The Parts You Don't Hear - Nick Drake 

It's a pity that Drake never knew the lasting effect his music would have.

Only in the last couple of years did I come to hear of Nick. And that was because through genealogy I discovered that we were related! His great grandmother was my grandfather's sister!

First time I heard "Pink Moon" I was so stunned I had to replay the album five times in a row....

Before there was Elliott Smith, Sufjan Stevens, Iron & Wine, there was this guy. I remember buying Bryter Layter at a gas station CD bin back in 2010 simply because I remember seeing his Nick's name listed on the Garden State soundtrack - that was the extent of my knowledge of Nick Drake. I thought Nick Drake was a more recent artist based on his sound. It didn't seem to have a specific date to it; Nick was very much his own voice. It wasn't until later that I realized he was from the late 60's and learned about his tragic career and death, which only made his work even more interesting to me. Ten years later and his work is still a common returning point of enjoyment and reflection.

I discover Nick's music in 1975. I was in a record store and loved the cover of Five Leaves Left. I had no idea who Nick was. I knew that I loved the cover. Little did I know that I would be introduced to a musician that would change my life forever. I think his music is more relevant regarding the covid19 epidemic. There is something about Nick's lyrics that I can't describe. Every night when my wife and I listen to him, we are always discovering something new. No one else like him and I am so honored to listen to him after all these years. A very special person!

I just discovered Nick Drake and I can honestly say he’s changed my life. I can barely get through the day without listening to a playlist of him...I often break down and cry

He's music makes me smile and cry at the same time.

Riverman is my favourite song of all time. I only discovered it in 2018, and I am not young.

Nick writes his own eulogy on Fruit Tree. It's incredible to think someone could write like this at only 20 years old.

I imagine what more magic he could have created, but thank goodness he left us this much. I miss someone I never even knew. 🖤

I grew up hearing Nick Drake on my parents’ favorite radio station all the time. His music became synonymous with peaceful mornings with family. When I got older and decided I wanted to learn about him, I was eager to see the type of man he was - and was so absolutely gutted when I read how he died. I cried, to know that his music meant so much to me and so many others and he never knew. Tears falling just now thinking of that moment. Like losing a friend I never had. Thank you, Nick.

Not to take anything away from Nick (who I thoroughly enjoy) but after hearing an obscure cassette of his own mother singing decades ago at the home piano (a song she composed). I can see where Nick got his style, his tonality, phrasing & intonation. It's his Mom & Nick refined it & made it his own. And brought it to us. But...a belated thanks to his Mom also. She left Nick something he used wisely. (Is this my opinion? No. It was mentioned in a Nick Drake documentary by family members...it may have even been Nick's own sister).

i discovered Nick Drake in early 2000's when i heard his song, Northern Sky, played in the background on the last part of the movie, Serendipity. I fell deeply inlove with his voice and with the way he sung, and every details of the song feels magic. But i felt really sad when i learned that his music got the appreciation only when his not around already.. it was really a heart breaking story for me 💔

What an excellent musician. Great video

Pink Moon is an album reserved for the most isolated moments of emotion. Its unspeakable how much of an enigma it is

Totally agree with what the lady at 2:20 said! I happened upon "Pink Moon" in the soundtrack from a movie ("The Way" with Martin Sheen) and was struck by how fresh, unguarded, and CONTEMPORARY he sounded. Imagine how shocked I was to find out the album came out 50 years ago?!!? Even sadder to learn that he left this world so young.

hopefully I’ll listen to pink moon before I pass away just after the album had finished.

I liked this tribute from the fairporters, etc who were so instrumental in bringing his painfully shy persona to the ever growing audience that he deserves. i first heard him at an all night concert in london,of : the nice,yes, renaissance and peter hammil. andy dunkley the dj played 'man in a shed',from the forthcoming 5 leaves left lp,and it was as if i,d always knew him. then at the september concert in 1969 nicki drake appeared,and with john and beverley martyn too. a memory i still cherish,

These comments of praise for Nick Drake are obviously deep and sincere, but I would have appreciated even more than in this brief clip. In any case, Nick Drake remains a unique, powerful, solitary, mournful, heartache of a singer and guitar player--beautiful melancholy in such a resonant, rich voice.

