This is my go-to song when I'm down or having a bad day. It's like a lullaby; between the guitar, the cello and his soothing voice, I can almost feel it knitting my nerves back together. Thanks, Nick. I'd buy you a pint if I could.
@bedsitsongbird33 You clearly don't know anything about Nick Drake and his life or are a troll. If trolling you should be ashamed to be bringing this sort of insult on such a great musician and those that surrounded him.
@tbeard91 for the record i have been into nick drakes music for about 16 years now.i dont know much about his life but nether do you unless you were his uncle to think you know about someone,s life by reading a book is way off the mark and i did not insult him.i just stated a fact if he had a better manger for example think about peter grant the led zep manger they would never have made it as big without him.
@bedsitsongbird33 Its widely documented that Nick Drake was a very shy man with personal problems. What are you suggesting a better manager could have done? Nick Drakes manager had a clause in his record contract ensuring they never go out of print. Read some more about Joe Boyd I think you are very ignorant towards him. I have read a number of books and articles and it would be seemingly obvious to on lookers I'm slightly more clued up on this subject than you.
@tbeard91 exactly. anyone who spends 1 minute on learning the sheer facts and brief story of this exquisite man knows he was socially awkward/agoraphobic in a way, and wanted to remain so, and his low profile favoured this as much as his character favoured his music.
that's the balance of genuine truthfulness Nick wanted to preserve, and he did.
besides, that's why people who 're not mainstream pop sheep like us love him so much isn't it?
Always liked when a song from Rodney would pop up out of nowhere. When VW used Pink Moon or when a few years later in the 2002 movie The Good Girl when Jen Anniston gives up where Jake Gylleinhall is this song plays during his suicide
Is it me or does this make anyone else sweat like mad?. Its so lively and upbeat. I can picture nick hunched on a little stool with his fingers running up and down a little guild guitar like magic.. Real music right here folks.
@Heavypsychoverdose I'm a big Nick Drake fan and was browsing through the comments on this video, saw yours and looked up all these artists - and I fell in love with the music. So even though I don't know you I just wanted to say thank you so much for posting those names on here, because I wouldn't have discovered beautiful new music otherwise. :)
I didn't realize just how technical and proficient of guitarist Nick Drake was until I started to learn this song (and a few others). It's kind of a shame to me that guitar skills/instrumental proficiency are so under-appreciated in his genre, especially chops as good as his.
He spins a musical web so light yet strong that you find yourself caught up in the perfect magic he dishes out!!! Everytime we listen we share moments in time with Nick!
@kronoar I think I agree with what you are saying, i.e. a musician doesn't have to be dead to achieve the recognition they deserve although I find your use of English syntax a trifle bizarre. Do you mean 'None of the good song writers gain recognition...' or 'Not all of the good song writers gain regognition..."? Of course, the younger you are when you die, the less likely you are to obtain recognition in your lifetime, Conversely, if you live to a ripe old age, the chances increase somewhat.
I don't think Nick Drake didn't think he wasn't talented. He was know as 'the machine' because his playing was so accurate. Why Five Leaves wasn't a top ten album when it was released is beyond me. It's hard to say what would have happened if Five Leaves would have been a hit. Would he still be with us?
@jerzy862 Nick Drake was amazing...no doubt about that.
Just a reply to your Lady Gaga comment...I developed mad respect for her after watching this video of Lady Gaga singing on the Howard Stern show...she sounds pretty talented to me. Check it out...well, youtube doesn't seem to want me to post the link here. Just go to youtube and search "lady gaga stern" and it will come up.
If there is someone who has interest in figure skating, please see Japanese skater named Kozuka Takahiko. His exhibition program of this year is Cello Song!
For me there are some artists that fall behind the times, some artists perfect for their time, and artists that are ahead of their time, and lastly some who don't belong in any time because of the absolute purity of their work, I would place Nick Drake in the last class, he is too great to ever be understood completely.
i am named after this man, i know he had self esteem issues (ironically so do i) but if he were still alive today, i hope that that would make him feel important and loved as he should be.
@kronoar Bob Dylan? Paul McCartney? The Rolling Stones? Rush? Van Morrison? Chuck Berry? Bruce Springsteen? David Bowie? Robert Plant?
