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Fruit Tree Reviews
Fruit Tree Reviews
| 69 of 69 people found the following review helpful  5 stars, or a sky full of them..?.., This review is from: Fruit Tree (Audio CD) Fruit Tree tells the sonic tale of a hugely talented, sensitive musician, from his days as a wide-eyed hopeful/student making his way into the folk club circuit, to the fallen son who fell prey to that most common of artistic predators, depression. From the country to the city, from hope to despair and dreams and days, to shadows and light, you will find it all here. And all in his own words. The box set includes all three albums released during Nick Drake's lifetime, and the fourth, a posthumous effort, Time of No Reply. All four cds are excellent, with their own nuances and flavor, and luckily, if you buy the box set, you won't have to face the difficult task of choosing a favorite. This music is beyond beautiful. As others have said, it is ethereal, haunting, touching, priceless. Art on the scale of Van Gogh or William Blake. Timeless and comfortable, modern and jarring. A handful of contradictions, a million grains of sand. In short, genius. Nick Drake's first album, Five... Read more 50 of 52 people found the following review helpful If you're gonna buy Nick Drake, get this boxed set, By A Customer This review is from: Fruit Tree (Audio CD) I had originally bought "Bryter Layter" on CD recently after reading so many wonderful comments about it, but the strength of that release along with comments here indicating that "if you're gonna buy a Nick Drake album you're gonna want them all" was so apt that I turned around and forked over the money for the "Fruit Tree" boxed set.Now that I've had time to play the releases in order (I'd never heard the incredible "Five Leaves Left" or the stark "Pink Moon" before, nor the odds-and-ends "Time Of No Reply") and read the little booklet, I find Drake's work to be truly outstanding, even if it varies in spots. Today I figure that some of the more ambitious tracks on "Bryter Layter" are my least favorite, those with the horns and the sax - they are completely untypical of the rest of Drake's work, which is mostly acoustic/piano/orchestral in nature. People use the word "folk" to describe... Read more 38 of 39 people found the following review helpful Nick--a long lost old friend, By "bayernfan1960" (Greenwood, IN United States) - See all my reviews This review is from: Fruit Tree (Audio CD) I first was introduced to Nick Drake's music in 1980, when I was in college. I had always enjoyed folksy, offbeat, and/or acoustic music (and have the Tom Rush, Tom Waits, Syd Barrett, and Joni Mitchell albums (vinyl) to prove it). My girlfriend introduced me to an album of his that must have been the compilation that came out before Pink Moon, because it had songs from his first two albums on it. Needless to say, I was blown away. Well things didn't work out and whenever I would find myself in a record store I would ask for Nick Drake. I couldn't describe his genre too well, and no one had heard of him. I couldn't even find a listing for him in the catalogs of the day.One day, in 1995, I was in a record shop and decided to glance at its box set collections (which I hardly ever do). My jaw dropped when I saw this set up on the wall. The next thing that dropped was my credit card on the counter. As a non-musician, what strikes me most about Nick Drake is that even as a 20 year... Read more |
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