You get the impression that they wanted to make an episode about one of the freaks dabbling in punk/hardcore, and needed to take their chance when they could, but it all feels a bit perfunctory. You get the impression that they wanted to make an episode about one of the freaks dabbling in punk/hardcore, There is a scene in the brilliant but short-lived television series Freaks and Geeks where Daniel, a freak, has an argument with his mother about dropping out of school, retreats to his room, puts Black Flag's seminal Damaged on his turntable, and nods his head to "Rise Above." It's a scene that comes late in the series, likely after the creators got word of their impending cancellation. There is a scene in the brilliant but short-lived television series Freaks and Geeks where Daniel, a freak, has an argument with his mother about dropping out of school, retreats to his room, puts Black Flag's seminal Damaged on his turntable, and nods his head to "Rise Above." It's a scene that comes late in the series, likely after the creators got word of their impending cancellation. As one of the legions of Nick Drake fans that first heard of him that way, the book made tons of sense to me, and I really did want to know as much as possible about the creative process behind the infamous ad just as much as the album itself.more But I don't think you can tell the story of Pink Moon without telling the story of how a mass market ad gave a forgotten musician several orders of magnitude more acclaim than he'd ever had before.
Readers who were familiar with Nick Drake before the commercial probably won't understand why Petrusich devotes so much exploration to it.
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A great balance between telling the story of Drake, the album itself, and its peculiar place in music history as a lost treasure rediscovered through a TV commercial, of all things. But I don't think you can tell the story of Pink Moon without telling the story of how a mass market ad gave a forgotten musician several Probably the best 33 1/3 book I've read.