I'm afraid you have never been so wrong... If you are saying that you have to pass away to gain recognition you shouldn't be listening to this sort of music.
@tbeard91 i don't know who you are but you have no right to criticize my music i have devoted my entire life to music so step down from your little high horse. and secondly i should have put most writers pass on before they become recognized fully not even in music but especially in literature and other things so please excuse me for my miss-communication
@jerzy862 This is sadly quite common among those who suffer from Manic Depression - as he did- Self image is very low among such people -even though they may be blessed with being able to bring down the sky with their talent.Tragic.
@jerzy862 The irony of that is that so many people these days think they have talent when they clearly don't. Nick Drake had more talent in his thumb than Lady Gaga has in her entire body.
@jerzy862 from the biographical information I have heard it wasn't so much he thought he had no ttalent but a combination of lack of confidence to perform live and poor record sales (in his life time) which compounded his low self confidence... oh and too much weed!
@jerzy862 he didnt think that did he? surely he wouldnt of recorded him albums if he thought he was talentless, he must have had some self belief in his songs at the least
What is wrong with you people? Seriously. What more is there to do then come to this page and enjoy one of the best recordings of an unsung artist who's greatness was only discovered long after his death. There are so many great places for those with less fortunate social skills to make pointless arguments. Now, if you please..back to the music.
@pretzelzetzel I live along the 'upstream' portion of a large river, which if you knew the river you'd know how different the upstream is from the downstream. I'm a 'she' by the way. I agree, I perhaps use too many words but I was just correctly describing one of my average, typical days. I have this song playing on my ipod while I hike and bicycle, so that's why I posted this comment. &Hey, I'm still a teenager-and I big outdoors person, so I can still 'fluff' right? :)
When I worked at a Harvard Sq. music store, Briggs and Briggs, people would come in just to look at the cover art of his LPs.
Years before I remember Dick Summer playing this song on his radio show on WBZ in Boston. He did his show late evenings and I had my transistor radio under my pillow as I first heard this song.
I'd like to view an exhibition of Van Gogh paintings with Nick Drake's tunes playing on headphones. Two of the world's most under rated talents ever! Very sad, very beautiful.
not a very happy song, its about missing someone whos died..beautifully written , i cant listen to it without a tear welling up in my eye..hauntingly beautiful.
I've been modeling most of my music around the sounds Drake masterfully creates. They're simply amazing.
If any of you have a moment, I'd be interested to hear what others think of my music. I have a new music video up on my channel. Let me know what you think!
Personally, I like thinking that artistry such as this is not meant for our world. As a whole, humans don't seem to handle beauty in its proper regards.
Nick Drake's songs enables to imagine Warwickshire fields, it perfectly corresponds to the calm and loneliness of England countryside. Definitly an artist from Albion.
I can remember when these recordings 'came out'. Nick Drake never became particularly well known and he was disappointed about their - at that time - lack of success. Even now, he seems a somewhat ghostly figure to me; someone who had extraordinary sensibility, but who somehow ...
I can see where Martin Stephenson and the Daintees drew some of thier influence from after listening to this track...Nick Drake picks like Bert Janch and his voice sounds like an angel has poured warm honey in your ears.
What is it about his music that gets inside your head? I've never experienced any other music like it. Like most people I stumbled on Nick Drake by accident. John Peel played Hazy Jane and it was like someone had wired my brain up to the mains. I went out the next day and bought every Nick drake recording I could lay my hands on. It was like discovering a gold mine.
The one bad thing abot these song is the comments section of their YouTube videos are always full of snobby posers who think they're dead "non-conformist" and "different" just for having a go at any artist under thirty.
This song takes me home. Running along the banks of the upstream river, balancing on sun bleached drift wood logs. Bicycling with my eyes fixated up at the sunlight beaming through the cracks in the leaf canopy. I love to duplicate the beat to this song on my 50s canteen while I'm at a camp fire. This song is under beauty and thus fits perfectly with nature.
