch single

and on 7 inch ep.all pop masterpieces

from in those days fanzine

back then