@PeterOzanne me too- I really make a lot of mistakes because English is not my mother tongue- thank you for explaining it in such a good way! I think I really found anything being not logical- harmony --- but to harm- but in German it is simular ( not by to harm!!!! schlechthin- I think only sometimes it fits- sometimes it would have been-- guthin! THANK`S for the comment!! It is not so easy for people where English is not the 1st languages- thank`s
My new girlfriend just turned me on to Nick Drake. So I went out and bought three of his albums. This song haunts me. I can't get it out of my head. You've done the song justice with this video photo collage, cande3787. Thanks for sharing!
It's spooky the way that you don't find Nick Drake he finds you. Everyone I know who's into Nick Drake stumbled upon him completely by accident. I caught the end of Hazey Jane on John Peel and spent the next two weeks trying to find who or what it was.
@hotdognights Yeah, couldn't agree more, i stumbled upon which will, it's crazy, but i guess the best artists/bands are the best when you're not looking for them, its when you stumble upon them, is when they are the best
@hotdognights I love the observation that his music finds you! I first heard River Man on a compilation that came free with magazine. I think I must have listened to it 20 times in a row that night! Went out next day and bought his entire back catalogue and was hooked. This is possibly my favourite of his now. I buy his cd's constantly for friends - his music is absolutely timeless, haunting but uplifting
Nick was Nick and if you fall in love with his music you're in trouble........as beautiful as it is....he didn't give up on life....he gave up on himself, make no mistake
Great advice. I've know Nick (or his music) for over 15years now, and I can confess: it's hard... Than again, even if one is down, his music always gives one a boost for life. Like Nick is still searching for it and exports his energy... I've been using his music to overcome hard moments for more than 10years now... Just be careful to listen to it when you feel good... It'll change your mood, whatever way around, so use it wisely: i.e. only to get 'better' ,-))
There's a sort of grace in every Nick's song. He touches your heart and shows you how life should be.: true and naked. No wonder he disliked live performance. His music was so bright, so intense, so intime, that it's hard to believe to his death. You fancy him playing by your side, there's something so down-on-earth in each song, in each words. He was so fragile but his heart could feel the sound of nature, the colours of the sky. .It's impossible to descrive how sublime and hauntingit is.
Saw a documentary produced by the BBC and have been hooked on Nick Drake ever since. His music resonsates in my soul. Hate that such a briliant artist passed so young when all he wanted to do was touch one person with his music.
nick drake, was so ahead of his time musically, and still is. a magnificent guitarist and singer. one of the best this world will ever know. the good always have to die young.
@CrimsonGhost85 nah too many views would meant people are engageing on a fairly superficial level, the song is about isolation if everyone could appreciate it we would be living in a very different world.
Thanks a lot for the nice introtext. I suddenly feel part of a club ;-) Wishing cheers and good luck to all the other members of the club (= the rest of the world?...)
It seemed impossible for this man to make a song that you could skip through to the next.The words,the arrangements,the vibe is far beyond it's time and even the time we live in now.I'm fortunate to be here now to witness such greatness and purpose from a single man.
its incomprehensible to me that people are critical of drakes guitar playing. you can talk of other peoples styles not being matched but his is unmatchable in most of his songs. a lot of people can have their own unique style of guitar playing but drakes is in a world of its own. in most ways harder than a hendrix solo even if it doesnt sound like it. how can people be so critical of a style so versatile?? i dont know
Many people are critical of Nick's guitar playing, none the less, Ive always admired the rhythmic complexity of his playing..esp. since he sang and played simultaneously!
Really? People are critical of his guitar playing? That comes to me as a total surprise. He is without a doubt technical, obviously not the most complex, but still demonstrating significant skill. But I think what sets Nick apart is his choice of tunings and chords, and how such strange choices manage to sound so melodic. And those who may be critical of his guitar playing could take nothing away from his daunting lyrics. RIP NICK Ill be over the atlantic to meet your grave soon enough - Lou
Yeah, John's playing was really good on that, but I'd like it if Cedric would be comfortable singing in his ... natural range and not falsetto 80 percent of the time. He's got a good voice, but, instead of throwing in the high notes to bring a feminine flavour to the mix as he's described it in past interviews, that brush just seems to have been worn thin, as it were.
I didnt know John Frusciante played on that record, hmm learn something new every day, lol, Cedrics falsetto is his strong point, i do like that Meccampetechture and Goliath type of singing but i dont want him to totally drop that De-Loused sound, that was the best...
Take what is Ripe! What is ripe for the Taking -Seize!
*Live for the Day* is kind of inappropriately Epicurean and inaccurate forcing of an English idiom on a Hericlitean dictum. The other literal translation most common is *pluck* the day; the fruit connotations have to be conveyed in the English, otherwise all you get is a hedonist platitude.
if you want to hear a real genius check out jackson c frank! nick covered a few of his songswhich he done well! jackson died homeless after a string of bad luck! but thankfully lives via music!
