Made To Love Magic (compilation album) by Nick Drake
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Made To Love Magic is ranked 7th best out of 12 albums by Nick Drake on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Nick Drake is Pink Moon which is ranked number 50 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 20,139.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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All 13 charts that this album appears in:
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2024 | TheDarkOrb | Top 46 Music Albums of 2004 | 29/46 | 2 |
2024 | Johnnyo | Top 81 Music Albums of 2004 | 22/81 | 4 |
2023 | Johnnyo | Top albums of the '00's (201 - 300) | 100/100 | - |
2023 | MW19704U | Top 60 Music Albums of 2004 | 50/60 | 1 |
2023 | Igtonumama | Top 100 Music Albums of 2004 | 11/100 | 5 |
2022 | LosWochos | Top 100 Music Albums of 2004 | 54/100 | 2 |
2022 | davidhuret | Top 14 Music Albums of 2004 | 5/14 | 4 |
2022 | mostlymor | Top 100 Music Albums of 2004 | 11/100 | 5 |
2022 | Rivera | Top 18 Music Albums of 2004 | 15/18 | 1 |
2022 | Rivera | Compilations | 26/36 | - |
2021 | lwarner | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 50/100 | 10 |
2020 | Red0510 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 45/100 | 11 |
2018 | mozzmozz | Top 73 Music Albums of 2004 | 42/73 | 2 |
Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 13 | |||
Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 46 |
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01/01/2023 10:14 | Igtonumama | 8,919 | 60/100 | |
11/09/2022 22:51 | Arthurknight | 9,301 | 72/100 | |
05/06/2021 19:02 | BenCatania1 | 559 | 86/100 | |
04/30/2021 02:52 | Jameth | 3,360 | 68/100 | |
04/14/2020 05:35 | Tamthebam | 21,425 | 69/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 78.6/100, a mean average of 79.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 80.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.8.
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Great alternate versions, great new songs. 8/10. Thanks Nick.
Still trying to find one thing about Nick Drake that isn't beatiful.
To me, this compilation is much better than 'Time of No Reply'. It just sounds much more like how Nick would have wanted it.
"Made To Love Magic" is a collection of outtakes, alternate versions and other previously unreleased numbers recorded by the legendary Nick Drake. Despite the fact that several tracks were probably only intended as demos, the CD holds a very good high level, especially because the songwriting is fully compatible with Drake's three official albums.
After Drake's third album "Pink Moon" in 1972, he more or less stopped recording and it was only in 1974, a few months before his death that he seriously starting to prepare a fourth album. The five new songs he wrote and recorded in 1974 are all here and they are all important additions to his fine song catalog. Particularly interesting is "Tow the Line", partly because the song just recently discovered (this is the first time the number has been released) and partly because it is such a nice song. Also "Rider on the Wheel" is among Drake's finest. All five songs faeture Drake alone with his guitar and his vocals.
Among the earlier songs you'll find the very moving "Time of No Reply"; here in a version with a strings arrangement written by Robert Kirby;. Whether you prefer the earlier released more naked version or this newly aranged one is a matter of taste; at any rate it is one Drake's very best songs. "Magic", which comes from the period around Drake's first album, is a fully arranged recording that inexplicably was not considered fit for any of Drake's Orignal albums.
"River Man" and "Mayfair" are obviously demos; but fine songs anyway.
"Joey" and "Clothes of Sand" from 1968 also never found the way to an album, though both sound and song quality could justify this.
"Thoughts of Mary Jane" and "Three Hours" are fine alternate versions of two songs from Drake's first album. "Thoughts of Mary Jane" is without the strings arrangement, but features a tasty electric guitar instead to accompany Drake's acoustic. "Three Hours" has a previously unheard flute-part besides the wellknown congas and acoustic guitar.
Some of the tracks have previously been released on the posthumosly released album "Time of No Reply," but it has so much "new" material that it is impossible to ignore. On the other hand, there are tracks on "Time of No Reply" which are not found here, so it's hard to skip any of the two albums.
A great way to get to know this outstanding artist.
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