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Time of No Reply

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Time of No Reply
Compilation album by
ReleasedMarch 1987[1]
Recorded1967–1968, 1974
GenreFolk, folk rock
Length42:20
LabelHannibal
ProducerJoe Boyd / various
Nick Drake chronology
Heaven in a Wild Flower
(1985)
Time of No Reply
(1987)
Way to Blue
(1994)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]

Time of No Reply is a 1987 compilation album featuring outtakes and alternative versions of songs by the English singer-songwriter and musician Nick Drake. It was also included as the fourth disc of the 1987 version of the Nick Drake box set Fruit Tree.

Track listing

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All songs written by Nick Drake, except "Been Smoking Too Long," by Robin Frederick.

  1. "Time of No Reply" – 2:52
  2. "I Was Made to Love Magic" – 3:08
  3. "Joey" – 3:04
  4. "Clothes of Sand" – 2:32
  5. "Man in a Shed" – 3:02
  6. "Mayfair" – 2:28
  7. "Fly" – 3:35
  8. "The Thoughts of Mary Jane" – 3:42
  9. "Been Smoking Too Long" – 2:13
  10. "Strange Meeting II" – 3:32
  11. "Rider on the Wheel" – 2:30
  12. "Black Eyed Dog" – 3:20
  13. "Hanging on a Star" – 2:42
  14. "Voice from a Mountain" – 3:40

Notes

  • Tracks 1 to 4 are outtakes (November & December 1968) from the Five Leaves Left sessions.
  • Track 5 is an alternate version (October 1968) of a song from the Five Leaves Left sessions.
  • Track 6 is an outtake (October 1968) from the Five Leaves Left sessions.
  • Tracks 7, 9 & 10 are home recordings from 1967–1969.
  • Track 8 is an alternate version (December 1968) of a song from the Five Leaves Left sessions and features Richard Thompson on guitar.
  • Tracks 11 to 14 are the so-called "final four" recordings (February 1974) previously released as bonus tracks on disk#3 of the 1979 version of the box set Fruit Tree, before a fifth recording, "Tow the Line" (July 1974), emerged on Made to Love Magic in 2007.
  • Track 14 is also referred to as "Voices" on other releases

Remaster

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The Island executive who compiled the Family Tree collection indicated plans to remaster Time of No Reply (which was not originally released on Island, but on Hannibal Records), with a different track listing. This became Made to Love Magic.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Drake, Gabrielle, Nick Drake: Remembered For A While, Little, Brown and Company, 2014.
  2. ^ Allmusic review
  3. ^ "The Nick Drake CD Remasters: an interview with Cally". Retrieved 17 July 2008.