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Yay for another PJ Harvey fan! I'm only 23, but I feel like I'm ancient for still remembering Mazzy and PJ. I'm not alone! I saw her last tour too! I was right on the barricade! Which show did you go to?

Thank you, and you like PJ Harvey too, so right back at you! A concert of hers about 2 years ago is one of the best I've ever been to!

Hi, I'm in love with your taste. Mazzy Star AND Dirty Beaches?! 
 
PJ Harvey - Catherine

Dirty Beaches - I Dream In Neon

There's not much to this playlist, I kinda just liked it. I also wanted to make something in the fashion of the God Bless America mixtape since I think it was really well done (and I just realized I used a song that was made for it. Oops...). Dunno if I succeeded though, lmao.
 
Song of Myself
 
1. Song of Myself
2. Body Electric (Fan-made Paradise Tour Studio Version) I might still have a link if anyone wants; It's really well done.
3. Hollywood
4. Gods & Monsters
5. Tired Of Singing The Blues
6. Playground (last minute addition FTW)
7. You & Me
8. Disco
9. Kill Kill
10. The Man I Love
11. Rehab
12. Cola
13. Heart Shaped Box [Live] (Live at Splendour in the Grass) Really good quality version of HSB!

I've been thinking back to summer 2011 when I first discovered Lana. I've been wanting to make a playlist that corresponded to the kind of album I was hoping for and what I was thinking we'd get before we knew anything about Born to Die. I based it around my favorite tracks at the time (You Can Be the Boss, Kinda Outta Luck, Diet Mountain Dew, National Anthem, Lolita) and stuff that has leaked since that I feel fits sonically. It focuses on a harder edged sound and edgier lyrics.
 
Children of the Bad Revolution
 
1. National Anthem (Nexus)
2. Kinda Outta Luck
3. Diet Mtn Dew (demo 2)
4. Put the Radio On
5. Queen of Disaster
6. Children of the Bad Revolution
7. You Can Be the Boss
8. Dangerous Girl
9. Lolita (demo 1)
10. Hundred Dollar Bill (studio)
11. Push Me Down
12. Tired of Singing the Blues
13. Hollywood's Dead
14. Playing Dangerous
15. Last Girl on Earth

I've been thinking back to summer 2011 when I first discovered Lana. I've been wanting to make a playlist that corresponded to the kind of album I was hoping for and what I was thinking we'd get before we knew anything about Born to Die. I based it around my favorite tracks at the time (You Can Be the Boss, Kinda Outta Luck, Diet Mountain Dew, National Anthem, Lolita) and stuff that has leaked since that I feel fits sonically. It focuses on a harder edged sound and edgier lyrics.
 
Children of the Bad Revolution
 
1. National Anthem (Nexus)
2. Kinda Outta Luck
3. Diet Mtn Dew (demo 2)
4. Put the Radio On
5. Queen of Disaster
6. Children of the Bad Revolution
7. You Can Be the Boss
8. Dangerous Girl
9. Lolita (demo 1)
10. Hundred Dollar Bill (studio)
11. Push Me Down
12. Tired of Singing the Blues
13. Hollywood's Dead
14. Playing Dangerous
15. Last Girl on Earth

they're all from the early shows section and that has existed for a while. i'll pm u

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!

St. V is always a pleasure to see (I even ran into her at the Fiona Apple show!), Joanna blew my mind and needs to get her ass back on tour so I can see her again, and PJ is someone I had been wanting to see for many years before I finally had the chance last year. She was brilliant. Tune-Yards was really fun! It was a year before her second album came out, so she was playing a lot of those songs, but most of them didn't have names at the time. I would LOVE to see Leonard Cohen, but his tickets are SO expensive.
 
 
Great list! I actually saw Cate Le Bon opening for St. Vincent, but I didn't include openers because I can't remember all of them. Yeasayer, Daughn Gibson (I am OBSESSED with his album), Zola, Depeche Mode, and Bat For Lashes (hopefully she announces US tour dates soon) are all on my list of artists to see. So cool that you saw TLC too! I was obsessed with them when I was a kid!

