This is one of my all-time favorite songs. Everything about it is perfect. I love how the strings come in on the 3rd verse. It is absolutely gorgeous. The cello kills me, it's so beautiful. There isn't a song of his that I don't like. What an incredible, amazing man.
BTW, He did NOT commit suicide. It was a toxic buildup of an anti-depressant in his system that they NOW know stopped his heart. I hate thinking that's how people think this wonderful, beautiful, creative, talented man died.
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.
Lol of course this song is abour weed he lived in the sixties and seventies how can you be so blind and deaf it doesn't make his music any less enjoyable and beautiful
is he talking about marijuana here? comes from a far strange land....morrocco? i read his friends took him there because that's where the best, strongest cannabis came from at the time.
i may let u know as soon as i find out. i just started reading a book on drake by trevor dann. but the morocco reference i think i read on wikipedia. or i may have heard it in a documentary about drake i saw on youtube.
I remember when I heard this song (and the whole first album) for the first time...I cried like a baby because it was the most beautiful thing I've heard in so much time
instead of the useless arguements about his alleged drug usage,lets celebrate nick drake timeless contribution to our lifes-the incredible music that we all can share and enjoy.
This just elevate me to myself....in a world that grows inside me...that is art..comunicate what you feel deep inside with poetry and a piece of music just incredible..
he actually was on anti depressants and suffered from a sleep disorder. in either case the coroner had said that he had "Acute amitriptyline poisoning — self-administered when suffering from a depressive illness" although no suicide not was ever found. maybe if he had access to some of todays medications he would been okay. a great musician was lost.
Damn, what a waste when he passed... Same with Sandy Denny. Their words and songs sure makes you think and dream. Don't they? Nick and I share the same birthday too, not the same year, of course. Growing old, is no fun, I'll tell ya.
Nick Drake is one of the best song-writers ever! But concerning his death, I once heard he committed suicide by shooting himself. Is it a lie? Could someone who knows for sure tell me how he died?
@panikman66 --go do your research away from Youtube. We don't want to be bothered by your morbid, lazy curiosity. Wikipedia will help you and so will all of the rest of the Internet.
there are some documentary's about him on this site, one is "A Skin Too Few" and the other is "A Stranger Among Us." There are interviews with people who knew him.
he died of overdose by taking his deppresent pills he didn't commit suicide ...just shit happens sad he had to go away but tthats why.. he didnt shoot himself he overdosed on his meds. eugh sucks i didnt even know the guy but his music is pure.."now we stand and were everywhere"
these comments are awesome.its cool to see people are still discovering his brilliant legacy of melancholy and hope.this should go with out saying, but if your into his work you should definitely give Elliott Smith a listen.RiP mrDrake "safe in your place deep in the earth,thats when theyll know what you were truly worth"
weird that Nick Drake died of an overdose of legal drugs that I too had been given in the seventies when in a mental hospital ( I took them because I didnt feel anything from them) I didnt want to have the heavy stuff they fed me I was only 15!
previous to that they tried to give me barbiturates then Valium, Librium sleeping pills the lot!! :-[
BUT it was Tripdizol that I took for a short period - I thought it was totally harmless!
steebzs- i did the same thing...one night my girlfriend came over and we listened to the "way to blue" album. everything seemed perfect, sooo perfect, i cradled her in my arms as she would fall in and out of sleep...after we broke up i tried to listen to nick drake again but found it too hard to relive the memory... but time passed and i got over it. nick drakes music is so relaxing, so calming so very..... hard to describe
im a punk[ uksubs killing joke ] but this is just bloody lovely and way off my usual stuff . dont know a thing about the guy ; heard this on marc riley last night and thought id seek it out on the old you tube bloody marveless
Poets and musicians are all naturally drawn toward drug use to help them achieve states and visions that both aid and slowly cripple their faculties. There's no doubt that without the aid of "Mary Jane", Nick wouldn't have been able to write these beautifully haunting songs; unfortunately, it surely must have played havoc with an already overly-sensitive psyche. The world's a cruel and deceptive prison, and drugs are perhaps the cruelest deceivers of all, especially the "beneficial" legal ones.
Way back in 1894, a little girl named Madeline Crothe was skipping through the woods when a mysterious man in black snatched her. He bought her to his house, tourtered her, and starved her to death. Send this to 6 videos in the next 30 min. and you will be safe, but if you don't....... at approximately 1:34 tongith you will wake up to see an aneorexic child holding a bloodied up knife and she will kill you.
Please stop discussing Nick's drug intake, which was amazingly little by today's standards( I speak from personal knowledge). Please just enjoy his wonderful playing and singing!
I know exactly why he wanted to die, he felt that he fell out of touch with his God, the magic of love which had guided him to create beautiful songs that he created. It is obvious if you go through what he wrote and sung, it is a real tragic story.