I was never lucky enough to see him play (being born at the wrong time, I hate being 13 yada yada yada,) but listening to his music is... hard to describe... there's just something about it that's.. well, let me put it this way. When I listen to his work, I could be in an empty house, and I feel like someone's there...
When I'm alone, I guess maybe the music has a presence of it's own. It's very eerie, but even though it scares me, I can't stop listening until someone or something stops me......
I listened to it. It's pretty good, it's just different. It can't be better, just because Nick Drake wrote it first. Mars Volta is pretty good, but it doesn't have the same effect. I like it, though. =)
Its probably just me but there is something about Nick Drakes music that makes me ask myself why I am here. How could a guy as young as Nick Drake been able to express such unabashed sorrow in his music? All I do when I listen to it is dwell on how quickly our lives pass us by.
cande: excellent video! yr english is good too, but when u wrote "loose" your mind, did u mean "lose"? It's not just you - among non-native speakers this wrong spelling of "lose" is spreading like a virus! It's spoken the same, except for the "s".
"Loose" = soltar or largar, also the opposite of "tight". It doesn't make a lot of difference in your writing - but it can be confusing, e.g. "looser" - "loser"! "Hadn't had the time to choose a way to lose" rhymes. English is illogical! :-)
Hey Peter, thanks a lot for your short lesson!, Actually, now i know how to reply all these messeges, after 3 years?? i feel stupid (watever). I like english so much, but i think im better speaking than writing jaja... I´d change that, cause i mean lose ´de perder la cabeza, de soñar por ahi.....´ yes, english is wired!!
@PeterOzanne It would appear that you need a bit of a life Peter. Mildly interesting lecture I suppose, but certainly unsolicited. Come on mate, have you nothing better to respond to?
@lyndal191972 Hm, you're right of course. Since then I've been working on doing a Nick tribute evening, playing about an hour and a half of his songs, but I've damaged a finger and can't play for a few months. Also, I'm still looking for a bassist/cellist, percussionist, and flutist. I played at the Nick Drake Gathering a couple of times: it's a lovely weekend. Come over for tea anytime:)
Im sorry, just re-reading comments and have possibly misinterpreted something that you wrote. I didn't mean to be rude, I am sorry. Nick Drake gathering? That sounds a bit special. Hope your finger heals soon. Where are you based?
sometimes mke more sense in retrospect...Drake was a virtual genious. It's a pitiful loss for art and music. Thank God music lives forever. I am a poor mother if my kids don't know this legendary and brilliant man's work.
I know how you feel. I would be pretty pissed off, if while lying on my death bed someone said to me " You never did hear any of Nick Drakes stuff did you?" And said "Nick Who?"
Hahaha...that and...."Mother, we confess we were the ones who burned the Jonas Brothers and Brittany Spears "pop favorites" over your entire Led Zeppelin CD collection"....LOL....those two things would not be things that would completely hasten my agonizing death.
Sometimes I imagine having lived at his time and walking into an england pub where Nick is performing...noisy and loud, with no one listening to his music but just talking, drinking beer and meeting people...him sitting on the stage...angry inside, because he would have liked to have more attention for his guitar playing and his music. I'm sure he knew he was good. But reality was different. He was NOT much appreciated while living...at least not by as many paople as today.
I'm sure he didn't use picks generally - possibly a plec on one or two songs - but possibly some nail. I know I find it much easier with nails, coming from classical anyway. However, I have to use Savarez "guitarists nails" layering, to make sure my thin nails don't fall apart. I think his nice (Guild) guitar was a big part of his great sound too. Good luck!
I think the fact that Nick is having such a renaissance is no coincidence. It wouldn't be the first time somebody's talent wasn't recognized until DECADES after their death. I heard "River Man" ONCE when I was 16, and could never forget it. I was only able to track it down just last year here on YouTube. The fact that I could remember the lyrics, the incredible voice, and the guitar playing 36 years later says a LOT about the power of Nick's talent.
The Lyrics on Nicks Gravestone-"Now we rise and are Everywhere" are prophetic because his
songs are streaming into the collective mainstream consciousness now and he's more famous now than he was when alive and his music is better appreciated!
It's sad that Heath Ledger went out the way he did because he was 'obssesed' with Nicks music and Nicks enigma. I dont think Nick would want his fans to follow the path of selfdestruction. I think he wants us all to rise with his great music and live!