I was on her side from the beginning. I don't think I could wrap my head around how anyone that young could have a voice like that at first. She really was just incredible. Her voice had such range and power and her phrasing was dead on when she was sang jazz. If she was alive and making records, I don't think Adele would be as big as she is.
 
When she was on, she was such an incredible performer:

I'm a little late, but I just wanted to say that I totally agree with what you're saying. In that verse, I think she's writing from the perspective of putting all of her friends and their issues under the microscope. Assuming everyone she knew at that school (and I don't know much about the school) was, like her, sent there for substance abuse, eating disorders, etc., the verse makes perfect sense in that context. On the other hand, I think it could easily be misconstrued.

I was on her side from the beginning. I don't think I could wrap my head around how anyone that young could have a voice like that at first. She really was just incredible. Her voice had such range and power and her phrasing was dead on when she was sang jazz. If she was alive and making records, I don't think Adele would be as big as she is.
 
When she was on, she was such an incredible performer:

"Pretty Green" by Santigold [prod. by Mark Ronson]

"Bicycle" by St. Vincent

Trying to see if I can make it through all 17-and-a-half minutes of "Litanies of Satan" by Diamanda Galas.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbTAF0e2scc&feature=player_embedded#!
 
It makes me feel like I deserve to burn at the stake. Do not fuck with if you aren't into potentially being possessed I guess.

Scene4life
 
 
Cruel - St. Vincent

Sneaker Pimps - Low Place Like Home

Great translation! Thanks so much!

Tori Amos - Muhammad My Friend (Live Milwaukee, WI 06.08.96)

Wow! I haven't heard that in at least five years!
 
Fiona Apple - Regret

Invented beauty
Decadent Hollywood star, ingenue little posh or hoochie from the periphery, all of that fits in the persona Lana Del Rey created for herself. – By Harold Von Kursk
 
One video made with a collage of images on Youtube made her a sensation of the alternative music. And a super critized performance on TV turned her into an overnight pop star. If you think the path that Lana Del Rey, 26 years old, made until she came to the top was a little bit weird, you're very right – her universe is very strange, indeed. In the beginning of 2011, Lana was Lizzy Grant, a singer with bleached blonde hair (and lips way thinner) who circulated around the record labels seeking a contract. Until that, in june of that year she put on internet the ballad Video Games, along with nostalgic images she chose by herself. With her new name, lips and trendy retro look, she caught the attention of bloggers and journalists and her course started to change. Everything almost went down the drain in January, when her performance on the TV show Saturday Night Live, from NBC network, was crushed down by the critic. But the effect was the opposite: 15 days after, her album Born to Die, a collection of glamorous and dark songs, came to the stores and went right to the first place in charts of seven countries. She just released her 6th video from her album, Summertime Sadness (Lana now makes superproduced videos). And she is the face of the new campaign of H&M. Full of tricks or talented? GLOSS saw one of her shows in New York, in June and assures: both things. Fake, fragile, beautiful, bold, modern – she is all of that. Just not a conventional singer.
 
GLOSS: You became a celebrity overnight. How do you see this so immediate success?
LDR: I'm surprised! I didn't expect this, specially after being ignored for 6 years. I couldn't get my songs to be played and I had a lot of difficulty to settle shows. Everybody was complaining that my songs were too long and dark and that it would be impossible to commercialize them. They said that the video of Video Games was weird and scary [laughs]. It's very funny that now I have a contract [with Universal Music] and a team working with me.
 
GLOSS: You moved from Connecticut to New York at age 18 and went to study at Fordham University. How the experience influenced your music?
LDR: Being in New York was a very lonely experience, but also very stimulating in many ways. I met weird people, others wonderful and some not very nice. All of that enriched my music and what I wanted to say. I had to struggle to have my rent's money and to be able to afford others expenses. I know this sounds kinda cliché but that is what happened.
 
