Music Banter - View Single Post - Various Musicians Slaughter Classic Albums

Urban Hat€monger ? · 06-16-2007, 02:59 PM

I don't really understand this whole 'Nick Drake is only famous because he's dead' stuff. If that is true than why did it take over 30 years after his death for him to get any recognition? Why didn't it happen before?

The reason that Nick Drake is finding an audience is because it's only now people have been able to get hold of his albums , before that apart from a box set that came out in the late 80s his music was incredibly hard to find anywhere. The same thing happened when Led Zeppelin released their stuff on CD in the late 80s , yet nobody suggests their resurgence in popularity was due to John Bonhams death.

06-16-2007, 02:59 PM	#3 (permalink)
Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,626	I don't really understand this whole 'Nick Drake is only famous because he's dead' stuff. If that is true than why did it take over 30 years after his death for him to get any recognition? Why didn't it happen before? The reason that Nick Drake is finding an audience is because it's only now people have been able to get hold of his albums , before that apart from a box set that came out in the late 80s his music was incredibly hard to find anywhere. The same thing happened when Led Zeppelin released their stuff on CD in the late 80s , yet nobody suggests their resurgence in popularity was due to John Bonhams death. __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.