Tune Req: Vashti Bunyan - Need Highly Similar

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Vashti Bunyan - Need Highly Similar
From: Jim Lad
Date: 06 Jul 07 - 05:08 AM

Well, I was enjoying this topic on a friendly thread, now closed.
I'll catch you another time, Peregrina (Sweet Fern? Hawkeye?).

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Vashti Bunyan - Need Highly Similar
From: redsnapper
Date: 06 Jul 07 - 05:08 AM

Welcome peregrina!

I tend to agree with you and there are a lot of artists widely liked here who I don't care for much. I don't feel the need to diss them though as others do like them... often with a passion. You'll get used to it. The debate isn't always rational here... as in real life.

RS

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Vashti Bunyan - Need Highly Similar
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 06 Jul 07 - 05:06 AM

I have heard, via one of my daughters, the album that diamond day is not on. It is actualy quite good. Not entirely to my taste but then again neither is Opera and Jazz. I wouldn't worry too much about people dismissing what you like - what does it matter as long as you like it? You don't realy need the approval of people you have never met do you?

I would very rarely say that anything is rubbish, with odd exception, but rather say that I do not like it. The two generaly mean the same though, again, with the odd exception:-)

Cheers

Dave

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Vashti Bunyan - Need Highly Similar
From: Celtaddict
Date: 06 Jul 07 - 04:58 AM

Peregrina: Welcome, and I hope you stay to enjoy and learn.

Please do bear in mind that a broad variety of people inhabit this site, and while many or I think most are very helpful and kind, as in any crowd there are some (members and visitors) who are more likely to come across as dismissive or discourteous. Please try not to take them personally. There is a relatively new policy for avoiding anonymous postings and it is hoped that will help, but there are some who sound cantankerous in print, and some outright trolling does go on. I try to think of it as the sort of heckling or static one might encounter in any large group, and of course the top of a thread lists posters so if there is someone who seems to you consistently off-putting, your best bet is to skip them, not to argue with the individual.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Vashti Bunyan - Need Highly Similar
From: katlaughing
Date: 06 Jul 07 - 04:56 AM

Well, I'd missed both threads. Thanks, guest, for bringing this up, though. I've now listened to a few sound samples at Amazon and I really like her voice and choice of songs.

kat

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Vashti Bunyan - Need Highly Similar
From: Joe Offer
Date: 06 Jul 07 - 04:38 AM

ALLMUSICGUIDE (click) will give you names of similar artists.
-Joe Offer-

* Bridget Saint John
* Sandy Denny
* Kath Bloom
* Ruthann Friedman
* Sibylle Baier
* Erica Pomerance
* Turid
* Trees
* Linda Perhacs
* Nick Drake
* Shirley Collins

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Vashti Bunyan - Need Highly Similar
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 06 Jul 07 - 04:04 AM

Good grief.
Let's be clear.
I do not share a love for a category of 'music' emanating from telly ads and lifts.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Vashti Bunyan - Need Highly Similar
From: peregrina
Date: 06 Jul 07 - 03:55 AM

see the other thread for a suggestion.


De gustibus non disputandum etc.

As a relative newcomer, I ask myself whether I want to take part in a forum where members reply to another newcomer in ways that might, on a bad day, perhaps be able to be perceived as rather unfriendly and dismissive.

It's hard for me to understand why people bother to be unpleasant to one another about their shared love for a category of music that is, well, from a commercial point of view, a minority taste, even if it's far older. and has lasted much longer than pop-stuff--and will outlive it!
Strong views about what you care about, fine,great material for lively and enjoyable discussion; express your own passions and pet peeves, great, but Insulting someone's taste and such-like. I ask: why?

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Vashti Bunyan - Need Highly Similar
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 06 Jul 07 - 03:49 AM

Diamond Day - is that the intensely irritating song 'just another diamond day, just a blade of grass' used in a UK TV advert recently?

The singer in that advert does have a pleasant voice, but with no knowledge of who she is or what she's done previously, it's a bit hard to find a similar artist.


The only song more irritating is the one for Lloyds Bank - all that 'oo oo oo oo-oo ooo ahhhh' stuff...

LTS

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Vashti Bunyan - Need Highly Similar
From: gnomad
Date: 06 Jul 07 - 03:23 AM

I never heard of the lady until a few months ago, so cannot comment from experience of her work. Reviews suggest to me that the style may have been insufficiently mainstream to achieve success in the pop world, but too personal (hippyish?) for the folk community of the time.

As for looking for similar, well she appears to have 3 CDs and a DVD available, maybe one of those?

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Vashti Bunyan - Need Highly Similar
From: Peace
Date: 06 Jul 07 - 03:10 AM

See the other thread, om.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Vashti Bunyan - Need Highly Similar
From: open mike
Date: 06 Jul 07 - 03:09 AM

how are we supposed to know who she is and what she sounds like if you do not provide any links or information? and what the heck does need highly similar even mean?

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Vashti Bunyan - Need Highly Similar
From: Peace
Date: 06 Jul 07 - 02:56 AM

I LIKE ENYA!

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Vashti Bunyan - Need Highly Similar
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 06 Jul 07 - 02:30 AM

Vashti Bunyan (thankfully) clipped-clopped off into obscurity over 30 years ago, hence not so popular.

She sounded back then like a watered-down Marianne Faithfull (not surprising since Andrew Loog Oldham was her first producer) and Joe Boyd's subsequent efforts were, surprisingly, no better and markedly unsuccessful.

Folk Britannia decided for reasons unknown to drag her into the 'wyrd' department along with other wifty-wafty, new-agey, whimsical tripe and she underwent a brief mini-'revival' among the equally wyrd.

File alongside Enya or, preferably, in the bin.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Vashti Bunyan - Need Highly Similar
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 06 Jul 07 - 01:58 AM

I cannot speak for others, but she is not to my taste. The music I like has to have more direct relevance to people and events and circumstances and real life out there, to make me think and question and feel diverse sentiments. For relaxing, I find others like Enya and Loreena McKennitt much better. For me, Vashti is somewhere in the middle, neither meat, nor fish. But that's just my personal taste. Perhaps others feel the same, hence her limited popularity.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Vashti Bunyan - Need Highly Similar
From: Peace
Date: 06 Jul 07 - 01:37 AM

Refresh

Subject: Tune Req: Vashti Bunyan - Need Highly Similar
From: GUEST,Heart+
Date: 05 Jul 07 - 09:00 PM

Listening to Vashti Bunyan's Diamond Day album makes me curious as to why her particular style is not more prevalent and popular.

I am looking for several artists that impart that same peace ... that you could fall asleep to or daydream to another world in.