Nick Drake

nlgbbbblth

Pink moon gonna get ye all.

Beastieboy

Bryter Layter

Five leaves left is brilliant, i haven't listen to the other two too much so i can't say.

Crucifix

I'm a passing fan. My favourite song is probably "Cocaine Blues", though I believe that's a cover.

John

I've never got around to buying an album but the song "Black Eyed Dog" absolutely slays me.

Blue Peter

Black Eyed Dog is some eerie sh1t, that's for sure.

meditraitor

Bryter Layter

Five Leaves Left for me,

Bryter Layter

five leaves left
best all round album, pink moon is too sparce, and bryter lyter can be a bit OTT at times:v:

Atrocity

Pink Moon; it really gets to me.

Hip

Pink Moon every time.

There's a new book on Drake out at the moment - link.

sham69

Bryter Layter

Has to be 5 leaves left.
Saturday Sun, Man in a Shed and day is done are 3 of his best songs.
What a talent and what a waste of a life.
Have the book ordered from Amazon...

nlgbbbblth

Pink Moon

What do you think of people who never heard of Nick Drake?

Losers?

dohboy

pink, pink, pink, pink, pink..........pink Mooooon. drake at his weariest, and eeriest.

as for people who haven't heard Nick Drake, surely they're a bit thin on the ground these days? with all the singer-songwriters regularly quoting him as an influence, his profile is a lot higher than even five or ten years ago. Brad Pitt narrated a documentary about him on Radio 2 a while back, adding to the clamour.

FX Meister

Who's Nick Drake? Didn't he kill himself cause he couldn't get a record deal or something?

nlgbbbblth

Pink Moon

dohboy wrote:

as for people who haven't heard Nick Drake, surely they're a bit thin on the ground these days?

You'd be surprised.

I work in a building with approximately 20 other people.

Only one of them has heard of Nick Drake. He's the oldest (45) and bought the original Fruit Tree 3xLP box [just FLL, BL and PM] in 1979.

All the people in the 20 - 30 range say who?
While they continue to read The Sun and Heat magazine. And play Matchbox Twenty / Bonjovi / Westlife on their car stereo.

Dyr

hmmm... website has been around for yonks but edited to accord with charter, just in case


:v: < time has told me + search engine= teh win

indiewindy

Pink moon is the best album for me and "Black eyed dog " the best song. Way to blue is a great place for someone to introduce him

dohboy

nlgbbbblth wrote:

All the people in the 20 - 30 range say who?

Sorry,for a moment there i had a exhalted impression of the populous. I guess i just got into him when i was my mid to late teens, and haven't listened to him that much since. he's the kind of artist that you can 'blitz' ie. he only has three albums, all easily available, and not a whole lot of b-sides or rarities.

ChuckProphet

Bryter Layter

Don't get how ye all think pink moon is his best. Gotta be five leaves left

Feu

Pink Moon and 25 yo. Does this mean i have the musical taste of a 45 year old man? Perhaps!

don't have a favourite track just listen to it all generally. Nice and mellow

Daavid

Hard to decide Pink Moon and Five Leaves Left are both outstanding albums.

JJ

Bryter Layter

I'd go with Five Leaves Left though all three albums are loaded with classic songs. However, there's something 'bout FLL that keeps me coming back for more.

Lunar Junkie

My favourite Nick Drake songs are on Bryter Layter (Northern Sky, One of These Things First, Chime of A City Clock) but that album is a little let down by the slightly dodgy instrumental tracks and occasionally jarring arrangements (country rock on Hazey Jane II and coffee table jazz on Poor Boy)... so it's a tie between the other two for me. His fourth album would have been a cracker - witness Blackeyed Dog, Rider on The Wheel and Hanging on a Star. That new biography (by Trevor Dann) is meant to be pretty good, very well researched apparently, although the author does try and stir up some controversy by suggesting that Drake may have been a heroin user, secretly gay or abused as a child.. all of which are refuted by people who knew him.

440Hz

Bryter Layter

Tough choice, but Fives Leaves Left pips it for me.