I agree with you (I've seen it work wonders with two family members), but amyltriptiline is not the same as Zoloft. Similar function as an SSRI, but not the same.
You're right. I took ONE Elavil (what Nick OD'd on) and I got so tired, and so stuffed up, I couldn't breathe. I was 17 then. I've been off Prozac since May, and so freaking depressed it's been difficult. I'm bipolar II, but the doctor said it would be like that for a very long time, as I've been on Prozac since 1990!
If i'm not mistaken, Drake was also experimenting with LSD and magic mushrooms. Marijuana was frequently used, all this together, ultimately, had a bad impact on his ultra sensitive soul and affiliated mental issues over a period of time.
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weed,pot did have a postive effect on modern music but lets not forget it leads to depression,not all will suffer but its a fact that most people do suffer long lasting depression from prolonged use.i fucking love ganja but i gave that shit up after tywenty years man and god i was DEPRESSED!!!!!!!!!!lol nice tune nick but not your best try black eyed dog man or pink moon......
none of them are happy, that is why they are using, you can argue the opposite all day, then wake up the next, wondering if you pre rolled to get you rolling or God help us, is there any left?
(Makisswe) You can ease your demons in many ways Writing is for me, it says Everything my dizzy daze contradicted In the learning faze Fear of death and induced stupidity helped me to survive though many friends did not arrive at this conclusive paradigm They amalgamated their self hate and Were early fried and dined upon by The march of dates that death likes to deviate
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If I was to advise you it would only be to shut up, (g)love muppet, which now begs the question as to which digit controls your speech/touch? In your case there is a lot to be said for saying nothing or its nearest equivalent in the (g)luv(ov) muppetry. fingers tight!
It's settled then! Everyone should consult with davidoffon for advice on marijuana/anti-psychotics/cocaine/acid/electroconvulsive therapy/mental institutions because it's obvious that he's currently on all of them.
The meanderings of the mindless is always interesting to behold as the pain of mistaken slights takes hold, allowing them to spew their rage on a subject that , when its contents are considered, disallows them from having a coherent or rational opinion on something that hoovers their mind to a spotless condition, then allows the spewtonian bug free and wreckless reign. Your attempts to undermine my views would be hilarious if it were not for their accompanied psychosis.
Even if someone were to accuse you of being wrong, or retarded, they wouldn't say anything. There's seriously no need to try and "out-smart" people with long, confusing words.
I personally think that Nick Drake's depression is of genetic origin, not by pot.
But you are right, weed -can- be dangerous since it triggers psychosis in a minority of people. Furthermore, most antidepressants are dangerous as well since it can actually cause depression in some (not that rarely!). Nick was killed by an overdose of an older anti depressant.
Anyone who is trying to get rid of a 20 year old ongoing addiction is going to feel pretty down for a while, no matter what the drug is!
For someone to be that musically genius and creative he must be depressed clinically, not from fuckin weed. Weed just can't do that, i wish it could...It's always the people really in touch with creativity who are the most depressed and troubled. The world is an awful place it's almost unbearable to fully comprehend it. In fact it is utterly unbearable.
The marijuana HELPED him if anything. it is a medication prescribed for depression by medical doctors. He was clinically depressed, mentally ill, and LSD is something that can aggravate mental illnesses. He was known to experiment with the drug, and it is very possible that it sped up the deterioration of his mind. Just look at Syd Barrett, perfect example.
SheepDogProductions, if you haven't already, you might want to watch the documentary on LSD called Hofmann's Potion (it's available on YT) - it's about the doctor who discovered LSD accidentally in his laboratory. LSD is all about the set (what you bring to it mentally, physically and emotionally) and the setting (where and when and with whom you use it). Sometimes those are misapplied when self-medicating. Set and Setting. Nothing more and nothing less.
Quite a few celebrities have been diagnosed with bipolar depression. Some studies indicate that there might be a relationship between bipolar depression and creativity (though that relationship is unclear). Yet there are enough people who are severly depressed while not being very gifted on a creative level.
As for weed: While I believe it has antidepressant properties i do not consider it safe as i have witnessed a specific case where someone went psychotic each time he smoked it.
Yeah, it's unbearable, that is why it grates and is great at the same crime. I ride(pedal) 60 miles and then write for hours on end to send the blues their pay, the racing is great but the writing it brings out is my food for thoughts deemed by many unthinkable until they read them and say unprintable thoughts that ought to be available on a ghetto blaster down the Libra read.Some times I write just to make nonsense of it all, it works any way I want it to. Life is brilliantly awful,enjoy.
