Pink Moon
Occupation
Pink Moon ( German as: "Pink Red Moon ", means a full moon in early spring, which is considered a bad omen ) is the third and final album by the British folk singer Nick Drake. It was released on February 25, 1972; about two and a half years before his death.
Title list
Style
The instrumentation of the album is exceptionally sparse and limited to vocals and acoustic guitar and a little piano part, but this was added later, in the title track of Pink Moon. It is therefore in contrast to Drake's other two albums that besides electric guitars and drums occasionally orchestral instruments were used. The album was recorded in just two nights in October 1971.
Reception
The album is considered as all three albums by Nick Drake considered a classic of music history and immersed in many leaderboards in music magazines on; about the list of the 500 best albums of all time by Rolling Stone in the German edition number 369 and in the U.S. version at number 320
Pink Moon " " If the music is so depressed as the texts would be " indigestible. But the unaffektierte acoustic guitar and gentle voice Drakes give the album an aura of supernatural intimacy. "
Also in similar lists of other music magazines it got front seats, including space 146 in 150 albums for eternity ( Visions ) or 13th in 100 Top 100 Albums of the 1970s ( Pitchfork Media ).
It is also represented in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You.
Use
The title song Pink Moon was also known to a wider public, as Volkswagen used the song in 2000 for a commercial.
Cover versions
Many tracks on the album have been covered over the years by other performers; including:
- Pink Moon - Blackmail, No-Man, Sebadoh
- Place to Be - Damien Jurado, Scumbucket
- Road - No-Man
- Which Will - Beck, Damien Jurado, Lucinda Williams
- Things Behind the Sun - The Mars Volta
- Know - Martin Archer
- Parasite - Beck, Damien Jurado
- Album cover all 11 tracks " Pete's Moon" - Pete Black