Somehow this song seems the wrap around the entire world and all of life. It's just like it contains everything. Don't really know how to put it. It's not a song anymore, but something more then just a song.
he seemed to have been touched by something with an ability to delve into his deepest soul (a skin too few indeed) and pull it out and make it available to us, all without ego, a kind of selflessness, i think, maybe what Van Gogh had and so few others. this was nick's purpose on this planet, i truly believe. we must learn from these people that are gifts of G-d and i am not a religious nut by any stretch.
this album, pink moon, is without a doubt in my mind, the greatest album ever. emotional while surpassing the term emo, cause its actually amazing music. ive stopped listening to it when im drunk, cause i get all teary eyed. nick was and still is the man. RIP bro.
beautiful slide and great choice of photos, i typed in 'things behind the sun' because its my favorite nick drake song but when i got this i was plesantly suprised.
he didn't choose to die... no matter what people get to say of him... that he planned it or such nonesense... and anyway he said that he felt that he had said everything he had to say... i believe there is no need to compare anyway, but in such case, i would say he was as much of an artist as dylan or lennon
He himself made the choice to die... his music wasn't succesfull in his days, then after a while he went to Paris because he thought he could be happy there, but he couldn't find his way there, so he went back to England, to his mother, and in the evening, before he went to sleep, he overdosed on his anti-depressive medication.
His mother, Molly Drake, found him dead the next morning in his bed. That's all.
That's not what I said... He was an artist for sure... The producer of 'Fairport convention', who once was coincidentally in the studio where Nick was recording, heared his music and said: Hearing such beatuifull music, one feels ashamed about the ugliness of the world.
Nick Drake is a genious, and one of the greatest songwriters ever. I think he's as good as Lennon, Dylan and the rest. This is probably the best song on Pink Moon, which is such an amazing album.
i love at the drive in/mars volta, but seriously, they dont do this tune any justice. Im not saying that they dont understand what nick is doing in this tune, but it didnt fit their style, and tbh, they ruined it :/
I don't believe in a soul, but let's say Nick could be aware of how he's rated, if the fruits of his depressed life and how it's received is something that would've brought a smile to his lips
fucking amazing i don't know how i never heard his name, so many childhood memories with his music in my brain, i feel like i opened a time capsule. Anti depressants to me are the worst drug in the world next to alcohol, i know how i felt when i was on them... thank you drake for always lurking in the shadows when i needed you the most
been Drake fan since 1991 and am writing a short story about him, looking for all kind of reflections his music has generated. You captured the feel of the tune very well. It´s some strange feeling of being in human body, being in wrong or strange time what did´nt quite understand what You and being a bit out of mind. You did´nt choose those over-exposed Drake photos, but showed that this human essence of the song is equally seen elsewhere. Well done!
The Mars version is absolutley fucking amazing! I heard it the other day and i was pblown away. I to think it sounds better than the original, and im not even the biggest volta fan. This is still great though!
TMV's version is epic. Imagine this with more of a spanish sound on the guitar, and a very atmospheric sound, then a delay heavy solo. Both versions are truly masterpieces.
i like both versions the nick drake version almost has a sense of hope and the TMV version is almost regret but still has the hope feel. both versions are indeed masterpieces.
open up the broken cup, let goodly sin and sunshine in...open wide the hymns you hide, you find renown while people frown at things that you say, but say what you'll say...
@PeterOzanne me too- I really make a lot of mistakes because English is not my mother tongue- thank you for explaining it in such a good way! I think I really found anything being not logical- harmony --- but to harm- but in German it is simular ( not by to harm!!!! schlechthin- I think only sometimes it fits- sometimes it would have been-- guthin! THANK`S for the comment!! It is not so easy for people where English is not the 1st languages- thank`s
xena1154 4 months ago
Pink Moon is probably the most depressing album ever. Not in a bad way tho..
WutDfuzz 6 months ago
the voice....
valentynesuite 8 months ago 2
very nice video to a great song...I get it.
fivethumbsfrank 11 months ago
hey there love your work reall nice real real nice
i am graphic designer and would like to know what about those photos and like to get my hand on some of them is there a way to contact you about it
thanks
and thank you for bringing nick to us
ogistam 1 year ago
My new girlfriend just turned me on to Nick Drake. So I went out and bought three of his albums. This song haunts me. I can't get it out of my head. You've done the song justice with this video photo collage, cande3787. Thanks for sharing!
Muhlenburger 1 year ago
the most dsperate masterpiece of this immaculate artist
valentynesuite 1 year ago
How unfortunate he died so early. Think of how far he could have driven it with all that talent. SO SAD!!!
helledeejay 1 year ago
Peter--native speakers are just as bad about that, IME!
baronessvz 1 year ago
Sounds a lot like Shawn Phillips in some of his songs. Great voice.
Thanks to Michael for turning me on to him.
TheSusiyp 1 year ago
It's spooky the way that you don't find Nick Drake he finds you. Everyone I know who's into Nick Drake stumbled upon him completely by accident. I caught the end of Hazey Jane on John Peel and spent the next two weeks trying to find who or what it was.
hotdognights 1 year ago 4
@hotdognights Yeah, couldn't agree more, i stumbled upon which will, it's crazy, but i guess the best artists/bands are the best when you're not looking for them, its when you stumble upon them, is when they are the best
TheReasonBeing3 1 year ago
@hotdognights I love the observation that his music finds you! I first heard River Man on a compilation that came free with magazine. I think I must have listened to it 20 times in a row that night! Went out next day and bought his entire back catalogue and was hooked. This is possibly my favourite of his now. I buy his cd's constantly for friends - his music is absolutely timeless, haunting but uplifting
dkimuk 1 year ago
I was lucky enough to see him perform this track that created an impression of contemplative resignation
puddypuss 1 year ago 3
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this is true art not mtv crap
deepenhancer 1 year ago
Such a beautiful song... It talks to the soul... Immortally... Deeply...