The only correlation between marijuana and depression is cause by the intervention of authority and the risk of being incarcerated. Weed is probably one of the most effective anti-depressant
Drug related it may be, but for me the song will always be about my daughter Katie, who has Landau-Kleffner Syndrome. Thanks so much for posting this vid. It's not my most favourite song of Nick's, but it's one where I'm happy to take the words literally.
I love to put some nick drake on the ipod, take a walk though my local forrest, and smoke some herb to relax. Im sure nick drake did the same.. except without the ipod bit:)
Probably true. I was never a heavy drug user and here I am at 53, enjoy all the fun of bipolar II. I was "pushed" into the position by a dysfunctional family system. We had a huge breakthrough when they discovered that the Seroquel was damaging my heart, raising my cholesterol, and making me pre-diabetic, among other things. I'm detoxing from that this weekend and already thinking more clearly. The stuff Nick took, Elavil, God, you could hardly breathe on that stuff.
So under-appriciated, even still, people come on here with their "grunge" comments. Society will NEVER cease to disappoint me as a whole, it makes me so sick, I understand why he was so inntroverted, I would have been too...
haha, ah to hear somebody else say what I've been thinking is pretty funny. There are those who aren't like that, live for those people I guess is my only reaction.
this was written for those who have ears to hear...and common sense to know what he was singing about.mary jane has been a big influence on a lot of songwriters,and nick drake was no exception.
i think it's mostly to do with a uniquely english sound - which incorporates folklore, mysticism, poetry and a strong, subversive sense of being alive and dead at the same time.
england was in economic and social turbulence at the time of this recording...funny that most of the great music (including early bowie and led zep) was so keen to emphasise the englishless of their music - even though they lived in america to avoid high taxes...we could be going back..
very well put, yes his music only serves to get a stronger following as people seek solace (and nostalgia for simpler times) in an economic downtown..
been listening a new band called from Seatle "fleet foxes" interesting return to english folk style from the land that bought us grunge (no comparision intended with the mighty drake)
whenever i think of seattle (is that how you spell it?) i think of kurt as a janitor - carrying a bucket around his old school, with his greasy hair and his heart in his dusty shoes...being mocked and laughed at by the stronger, richer kids...
it's so dickensian.
(nick drake's life was much easier than kurt or dickens...but it goes to prove that being sensitive isn't classproof...)
Maybe it's not a bad thing that people are aware of his music for one reason or other? I came across it by chance and I love it and appreciate it. Music is there to be consumed...just depends on how you look at it.
I see it as a positive thing to absorb music and gain something from it.
Its a shame how people will listen to 'Pink Moon' and 'Black Eyed Dog' and completely disregard Nick's actual poetry, this video remains relatively unplayed compared to the songs that have been publicised following Heath Ledgers death....it just goes to show, people are vacuous, shallow bastards who will use music as fast food, to be consumed then thrown away...
Heath Ledger's death and the publicised link between him and Nick's music, has most certainly created a new generation of 'fans'...and i was merely pointing out that these 'fans' are actually shallow, vacuous people that disregard
Smoking to this song, absolute beauty and freedom.
snakeweirdo 3 months ago 2
7 people are.....
MrDrakeponder 3 months ago
he died with a huge lack of love and care like many special and talent people did, was a beautiful angel deserv our respect forever, thank you nick.
333Ni333 5 months ago 5
This is one of my all-time favorite songs. Everything about it is perfect. I love how the strings come in on the 3rd verse. It is absolutely gorgeous. The cello kills me, it's so beautiful. There isn't a song of his that I don't like. What an incredible, amazing man.
BTW, He did NOT commit suicide. It was a toxic buildup of an anti-depressant in his system that they NOW know stopped his heart. I hate thinking that's how people think this wonderful, beautiful, creative, talented man died.
leengirl 5 months ago 3
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 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
Nick Drake
goofygobber101 6 months ago
true music
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rilimrc 8 months ago
Love this sooo much. Thumbs up and a fave. Thanks for uploading this beautiful song!
grizzlyten 8 months ago
Tell me what you think of my cover version of Thoughts of Mary Jane. You can find in in my channel
2ibs 8 months ago
Lol of course this song is abour weed he lived in the sixties and seventies how can you be so blind and deaf it doesn't make his music any less enjoyable and beautiful
RenaudCalisse 10 months ago
where is the multiple thumbs up button? I freakin' love (t)his stuff!
4difference 11 months ago
is he talking about marijuana here? comes from a far strange land....morrocco? i read his friends took him there because that's where the best, strongest cannabis came from at the time.
jzoom45 11 months ago
@jzoom45 I read something similar, but are you sure it was morocco?
thesunstartstoset 11 months ago
@thesunstartstoset
i may let u know as soon as i find out. i just started reading a book on drake by trevor dann. but the morocco reference i think i read on wikipedia. or i may have heard it in a documentary about drake i saw on youtube.
jzoom45 11 months ago
@jzoom45 alright, thank you so much
thesunstartstoset 11 months ago
<3
:)))
bblvdOG 11 months ago
Good stuff right here!
