@RMCreate I think, maybe, Mr. Ostrem is ridiculing you and persons of your ilk? I don't know for sure, But I think Dylan has the capacity to play this style (as shown by "Girl f.t. North Country" vids), though, as I previously stated, maybe not simultaneously singing. Then again, I am a hack; it is possible he is JUST THAT GOOD! In fact, it is probable that he is that good. And at age 20-24-ish??? I am dumfounded and jealous!
@RMCreate WHOA!!!! You are demolishing the myth that exists in my head! I was starting to come to this conclusion; I try not to glorify Dylan as my deity, but it is hard not to! I never read his biographies, except his recent "chronicles" as i prefer to allow his music to speak for itself. However, after learning to play DTTIA, I realized it would be very difficult to sing and play at the same time. The fingerpicking is too intricate. I am working on getting all the difficult parts ...
@RMCreate (continued from below) ... but I know I will never sing and play it at the same time. I was starting to conclude that he laid the vocal track over the guitar track. But you say he didn't lay the guitar himself? Who did? Do tell !!!??? I'll bet Clint (on?) Heylin's books would tell me, but I haven't picked up one of those in years!
@RMCreate wikipedia says "Is has been argued that the original album version of the song is played in a fast, fingerstyle manner by Bruce Langhorne.[2] However, Eyolf Østrem, the creator of the website dylanchords, argues it was Bob Dylan himself who played the guitar track.[3] In live performances, Dylan often strummed the chords, or flatpicks, albeit in a similar, fast-paced manner. ..."
"However, the 'W.D.' (The Btlg Series, Vol. 9: The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964) reveils a demo version, with Bob Dylan fingerpicking, very similar to the later recording. Furthermore, a recording of an april 1963 concert in New York (B.D.Town Hall NYC, NY '63, Btlg) also contains a live version of DTT, fingerpicked in a very similar way as the original recording. Therefore, it is clear that B.D. could play the version as recorded and did so in a demo and live in april 1963"
unfortunately it takes sad,messed up times ,love break ups to inspire the best work,via the worst feelings,nick translated it perfectly i think,hell of a price to pay.a short life but he left some VERY wothy songs,.What will you leave?
Don't agree with evilthesaurus – Dylan is not a great singer in terms of being pitch perfect but he certainly is not tone deaf. His voice often gets criticized in the this way but he would not have lasted as long and have been so revered if that voice did not have more feeling and soul than any other singer of the folk/blues genre. Nick Drake’s version of Don’t Think Twice sounds flat and soulless compared to Dylan. Nobody sings Bob like Bob.
@AlanDoddsKeys I agree with your opinion of Bob Dylan's singing and I too believe it is a fact that no cover stands up to the original but I do think this version has soul in its own way. Especially considering I believe the lyrics relate well to the life of Nick Drake.
He's rushing b/c he was prob manic at the time. He had a long history of Axis II mental illness, (bipolar or schiz.) It sometimes goes hand and hand w/ artistic, semi-genius people. Shame he died young, most of them do. The 1960s' were not the renissaince of the 'mental health profession'.
John Martyn did a reasonable cover on his London Conversation album. The album also contains a cover of Robin Frederick's 'Sandy Grey', a song written about Nick drake.
Yes, JM wrote 'Solid Air' 5 or 6 years after covering R Fredericks 'Sandy Grey'. Robin was a friend of Nick's and although she wrote the song about him, she only recently released it commercially herself.
@thekkl Bob Dylan can't play well? Have you heard his Freewheelin' album? There is some excellent guitar playing on that album. Including the original of this song, which has very good fingerstyle accompaniment.
