Hundred Dollar Bill

Llama Del Farm.

The fact that so many books still name the Beatles "the greatest or most significant or most influential" rock band ever only tells you how far rock music still is from becoming a serious art. Jazz critics have long recognized that the greatest jazz musicians of all times are Duke Ellington and John Coltrane, who were not the most famous or richest or best sellers of their times, let alone of all times. Classical critics rank the highly controversial Beethoven over classical musicians who were highly popular in courts around Europe. Rock critics are still blinded by commercial success: the Beatles sold more than anyone else (not true, by the way), therefore they must have been the greatest. Jazz critics grow up listening to a lot of jazz music of the past, classical critics grow up listening to a lot of classical music of the past. Rock critics are often totally ignorant of the rock music of the past, they barely know the best sellers. No wonder they will think that the Beatles did anything worth of being saved.
 
In a sense the Beatles are emblematic of the status of rock criticism as a whole: too much attention to commercial phenomena (be it grunge or U2) and too little attention to the merits of real musicians. If somebody composes the most divine music but no major label picks him up and sells him around the world, a lot of rock critics will ignore him. If a major label picks up a musician who is as stereotyped as one can be but launches her or him worldwide, your average critic will waste rivers of ink on her or him. This is the sad status of rock criticism: rock critics are basically publicists working for free for major labels, distributors and record stores. They simply publicize what the music business wants to make money with.
 
Hopefully, one not-too-distant day, there will be a clear demarcation between a great musician like Tim Buckley, who never sold much, and commercial products like the Beatles. And rock critics will study more of rock history and realize who invented what and who simply exploited it commercially.
 
Beatles' "aryan" music removed any trace of black music from rock and roll: it replaced syncopated african rhythm with linear western melody, and lusty black attitudes with cute white-kid smiles.
 
Contemporary musicians never spoke highly of the Beatles, and for a good reason. They could not figure out why the Beatles' songs should be regarded more highly than their own. They knew that the Beatles were simply lucky to become a folk phenomenon (thanks to "Beatlemania", which had nothing to do with their musical merits). THat phenomenon kept alive interest in their (mediocre) musical endeavours to this day. Nothing else grants the Beatles more attention than, say, the Kinks or the Rolling Stones. There was nothing intrinsically better in the Beatles' music. Ray Davies of the Kinks was certainly a far better songwriter than Lennon & McCartney. The Stones were certainly much more skilled musicians than the 'Fab Fours'. And Pete Townshend was a far more accomplished composer, capable of "Tommy" and "Quadrophenia". Not to mention later and far greater British musicians. Not to mention the American musicians who created what the Beatles later sold to the masses.
 
The Beatles sold a lot of records not because they were the greatest musicians but simply because their music was easy to sell to the masses: it had no difficult content, it had no technical innovations, it had no creative depth. They wrote a bunch of catchy 3-minute ditties and they were photogenic. - Pierro Scaruffi

This is me getting you started. TELL ME ABOUT WHY THEY ARE OVERRATED. I want to know how your mind works. It will be really interesting to read. Please. :3

wanting to live in a trailer park and be a cheap trailer trash darling #isthishowlizzygrantfelt

You tell him to ray-ray-raise it up?

Fact: If you hate Burning Desire, you haven't listened to it enough
 
Somehow it became one of my most-played songs, couldn't even tell you how...The rest of the Paradise Edition will have some catching up to do. The fucking outtro, ugh I don't care if the lyrics are repetitive. I love that backing track. (Or whatever it is you call the non-vocals, since Monicker pointed out "instrumental" is wrong...)
 
(It's also great to pretend to sing to a crowd of adoring fans in my Lana voice )

It's kind of an extreme invasion of privacy, moreso than normally acceptable. You'd be able to find her friends & family there, and who's to say someone wouldn't use that information in a bad way? That could lead to problems for people close to Lana. I know you weren't implying this, but I just want to say it anyway; She is a person, no matter how famous, and deserves privacy just like everyone else. I agree with the other mods in that active personal accounts being posted is not okay. I hope I worded all that well.

That is fucking awesome! Thanks for sharing that! I'm jealous. What I wouldn't give to meet him and just talk to him for hours...