ThePoisonEye 1 year ago 4
Nick was Nick and if you fall in love with his music you're in trouble........as beautiful as it is....he didn't give up on life....he gave up on himself, make no mistake
yousaiditzero 1 year ago 2
Great advice. I've know Nick (or his music) for over 15years now, and I can confess: it's hard... Than again, even if one is down, his music always gives one a boost for life. Like Nick is still searching for it and exports his energy... I've been using his music to overcome hard moments for more than 10years now... Just be careful to listen to it when you feel good... It'll change your mood, whatever way around, so use it wisely: i.e. only to get 'better' ,-))
nisusCGA 1 year ago 4
"And the people round your head
Who say everythings been said
And the movement in your brain
Sends you out into the rain"
Wow...
Aidref 2 years ago 2
There's a sort of grace in every Nick's song. He touches your heart and shows you how life should be.: true and naked. No wonder he disliked live performance. His music was so bright, so intense, so intime, that it's hard to believe to his death. You fancy him playing by your side, there's something so down-on-earth in each song, in each words. He was so fragile but his heart could feel the sound of nature, the colours of the sky. .It's impossible to descrive how sublime and hauntingit is.
deepenhancer 2 years ago 11
Saw a documentary produced by the BBC and have been hooked on Nick Drake ever since. His music resonsates in my soul. Hate that such a briliant artist passed so young when all he wanted to do was touch one person with his music.
jrwhistler 2 years ago 2
imagine if Nick Drake and Jeff Buckley made a record together..
Starvoid7 2 years ago 11
idk I've been imagining him singing with Elliott Smith but i guess with Jeff it would have been cosmic !!!!
aquarius26al 2 years ago 2
or we could let nick do it on his own!
MrHathouse 1 year ago
I found him by random and now can´t stop listen! He was amazing! I really want to see "Black eyed dog" .....
Talybarros 2 years ago
It is so good after all these years to find Nick is still loved by my ageing generation... AND now has a group of younger fans.
He is and was a gentle genius
nzer48 2 years ago 7
dont be shy and learn to fly...
amirper2000 2 years ago 6
nick drake, was so ahead of his time musically, and still is. a magnificent guitarist and singer. one of the best this world will ever know. the good always have to die young.
rocknBMX 2 years ago 9
Temazo!!!
jonathanbb 2 years ago
there should be 1,000,000 views for this
CrimsonGhost85 2 years ago 32
@CrimsonGhost85 nah too many views would meant people are engageing on a fairly superficial level, the song is about isolation if everyone could appreciate it we would be living in a very different world.
oddball111 1 year ago
great video.
poignant and perfect.
morroyce21 2 years ago 8
and also like me cande3787!
68shamoa 2 years ago 19
Who's that a picture of at 0:20?
Magnetwiththemonies 2 years ago
Great Video, thank you very much... Take care, God bless...
himvpdmr 2 years ago 2
PS I forgot to tell that I find this is a beautiful video! It suits the tale and the tone of melancholy of the song very well.
Doorvids 2 years ago
Thanks a lot for the nice introtext. I suddenly feel part of a club ;-) Wishing cheers and good luck to all the other members of the club (= the rest of the world?...)
Doorvids 2 years ago 2
It seemed impossible for this man to make a song that you could skip through to the next.The words,the arrangements,the vibe is far beyond it's time and even the time we live in now.I'm fortunate to be here now to witness such greatness and purpose from a single man.
quandiggz 2 years ago 3
sellou87 is correct, nick is a unique gifted guitarist and songwriter. he was a prodigy.
desdinova22 2 years ago
always the greatest
valentynesuite 2 years ago
its incomprehensible to me that people are critical of drakes guitar playing. you can talk of other peoples styles not being matched but his is unmatchable in most of his songs. a lot of people can have their own unique style of guitar playing but drakes is in a world of its own. in most ways harder than a hendrix solo even if it doesnt sound like it. how can people be so critical of a style so versatile?? i dont know
sellout87 2 years ago 3
Many people are critical of Nick's guitar playing, none the less, Ive always admired the rhythmic complexity of his playing..esp. since he sang and played simultaneously!
univibe23 2 years ago
Really? People are critical of his guitar playing? That comes to me as a total surprise. He is without a doubt technical, obviously not the most complex, but still demonstrating significant skill. But I think what sets Nick apart is his choice of tunings and chords, and how such strange choices manage to sound so melodic. And those who may be critical of his guitar playing could take nothing away from his daunting lyrics. RIP NICK Ill be over the atlantic to meet your grave soon enough - Lou
lm0989 2 years ago 2
( univibe)In the end he was incapable of singing and playing for the last record, it had to be done separately.