@evilthesaurus Ramblin' Jack Elliott does it best (and I love Drake and Dylan, but Elliott brings something to this song in particular neither of those two do)
@JacolynOWNS I am open minded..but I am pushing against people who throw the word genius (and words like it), at almost any old song they happen to enjoy. I hope you take the time to educate them that to gove words resonance, then you need to give them some perspective. People on YT eat a cheese sandwich and descrive it as 'amazing, or legendary' In the same way the would descrive hot are ballooning over the pyraneese. Language is so devalued (like everything else)
@lynus111 I am an English major who is in the middle of completing her first book, trust me I know the value of language. You have to understand that when these people say he's a "genius", it's simply their opinion. It's called a hyperbole, and people all over the world do it every day. I agree that this cover leaves something to be desired, but it's music. Music is different for everyone.
@JacolynOWNS I know what hyperbole is, and I agree people all over the world do it every day, and I stand by my point that the meaning of many words has become devalued. and our language has become the worse for it.
@YoodellyHoo Yup you're right, totally forgot I'd commented here I must've been drunk :p I should've known as I visited his grave there when I lived in the Midlands.
I wouldn't call this Nick Drake at his best. In fact, I don't even recognize his voice here, and the interpretation seems mannered. It's interesting as a curiosity, as a nugget uncovered late, but I'll take his own music any day.
strange comment. do you really think nick drake didn't 'get' this song? we all get it don't we - us plebs - it's wonderful, and beautiful, and affects us intimately - but lost on nick you reckon - too much for the poor troubled lad?? funny.
@foresttdog Because the syncopation is a b!t(c)# . If you listen to the Witmark Demos version (Bootleg series vol 9 ? I think?) You'll see Dylan tries very hard to slow it down and make every note known. KNOWN in a biblical way! If you speed it up and throw away some of the intricate picking, it is easier to sing and play it simultaneously. I am an OK at guitar, so I'm just now trying to slow down and get it all put together; I have worked on it for 11 years (on and off, of course).
@azza1356 I think you'll find that is because Bob and/or the people who Own his Music, copyrights, publishing rights etc. have very actively removed almost all Dylan original songs and videos from Youtube and the entire web. I have myself seen songs removed within a minute of being posted. Try the Official Vevo or Bob Dylan sites but do not expect to get Anything without Paying.
@Tornfreedom And I bet too that a lot of people have had their accounts terminated because of being given Copyright strikes for uploading Dylan stuff. I would imagine Sony Music are quick to do this if anyone attempts to upload any Dylan material.
I really don't understand why he wasn't huge. I MEAN COME ON, NICK IS AMAZING.
but, i guess at the same time i feel more connected to him this way, like he's something on a small amount of people in the world have, hard to explain.
i had a gf once she liked this ndrake guy i handnt hearda him we listened to a tribute disc to him a guy i really like cgregson was on it i didnt know that til a familiar voice came on - his listening to ndrake unnerves me tho tho i think this dylan cover applies to me n her now me missing her and she not me this song being a proxy for her thoughts about it all so what's my point? i dunno ... if your gf likes ndrake be good to her? or youll end up bummed as him? yeah sure ok
@sthugh I don't agree, ok Drake is particularly famous and appreciated for his guitar playing, his lyrics, his "folk"... But I'm sorry, open your ears! His voice is very soft, whispered, it's like honey for the ears. I love Nick Drake also for his voice, and I hate Dylan's one! I am REALLY sensitive to Drake's voice timbre and it's a big part of why I love so much his music, I'm sure that all the people who like it will tell you the same! Without this sweet voice, his music wouldn't be the same!
@difolk Drake only has one or two songs I like, River Man being the best. His whispery voice is grating. Open your ears, and start listening to some real singers! His guitar playing is simple, but that appeals to beginner guitarists looking for inspiration. His song writing is pedestrian, but he was just a kid, so I don't expect much in that department. After all, real authors seldom write anything worth reading before they're middle-aged. Drake has a certain appeal to the very young though.
@difolk Say what you want about Dylan's voice, but he sounded better on this particular song than Drake, and Drake certainly muffed up the arrangement. Some of Drake's tunes were pretty good, but this is certainly among the worst of his recordings.
Yes, one would really need to be a hardcore Drake cultist to claim it's better than Dylan's original! I've heard dozens of versions and this is the worst ever by a well known, respected musician.
