The tragedy that is Nick Drake. Beautiful sounds from a tortured soul. Battled depression for most of his life... dead from an accidental overdose of antidepressants at just 26 years old.

I love Nick Drake's music! Thanks for this reaction. I find his music fits best in the fall or early winter. Other songs of his worth listening to are "Pink Moon" and "Way Too Blue" and "One Of These Things First". Love you! You're beautiful! Love your reactions!

Nick Drake, the beautiful sadness.

You can really hear Nick's exquisite Guitar work in this presentation! In a Just, and Compassionate world, Nick Drake would have had a LONG Life, and an AMAZING Career! - and yet...he left us a sweet bundle of MAGIC!

"For a stone in a tin can Is wealth to the city man Who leaves his armor down." How heavy is THAT?! My truth is that this album makes me cry, because of beauty in it's melancholy that expresses a lost longing. It is simple and it's honesty touches me deeply. Thanks so much, my second time back.

WONNNNNNDERFUL SONG N MUSICIAN!!! Precious few albums but all are smooth cool!!! Try Pink Moon NORTHERN SKY!!! These n Chime of a City Clock are my favorites!!!

@TheColdrush22

2 жыл бұрын

I like the first and last album the best. Because they are less symphonic. It’s just bare him. If you can get through black eyed dog, you get it.

Fell into the nick drake rabbit hole timeless music

Nick Drake, a tender soul not cut out for the touring life of a musician.

If I wanted to show somebody what England sounds and feels like through music, I would get them to listen to Nick Drake.

@6chhelipilot

Жыл бұрын

Perhaps what England sounded and felt like 50 years ago.

@EgilSOdegard

3 ай бұрын

Well, I played a couple of Nick's songs for a young landlady nearby Tanworth-in-Arden, where Nick was brought up and died, and where we honour him a weekend every month of July, songwriters coming from all parts of the World. Very few local people there know about him, and she got quite astonished: "But these are faboulous songs", she said, " and they are timeless! They could have been written 100 years ago or yesterday!" That's the thing about good songs: Their quality shines through time and different episodical styles and short lived production processes. Like pop music: Ruled by producers and "image hysteria", nice like chewing gum, but the taste doesn't last very long.. 🙂

Northern Sky, is my fave. This was the first album I bought and I love the whole album.

River Man is another great one.

Pink Moon Place To Be Cello Song Northern Sky Those are amazing examples of his genius

The music of Nick Drake is genius... The real tragedy is that he was totally unknown when he was alive, and he died far too young, aged just 26..in 1974... It was only around the late 90’s/early 2000's that his music really started to become more well known.. following his music being used in a car commercial.... He still remains an enigma: there is hardly any recordings of him being interviewed, and almost no film footage of him performing... A true genius, taken far, far too soon...

I think you would like Nick Drake's Cello Song...

@dagnabbit6187

2 жыл бұрын

@John Collier My favorite !

To think Nick Drake was virtually unknown in his time . He had a lot of competition as the late 60s and 70s were an explosion of one genius and their masterpieces after another . He passed away young . In the 90s Nick Drake became a Superstar !

I almost don't hear the sax on your video. This sax just gives me goose bump everytime. You could try the song fruit tree where the oboe takes the song to another level.

This song is in my desert island top 10.

Bryter Layter is an amazing album, his suicide was an incredible loss to the world of music.

@billythedog-309

Жыл бұрын

It was a suicide? So, you know more than the coroner. What a remarkable human being you are.

@davidmee7239

Жыл бұрын

@@billythedog-309 Calm down Billy boy. So how do you know it was accidental?. Forget what family and friends say, they weren't there that night.All we have to go on is supposition and opinion.

@billythedog-309

Жыл бұрын

@@davidmee7239 lt wasn't me who claimed what the cause of his death was, sonny. l just pointed out what the jury and the coroner concluded having heard actual evidence.

@davidmee7239

Жыл бұрын

@@billythedog-309 The first reply you gave indicated that you were surprised somebody thought that it was suicide. The coroner concluded that 30 amitriptyline pills were found in the body but how could he conclude whether it was suicide or an accidental death?. He had written a letter to his girlfriend the previous afternoon which was found on his desk after she had ended their relationship. That to me suggests a man in turmoil with his feelings as well as his mental state the previous few years. But I'm on the fence with this. Nick was an intelligent person. Do you honestly believe that those 30 amiltriptyline's which were discovered in his system was a result of an impetuous decision that night because he wanted to sleep?

@billythedog-309

Жыл бұрын

@@davidmee7239 l wasn't surprised, l just pointed out that making assumptions based on selective evidence doesn't correspond with what was concluded in the verdict at the time. lf you were the coroner you would have emphatically instructed the jury to bring in a verdict of suicide. Unfortunately, you weren't and the actual coroner appeared to have been more circumspect than you. All that experience he had counted for nothing in your pompous opinion.

Like that hair

Mellow, right? Good reaction. Dude was all his own.

A musical failure who became a musical genius 70s Britain wasn’t ready for Nick Drake …