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Nick Drake - A Treasury Audio CD

A fair review of the Nick Drake "A Treasury" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Nick Drake reviews here, or go back to the Nick Drake tabs.

Nick Drake Band: Nick Drake
Title: A Treasury
Rating:
Release Date: 2004-10-26
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Introduction 2: Hazey Jane II 3: River Man 4: ' Cello Song 5: Hazey Jane I 6: Pink Moon 7: Poor Boy 8: Magic 9: Place To Be 10: Northern Sky 11: Road 12: Fruit Tree 13: Black Eyed Dog 14: Way To Blue 15: From The Morning

Bad Experience
Popped it in my SACD player and it would not load. I purchased this SACD version of Nick Drake - A Treasury and looked forward to hearing his material in this format. So I went through the proper steps to return this and get a replacement copy. All of this was expedited quickly. I received the replacement only to have the same problem. I thought I'd save Amazon and myself the trouble of going through the return steps again and included both CD's in the same package. I assumed they would understand what the deal was, but that's what I get for assuming. I was credited $2. 87 cents for the shipping charges and still have no disc or credit. Thanks.


Throw a dart...
Nick Drake's three proper studio albums are each, on average, just over 35 minutes long. Compact discs, as those of us who still use them know, hold up to 80 minutes of music. Putting together a fairly comprehensive 'Best Of' for an artist with such a relatively small discography should be a no-brainer (even allowing room for a few non-album highlights previously compiled on 'Time of No Reply'). . . Hell, an 80-minute iPod shuffle of his songs, provided they included his half dozen or so universally-regarded classic tracks (the ones that keep appearing in commercials or on movie soundtracks), would produce a tracklist of at least 20 songs equal, if not superior to this one. So, like the last two single-disc collections, this is a merely adequate introduction to the man's work, but it's an unneccessarily short and (to longtime fans) frustratingly incomplete one.


Beautiful...Nick Drake made love to magic


The Introduction is a fine, half-minute long musical score without vocal, followed by Hazey Jane II, a jazz song full of life, not very typical for Drake, a little like Poor Boy, which is also included on this CD. Altough it don't have any "special features," only several songs taken from his four albums FIVE LEAVES LEFT, BRYTER LAYTER, PINK MOON and MADE LOVE TO MAGIC, this is an excellent collection of his work, with very good sound quality. More sad songs are also inclued, like Way to Blue, which easily can make you cry, and the beautiful Northern Sky, and, of course, one of his most well known songs, Pink Moon.

If you already have Drake's three albums, I would rather recommend TIME OF NO REPLY or SECOND GRACE, which includes previews of several of his songs. The only one of the songs here which are not included on FIVE LEAVES LEFT, BRYTER LAYTER or PINK MOON is the beautiful Magic, but that can also be found on TIME OF NO REPLY. However, this is a great introduction to those who don't know Nick Drake very well.

It is so beautiful! Nick Drake was a genius, a so strong genius.
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Great sound and even better music
The guitars glisten with warmth and Drake's voice never sounded so good. This is probably the finest-sounding CD in my collection. Instruments and voices have wonderful soundstage. Every sound on this CD has dimension and palpability. If you like MSFL or DCC discs, you'll love this CD. (I mostly play the CD layer because my CD player is far superior to my SACD player. )

Like Tim Hardin, Drake is much more a jazz musician than a folkie. The songs here are not always obvious. They sometimes take time to sink in. But the groove is what takes you along. Even during the most quiet acoustic numbers. I recently played this for a Jack Johnson fan and she loved it. .


Review of the SACD content of A Treasury
1 mix. It's already been discussed on what should of been include / removed from this collection, so I will just talk about the improved sound and 5. The stereo SACD lived up to my expectations to the format, the songs had the a warm quality that I expected. The improved sound was noticeable even on the "new" version of Magic (as listed on the cd), I noticed some distortion and background noise on the cd version of the track but not on the SACD. The 5. 1 mix I thought were well done, even with the acoustic tracks such as Black Eyed Dog. The vocals are mixed in the center channel and the rear channels and the guitar is in front and rear channels. Other SCAD with just acoustic/vocal tracks just had a three channel mix, which didn't add much over the original stereo mix. Anyway I give the sound 5 stars and the song selection 4 stars.


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