Lovely write up. It has been decades since I’ve played a Nick Drake album in its entirety and your post is a reminder that I ought to do so. I hadn’t seen his albums as split half full/empty (not your words, but the gist) before and that likely is due to my lack of lyrical attention.
As a lover of a gorgeous sentence, your last -- “even Sunday is sitting in Saturday’s sun, weeping for a day gone by as the delicate and melancholic forty-one minutes that preceded it comes to a close” -- is sublime.
"I first heard Nick Drake's ‘River Man’ on a Chill Out complication cover-mounted CD from Q magazine in Nov 2000." Aha, I had almost exactly the same introduction, although mine was "One Of These Things First", possibly on am NME CD, but definitely late 2000.
"Northern Sky" is a beautiful, beautiful song. That must have been lovely.
Lovely write up. It has been decades since I’ve played a Nick Drake album in its entirety and your post is a reminder that I ought to do so. I hadn’t seen his albums as split half full/empty (not your words, but the gist) before and that likely is due to my lack of lyrical attention.
As a lover of a gorgeous sentence, your last -- “even Sunday is sitting in Saturday’s sun, weeping for a day gone by as the delicate and melancholic forty-one minutes that preceded it comes to a close” -- is sublime.
Thanks Steve, too kind. I can't take much of the credit for that last line, most of it is from the song!
Ha! Well, you get credit for knowing how to recontextualize the line into your piece, then!
"I first heard Nick Drake's ‘River Man’ on a Chill Out complication cover-mounted CD from Q magazine in Nov 2000." Aha, I had almost exactly the same introduction, although mine was "One Of These Things First", possibly on am NME CD, but definitely late 2000.
"Northern Sky" is a beautiful, beautiful song. That must have been lovely.
Ha, I instantly knew which cover mount that was https://www.discogs.com/release/1047592-Various-NME-Presents-Under-The-Influence from the influential issue in late Nove 2000 https://www.nme.com/news/music/david-bowie-343-1306703
Lol, very impressive, that is *exactly* the one