Time of No Reply is a 1986 compilation album

Compilation album

A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...

 featuring outtakes and alternative versions of songs by English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 folk

Folk music

Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....

 singer Nick Drake

Nick Drake

Nicholas Rodney "Nick" Drake was an English singer-songwriter and musician. Though he is best known for his sombre guitar based songs, Drake was also proficient at piano, clarinet and saxophone...

. It was also included as the fourth disc of the 1986 version of the Nick Drake box set Fruit Tree

Fruit Tree (Nick Drake album)

Fruit Tree is a box set by English singer/songwriter Nick Drake. It now exists in several versions, all of which feature his three studio albums, plus additional material.-1979 Release:...

.

Track listing

All songs by Nick Drake

Nick Drake

Nicholas Rodney "Nick" Drake was an English singer-songwriter and musician. Though he is best known for his sombre guitar based songs, Drake was also proficient at piano, clarinet and saxophone...

, except "Been Smoking Too Long," by Robin Frederick

1. "Time of No Reply" – 2:52
2. "I Was Made to Love Magic
   Magic (Nick Drake song)
   "Magic" is the second listed song from Nick Drake's 2004 compilation album Made to Love Magic and was remastered and released as a single in 2004...
   
   " – 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. "The 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
  Five Leaves Left
  Five Leaves Left, recorded in 1969, was the first of three albums by British folk musician Nick Drake. Like Bryter Layter but unlike Pink Moon, this album contains no completely solo songs...
  
  sessions (November & December 1968)
• Tracks 5, 7, 9 & 10 are home demos from 1967-1969
• Track 6 is from a pre Five Leaves Left session (October 1968)
• Track 8 is a different take than the version originally released on Five Leaves Left featuring Richard Thompson on guitar (December, 1968)
• Tracks 11, 12, 13 & 14 are the so-called "final 4" recordings (February 1974)

Personnel

Nick Drake performs vocals and acoustic guitar on all songs, except where indicated otherwise.

Plan for remastered version

The Island

Island Records

Island Records is a record label that was founded by Chris Blackwell in Jamaica. It was based in the United Kingdom for many years and is now owned by Universal Music Group...

 executive who compiled the Made To Love Magic

Made to Love Magic

Made to Love Magic is a 2004 compilation album of out-takes and remixed tracks by English singer/songwriter Nick Drake. It is notable for featuring a previously unreleased solo acoustic version of "River Man", dating from early 1968, and the song "Tow the Line", a previously unheard song from...

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

Hannibal Records

Hannibal Records was a 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 Convention and released recordings by these artists as well as...

), with a different track listing.