@FungusMossGnosis We can't discuss tastes, it's just a question of feeling, so I don't blame you to prefer Dylan's version or to like or dislike Drake's music, but you can't say that THIS is the WORST version of this song, it has no sense when you know that for me, it's the BEST EVER! You don't have the absolute truth. About Drake's writing, it's clear that he read a lot of english poetry and his lyrics are really good, it's a style, different of Dylan's one, but not bad so far!
Don't make assumptions: I do like Drake's music. Not to the point where I can't be critical of it, though.
I didn't call it "the worst ever" without qualifying I was classifying it worst among revered musicians. And I didn't have you in mind, wasn't trying to offend you. I didn't know you'd be reading and responding to my comment!
Who are you - ? - my name's Patrick. Sorry we got off on the wrong foot...
@FungusMossGnosis I'm nit a cultists, just more sensitive to Drake's interpretation than Dylan's. Is this so hard to believe? And about good singing, I know what I'm talking about because I'm one of the biggest fans of SAM COOKE. I consider him like the best singer who ever lived, and his singing has absolutely no connexion with Drake's one, but I'm still very sensitive to Drake's singing, you don't need to yell to have a good voice, and I'm sorry but Dylan's voice doesn't touch me
@FungusMossGnosis And finally, just to answer your comments, about Drake's guitar playin, he's famous in the guitarists family, as a mysterious and very good musician, his guitar chords are still a mystery, very complicated, very personnal, he could play the blues so good! I'm gonna repeat a quote I heard "Whatever he was a white english boy, he could have been a tuna sandwich, he would still have play the blues perfectly"
No, no one has the "absolute truth", and no one is infallible either (Drake included). I know he's a good guitarist - I've heard all his records. He botched this one. I don't ask that you agree with me.
And if you're trying to convince me you're not a wide-eyed cultist, you're not making a great case of it. Sorry to disturb your sense of piety, now go ahead and let whatever music enchants you be your guide. Don't let anybody tell you your taste is lacking.
@FungusMossGnosis Hi Patrick, My name is Elodie, I recognize I'm a fan of Nick Drake's music, very sensitive to his voice and I don't understand how people can prefer Dylan's version of this song, but like I said, tastes can't be discussed... But you know this tune wasn't destenied to be sold, Drake recorded it alone in his bedroom at home, there are so few of songs of him, that people take everything thay find! And that's what I like in it, it's crude, devoid of frills, just the emotion :)
@difolk Yes. Considering this was a home recording that was never intended to be released commercially, I think it's a pretty good version. Some people here are discussing it critically as if it was a full studio recording from one of his albums.
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I've listened to all of Five Leaves Left, Bryter Layter, Pink Moon, Time of No Reply, and Family Tree, and I must say, that this is the first Nick Drake song/cover I just don't care for. I love all of his other stuff, but maybe he shouldn't cover Dylan who was already amazing at that time.
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dranonymous2000 1 week ago
@RMCreate I think, maybe, Mr. Ostrem is ridiculing you and persons of your ilk? I don't know for sure, But I think Dylan has the capacity to play this style (as shown by "Girl f.t. North Country" vids), though, as I previously stated, maybe not simultaneously singing. Then again, I am a hack; it is possible he is JUST THAT GOOD! In fact, it is probable that he is that good. And at age 20-24-ish??? I am dumfounded and jealous!
dranonymous2000 1 week ago
Just to point out, if anyone still cares, Dylan didn't play guitar for Don't Think Twice on Freewheelin'.
