You're right - I heard If again yesterday it's starting to sound a bit self pityingrosm wrote:rollinder wrote:...I'd recomend River man - has similar musical vibes to If ...
Even though I am a huge Pink Floyd fan I think River Man by Nick Drake is nicer than If. Brad Mehldau made a brilliant instrumental jazztrio cover of River Man and I only heard Nick's version after I had heard Brad's version. When the strings came in they really made me cry, so beautiful...
Also like Air a lot nice and sweet and cheesy in a positive way.
River man was my first it - a fragment heard late at night poor qaulity signol on a foreign station wasn't even sure if it was the right song/artsit but it just felt like it's description in Mojo.
I've heard it a bit too much over the last three years though (for a while - apart from Northern Sky, my first proper one - it was his only song I heard) - somebody quoted part pf the lyrics jokealy on another forum yesterday (re a member with that handle) and it hit me again.
Nick Drake threadslightly more on topic
Some of Syd's solo tracks are similar in feel - the mystcal tapping into nature, Jugband Blues has also been described in simialr terms to Pink Moon (the album) re the sparseness & purety/bleakness (depending on whos doing the describing - I don't feel that in the tracks I've heard - an dI've never felt it for Jugband either.) then theres the Joe Boyd connection...
re the rest of this thread, have the Alan Parsons Project been mentioned yet? - Old and Wise is a good song but I've heard others that sound like The Wall left overs all coldness and polish but without the heart, same goes for the "lunitic fringe I know your out there" song.