@lionmanelonglegcrane i think he was correct. your overwrought attempts at imagery leave the reader with impression not of the scenes described but of a person who thinks he's really good at describing things. you use too many words. what's an upstream river? as for the 'hipster' comment, it was probably the "50s canteen around a campfire" piece of fluff.
@pretzelzetzel Dude, seriously? She's just expressing herself the way the music inspires her to. Last I checked, no one is handing out the Pulitzer Prise for a comment on Youtube, so both you and the original heckler of her comment--I didn't care to seek out the source of condescension--should try appreciating the fact that she was moved by the song, rather than trying to illucidate the flaws in her writing like a pompous prick. What did you two really have to gain by "critiquing" her?
@pretzelzetzel And by the way, it's not "an" upstream river, obviously that doesn't make sense; she said "the upstream river" meaning she lives on the portion that is considered to be "upstream" rather than "downstream" i.e. above a certain place/area of the river/surrounding area, closer to the river's source, etc.
HELLO WOULD YOU MIND TAKING A LOOK AT MY VIDEOS? IF YOU LIKE ANY TYPE OF MUSIC, I WOULD BE HAPPY TO WORK WITH ANYONE BE IT ANY TIES WITH MUSIC OF ANY FORM FROM SINGERS TO PRODUCERS TO RAPPERS TO DANCERS TAKE A SECOND TO HEAR MY STUFF IM SURE YOU WILL LIKE IT THANKS!
This man is a Genius and yes should be praised alot more for his brilliant music, the people who find his mucis usualy need it most :) This has and will help people through hard times in their life, just think you are one of the minority that has heard this song, apreciate it :) but dont be afraid to send it to friends you think will appreciate it or that need it :) And I do agree that most of today's music is not real music but this is an exception :) now just close your eyes and listen.
@eyalregev yes, apparently he and maggie thatcher had a hot and steamy affair going while she was prime minister. he would sing this to her and she would strip naked during the course of the song. it all ended when he was seduced by mary whitehouse. even the iron sexiness of thatcher could not compete with the seductive censoriousness of whitehouse.
Just listen to how fast he's playing the guitar. Then take into account that he's playing a different tuning and I think he's fingerpicking, too. Then to add to that, he was singing and playing at the same time.
Even though they played different music and played the guitar differently, Nick was just as talented a guitarist as Jimi Hendrix. He was doing what other people weren't doing in folk music.
Magic
Cupidville 2 days ago
all about life ... now ,,, ,,,,,thx
123rcac 2 days ago
This is my go-to song when I'm down or having a bad day. It's like a lullaby; between the guitar, the cello and his soothing voice, I can almost feel it knitting my nerves back together. Thanks, Nick. I'd buy you a pint if I could.
jaydeebee69 3 days ago
rest in peace mr drake .
globulogenius 6 days ago
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Blake788 1 week ago
So beautiful...
vingummit 1 week ago
genious
astroboirap 2 weeks ago
it really must have hurt to have wrote classic songs and get no where with them in his lifetime who ever was promoting him should be ashamed
bedsitsongbird33 1 month ago
@bedsitsongbird33 You clearly don't know anything about Nick Drake and his life or are a troll. If trolling you should be ashamed to be bringing this sort of insult on such a great musician and those that surrounded him.
tbeard91 2 weeks ago
@tbeard91 for the record i have been into nick drakes music for about 16 years now.i dont know much about his life but nether do you unless you were his uncle to think you know about someone,s life by reading a book is way off the mark and i did not insult him.i just stated a fact if he had a better manger for example think about peter grant the led zep manger they would never have made it as big without him.
bedsitsongbird33 1 week ago
@bedsitsongbird33 Its widely documented that Nick Drake was a very shy man with personal problems. What are you suggesting a better manager could have done? Nick Drakes manager had a clause in his record contract ensuring they never go out of print. Read some more about Joe Boyd I think you are very ignorant towards him. I have read a number of books and articles and it would be seemingly obvious to on lookers I'm slightly more clued up on this subject than you.
tbeard91 1 week ago
@tbeard91 exactly. anyone who spends 1 minute on learning the sheer facts and brief story of this exquisite man knows he was socially awkward/agoraphobic in a way, and wanted to remain so, and his low profile favoured this as much as his character favoured his music.
that's the balance of genuine truthfulness Nick wanted to preserve, and he did.
besides, that's why people who 're not mainstream pop sheep like us love him so much isn't it?
steliospitsillides 5 days ago 2
@steliospitsillides I agree with everything you say to be honest, you clearly know your stuff :)!
tbeard91 3 days ago
Drug overdoses? He died by antidepressants overdose. Nothing about drugs.