"Listening to João Gilberto"? Amazing! I'm Brazilian and I've been listening to Nick Drake on RU-vid. All his work is... genius. Not because of his story. He's really amazing!

Just discovered him a short time ago and was instantly blown away at the depth of the material. River Man, Saturday Sun, Pink Moon and One Of These Things First are my absolute favorites but I'm still absorbing the rest over time. I keep going back to Nick Drake.

One of my favourite singer/songwriters of all time

I bought a record player with turntable for my son's birthday. Added 2 of Nick's albums. I knew my son would love this. (He is a guitar/rock player himself). Every now and then Nick's recorded songs are used in films. Recognise him straight away.

Thank you for uploading this 🙏

To understand Nick Drake watch 'A Skin to few'. To appreciate Nick Drake listen to his music many times 🙂

I thought that was Rachel Dratch for a second I was about to be like "the chick fom SNL listens to Nick Drake?" Anyways rest in peace to a legend, your music will live on forever

just brilliant

I spent a good 2 years learning Three Hours on guitar. The tab transcription was only a guide. Nick made every chorus and verse unique. I played parts over and over on a/b repeat, but stil had to approximate on some passages. Maybe one day I’ll be able to play at full speed. The revelation during the whole journey was that I was only LEARNING his song. At the age of 18 or 19, he COMPOSED this masterpiece and then performed it flawlessly both on vocals and guitar. I feel this is his best guitar work. His technique is right up there with Chet Atkins and Leo Kottke. Nick’s catchy melodies and intriguing lyrical content adds another dimension…Astoundingly, this is only one song off of that great debut album.

River Man is one of the greatest English Songs ever written in my opinion.

He was amazing, his finger picking style is so unique. You can really hear it on the entire Pink Moon album. Things Behind the Sun and Which Will are prime examples.

.. And now you're here; to light up my Northern sky

I heard Riverman in January on the BBC Radio 2 Folk Show, I thought it was a contemporary track from a new artist. Blown away to read all about Nick and his journey.

Stories like these NEED to be told

He would be doing great in todays world. I mean you do not have to walk the miles of struggle to promote anymore. His stuff is original, from the heart and amazingly well written.

This looks so good!! I need the whole thing!!!!!

I think it is probably something that folks planning to make a living out of making music should be aware of: It's entirely possible you could produce great music and have to wait a LONG time for an audience to catch on. I think it is bitterly ironic that apparently Nick was very disillusioned with a music industry that wouldnt hold him to it's breast and he didnt realise this was actually a bit of a blessing, the artistic freedom this could potentially have afforded him.

Whole family talented, sister an actress Gabriel Drake

Nick Drake would have been such a great father. I wish he could have overcome the feeling of not being good enough.

I first listened to Last Five in 1975, and thought then that it was the most impressive and interesting album I had ever heard. A truly original piece of both art and musical history. The guitar playing interested me least, because back then being able to play your instrument exceptionally well was sort of taken for granted. However the songs, lyrics, production, composition, arrangement, and above all Nicks haunting voice all put together was something quite sublime. Artists like Drake feel as though they are channeling something of the divine which has a habit of taking over their consciousness. It drives them to often become self destructive when others seem not to understand the sacrifices that this feeling obliges them to make. This leads to a rapid alianisation from the rest of humanity. Many especially the post war English middle class kids of his generation, where already alienated in many ways. They had the education, and other manifest benefits of a future administrative elite, without the religiously inspired self discipline required to deal with the privileged position that they have inherited, which their parents would have better had. Therefore already alienated from their own friends and family, when they also feel alienated from just about everybody else, they often simply fall apart. They don't all end up dying prematurely, but you can clearly see this social dysfunctionally in many of his ilk, from Mozart to Roger Waters.