RMCreate 2 weeks ago
@RMCreate WHOA!!!! You are demolishing the myth that exists in my head! I was starting to come to this conclusion; I try not to glorify Dylan as my deity, but it is hard not to! I never read his biographies, except his recent "chronicles" as i prefer to allow his music to speak for itself. However, after learning to play DTTIA, I realized it would be very difficult to sing and play at the same time. The fingerpicking is too intricate. I am working on getting all the difficult parts ...
dranonymous2000 1 week ago
@RMCreate (continued from below) ... but I know I will never sing and play it at the same time. I was starting to conclude that he laid the vocal track over the guitar track. But you say he didn't lay the guitar himself? Who did? Do tell !!!??? I'll bet Clint (on?) Heylin's books would tell me, but I haven't picked up one of those in years!
dranonymous2000 1 week ago
@RMCreate wikipedia says "Is has been argued that the original album version of the song is played in a fast, fingerstyle manner by Bruce Langhorne.[2] However, Eyolf Østrem, the creator of the website dylanchords, argues it was Bob Dylan himself who played the guitar track.[3] In live performances, Dylan often strummed the chords, or flatpicks, albeit in a similar, fast-paced manner. ..."
dranonymous2000 1 week ago
"However, the 'W.D.' (The Btlg Series, Vol. 9: The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964) reveils a demo version, with Bob Dylan fingerpicking, very similar to the later recording. Furthermore, a recording of an april 1963 concert in New York (B.D.Town Hall NYC, NY '63, Btlg) also contains a live version of DTT, fingerpicked in a very similar way as the original recording. Therefore, it is clear that B.D. could play the version as recorded and did so in a demo and live in april 1963"
dranonymous2000 1 week ago
John Mayer covered this song too .......... there's no way he could pull it off like this
LunaLentis 1 month ago
@LunaLentis Randall Meyer does it too. But he is a half-ass hack .... maybe, if I see him again, I will ask him to post it on youtube !
dranonymous2000 1 week ago
@LunaLentis Randall Meyer tried ..... posted today by dranonymous2000
dranonymous2000 1 week ago
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search nicolas and the iceni summers end. They write write beautiful English folk music which has echoes of Denny and Drake.
Blake788 1 month ago
Thumbs up if wikipedia brought you here
steampunkthis 1 month ago 2
unfortunately it takes sad,messed up times ,love break ups to inspire the best work,via the worst feelings,nick translated it perfectly i think,hell of a price to pay.a short life but he left some VERY wothy songs,.What will you leave?
johntchb 1 month ago
I'm going a really depressing folk trip. Elliott Smith, Nick Drake, and Jackson C. Frank. What a sad bunch of fellows.
alexsweeley 1 month ago 3
Do you think that if he see people's reaction to his songs today, would he have changed?
EmanuelHaggai 2 months ago
you kind of wasted my precious time...WOW...his time was precious
hanna14394 2 months ago
is there any better than Nick Drake....
hanna14394 2 months ago 3
Classic.
lenard1977 2 months ago
I love Nick Drake's voice, but this is just too rushed and fast for my liking. I adore Bob's original.
JuliaSnoops 2 months ago
Don't agree with evilthesaurus – Dylan is not a great singer in terms of being pitch perfect but he certainly is not tone deaf. His voice often gets criticized in the this way but he would not have lasted as long and have been so revered if that voice did not have more feeling and soul than any other singer of the folk/blues genre. Nick Drake’s version of Don’t Think Twice sounds flat and soulless compared to Dylan. Nobody sings Bob like Bob.
AlanDoddsKeys 3 months ago
@AlanDoddsKeys I agree with your opinion of Bob Dylan's singing and I too believe it is a fact that no cover stands up to the original but I do think this version has soul in its own way. Especially considering I believe the lyrics relate well to the life of Nick Drake.
parabola1212 2 months ago
He's rushing b/c he was prob manic at the time. He had a long history of Axis II mental illness, (bipolar or schiz.) It sometimes goes hand and hand w/ artistic, semi-genius people. Shame he died young, most of them do. The 1960s' were not the renissaince of the 'mental health profession'.
jmahon17 4 months ago
@jmahon17
i think he was only depressed, and in later life starting to show signs of psychosis
skw1zz 3 months ago
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search nicolas and the iceni summer's end. they write beautiful english folk music which has echoes of drake and denny.
