Nick Drake: why???

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.

Anyway, his lyrics are just awesome, I have to say that much. "Northern Sky" is beautiful.

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.

lol

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.

i'm jealous! have fun

I lurve Pink Moon.

sebadoh > nick drake

sebadoh is shit. anyway this thread is for nick drake lo-- oh right.

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.

A 'new' album up soon, right?

And I thought the Pistols were champions in the "horse, dead, flogging of" category.

They aint even in the southern prem league!

Hendrix, Marley, etc.

although..
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Tupac, dudes (xp)

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.

Damn Nick you have to stop making me scramble to find songs you keep describing like this.

IT'S MY JOB, INNIT. Sort of.

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 :)

His lyrics are often pretty twee

"Fwuit Twee" for instance (sorry)

Unlike his sister in There's A Girl In My Soup...

Who would have thought Nick Drake's sister would end up as Kelly Monteith's wife?

wait, Gabrielle Drake is Nick Drake's sister? I didn't know that...

Same hairstyle:

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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

You want to wear a rug?

short answer: yes

There should be more carpet sample inspired musicians out there.

Just walk into any curtains shop and you will find clothes like that.

there's a weak pun to be made here somewhere...

Pull yourself together, man

Yup, there was.

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 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

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Pink moon is far from twee. So you are half right.

That was precisely the same rug in which his sister concealed Ronnie Corbett in No Sex Please We're British.

Seriously, y'all have to hear Sebadoh murdering "Pink Moon", its kind of awesome in the gall it has.

I can wait another decade or six.

Pft, I suppose you dont like Dino's cover of "Just Like Heaven" either?

i certainly don't.. sorry. i haven't heard the sebadoh pink moon though

Well you'd hate it I reckon, in that case Jim :)

In fairness, it isnt particularly amazingly great, the verses are nice but the chorus is FUCKED UP.

Dean Martin did "Just Like Heaven"????? Why didn't Nick Tosches tell me this?

I think a Dean Martin album of Nick Drake covers would have saved several lives.

Can I mention Elton John now?

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?

Me for a kick-off!

Pink moon is far from twee. So you are half right.

That's the one Nick Drake album I don't like.

Bryter Later is entwined with perfect early summer evenings over looking the Calverley Grounds at Tunbridge Wells in 2003. Perfect mesh of music, time and place.

I've not listened to it in about 5 years, but I seem to remember Pink Moon being perfect if I was in good mood and just as perfect if I was sad about something.

So yeah, it's probably twee.

Why is his music "twee"? Is all folk music twee?