rulebritannia wrote:

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

THAT is an incredibly wonderful thought!

Gregorama wrote:

Good observations.

Some commercials are well-done art.

Great follow to Beck's Golden Age.

This entire album is worth a listen...other than this song, every other track on Pink Moon is pretty much just Nick and his axe. Great songs, though all a bit short - but none the less, a fantastic album.

timeless

blows my mind this was recorded in 1972 and he's on the Garden State Movie
soundtrack and makes me want to drive a VW cabriolet.

Gregorama wrote: Happily, the VW commercial hasn't made it over here - at least I haven't heard it. Then again, it's hard to imagine I never heard Nick Drake before I found RP.

ND has had many times the number of records sold since his death. Drake had the talent, Donovan got the PR. But then, if life were fair, RP would be Clear Channel and CC would be sleeping with the fishes....

None finer than Nick - 10 is not enough

pdhski wrote:

you do understand that nick drake and donovan were contemporaries, right?

Always classic, always great.

always coca-cola

Gregorama wrote:

Very Rolling Stones-esque, eh?

The second coming of Donovan Leitch..

PattonFever wrote:

no, man, Nick Drake is always worth an eight or nine or ten on the Radio Paradise numerical rate-a-thon scale. 8)

not hard on the ears, but it's a bit of a snoozer. that's a 2.

JCEntMan wrote:

I think he's mostly pissed cause somebody sold the rights to VW. Love the song, love RP.

ANNE_MARIE wrote:

One person's take on what the song means:

"This is the darkest song yet, and is probably as close as Nick got to ever railing against the shallowness of life. The trouble is, he still sounds so ruddy polite. He’s obviously deeply resentful, but he can’t quite let go and spit it all out in a torrent of venom. I heard this done in a punk version once, with the singer literally screaming the words out, and it was absolutely brilliant, if a little scary. I sometimes go off by myself when things are bad and try to emulate it (and usually end up in fits of laughter, so it does the trick).

‘I saw it written and I saw it say
Pink moon is on its way
And none of you stand s o tall
Pink moon gonna get you all
It's a pink moon
It's a pink, pink, pink, pink, pink moon.’

A pink moon was apparently seen as the harbinger of doom in the middle ages. It’s such a wonderful, bizarre threat to make. Try it next time you get hassled down the pub. Watch it, 'cause pink moon gonna get you all."


This quote taken from here.

Ya know, a lot of us bitch about songs getting commercialized, but I don't think I'd ever even heard of him before I heard the VW commercial.

I'd also be willing to bet that he's probably had more posthumous record sales than he had when he was alive.

Sometimes we get what we need instead of what we want.

Too bad I can only give it a 10... Hey, pass that thing over here...

"Zoy wrinnen on a zoy zay?" Good lord. He makes Bob Dylan sound like an elocution teacher.

Well, ya DO have to like ND, only this is an 8!
What a way to finish off a quad.

Sublime perfection

t66tah wrote:
You're aware this is a radio station, right?

beag wrote:

May I ask what you know? I've wondered about the lyric meaning and made up that the song was about pollution. Not very romantic...i know. The moon sometimes looks orange or pinkish when pollution levels are high. Does it mean that pollution is goona get us???

I'm prolly WAY off here.

farfignugen? ja, farfignugen.

This song, for me, was diminished somewhat when I found out what it was meant to be about. So I won't tell you.

BooKitty wrote:

Not much makes sense to me but that song has some magic flying ether in it.

Such a beautiful and strangely touching song. I just wish it and Mr. Drake's were longer.

The lyrics make no sense to me, his vocals are so-so, but god I love this song.

I know I know... but my mind goes back to looking out the moonroof of my little diesel Jetta :)

Art_Carnage wrote:

Then why don't you and leave RadioParadise to those who don't have cloth ears!! I'm sure Casey Kasem would love to have you for a listener.

Music for a sad gray day, or when you wish it were. Nicky, why'd you have to go?