Blake788 4 months ago
he was the man
larahcbar 4 months ago
the only man that could do this song besides bob.
evilthesaurus 4 months ago 31
@evilthesaurus
John Martyn did a reasonable cover on his London Conversation album. The album also contains a cover of Robin Frederick's 'Sandy Grey', a song written about Nick drake.
Jonocynic9 4 months ago
@Jonocynic9 was the song he did about nick drake not his own solid air?
eamisagomey 3 months ago
@eamisagomey
Yes, JM wrote 'Solid Air' 5 or 6 years after covering R Fredericks 'Sandy Grey'. Robin was a friend of Nick's and although she wrote the song about him, she only recently released it commercially herself.
Jonocynic9 3 months ago
@evilthesaurus Bob can't play for shit, he's the only great musician who shouldn't play or sing music.
thekkl 3 months ago
@thekkl
what the fuck does that mean? don't shit on bob, he's great.
evilthesaurus 3 months ago
@evilthesaurus It means I like most of the songs he writes but I think he's tonedeaf so I prefer to listen to covers.
thekkl 3 months ago
@thekkl
okay, fair enough, man.
evilthesaurus 3 months ago
@thekkl Bob Dylan can't play well? Have you heard his Freewheelin' album? There is some excellent guitar playing on that album. Including the original of this song, which has very good fingerstyle accompaniment.
shazaaammm 2 months ago
@evilthesaurus Ramblin' Jack Elliott does it best (and I love Drake and Dylan, but Elliott brings something to this song in particular neither of those two do)
BenjiMordino 3 months ago
@BenjiMordino
yeah, I agree.
evilthesaurus 3 months ago
@evilthesaurus John Martyns version is better than both Bob Dylans and Nick Drakes in my opinion
Mrmojorisin3485 2 months ago
@Mrmojorisin3485
okay, I'll check it out! :)
evilthesaurus 2 months ago
@Mrmojorisin3485 oh how true !its still on the tube .go to samhesgreat bonnie realy nice doggie vid but soundtrack of yours truly the biz .
49mrjd 2 months ago
@evilthesaurus Johnny Marr did a cover and nailed it.
princeoftidds 1 month ago
@princeoftidds
oh, I'm sure he did. Johnny is at the top of the music spectrum, for sure.
evilthesaurus 1 month ago
@evilthesaurus I dont know about that. Ramblin Jack Elliot dose it pretty good. The best in my opinion.
spinesales 1 month ago 2
@spinesales
I'll check it out, thanks.
evilthesaurus 1 month ago
@evilthesaurus two words. Billy Paul.
yourideweride 3 weeks ago
does anyone else see the cat's face in this picture?
pottso21 5 months ago
@pottso21 I see actually 3..
Might be my huge imagination :D
emilysfeather 5 months ago
Is that an Aperture Science logo in the corner of the picture?
jpatc4 5 months ago 4
best version of this song IMO
inmemoryofpluto 5 months ago
Its actually not a great cover, Dylans voice fits this song much better, sorry everyone.
lynus111 6 months ago
@lynus111 And the finger picking its better on Dylan version,this is the same nick uses too many times for my like...
tioteresoproductions 6 months ago
@lynus111 Shouldn't be sorry for giving an opinion...
theDyingWhale 6 months ago 3
@theDyingWhale Hey, theDyingWhale. You're cool.
iwantwatermellon 6 months ago
@lynus111 I like how you say this as your opinion is the end-all. i agree with you, but everyones opinions are different dude. Be open minded :)
JacolynOWNS 5 months ago
@JacolynOWNS I am open minded..but I am pushing against people who throw the word genius (and words like it), at almost any old song they happen to enjoy. I hope you take the time to educate them that to gove words resonance, then you need to give them some perspective. People on YT eat a cheese sandwich and descrive it as 'amazing, or legendary' In the same way the would descrive hot are ballooning over the pyraneese. Language is so devalued (like everything else)
lynus111 5 months ago
@lynus111 I am an English major who is in the middle of completing her first book, trust me I know the value of language. You have to understand that when these people say he's a "genius", it's simply their opinion. It's called a hyperbole, and people all over the world do it every day. I agree that this cover leaves something to be desired, but it's music. Music is different for everyone.
