Time of No Reply

Time of No Reply
Compilation album by Nick Drake
Released	March 1987
Recorded	1967 – 1968, 1974
Genre	Folk, folk rock
Length	42:20
Label	Hannibal
Producer	Joe Boyd / various
Nick Drake chronology
Heaven in a Wild Flower (1985) Time of No Reply (1987) Way to Blue (1994)

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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.

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. "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 (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.