Pink Moon is stuck in my head, I think from a more recent car commercial than the VW from years ago. Just learning about Nick Drake now who seemed to really suffer in this life. I hear a softer version of Cat Stevens and feel that Jack Johnson has been influenced, or sounds similar as well. Glad to have discovered Nick Drake whose music sounds both haunting and timeless.

When? when? when?when?WHEN?!?!?!......Can't wait.

recuerdo que empecé a escuchar a elliott smith y a nick drake en el 2009 pero no le prestaba mucha atención hasta que llego el 2012 y viaje a argentina y su música cobró sentido en mi vida, una vez fui a trabajar a un restaurante el primer día de entrevista entre y justamente estaba sonando nick drake fue un momento mágico, porque ya conectaba con nick desde que había llegado a buenos aires

Why does everything about Nick Drake leave me wanting for more? This documentary is just impossibley short but great just the same.

Everyone says they always thought you were the greatest once you're dead

I can hear the pain in his voice

I discovered Nick Drake about 10 yr ago. my favorite song of his is Time Has Told Me. After a song is written, the author makes a demo tape and takes it around to producers to get it to the next step. If a writer is not confident in his voice, he will hire a professional singer to cover it and take that recording around. After Nick wrote Time Has Told Me, he got Elton John to record it for him. I found that demo and have it as part of my ND collection. EJ did a good job with it. BTW, this all happened before EJ got fame.

i found out about nick drake from that old commercial.. i was in high school at the time.. i always remember that commercial being so peaceful and i never forgot it.. it was a car commercial where these friends were driving at night and listening to pink moon.. i think if i remember correct i saw an ad in an old magazine years later and it coincided with that commercial (same ad campaign), so i looked up the commercial and then found that the artist was nick drake.. thought the album was great and got a guy at my job into it also.. this was about 2010

He gave us too many poignant and cryptic lines to try and explain away our loss of him. Did he choose the road that got him through...did the Pink Moon get him or did he just get tired of a world with no replies? Who knows - thanks for the songs, Nick. They're great!

One word, wow, just wow, goosebumps

Awesome!

The album Pink Moon is one of the few contemporary works I can imagine being listened to and readily comprehended and appreciated in 1000 years' time. 'Classic' doesn't cover it.

I honestly thought he was a new musician I hadn’t heard of until I found this on you tube - I love everything about him !! Thanks

what's the latest on the film guys? :) can't wait!

First to like this! :) ..quite funny that last night i thought about still not having a first original pressing of the "Pink Moon" album, to then realize today, because of your facebook post, that Nick died exactly 44 years ago. While all his three albums are incredibly great (plus a lot of the the unreleased tracks that came out later), "Pink Moon" for me has the most special place of all albums of any artist i like / have in my collection. There were times i have been listening to that record for so many times.. oh boy.. And really great to hear what Andrew Scheps has to say about it. One of my favorite mixing engineers and such a kool guy. Thanks!

He was from another time. Music tells a story

Unknown Pleasures vs Closer, #1 Record vs Radio City, Nick's three albums. Whichever ones you pick you win, really. I love Bryter Layter because of the Jazz element. The album cover as well. I'm American and Nick Drake, The Fairport Convention, and Iain Matthews are magical to me.

Because of Michael Nesmith producing "Valley Hi" by Iain Matthews I learned of Fairport Convention. Because of them I learned of Nick Drake and heard the thoughtfully-assembled Island/Capitol U.S. compilation "Nick Drake" which blew me away. These decades later it's clear that the resonances he laid down will go on for a long time.

🙏 May Nick Drake be Blessed to a Better World & Realm ... 🕯🌷🌿🌍💜🕊🇬🇧

What a guy

Clearly Nick Drake had that indescribable ‘thing’ as a songwriter most other songwriters are trying to capture, but in which they fail, in spite of all musical knowledge and skill they put in. It’s not a rare phenomenon that these truly gifted musicians are initially banned from public attention just because others (especially music journalists) are unable to comprehend let alone define their talent. Just as it's not rare that final recognition comes too late for the artist himself. Sad but true.

