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Just Another Diamond Day

by: Vashti Bunyan

Release Date July 24, 2000
I 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.

CD-Charts Position 2
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Lookaftering

by: Vashti Bunyan

Release Date October 17, 2005
Having enjoyed the undoubted quality of Vashti Bunyan's 1960s recordings, I responded to the many high ratings of this 2005 album and purchased it. It is a serious failure for the inevitable reasons. As a very young woman, she had an effortless control of her voice without need of training. Now as a much older woman, her lack of control of breathing and intonation is painfully exposed. This is one of those comebacks which a kinder producer would have talked her out of. The weakness in Vashti's performance is compounded by too-close mike-ing, over resonant acoustic and poor recording balance with the voice swamped by the accompaniment. I defy anyone to extract more than the merest gist of the lyric without recourse to the notes.
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Prospect Hummer

by: Animal Collective & Vashti Bunyan

Release Date May 16, 2005
I don't think this collaboration works at all. Vashti's voice doesn't suit this kind of vaguely psychedelic electronica. It just drifts along without ever coming into focus, and only one of the tracks resembles a proper song and even that is pretty forgettable.

I can understand why other reviewers call this beautiful, but it's all just too ill-defined and purposeless for me, as if they got together in the studio and messed about for a bit. It didn't come together, but they released it anyway.

CD-Charts Position 4
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Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind: Singles and Demos 1964-1967

by: Vashti Bunyan

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Vashti Bunyan's first and second albums were released, uh, thirty-five years apart. Meaning it could have been more than three decades before we heard from her again.

Fortunately such is not the case. "Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind: Singles and Demos 1964-1967" collects scattered odds and ends of Bunyan's early work, and you'd really never have known that it's from decades ago -- these two discs are full of timeless pop and pretty little folk songs.

It kicks off with the title track, a smooth and catchy concoction of strings, cymbals, guitar and brazen horn. The lyrics aren't exactly perky, though: "Why does the sky turn grey every night?/Sun rise again in time/Why do you think of the first love you had?/Some things ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 5
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Lookaftering [VINYL]

by: Vashti Bunyan

Release Date January 15, 2007
Having enjoyed the undoubted quality of Vashti Bunyan's 1960s recordings, I responded to the many high ratings of this 2005 album and purchased it. It is a serious failure for the inevitable reasons. As a very young woman, she had an effortless control of her voice without need of training. Now as a much older woman, her lack of control of breathing and intonation is painfully exposed. This is one of those comebacks which a kinder producer would have talked her out of. The weakness in Vashti's performance is compounded by too-close mike-ing, over resonant acoustic and poor recording balance with the voice swamped by the accompaniment. I defy anyone to extract more than the merest gist of the lyric without recourse to the notes.

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CD-Charts Position 6
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Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind (Singles And Demos 1964 To 1967)

by: Vashti Bunyan

Release Date October 08, 2007
Vashti Bunyan's first and second albums were released, uh, thirty-five years apart. Meaning it could have been more than three decades before we heard from her again.

Fortunately such is not the case. "Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind: Singles and Demos 1964-1967" collects scattered odds and ends of Bunyan's early work, and you'd really never have known that it's from decades ago -- these two discs are full of timeless pop and pretty little folk songs.

It kicks off with the title track, a smooth and catchy concoction of strings, cymbals, guitar and brazen horn. The lyrics aren't exactly perky, though: "Why does the sky turn grey every night?/Sun rise again in time/Why do you think of the first love you had?/Some things just ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 7
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Lookaftering

by: Vashti Bunyan

Release Date
Having enjoyed the undoubted quality of Vashti Bunyan's 1960s recordings, I responded to the many high ratings of this 2005 album and purchased it. It is a serious failure for the inevitable reasons. As a very young woman, she had an effortless control of her voice without need of training. Now as a much older woman, her lack of control of breathing and intonation is painfully exposed. This is one of those comebacks which a kinder producer would have talked her out of. The weakness in Vashti's performance is compounded by too-close mike-ing, over resonant acoustic and poor recording balance with the voice swamped by the accompaniment. I defy anyone to extract more than the merest gist of the lyric without recourse to the notes.

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CD-Charts Position 8
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Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind [7" VINYL]

by: Vashti Bunyan

Release Date February 18, 2008
Having enjoyed the undoubted quality of Vashti Bunyan's 1960s recordings, I responded to the many high ratings of this 2005 album and purchased it. It is a serious failure for the inevitable reasons. As a very young woman, she had an effortless control of her voice without need of training. Now as a much older woman, her lack of control of breathing and intonation is painfully exposed. This is one of those comebacks which a kinder producer would have talked her out of. The weakness in Vashti's performance is compounded by too-close mike-ing, over resonant acoustic and poor recording balance with the voice swamped by the accompaniment. I defy anyone to extract more than the merest gist of the lyric without recourse to the notes.

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CD-Charts Position 9
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Just Another Diamond Day [VINYL]

by: Vashti Bunyan

Release Date July 09, 2007
Having enjoyed the undoubted quality of Vashti Bunyan's 1960s recordings, I responded to the many high ratings of this 2005 album and purchased it. It is a serious failure for the inevitable reasons. As a very young woman, she had an effortless control of her voice without need of training. Now as a much older woman, her lack of control of breathing and intonation is painfully exposed. This is one of those comebacks which a kinder producer would have talked her out of. The weakness in Vashti's performance is compounded by too-close mike-ing, over resonant acoustic and poor recording balance with the voice swamped by the accompaniment. I defy anyone to extract more than the merest gist of the lyric without recourse to the notes.

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CD-Charts Position 10
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Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind: Singles and Demos 1964-1967

by: Vashti Bunyan

Release Date November 13, 2007
Vashti Bunyan's first and second albums were released, uh, thirty-five years apart. Meaning it could have been more than three decades before we heard from her again.

Fortunately such is not the case. "Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind: Singles and Demos 1964-1967" collects scattered odds and ends of Bunyan's early work, and you'd really never have known that it's from decades ago -- these two discs are full of timeless pop and pretty little folk songs.

It kicks off with the title track, a smooth and catchy concoction of strings, cymbals, guitar and brazen horn. The lyrics aren't exactly perky, though: "Why does the sky turn grey every night?/Sun rise again in time/Why do you think of the first love you had?/Some things just stick in ... Read More: