Nick Drake - Pink Moon
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Free Music Review: PINK MOON RISING
Hit: 5 Stars
Like, and not like, ROBERT JOHNSON's Blues, PINK MOON is NICK DRAKE's masterpiece for the fan of Folk Rock, but this record Rocks not, yet is quite Bluesy. The unusual and spare guitar, with NICK DRAKE's unique tuning, is reminiscent of the great American Blues artists like JOHNSON and SKIP JAMES, and yet, it is something else, something other, something more. These short songs are constructed of DRAKE's idiosyncratic guitar and melancholy lyrics that are not quite circular, but softer, more introspective and I'd dare say "organic," and only because NICK DRAKE is so... different. And also because his expressions are all Earthy: morning moon sun stars ...Yet like the Blues, these tunes have deeply personal themes borne of individual pain.
Not really Orpheus wooing Eurydice with a guitar (as the Rolling Stone Album Guide calls it) it's more rustic than that, Celtic, but still timelessly dreamy, ethereal, and yes, a bit spooky, PINK MOON is an artist fully realizing his potential and expressing it. Ephemeral, romantic, insidiously charming, alluringly poetic, PINK MOON is the record that music lovers eventually find, will find, should find, in their dreamscape. Unforgettable and indescribable, this soft, lilting record is of a voice not really like anyone you've heard before, and won't hear again, unless you know or have known the dark angel murmuring in your dream night.
Free Music Review: The Exquisite Pain of Nick Drake
Hit: 5 Stars
What else to say? I found him accidentally and like all Love at First Sight stories, I laughed for him, I was angry for him (at the stupidity of record co's. and the like), I cried for him (at the stupidity and his premature death) and my heart ached for him (when he sings his hopes and own aches). I heard the " Pink Moon" single from a friend and instantly I went on a search for him. I read someone'e opinion about "Northern Sky" being the most beautiful song ever written and I was offended! Obsurd! Better than "Pink Moon"? Well, I had to find out what just what he was thinking so I downloaded "Nothern Sky" and listened to it a few times and I loved it! Now I had to have more, so I downloaded "Hazey Jane I", "Fly" and "Road" (as I usually dl a few songs before I buy music of any artist), then I just jumped in all the way - on the same day, I bought Five Leaves Left, Bryter Layter, Pink Moon and Time Of No Reply (which has my favorite song called Mayfair, just so great that I have to replay it 3 or 4 times in a row!)His words and music just hurts so good. What talent! What musicianship! To be able to convey so much with so few words is just brilliant. My husband even likes Nick Drake and his style and that is saying alot-seriously. Just listening to his fingering style will send you off into a haze. Beautiful, cleansing, thoughtful, heartbreaking and hopeful - it is there in Pink Moon.Free Music Review: Baron landscape
Hit: 5 Stars
"You can take a road that takes you to the stars, I can take a road that'll see me through" - as the lyrics to the beautiful "Road" ring, you can't help but feel the sadness of "Pink Moon". Moments of sanguinity and senses of cynical optimism cut through the bleak overtones, but they are ominously tinted by the reality of Drake's impending suicide. Certainly the legacy of a suicidal musician is nothing new, but while half-hearted, self-loathing singer/songwriters, surrounded in their glorification of depression emulate Drake's altar, one must take "Pink Moon" for what it is - one of the very best folk albums ever made.
Throughout the album Drake weaves a master class in acoustic guitar playing, utilising alternative tunings and complex, delicate finger picking, all produced through a wonderfully warm tone. The sound is sparse; unlike "Five Leaves Left" or "Bryter Layter" there are no orchestrated sections, nor even a piano in the mix. It is stripped down, raw and lonely. And this acts well to emphasise the stellar writing, especially with such outstanding songs as "Things Behind The Sun", "Pink Moon", "Road" and "Free Ride", some of the most delicate and haunting music Drake ever created. It is unfortunately a very short album, almost equalling a lengthy EP, and that is my one qualm. It is rightly heralded as one of the greatest folk singer/songwriter albums.
Free Music Review: Good song, greater car.
Hit: 5 Stars
I must admit that I only bought this cd because I heard the song in the Volkswagen commercial. Coincidentially I also purchased a Volkswagen around the same time. The cd turned out to have a really good title track which I just put on repeat, and skip the rest while I'm driving. I'm sure the rest of it is probably good modern folk along the lined of John Mayer or Ryan Adams or whatever, but let's face it: I, like many others just want to hear the song he made for the commercial anyways. This Nick Drake seems like too much of a guy that just makes songs for commercials, and that is how he's getting famous. I do really like his new song he did for the Oreo Cookies commercial, and am currently looking to find out which cd it's on (help me if you know). I am only giving Pink Moon a 5 star review since it helped me decide to get the volkswagen, and have had little to no problems with the car, unless you count replacing the wipers, and a flat tire once, but that could happen to anybody. In conclusion the car has made me very happy. The cd is an okay buy if you don't mind supporting a guy that seems to write song exclusively to sell products in commercials. Actually if I'm not mistaken I think he might have done a song called Mellow yellow for a gap commercial a few years ago (can anyone confirm?). Nice career, guy. Later.
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Free Music Review: Timeless.
Hit: 5 Stars
Nick Drake's third and most stripped-down album is music at its most elemental state: One guitar (played without a pick). One totally naked voice. The only extra is a few piano notes scattered throughout the title track. This album was recorded in 1972, but that matters not. Emotion and music this pure could've been made 100 years ago or yesterday.
Drake's hushed voice and lyrics are full of loneliness, despair, regret, and alienation (Parasite and the title track, especially); but there's a current of hope and introspection throughout that redeems it from pale sad-sack whining. Raw and real, very autumnal music. And Drake's underrated playing never disappoints--it never feels studied or dry, just an endless cascade of pastoral strumming and shimmering melody. In particular Horn, Know, and In The Morning are amazing, both in their simple yet eloquent songcraft and enchanting guitar lines.
This is one short album, only 28 minutes total (with the longest song measuring shy of four minutes) but it remains unsurpassed in its minimalist elegance. Play this for uneducated folks who think that "sensitive male" acoustic fratboy crap like John Mayer is the be-all-end-all, and watch the amazement on their faces. Totally essential, and one of my favorite albums regardless of genre.