davidoffon 2 years ago
This song sounds alot better when its not in falsetto, but I liked the background effects in the Mars Volta cover
Stirrethcharybdis 2 years ago
lose*
xxxJewBoyxxx 2 years ago
Helmar Lerski_ 1:57-2:02. ; }
fauxtoehead 2 years ago
wonderful. singular. linear. How does it feel to you? Organic?
vintagepremoon 2 years ago
I really did like the Mars Volta version
imjustkidding24 2 years ago
Yeah, John's playing was really good on that, but I'd like it if Cedric would be comfortable singing in his ... natural range and not falsetto 80 percent of the time. He's got a good voice, but, instead of throwing in the high notes to bring a feminine flavour to the mix as he's described it in past interviews, that brush just seems to have been worn thin, as it were.
barrywinehousexp 2 years ago
I didnt know John Frusciante played on that record, hmm learn something new every day, lol, Cedrics falsetto is his strong point, i do like that Meccampetechture and Goliath type of singing but i dont want him to totally drop that De-Loused sound, that was the best...
imjustkidding24 2 years ago
INDEED good Sir
ACMarley422 2 years ago
actually, that's omar. it's him counting at the beginning.
canbekalakay 2 years ago
Carpe Diem- Live for the day!
jebusthelittlepixxie 2 years ago
Take what is Ripe! What is ripe for the Taking -Seize!
*Live for the Day* is kind of inappropriately Epicurean and inaccurate forcing of an English idiom on a Hericlitean dictum. The other literal translation most common is *pluck* the day; the fruit connotations have to be conveyed in the English, otherwise all you get is a hedonist platitude.
barrywinehousexp 2 years ago
if you want to hear a real genius check out jackson c frank! nick covered a few of his songswhich he done well! jackson died homeless after a string of bad luck! but thankfully lives via music!
shaneshaky1 2 years ago
I was lucky enough to see him play this live. he created such a still ,clear , hypnotic atmosphere and prescence that just stays with you
puddypuss 2 years ago
I was never lucky enough to see him play (being born at the wrong time, I hate being 13 yada yada yada,) but listening to his music is... hard to describe... there's just something about it that's.. well, let me put it this way. When I listen to his work, I could be in an empty house, and I feel like someone's there...
When I'm alone, I guess maybe the music has a presence of it's own. It's very eerie, but even though it scares me, I can't stop listening until someone or something stops me......
bluefire773 2 years ago 7
listen to the mars volta son. this is the age.
obdandzigzag 2 years ago
I listened to it. It's pretty good, it's just different. It can't be better, just because Nick Drake wrote it first. Mars Volta is pretty good, but it doesn't have the same effect. I like it, though. =)
bluefire773 2 years ago 3
es la cancion
mas hermosa ke he oido en toda mi vida
y jamas me canso de oirla
A13X71 2 years ago
Que buen video y esa cancion es mas hermosa cada vez que la escucho! Gracias.
medestruye 2 years ago
Teleioo,aplotato,teleio,aplotato.
p.s Apla teleio.
CLUEVi 2 years ago
Well I ve experienced one of the things you should experience before you die. Glad Ive discovered him now rather than later.
qwerly45 2 years ago
Its probably just me but there is something about Nick Drakes music that makes me ask myself why I am here. How could a guy as young as Nick Drake been able to express such unabashed sorrow in his music? All I do when I listen to it is dwell on how quickly our lives pass us by.
honeyworm 2 years ago
beautifully said...agree with every word.
natilixo 2 years ago
Possibly my favorite Nick Drake song. This is magical.
LindseyKateDolbear 2 years ago 3
when i first heard this song at 14 it changed everything
disrealixgears 2 years ago 2
cande: excellent video! yr english is good too, but when u wrote "loose" your mind, did u mean "lose"? It's not just you - among non-native speakers this wrong spelling of "lose" is spreading like a virus! It's spoken the same, except for the "s".
"Loose" = soltar or largar, also the opposite of "tight". It doesn't make a lot of difference in your writing - but it can be confusing, e.g. "looser" - "loser"! "Hadn't had the time to choose a way to lose" rhymes. English is illogical! :-)
PeterOzanne 2 years ago
Hey Peter, thanks a lot for your short lesson!, Actually, now i know how to reply all these messeges, after 3 years?? i feel stupid (watever). I like english so much, but i think im better speaking than writing jaja... I´d change that, cause i mean lose ´de perder la cabeza, de soñar por ahi.....´ yes, english is wired!!
cande3787 2 years ago
@PeterOzanne maybe it is mean't to loose your mind !!!!!
