Time of No Reply explained

Time of No Reply
Type:	compilation
Artist:	Nick Drake
Cover:	Nick drake Time of No Reply.jpg
Released:	March 1987^[1]
Recorded:	1967 – 1968, 1974
Genre:	Folk, folk rock
Length:	42:20
Label:	Hannibal
Producer:	Joe Boyd / various
Prev Title:	Heaven in a Wild Flower
Prev Year:	1985
Next Title:	Way to Blue
Next Year:	1994

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.

"Time of No Reply" – 2:52
"I Was Made to Love Magic" – 3:08
"Joey" – 3:04
"Clothes of Sand" – 2:32
"Man in a Shed" – 3:02
"Mayfair" – 2:28
"Fly" – 3:35
"Thoughts of Mary Jane" – 3:42
"Been Smoking Too Long" – 2:13
"Strange Meeting II" – 3:32
"Rider on the Wheel" – 2:30
"Black Eyed Dog" – 3:20
"Hanging on a Star" – 2:42
"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 & 6 pre-date the Five Leaves Left sessions (October 1968)
Tracks 7, 9 & 10 are home recordings from 1967-1969
Track 8 is an alternate take featuring Richard Thompson on guitar (December 1968)
Tracks 11, 12, 13 are 3 of the so-called "final four" recordings (February 1974). The other, "Tow the Line," was recorded in July 1974 and is included on other releases.
Track 14 is also referred to as "Voices" on other releases.

Remaster

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.^[2]

Notes and References

Drake, Gabrielle, Nick Drake: Remembered For A While, Little, Brown and Company, 2014.
Web site: The Nick Drake CD Remasters: an interview with Cally. 2008-07-17.