GLOSS: Do you still feel alone nowadays?
LDR: No, I feel better. I believe that, when someone finally has a success and people feel touched by your music, the sensation of satisfaction appears. But some of my songs still talk about the disappointment of finding an incredible person and things not working out. Being alone and not feeling deeply connected to no one isn't something easy to deal with.
 
GLOSS: By your lyrics, it seems that you lived some complicated break-ups.
LDR: It's hard to be with someone, waiting for something pretty to be born and then, suddenly, everything going wrong. I was with a person who I thought I was going to spend the rest of my life with. We were clean and sober, and I needed someone who would respect that. But it didn't work out. When I thought I've had found someone who could take care of me and that I could take care too, I saw everything fall apart.
 
GLOSS: Are you shy?
LDR: I'm very introverted. I don't feel easily comfortable with people when I meet them and I get nervous when I start to talk.
 
GLOSS: Is that a problem when you sing live?
LDR: I think my shyness and my nervousness already became visible in some of my performances. I'm still learning how to deal with that. I keep telling myself to relax on stage, try to feel the music and not to think in what is around me.
 
GLOSS: Why do you think that, in a time of Lady Gaga and so many overstyled artists, people are critizing you so much for inventing a certain image for yourself?
LDR: Thanks for the observation! [Laughs.] I don't think I put a big effort on creating an image besides using dresses rather than exotic costumes. Sometimes the clothes are kinda retro, what matches my music and videos. And it's just that. I think my voice and and lyrics are provocative. But I don't get the rage level of some critics about me.
 
GLOSS: The music video for Video Games was the great responsible for the turning point in your career. Did you expect the material would have the impact it did?
LDR: I thought the images would catch attention and help me to have more followers on the internet. And that maybe it would be good when seeking a contract with some record label. I never thought it would be so watched [the video has today more than 60 millions of views]. I dedicated myself a lot to the material and it gave me a great creative satisfaction. So, I'm proud of people liking it so much.
 
GLOSS: Many people invented thousand of theories to interpret what the images of the video are meant to say...
LDR: The truth is that I had no money to make a video, then I started to make experiences with the images. I think it increased the impact of the music, but when I see the music video nowadays I feel like changing a lot of things, specially the images of myself. Now that I have a contract with a record label and money to produce, I'm very happy for not having to make my self videos. I participate in the process, but I love the fact of being able to work with real professionals. I prefer to concentrate in the songs.
 
GLOSS: Why is "Born to Die" the title of the album?
LDR: In childhood, I kind of freaked out when I realized that my mom, my dad and everybody I knew would die someday. I think that, somehow, this philosophical crisis stayed with me and reappeared in the time I had to give a title to the album.
 
GLOSS: In some interviews, you said that music isn't the most important thing in your life. Is that true?
LDR: I like music and composing, it's just that it's not the fundamental point for me. I have interest in many things and I don't see my life only spinning around music, although I'm super-involved with that at the moment. But I'm very happy with my album and even more to know the amount of people that like my songs. I guess I should think about that and don't worry about nothing else. I would like people to think about me as a good person. Maybe it's ingenuity of me saying that, but that's what I am.
 
Building Lana
Where the singer went to find inspiration to create her cool visual
VERONICA LAKE
From the femme fatale from the 40's, Lana took the attitude and the hair
BRIGITTE BARDOT
The thick and slightly open lips are the mark of the french actress
AUDREY HEPBURN
Lana adores eyes well contoured with black eyeliner
PRISCILLA PRESLEY
Every now and then, Lana appears with the hairstyle that Elvis's ex used in the sixties
MORTICIA ADDAMS
One more embellishment of a femme fatale: huge nails!
KANYE WEST
Necklaces, rings and sneakers complete the visual

"Love Out of Lust" by Lykke Li

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