Daetya1 1 month ago
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jorgek92 1 month ago
He died when he was 26 didn't he? Jesus, what is it with that age and drug overdoses? (not trying to be spiteful)
05brassmonkey 1 month ago
18 people are deaf
ergvbrtfer 1 month ago 3
this represents who we all are, who humans are, who life is.
evilthesaurus 1 month ago 2
Always liked when a song from Rodney would pop up out of nowhere. When VW used Pink Moon or when a few years later in the 2002 movie The Good Girl when Jen Anniston gives up where Jake Gylleinhall is this song plays during his suicide
luvtotruck 1 month ago
ok, I still have not heard anything I like better, thanks for the suggestions though....obsessed
deborahkauffman09 1 month ago
Is it me or does this make anyone else sweat like mad?. Its so lively and upbeat. I can picture nick hunched on a little stool with his fingers running up and down a little guild guitar like magic.. Real music right here folks.
cedrictrent 1 month ago
My favorite Nick Drake song by far.
FreakMeat74 1 month ago
I still have not heard anything I like better than Nick Drake
deborahkauffman09 1 month ago
@deborahkauffman09 Mark Fry, Sam Perry, Jackson C Frank , Perry Leopold or Dave Bixby to name a few..
Heavypsychoverdose 1 month ago
@Heavypsychoverdose I'm a big Nick Drake fan and was browsing through the comments on this video, saw yours and looked up all these artists - and I fell in love with the music. So even though I don't know you I just wanted to say thank you so much for posting those names on here, because I wouldn't have discovered beautiful new music otherwise. :)
cubesinajar 3 weeks ago
@cubesinajar Glad to help out.. google loner acid folk n you'll find more unknown artists
Heavypsychoverdose 3 weeks ago
"You would seem so frail
In the cold of the night
When the armies of emotion
Go out to fight."...
officialaline1 1 month ago
5 minutes of magic.
adamandeve2006 1 month ago
He offed himself like a coward
He had SO MUCH more to offer the world
A troubled soul...just think of what he could've done
Dlrealife 1 month ago
He would have been a festival filler.
MrTotallyDave 2 months ago
Damn, don't you hate it when you found a new talented singer only to find out he passed on a long time ago???
UncleBobIsAngry 2 months ago 3
I wasn't aware there were anti-depressants available in '74 until I read the CD liner notes. Poor, sweet Nick. Wish you could have held on...
drogheda1966 2 months ago
Seems we have insane technical guitar skills... amazing!
I read he used to record both the voice and the guitar at the same time. Extraordinary artist
Raelsalmacis 2 months ago 2
I love this song...
MontayThe 2 months ago
Pure Genius.
Olixennon 2 months ago
I didn't realize just how technical and proficient of guitarist Nick Drake was until I started to learn this song (and a few others). It's kind of a shame to me that guitar skills/instrumental proficiency are so under-appreciated in his genre, especially chops as good as his.
phayes1007 3 months ago 3
I would have loved to have seen him come out to a 100 thousand people at Glastonbury a crowd he would have truly deserved
thecarplover 3 months ago
farewell friend. thank you for sharing
StoryWB 3 months ago
Such a wasted talent :-(
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He spins a musical web so light yet strong that you find yourself caught up in the perfect magic he dishes out!!! Everytime we listen we share moments in time with Nick!
