 Time Of No Reply (1987) [ larger cover art ] |
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Who has dressed you in strange clothes of sand
Who has taken you far from my land
Who has said that my sayings were wrong
And who will say that I stayed much too long?
Clothes of sand have covered yor face
Given you meaning but taken my place
So make your way on down to the sea
Something has taken you so far from me.
Does it now seem worth all the colour of skies
To see the earth through painted eyes
To look through panes of shaded glass
See the stains of winter's grass.
Can you now return to from where you came
Try to burn your changing name
Or with silver spoons and coloured light
Will you worship moons in winter's night.
Clothes of sand have covered your face
Given you meaning but taken my place
So make your way on down to the sea
Something has taken you so far from me.
| hbs47 (SE England) | Posted: Feb 06, 2013 - 10:17 I don't see why the adulation for Nick, he sang well but maybe he doesn't "hook" with me. 7 |
| tutakea | Posted: Nov 22, 2011 - 08:09 there is a place where beautiful and haunting meet. it´s called Nick Drake! |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Jul 30, 2011 - 13:26 Absolutely fantastic... we miss you, Nick... |
| laozilover (Left of Chicago and up) | Posted: May 28, 2011 - 11:56 sirdroseph wrote: Enya to Nick Drake; from the ridiculous to the sublime!  All Nick Drake is wonderful, but this is one of the gems.   |
| laozilover (Left of Chicago and up) | Posted: May 28, 2011 - 11:52  Oooh! Shiny!DaveInVA wrote: One of his best. In addition to all his released stuff I have 5 vinyl records of his home recordings and the few surviving studio outtakes that some nice bootlegger complied years ago and its really interesting hearing just him and his guitar doing various takes on these songs and some songs that never got released....  Here is the limited edition red vinyl pressing of Time Of No Reply.... |
| Huey (Netherlands) | Posted: Jan 22, 2011 - 14:50 Something has taken you so much closer to me.  8. |
| a_genuine_find (not me, Radio P) (3rd stone, sol, orion belt, milkyway) | Posted: Nov 20, 2010 - 12:17 %20-%20Lute%20Player,%20ca%201620.jpg) |
| sirdroseph (Yes) | Posted: Nov 20, 2010 - 12:17 Absolute favorite Nick Drake song! 9 -> 10! |
| Cynaera (South of Neanderthal) | Posted: Oct 19, 2010 - 20:21 Oooo - more Nick Drake! Yum. I'd never heard this one, but I love it. I can't possibly be objective about things I've never heard before - I'm like that metaphorical kid in a candy store. So many things from which to choose, and in this case, I don't have to worry about money, because it's all there for me and all I have to do is listen! RP, I promise I'll contribute when I have two pennies to rub together with any certainty. |
| DaveInVA (In a hovel in effluent Damnville, VA) | Posted: Jun 14, 2010 - 07:38 One of his best. In addition to all his released stuff I have 5 vinyl records of his home recordings and the few surviving studio outtakes that some nice bootlegger complied years ago and its really interesting hearing just him and his guitar doing various takes on these songs and some songs that never got released.... Here is the limited edition red vinyl pressing of Time Of No Reply.... |
| DoctorHooey (/etc) | Posted: Jun 14, 2010 - 07:33 He was not only an excellent songwriter with an unmistakeable style, he was an incredible guitar player as well. Very imaginative and challenging. |
| badrummer (behind you) | Posted: May 13, 2010 - 14:43 I have all of Nick's albums (not a difficult feat!) and I've heard this tune a few times, but this is the 1st I've noticed the intermittent guitar feedback; like of his songs, there's always another facet to appreciate - pure genius! |
