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| Pink Moon | 
 enlarge | Artist: Nick Drake
Label: Umvd Import
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (277 reviews)
Sales Rank: 1604
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.7 x 4.8 x 0.5
MPN: 842923
UPC: 042284292320
EAN: 0042284292320
ASIN: B000025XKM
Release Date: May 6, 2003
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| Tracks:
| • | Pink Moon | | • | Place to Be | | • | Road | | • | Which Will | | • | Horn | | • | Things Behind the Sun | | • | Know | | • | Parasite | | • | Free Ride | | • | Harvest Breed | | • | From the Morning |
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Album Description
Reissue of the late British folk icon's final full-length album, released in 1972. 11 tracks. Slipcase. Island.
Amazon.com
Pink Moon is the sound of Nick Drake cracking up. That's not exactly true--some have long thought that his death by an overdose of an anti-depressant was an accident, and not suicide--but this album, recorded over two late nights, certainly sounds like a fever dream. Peter Buck of R.E.M. has called the album "Like an English version of (Robert Johnson's great blues) `Hellhound on My Trail.'" The lyrics to the title song read in their entirety: "Saw it written and I saw it say, pink moon is on its way. None of you will stand so tall, pink moon is gonna get ye all. And it's a pink moon." Aside from a splash of piano, the only instrumentation on this stark and spooky collection is Drake's eloquent acoustic guitar. --John Milward
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Pink Moon November 30, 2008
Nick Drake-Pink Moon ****1/2
Pink Moon is one of the most alluring albums in the history of music. Both dark and ominous and yet somehow either hits you as a incredibly hopeful piece of music or the bleakest track listing this side of Big Stars THIRD album.
With songwriting so sharp and poetic it drives you nuts and encapsulates you with each listen. Acoustic guitar work to write home about combining to make a sheer classic.
Pink Moon is an album for all times, moods, and most importantly all collections.
So real, so true, so Nick Drake.... October 14, 2008
Many call this album stark, depressing, and disturbed. Yes, there are elements that are deeply sad, stark, and depressed, but I find most of the music beautiful, haunted, and beguiling. The title track is justifiably a Drake classic, and despite being used in a car commerical, I still love the song. The commercialisation of the song didn't hurt the integrity of it. Drake's music is like that. It's completely in its own universe than nothing can ever damage it. It's so pure and so unique. Nothing can poison it in the eyes of those who love this man's work.
This is the most stripped down album Drake ever did. It's just his voice, his guitar, his songwriting, and a touch of piano in the title track. That's all that's really needed. Despite the fact that his other albums have beautiful instrumentation (including appearances by Richard Thompson and John Cale), the stripped down quality of this recording really enhances it. I'm not going to say if this is my favorite Nick Drake album, but ultimately, it doesn't matter with him. All 3 of his albums are so unique and special there's no need to divide them up. They are like chapters in a book, all contributing to the greatness of the man himself. I miss Nick Drake quite a bit, but the albums will remain.
 Terrific guitar by a deceased wizard October 6, 2008
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Like Jesus, Nick Drake is a "resurrected musician" with terrific guitar sensibility who unfortunately died while young in the early 70s, perhaps of a drug overdose, perhaps suicide (it's unclear.) He was re-discovered, posthumously, by an advertising person who played his music in an excellent Volkswagen ad. While Drake has a wonderful gift for creating beautiful guitar sounds through open-tunings and off-beat tempos, his writing is lackluster and imagistic and often melancholy, somewhat blurry. His singing voice is high-pitched, unusual, with overtones of American Indian religious chanting. So Drake is on the verge of singer-songwriter excellence, in my view, but not quite there. I think what's happened is that people today feel guilty because of Drake's untimely death and, as a result, have resurrected him to a status that may not be deserved. There's a cult underground of guitarists who extol his music but I wonder whether his reputation is overinflated because of his early tragedy; if he had lived, perhaps Drake would have become the wonderful songwriter which people presume him to be.
Subtle, Beautiful, and Strange August 26, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Nick Drake, sort of an English James Taylor who never got to get old or bald or sell out. "Pink Moon" is his last, just voice and guitar and gentle eccentricity, slightly haunted. No one else sounds or writes like him. Makes for good company on a rainy day or a windy night when you're alone. Put on a pot of tea. You might even listen to it twice in a row.
PINK MOON RISING July 20, 2008
Like, and not like, ROBERT JOHNSON's Blues, PINK MOON is NICK DRAKE's masterpiece for the fan of Folk Rock, but this record Rocks not, yet is quite Bluesy. The unusual and spare guitar, with NICK DRAKE's unique tuning, is reminiscent of the great American Blues artists like JOHNSON and SKIP JAMES, and yet, it is something else, something other, something more. These short songs are constructed of DRAKE's idiosyncratic guitar and melancholy lyrics that are not quite circular, but softer, more introspective and I'd dare say "organic," and only because NICK DRAKE is so... different. And also because his expressions are all Earthy: morning moon sun stars ...Yet like the Blues, these tunes have deeply personal themes borne of individual pain.
Not really Orpheus wooing Eurydice with a guitar (as the Rolling Stone Album Guide calls it) it's more rustic than that, Celtic, but still timelessly dreamy, ethereal, and yes, a bit spooky, PINK MOON is an artist fully realizing his potential and expressing it. Ephemeral, romantic, insidiously charming, alluringly poetic, PINK MOON is the record that music lovers eventually find, will find, should find, in their dreamscape. Unforgettable and indescribable, this soft, lilting record is of a voice not really like anyone you've heard before, and won't hear again, unless you know or have known the dark angel murmuring in your dream night.
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