Freyafeline 3 months ago 3
@kronoar I think I agree with what you are saying, i.e. a musician doesn't have to be dead to achieve the recognition they deserve although I find your use of English syntax a trifle bizarre. Do you mean 'None of the good song writers gain recognition...' or 'Not all of the good song writers gain regognition..."? Of course, the younger you are when you die, the less likely you are to obtain recognition in your lifetime, Conversely, if you live to a ripe old age, the chances increase somewhat.
dickbird100 3 months ago
I don't think Nick Drake didn't think he wasn't talented. He was know as 'the machine' because his playing was so accurate. Why Five Leaves wasn't a top ten album when it was released is beyond me. It's hard to say what would have happened if Five Leaves would have been a hit. Would he still be with us?
hotdognights1 3 months ago
Perfect season for a perfect song. R.I.P. Nick.
supermaroilogan 4 months ago
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Such a good song. Love it
superban11 4 months ago
Such a good song. Love it
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MZA0009 4 months ago
@jerzy862 Nick Drake was amazing...no doubt about that.
Just a reply to your Lady Gaga comment...I developed mad respect for her after watching this video of Lady Gaga singing on the Howard Stern show...she sounds pretty talented to me. Check it out...well, youtube doesn't seem to want me to post the link here. Just go to youtube and search "lady gaga stern" and it will come up.
RawDietitian 4 months ago
True beauty is timeless.
We miss you Nick:( xxxxxx
MikSmith72 4 months ago
17 people don't know good music when they hear it.
jzoom45 4 months ago
If there is someone who has interest in figure skating, please see Japanese skater named Kozuka Takahiko. His exhibition program of this year is Cello Song!
yuccalina 4 months ago
this song actually makes me want to weep, not just because it is a beautiful song..but because I know exactly what he is singing about :'(
lumpyplop 4 months ago
search nicolas and the iceni summers end. they write beautiful folk which has echoes of denny and drake.
Blake788 4 months ago
I have listened to Nick Drake for over 20 years and he still has the same sublime effect on me. Timeless but sorely missed, taken from us too soon.
eriteugram 4 months ago
seriously nick, your music is the only thing that keeps me going
mattgrubbles 4 months ago 12
beautiful.
Dustbunnyking 5 months ago
search nicolas and the iceni summer's end. they write beautiful folk music which has echoes of Denny and Drake.
Blake788 5 months ago
For me there are some artists that fall behind the times, some artists perfect for their time, and artists that are ahead of their time, and lastly some who don't belong in any time because of the absolute purity of their work, I would place Nick Drake in the last class, he is too great to ever be understood completely.
PopCultureSucks 5 months ago 4
@PopCultureSucks I absolutely and totally agree with that statement. Brilliantly said :~D
BinroWasRight 4 months ago
search nicolas and the iceni summer's end. they write beautiful english folk music which has echoes of drake and sandy denny.
Blake788 5 months ago
I love this song so much I want it played at my funeral one day. He was a visionary, our Mr. Drake
BinroWasRight 5 months ago 8
I wish all of his tracks were played with only these instruments. It suits him so very well.
greenman290877 6 months ago 3
Beautiful music.
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i am named after this man, i know he had self esteem issues (ironically so do i) but if he were still alive today, i hope that that would make him feel important and loved as he should be.
LeedsBoy24 6 months ago
pure
VieiraAlin 6 months ago
A true artist,and anyone who can't see that isn't listening.
klongyaw7 6 months ago 5
@klongyaw7 Nick Drake and E-Dubble are the purest artist I know
miara1979 5 months ago
Such a shame he never gained real recognition in his own life time. One of the greatest song writers of all time.
tbeard91 6 months ago 52
@tbeard91 All of the good song writers don't gain recognition until they pass on.
kronoar 4 months ago
@kronoar Bob Dylan? Paul McCartney? The Rolling Stones? Rush? Van Morrison? Chuck Berry? Bruce Springsteen? David Bowie? Robert Plant?
I'm afraid you have never been so wrong... If you are saying that you have to pass away to gain recognition you shouldn't be listening to this sort of music.
tbeard91 4 months ago
@tbeard91 i don't know who you are but you have no right to criticize my music i have devoted my entire life to music so step down from your little high horse. and secondly i should have put most writers pass on before they become recognized fully not even in music but especially in literature and other things so please excuse me for my miss-communication
kronoar 4 months ago
@kronoar You mad bro?
tbeard91 4 months ago
It's freakin' NICK DRAKE. Why are we arguing? Shut up and listen.
