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Please give me a second face,
I've fallen far down, the first time around,
Now I just sit on the ground in your way
Now, if it's time for recompense for what's done,
Come, come sit down on the fence in the sun,
And the clouds will roll by and we'll never deny,
It's really too hard for the fly
Please tell me your second name,
Please play me your second game,
I've fallen so far, of the people you are,
I just need your star for a day
So come, come ride in my street-car by the bay,
For now, I must know how fine you are in your way,
And the sea she will sigh but she'll never deny,
For it's really too hard for the fly
A 10!
I loved his sister when I was a young 'un and now I love him too, but for entirely different reasons. I would never have discovered him without the wonder that is Radio Paradise. Thanks from the bottom of my heart.
Poldark from the 70's?
You should check out the documentary "A Skin too Few: The Days of Nick Drake. It's a gorgeous documentary itself, fueled by his music.
His acoustical style was unfortunate for evolving full in the face of a period when the guitar, and music, was going for LOUD and DRIVING. Nobody then was listening. But more of 'em are listening now.
I suppose if it's possible for a soul to take comfort from a after-life perspective perhaps he's smilin' at finally getting some recognition....?
So it goes.
Highlow
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Not really. Starting in 1972, I was working for exactly the kind of radio stations that would have played him but we never did. I didn't hear him until 1979, when I was working at WCAS in Cambridge, MA. One of the other DJs played "Cello Song" for me and I was absolutely stunned by how good it was, and that I'd never heard it before.
The first mainstream attention he got was when "Pink Moon" was used in a VW commercial in 1999. I suspect he would have found that circumstance to be kind of bizarre.
Lakeview wrote:
when one door opens another one hits you in the ass, or something. of course you can split anytime but my advice is to go hang out in the forum rooms instead, take the focus off the musical criticism for a little and just shoot the bull instead. but dont get all alienated, dont go and eat worms, dont shoot yourself in the foot, you get it.. you could just be going through a hard to please phase.. who knows why everybody is here. i just found this place recently myself. for all i know youre probably back by now anyway.
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@averyGOODcat....that was one of the nicest things I've seen written to a "stranger" in these forums...and all I can say is:
I feel a similarity between early songs of Van Morrison and Nick Drake too. Freedom, love and pain of youthfulness in full glory.
You're listening to it.
when one door opens another one hits you in the ass, or something. of course you can split anytime but my advice is to go hang out in the forum rooms instead, take the focus off the musical criticism for a little and just shoot the bull instead. but dont get all alienated, dont go and eat worms, dont shoot yourself in the foot, you get it.. you could just be going through a hard to please phase.. who knows why everybody is here. i just found this place recently myself. for all i know youre probably back by now anyway.
. hello
Singer-songwriter Nick Drake made a huge mark on folk music with only three albums to his name, so the revelation that a reel of six previously unheard recordings exists could be a massive contribution to his catalog. According to the New York Times, the recordings will go up for auction on July 31st at London's Ted Owen & Company. A company representative described the recordings as "pristine master tapes" and is expecting them to fetch at least £250,000 ($428,000).
Q&A: Nick Drake Producer Joe Boyd on Singer's Legacy
Recorded in 1968, the year before the release of his debut album Five Leaves Left, the reel has been owned by Beverley Martyn, a folk singer who mentored Drake alongside her late husband John Martyn. In an interview with the Independent, she called the sound "full of fun," and said Drake's early guitar playing on the tape is "absolutely excellent." "The strings were great , but this is just him, and it makes it more personal," she said. She went on to describe Drake as a "younger brother."
Read more: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/rare-unheard-nick-drake-tapes-going-up-for-auction-20140703#ixzz38Dn8EKBgtake a break, come back when you are recovered!
Concussion?
Your musical taste has taken a turn for the worse. Hold on, it may come back!
I remember hearing him first on KPFT - Pacifica Radio in Houston, Texas. I was a wee lass and can barely recall...but as the years have gone by, whenever I hear his voice, I always go right back to that place, late at night, laying in the dark listening to what we all called "underground radio" station. Their radio tower was blown up twice in the early 70's by the rednecks....hard to believe today.
This song put me in the gentle zone. Thank you, RP. And thank you, Nick Drake. I wish you could have known how much your music would be appreciated and loved before you ended your life...
Sigh, missing Cy.
Great post. I hope you and Nick can read this whereever you are.
Nick Drake was in regular rotation on KDKB in Phoenix back in the day.
Typical Drake song. Depressiv and special!
PS
When Chris Blackwell sold ISLAND RECORDS to POLYGram one of the conditions were that Nick's albums had to be always available!
Not much. He was 'discovered' mostly posthumously.
whoa. had no idea he was dead. geeze. never heard of him back then either. but what a nice song.
He's got the "it" factor.
Still like it.
I know I never heard it.... even on college stations-......(assuming you were within 15 miles of their tower)
I first heard of him in an interview with John Cale in Musician magazine, (I think), circa '76 or so. I checked it out and was hooked
RedGuitar wrote:
Even more than the shoes!
Not much. He was 'discovered' mostly posthumously.
No radio station I know of. He's sort of a Van Gough - it took a while for the world to catch up.
Love Nick and this album is very good but the strings are sounding a bit dated (except Cello song where they pretty much make sense).
Fred....c'mon...aural Mogadon?
Had to look that one up(British sedative)...
Nick is certainly mellow...but isn't that OK if done right....and you are in the mood.
I believe he's one of your finest exports!
Not one Seattle radio station has played Nick, or for that matter, many of the artists we hear on RP.
Yes, meaning - Greatness in what we hear from Nick . . .
This song put me in the gentle zone. Thank you, RP. And thank you, Nick Drake. I wish you could have known how much your music would be appreciated and loved before you ended your life...
rdo wrote:
It is a wonder what he did create. I can think of no equal. Kafka comes to mind.
fredriley wrote:
mute all the way baby!
The clouds that gather round the setting sun
Do take a sober colouring from an eye
That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality;
Another race hath been, and other palms are won.
Thanks to the human heart by which we live,
Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears,
To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
-Wordsworth
It is a wonder what he did create. I can think of no equal. Kafka comes to mind.
In answer to Stevie1; I agree. Funny thing is, the more I listen to Nick (especially after seeing the documentary about him) the more I love his work.
STEVIE1 wrote:
Not one Seattle radio station has played Nick, or for that matter, many of the artists we hear on RP.
great movie