what a brilliant end lyric-wise:if songs were lines in a conversation the situation would be fine.
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Friday, 11 March 2005 22:25 (nineteen years ago) link
Wasn't that Nick Drake?
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 11 March 2005 22:56 (nineteen years ago) link
Thanks alex. I do like that last line, and the lushness is fine, but overall I don't really like the lyrics, the way he repeats "in the morning" and "in the evening". Somehow, that just grates, and the descending run-on way in which those lines are delivered doesn't help, either. I guess it must be pretty universal judging by the mentions it gets on this thread, but somehow I'm on the outside looking in with this. Maybe it comes down to something completely subjective like not liking the melody or the jaunty rhythm or something. "Hazey Jane I" seems to me more lyrical, slightly more reflective, more subtle, I dunno (those quiet tom tom waves, the interplay between his voice and the strings, the meandering bass, etc.)
― David A. (Davant), Friday, 11 March 2005 23:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 12 March 2005 04:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― jilted, Saturday, 12 March 2005 05:00 (nineteen years ago) link
Gladly.
PM votes: 20BL votes: 10FLL votes: 8Undecided: 2
I'm surprised at the response to this thread. About a year ago when I first started coming to ILM, there was precious little love for Drake around here. A lot more bashing, actually, than love.
It does seem to me that when I went through my first Nick Drake discovery phase I preferred Pink Moon as well. I can't say exactly when or where I switched to Bryter Later, or why I can't seem to choose between them at all now. Pink Moon did - and does - make me wish he'd done a few more of those types of albums. It seems so short.
― Bimble... (Bimble...), Saturday, 12 March 2005 06:35 (nineteen years ago) link
3 bl
― j blount (papa la bas), Saturday, 12 March 2005 06:43 (nineteen years ago) link
anyone who bashes nick drake is a hater and a liar.
nick drake 24 hours a day. wine and sunshine. love it.
― rockaction (rockaction), Saturday, 12 March 2005 07:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― Bimble... (Bimble...), Saturday, 12 March 2005 08:22 (nineteen years ago) link
2 pm
3 fll
― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 12 March 2005 08:37 (nineteen years ago) link
Count me in.
― Niels Aalberts (Niels), Saturday, 12 March 2005 09:47 (nineteen years ago) link
Having overlistened to Northern Sky, the Hazey Janes and OOTTF, these two are the ones I enjoy most. I'm totally flummoxed as to how anyone could considered them duds.
― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 12 March 2005 11:10 (nineteen years ago) link
exactly. :)
― Ludo (Ludo), Saturday, 12 March 2005 11:26 (nineteen years ago) link
Alba, maybe you're just difficult to be around. ;)
― jilted, Saturday, 12 March 2005 15:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 12 March 2005 15:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 12 March 2005 15:50 (nineteen years ago) link
Maybe that's a screwy reason, but it's mine, and I'm sticking to it.
― jilted, Saturday, 12 March 2005 16:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 12 March 2005 16:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 12 March 2005 16:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 12 March 2005 17:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Bimble... (Bimble...), Saturday, 12 March 2005 19:10 (nineteen years ago) link
I bought Pink Moon after reading this thread. The day I got it, I listened to it about 10 times. A week later, and I'm still playing it almost every day. This is simply the most beautiful music I've ever heard. I can't imagine a more perfect album.
― Mickey (modestmickey), Sunday, 27 March 2005 02:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 27 March 2005 03:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 13:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 14:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 14:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mickey (modestmickey), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 15:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Bimble... (Bimble...), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 15:45 (nineteen years ago) link
Bryter Layter. By a mile. Then Five Leaves Left. Although I love them all.
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Friday, 22 April 2005 10:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 24 December 2005 21:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Nathaniel (Horbgorbling Slubberdegullion), Saturday, 24 December 2005 21:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― honorary joy division roadie (Bimble...), Sunday, 23 April 2006 22:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― timmy tannin (pompous), Monday, 24 April 2006 00:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jay Vee's Return (Manon_69), Monday, 24 April 2006 00:45 (eighteen years ago) link
Pink Moon. I thought he improved with every album, and what I like about Pink Moon is the way everything has been stripped back to just guitar and voice for the most part. His guitar playing is so good on that record.