| helgigermany (Germany) | Posted: May 13, 2010 - 13:31 Not bad! |
| tapatia1072 | Posted: May 13, 2010 - 13:31 sirdroseph wrote: Enya to Nick Drake; from the ridiculous to the sublime! All Nick Drake is wonderful, but this is one of the gems.Ah, I agree. That's MUCH more like it .... salve to my traumatized ears - or maybe an aspirin for my Enya hangover. Thanks for the relief, Bill. |
| sirdroseph (Tokyo) | Posted: May 13, 2010 - 13:29 Enya to Nick Drake; from the ridiculous to the sublime! All Nick Drake is wonderful, but this is one of the gems. |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Apr 11, 2010 - 18:55 great song... |
| tobstar | Posted: Jan 07, 2010 - 04:49 its really doesn't get any better than Nick Drake |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Dec 06, 2009 - 20:11 fantastic... |
| zerozeroisland | Posted: Nov 05, 2009 - 10:55 wonderful. not one of nick's most well-known songs but i love it. it was the first one of his i heard and i still remember where i was and who i was with when i did. |
| Randomax (Wimberley, TX) | Posted: Nov 05, 2009 - 10:54 iyermish wrote: Great tune ... Also like the Solas version. I like their version of Which Will, too! |
| DaveInVA (In a crumbling Queen Anne mansion in Damnville, VA) | Posted: Nov 05, 2009 - 10:52 I'll have to dig out the vinyl and play some more ND later today.... |
| RadioDoc (Chicagoland) | Posted: Sep 03, 2009 - 09:33 chirpie wrote: Always sucks when your popularity kicks in AFTER you're six feet under. Only artists get this shackle. Politicians too. Can't say that Nick is my thing but he did do some fine work. Not sure this is one of those though. |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Aug 02, 2009 - 20:47 Mickb wrote: Through his music and his haunting voice... Nick Drake lives!!! I concur... |
| Mickb | Posted: May 31, 2009 - 07:41 Through his music and his haunting voice... Nick Drake lives!!! |
| nigelr (Coffs Harbour, Australia) | Posted: Mar 29, 2009 - 02:24 Unbelievable! song! Another gone to God too soon, but what a legacy................ |
| (former member) (Phoenixville, PA) | Posted: Feb 25, 2009 - 13:53 Great tune ... Also like the Solas version. |
| crispynz1 (New Zealand) | Posted: Jan 24, 2009 - 23:38 Nick Drake is a God! |
| ValosAtreide (Ohio, USA) | Posted: Nov 22, 2008 - 18:54 wow.. what a beautiful song. I'm really glad I tuned in to RP today. Thanks alot for this one, |
| chirpie (olathe, kansas) | Posted: Sep 20, 2008 - 14:15 Always sucks when your popularity kicks in AFTER you're six feet under. Only artists get this shackle. |
| D2r (Utrecht, the Netherlands) | Posted: May 17, 2008 - 10:31 Very beautiful, but it makes me sooo sad... |
| Candela (Trondheim) | Posted: Dec 12, 2007 - 01:55 Oh! This cd I don't have! Must have it... must... |
| heeb (Gateshead (Newcastle), United Kingdom) | Posted: Oct 10, 2007 - 06:05 Like anything Nick Drake, beau-ti-ful. A 10. |
| perezia23 (land of UTahrds and MObots) | Posted: Oct 10, 2007 - 06:03 This is a great song... takes me to another time and place |
| EssexTex (Eating cupcakes on South Congress) | Posted: Oct 10, 2007 - 06:00 The man was a poet |
| Alpine (N39d39mW121d30m) | Posted: Aug 08, 2007 - 09:49 Haunting. |
| 1wolfy (Mission Viejo California) | Posted: Aug 08, 2007 - 09:42 Smooth like Donovan |
| grimmel (Davis, CA) | Posted: Aug 08, 2007 - 09:41 So this is the song to appease all the Enya haters? Oh well, I love them both.... |
| Bleyfusz | Posted: Jun 06, 2007 - 13:51 handyrae wrote: There is something about his voice that is so hauntingly beautiful. Maybe because most (all?) of his songs are acoustic, but he sounds so old. Not old as in years, but rather like he's someone singing in the 14th century or something. It gives me chills. I guess that's what I meant just the other day when I wrote, referring to Fly, that he sounds "deliberately old-fashioned"..... |
