Time of No Reply

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Time of No Reply
Time of No Reply cover
Studio album by Nick Drake
Released 1986
Recorded October, 1968 - February 1974
Genre Folk
Label Island Records
Producer Joe Boyd / Various
Professional reviews
Nick Drake chronology
Heaven in a Wild Flower
(1985)
Time of No Reply
(1986)
Way to Blue
(1994)

Time of No Reply is a 1986 compilation album featuring outtakes and alternate versions of songs by English folk singer Nick Drake. Although it was officially released in 1986, its track listing is identical to the fourth disc of the 1979 Nick Drake box set Fruit Tree.

[edit] Track listing

All songs 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 the Mountain – 3:40

Notes:
Tracks 1, 2, 3 & 4 are outtakes from the Five Leaves Left sessions
Tracks 5, 7, 9 & 10 are home demos from 1967-1969
Track 6 is from a pre Five Leaves Left session
Track 8 features Richard Thompson on guitar
Tracks 11, 12, 13 & 14 are the so-called "final 4" recordings from 1974

[edit] Personnel

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