Way To Blue (compilation album)
by Nick Drake

Way To Blue by Nick Drake
(Compilation album)
Year: 1994
Overall rank: 28,169th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1994 (442nd)
Award Top albums of the 1990s (4,412th)
Award Best albums of all time (28,169th)

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Nick Drake bestography

Way To Blue is ranked 8th best out of 13 albums by Nick Drake on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Nick Drake is Pink Moon which is ranked number 54 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 18,103.

Nick Drake album bestography « Higher ranked (21,522nd)
Made To Love Magic
This album (28,169th)
Way To Blue
Lower ranked (32,612th) »
A Treasury

(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).

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82/100 (from 49 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 81.8/100, a mean average of 83.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 83.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.8.

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Great collection
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From 05/25/2013 20:57
I only recently "discovered" Nick Drake, and the reason that he has become the legend he is.

It was actually only when I got this CD a present that I took myself the necessary time to get under the skin of his music.

At first listen the music may not appear remarkable, and the songs may also seem somewhat similar and not very catchy. I did however immediately find "Cello Song" and "Northern Sky" more than just plain good songs.

For every new listening more songs emerge from anonymity, and now all songs seem, with a single exception, to be favourites. I have not quite managed to fall for "Fruit Tree" and its classic inspired strings arrangement.

Drake's voice and several of his songs may remind you a little about Donovan in the late 1960's. His guitar playing is at once subtle and incredibly powerful, the same can be said about his voice which is both soft and expressive.

Drake did in his short life, only release three albums, all of which today are considered classics. There are several posthumously released albums with surviving numbers. Among those "Time of No Reply" contains several of his very last recordings from 1974. Some of these songs are among his strongest and moving, especially when you consider that they are written in a strong depressive period that ended with his sad death caused by an overdose of medicine in November 1974. Don't miss the song "Time of No Reply" !!
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