Pink Moon is one of those albums that I can't stop listening to once I've started. Whenever I play a track it's like "if you give a mouse a cookie..."
― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 1 June 2007 03:10 (sixteen years ago) link
I agree, Pink Moon is mind blowing.
― Drooone, Friday, 1 June 2007 03:13 (sixteen years ago) link
I can't play Which Will without playing Horn, and I can't play Horn without playing Things Behind The Sun, and I can't play Things Behind The Sun without playing Know...
― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 1 June 2007 03:15 (sixteen years ago) link
I've always had a lot of love for Things Behind The Sun.
― Drooone, Friday, 1 June 2007 03:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Have you heard Sebadoh's cover of Pink Moon? It blows me away in a similar way that Dinosaur Jr doing "Just Like Heaven" does, its like "haha omg", they totally MURDER the "pink, pink, pink, pink" bit with screaming, somehow it kind of works.
― Trayce, Friday, 1 June 2007 03:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Anyway, his lyrics are just awesome, I have to say that much. "Northern Sky" is beautiful.
― Trayce, Friday, 1 June 2007 03:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Few singers can get away with doing that excessively tender and exposed thing all the time, but he's one of them. It's unfortunate that he's inspired so many others to attempt the same thing.
― Hurting 2, Friday, 1 June 2007 03:37 (sixteen years ago) link
lol
― Drooone, Friday, 1 June 2007 03:39 (sixteen years ago) link
I'd never really heard of him until a month or so ago, when I went to hear Joe Boyd read. Just today, I listened to Bryter Layter. Tomorrow, Pink Moon.
― Jaq, Friday, 1 June 2007 03:44 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm jealous! have fun
― tremendoid, Friday, 1 June 2007 03:59 (sixteen years ago) link
I lurve Pink Moon.
― St3ve Go1db3rg, Friday, 1 June 2007 05:04 (sixteen years ago) link
sebadoh > nick drake
― stephen, Friday, 1 June 2007 05:15 (sixteen years ago) link
sebadoh is shit. anyway this thread is for nick drake lo-- oh right.
― tremendoid, Friday, 1 June 2007 05:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Few singers can get away with doing that excessively tender and exposed thing all the time, but he's one of them.
And so is Mark Kozelek.
― Trayce, Friday, 1 June 2007 05:33 (sixteen years ago) link
A 'new' album up soon, right?
― Mark G, Friday, 1 June 2007 08:35 (sixteen years ago) link
And I thought the Pistols were champions in the "horse, dead, flogging of" category.
― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 1 June 2007 08:50 (sixteen years ago) link
They aint even in the southern prem league!
Hendrix, Marley, etc.
― Mark G, Friday, 1 June 2007 08:56 (sixteen years ago) link
although.. http://i12.ebayimg.com/07/i/000/9d/99/9c57_1.JPG
― Mark G, Friday, 1 June 2007 09:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Tupac, dudes (xp)
― Tom D., Friday, 1 June 2007 09:01 (sixteen years ago) link
I stand by what I said upthread, in that I love FFL pretty much whole, but only find other songs beyond that really compelling. I like Drake, and loved him, possibly, for a while when I was about 17.
Consistency or un-variation I don't see as a problem at all; in fact an artist exploring their aesthetic over a number of years and records is often very compelling.
Possibly the crux of Drake for me, and the moment which proves he's not just an emotional one-trick pony, is the miraculous, soaring, joyous (to me, at any rate) acoustic guitar solo which sears through the centre of "Black Eyed Dog"; possibly it's Drake's saddest tune, his most defeated - he certainly sounds to me as if he's crying as he sings it - and then this solo tears the song in two, elevates the mood incredibly, exposes blue skies where there was really only black before.
― Scik Mouthy, Friday, 1 June 2007 09:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Damn Nick you have to stop making me scramble to find songs you keep describing like this.
― Trayce, Friday, 1 June 2007 09:24 (sixteen years ago) link
IT'S MY JOB, INNIT. Sort of.
