Pink Moon - Reception and Influence

Reception and Influence

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In 2000, Melody Maker placed Pink Moon at 48th in their list of 'All Time Top 100 Albums'.

In 2000, NME ranked it #8 in The NME "Top 30 Heartbreak Albums."

In 2003, the album was ranked number 320 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. In 2012, that ranking was revised to number 321.

In 2004 was named the 13th on Top 100 Albums of the 1970s by Pitchfork Media.

Entertainment Weekly (12 May 2000, p. 24) - "One voice, one guitar, one set of beautifully dolorous songs...the equivalent of an amble down a darkened country road. Model after-hours listening." - Rating: A

Q magazine (August 2000, pp. 112–3) - 5 stars out of 5 - "Nick Drake's best album.... excellence shines through....Few records have ever sounded so intimate, or embodied Melancholy with such grace and assurance."

Alternative Press (March 2001, p. 88) - "With a voice paradoxically feather-light and grave, of the most beautiful and melancholy albums ever recorded."

Mojo (July 2000, p. 99) - "His masterpiece and the Robert Johnson comparisons are fully deserved."

Spin (p. 101) - "is Keatsian mark on music is indelible."

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