TheBabaloop 1 year ago
@PeterOzanne maybe it is mean't to loose your mind !!!!!
ie make free
TheBabaloop 1 year ago
@PeterOzanne It would appear that you need a bit of a life Peter. Mildly interesting lecture I suppose, but certainly unsolicited. Come on mate, have you nothing better to respond to?
lyndal191972 10 months ago
@lyndal191972 Hm, you're right of course. Since then I've been working on doing a Nick tribute evening, playing about an hour and a half of his songs, but I've damaged a finger and can't play for a few months. Also, I'm still looking for a bassist/cellist, percussionist, and flutist. I played at the Nick Drake Gathering a couple of times: it's a lovely weekend. Come over for tea anytime:)
PeterOzanne 9 months ago
@PeterOzanne
Hi Peter,
Im sorry, just re-reading comments and have possibly misinterpreted something that you wrote. I didn't mean to be rude, I am sorry. Nick Drake gathering? That sounds a bit special. Hope your finger heals soon. Where are you based?
lyndal191972 9 months ago
@PeterOzanne Just listen to this amazing artist!
lyndal191972 10 months ago
tres coolio. are we allowed naked children anymore?
Peace
freshinit 3 years ago
Very very cool. thank you.
charlotia 3 years ago
sometimes mke more sense in retrospect...Drake was a virtual genious. It's a pitiful loss for art and music. Thank God music lives forever. I am a poor mother if my kids don't know this legendary and brilliant man's work.
julie1300 3 years ago
I know how you feel. I would be pretty pissed off, if while lying on my death bed someone said to me " You never did hear any of Nick Drakes stuff did you?" And said "Nick Who?"
Punorss 2 years ago 3
Hahaha...that and...."Mother, we confess we were the ones who burned the Jonas Brothers and Brittany Spears "pop favorites" over your entire Led Zeppelin CD collection"....LOL....those two things would not be things that would completely hasten my agonizing death.
julie1300 2 years ago
It would only prolong my death long enough to strangle all 4 of them.
julie1300 2 years ago
They could make it worse by playing "The Spice Girls" over and over again. But even Satan would not do that!
Punorss 2 years ago
Just love what you wrote jacomosfree ! Peace and love... Marc
8marcl888 3 years ago
Sometimes I imagine having lived at his time and walking into an england pub where Nick is performing...noisy and loud, with no one listening to his music but just talking, drinking beer and meeting people...him sitting on the stage...angry inside, because he would have liked to have more attention for his guitar playing and his music. I'm sure he knew he was good. But reality was different. He was NOT much appreciated while living...at least not by as many paople as today.
jacomosfree 3 years ago 7
Did Drake use a thumb pick or finger picks? I ask because his tone seems really crisp
thepoozer 3 years ago
I'm sure he didn't use picks generally - possibly a plec on one or two songs - but possibly some nail. I know I find it much easier with nails, coming from classical anyway. However, I have to use Savarez "guitarists nails" layering, to make sure my thin nails don't fall apart. I think his nice (Guild) guitar was a big part of his great sound too. Good luck!
PeterOzanne 2 years ago
i can paly this on guitar. almost =)
gibbleralsocorri 3 years ago
I bought the tab book. It's pretty hard to get it "up to speed" Drake rules.
thepoozer 3 years ago
Yeah, I don't know what it is about Nick's music that is so captivating. Most people describe it as 'haunting', which is pretty accurate.
ModNF 3 years ago
I think the fact that Nick is having such a renaissance is no coincidence. It wouldn't be the first time somebody's talent wasn't recognized until DECADES after their death. I heard "River Man" ONCE when I was 16, and could never forget it. I was only able to track it down just last year here on YouTube. The fact that I could remember the lyrics, the incredible voice, and the guitar playing 36 years later says a LOT about the power of Nick's talent.
mrsmagloo 3 years ago
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This music is crap !
ENCULEDEMERDES 3 years ago
The Lyrics on Nicks Gravestone-"Now we rise and are Everywhere" are prophetic because his
songs are streaming into the collective mainstream consciousness now and he's more famous now than he was when alive and his music is better appreciated!
It's sad that Heath Ledger went out the way he did because he was 'obssesed' with Nicks music and Nicks enigma. I dont think Nick would want his fans to follow the path of selfdestruction. I think he wants us all to rise with his great music and live!
beethovenbix 3 years ago 2
haha another rediculous idea behind ledgers death, i m pretty positive drakes music didnt influence ledgers life. quite ludacris
Goluchowski 3 years ago
I think streaming along with the man known as Nick Drake another seems born as the man Nick Drake passes on. Death is no cure. Enjoy yourself.
CodeTold 3 years ago
Somehow this song seems the wrap around the entire world and all of life. It's just like it contains everything. Don't really know how to put it. It's not a song anymore, but something more then just a song.