MonsoonWinds6 1 year ago
I remember when I heard this song (and the whole first album) for the first time...I cried like a baby because it was the most beautiful thing I've heard in so much time
Hectorschizoidman 1 year ago 2
its quite true that the great die young because this earth cant harbour such amazing different people
PuffSmelly 1 year ago
his voice sound a bit like colin hays... or the other way around, whatever
student389 1 year ago
Sandrocchia, mi piace pensare che Mary Jane ti assomigli.
Leggera, inconcludente, ma decisa a proseguire nel suo viaggio..
zsakmark 1 year ago
Sandra, questo pezzo di Nick Drake non lo conoscevi.
Ma non pensi di assomigliare un po' a mary Jane?
zsakmark 1 year ago
Tetsuya Nomura had a hard time escaping the influence of this song when he composed "Breezy" for the Final Fantasy 8 ST.
SixOneCynic 1 year ago
Pure Beauty!
perdalao 1 year ago
troppe vite si perdono.. R.I.P
7papaverirossi 1 year ago
instead of the useless arguements about his alleged drug usage,lets celebrate nick drake timeless contribution to our lifes-the incredible music that we all can share and enjoy.
sampson1959 1 year ago
This just elevate me to myself....in a world that grows inside me...that is art..comunicate what you feel deep inside with poetry and a piece of music just incredible..
danicash78 1 year ago
Thanks Nick, I am starting to feel better
zonedog1103 1 year ago 5
whats all the focus on him, or on you?
why not focus on the idea
jacksmeh 1 year ago 4
Mary Jane <3
stincos 1 year ago 5
Very, very nice song. A song style his very own. Will
wrdane 1 year ago
DRUGS
Lisztomania1 1 year ago
Whaaaaaat....did 3 people SERIOUSLY click on dislike!? How wack are youse trying to portray yourselves to the world?
theLennythatmatters 1 year ago
lets simply appreciate his music.... Nick Drake, RIP
7rohu 1 year ago 36
@7rohu I agree
whitelily123 1 year ago 2
@whitelily123 Do you know the version of this song that does not have the flute? it's very different too..
shaynescope 2 months ago
@shaynescope It's from his "Time of No Reply' album...I can't seem to find a version of that on youtube, but I like that one better.
thelostpiranha 1 month ago
@7rohu hey do you know if the at&t com on tv where they are covering up averthing with copper colored cloth is a nike drake song?
darryldelay 1 year ago
@darryldelay
he did sing the song in that commercial. It's called "From the Morning."
natenish 1 year ago
he actually was on anti depressants and suffered from a sleep disorder. in either case the coroner had said that he had "Acute amitriptyline poisoning — self-administered when suffering from a depressive illness" although no suicide not was ever found. maybe if he had access to some of todays medications he would been okay. a great musician was lost.
mboydgoogle 1 year ago
Damn, what a waste when he passed... Same with Sandy Denny. Their words and songs sure makes you think and dream. Don't they? Nick and I share the same birthday too, not the same year, of course. Growing old, is no fun, I'll tell ya.
MatteusNova 1 year ago 2
@MatteusNova I also have the same birthday. How magical.
VanKlaunch 1 year ago
so beautiful; the flute and cello.
socobliss 1 year ago 3
Nick Drake is one of the best song-writers ever! But concerning his death, I once heard he committed suicide by shooting himself. Is it a lie? Could someone who knows for sure tell me how he died?
panikman66 1 year ago
@panikman66 Nick Drake died of an overdose of prescription drugs
whitelily123 1 year ago
@whitelily123 yes, prescription antidepressants....sad and withdrawn, but he made wonderful music!
teawithbeardsley 1 year ago 9
@teawithbeardsley true
whitelily123 1 year ago
@whitelily123 he's blowing in the wind with mary jane
rocket95066 10 months ago
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@panikman66 lets simply appreciate his music.... Nick Drake, RIP
7rohu 1 year ago
@panikman66 --go do your research away from Youtube. We don't want to be bothered by your morbid, lazy curiosity. Wikipedia will help you and so will all of the rest of the Internet.
durgaaa 1 year ago
@durgaaa Yeah, right! Get a grip on yourself, will you?
panikman66 1 year ago
there are some documentary's about him on this site, one is "A Skin Too Few" and the other is "A Stranger Among Us." There are interviews with people who knew him.
