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Nick Drake: Posthumous popularity
Since Drake’s death, his music has grown steadily in popularity. Several contemporary musicians, such as Lucinda Williams, Elliott Smith, Badly Drawn Boy, Matthew Good, Sebadoh's Lou Barlow, REM guitarist Peter Buck and Blur’s
Graham Coxon, consider Drake an important influence.
Island has responded to Drake’s popularity with several new releases including
Time of No Reply (1986), an album of unreleased material including four new songs recorded in 1974,
Way to Blue (1994), a “best of” album, and
Made to Love Magic (2004), featuring one new track and some newly recorded orchestration for a previously released track. A replacement for
Way to Blue called A Treasury was also released in 2004 on Hybrid-SACD.
In 2000, Volkswagen licensed the title track of Pink Moon for a particularly serene car commercial. The advertisement caused a significant bounce in Drake’s popularity and led many record companies to consider ways in which partnering with outside advertisers could help sell music.
Drake's posthumous popularity has made many fans consider the lyrics to “Fruit Tree” a song from Five Leaves Left prophetic: “Fame is but a fruit tree -/ So very unsound./ It can never flourish/ Till its stock is in the ground./ So men of fame/ Can never find a way/ Till time has flown/ Far from their dying day.”
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