I would like to know the people who bought his first album when it came out

Where can I see the full documentry of this? anyone....?

I love nick

He was ahead of his time timeless gone to soon

Could someone please tell me what the names of the first two musicians the American fella lists off at 00:14? I can't make them out! 😖😖

When will this ever come out?

First time i listened to pink moon (the song itself) i just immediately started crying like crazy. I liked music but i never felt *connected* to it. And it was so overwhelmingly different, i just couldn't process this whole new emotion. It was incredible. It made me understand just how meaningful and powerful music can be

still no surviving video of Nick Drake performing. At least there is 20 seconds surviving of Jackson C. Frank. And still a mystery of why Sandy Denny and Nick Drake never connected in their short careers, although both Nick and Sandy covered Jackson C. Frank songs, both connected with John Martyn, and Nick Drake apparently opened for Fairport Convention and Fairport band members played on almost half of one album.

Its A Tragic Pity That he Couldnt Give hes Records away in hes Time.He Died of Lack Of confidence Through Failure and Of Course the Overdose

I've never seen the image at 01:.04 until now! He's so cute.

I love Joe, but hey... sometimes he says he never talked with Nick about gilberto, then here he says he did.

When I first heard him, I thought, “This is the guy that Iron and Wine, Sufjan, and everyone else wants to be. He’s got it down.” Then I found out he died decades before I heard him.

Is this part of larger documentary

is that it?

Heard that Pink Moon was recorded with his back entirely to the engineer. Bloody amazing

RU-vid is rife with videos about musicians that contain no music by those musicians. I wish they would not bother.

Would be nice if the commenters were identified?

Why didn't this clip have Drake playing in the background, instead of that awful ambient shite?

Is this from a new documentary or something?

I've read a lot of your comments and see that many of you understand that Nick Drake had such a wonderful soul and mind! I have great news for all of you. In 2008 I was diagnosed with the same disorder and handed the same cocktail of medication as Heath Ledger! On the day that they diagnosed me we lost Heath Ledger! I ran home that day and turn the news on. I couldn't believe what I was hearing and then I too was diagnose and prescribe so much medication. These two events that happened on the same day fueled me to start studying the brain. I knew that we had to be doing something different inside the brain that they had not figured out! For a whole year I studied Heath Ledger. Day and night for a year I studied his brain pattern as well as mine. My brain pattern and Heath pattern became like a stencil. During the time that I was studying Heath I noticed that Heath also was probably studying Nick Drake. To make this short and sweet Heath was like my first Domino and then he led me to my second Domino which was Nick Drake. From 2008 to 2015 I studied all of them and I do mean all of them!!! In fact my third Domino was Michael from INXS! To help everyone to comprehend what we are doing inside the brain I would like everyone to read Malcolm Gladwell The Tipping Point. To also explain in a short sweet way to what we are doing inside the brain I'm going to use some of their lyrics and artwork. Let's start with Cello since all of you understand how beautiful it is. Listen to the song one More Time before you read on. I'm sharing an article down below. I want you to picture a Tipping Point for a syndrome. Without dopamine and brain chemistry you just might be Elegantly Wasted! Ben Harper & Heath Ledger's Morning Yearning shows figurines at a yield than the song and engages and the figurines start to move which is another artistic symbol for dopamine to cross over! one more artist which is Chester Bennington because if you have no dopamine in your brain can actually be numb and somebody that's like the teacher in the video could actually create syndromes! Ladies and gentlemen the article below shows your Black Hole sun! The Tipping Point level that we are on is a very high genius a lover and a fighter as well!!! www.psypost.org/2019/02/listening-to-the-music-you-love-will-make-your-brain-release-more-dopamine-study-finds-53059?fbclid=IwAR2MnKYk5ovQvuOKLGubEHJyAkWGh2VdpA-mllF1t_S1wQHUX8Qvl_UkXZs

If someone would’ve explained to him that mighty oaks grow slowly , maybe he’d be in a treehouse

First time I heard his song was in 7Pounds movie..since then it's been a part of me.