natenish 1 year ago
@panikman66
he died of overdose by taking his deppresent pills he didn't commit suicide ...just shit happens sad he had to go away but tthats why.. he didnt shoot himself he overdosed on his meds. eugh sucks i didnt even know the guy but his music is pure.."now we stand and were everywhere"
mortii09 1 year ago
@mortii09 written on his tomb stone:)
takanuvathegreat 10 months ago
@panikman66 I believe he died from an overdose of depression medication. I don't know if it was intentional.
randellcayla 5 months ago
these comments are awesome.its cool to see people are still discovering his brilliant legacy of melancholy and hope.this should go with out saying, but if your into his work you should definitely give Elliott Smith a listen.RiP mrDrake "safe in your place deep in the earth,thats when theyll know what you were truly worth"
deSadetheImpaler 1 year ago
weird that Nick Drake died of an overdose of legal drugs that I too had been given in the seventies when in a mental hospital ( I took them because I didnt feel anything from them) I didnt want to have the heavy stuff they fed me I was only 15!
previous to that they tried to give me barbiturates then Valium, Librium sleeping pills the lot!! :-[
BUT it was Tripdizol that I took for a short period - I thought it was totally harmless!
madrevangod 1 year ago
steebzs- i did the same thing...one night my girlfriend came over and we listened to the "way to blue" album. everything seemed perfect, sooo perfect, i cradled her in my arms as she would fall in and out of sleep...after we broke up i tried to listen to nick drake again but found it too hard to relive the memory... but time passed and i got over it. nick drakes music is so relaxing, so calming so very..... hard to describe
24fretguitar 1 year ago
im a punk[ uksubs killing joke ] but this is just bloody lovely and way off my usual stuff . dont know a thing about the guy ; heard this on marc riley last night and thought id seek it out on the old you tube bloody marveless
erictheviking871 1 year ago
Poets and musicians are all naturally drawn toward drug use to help them achieve states and visions that both aid and slowly cripple their faculties. There's no doubt that without the aid of "Mary Jane", Nick wouldn't have been able to write these beautifully haunting songs; unfortunately, it surely must have played havoc with an already overly-sensitive psyche. The world's a cruel and deceptive prison, and drugs are perhaps the cruelest deceivers of all, especially the "beneficial" legal ones.
BotoxBetty 1 year ago
@BotoxBetty MY MY, Very well said!!
hogan8866 1 year ago
Nick Drake..
Memories of listening with my lost love..things hurt, but to beautifull to stop listening
steebzs 1 year ago
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hinamori929 1 year ago
love the last line pause transition to graceful outro
funkmonk33 1 year ago
smoke buds
HeyyyGuyyy 1 year ago
the greatest song ever written and sung
who0oam1 1 year ago 3
........
LibeLuLaOrion 2 years ago
Se parece al tenista este gualtrapa.
birdonet 2 years ago
Another lost hyperbole....
sanclementekid 2 years ago
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the flute in this song makes me happy(:
wooiloveyou2 2 years ago 3
Not of this planet.
grashoppert8 2 years ago 7
If my stalker could talk for
My words be untrue
Then what would I think
Who would I sue as
The pollution to my problem
Is looking like you.
davidoffon 2 years ago 2
Please stop discussing Nick's drug intake, which was amazingly little by today's standards( I speak from personal knowledge). Please just enjoy his wonderful playing and singing!
1958jimmymac 2 years ago 54
I agree
whitelily123 2 years ago
@1958jimmymac So the heroin theory was BS?
plaspp 1 year ago
he wouldve never died if he took cannabis besides anti depressants. doctors are morons.
thenicestguyonyoutub 2 years ago 4
No i wrote it off the top of my head for to reply to others above or below, as in previous comments.
"He as he happened"as opposed to as it happened because without him it never would have happened at all.
davidoffon 2 years ago
All lives are complete,
Some with lies
He, as he happened
Opened our eyes
How we chooseTo
view What we see
is what makes us
What want we be
davidoffon 2 years ago 3
ah, where is this from? is this a lyric of his?
niamhmoriordan 2 years ago
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well, it's not well written. It's actually shit.
thecritiquevirtuoso 2 years ago
can we please all stop acting like we know what made him want to die, or sped it up, please, just enjoy the song and remember him
eqios 2 years ago 50
Yes! Thank you =)
whitelily123 2 years ago
@eqios
I know exactly why he wanted to die, he felt that he fell out of touch with his God, the magic of love which had guided him to create beautiful songs that he created. It is obvious if you go through what he wrote and sung, it is a real tragic story.
IrreduciblePar4dox 1 year ago
uhhhhhhh.... I've been on Zoloft for 2 years and it works wonders... so you obvioiusly have no idea about what you're talking about.
thecritiquevirtuoso 2 years ago
I agree with you (I've seen it work wonders with two family members), but amyltriptiline is not the same as Zoloft. Similar function as an SSRI, but not the same.
