Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind: Singles and Demos 1964-1967
Douban
overview
2007 two CD collection, 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. Fatcat.
tracks
1. Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind (Decca single, 1965) 2:18
2. I Want To Be Alone (Decca single, 1965) 2:51
3. Train Song (Columbia single, 1966) 2:15
4. Love Song (Columbia single, 1966) 2:00
5. Winter Is Blue (Unreleased single for Immediate, 1966) 2:55
6. Coldest Night Of The Year (Unreleased single as "Twice As Much and Vashti", 1966) 3:28
7. I'd Like To Walk Around In Your Mind (Unreleased single for Immediate, 1967) 2:15
8. Winter Is Blue (Restored acetate demo, 1967) 1:48
9. Girl's Song In Winter (John Bunyan's tape, 1966) 1:37
10. If In Winter (100 Lovers) (John Bunyan's tape, 1966) 1:47
11. Wishwanderer (Restored acetate demo, 1967) 1:56
12. Don't Believe (John Bunyan's tape, 1966) 1:37
13. 17 Pink Sugar Elephants (John Bunyan's tape, 1966) 1:51
Bonus Tracks
14. I Won't Say - Vashti Bunyan,
15. Girl's Song in Winter
16. If in Winter (100 Lovers)
17. I'd Like to Walk Around in Your Mind
1. Autumn Leaves (1964 tape) 1:57
2. Leave Me (1964 tape) 2:25
3. If In Winter (100 Lovers) (1964 tape) 1:19
4. How Do I Know (1964 tape) 2:00
5. Find My Heart Again (1964 tape) 1:59
6. Go Before Dawn (1964 tape) 1:54
7. Girl's Song In Winter (1964 tape) 1:38
8. I Don't Know What Love Is (1964 tape) 1:48
9. Don't Believe What They Say (1964 tape) 2:12
10. Love You Know (1964 tape) 2:10
11. I Know (1964 tape) 1:34
12. Someday (1964 tape) 2:05