silencesfell 6 months ago 6
What I would do for one more album from this guy
sportstuber11 6 months ago 4
I cant believe Nick Drake thought he had no talent.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
jerzy862 6 months ago 93
@jerzy862 This is sadly quite common among those who suffer from Manic Depression - as he did- Self image is very low among such people -even though they may be blessed with being able to bring down the sky with their talent.Tragic.
saciji 6 months ago 2
@jerzy862 The irony of that is that so many people these days think they have talent when they clearly don't. Nick Drake had more talent in his thumb than Lady Gaga has in her entire body.
dariushenry88 4 months ago
@jerzy862 from the biographical information I have heard it wasn't so much he thought he had no ttalent but a combination of lack of confidence to perform live and poor record sales (in his life time) which compounded his low self confidence... oh and too much weed!
MrSiddeney 2 months ago
@jerzy862 he didnt think that did he? surely he wouldnt of recorded him albums if he thought he was talentless, he must have had some self belief in his songs at the least
roscomatic01 2 months ago
@jerzy862
I can
ardeppai 1 month ago
@ardeppai obvious troll is obvious
jerzy862 1 month ago
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bartonim 1 week ago
@jerzy862 Sorry! I missed the 'no' part! My major apologies. You do know what you're talking about!
bartonim 1 week ago
As time passes the watcher waits,
While the Summer is left behind.
Fading laughter echos,
trickles away.
Memory of distant friendship,
So hard to picture, so long ago.
As time passes.
StrugglingWriter76 6 months ago 2
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inneswarbeck1 6 months ago
If you like /love Nick read Phil Rickmans novels. Amazing respect and understanding.
MyProcrastinator 7 months ago
What is wrong with you people? Seriously. What more is there to do then come to this page and enjoy one of the best recordings of an unsung artist who's greatness was only discovered long after his death. There are so many great places for those with less fortunate social skills to make pointless arguments. Now, if you please..back to the music.
tonybklyn 7 months ago 5
i think i would love this song if it did not have the bongo drums in it
goldenbrown999 7 months ago
@pretzelzetzel I live along the 'upstream' portion of a large river, which if you knew the river you'd know how different the upstream is from the downstream. I'm a 'she' by the way. I agree, I perhaps use too many words but I was just correctly describing one of my average, typical days. I have this song playing on my ipod while I hike and bicycle, so that's why I posted this comment. &Hey, I'm still a teenager-and I big outdoors person, so I can still 'fluff' right? :)
lionmanelonglegcrane 7 months ago
Pure class.
metalgearsolid20111 7 months ago
Grow up boys .! This music makes me relax and your bickering pisses me off . Only just discovered Nick and I am now sad to read he`s dead
ladydiuk 7 months ago
Love this tune use it alot in dramaworks! this is my final piece xxx
AliaETorrie 8 months ago
Heard this on XPN!
Dire182 8 months ago
some peoples hav seen his ghost and sometimes heard him playing in the little morning in tantworth near his tree true story he lives forever
GeneralCambronne 8 months ago
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there is no enemy
friskaskswhynot 8 months ago
true musicality, unlike the artists of today
MegaWallace26 8 months ago
how could anyone deny Nick Drake?
GGiblet 8 months ago 2
search nicolas and the iceni narrow road. they write beautiful classical and folk music which has echoes of drake
Blake788 8 months ago
When I worked at a Harvard Sq. music store, Briggs and Briggs, people would come in just to look at the cover art of his LPs.
Years before I remember Dick Summer playing this song on his radio show on WBZ in Boston. He did his show late evenings and I had my transistor radio under my pillow as I first heard this song.
bobhowyousay 8 months ago
one of the most perfect songs written.
ShawDAMAN 8 months ago 2
some sort of cover of this song was in the blindside..
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justplayfm 8 months ago
I'd like to view an exhibition of Van Gogh paintings with Nick Drake's tunes playing on headphones. Two of the world's most under rated talents ever! Very sad, very beautiful.
unaperrson 8 months ago 3
Insert hatred of popular music here _____.
namault 8 months ago
god it makes me angry, the shit like lady gaga. where the hell is the soul in that? this is soulful music. this music felt, not sold.
JOEeeee11 8 months ago
Awesome music and voice.Thanks Nick....