0leander410 2 years ago
You're right. I took ONE Elavil (what Nick OD'd on) and I got so tired, and so stuffed up, I couldn't breathe. I was 17 then. I've been off Prozac since May, and so freaking depressed it's been difficult. I'm bipolar II, but the doctor said it would be like that for a very long time, as I've been on Prozac since 1990!
binkle1 2 years ago 5
If i'm not mistaken, Drake was also experimenting with LSD and magic mushrooms. Marijuana was frequently used, all this together, ultimately, had a bad impact on his ultra sensitive soul and affiliated mental issues over a period of time.
RedStarHaifa 2 years ago
The only one of the drugs you mentioned that can exacerbate an underlying mental illness is LSD.
SheepDogProductions 2 years ago
Beautiful song from an awesome album. Magnificent!
Hyperakusis1973 2 years ago
i like so much hes music because is amazing and i like that he he is awesome !
Laudanu10 2 years ago
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weed,pot did have a postive effect on modern music but lets not forget it leads to depression,not all will suffer but its a fact that most people do suffer long lasting depression from prolonged use.i fucking love ganja but i gave that shit up after tywenty years man and god i was DEPRESSED!!!!!!!!!!lol nice tune nick but not your best try black eyed dog man or pink moon......
kennypaulpete 2 years ago
It does not lead to depression. It's a proven anti-depressant in fact.
snootywaiter 2 years ago
what proof do you have to substatuate this claim may i enquire??????
have you actually spoken to any heavy user's??????
please please tell me when the government ran test and trials to prove this????
because to date in the uk there have been no medical related trails regaurding cannabis's medical property's.
so there could not be a proven fact that cannibis is an anti-depressant????
am i wrong.
check it out....
kennypaulpete 2 years ago
Google it man. It's prescribed legally in some states as an anti-depressant. And knowing many heavy users, most of them are pretty damn happy.
Restrain yourself a bit, sir. Jeez.
snootywaiter 2 years ago
ha ha Potheads do tend to be happy pacifists. I think someone could use a joint himself. ha ha
Cannabis has been used by humanity not for centuries--but millenia. Before the time of these self-interested governments.
Ursamare 2 years ago 3
just so you know withdrawal from marijuana causes depression from a lack of dopamine in the brain...
tim1062 2 years ago
Ah, so what you're saying is.. stay high all day every day? Noted. thanks.
snootywaiter 2 years ago 5
no im saying use in moderation
tim1062 2 years ago 2
hahahahahaha
Spoonman518 2 years ago 2
none of them are happy, that is why they are using, you can argue the opposite all day, then wake up the next, wondering if you pre rolled to get you rolling or God help us, is there any left?
davidoffon 2 years ago 2
happy they probably are not but hey...we all gotta eazzz our "deamons"...
havent smoked in 4 years ....temted though:))))
makisswe 2 years ago 2
davidoffon 2 years ago
Substatuate? is that even a word?
thecritiquevirtuoso 2 years ago
Every thing is can be a word, even if written absurd. Ask Patrick Kavanagh.
davidoffon 2 years ago
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I will not take advice from someone who cannot even make a grammatically coherent sentence.
thecritiquevirtuoso 2 years ago
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If I was to advise you it would only be to shut up, (g)love muppet, which now begs the question as to which digit controls your speech/touch? In your case there is a lot to be said for saying nothing or its nearest equivalent in the (g)luv(ov) muppetry. fingers tight!
davidoffon 2 years ago
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It's settled then! Everyone should consult with davidoffon for advice on marijuana/anti-psychotics/cocaine/acid/electroconvulsive therapy/mental institutions because it's obvious that he's currently on all of them.
thecritiquevirtuoso 2 years ago
The meanderings of the mindless is always interesting to behold as the pain of mistaken slights takes hold, allowing them to spew their rage on a subject that , when its contents are considered, disallows them from having a coherent or rational opinion on something that hoovers their mind to a spotless condition, then allows the spewtonian bug free and wreckless reign. Your attempts to undermine my views would be hilarious if it were not for their accompanied psychosis.
davidoffon 2 years ago
Even if someone were to accuse you of being wrong, or retarded, they wouldn't say anything. There's seriously no need to try and "out-smart" people with long, confusing words.
Uniden2907 1 year ago
@Uniden2907 Hu stuckin fupid are you?
davidoffon 1 year ago
yeah but it causes depression when you are not on the high from the drug....
tim1062 2 years ago
I personally think that Nick Drake's depression is of genetic origin, not by pot.
But you are right, weed -can- be dangerous since it triggers psychosis in a minority of people. Furthermore, most antidepressants are dangerous as well since it can actually cause depression in some (not that rarely!). Nick was killed by an overdose of an older anti depressant.
Anyone who is trying to get rid of a 20 year old ongoing addiction is going to feel pretty down for a while, no matter what the drug is!