You're Gonna Love Me is so underrated. I think it's one of her best acoustic-type songs. It's definitely my favorite in that category. I probably love it so much because I'm a creep obsessive stalker just like Lana. When I listen to it, I think about my ex and how I'm going to get him back. (It will happen).

My brother, sister, and I were obsessed. A family friend knows 'Lemony Snicket' so got us a signed book. He signed it, 'To the ____Triplets~ Three Future Orphans.' Aged 7 we were scarred for life.

YOU CANNOT DENY QUEEN MERYL STREEP!

DID YOU GUYS REALLY STEAL POINTS FROM "MERMAID MOTEL" AND "SMARTY"? wth
 
However
 
Kill Kill 15
Queen Of The Gas Station 15
Oh Say Can You See 15
Gramma (Blue Ribbon Sparkler Trailer Heaven) 16
For K Part 2 15
Jump 15
Mermaid Motel 15
Raise Me Up (Mississippi South) 15
Pawn Shop Blues 15
Brite Lites 14
Put Me In A Movie 16
Smarty 14
Yayo 15
 
:imbeingsarcasticbitch2: I had to add "Brite Lites" myself btw, flop fans. :imbeingsarcasticbitch2:
 

Hundred Dollar Bill... I AGREE. LUCKY ONES IS THE FUCKING BEST OH MY GOD.
Lana hasn't sung it live because it's too delicate to touch x x X
LETS GET OUT OF THIS TOWN, BABY WE ON FIYAAH

Well first, you see, you have to start playing Lucky Ones on repeat and on full volume. As that plays, you then burn your copy of AKA, whilst chanting "BTD is the best Lizzy album, BTD is the best Lizzy album" and doing the Electric Slide backwards. At this point, you put on a Native American headdress and do what Lana did during the bridge of the Ride music video. Then you hire a black man to portray one of the most famous presidents there ever was, sparking little to no controversy, of course, to chant with you. Once you've done all these things, the Teletubbies will arrive and start eating your copies of Sirens while you're still chanting "BTD is the best Lizzy album." After doing this for 37 minutes and 14 seconds, a can of Generic Horse Shit should appear on your doorstep. You can't actually buy one because they're very rare and Sitar just had to tease us all by insinuating that he has one. I hope OperationGaga doesn't hear about this, and I hope Sitar doesn't start giving us a review of what his can of Generic Horse Shit smells like. We'll have some pretty big forum problems then. Maybe it's best if we just threaten to kill each other instead.

Keep this up and you'll be touching your own dick in the dark by yourself while Monicker, Hellion and I touch each other's while listening to Lucky Ones.
 

They're all studio versions.

Hai guyz, this petty but playful but petty but playful but petty but playful but petty mock-bickering about what Lana Del Rey's best song is and how your favorite song “””””slays””””” some other person’s favorite song is getting a little tiresome and fucking silly, no? Blaugoaughreowoffffttttt
 
 
 
You know, for all the shit you give Lana for uttering SONICALLY as much as she does, you certainly do use CINEMATIC a lot to describe pop songs, eh?
 
 
I can do this in about four seconds. But i will probably procrastinate until the end of time, so i'll never actually end up doing it. But bug me about it sometime and i’ll probably cave (that is, if the frankenmix hasn't materialized from thin air by that point).
 
 
Pardon? Lolita? '60s psychedelic pop? Weren't you just agreeing in another thread about people mindlessly throwing around empty descriptors like these?
 
 
You really think these songs sound Americana? SONICALLY, that is What, is it the strong, dancey electronic beats? The quasi-rapping? The spoken section that is recited with a totally contemporary, urban enunciation and style? The modern, edgy samples and soundscapes? The multitude of synths? The use of modern audio filters? The contemporary style of arranging and production techniques?

Moni coming through with a proper reading.
 



 
But still, Lucky Ones though >

HOLY FUCK. LMFAO. LITERALLY THE BEST POST ON THIS FORUM, EVER.
 
:lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:
 
I could not agree more, oh god. Let me love you.

Yes.
 
i <3 8============D

48. Life imitates art.
 

They're all studio versions.

New game:
Take a shot every time she says sonically, visually or thematically.

Q: Lana, will you marry me?

That's what I like to hear