Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left [MP3][320]

Five Leaves Left

Label: Island Records

Format: LP

Country: UK

Released: 1969

Genre: Folk

Style: Contemporary Folk, Chamber Folk

I won't talk too much about Nick Drake because it appeared in such a incredible moment in my life, It seems it had to. And it seems I met him someday in past lifes, it's pretty weird. This is one of the albums that made me create this blog. Every human being should listen to this. Really.

Maybe you'll notice the same when you listen to this album. It's just... deep.

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In 2003, the album was ranked number 283 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

Five Leaves Left, recorded in 1969, was the first of three albums by British folk musician Nick Drake. Like Bryter Layter but unlike Pink Moon, this album contains no completely solo songs. Drake was accompanied by members of the British folk-rock groups Fairport Convention and Pentangle.

It’s a little belief of mine that what’s wrong with the modern world can be summed up in just one small word: cliché. No matter where we turn to in an attempt to avoid the hackneyed, overdone phrases that make up a huge amount of our lives, we hear them: a musician who’s going to be forgotten within a year is a genius, a world leader who makes a decision we disagree with is the new Hitler, and some whining singer is the spokesman for Generation X. Just out of interest, what the hell is Generation X, anyway? I gather that I’m a part of it, but I can’t say that I either know or care what it is. But anyway, I digress. My point is this. As a way of expressing our views on life, cliché is horrible, and yet it’s growing all the time, undermining things that should be expressed in strong terms. Having said all that though, I’m going to have to use a phrase here which is used in pretty much every description of Nick Drake that you’re ever going to read. Here we go. 

There are few artists who have been more underrated than Nick Drake, who have then gone on to influence so many people.

There. I said it. It’s the ultimate cliché surrounding Nick Drake, and yet it’s completely impossible to mention him without using it at least once. Why? Because it is undeniably completely true. The list of artists that Nick Drake has inspired is massive, ranging from Elliott Smith to Iron & Wine, to a huge number of singer/songwriters that exist in the outer ranges of popular music. And yet this is a man that could leave the master tapes of his final album, Pink Moon on the front desk of his record label before waiting days before anyone even noticed that he’d left them there. There’s something faintly incompatible about those two statements, don’t you think?

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