Droyd21 2 years ago 3
For someone to be that musically genius and creative he must be depressed clinically, not from fuckin weed. Weed just can't do that, i wish it could...It's always the people really in touch with creativity who are the most depressed and troubled. The world is an awful place it's almost unbearable to fully comprehend it. In fact it is utterly unbearable.
Spoonman518 2 years ago 5
I agree Nick was a tortured soul, it wasn't solely pot but you could say it was very much a catalyst.
JimB667 2 years ago
The marijuana HELPED him if anything. it is a medication prescribed for depression by medical doctors. He was clinically depressed, mentally ill, and LSD is something that can aggravate mental illnesses. He was known to experiment with the drug, and it is very possible that it sped up the deterioration of his mind. Just look at Syd Barrett, perfect example.
SheepDogProductions 2 years ago
Cannabis can help you, it can hurt you. I doubt it helped him after years of copious use.
yes perfect example
JimB667 2 years ago
SheepDogProductions, if you haven't already, you might want to watch the documentary on LSD called Hofmann's Potion (it's available on YT) - it's about the doctor who discovered LSD accidentally in his laboratory. LSD is all about the set (what you bring to it mentally, physically and emotionally) and the setting (where and when and with whom you use it). Sometimes those are misapplied when self-medicating. Set and Setting. Nothing more and nothing less.
wombchakra 2 years ago 4
Agree 100%. People seem to all too often ignore those crucial details and pay for it with an unpleasant experience
0leander410 2 years ago
Quite a few celebrities have been diagnosed with bipolar depression. Some studies indicate that there might be a relationship between bipolar depression and creativity (though that relationship is unclear). Yet there are enough people who are severly depressed while not being very gifted on a creative level.
As for weed: While I believe it has antidepressant properties i do not consider it safe as i have witnessed a specific case where someone went psychotic each time he smoked it.
Droyd21 2 years ago 2
Yeah, it's unbearable, that is why it grates and is great at the same crime. I ride(pedal) 60 miles and then write for hours on end to send the blues their pay, the racing is great but the writing it brings out is my food for thoughts deemed by many unthinkable until they read them and say unprintable thoughts that ought to be available on a ghetto blaster down the Libra read.Some times I write just to make nonsense of it all, it works any way I want it to. Life is brilliantly awful,enjoy.
davidoffon 2 years ago 2
The only correlation between marijuana and depression is cause by the intervention of authority and the risk of being incarcerated. Weed is probably one of the most effective anti-depressant
bigsly 2 years ago
Drug related it may be, but for me the song will always be about my daughter Katie, who has Landau-Kleffner Syndrome. Thanks so much for posting this vid. It's not my most favourite song of Nick's, but it's one where I'm happy to take the words literally.
afradwright 2 years ago 4
What a beautiful and enlightening song about the world's most beautiful and enlightening plant.
MrLarryV 2 years ago 2
lol. I like this comment - it makes me laugh, but at the same time, it is so true
u6r43 2 years ago
is this song about weed though?
nuthinbutachump 2 years ago
Yes.
HadesWTF 2 years ago
lol im so naive :[ totally looked pass that possibility xD
Megadeth6 2 years ago
is this song about gange? =)
nuthinbutachump 2 years ago
what's gange?
larengalexus 2 years ago
weed
Dazzling0Stranger 2 years ago
oh, silly me. thanks
larengalexus 2 years ago
lol, the correct term is "ganga"
mcottier 2 years ago
its ganja
mmanowarrr 2 years ago
ganja. captivating song thanks for posting whitelilly
kurtsquirt 2 years ago
수줍지만 따스한 노래들.....
hyun0411 2 years ago
I love to put some nick drake on the ipod, take a walk though my local forrest, and smoke some herb to relax. Im sure nick drake did the same.. except without the ipod bit:)
MetalicB0x 2 years ago 14
Probably true. I was never a heavy drug user and here I am at 53, enjoy all the fun of bipolar II. I was "pushed" into the position by a dysfunctional family system. We had a huge breakthrough when they discovered that the Seroquel was damaging my heart, raising my cholesterol, and making me pre-diabetic, among other things. I'm detoxing from that this weekend and already thinking more clearly. The stuff Nick took, Elavil, God, you could hardly breathe on that stuff.
mrsmagloo 2 years ago
Every time I listen to his music, it's like nothing else compares & I have to listen to more of it...it's so, beautiful, I love it :)
TangledUpInBluee 2 years ago 2
So under-appriciated, even still, people come on here with their "grunge" comments. Society will NEVER cease to disappoint me as a whole, it makes me so sick, I understand why he was so inntroverted, I would have been too...
amarchingpig 2 years ago
haha, ah to hear somebody else say what I've been thinking is pretty funny. There are those who aren't like that, live for those people I guess is my only reaction.
