Vashti Bunyan - Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind, Singles And Demos 1964 To 1967 [2007] (2 x CD's)

 

VASHTI BUNYAN (Jennifer Vashti Bunyan)

Vashti Bunyan - Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind, Singles And Demos 1964 To 1967 [2007] (2 x CD's)

Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind – Singles and Demos 1964 to 1967 is a compilation album by Vashti Bunyan collecting her mid-sixties singles cuts (including the Jagger/Richards penned title track) with unreleased demos recorded at the time. Disc two features her recently rediscovered first studio demo session from 1964 in its entirety. (Wikipedia)

This is a  comprehensive look back at her early recordings from the period prior to her classic 1970 Just Another Diamond Day album. Some Things... attempts to both draw a line under the past and also to set the record straight regarding the disparity between how Bunyan viewed (and still views) herself and the way the public views her as an artist. This complete collection of Bunyan's 25 existing early recordings is a young London girl's series of beautiful love songs that resonate profoundly via an almost brutal efficiency and honesty. The melodies seem timelessly sweet and addictive, the vision at once delicate but somehow tough as granite. The first disc gathers together the early singles (two of which were unreleased) and a set of demos recorded between 1965 and 1967; the second comprises the entire, unaltered contents of a long-forgotten tape discovered at the last minute before mastering, containing a set of raw, pure, intimate recordings. 

A brilliant record, how most of these beguiling tracks were never released at the time is a mystery! I guess the right people just didn't take her work seriously—maybe it was just too subtle. Throughout, Vashti comes across as a sort of English Françoise Hardy. Some of the songs -- in particular the superb I'd Like to Walk Around in Your Mind and Winter Is Blue—have inventive, sensitive arrangements. One listen to them and you'll be hooked. Most of the tracks, however, are home demos that feature Vashti solo on guitar, charmingly introducing the title of each track, so that you really feel you're in the room. Quite different -- more straightforwardly melodic, more direct -- than her later folky output [which is also great in a different way], this is essential for anyone with affection for great 60's pop music. (Amazon)

The wonderful Vashti in an earlier incarnation. A sadly unknown genius.

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Track lists

CD1

01 Vashti Bunyan Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind 2:18

02 Vashti Bunyan I Want To Be Alone 2:51

03 Vashti Bunyan Train Song 2:15

04 Vashti Bunyan Love Song 2:00

05 Vashti Bunyan Winter Is Blue 2:55

06 Vashti Bunyan Coldest Night Of The Year 3:28

07 Vashti Bunyan I'd Like To Walk Around In Your Mind 2:15

08 Vashti Bunyan Winter Is Blue (Demo) 1:48

09 Vashti Bunyan Girl's Song In Winter 1:37

10 Vashti Bunyan If In Winter (100 Lovers) 1:47

11 Vashti Bunyan Wishwanderer 1:56

12 Vashti Bunyan Don't Believe 1:37

13 Vashti Bunyan 17 Pink Sugar Elephants 1:51

CD2

01 Vashti Bunyan Autumn Leaves 1:57

02 Vashti Bunyan Leave Me 2:25

03 Vashti Bunyan If In Winter (100 Lovers) 1:19

04 Vashti Bunyan How Do I Know 2:00

05 Vashti Bunyan Find My Heart Again 1:59

06 Vashti Bunyan Go Before Dawn 1:54

07 Vashti Bunyan Girl's Song In Winter 1:38

08 Vashti Bunyan I Don't Know What Love Is 1:48

09 Vashti Bunyan Don't Believe What They Say 2:12

10 Vashti Bunyan Love You Now 2:10

11 Vashti Bunyan I Know 1:34

12 Vashti Bunyan Someday 2:05

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