First listen to Nick Drake - Which Will (REACTION) 

Parasite is perhaps the saddest song on the album to me. Nick’s view of himself as a parasite, taking, and giving nothing. When really his music has given so much to so many. But that’s how he saw it.

@@sopyleecrypt6899 the whole record almost plays like Nick asking questions about why his music is not making it Daniel's allusion to this in this video is extra prescient, is the song not a romantic plea but a plea for recognition, a way of asking "Whose music are you preferring to mine and why?"

Although this album is considered to be his classic, most of my favourite songs contain orchestration. That's why he has to do "Five Leaves Left" and "Bryter Layter" sometime down the road!

Cello Song and From The Morning are my faves. :)

You are welcome.

To me, it’s even sadder than that. I’m not sure it’s even objectively true that this kind of music was out of favour - if by that you mean singer/songwriter music, because artists like Neil Young and James Tay;or were about to dominate the 70s with their acoustic-based music, and even Nick’s friend John Martin went on to a successful career. I think the real reason was Drake’s inability to perform live. I have a friend who saw Drake at a university gig in England, and he said nobody noticed he was onstage, they talked all the way through his set. He was just to delicate a talent for the music industry.

@@ronbock8291 I think it’s a mistake to liken Nick’s music to Neil Young’s or James Taylor’s. Though I would not call Nick a folk singer, his style was from the folk tradition, whereas those two wonderful artists were much closer to modern pop/rock music. That’s what I meant about a style going out of fashion. Folk was popular in the ‘60s but not so much in the 70s. Joni Mitchell, an artist who was similar to Nick at one point, changed and "modernized" her style after starting out as a folkie. Nick did not. I do not criticize him for this. His style was beautiful just as it was, but perhaps not what the public wanted at the time. As to his not performing live holding him back, you might have a point, but one of the most successful recording acts of the ‘70s, Steely Dan, was notorious for hardly ever performing live. It did not keep them from selling a ton of albums. That is quite a sad story about Nick’s being ignored on stage because he was so quiet, and I think it points up what happened to him: he was just too quiet to be heard in the loud, glittering world of’70s popular music.

@@danl.909 I believe that Nick wasn’t a bombastic performer. He wouldn’t talk between songs, interact with the audience. The audience didn’t have the patience to wait for him to tune/retune his guitar for the different songs. Such a shame, people weren’t ready for him and he was too delicate to wait for them to catch up!

Combine for sure. Skip over, i don't think so!

Sad and beautiful

This is actually not at all ideal for me, I have done far more album in full in one video, or going album side by album side. However, lately I've been finding that my intervals of time for recording these have decreased a lot (I also listen to full albums on my own time pretty much daily). Anyways, that's generally why I've been doing a more track by track approach here lately... I do intend to listen to the whole thing from front to back when I finish making videos about it:)