JacolynOWNS 5 months ago
@JacolynOWNS I know what hyperbole is, and I agree people all over the world do it every day, and I stand by my point that the meaning of many words has become devalued. and our language has become the worse for it.
lynus111 5 months ago
now all that's left is for Dylan to cover Drake ;)
ProducShuns 6 months ago 3
It's Tamworth not Tanworth. :)
bloodnokian 6 months ago
@bloodnokian There's Tamworth in Staffordshire, but Nick was from Tanworth-in-Arden which is a village in Warwickshire.
YoodellyHoo 6 months ago
@YoodellyHoo Yup you're right, totally forgot I'd commented here I must've been drunk :p I should've known as I visited his grave there when I lived in the Midlands.
bloodnokian 6 months ago
got goosebumps with this one, very REAL
alistairproductions 6 months ago
He drags me to the grayness. Buried tears inside me come out.
NittaSuper 6 months ago
@NittaSuper You can get cream for that
lynus111 6 months ago
I wouldn't call this Nick Drake at his best. In fact, I don't even recognize his voice here, and the interpretation seems mannered. It's interesting as a curiosity, as a nugget uncovered late, but I'll take his own music any day.
proexpression 7 months ago
Nick Drake + Bob Dylan = Win
johnfletcher3 7 months ago 3
Simply amazing guitar work.
clarkewi 7 months ago
I would kill a baby for a bob dylan covers album done by nick drake.
girlsailor123 7 months ago
God damn... What a beautiful cover.
CarcusHuck 7 months ago
Thanks for uploading... never heard this. It's nice finding wee gems like this :)
hannahmwalsh 7 months ago
Incredible!
moreglitterlesswar 7 months ago
Nick drake, just did not get this one. Emphasis on the wrong words among other glaring interpretation errors.
One has to sing this song like you really lived it.
Yet to hear a better rendition than bob Dylan's version.
Ashawobabe 8 months ago
@Ashawobabe
strange comment. do you really think nick drake didn't 'get' this song? we all get it don't we - us plebs - it's wonderful, and beautiful, and affects us intimately - but lost on nick you reckon - too much for the poor troubled lad?? funny.
benjamgreen 6 months ago
why do people always rush through this song
foresttdog 9 months ago 29
@foresttdog Ramblin' Jack
BenjiMordino 3 months ago
@foresttdog Because the syncopation is a b!t(c)# . If you listen to the Witmark Demos version (Bootleg series vol 9 ? I think?) You'll see Dylan tries very hard to slow it down and make every note known. KNOWN in a biblical way! If you speed it up and throw away some of the intricate picking, it is easier to sing and play it simultaneously. I am an OK at guitar, so I'm just now trying to slow down and get it all put together; I have worked on it for 11 years (on and off, of course).
dranonymous2000 2 months ago
I really like what he did with this...love his song, love Dylan and now I'm beginning to love Nick Drake :)
AllenandHammond 9 months ago
@AllenandHammond Finding Nick Drake is like finding buried treasure - a life changing experience.
clarkewi 7 months ago
oh yes, get the song title right, or else difficult to find !
triumphkirsten 9 months ago
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OMG..., finally found the ORIGINAL Bob Dylan version of this song (serch after this):
"Bob Dylan- Dont Think Twice It's All Right (original) "
The song takes 3:40, and is not the first on the list......
anderskousgaard 9 months ago
Does anyone have the link to the originall by Bob Dylan??? I cant seem to find it :(.
azza1356 9 months ago 4
@azza1356 I think you'll find that is because Bob and/or the people who Own his Music, copyrights, publishing rights etc. have very actively removed almost all Dylan original songs and videos from Youtube and the entire web. I have myself seen songs removed within a minute of being posted. Try the Official Vevo or Bob Dylan sites but do not expect to get Anything without Paying.