Enzaio 3 years ago 2
It's a piece of art
Enzaio 3 years ago
Just be what you be. X
poada2008 3 years ago 2
please!
its not so hard just try
dont be afraid to see
live life feel free to cry
stop to be-lieve to eyes of I
there's no K to rule your palace
there's no other when this song ends
there's just one left on the ground
and that one is no one other than you!
tr4eumer 3 years ago
I hope to one day be able to play with half the emotion Nick Drake did... He was a true talent and is greatly missed...
nickty4 3 years ago 5
Voice like honey! Some of the best folk music out there!!!
greenplanet2400 3 years ago 2
may you be blown by a drake breeze
down to a drake river flow
and dwell a drake time until
a drake night beheld
when the drake starry held aloft
shall stir your very soul...to it's very drake marrow.....
we miss ya ,man
bpyrad 3 years ago
he seemed to have been touched by something with an ability to delve into his deepest soul (a skin too few indeed) and pull it out and make it available to us, all without ego, a kind of selflessness, i think, maybe what Van Gogh had and so few others. this was nick's purpose on this planet, i truly believe. we must learn from these people that are gifts of G-d and i am not a religious nut by any stretch.
maida1982a 3 years ago 6
this album, pink moon, is without a doubt in my mind, the greatest album ever. emotional while surpassing the term emo, cause its actually amazing music. ive stopped listening to it when im drunk, cause i get all teary eyed. nick was and still is the man. RIP bro.
forstrings56 3 years ago 3
All roads lead back to Nick............
Stew0202 3 years ago
What a song ! Each Nick Drake song is a masterpiece !
Jabberw0cky7 3 years ago 3
Brilliant - melodic great - that all we need.
Salahdeena 3 years ago 2
just beautiful!!! love it!
sixtapaz 3 years ago 2
beautiful slide and great choice of photos, i typed in 'things behind the sun' because its my favorite nick drake song but when i got this i was plesantly suprised.
jomaxi82 3 years ago
the photos are appropriate,but why is babe ruth in there? couldnt figure out the link/relevance. anyone enlightened?
fr33atesickz 3 years ago
This song is really good. I just discovered this guy... wow
jackalope101 3 years ago
One of my favourite Nick Drake's songs. Un grande artista, una chitarra inimitabile....
zamix23 3 years ago
the best song ever written...
rest in peace
telifonjasser 3 years ago 3
best song ever indeed.
its a shame he died.
mamaloney1 3 years ago 2
And he only made three albums, so any Dylan / Lennon comparisons are irrelevant.
algaff 3 years ago
he didn't choose to die... no matter what people get to say of him... that he planned it or such nonesense... and anyway he said that he felt that he had said everything he had to say... i believe there is no need to compare anyway, but in such case, i would say he was as much of an artist as dylan or lennon
skyseye 3 years ago
He himself made the choice to die... his music wasn't succesfull in his days, then after a while he went to Paris because he thought he could be happy there, but he couldn't find his way there, so he went back to England, to his mother, and in the evening, before he went to sleep, he overdosed on his anti-depressive medication.
His mother, Molly Drake, found him dead the next morning in his bed. That's all.
adrie7777 3 years ago
how would you know it was his intention do die?... anyway, that does not make him somehow less of an artist
skyseye 3 years ago
That's not what I said... He was an artist for sure... The producer of 'Fairport convention', who once was coincidentally in the studio where Nick was recording, heared his music and said: Hearing such beatuifull music, one feels ashamed about the ugliness of the world.
adrie7777 3 years ago
he was damn right!
skyseye 3 years ago
I listen to this song when I sleep.
housemd88 3 years ago 5
I love the last 2 lines of this song: And the movement in your brain,sends you out into the rain.
FunkyInTheSouth 3 years ago
Nick Drake is a genious, and one of the greatest songwriters ever. I think he's as good as Lennon, Dylan and the rest. This is probably the best song on Pink Moon, which is such an amazing album.
Petiber 3 years ago
unfortunate he never got recognition like that before he died
costaricangeneral 3 years ago
Yes, he'd be so warmed to see the respect and recognition he continues to earn posthumously.
roypawnts 3 years ago
open wide the hymns that you hide
mostly everything's been said
man
Keeheek 3 years ago
i think that this is one of the most beatiful song of the history
maffoisback 3 years ago 2
I love your choice of photographs. They do justice to this song.
dadasopher 3 years ago 2
This is a really good song, but I think I like the Mars Volta's version a little bit more, even though the guitar work isn't as complex.
ibexr88 3 years ago
i love at the drive in/mars volta, but seriously, they dont do this tune any justice. Im not saying that they dont understand what nick is doing in this tune, but it didnt fit their style, and tbh, they ruined it :/
fr33atesickz 3 years ago
i wouldn't say it is better but a very good of the song still.. i love the haunting atmosphere of the mars volta's version...
TimeBombSociety 3 years ago
i have my own thought about the musical portion and the visual and they don't match perfectly but its a great song
Nautique157803 3 years ago
This song is amazing. I just love Nick Drake!
elischoe 3 years ago 2
this song makes me sad
and yes, the mars volta did a nice cover of this song.
sophiaszaraz 3 years ago
so good song!
rushfangeddy 3 years ago
THIS is a perfect combo between the lyric and music . THE MARS VOLTA has a very good version of this song .
alejo023 3 years ago
Well put together. The old black and whites so fitted the melancholy of the song.
