Nick Drake -Time Has Told Me -Unreleased demos and studio outtakes

March 6, 2006 5:45 AM

Nick Drake -Time Has Told Me -Unreleased demos and studio outtakes. It requires a signup and they are currently full but they frequently open up again. This torrent has 44 studio/live tracks that are a bit raw but still have the Nick Drake magic.
posted by srboisvert (20 comments total)

Wow, way to get me psyched and then let me down, HARD.
posted by OmieWise at 5:49 AM on March 6, 2006

Just be patient. I only had to wait two days to get an account.
posted by srboisvert at 6:02 AM on March 6, 2006

Just be patient. I only had to wait two days to get an account.

And some of us have been waiting weeks with no success! I heard they had a bunch of Viv Stanshall's radio shows up a while ago, but I can never seem to get in to find out.
posted by PinkStainlessTail at 6:07 AM on March 6, 2006

*sigh*
posted by I Love Tacos at 6:15 AM on March 6, 2006

Of course, were someone to have the torrent, they could just post a link to it here in comments.
posted by puddnhead at 6:16 AM on March 6, 2006

Some more information about what's included in the .torrent would have been nice. Are these outtakes related in any way to the MP3s linked in this earlier Nick Drake thread? Because I bet I'm not the only one here who already grabbed those.

nickdrake.net seems to be inaccessible at the moment. I wonder if that's related.
posted by emelenjr at 6:23 AM on March 6, 2006

Of course, were someone to have the torrent, they could just post a link to it here in comments.

Sadly no...from the dimeadozen faq

Do not share your personalized .torrent files with anyone else! When anyone opens one of your personalized .torrent files to connect to a swarm, all of its upload and download activity will accrue to your username. If two other people are currently downloading a torrent using your personalized .torrent file, you can't. Therefore you must never give out your own personalized .torrent files, or others can use them and wreak havoc with your ratio or keep you from downloading a torrent yourself.


The site is a fabulous source of live music and well worth working to get onto. I debated whether to post this but then I figured that Nick Drake fans would want to try and get this and would put in the effort to get an account so I figured I would let them know so they could try.


Nick Drake
Time Has Told Me
Unreleased demos and studio outtakes collection
silvers>cdr using NERO>eac>shn

Disc One
1. Get Together
2. Been Smoking Too Long (deleted from this torrent)
3. Don't Think Twice It's All Right
4. If You Leave Me Pretty Mama
5. Courting Blues
6. My Sugar So Sweet
7. Strolling Down The Highway
8. Blues Run The Game
9. Winter Is Gone
10. Here Come The Blues
11. All My Trails-Duet With Gabrielle Drake
12. Tomorrow Is Such A Long Time
13. Cocaine Blues
14. Milk And Honey
15. Summertime
16. Black Mountain Blues
17. Nick's Monologue
18. Strange Meeting I/Bird Flew By
19. To The Garden
20. Joey
21. Rain
22. Blossom

Disc Two
1. Time Has Told Me
2. Saturday Sun [First Take]
3. Thoughts Of Mary Jane
4. Day Is Done
5. Fly [Second Take]
6. Place To Be
7. Hazey Jane I
8. Parasite [First Take]
9. Parasite [Second Take]
10. Brittle Days I
11. Brittle Days II
12. Poor Boy
13. Time Has Told Me
14. Work In Progress 3
15. Voice From The Mountain
16. Brittle Days III [Variation]
17. Far Leys
18. Brittle Days III
19. Work In Progress 7
20. Impromptu Sound Check
21. Black Eyed Dog [Guitar Track, Alternate Take]
22. Rider On The Wheel [Guitar Track]

[from original seeder's notes]:
Recording info:
CD1
Tracks 1-22: Recorded at The Music Room, Far Leys, Tanworth In Arden, between 1967/1968

CD2
Track 1-4: Island demos. Rejected arrangements, engineered by John Wood. Recorded at Sound Techniques, Chelsea, London, between July 1968 - December 1968.
Tracks 5-10: Recorded by Brian Wells, Hampstead, London, 1969.
Tracks 11-19:Work Tape, probably recorded between 1968/1969. Chaotic section of the home tapes.
Tracks 20-22: Engineered by John Wood at Sound Techniques, Chelsea, London. February 1974 or July 1974
posted by srboisvert at 6:25 AM on March 6, 2006

Sweet! A single link to a torrent I may or may not be able to access in a couple days (or several weeks).
posted by Nahum Tate at 6:32 AM on March 6, 2006

Of course, were someone to have the torrent, they could just post a link to it here in comments.

Sadly no..

Perhaps someone with the files could create a new torrent and upload somewhere more accessible than dime?
posted by PinkStainlessTail at 6:33 AM on March 6, 2006

Dude, lots of good things get posted to these login-only torrent sites. Lots of good posts and discussions come up on closed mailing lists and bulletin boards. Hell, people say the craziest in their private Livejournal posts.

But one link that most of us will never be able to follow still doesn't make a good post.
posted by nebulawindphone at 6:34 AM on March 6, 2006

nebula, seconded. I am sad and bitter because I can't have this. :(
posted by youarenothere at 6:37 AM on March 6, 2006

What a pathetic misuse of swarming bittorrent technology.
posted by odinsdream at 6:42 AM on March 6, 2006

your favorite torrent site sucks
posted by matteo at 6:49 AM on March 6, 2006

Metafilter: A new way to brag about having stuff that other people don't (yet).
posted by spock at 7:00 AM on March 6, 2006

wtf. flagged.
posted by Stynxno at 7:00 AM on March 6, 2006

Yeah, wtf. Flagged.

The original Newsvine post was deleted because it was in private beta even though we could easily all have gotten in (I assume the OP had an invite to share and everyone who was invited instantly got 20 invites to share with friends).

This is worse.

Also, why doesn't someone just post this as a public torrent somewhere? What's the point of private torrent sites?
posted by sveskemus at 7:19 AM on March 6, 2006

thanks. for nothing.
posted by shoepal at 7:22 AM on March 6, 2006

My apologies for trying to share this. I won't make the mistake again.

Delete away.
posted by srboisvert at 7:37 AM on March 6, 2006

Hold on. It's ambiguous as to whether someone will create a mefi torrent of this file. Anyone willing to step up?
posted by The White Hat at 7:45 AM on March 6, 2006

My condolences to everyone who's not able to get this torrent RIGHT NOW. Getting an account on DIME is worth waiting for.
Camp out on the signup page till a slot opens up.

And yes, someone should create an accessible torrent of this to satisfy the interest that's been generated here.
posted by omnidrew at 7:51 AM on March 6, 2006