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Post by TylerDeneuve on Oct 2, 2023 19:12:58 GMT
Please do share your thoughts on this brilliant man!
Did you know he was Heath Ledger's favorite musical artist?
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Post by pacinoyes on Oct 2, 2023 19:40:00 GMT
I think Nick Drake belongs to this small group of male depressives in Rock history that is very suited to being in college - feelings of dislocation or removal and displacement mixed with intellect - he is sort of the Folk equivalent of Sylvia Plath. Drake is specifically a guy whose life sort of outpaces his work -he's fascinating because you can tell he's "unwell" which makes him seem more genuine because he can't really mask how unwell he is - he reveals it - solo Syd Barrett is like that also ...... I'm not that big a fan of Drake (I like drums ) but I do appreciate him and he is one of the few songwriters that writes in such intertwined detail - his songs can seem skeletal and dense at the exact same time: Other artists can often cover his songs and they can, at times - seem more interesting when Drake didn't sing them....not that he's not a major artist - he's got a beautiful voice - but the songs are often freed of the torment of his creation and performance when someone else interprets him...... Fontaines D.C. - imo the worlds best band currently - and one of my favorites did his "Cello Song" in a great way this year - and this album is a very loving tribute to him if people want to investigate his work..........
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Post by TylerDeneuve on Oct 2, 2023 19:48:44 GMT
Drake is specifically a guy whose life sort of outpaces his work -he's fascinating because you can tell he's "unwell" which makes him seem more genuine because he can't really mask how unwell he is - he reveals it - solo Syd Barrett is like that also ...... You might find this interesting - an excerpt from the New York Magazine piece 'Analyzing the Double Life of Heath Ledger' - written by Chris Norris right after Ledger's untimely death (bolding emphasis my own): When [Todd] Haynes met Ledger in 2006, the actor was already struggling with similar questions about the art of biography, having taken a two-year sabbatical from acting to write a script about the life of singer-songwriter Nick Drake. “Trying to squeeze this complex, beautiful, and mysterious subject into the confines of the traditional biopic he found reprehensible and kind of cruel,” says Haynes. “He was starting to approach it through a more allegorical method, where it was going to be about a woman traveling on a train ride through Europe—which Nick Drake I think did do—and he was going to have Michelle [Williams] play that role.” Now, the idea that Ledger had spent two years trying to get inside the head of an artist who suffered from depression and insomnia and died at 26 from an overdose of a prescribed antidepressant has become one more detail to be used as either tragic irony or psychoanalytic insight.
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