― Scik Mouthy, Friday, 1 June 2007 09:27 (sixteen years ago) link
In my view, the great thing about Nick Drake is that he wrote these beautiful melodic songs, with very pastoral arrangements, no rough edges and a musical style that would have been considered "twee" hadn't it been for the lyrics and his tragic life history. And yet, this "twee" music has received a lot of critical acclaim. Which is great, but other "twee" artists should have just as much love too :)
― Geir Hongro, Friday, 1 June 2007 11:34 (sixteen years ago) link
His lyrics are often pretty twee
― Tom D., Friday, 1 June 2007 11:35 (sixteen years ago) link
"Fwuit Twee" for instance (sorry)
Unlike his sister in There's A Girl In My Soup...
― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 1 June 2007 12:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Who would have thought Nick Drake's sister would end up as Kelly Monteith's wife?
― Tom D., Friday, 1 June 2007 12:31 (sixteen years ago) link
wait, Gabrielle Drake is Nick Drake's sister? I didn't know that...
― Roz, Friday, 1 June 2007 12:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Same hairstyle:
http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/6/64/200px-UFOEllis.jpg
― Tom D., Friday, 1 June 2007 12:41 (sixteen years ago) link
The chin is the giveaway!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/20/Nick_drake_way_to_blue.jpg/220px-Nick_drake_way_to_blue.jpg
^^ I want this outfit
― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 1 June 2007 12:42 (sixteen years ago) link
You want to wear a rug?
― Trayce, Friday, 1 June 2007 12:46 (sixteen years ago) link
short answer: yes
― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 1 June 2007 12:48 (sixteen years ago) link
There should be more carpet sample inspired musicians out there.
― Trayce, Friday, 1 June 2007 12:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Just walk into any curtains shop and you will find clothes like that.
― Geir Hongro, Friday, 1 June 2007 12:52 (sixteen years ago) link
there's a weak pun to be made here somewhere...
― Roz, Friday, 1 June 2007 12:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Pull yourself together, man
― Tom D., Friday, 1 June 2007 12:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Yup, there was.
-- Geir Hongro, Friday, 1 June 2007 11:34 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link
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Pink moon is far from twee. So you are half right.
― Mark G, Friday, 1 June 2007 13:04 (sixteen years ago) link
That was precisely the same rug in which his sister concealed Ronnie Corbett in No Sex Please We're British.
― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 1 June 2007 13:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Seriously, y'all have to hear Sebadoh murdering "Pink Moon", its kind of awesome in the gall it has.
― Trayce, Friday, 1 June 2007 13:09 (sixteen years ago) link
I can wait another decade or six.
― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 1 June 2007 13:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Pft, I suppose you dont like Dino's cover of "Just Like Heaven" either?
― Trayce, Friday, 1 June 2007 13:13 (sixteen years ago) link
i certainly don't.. sorry. i haven't heard the sebadoh pink moon though
― electricsound, Friday, 1 June 2007 13:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Well you'd hate it I reckon, in that case Jim :)
― Trayce, Friday, 1 June 2007 13:16 (sixteen years ago) link
In fairness, it isnt particularly amazingly great, the verses are nice but the chorus is FUCKED UP.
― Trayce, Friday, 1 June 2007 13:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Dean Martin did "Just Like Heaven"????? Why didn't Nick Tosches tell me this?
― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 1 June 2007 13:31 (sixteen years ago) link
I think a Dean Martin album of Nick Drake covers would have saved several lives.
― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 1 June 2007 13:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Can I mention Elton John now?
― Tom D., Friday, 1 June 2007 13:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Who would have thought that Nick Drake's best mate at school would have had a worldwide number one in the eighties about his wife when he was actually having it off with the nanny?
― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 1 June 2007 13:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Me for a kick-off!
― Mark G, Friday, 1 June 2007 13:53 (sixteen years ago) link