Why wasn't he acclaimed in his lifetime? Were boomers retarded?
>>129792356totally different time. you couldn’t just send someone a link and say listen to this. to hear new music you either had to buy a record or rely on a radio dj playing it and happening to catch that one-off broadcast you couldn’t repeat on demand. huge amounts of good music was made but never got an audience.in Nick Drakes case its probably something to do with the fact that its quiet, personal, non-attention grabbing music, and he didn't have attention grabbing singles that would get played on the radio.
>>129792356I'm being serious now: He was way too autistic. His music was brilliant, but when it was time to do artist things like perform live or promote his album, Drake refused. He fried was brian with incredible amounts of weed and fell into such a depressive hole that he probably couldn't take it anymore by the time he killed himself with those pills. Also his parents seemed overbearing and obnoxious, which may have contributed to a lot of arrested development.>>129792378 this is also correct.
>>129792356Most people need a little more than just guitar strumming and hazy vocals.
He was, he was certainly bigger than he is now. Not even sure where you are getting that he wasn't from
>>129793312>he was certainly bigger than he is nowthis is a lie. a year after Pink Moon came out all three albums together had sold something like 5k copies. he got some admiration from critics though overall their reaction was mixed, and he never saw anything you could describe as commercial success or wide public recognition in his lifetime.
>>129792356he also died a virgin
>>129793436literally me
Joni Mitchell did it better
>>129793652Bitchell is a cunt though.
>>129793675Don't really care about musicians' personalities just their music
