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I love, love, love this song so much because I feel really personally connected to it. I grew up near Fordham Road, so I can offer my take on the geography, at least. I'm almost certain the "bad neighborhood" she's talking about is on one side of Fordham, which you would have to pass through if you were walking up to Fordham Road from downtown (Harlem/South Bronx). The other side, going uptown, is a decent neighborhood. In the vicinity is a Catholic girls' high school, which has a stone statue of the Virgin Mary on a rocky hill in their garden, which is in clear view as you walk past. Valentine refers to Valentine Avenue, which is a cross street in the neighborhood. Depending on which route you took, you'd have to pass the statue in order to walk up to Valentine Av. I hope all that made sense!

As a french boy : i only listen to Serge Gainsbourg and Edith Piaf

haha! i still am a teenager but alice & siouxsie are definitely on my inspiration list. and i went through an 'emo' phase when i was 9 or so...
 
yeah same, i just have a little play around with songs and effects. i'm pretty good with distortion and clipping though ;D

I agree! I see a lot of Siouxsie, Wendy O, etc. in Alice. Siouxsie was one of my teen idols. I was goth to the max back then. hahaha.
 
That's so cool that you DJ! I love doing it, but I'm very much an amateur.

I feel like Alice is an anachronism from the punk era because those sensibilities are so strong in her! She's a really important figure in the business because, whereas passionate women who are angry and not afraid to talk about it were common in the 80s-90s, there's not much of that happening now. I listen to a lot of electronica too, but I'm quite picky about it. Most of the electronica I love is trip-hop/downtempo. Trip-hop is, without a doubt, my favorite genre.

I love, love, love this song so much because I feel really personally connected to it. I grew up near Fordham Road, so I can offer my take on the geography, at least. I'm almost certain the "bad neighborhood" she's talking about is on one side of Fordham, which you would have to pass through if you were walking up to Fordham Road from downtown (Harlem/South Bronx). The other side, going uptown, is a decent neighborhood. In the vicinity is a Catholic girls' high school, which has a stone statue of the Virgin Mary on a rocky hill in their garden, which is in clear view as you walk past. Valentine refers to Valentine Avenue, which is a cross street in the neighborhood. Depending on which route you took, you'd have to pass the statue in order to walk up to Valentine Av. I hope all that made sense!

i agree with you, a lot of people will listen to it to just smoke some green to, but their music is so much deeper than that. sure it's great to party to, but there's so much more to it.

I really liked what she said about "purity" and its place thematically in the album. I found it incredibly striking when she said that "purity" is the motivation for culturally sanctioned, brutal acts of violence against women around the world. Unfortunately, I think a lot of listeners will glaze over the lyrical content and themes.

I love, love, love this song so much because I feel really personally connected to it. I grew up near Fordham Road, so I can offer my take on the geography, at least. I'm almost certain the "bad neighborhood" she's talking about is on one side of Fordham, which you would have to pass through if you were walking up to Fordham Road from downtown (Harlem/South Bronx). The other side, going uptown, is a decent neighborhood. In the vicinity is a Catholic girls' high school, which has a stone statue of the Virgin Mary on a rocky hill in their garden, which is in clear view as you walk past. Valentine refers to Valentine Avenue, which is a cross street in the neighborhood. Depending on which route you took, you'd have to pass the statue in order to walk up to Valentine Av. I hope all that made sense!

W A I T. You mean the live recording? We don't have a demo, sadly. ..Unless we do and I don't know about it in which case please excuse me while I have a heart attack.
 
 
11:11 and Songs are my favorites. I love how everyone likes a different album! My favorite unreleased songs are 8th Floor, Loveology, The Virgin Queen, Just Like the Movies... I think!

http://www.pluzz.fr/c-a-vous-la-suite-2012-11-16-20h25.html
 
Hi!
You can see the show here, Lana at 2,20 minutes...
 
Enjoy...
Lana, see you in Olympia

Full performance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy-1Ie5caP8
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Beach House fanatic here! Teen Dream totally changed my life. I missed them this tour, but I did a few shows on the Teen Dream tour (a couple of times as a guest of the band) and got to meet them. They are the most amazing people. To think, the first time I met them, I was the only one waiting!

I loved Regina up until 2006, but then Joanna Newsom's Ys came out and we broke up.

I sell some Gaga's cd from my personal collection to buy CD for my lana collection :$