Time of No Reply is a 1987 compilation album featuring outtakes and alternative versions of songs by the English singer-songwriter and musician Nick Drake. It was also included as the fourth disc of the 1987 version of the Nick Drake box setFruit Tree.
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 Richard Thompson on guitar.
Tracks 11 to 14 are the so-called "final four" recordings (February 1973) previously released as bonus tracks on disk#3 of the 1979 version of the box set Fruit Tree, before a fifth recording, "Tow the Line" (July 1974), emerged on Made to Love Magic in 2004.
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.
References
↑Drake, Gabrielle, Nick Drake: Remembered For A While, Little, Brown and Company, 2014.
