Vashti Bunyan - Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind: Singles and Demos: 1964 to 1967 [2CD Set] (2007) [Reissue 2015]

Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind – Singles and Demos 1964 to 1967 is a compilation album by Vashti Bunyan collecting her mid-sixties singles cuts (including the Jagger/Richards penned title track) with unreleased demos recorded at the time. Disc two features her recently rediscovered first studio demo session from 1964 in its entirety. A special limited-edition version adds four bonus tracks (numbers 14-17) to disc one.

The album was released in the USA by DiChristina.

The renewed interest in Vashti Bunyan continues, and has outpaced the attention she initially received in the mid-'60s and a pair of UK singles. Her 1970 album, Just Another Diamond Day, became a touchstone for the likes of Devendra Banhart and Joanna Newsom, and was reissued in 2000. Having left the music business, she returned with her second album in 2005, Lookaftering. This new set doubles her available output. The first disc of the set offers those rare Decca singles (including the title track, penned by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards). These make it clear that, while she's been labeled a folk singer, her writing was decidedly more diverse in its simplicity. Production and arrangement approaches aimed were infused with pop sensibilities, bringing those inclinations to the fore without bending the songs into inappropriate shapes. Intimate and captivating, the second disc is from a long forgotten tape, on which she performs a dozen songs solo, one after another, as a demo in 1964. --David Greenberger