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 18:56 (six years ago) link
ND's right hand is unimpeachable
― crüt, Wednesday, 20 September 2017 19:10 (six years ago) link
One of the things Joe Boyd remarks upon in his book White Bicycles is seeing ND play live for the first time and noticing how strong his left hand was and how precise and articulate his picking. Even outside of a recording studio, his playing sounded that clean.
― vmajestic, Wednesday, 20 September 2017 19:25 (six years ago) link
Yeah, and it's great to hear it without any orchestral parts etc. Not that there's anything wrong with the orchestral parts on the first couple of albums, god no, it's more that it always feels like the orchestral parts and the guitar parts are fighting for my attention.
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Thursday, 21 September 2017 12:31 (six years ago) link
"Five Leaves Left"
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Thursday, 21 September 2017 17:28 (six years ago) link
'Way to Blue: An Introduction to Nick Drake'
(srsly an almost perfect comp)
― harbinger of failure (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 21 September 2017 17:58 (six years ago) link
never liked "black eyed dog". sounds too much like a blind willie johnson pastiche or something. none of those last four songs are among my faves, honestly.
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Friday, 22 September 2017 00:54 (six years ago) link
on the other hand "road" is prob my all-time #1 nick drake song. it's gotten me through a lot of bad times.
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Friday, 22 September 2017 12:04 (six years ago) link
I've always been Bryter Layter (even with the two dodgy later instrumentals), but just lately Pink Moon is edging ahead. Place to Be. My word.
I was up near Birmingham recently and went to Tanworth. He's in a modest plot with his folks and with a view of a spread of fields stretching to the horizon. I traced with my fingers the inscription on the back of the headstone and had myself a little cry. The wind was in the trees. All good.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Friday, 22 September 2017 17:10 (six years ago) link
drake is playing with blues tropes on black eyed dog, but i think it's a stretch to call it a a blind willie johnson pastiche ...i think Bryter Later is my choice now, really is one of the most gorgeous records ever.
― tylerw, Friday, 22 September 2017 17:20 (six years ago) link
pink moon is tops for me and yes, road in particular. if you like that bare nick drake sound the peel sessions is great and on spotify... stellar version of 'three hours'
― global tetrahedron, Friday, 22 September 2017 18:29 (six years ago) link
on the other hand "road" is prob my all-time #1 nick drake song. it's gotten me through a lot of bad times
You can say the sun is shining if you really want toI can see the moon and it seems so clearYou can take the road that takes you to the stars nowI can take a road that I'll see me through
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Friday, 22 September 2017 20:36 (six years ago) link
pink moon is tops for me and yes, road in particular. if you like that bare nick drake sound the peel sessions is great and on spotify... stellar version of 'three hours'― global tetrahedron, Friday, September 22, 2017 6:29 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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I'll have to check that out... thanks!
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Saturday, 23 September 2017 09:09 (six years ago) link
Finally picked Pink Moon up on (reissued) vinyl today - £12 at the back of an HMV clearance rack. We've had a house full tonight: 18 yr7s for a Hallowe'en disco. Kids leave behind a strange kind of silence; I'm letting Drake enscorcell the disturbed air.
― Life is a meaningless nightmare of suffering...save string (Chinaski), Thursday, 31 October 2019 22:22 (four years ago) link
that sounds like a shock. pink moon after the tohuwabohu of a kid's party. weird choice. from total distraction to total focus. will you tell us how it was?
― walking towards the sun since 2007 (alex in mainhattan), Thursday, 31 October 2019 22:28 (four years ago) link
It was risky eh - who knows what might have been summoned? Perfect, though. Parasite standing out tonight.
― Life is a meaningless nightmare of suffering...save string (Chinaski), Thursday, 31 October 2019 22:42 (four years ago) link