Burt472 8 months ago
not a very happy song, its about missing someone whos died..beautifully written , i cant listen to it without a tear welling up in my eye..hauntingly beautiful.
andrewkenworthy 8 months ago
This is just perfect music.
ukedildo 9 months ago
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I've been modeling most of my music around the sounds Drake masterfully creates. They're simply amazing.
If any of you have a moment, I'd be interested to hear what others think of my music. I have a new music video up on my channel. Let me know what you think!
clemdarlingmusic 9 months ago
Personally, I like thinking that artistry such as this is not meant for our world. As a whole, humans don't seem to handle beauty in its proper regards.
beanepods 9 months ago 3
@beanepods
Utter shite.
Its music ffs.
orsonkarte 8 months ago
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beanepods 8 months ago
@beanepods
Moron, its your comment i was calling utter shite, not the music.
We could have a slanging match if you like, but as you are from America, you probably dont have the intelligence.
orsonkarte 8 months ago
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beanepods 8 months ago
@beanepods
No, they are wank, but thanks for trying.
The fact that you are telling me to go and listen to different music because I disagree with your pretentious comment confuses me????
orsonkarte 8 months ago
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beanepods 7 months ago
@beanepods
I can see what you are doing.......
You very nearly pulled it off.
YOU ESS HEY!!!! FUCK YEAH!
orsonkarte 7 months ago
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beanepods 7 months ago
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beanepods 7 months ago
@orsonkarte Racism. The sure fire sign of intelligence. Labeling an entire nation of people is so rational.
bradford8232 7 months ago
@bradford8232
You only have half the story, as the other moron removed his posts, obviously you are from the North of England so need that explaining to you.
orsonkarte 7 months ago
"bliss"
solidchef 9 months ago
is this song about someone dieing?
legendaryassassin212 9 months ago
Dude...
ukedildo 9 months ago
crying
Greg121121121 9 months ago 2
:))))))))
atje43 9 months ago
Maestro!!
LaMajaDescalza 9 months ago
Why Nick Drake couldn't hold a few years!!
LaMajaDescalza 9 months ago
this is beautiful.
KLT2013 9 months ago
Nick Drake's songs enables to imagine Warwickshire fields, it perfectly corresponds to the calm and loneliness of England countryside. Definitly an artist from Albion.
TheBolosse1 9 months ago 2
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rouxlass10 9 months ago
@rouxlass10 Cello dude
mixes909s 9 months ago
@rouxlass10 ha I was about to say the same ;]
ShawDAMAN 8 months ago
a beut melodic song . . . . mmmm
tapsahtip 9 months ago
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Blake788 9 months ago
I can remember when these recordings 'came out'. Nick Drake never became particularly well known and he was disappointed about their - at that time - lack of success. Even now, he seems a somewhat ghostly figure to me; someone who had extraordinary sensibility, but who somehow ...
eumenadesia 9 months ago
Absolutely beautiful!!!
amyecurtis67 9 months ago
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Love his songs.
Mazurka1001 9 months ago
I can see where Martin Stephenson and the Daintees drew some of thier influence from after listening to this track...Nick Drake picks like Bert Janch and his voice sounds like an angel has poured warm honey in your ears.
leeandnic131 10 months ago
unbelievable crsip pickin on the guitar--this dude musta had 4 hands
gregestrada 10 months ago 3
this song<3
rayhayday 10 months ago
" lend a hand and lift me To your place in the cloud" he knew how good he was.
vasish3688 10 months ago
his music blows me away
gmaweill 10 months ago 2
What is it about his music that gets inside your head? I've never experienced any other music like it. Like most people I stumbled on Nick Drake by accident. John Peel played Hazy Jane and it was like someone had wired my brain up to the mains. I went out the next day and bought every Nick drake recording I could lay my hands on. It was like discovering a gold mine.
hotdognights 10 months ago 2
This may be the best song I have ever heard.
SweetSassyMolassy0 10 months ago 34
brilliant!
acousticguitarfan 10 months ago
The one bad thing abot these song is the comments section of their YouTube videos are always full of snobby posers who think they're dead "non-conformist" and "different" just for having a go at any artist under thirty.