Tornfreedom 8 months ago
@Tornfreedom And I bet too that a lot of people have had their accounts terminated because of being given Copyright strikes for uploading Dylan stuff. I would imagine Sony Music are quick to do this if anyone attempts to upload any Dylan material.
paulph12002 8 months ago
Drake covering Dylan *swoon* :O :O :O so good
ProducShuns 10 months ago 4
My goodness this is Gold.
Thank You for posting,have never heard this before.
Favourited.
gordonw01 10 months ago
The name of the song is "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right", not alright. Why does everyone get this wrong?
aborins 11 months ago
@aborins why are you such an anal-retentive grammar nazi?
laywastethepoet 10 months ago
@laywastethepoet You have mislabelled me. I simply pointed out that the name of the song is wrong. It has nothing to do with grammar.
aborins 10 months ago
this is the greatist verision to me, its the song I left my wife to
sydneydowful 1 year ago
I love the original, but this is so amazing. 1:20 gave me major shivers.
Lacey2377 1 year ago
Beautiful voice.
psychkoala 1 year ago
Prefer Bobs version but this isn't bad
darthkrueger 1 year ago
I really don't understand why he wasn't huge. I MEAN COME ON, NICK IS AMAZING.
but, i guess at the same time i feel more connected to him this way, like he's something on a small amount of people in the world have, hard to explain.
Hibtwa91 1 year ago
Great, best cover of this song! Like he had written it, gives you the creeps.
Ivothebest77 1 year ago
JustAintthatWay 1 year ago
somethings missing
crazydiamond225 1 year ago
Absolutely BETTER than Dylan's original! Voice, rythm, guitar playin... Dylan's voice is a duck's voice, Drake had a so beautiful voice...
difolk 1 year ago
@difolk Come on dude, neither of them could sing particularly well. People don't listen to them for thier singing.
sthugh 1 year ago
@sthugh I don't agree, ok Drake is particularly famous and appreciated for his guitar playing, his lyrics, his "folk"... But I'm sorry, open your ears! His voice is very soft, whispered, it's like honey for the ears. I love Nick Drake also for his voice, and I hate Dylan's one! I am REALLY sensitive to Drake's voice timbre and it's a big part of why I love so much his music, I'm sure that all the people who like it will tell you the same! Without this sweet voice, his music wouldn't be the same!
difolk 1 year ago 3
@difolk Drake only has one or two songs I like, River Man being the best. His whispery voice is grating. Open your ears, and start listening to some real singers! His guitar playing is simple, but that appeals to beginner guitarists looking for inspiration. His song writing is pedestrian, but he was just a kid, so I don't expect much in that department. After all, real authors seldom write anything worth reading before they're middle-aged. Drake has a certain appeal to the very young though.
sthugh 1 year ago
@difolk Say what you want about Dylan's voice, but he sounded better on this particular song than Drake, and Drake certainly muffed up the arrangement. Some of Drake's tunes were pretty good, but this is certainly among the worst of his recordings.
sthugh 1 year ago
@sthugh
Yes, one would really need to be a hardcore Drake cultist to claim it's better than Dylan's original! I've heard dozens of versions and this is the worst ever by a well known, respected musician.
FungusMossGnosis 1 year ago
@FungusMossGnosis We can't discuss tastes, it's just a question of feeling, so I don't blame you to prefer Dylan's version or to like or dislike Drake's music, but you can't say that THIS is the WORST version of this song, it has no sense when you know that for me, it's the BEST EVER! You don't have the absolute truth. About Drake's writing, it's clear that he read a lot of english poetry and his lyrics are really good, it's a style, different of Dylan's one, but not bad so far!
difolk 1 year ago
@difolk
Don't make assumptions: I do like Drake's music. Not to the point where I can't be critical of it, though.
I didn't call it "the worst ever" without qualifying I was classifying it worst among revered musicians. And I didn't have you in mind, wasn't trying to offend you. I didn't know you'd be reading and responding to my comment!
