Tune Req: Vashti Bunyan - Need Highly Similar

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Vashti Bunyan - Need Highly Similar
From: Celtaddict
Date: 06 Jul 07 - 10:24 AM

But is it on YouTube? Or somewhere we can have a listen?

Sorry about the double-post above; the first time, it seemed to disappear completely.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Vashti Bunyan - Need Highly Similar
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 06 Jul 07 - 10:24 AM

2!

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Vashti Bunyan - Need Highly Similar
From: Joe Offer
Date: 06 Jul 07 - 02:12 PM

appalled at the inclusion of Shirley Collins and Sandy Denny in a list of new-agey nonentities

Or, if you look at it from a positive point of view, maybe they were suggesting performers who would take the listener to a higher level?

If osmebody listens to crap and wants suggestions, I often try to avoid suggesting more crap. If a folk-pop fan wants exposure to more sophisticated music, Shirley Collins and Sandy Denny are a good place to start.

I see Dave Polshaw says he doesn't "particularly like Norma Waterson's singing."
Are people actually allowed to say stuff like that at Mudcat? I guess I tend to agree. I like her songs and her interpretation of the songs, but I don't like her voice. It's grating, and I can't listen to it for lengthy periods.

-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Vashti Bunyan - Need Highly Similar
From: peregrina
Date: 06 Jul 07 - 02:28 PM

Another thought for the original question --this suggestion I onlyk now from the odd track on the radio: Joanna Newsom's album Ys ??

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Vashti Bunyan - Need Highly Similar
From: Peace
Date: 06 Jul 07 - 02:44 PM

Heart+:

It has never bothered me one way or other what music people like or don't. Musically--in terms of history and theory--I am as adept as most people at disecting songs, music, etc. I sometimes do when I am trying to figure out what makes a song 'work for me' as a listener. But generally, when my 'music hat' is doffed, it boils down to what touches my heart or intellect or soul or gut. I find that I am much less pedantic than I used to be, and it gets to "I like what I like because I like it." The converse holds true, also.

I recently wrote a keyboard piece despite the fact I don't play keyboard. The music I got is very beautiful in spots and IMO the over-all piece works quite well. Someday I will spend a month, learn to play the piece, clean up a few rough spots, do a decent recording of it and pop it on youtube or something like that and them what likes it will listen to it and them what don't will tear it apart. That's the way it is often in music.

I happen to like some country/rock music. Also some folk, jazz, symphonies, straight rock, folk-rock, traditional, plainsong, etc. All people do not share my tastes. Such is life. I seldom enter into arguments anymore with people who are tearing a musician/writer down, because often people who do that just don't have the ability themselves, and what is offered as criticism simply shows up as jealousy.

I have a good friend here who was kind enough to give me some criticism of new material I've been writing. (He is an accomplished musician.) Criticism from someone like him is criticism I listen to, internalize and consider carefully. I also listen to an audience. When I work a room/stage, if three different crowds give tepid applause to a song I did, I have to find out if it was the performance, the material, the presentation or what. That's part of the responsibility of performing. When someone pays me bucks to perform, I tend to do what works for an audience. When I'm at home, I tend to do what works for me. If the two happen to be one and the same, hey, cool.

Various folks have introduced their work on Mudcat--their personal performances, their own material, etc. Only a cad would say anything but positive about those performances. Writers and performers know when they are 'cutting it', and some sideline quarterback jumping in with, "You should go back to being a butcher" is just a wise-assed comment that has very little usefulness to the performer.

You keep liking what you like. At the end of the day, that is what should matter to you as a listener.

Keep well.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Vashti Bunyan - Need Highly Similar
From: M.Ted
Date: 06 Jul 07 - 04:30 PM

Next time anyone asks, "What happened to the folk revival?" I'll show them this thread. And not with any sense of joy.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Vashti Bunyan - Need Highly Similar
From: GUEST,miserablist
Date: 07 Jul 07 - 02:57 AM

Come on, M.Ted, expand on what you mean... Is a thread involving discussion of Vashti Bunyan too frivolous for a serious folk forum or something? And which particular folk revival?

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Vashti Bunyan - Need Highly Similar
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 07 Jul 07 - 03:13 AM

I only said I found it intensely irritating, I didn't say I didn't like it. I know lots of things that are even more irritating (like Mudcat!!) but that doesn't mean I don't like them.

If I didn't like it, I'd say so, but only if you asked me if I did or not. Personally, I had no idea who sang the song and was not interested enough to find out - if indeed it IS that intensely irritating TV advert.

She has a pleasant enough voice and it's been interesting finding out here that she has other works available. One day, I might get to listen to some but at the moment, she's not really pulling my strings as it were.

I get the feeling that if I did buy one of her CDs, it would be one of those I have to have on shuffle, with other music interspersed. I don't think I could manage to sit through a whole, uninterrupted CD of her - something I do with a lot of artists. Dido is similar.

LTS

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Vashti Bunyan - Need Highly Similar
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 07 Jul 07 - 04:20 AM

Since the subject of this thread has not the vaguest connection with any 'f*lk revival' known to person or beast, it would scarcely be relevant to show it to anyone mentioning (as they would in casual conversation) such an occurrence.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Vashti Bunyan - Need Highly Similar
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Jul 07 - 03:16 PM

Thank you all for your help. In the future, I'd appreciate more similar artists and less arguing.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Vashti Bunyan - Need Highly Similar
From: Peace
Date: 15 Jul 07 - 03:19 PM

"Subject: RE: Tune Req: Vashti Bunyan - Need Highly Similar
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Jul 07 - 03:16 PM

Thank you all for your help. In the future, I'd appreciate more similar artists and less arguing."

In the future I'd appreciate it if you'd stop posting as GUEST, OK?

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Vashti Bunyan - Need Highly Similar
From: M.Ted
Date: 16 Jul 07 - 02:08 PM

My point was about the petty arguing--and I'm not posting as a GUEST.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Vashti Bunyan - Need Highly Similar
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 16 Jul 07 - 02:17 PM

The OP was Guest Me who transmogrified in to Guest Heart+ then became just Guest.
Are you saying that these three persons are MTed all along?
Vashti's clip-clopping and 30+ year disappearance is more interesting than this.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Vashti Bunyan - Need Highly Similar
From: M.Ted
Date: 17 Jul 07 - 12:22 AM

I'm not three persons. I've never been three persons. Only me. Always have been, and will be for the forseeable future.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Vashti Bunyan - Need Highly Similar
From: Peace
Date: 17 Jul 07 - 12:25 AM

Yippee. So bloody what?

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Vashti Bunyan - Need Highly Similar
From: Peace
Date: 17 Jul 07 - 12:30 AM

My remark was to a nameless guest. I do not take crap just because someone feels like doling it out. Particularly from a nameless someone. And I don't particularly give a shit who does or doesn't like that.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Vashti Bunyan - Need Highly Similar
From: Giant Folk Eyeball (inactive)
Date: 31 Jul 07 - 04:17 AM

Sorry to revive a thread that became so surly so quickly, but just a quick note to tell you all about how good Vashti's songs are capable of becoming in the right hands. Alasdair Roberts, with his old band, Appendix Out, recorded an EP called 'A Warm and Yeasty Corner'... alongside great versions of 'Sally Free and Easy' and 'A Very Circular Song', there is a fantastic version of Vashti's 'Window Across the Bay'. The marvellous Mr R manages, as he does with most things he turns his hand to, to make it his own.

Cheers

Nigel