Time of No Reply

Time of No Reply
Compilation album by Nick Drake
Released	March 1987[1]
Recorded	October 1968 – July 1974
Genre	Folk, folk rock
Length	42:20
Label	Hannibal
Producer	Joe Boyd / various
Nick Drake chronology
Heaven in a Wild Flower (1985) Time of No Reply (1987) Way to Blue (1994)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]

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

Track listing

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. "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 the Mountain" – 3:40

Notes

• Tracks 1, 2, 3 & 4 are outtakes from the Five Leaves Left sessions (November & December 1968)
• Tracks 5, 7, 9 & 10 are home demos from 1967-1969
• Track 6 is from a pre Five Leaves Left session (October 1968)
• Track 8 is a different take than the version originally released on Five Leaves Left featuring Richard Thompson on guitar (December, 1968)
• Tracks 11, 12, 13 & 14 are the so-called "final 4" recordings (July 1974)

Personnel

Nick Drake performs vocals and acoustic guitar on all songs, except where indicated otherwise.

Plan for remastered version

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

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 2008-07-17.