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Nick Drake
Pink Moon
Album: Way To Blue: An Introduction To Nick Drake
Genres: Pop
Best known for its recent inclusion in a Volkswagen ad, Nick Drake's introspective ballad sounds as haunting today as it did in 1972.

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	"Haunting," "melancholy," "introspective" and "gorgeous" are four of the adjectives commonly used to describe Nick Drake's work, and all of them certainly apply to "Pink Moon," the title track from Drake's final album, originally released in 1972. Where the material on his first two records (1969's Five Leaves Left and 1970's Bryter Layter) utilized jazzy, full-band arrangements a la Donovan or Astral Weeks-era Van Morrison, Pink Moon is a starker affair, entirely dominated by Drake's honeyed rasp and nimble acoustic picking. This track does sport a brief piano solo -- which, in hindsight, sounds like the last burst of whimsy from a soul preparing to sink into the depths of permanent despair. Its arresting beauty aside, it's hard to figure why somebody wanted to use "Pink Moon" for the recent Volkswagen Cabrio TV ad campaign; after all, Nick Drake's music is better suited for staring wistfully out the window than fkeeping your eyes on the road. But if the ad has turned more people on to Drake's brief-but-awesome body of work, then so much the better.

	*Dan Epstein*
	Dan Epstein is a Los Angeles-based journalist and pop-culture historian whose work has appeared in L.A. Weekly, BAM, Raygun, Guitar World and the Los Angeles Times, among other publications. His first book, Twentieth Century Pop Culture, was published in 1999 by Carlton Books.