Vashti Bunyan - Some things just stick in your mind (1965) lyrics
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 your mind
Why does the rain fall down on the earth
Why do the clouds keep crying
Why do you sleep curled up like a child
Some things just stick in your mind
Why when the children grow up and leave
Still remember their nursery rhymes
Why must there be so much hate in their lives
Some things just stick in their minds
Певица, сверкнувшая в конце 1960-х и вновь открытая лишь несколько лет назад. Речь идет о проживающей ныне в Эдинбурге матери шестерых детей, фолк-сингерше Вашти Баньян. Когда-то её делами занимался Спунер Олдхэм, под его присмотром в 1965 году Вашти записала песню «Something Just Stick In Your Mind», написанную Миком Джаггером и Китом Ричардсом. После выхода дебютного лонгплея «Just Another Diamond Day» её называли «Бобом Диланом в юбке» и прочили немыслимую славу. Однако юная звезда предпочла безвестность и рай шотландских холмов в окружении повозок, лошадей, собак и детей. Честь повторного открытия певицы история приписывает Глену Джонсону, пригласившему Вашти Баньян спеть на одном из альбомов Piano Magic. В 2005 году на лейбле Fat Cat вышел её второй лонгплей, но самым удачным релизом стал сборник, названный, как и первая из записанных песен «Something Just Stick In Your Mind». В нем собраны синглы, оцифрованные с редких и не всегда здорово сохранившихся семидюймовок и натурально «квартирные» записи. (Отсюда:
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В Википедии ее история рассказана иначе:
Вашти Баньян (англ. Vashti Bunyan; 1945, Лондон, Великобритания) — английская певица и автор песен. В 1970 году записала свой первый альбом «Just Another Diamond Day». Альбом разошелся очень небольшим тиражом, и расстроенная Вашти оставила музыкальную карьеру. В 2000 году альбом был переиздан и приобрёл большую популярность, после чего Вашти вернулась на сцену после 30-летнего перерыва... (
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Вашти БаньянVashti Bunyan - Lily Pond
Vashti Bunyan - Lily Pond
lyrics
In a lily pond I lay
All upon a summer's day
Then I chased a dragonfly
All across an ancient sky
Falling with a thousand stars down the Milky Way to Mars
Back again in time for day
In a lily pond I lay
And the only thing he said to me
Was 'young lady I love thee'
Vashti Bunyan - Where I like to standVashti Bunyan - Where I like to stand
lyrics
The hound bays the sheep graze i'm counting the boats in the bay
As they float they seem to say-'i'm counting the waves, i'm counting the waves'
The men in the boats they wave to their wives and say
'I'm counting the hours, counting the hours, counting the hours in the day'
I'm counting the gulls that sit on the waves surrounding the boats in the bay
I'm counting the miles till we're there where the sun and the rain and the snow
Fall on the seeds and make them grow
Fall on the rocks and make them crack into pebbles and into sand
Which is where i like to standVashti Bunyan - Train Song lyricsTravelling north, travelling north to find you
Train wheels beating, the wind in my eyes
Don't even know what I'll say when I find you
Call out your name love, dont be surprised
It's so many miles and so long since I've met you
Don't even know what I'll find when I get to you
But suddenly now I know where I belong
It's many hundred miles and it won't be long
It wont be long
It wont be long
It wont be long
Nothing at all in my head to say to you
Only the beat of the train I'm on
Nothing I've learnt all my life on the way to you
Only our love that's over and gone
It's so many miles and so long since I've met you
Don't even know what I'll find when I get to you
But suddenly now I know where I belong
It's many hundred miles and it won't be long
It wont be long
It wont be long
It wont be longVashti Bunyan - 17 Pink Sugar Elephants (1966)
Vashti Bunyan - 17 Pink Sugar Elephants (1966)
lyrics
I saw seventeen pink sugar elephants
Sitting under a chestnut tree
I said good morning pink sugar elephants
But they wouldn’t speak to me
Each had two eyes but they couldn’t see me there
Each had four legs but they couldn’t go anywhere
And so we just sat
That early autumn morning
Sun not yet risen and magic everywhere
I walked up to one pink sugar elephant
Asked why wouldn’t he speak to me
But he was a factory-made pink sugar elephant
Given to children for treats after tea
He had two eyes but he couldn’t see me there
He had four legs but he couldn’t go anywhere
And so we just sat
That early autumn morning
Sun not yet risen and magic everywhere Vashti Bunyan - Which Will (live)Vashti Bunyan performs Nick Drake's song Which Willlyrics
Which will you go for
Which will you love
Which will you choose from
From the stars above
Which will you answer
Which will you call
Which will you take for
For your one and all
And tell me now
Which will you love the best.
Which do you dance for
Which makes you shine
Which will you choose now
If you won't choose mine
Which will you hope for
Which can it be
Which will you take now
If you won't take me
And tell now
Which will you love the best.Just Another Diamond Day (1970)
Lookaftering (2005)
Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind - Singles and Demos 1964 to 1967 (2007) Эти альбомы можно скачать здесь:
http://musicmp3spb.org/artist/vashti_bunyan.htmlПравда, качать нужно все песни поштучно.
В 2008 году вышел документальный фильм о Вашти Баньян режиссера Кирана Эванса "Вперед в прошлое" (From Here To Before).
На Вимео у Эванса выложены два отрывка из фильма:
Vashti Bunyan: From Here To Before - Whisper Fairy Stories (Extract) from Kieran Evans on Vimeo.
+ 1: Vashti Bunyan: From Here To Before - The Long Road (Extract) by Kieran EvansVashti Bunyan: From Here To Before - The Long Road (Extract) from Kieran Evans on Vimeo.
Фильм был встречен критиками тепло, вот один из их отзывов:
"Already familiar to fans of her music (and readers of the classier Sunday supplements), crystal-throated folkie Vashti Bunyan’s tale of exploitation, resignation, exile and rediscovery is already one of this century’s most enduring musical legends. Kieran Evans’ gorgeously shot, achingly intimate portrait retraces Bunyan’s infamous voyage by gypsy caravan, from Inner London to the Outer Hebrides, during which she wrote her stunning, commercially disastrous 1970 album ‘Just Another Diamond Day’. Mercifully avoiding too much self-congratulatory reunion footage, the film explores a very slim slice of Bunyan’s life in loving detail, pausing only to wonder at the enduring charm and mystery of this prodigious, prodigal talent. "
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/02/16/vashti-bunyan-a-cult-1960s-folkie-steps-back-in-the-studio/http://www.wretchesandjabberers.org/