Pink Moon

musicismylife78

Time for my annual Nick Drake Appreciate Thread. What can be said about him and his music?

I remember hearing his music the first time. I had borrowed a copy of Pink Moon from the library. And I got to Place to Be. I was blown away. I must have listened to that track 50 times, over and over again.

For me, I respect his other work, but Pink Moon is the only album I have responded to. In the course of mere 28 minutes, Nick, makes my jaw drop on the floor.

Even if the only song he EVER wrote was Place to Be, he would be in my top artists of all time list. its a haunting, devastating, life altering song.

Very few artists deserve to be put on a pedastal and worshipped. Nick Drake is one of the few that deserve the honor.

Pink Moon is a masterpiece. A mindblowing piece of art.

Changed my life

fada

I have "Bryter Layter" and "Introduction" is beautiful.

He was possibly the most shy depressed artists going

musicismylife78

nicks a musician of an exceedingly few kind.

listening to him reveals layers about yourself, you not only are tapping your feet and nodding your head in tune with the melody but you are learning about yourself as well.

musicismylife78

fada wrote:

I have "Bryter Layter" and "Introduction" is beautiful.

He was possibly the most shy depressed artists going

I may have to give that album another listen. Maybe it was the fact that Pink Moon was so stark and just him and his guitar while the other albums employed other instruments. Just seems like Pink Moon was just so...Nick, if that makes sense. Its so raw. And powerful.

FinsburyParkCarrots

No work of art is moving just because it speaks of a "universal" human condition: Nick Drake's Pink Moon articulated a British post-imperial malaise in 1972 that is now recognised by American fans in the aftermath of the Bush era.

If you hear music by Molly Drake, Nick's mother, and compare mother with son, both artists share this end-of-empire melancholy that is uniquely striking in its arch poise, detachment yet connection with a disappearing world of "truths" or, rather, British colonial preconceptions about the way the world was structured and governed. I say end-of-empire because Nick was born in Burma to a colonialist family at the conclusion of the Raj. A lot of social givens and norms that would have been held dear to the Drakes would have been giving way at a time of things moving just a little too fast. The prelapsarian, pastoral idyll of Nick's early childhood, now swathed in bleak yet bittersweet autumn, is precisely that historical moment remembered and mourned in his work as in Molly's. It's an extension of Molly Drake's own wistful forlornness in her songs written after the end of time living in the Indian Subcontinent.

Without being explicit in his choice of theme, Nick uses gaps and silences in his use of symbol and image to convey a disappointment in the modern world that many young people are experiencing right now. If the album were utterly self-absorbed and miserablist, it wouldn't have this resonance as art. But it has, it has ...

BinFrog

I love Nick Drake's music. FLL and BL are good albums, but Pink Mooon (and the subsequent 4 songs he recorded) is a perfect album.

I actually found a few Nick Drake jazz covers on Amazon yesterday while snooping around with a $5 Amazon mp3 credit I got after buying some gifts for the holidays.

FinsburyParkCarrots

BinFrog wrote:

I love Nick Drake's music. FLL and BL are good albums, but Pink Mooon (and the subsequent 4 songs he recorded) is a perfect album.

I actually found a few Nick Drake jazz covers on Amazon yesterday while snooping around with a $5 Amazon mp3 credit I got after buying some gifts for the holidays.

I've heard a jazz piano cover of Riverman recently, but I'm not sure who does it.

NewDamage

Amazing album and artist.

BinFrog

FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:

I've heard a jazz piano cover of Riverman recently, but I'm not sure who does it.

Brad Mehldau. I got "River Man" and "Things Behind The Sun".

catefrances

FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:

No work of art is moving just because it speaks of a "universal" human condition: Nick Drake's Pink Moon articulated a British post-imperial malaise in 1972 that is now recognised by American fans in the aftermath of the Bush era.

If you hear music by Molly Drake, Nick's mother, and compare mother with son, both artists share this end-of-empire melancholy that is uniquely striking in its arch poise, detachment yet connection with a disappearing world of "truths" or, rather, British colonial preconceptions about the way the world was structured and governed. I say end-of-empire because Nick was born in Burma to a colonialist family at the conclusion of the Raj. A lot of social givens and norms that would have been held dear to the Drakes would have been giving way at a time of things moving just a little too fast. The prelapsarian, pastoral idyll of Nick's early childhood, now swathed in bleak yet bittersweet autumn, is precisely that historical moment remembered and mourned in his work as in Molly's. It's an extension of Molly Drake's own wistful forlornness in her songs written after the end of time living in the Indian Subcontinent.

Without being explicit in his choice of theme, Nick uses gaps and silences in his use of symbol and image to convey a disappointment in the modern world that many young people are experiencing right now. If the album were utterly self-absorbed and miserablist, it wouldn't have this resonance as art. But it has, it has ...

were not gonna be quizzed on this later are we richard?

i was listening to five leaves left and bryter layter very late last night. which is when i tend to listen to nick drake.
from pink moon i like things behind the sun, road and know best.