MrKingsandCastles 10 months ago 3
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kazama92 10 months ago
subfookinlime !
MrSpacetype 10 months ago
Five leaves left, were the amount of years left to live, he was 21 when he recorded the album !! ;o(
giamozz 11 months ago 2
@giamozz ...
the subconscious....
MsMHishmeh 11 months ago
he is gemini as me!!
Juansamisterica 11 months ago
This song takes me home. Running along the banks of the upstream river, balancing on sun bleached drift wood logs. Bicycling with my eyes fixated up at the sunlight beaming through the cracks in the leaf canopy. I love to duplicate the beat to this song on my 50s canteen while I'm at a camp fire. This song is under beauty and thus fits perfectly with nature.
lionmanelonglegcrane 11 months ago 29
@lionmanelonglegcrane fucking hipster
PS3SROCK1234 7 months ago
@PS3SROCK1234 hipster?
lionmanelonglegcrane 7 months ago
@lionmanelonglegcrane i think he was correct. your overwrought attempts at imagery leave the reader with impression not of the scenes described but of a person who thinks he's really good at describing things. you use too many words. what's an upstream river? as for the 'hipster' comment, it was probably the "50s canteen around a campfire" piece of fluff.
pretzelzetzel 7 months ago
@pretzelzetzel Dude, seriously? She's just expressing herself the way the music inspires her to. Last I checked, no one is handing out the Pulitzer Prise for a comment on Youtube, so both you and the original heckler of her comment--I didn't care to seek out the source of condescension--should try appreciating the fact that she was moved by the song, rather than trying to illucidate the flaws in her writing like a pompous prick. What did you two really have to gain by "critiquing" her?
battygirl31 7 months ago 5
@pretzelzetzel And by the way, it's not "an" upstream river, obviously that doesn't make sense; she said "the upstream river" meaning she lives on the portion that is considered to be "upstream" rather than "downstream" i.e. above a certain place/area of the river/surrounding area, closer to the river's source, etc.
battygirl31 7 months ago
This is THE perfect song.
fivethumbsfrank 11 months ago
mee encantaa :)
SANTIBH93 11 months ago
15 people are wrong.
FOREAL1231 11 months ago
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freeaudition3 11 months ago
I am addicted to Nick Drake,he rocks the universe
riverface123 11 months ago
Great song!!
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Leave a comment and let me know what you think!
Cheers,
Gavin
GavinWilkinsMusic 11 months ago
stupid
TheShadowmitchie99 11 months ago
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OJHanz 11 months ago
This man is a Genius and yes should be praised alot more for his brilliant music, the people who find his mucis usualy need it most :) This has and will help people through hard times in their life, just think you are one of the minority that has heard this song, apreciate it :) but dont be afraid to send it to friends you think will appreciate it or that need it :) And I do agree that most of today's music is not real music but this is an exception :) now just close your eyes and listen.
Kirilixable 1 year ago 2
does anybody know if nick drake had any relationship with a woman? and if he did what was her name?
eyalregev 1 year ago
@eyalregev yes, apparently he and maggie thatcher had a hot and steamy affair going while she was prime minister. he would sing this to her and she would strip naked during the course of the song. it all ended when he was seduced by mary whitehouse. even the iron sexiness of thatcher could not compete with the seductive censoriousness of whitehouse.
firestartertwistedfi 4 months ago
his favourite tunings were bebebe and open c but the second c was dropped to an f so it would be cgfgce as in which will
lawlessnick 1 year ago
Nick was born to love magic and we were born to love Nicks magic :)
FOREAL1231 1 year ago
so like nuthin else.
harleyhound100 1 year ago
Why would you dislike this? Nick Drake's music sounds like silk.
GracieLue2 1 year ago 5
rainymood.c om + nick drake
slasheh 1 year ago
Just listen to how fast he's playing the guitar. Then take into account that he's playing a different tuning and I think he's fingerpicking, too. Then to add to that, he was singing and playing at the same time.
Even though they played different music and played the guitar differently, Nick was just as talented a guitarist as Jimi Hendrix. He was doing what other people weren't doing in folk music.
TheOneartist 1 year ago 2