Nick Drake

not_the_dj · November 2014

Anniversary of this death today.

I had a part time job at a garden centre when I was at college and a guy there leant me a copy of Bryter Layter, must have been around '92/93 I reckon....so thanks to John wherever you are now for introducing me to Nick's wonderful music.

randomhandclaps · November 2014

So much love from Nick Drake in this house. Time Has Told Me was the song me and the wife got married to, he (no personally or course) was playing when both our kids were born and it's really good settling music for the kids at night time.

richardhomer · November 2014

Got to know of him via John Martyn's Solid Air (which is about Nick Drake).

An exceptional talent....

mudslide73 · November 2014

Northern Sky for me. It has the ability to make me blub if I'm off my guard. It probably doesn't mean what I think it does but that's music eh.

Skipped · November 2014

Interview with Nick's sister (and more) on Newsnight last night.
From 39 minutes.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04t63qv/newsnight-25112014

Corvus · November 2014

Like Nick Drake. Some things like Pink Moon I can only listen when there's no-one else around, no distractions, or my good mate who likes him too is about.

In a certain large-chain music shop I used to rummage in the cupboards under the racks, and luckily found an LP box set of his albums plus one of unreleased stuff and a small book (bizarrely it says "four compact discs" on the box... ).

digitalkettle · November 2014

A friend played me 'River Man' on a hungover Sunday morning in the mid 90s...awesomeness.

not_the_dj · November 2014

Thanks for the newsnight link @Skipped I would have missed that otherwise.

guitarfishbay · November 2014

River Man is a beautiful song, but my favourite album is Pink Moon. Really enjoy Nick Drake stuff.

dogload · November 2014

I got into Nick Drake through Robyn Hitchcock's more 'pastoral' stuff. Love him.

Samgb · November 2014

Bought Pink Moon when i was 15/16 off the back of a recommendation by the Black Crowes(of all people - not much Nick in there!)

It fit in nicely with the phase my friends and I were going through at that time by which we would go down to Penny Lane Records at school lunchtime and buy an album based solely on its cover - whether it was weird or spacey but it had to be som,ething we hadnt heard based solely on that! I remember one of the others bought Nashville Skyline at the same time. Great cover

Im not sure i really took in his music at that age. It was a couple of years before i picked up his other albums which probably would have been the more accessible choices. I feel very strongly that you should listen to his albums in chronological order. They are like seasons. You can feel the defeat in Pink Moon. Its almost unbearable.

Great guitar player too.

Jalapeno · November 2014

Nick Drake's sister, Gabrielle was more famous than him in the late 60s/early 70s. One of my teenage obsessions, a total babe.

dogload · November 2014

Jalapeno said:

Nick Drake's sister, Gabrielle was more famous than him in the late 60s/early 70s. One of my teenage obsessions, a total babe.

Oh yes, my kiddie memories are full of her in UFO

mudslide73 · November 2014

My dad met Gabrielle Drake in 1986-7 when working at Central studios (she was in Crossroads!)... of course I didn't know about Nick at that point.

CloudNine · November 2014

Place to Be is one of my fav's.

Check this guy doing an uncannily accurate version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5MmOx8qzVc

jonnyburgo · November 2014

Words aren't enough to describe Nick Drake, you just gotta listen.

richardhomer · November 2014

Radcliffe and Maconie played Northern Sky this afternoon. Ironic as I'd driven from the North to the Midlands..... A lovely diversion from 'Smart' motorways and being tail-gated...