''Time of No Reply'' is a 1987

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featuring outtakes and alternative versions of songs by the English singer-songwriter and musician

Nick Drake Nicholas Rodney Drake (19 June 1948 – 25 November 1974) was an English singer-songwriter and musician. An accomplished acoustic guitarist, Drake signed to Island Records at the age of twenty while still a student at the University of Cambridg ...

. It was also included as the fourth disc of the 1987 version of the Nick Drake

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''.

Track listing

All songs written by

, except "Been Smoking Too Long," by

Robin Frederick Robin Frederick (born 1947) is an American songwriter, author and children's television contributor. She is a former director of A&R and production for Rhino Records and Executive Producer of over 60 albums. She has written and produced more than ...

. # "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 # "The 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 a Mountain" – 3:40 Notes *Tracks 1 to 4 are

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s (November & December 1968) from the ''

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'' sessions. *Track 5 is an alternate version (October 1968) of a song from the ''Five Leaves Left'' sessions. *Track 6 is an outtake (October 1968) from the ''Five Leaves Left'' sessions. *Tracks 7, 9 & 10 are home recordings from 1967–1969. *Track 8 is an alternate version (December 1968) of a song from the ''Five Leaves Left'' sessions and features

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on guitar. *Tracks 11 to 14 are the so-called "final four" recordings (February 1974) previously released as bonus tracks on disk#3 of the 1979 version of the box set ''

'', before a fifth recording, "Tow the Line" (July 1974), emerged on '' Made to Love Magic'' in 2007. *Track 14 is also referred to as "Voices" on other releases

Remaster

The

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executive who compiled the ''

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'' collection indicated plans to remaster ''Time of No Reply'' (which was not originally released on Island, but on

Hannibal Records Hannibal Records was a British record label and one of the first to work with the World music genre. Hannibal was started by Joe Boyd in 1980. Boyd had produced records by artists such as Nick Drake, The Incredible String Band and Fairport Co ...

), with a different track listing. This became '' Made to Love Magic''.

References

{{Authority control Nick Drake compilation albums Albums produced by Joe Boyd 1987 compilation albums Compilation albums published posthumously Hannibal Records albums