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Music : Just Another Diamond Day
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Just Another Diamond Day by: Vashti Bunyan List Price: £13.99 CD-Charts Price: £9.98 You Save: £4.01 (29%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0666017012124 Label: Spinney Manufacturer: Spinney Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Spinney Release Date: July 24, 2000 Studio: Spinney Sales Rank: 5776 Disc 1:
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 Rating:  - Sheer Gossamer NostalgiaI heard Diamond Day on the TV advert and thought 'that's Vashti Bunyan!'.I hadn't heard the album in years. It was obscure when I first heard it and I never met anyone who had even heard of her. I checked out the website, got all the history and the cd and rediscovered the magical delights of endless summer holidays by the sea, walks in the woods, gypsy caravans, picnics- all the good old fashioned values of pleasure, joy, love & peace. Gentle, easy to sing along to, quirky rhymes and repeats. This is an album to play to kids at bedtime to ensure sweet dreams.If this works for you then try HMS Donovan as a companion album. Rating: - Another Fine Joe Boyd ProductionI first heard Vashti when her mid sixties singles were played on Pirate Radio - competition was strong at that time and she didn't gain much success. As the sixties ended, and the more earnest seventies began, albums replaced singles as the dominant music format and Vashti tried for success once more, with this offering. In 1970 radio airplay was very limited and competition in this area of music was very intense - Joni Mitchell leading a strong field. I heard some of this album, probably played by John Peel or Pete Drummond, but I didn't like Vashti's voice as much as some of her contemporaries. However, like for most people, Vashti was reintroduced via that commercial and I finally succumbed to temptation and bought the reissued CD. I had ... Read More: Rating: - discovery ...off all the places out there, I heard the "Diamond Day" while I was on hold, waiting for the response of the T-mobile's customer service. They play it off the reel to their bored customers. This music was so outstanding, that I finally plucked up courage and asked the operator what was that song. Luckily she knew and I bought it within 5 minutes, here on Amazon. dejan Rating:  - A curiosity to conjure withWhat a fascinating curiosity. Lots of beautifully simple and deeply evocative songs. I've never listened to music that has conjured up so many images in my mind - in this case idyllic pastoral scenes. Some of the melodies are stunning, others are like nursery rhymes. Vashti's voice is so gentle and her lyrics so intriguing you find yourself almost leaning towards the speaker just to hear every last nuance. It does get a bit irritating after a while, though, in its sentimentality. Some of the songs are more like fragments as well. Not coincidentally, in my view, the longer songs are the better ones. Rating: - Beautiful.I love this album. Although I am a total hippie with a HUGE love for folk music, I had never heard of Vashti until yes you guessed it, the mobile phone advert (I am somewhat ashamed to say.) This album is wonderful, whimsical, hair-on-the-back-of-the-neck raising folk at its best. It is that kind of folk which makes you feel nostalgic, it is ever-so-slightly unsettling acoustic and flute heaven. I would be lost without this album now. At times when I listen to it, I am almost close to tears with yearning to escape today's world and be with Vashti on her magical 60's caravan journey to the Outer Hebrides. Listen to it and you will know what I mean! |
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