Best Track On The Greater Antilles Sampler

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Poll Results

Option	Votes
northern sky - nick drake	3
the time is right - gay & terry woods	1
evensong - fripp/eno	0
sad sing - tom newman	0
love without sound - white noise	0
irin-ajo - winwood/kabaka/amao	0
tibet - don cherry trio	0
cloudless - morning glory	0
experiences #1 - john cage	0
white light - tibetan bells	0
benzaiten - osamu kitajima	0
i get a kick out of you - gary shearston	0
pull down lads - june tabor	0
r.f.d. - quiet sun	0
never too far - tim hardin	0
take it while you can - grimms	0
albion sunrise - albion country band	0
cajun theme - allen fontenot & the country cajuns	0
roses for a sunday morning - country gazette	0
just as the tide was a 'flowing - shirley collins & the albion country band	0
grey daylight - martin carthy & dave swarbrick	0
hallelujah - portsmouth sinfonia & choir	0

― scott seward, Saturday, 13 June 2009 22:19 (fourteen years ago) link

This is tough but I gotta say "Northern Sky" is hard to beat.

― Calling from a Balti Hotel (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 13 June 2009 22:21 (fourteen years ago) link

it's a beautiful song. he was good at those.

― scott seward, Saturday, 13 June 2009 22:25 (fourteen years ago) link

I think it's my favourite of his songs. Cale's organ swell towards "Would you love me for my money?" has a really rich, fuzzy tone. I've said elsewhere Bryter Later is far his best album.

― Calling from a Balti Hotel (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 13 June 2009 22:27 (fourteen years ago) link

i have this! bought in the village like 20 years ago, can't remember where exactly - bleeker bob's? (lol)

between june tabor and gay & terry woods i think, but this is a really good sampler. i remember that winwood joint is pretty cool too

only dud maybe is i get a kick out of you - gary shearston iirc

― velko, Saturday, 13 June 2009 22:32 (fourteen years ago) link

Incidentally I've got Island's equally fabbo Bumpers comp, maybe I'll poll it when this one's finished.

― Calling from a Balti Hotel (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 13 June 2009 22:36 (fourteen years ago) link

long live chris blackwell

― kamerad, Saturday, 13 June 2009 22:55 (fourteen years ago) link

5 leaves left was my intro to drake-land. so, it's always gonna be my fave. i got that and i think i played nothing but the first side for days. then i went back to the store and got the other two and then i went back a day later and bought the vinyl boxed set. i was hooked.

um, that was a really delayed x-post.

― scott seward, Saturday, 13 June 2009 23:08 (fourteen years ago) link

Having never heard Nick Drake before somebody loaned me this comp, within days I bought the whole "Fruit Tree" box set. A perfectly rewarded moment of discovery.

― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 13 June 2009 23:32 (fourteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Sunday, 5 July 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Monday, 6 July 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link

five years pass...

I just got this for my birthday!! I want to throw a party just so I can play this record at it. Cannot choose best.

― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Thursday, 18 September 2014 20:56 (nine years ago) link

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