Any Nick Drake fans here?
litemus5
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What do you think of his music and do you feel Elliot Smith copied his style.
litemus5
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Yes, love his music, and no.
What is this, 20-post pop school? Are you writing a paper??
Yep...traded Xingu for OG Pink Moon a couple of years back and I have yet to regret that decision.
Elliot Smith biting his steez? Imitation is the greatest form of flattery, right?
Put on that bootleg of S.G. and hear the man in a drunken stupor on 25 Early Morning Dialogue for answers...
Got an unplayed Fruit Tree box set from the basement of K street records for $15.
All the two have in common is that they had soft voices, were depressed and ended up dead at a young age.
Their styles, as songwriters and particularly as guitar players are nothing alike. Drake was a master guitarist who combined jazz and folk fingerpicking styles. He still hasn't been recognized for his skill as a musician, mainly because so many people are so eager to enshrine him as some kind of shoegazer saint.
I enjoy them both, but Drake is light years more complicated and satisfying than Smith on his best day.
That would be "navel gazing."
I think elliot smith is nothing at all like nick.
thinking about covering fruit tree with my singer soon..
- spidey
also peep this Bridget St. John lp, its like the female equivalent of Drake. beautiful record.
Eliot Smith's whole personal and music was a rip off. Sorry to dis, but this guy was a major D-Bag.
What contributed to his "Major D-Bag" status was the fact that he bite so hard, and then went on to contradict the shit he ripped off. Pretty silly if you ask me.
As far as Nick Drake goes though, he has a few songs that are good. Especially if you are like driving through the woods in like Mass. during the fall in a volvo.
Definite white folks music. But not in a bad way, or a negative way though.
On a side note though, both these dudes killed themselves. Pretty F'd up.
Oy Vey.
with Liz?
I'ma need a copy of that
and on the subject, I've never thought of either sounding like the other
Wow -- never thought a Nick Drake thread would be so aggro. Then again, maybe I'm naive. This is Soulstrut and Mad Drama Teacher has made an appearance.
If anyone is selling any of the OG Nick Drakes...
Larry, I have to politely disagree with your above assertion. Elliott was an incredibly talented guitarist. In fact, that was his high school rep first and foremost, as the baddest slinger around. If you talk to musicians who played with him, they were astounded at his fluidity and speed. Check out "Southern Belle" or "Almost Over Now" for examples of his very sophisticated finger picking style. Elliott always described himself as a pop songwriter so he tended to deemphasize his chops if it didn't help the project. Make no mistake that dude could play his ass off.
This is hilarious to those of us who actually knew him. Still, I'd love to hear more about how "he contradicted" the music he "ripped off". Sounds like this could be interesting.
I'll have to dig out the four or five Elliott Smith Lps I have and give them a closer listen. Though I never thought him a weak technician, his playing style never struck me as very complex (or at least as complex as Drake). I do like Smith a lot, though.
Check New Moon, which has some remarkable guitar on it, if you don't already have it.
Get back in your quonset hut with your piles of ugly sweater heartland gospel raer....
...adermy....
Can we expect to hear this in a Volkswagen commercial soon??
Haha! I didn't realize this experience was so universal that it has become an archetype with its own mandatory soundtrack, but hey???what do I know? I went to school in the woods of Western Mass. and drove around getting stoned and listening to rap.
It's funny when people (puchito, in this case) don't know what the hell they're talking about yet assert their stance boldly.