Schuylerbos 2 years ago
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cut my ears off now (L)
joecarter6 3 years ago
in my opinion, one of the most underrated nick drake songs, and a personal fave.
exceptionally talented bloke.
surtur1349 3 years ago
I wonder who this was written for?
I wonder if she knew how much she meant to him. Evidently a great deal, judging from the beauty of the song.
Shalom
musicperfumelaughter 3 years ago 6
its about relaxing by smoking some herb.. wow ha
MetalicB0x 2 years ago 3
this was written for those who have ears to hear...and common sense to know what he was singing about.mary jane has been a big influence on a lot of songwriters,and nick drake was no exception.
fudzy62 2 years ago
Descanse em paz...
Belas canções por você criada
Estaremos aqui honrando suas maravilhosas músicas.
ArthurRimbaud1 3 years ago
love everlasting
chloeencore 3 years ago 2
His music really keeps me grounded somehow. I listen to him...and I'm instantly at home...warm.
JenJenEL 3 years ago 2
poetry...
diddodi 3 years ago 4
beautiful, utterly endearing, niave & gut wrenching in equal measure to listen to.
a very unique talent.
most ironic thing I've seen on youtube is here.. I'm cuntslave and i'm sensitive & I like Nick drake.
LOL
visiocomb 3 years ago 3
Who can know the reason for the smile!!!
pastaface100 3 years ago 3
a fascinating post, visiocomb...
i think it's mostly to do with a uniquely english sound - which incorporates folklore, mysticism, poetry and a strong, subversive sense of being alive and dead at the same time.
england was in economic and social turbulence at the time of this recording...funny that most of the great music (including early bowie and led zep) was so keen to emphasise the englishless of their music - even though they lived in america to avoid high taxes...we could be going back..
uclrichard 3 years ago
very well put, yes his music only serves to get a stronger following as people seek solace (and nostalgia for simpler times) in an economic downtown..
been listening a new band called from Seatle "fleet foxes" interesting return to english folk style from the land that bought us grunge (no comparision intended with the mighty drake)
visiocomb 3 years ago
whenever i think of seattle (is that how you spell it?) i think of kurt as a janitor - carrying a bucket around his old school, with his greasy hair and his heart in his dusty shoes...being mocked and laughed at by the stronger, richer kids...
it's so dickensian.
(nick drake's life was much easier than kurt or dickens...but it goes to prove that being sensitive isn't classproof...)
uclrichard 3 years ago 3
Being sensitive isn't classproof. Well said.
dmbear29 3 years ago 2
very nice of you to post
JoeChrisMorris 3 years ago
Tomohawk1973 take comfort in every second you can. 1973 was sad year. We lost Gram Parsons.
barlowesgrill 3 years ago
wunderschönes, melancholisches Stück Musikgeschichte...
kiratu 3 years ago
agreed.
reckoner912 3 years ago
beautiful song.
danjelln 3 years ago
Good luck tomohawk my Brother. Allow Mr Drake to heal your pain.
greyberrymist 3 years ago 3
i am going through a split with my wife and when i listen to Drake i feel ok for awhile x
tomohawk1973 3 years ago 11
..stay strong son.
cluntslave 3 years ago 3
his voice is so mature and soulfull, so beautiful
blondie1159 3 years ago 2
nice
jorgeamachi 3 years ago
Bella canción...hermoso video..saludos..Nena
1973nena 3 years ago
I feel so different when I listen to Nick Drake.
mishypoo 3 years ago 4
Do you listen to Mary Jane as well?
deepeeeh 3 years ago
This song and serendipity go hand in hand
CILDAD 3 years ago 2
Maybe it's not a bad thing that people are aware of his music for one reason or other? I came across it by chance and I love it and appreciate it. Music is there to be consumed...just depends on how you look at it.
I see it as a positive thing to absorb music and gain something from it.
biscuffin 3 years ago 2
Music as commodity is quite a fascinating subject...or object.
deepeeeh 3 years ago
How good is this!
CILDAD 3 years ago
hit the spot
m3sdup 3 years ago
Its a shame how people will listen to 'Pink Moon' and 'Black Eyed Dog' and completely disregard Nick's actual poetry, this video remains relatively unplayed compared to the songs that have been publicised following Heath Ledgers death....it just goes to show, people are vacuous, shallow bastards who will use music as fast food, to be consumed then thrown away...
GuppieLove08 3 years ago
What has Heath Ledger got to do with anything?
frrrrrankenstein 3 years ago
Heath Ledger's death and the publicised link between him and Nick's music, has most certainly created a new generation of 'fans'...and i was merely pointing out that these 'fans' are actually shallow, vacuous people that disregard