Shame you didn’t put up a caption identifying everyone. I have no idea who most of those people are…😊

So nobody ever said while Nick was alive, " Hey let's get a motion picture camera rollin' on this man!" (?)

Crazy what he says in fruit tree about the fame... Like talking about his future after dying

Having my glasses not on, I misread "the farts you don't hear". sry...XD

:(

Nobody mentioned the fact that Nick refused to perform live. R.I.P. Nick Drake.

I hate to compare but in my opinion he was better than all the british folk artists of the time. Bert Jansch was a great guitarist but I even think Nick's guitar playing was more interesting.

Nick Drake was at Marlborough College at the same time as Chris De Burgh. De Burgh asked him if they could sing together, Drake declined..

I know some people really like it a lot, and Peter Buck thinks it may be a 'perfect' album, but for me, "Bryter Layter" was overproduced, taking away too much of the innate power and resonance of what made Drake's songs so great- his voice, lyrics and guitar playing. I'll always prefer "Pink Moon" and "Five Leaves Left" and some of the other songs that have come out since that are just or mostly just him and his guitar as he sings with that amazing voice.

plate of sushi....

I dont think booking him into working mens clubs at the time was the greatest move. pearls before swine someone called it

Why did Donovan make it and not Nick- at least not in North America and we all know what happened and I still cry- there is a feeling of "not selling, not making it" - I KNEW, as a young woman, I fell in love, but the small Canadian city I lived in, nobody had heard of him but me and a very small group of hippies- but everybody had Donovan, who I still love, Dylan, and Cat Stevens- WHY IS THERE A PERSISTENT FEELING, NOW RE-EXAMINED- " NICK DRAKE DIDNT MAKE IT"? In Montreal where I next moved too, still at home, the ONLY Canadian city to dare to play Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg "in flagrante delicto" sp? You know the song, I can't spell Engligh yet let alone, French Je t'aime- Moi Non Plus- close enough? There is STILL THE COMPLETE OPPOSITE OF WHAT YOU LOVELY PEOPLE SAID, FLOATING ABOUT IN CYBERSPACE- Nick committed The Big Chill because nobody bought his records, Donovan is selling like hotcakes as I imagine we're, Pentangle and Fairport and The Incredible Stringband- my dates, I love, bought, STILL listen to them all- the contemporary guy would be Elliott Smith who I also dig- I wish I'd had more than 2 min. from you people several of whom knew him? Or not? You obviously know much more about the mechanics of music and the business of marketing, selling, etc. As a Canadian I think of my Number One - I think Nick's producer Joe Boyd? turned him away- LEONARD COHEN. Also a frustrated wanna-be who wasn't a wanna-be in Canada in literary circles- he was our top selling poet, the next big thing, promoted by wonderful, brash, Irving Layton also a poet and his prof. and mentor- Nick's voice was soft, so was Donovan's - whoever is on the other end of this, profer an opinion- yes, I know about the concert, Way to Blue, I was in tears, I adore Lisa Hannigan and actually bought VASHTI back then, the dark, Marianne Faithfull- well Marianne hadn't come out of her cocoon- I meant Andrew Oldham's brunette version- none of my so-called high school friends had heard of her- not in cosmopolitan Montreal. Where I spent most of my teens, the city named for London, England, perhaps due to two Englishmen, one a record shop owner, the other a Coffeehouse, both VERY COOL- maybe? I could rattle on and on- if anybody, I know you are all, busy, important people but my issue isn't odd- Nick had more fans, posthumously- why? Namaste from I Woke in the Middle of the Night and Nick was Humming, Summer was gone and the heat died down...alias, Holly Golightly

I dream of a day when Five Leaves Left and Bryter Later would also be offered with ONLY guitar and vocals.

One of those awful documentaries they make these days which are all talking heads. Oh, how I hate them.

Well that was a waste of time

Stupid title to this !?!? 🐂💨💨💨💨💨💨💨

"How come you stopped playing?" "My fingers froze." ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xazCMc7Q26E.htmlsi=yqLQ-iDRqC4Sv-To