Pink moon
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| Nick Drake's studio album | ||||
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| Label (s) | Island Records | |||
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Title (number) |
11 |
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28:22 |
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| occupation | Nick Drake - vocals , guitar , piano | |||
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John Wood |
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Studio (s) |
Sound Techniques, London |
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Pink Moon is the third and final studio album by British folk singer Nick Drake .
The title, in German about "Pink Moon", describes a full moon at the beginning of spring, which is considered a bad omen . The album was released on February 25, 1972, about two and a half years before Drake's death.
style
The instrumentation of the album is exceptionally sparse and is limited to vocals and acoustic guitar as well as a small piano part in the title track Pink Moon . This was added later. The album is in contrast to Drake's earlier albums Five Leaves Left and Bryter Layter , on which orchestral instruments were used occasionally in addition to electric guitars and drums . The album was recorded in just two nights in October 1971 in a studio in London . It was no longer produced by Joe Boyd , but by the sound engineer John Wood.
reception
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The album, like all three of Nick Drake's albums, is considered a classic in music history and appears in many best lists of music magazines; for example in the selection of the 500 best albums of all time by Rolling Stone in the German edition at number 369 and in the US version at number 320.
“If the music were as depressed as the lyrics, 'Pink Moon' would be indigestible. But the unaffected acoustic guitar and Drake's soft voice give the album an aura of supernatural intimacy. "
Pink Moon also found attention in similar best lists of other music magazines , including 146th place in the list of "150 albums for eternity" by the German magazine Visions or 13th of the 100 best albums of the 1970s by Pitchfork Media . Uncut magazine voted Pink Moon 126th out of the 200 best albums.
It is also represented in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die .
The American singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens describes Pink Moon as his favorite album and an important influence on his own musical work.
Track list
All songs are written by Nick Drake .
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use
The theme song Pink Moon became known to a wider public when Volkswagen used the song for a commercial in 2000.
Cover versions
Many of the tracks on the album have been covered by other artists over the years; including:
- Pink Moon - No-Man , Sebadoh , Jake Bugg , Beck
- Place to Be - Damien Jurado , Scumbucket
- Road - No-Man
- Which Will - Beck , Damien Jurado , Lucinda Williams
- Things Behind the Sun - The Mars Volta , Brad Mehldau
- Know - Martin Archer
- Parasite - Beck , Damien Jurado , Blackmail
- From the Morning - Roger Cicero
- All 11 songs - Pete's Moon by Pete Black
literature
- Amanda Petrusich: 33 ⅓ Nick Drake - Pink Moon . Continuum, ISBN 0-8264-2790-1
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ urbandictionary.com - "pink moon"
- ↑ Review by Ned Raggett on Allmusic.com (accessed May 25, 2015)
- ↑ Review by Anthony Decurtis on Rollingstone.com (accessed May 25, 2015)
- ↑ Review by Jayson Greene on Pitchfork.com (accessed May 25, 2015)
- ↑ Ulf Kubanke: Melancholy, poetry and silence as high art on Laut.de (accessed on May 25, 2015)
- ↑ a b Rolling Stone, 11/2004, p. 39
- ↑ Visions, Issue 150 (September 2005), p. 115
- ↑ The 100 Best Albums of the 1970s on pitchfork.com
- ↑ Uncut: 200 Greatest Albums Of All Time on rateyourmusic.com (accessed July 1, 2018)
- ↑ Stevens, Sufjan: Pink Moon, in: Visions 250 (01/2014), p. 93
- ↑ Rolling Stone - "Nick Drake's" Pink Moon "is Rising"
- ^ "In Search of a Master - In Search of a Slave. A Tribute to Nick Drake "
- ↑ coverinfo.de