Five Leaves Left, recorded in 1969, was the first of three albums by British folk musician Nick Drake. Like Bryter Layter and unlike Pink Moon, this album contains no completely solo songs. Drake was accompanied by members of the British folk-rock group Fairport Convention.
Five Leaves Left was ranked 85th in a 2005 survey held by British television's Channel 4 to determine the 100 greatest albums of all time.
In 2003, the album was ranked number...
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Five Leaves Left, recorded in 1969, was the first of three albums by British folk musician Nick Drake. Like Bryter Layter and unlike Pink Moon, this album contains no completely solo songs. Drake was accompanied by members of the British folk-rock group Fairport Convention.
Five Leaves Left was ranked 85th in a 2005 survey held by British television's Channel 4 to determine the 100 greatest albums of all time.
In 2003, the album was ranked number 283 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
NME (2 October 1993, p.29) - Ranked #74 in NME's list of the 'Greatest Albums Of All Time.'
Q (November 1999, p.162) - Included in Q's Best Folk Albums of All Time - "The pinnacle of a melancholy canon of work so distinctive that admirers can only speculate miserably on what might have been."
Entertainment Weekly (12 May 2000, p.24) - "On his ageless debut, everything - Drake's lispy voice and delicate guitar fingerpicking, arranger Robert Kirby's stately strings -...
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