ARTiST: Vashti Bunyan
TiTLE: Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind
LABEL: Fat Cat Records
GENRE: Folk
TiME: 52:48 min
SiZE: 46,8 MB
BiTRATE: VBRkbps
RiP DATE: Sep-06-2007
RELEASE DATE: Oct-15-2007
WEBSiTE: n/a
Track List:
Cd1
01. Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind 02:19
(Decca Single, 1965)
02. I Want To Be Alone (Decca Single, 1965) 02:51
03. Train Song (Columbia Single, 1966) 02:15
04. Love Song (Columbia Single, 1966) 02:00
05. Winter Is Blue (Unreleased Single, 1966) 02:55
06. Coldest Night Of The Year 03:29
(Unreleased Single As 'twice As Much And Va
07. I'd Like To Walk Around In Your Mind 02:16
(Unreleased Single, 1967)
08. Winter Is Blue 01:49
(Restored Acetate Demo, 1966)
09. Girl's Song In Winter 01:38
(John Bunyan's Tape, 1966)
10. If In Winter (100 Lovers) 01:48
(John Bunyan's Tape With Mike Crowther, 196
11. Wishwanderer (Restored Acetate Demo 1967) 01:56
12. Don't Believe (John Bunyan's Tape 1966) 01:37
13. 17 Pink Sugar Elephants 02:49
(John Bunyan's Tape 1966)
Cd2
01. Autumn Leaves (1964 Tape) 01:56
02. Leave Me (1964 Tape) 02:25
03. If In Winter (100 Lovers) (1964 Tape) 01:20
04. How Do I Know (1964 Tape) 02:01
05. Find My Heart Again (1964 Tape) 02:00
06. Go Before Dawn (1964 Tape) 01:55
07. Girl's Song In Winter (1964 Tape) 01:39
08. I Don't Know What Love Is (1964 Tape) 01:48
09. Don't Believe What Love Is (1964 Tape) 02:12
10. Love You Now (1964 Tape) 02:10
11. I Know (1964 Tape) 01:35
12. Someday (1964 Tape) 02:05
Release Notes:
Following the amazing success story of Vashti
BunyanÆs recent re-emergence as an artist after an
exile of over 30 years, we are proud and excited to
release æSome Things Just Stick In Your MindÆ, a
comprehensive compilation of early recordings dating
from the period prior to VashtiÆs classic æJust
another Diamond DayÆ album which was originally
released1970.
Titled after VashtiÆs (Jagger/Richards-penned) debut
single which opens the compilation, this
double-album represents an attempt to both open out
and draw a line under the past, and also to try to
set the record straight about the disparity between
how Vashti viewed (and still views) herself against
the way she has been popularly perceived. Widely
construed as a folk singer - a tag she fundamentally
disagrees with - these recordings instead reveal
Vashti as a pop singer, however æfragileÆ and
unique.
As Vashti explains in her liner notes to the album,
ôI have heard it said that Andrew Oldham took this
fragile little folk-singer and tried to make her
into a pop-singer against her will. No he didnÆt.
Too fragile for his world I might have been, but
that was no fault of hisà I wanted to bring simple
acoustic music into mainstream popö.
Before she dropped out and set off on that epic
horse and cart journey up the length of the country,
and before any of the æ...Diamond DayÆ songs that
saw her tarred under the æfolkÆ title, these
recordings reveal a young London girl writing a
series of beautiful love songs that resonate
profoundly via an almost brutal efficiency and
honesty. All very brief (many of them clocking in at
under 2 minutes ), the songs here are ultra-economic
distillations on a limited number of themes (of
independence and freedom to move and to grow, ôthat
love is changeable, that you cannot pin anything or
anyone down in this world - and if you try it mostly
won't work.ö). The melodies seem timelessly sweet
and addictive. The vision at once delicate but
somehow tough as granite. ThereÆs nothing
extraneous, no drawn-out lingering over a lyrical
theme or a melody. The songs are snappy and instead
of ever outstaying their welcome, regularly leave
you yearning for more and reaching for the replay.
IsnÆt that the hallmark of good pop?
A complete collection of VashtiÆs existing early
recordings, the album is divided across two discs
and features 25 tracks - mostly rescued from a
number of old acetates and quarter-inch tapes
VashtiÆs brother John had found in his attic a few
years ago.
The first disc gathers together the early singles
(two of which were unreleased) and a set of taped
demos recorded between 1965 - 67. Discovered via an
industry friend by Rolling Stones manager/guru
Andrew Loog Oldham, who gave her a Jagger/Richards
song, (æSome ThingsàÆ) Vashti was put in the studio
to record the song accompanied by a full orchestra.
Backed by her own æI Want To Be AloneÆ it was
released as her debut single on the Decca label in
May 1965. Despite a whirlwind of promotion, the
single flopped and Vashti left to pursue more
pared-down ambitions, recording æTrain SongÆ/æLove
SongÆ for Columbia, with just voice, guitar and
cello. Again foundering with no publicity upon its
release in June 1966, Vashti left again, this time
returning to Andrew Oldham and the Immediate label
he had just started. She recorded three more singles
(æWinter Is BlueÆ / æColdest Night Of The YearÆ /
æIÆd Like To Walk Around In Your MindÆ) between 1966
û 1967, yet each again remained frustratingly
unreleased, leading to VashtiÆs disenchantment with
the industry and disappearance, bound for the Isle
of Skye and a colourful if obscure existence in
which she would not pick up a guitar again for over
30 years.
Deliberately separated off from this first disc (and
separated by a one minute gap of silence on the
promo), the second disc comprises the entire,
unaltered contents of a long-forgotten tape
discovered at the last minute before mastering,
whilst Vashti was searching for one of the master
reels for disc one. Featuring just VashtiÆs voice
and guitar, unadorned and with no overdubs, the
twelve songs here were rattled out one after another
with spoken introduction in one hour of time sheÆd
borrowed the money for and booked at a studio in
central London in 1964. Four of these songs were
then run out to a 7ö acetate (since lost/destroyed)
which would serve as her demo. These were the first
recordings Vashti had ever made of the songs she had
written aged eighteen and nineteen. Considering they
sat gathering dust in a shed and then in an attic
for nearly forty years, the tapes are amazingly well
preserved, and after baking reveal a stunning set of
raw, pure, intimate recordings. At times it almost
feels like youÆre in the room with her; that these
are songs sung for your ears alone.
Originally slated for release on the Spinney label
after they rescued the æ..Diamond DayÆ album, æSome
Things Just Stick In Your Mind û Singles and demos
1964 - 1967Æ will now be released by FatCat /
Spinney on October 8th, and by DiCristina Stair
Builders / Spinney in North America.
A feature-length documentary on VashtiÆs story,
initially intended to focus solely on VashtiÆs much
referenced pilgrimage to the Hebrides in relation to
the (at the time) near mythical LP æJust Another
Diamond DayÆ, is currently being completed. Directed
by Kieran Evans (who directed St. EttieneÆs
acclaimed æFinisterreÆ), her story has since
developed into one of unforeseeable artistic
rennaissance, with Vashti finally, deservedly
stepping into a broader public consciousness.
Vashti is currently writing songs for her third
album, which will hopefully see the light of day in
2008.