sublime and simple (Way To Blue: An Introduction To Nick Drake - Nick Drake)

Member Name: utero

Product:	Way To Blue: An Introduction To Nick Drake - Nick Drake
Date:	10/12/00 (172 review reads)
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Advantages: calm, good lyrics, simple

Disadvantages: so soothing you may fall asleep

I first encountered Nick Drake on a film soundtrack and was hooked on his simple but beautiful songs. I wanted to hear more of his stuff and this is the perfect cd to start with. The cd is stated as an introduction to Nick Drake and it contains songs from all his albums.
If you're sometimes tired of listening to all that rock music and you need something more soothing then this solves the problem. NIcks's songs are all very stripped down and use acoustic guitars, sometimes strings and the odd other instrument and backup vocal. HIs voice is very calming and never once bcomes aggressive.
River Man is probably the best song on the album and the one that got me interested. It's purely nick, an acoustic guitar and some sublime string arrangements. This is coupled with lyrics such as "betty said she praid today-for the sky to go away-or maybe stay-she wasn't sure"
My favourite music is stuff like Nirvana, MEtallica etc but I can still apprecate good music when I hear it and this is it.

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