Really? You like Nick Drake? Not shitting me or anything? Cos I really dig him too.
I'm not sure I have a favourite - which probably says as much about my personality as having one would. Y'know, there are too many I like just as much as each other and they're all so different and diverse, which is really me to a T cos I'm pretty versatile and have very wide interests and stuff.
If pinned down though I might go with Leonard Cohen or Benjamin Biolay. Something about them, especially Laughin' Len, the only guy I can think of whose songs literally transport me, everything about them, lyrics, music, everything. I say everything but I lose interest in most of his stuff once it gets to about the 80's. Albums like
New Skin... and
Songs From A Room though, strike a real deep chord in me. No pun intended. And there's a verse in Biolay's
Une Chaise A Tokyo that sometimes I have to skip on the CD cos it's too close to the bone for me.
I'm not sure what lovin' Len says about me. Maybe that I'm as crazy as him and just as tormented? haha... well I dunno, there's something about him that I relate to, the way he's kind of so astoundingly cynical and yet, at the same time, he isn't - as though there's a romantic or idealistic core of him that just refuses to let him give in completely to cynicism and I think it's the battle between those forces that I feel pulling each other apart or more, pulling him apart from the inside, in his music... well, I relate very strongly to that. 'Torn' is a feeling I'm very used to, like an old pair of shoes