JonnDalton 3 years ago 5
i like this song. it seems so far before it's own time.
MaryB113 3 years ago
And the people round your head
Who say everything's been said
And the movement in your brain
Sends you out into the rain.
I love those lines. I think they really scream that you should be yourself and take chances while not listening to other people's opinions about it.
Nick Drake is the man!
AirHendrix91 3 years ago 5
so sad
denmamasan 3 years ago 2
Stunning singer-songwriter and creative genius. Utterly haunting, timeless song.
It's much harder to write the song to start with than to have the luxury of covering it later.
ScooterNerd 3 years ago
"Please beware of them that stare"---this is true,very true.
BrianGodard 3 years ago
beautiful song...
MaataHari 3 years ago 3
A great talent gone way too soon. To me, he was as influential and timeless as Jeff Buckley.
GminorTears 3 years ago
Nick Composed some the the most haunting songs. Most of Buckley's album was covers. I love both but I wouldn't really compare the two.
Swingfinger 3 years ago
This is just such a beautiful, beautiful song...
flowerpower1611 3 years ago 5
as somber as it gets.
I don't believe in a soul, but let's say Nick could be aware of how he's rated, if the fruits of his depressed life and how it's received is something that would've brought a smile to his lips
esoervik 3 years ago
god bless nick, that is all
blabalkan 3 years ago 3
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fuck ah yall bitch made niggas word up Queensbridge boy brrrrraaaaaaoh!!!
Blockr 3 years ago
lol
syngen101 3 years ago
i love this song
Stillillgal 3 years ago 2
fucking amazing i don't know how i never heard his name, so many childhood memories with his music in my brain, i feel like i opened a time capsule. Anti depressants to me are the worst drug in the world next to alcohol, i know how i felt when i was on them... thank you drake for always lurking in the shadows when i needed you the most
narcoticplacebo 4 years ago 4
This is one of my favorite Nick Drake songs,
I don't quite catch the drift of the images you show, but sure, you've done a great job.
Loopjump 4 years ago
thank you...
bewareof23 4 years ago
great video to a shiveringly emotional tune...bravo!
nareiknnylf 4 years ago
been Drake fan since 1991 and am writing a short story about him, looking for all kind of reflections his music has generated. You captured the feel of the tune very well. It´s some strange feeling of being in human body, being in wrong or strange time what did´nt quite understand what You and being a bit out of mind. You did´nt choose those over-exposed Drake photos, but showed that this human essence of the song is equally seen elsewhere. Well done!
kagokass 4 years ago
he proposed to me, but i said no.
Kattelinka 4 years ago
The Mars Volta is covering this song which will appear on the Japanese bonus dvd of their new album. i wonder how theyll do with it.
psychopomp88 4 years ago
Its EPIC. Truly, epic. I'd say better than the original, but I'm a huge Volta fan, so.
Abbabaxauacs 4 years ago
i actually havent heard it. i heard that Omar just strums the chords though
psychopomp88 4 years ago
john frusciante plays the guitar- cedrc sings
funkmonk33 4 years ago
The Mars version is absolutley fucking amazing! I heard it the other day and i was pblown away. I to think it sounds better than the original, and im not even the biggest volta fan. This is still great though!
E3tiger 4 years ago
TMV's version is epic. Imagine this with more of a spanish sound on the guitar, and a very atmospheric sound, then a delay heavy solo. Both versions are truly masterpieces.
LedZep234 4 years ago 3
Yep the delay solo is very epic. I think cedrics voice is beautiful, especialy in the high bits like 'open up the broken cup'.
E3tiger 4 years ago
i like both versions the nick drake version almost has a sense of hope and the TMV version is almost regret but still has the hope feel. both versions are indeed masterpieces.
TheFreeshooter 3 years ago
you can also get it through itunes.
DividingMyTime 4 years ago
open up the broken cup, let goodly sin and sunshine in...open wide the hymns you hide, you find renown while people frown at things that you say, but say what you'll say...
absolutely brilliant.
yehudi198 4 years ago
yes the brad mehldau version is great!
werner99 4 years ago
the best nick drake song i know - check out the piano jazz version of it by brad mehldau - you will love it!
elektrolitze 4 years ago
My favourite Nick Drake song. It's so moving and deep.
EchoGlass 4 years ago
brilliant... thank you so much for the video!
DesolationRow0 4 years ago
definitely one of Drake's best!
loved the movie.
sanjgij 4 years ago
the movie???
DesolationRow0 4 years ago
I meant this little clip ;p
sanjgij 4 years ago
cande! espectacular, realmente me encantó
excelente seleccion de imagenes, todas hablan de muchas mas cosas de lo que muestran,
realmente muy lindo
aguz1985 4 years ago
usted tiene razón
eternallybeatdown 4 years ago