Pink Moon Nick Drake

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  • Release Date: 05/06/2003
  • Original Release: 1972
  • Sales Rank: 2,048
  • Label: FONTANA ISLAND
  • UPC: 042284292320

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Pink Moon

1LISTENPink Moon 2:05
2LISTENPlace to Be 2:43
3LISTENRoad 2:02
4LISTENWhich Will 2:58
5LISTENHorn 1:23
6LISTENThings Behind the Sun 3:57
7LISTENKnow 2:25
8LISTENParasite 3:36
9LISTENFree Ride 3:06
10LISTENHarvest Breed 1:37
11LISTENFrom the Morning 2:29

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After two albums of tastefully orchestrated folk-pop, albeit some of the least demonstrative and most affecting around, Drake chose a radical change for what turned out to be his final album. Not even half-an-hour long, with 11 short songs and no more -- he famously remarked at the time that he simply had no more to record -- Pink Moon more than anything else is the record that made Drake the cult figure he remains. Specifically, Pink Moon is the bleakest of them all; that the likes of Belle and Sebastian are fans of Drake may be clear enough, but it's doubtful they could ever achieve the calm, focused anguish of this album, as harrowing as it is attractive. No side musicians or outside performers help this time around -- it's simply Drake and Drake alone on vocals, acoustic guitar, and a bit of piano, recorded by regular producer Joe Boyd but otherwise untouched by anyone else. The lead-off title track was eventually used in a Volkswagen commercial nearly 30 years later, giving him another renewed burst of appreciation -- one of life's many ironies, in that such an affecting song, Drake's softly keened singing and gentle strumming, could turn up in such a strange context. The remainder of the album follows the same general path, with Drake's elegant melancholia avoiding sounding pretentious in the least thanks to his continued embrace of simple, tender vocalizing. Meanwhile, the sheer majesty of his guitar playing -- consider the opening notes of "Road" or "Parasite" -- makes for a breathless wonder to behold. If anyone needs confirmation as to why artists like Mark Eitzel, Elliot Smith, Lou Barlow, or Robert Smith hold Drake close to their hearts, it's all here, still as beautiful as the day it was released. Ned Raggett, All Music Guide

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An album that really is one of the few timeless classicsby Anonymous

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September 28, 2006: I had to ask myself while listening to Pink Moon unwind its understated beauty why Nick Drake was so tragically overlooked. By the end of the album, I still didn't know, in fact I found it all the more confusing. This is the kind of album that only crops up at the peak of a singer/songwriters career, when at their most sensitive and understanding. These are songs that listeners will find instantly memorable, songs that will mean something very personal and truthful in their own situation. But in musical terms, often lyrically, this album is a work that only an Englishman "hanging on in quiet desperation" could write. The delicate pastoral guitar work is at the same time hopeful and sad, beautiful and bare, simple and clever. Perfectly understated vocals mean lyrics like "Pink Moon's gonna get ye all" sound truly foreboding. As a listener, I'm most pleased about the short running time- by the end of the album, you don't feel like you've had too much, you want to go back for more, to live in the songs longer. Pink Moon is in all senses a timeless album, with nothing but a guitar and words, it would mean just as much in the future as it does now and should have done in the past.

Pink Moonby Anonymous

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June 26, 2005: I learned about Nick Drake by hearing first the commercial, (didn't know the artist but liked it instantly) but much later only this week found out who it was and I was floored by his music. I bought three Nick Drake cd's at Barnes and Noble. When I learned the apparent circumstances of his life and passing, I was in mourning. I love "Pink Moon" and found "Place to be" almost as good. I went to a sound store to look into a new system and brought this cd with me, when testing the new system I loaned the cd to the Salesperson, (we were testing speaker options) they were impressed and I got the "who is that" question, so I explained it. I think there is another convert out there now.


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