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However, that does not make his music bad at all and in my opinion makes it even better. Not to mention most of the songs are 2-3 minutes long.My favorite songs on the CD are Pink Moon, Place To Be, Road, Things Behind The Sun, Parasite, and Free Ride. With all these new bands hustling together and releasing songs with auto tuning or otherwise busy and unnatural music, it is good to listen to CD because the simplicity of all the songs is really fresh and draws you in. I like the CD because it's short and you can listen to it all in one sitting easier than most CD's out there. This is a 5 star CD for me. The only two things you hear on this CD is Nick Drake and his beautiful acoustic guitar, with the exception of a few bars in the song "Pink Moon" where a piano actually comes in. Certainly, Nick Drake is what I would call an acquired taste and not for the mainstream audience.
But merely an expression. The ramifications of emotions and memories this album brings are at times overwhelming.This Album embodies all I ever wanted to achieve, and all that I have.In the most simple definition Pink Moon represents the true shape of music. No more, no less. Nobody knew he was making an album.
Pink Moon will always hold a special place in my heart. And that is what music should be.Is so easy to indulge ourselves with production details and ideals. This is not about making a statement, creating greatness, or re-designing the laws of music. Not only was this my first introduction to the Artist.
He turned in the master tapes and proclaimed "I have no more songs left to sing".This is just a man and his guitar. That we forget what true music should be. But was also my first CD exchange with a dear friend. Music in its purest form and most beautiful shade.Recorded over two nights in October 1971.
His complex composing and full guitar playing--he could strum, pick, and almost orchestrate with a simple accustic--make these full songs, rich in sound like jazz classical minitures. But Drake was no strummer. The sad Drake alone is a whisful, poiniant experiance, and listening to the beatiful music on Pink Moon is a trip like few others--queiting and disquieting, sad and comforting.Essential There are three eseential Nick Drake albums: Five Leaves Left with its chamber folk, Bryter Layter with its huge arrangements. and Pink Moon.Pink Moon is bassically Drake on solo accustic guitar.
A place where hope lives wrapped in a dark curtain. It has been said many times before but it bears repeating.this is a masterpiece. I own 3 copies of this cause I'm concerned that I might lose the first two. 28 wonderful minutes of music that will stand the test of time.
To people curious about Nick Drake, I'd recommend the `Best Of'-compilations WAY TO BLUE or A TREASURY; when his music has begun to grow on you and you want more (there's barely any chance you wouldn't want more), PINK MOON may be best after FIVE LEAVES LEFT and BRYTER LAYTER. This bewilderment follows me pretty much throughout the album, as Nick's often very emotionally challenging lyrics are accompanied by sometimes soft, other times hard-picking guitar playing:"Changing the rope for a size too smallPeople all get hungTake a look you may see me coming throughFor I am a parasite who travels two by two."It does hurt, but what hurts can sometimes also relieve.I'll admit I rarely listen through the entire PINK MOON, compared to Nick Drake's other two albums, which I listen through fairly often. This is possibly why some find it difficult to listen through in its entirety, but also why it is so brutally beautiful.To me, PINK MOON makes my view of the atmosphere, of all the things I see, lightly grey. I'm sure others will advise you differently, but this is based on my personal experience. There are definite hints of light that enter once in a while, but we never actually confront them; when I first listened to the opening track, "Pink Moon," it had a most relaxing effect on me. This was Nick Drake's last completed album, and it is indeed hard to not, in some sense, imagine the singer-songwriter's presence through the atmosphere of the lyrics and the minimalistic sound, especially if one feels a personal connection to his music, as I do.
The astonishing thing is that whatever the singer himself had in mind as he recorded the album, the music that resulted from the two-day session can also reach the listener on a deeply personal, almost private level. There are three or four songs here which I play regularly, the rest is saved for grey days. Yet, as is often the case when I review the work of talented but somehow troubled artists, I believe what should first and foremost receive spotlight is that what the artist left us stands as something worthy of memory on its own, irregardless of whether one cares to draw parallells between this work and the life of the artist. As I gradually paid more attention to the lyrics, however, I realized that I'd been tricked; "it's gonna get ye all." Yet I didn't feel tricked, just bewildered. PINK MOON is a beautiful final chapter to the all too brief career of a beautiful poet and musician, but while the surface may be easy to chew, some of it can be hard to swallow; and if you know Nick Drake, you know that isn't meant to be an insult. There's no doubt that PINK MOON reflects something very personal about Nick; possibly more than before, it seems that his music functioned as an outlet to him.
We have no idea whether it is light or dark that surrounds us, and as long as the album is running, there is really no need for us to know.
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