| handyrae (Zero Point Field) | Posted: Jun 06, 2007 - 13:11 There is something about his voice that is so hauntingly beautiful. Maybe because most (all?) of his songs are acoustic, but he sounds so old. Not old as in years, but rather like he's someone singing in the 14th century or something. It gives me chills. |
| s_k (Susteren, Netherlands) | Posted: Apr 04, 2007 - 13:39 Great artist, Nick Drake. Sounds like a mosquito when you play his music to soft (try it, it's true) and it's not suitable for playing whilst driving, but it's great music. He never should have died :(. 9! |
| Mari (www.broomecam.com) | Posted: May 18, 2006 - 19:32 daedalus wrote: Just as a bit of apropos if a bit nerdy info - On the anniversary of Nick Drake's death, there was an English radio program on which John Martyn was interviewed, saying that indeed hid song 'Solid Air' was about Nick Drake. And on the inside of the cd jacket of the Nick Drake compilation, 'Waytoblue', it says: "You've been getting too deep: You've been living on solid air You've been missing your sleep And you've been moving through solid air" -"by John Martyn, for and about Nick Drake." -just in case you were interested.  |
| shakylegs (Montreal) | Posted: Mar 21, 2006 - 08:07 Love Nick Drake, but this song is passable at best. |
| meadowwoods (Madison, WI) | Posted: Jan 21, 2006 - 12:43 It's so nice hearing this song on RP. This is one of my favorite Nick Drake songs. What a treat!! |
| daedalus (over your hill) | Posted: Oct 11, 2005 - 09:41 stornoway wrote: ...John Martyn (who has drunk himself literally legless) and Donovan are Brit folk rockers from the same era who could write and sing Drake into a cocked hat but suffer the disadvantage of not being, er, dead. Just as a bit of apropos if a bit nerdy info - On the anniversary of Nick Drake's death, there was an English radio program on which John Martyn was interviewed, saying that indeed hid song 'Solid Air' was about Nick Drake. And on the inside of the cd jacket of the Nick Drake compilation, 'Waytoblue', it says: "You've been getting too deep: You've been living on solid air You've been missing your sleep And you've been moving through solid air" -"by John Martyn, for and about Nick Drake." -just in case you were interested. |
| ArbiterOfGoodTaste (Seattle WA) | Posted: Oct 11, 2005 - 09:28 Nice lisp there, fella. |
| tony99 | Posted: Aug 28, 2005 - 01:06 Tunafish wrote: Which one would that be now ?? |
| ploafmaster (Richmond, VA) | Posted: May 31, 2005 - 11:20 stornoway wrote: This guy is ludicrously lionised presumably because of the James Dean/Buddy Holly factor. The tunes are pedestrian, the lyrics banal, the delivery limp.
John Martyn (who has drunk himself literally legless) and Donovan are Brit folk rockers from the same era who could write and sing Drake into a cocked hat but suffer the disadvantage of not being, er, dead. That would make a lot more sense if Nick Drake's popularity arose shortly following his suicide, but from my understanding he only became popular here in the US in the past few years. Seams to me that he his exposure helped his popularity more than his death. |
| NiceGuy2005 (Denver, CO) | Posted: May 31, 2005 - 11:20 joe1 wrote: ..Sorry...this one bores the serious pants off me..
please stop saying it is 'so good' because it is the 'bloke that died'... I like a lot of his stuff but this is really crap.....nuff said..... Maybe you should be wearing silly pants then. |
| ploafmaster (Richmond, VA) | Posted: May 31, 2005 - 11:18 NiceGuy2005 wrote: Sounds kind of like Nick Drake...hey wiat!
Who's Wiat? :-) |
| NiceGuy2005 (Denver, CO) | Posted: May 31, 2005 - 11:18 Sounds kind of like Nick Drake...hey wiat! |