Who are you - ? - my name's Patrick. Sorry we got off on the wrong foot...
FungusMossGnosis 1 year ago
@FungusMossGnosis I'm nit a cultists, just more sensitive to Drake's interpretation than Dylan's. Is this so hard to believe? And about good singing, I know what I'm talking about because I'm one of the biggest fans of SAM COOKE. I consider him like the best singer who ever lived, and his singing has absolutely no connexion with Drake's one, but I'm still very sensitive to Drake's singing, you don't need to yell to have a good voice, and I'm sorry but Dylan's voice doesn't touch me
difolk 1 year ago
@FungusMossGnosis And finally, just to answer your comments, about Drake's guitar playin, he's famous in the guitarists family, as a mysterious and very good musician, his guitar chords are still a mystery, very complicated, very personnal, he could play the blues so good! I'm gonna repeat a quote I heard "Whatever he was a white english boy, he could have been a tuna sandwich, he would still have play the blues perfectly"
difolk 1 year ago
@difolk
No, no one has the "absolute truth", and no one is infallible either (Drake included). I know he's a good guitarist - I've heard all his records. He botched this one. I don't ask that you agree with me.
And if you're trying to convince me you're not a wide-eyed cultist, you're not making a great case of it. Sorry to disturb your sense of piety, now go ahead and let whatever music enchants you be your guide. Don't let anybody tell you your taste is lacking.
Unlike sthugh, I like most ND
FungusMossGnosis 1 year ago
@FungusMossGnosis Hi Patrick, My name is Elodie, I recognize I'm a fan of Nick Drake's music, very sensitive to his voice and I don't understand how people can prefer Dylan's version of this song, but like I said, tastes can't be discussed... But you know this tune wasn't destenied to be sold, Drake recorded it alone in his bedroom at home, there are so few of songs of him, that people take everything thay find! And that's what I like in it, it's crude, devoid of frills, just the emotion :)
difolk 1 year ago 5
@difolk Yes. Considering this was a home recording that was never intended to be released commercially, I think it's a pretty good version. Some people here are discussing it critically as if it was a full studio recording from one of his albums.
paulph12002 1 year ago 2
@sthugh Sorry, My 3 last comments were for you, not Fungus...
difolk 1 year ago
brilliant but not as good as Bob Dylan, there's just something about the way Dylan sings the song
eaterHP 1 year ago 2
pretty fast, Nick
dylanizer1 1 year ago 5
I like this version better than dylans!
neillconnor 1 year ago 4
I've heard numerous covers to this song, and this one is by far my favorite. I even like it better than Dylan's original. Thank you for posting this!
PumaRaye 1 year ago 4
LOVE IT
Karkar82 1 year ago
skips
mpalau88 1 year ago
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I've listened to all of Five Leaves Left, Bryter Layter, Pink Moon, Time of No Reply, and Family Tree, and I must say, that this is the first Nick Drake song/cover I just don't care for. I love all of his other stuff, but maybe he shouldn't cover Dylan who was already amazing at that time.
buggafutz27 1 year ago
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ginnyxwotsit 1 year ago 36
@ginnyxwotsit I'm an absolute huge BD fan but I agree
Rory99M 11 months ago 3
@Rory99M Yeah, Dylan's the man. But Nick made this song his own. The melody/pace is better.
ginnyxwotsit 11 months ago
@buggafutz27
I agree wholly with you. He slips up here. And I think Ramblin' Jack Elliott did this song best, Baez second best, Dylan 3rd!
FungusMossGnosis 1 year ago
@FungusMossGnosis Doc Watson's version had all those beat by a mile.
sthugh 1 year ago
@sthugh
I should listen to the Doc Watson version then! Maybe I'm biased - I was only 5 feet away from Jack Elliott when he performed it recently.
FungusMossGnosis 1 year ago
Amazing
mac899 1 year ago 13
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fuck bob dylan
krentie 1 year ago
@krentie haha you wish
ediglo 1 year ago
@krentie
naa fuck you:)
0J1MY 1 year ago