ParadiseFreak

let me put this back on the wall chile...

Lana is currently sleeping and her difficult children nikko and topanga are just stepping on her phone

atp i dont care, i know she will come back 

Courtney Love: “Lana and Kurt are the Only Two True Musical Geniuses I’ve Ever Known”
 
https://www.stereogum.com/2209187/courtney-love-lana-del-rey-nirvana-brad-pitt/news/

the lineup is in alphabetical order y'all

#oldschoolfanwarning
 
1. Paradise - while it's not a perfect release, any album with Ride, Gods & Monsters, Cola, Body Electric is gonna top my list.  I wish she had included a few more songs of the era (Y&B etc) to make it a proper album and not just a BTD side-piece.
2. Ultraviolence - Probably her best proper album.  No skippable songs.
3. Honeymoon - Although the songwriting might be one notch below UV, the production is probably my favorite of her career.
4. Born to Die - uneven, but the highlights are still some of her best songs.
5. Lust for Life - also very uneven, but with a couple highlights (in my feelings, heroin)
6. Norman Fucking Rockwell - i'm not a fan of how this record sounds over-all, but there's a few highlights for me (fiily, the greatest, title-track)
7. Chemtrails - She was really losing me on this record.  A couple highlights, but I haven't gone back to the album since the first month it came out.
8. DYKTTATUOB - Listened to it once and haven't re-listened.  It's sad to see my connection with her music dying on the vine.
9. Blue Banisters - Listened once the day it came out, never listened again.

#oldschoolfanwarning
 
1. Paradise - while it's not a perfect release, any album with Ride, Gods & Monsters, Cola, Body Electric is gonna top my list.  I wish she had included a few more songs of the era (Y&B etc) to make it a proper album and not just a BTD side-piece.
2. Ultraviolence - Probably her best proper album.  No skippable songs.
3. Honeymoon - Although the songwriting might be one notch below UV, the production is probably my favorite of her career.
4. Born to Die - uneven, but the highlights are still some of her best songs.
5. Lust for Life - also very uneven, but with a couple highlights (in my feelings, heroin)
6. Norman Fucking Rockwell - i'm not a fan of how this record sounds over-all, but there's a few highlights for me (fiily, the greatest, title-track)
7. Chemtrails - She was really losing me on this record.  A couple highlights, but I haven't gone back to the album since the first month it came out.
8. DYKTTATUOB - Listened to it once and haven't re-listened.  It's sad to see my connection with her music dying on the vine.
9. Blue Banisters - Listened once the day it came out, never listened again.

#oldschoolfanwarning
 
1. Paradise - while it's not a perfect release, any album with Ride, Gods & Monsters, Cola, Body Electric is gonna top my list.  I wish she had included a few more songs of the era (Y&B etc) to make it a proper album and not just a BTD side-piece.
2. Ultraviolence - Probably her best proper album.  No skippable songs.
3. Honeymoon - Although the songwriting might be one notch below UV, the production is probably my favorite of her career.
4. Born to Die - uneven, but the highlights are still some of her best songs.
5. Lust for Life - also very uneven, but with a couple highlights (in my feelings, heroin)
6. Norman Fucking Rockwell - i'm not a fan of how this record sounds over-all, but there's a few highlights for me (fiily, the greatest, title-track)
7. Chemtrails - She was really losing me on this record.  A couple highlights, but I haven't gone back to the album since the first month it came out.
8. DYKTTATUOB - Listened to it once and haven't re-listened.  It's sad to see my connection with her music dying on the vine.
9. Blue Banisters - Listened once the day it came out, never listened again.

#oldschoolfanwarning
 
1. Paradise - while it's not a perfect release, any album with Ride, Gods & Monsters, Cola, Body Electric is gonna top my list.  I wish she had included a few more songs of the era (Y&B etc) to make it a proper album and not just a BTD side-piece.
2. Ultraviolence - Probably her best proper album.  No skippable songs.
3. Honeymoon - Although the songwriting might be one notch below UV, the production is probably my favorite of her career.
4. Born to Die - uneven, but the highlights are still some of her best songs.
5. Lust for Life - also very uneven, but with a couple highlights (in my feelings, heroin)
6. Norman Fucking Rockwell - i'm not a fan of how this record sounds over-all, but there's a few highlights for me (fiily, the greatest, title-track)
7. Chemtrails - She was really losing me on this record.  A couple highlights, but I haven't gone back to the album since the first month it came out.
8. DYKTTATUOB - Listened to it once and haven't re-listened.  It's sad to see my connection with her music dying on the vine.
9. Blue Banisters - Listened once the day it came out, never listened again.

#oldschoolfanwarning
 
1. Paradise - while it's not a perfect release, any album with Ride, Gods & Monsters, Cola, Body Electric is gonna top my list.  I wish she had included a few more songs of the era (Y&B etc) to make it a proper album and not just a BTD side-piece.
2. Ultraviolence - Probably her best proper album.  No skippable songs.
3. Honeymoon - Although the songwriting might be one notch below UV, the production is probably my favorite of her career.
4. Born to Die - uneven, but the highlights are still some of her best songs.
5. Lust for Life - also very uneven, but with a couple highlights (in my feelings, heroin)
6. Norman Fucking Rockwell - i'm not a fan of how this record sounds over-all, but there's a few highlights for me (fiily, the greatest, title-track)
7. Chemtrails - She was really losing me on this record.  A couple highlights, but I haven't gone back to the album since the first month it came out.
8. DYKTTATUOB - Listened to it once and haven't re-listened.  It's sad to see my connection with her music dying on the vine.
9. Blue Banisters - Listened once the day it came out, never listened again.

#oldschoolfanwarning
 
1. Paradise - while it's not a perfect release, any album with Ride, Gods & Monsters, Cola, Body Electric is gonna top my list.  I wish she had included a few more songs of the era (Y&B etc) to make it a proper album and not just a BTD side-piece.
2. Ultraviolence - Probably her best proper album.  No skippable songs.
3. Honeymoon - Although the songwriting might be one notch below UV, the production is probably my favorite of her career.
4. Born to Die - uneven, but the highlights are still some of her best songs.
5. Lust for Life - also very uneven, but with a couple highlights (in my feelings, heroin)
6. Norman Fucking Rockwell - i'm not a fan of how this record sounds over-all, but there's a few highlights for me (fiily, the greatest, title-track)
7. Chemtrails - She was really losing me on this record.  A couple highlights, but I haven't gone back to the album since the first month it came out.
8. DYKTTATUOB - Listened to it once and haven't re-listened.  It's sad to see my connection with her music dying on the vine.
9. Blue Banisters - Listened once the day it came out, never listened again.

#oldschoolfanwarning
 
1. Paradise - while it's not a perfect release, any album with Ride, Gods & Monsters, Cola, Body Electric is gonna top my list.  I wish she had included a few more songs of the era (Y&B etc) to make it a proper album and not just a BTD side-piece.
2. Ultraviolence - Probably her best proper album.  No skippable songs.
3. Honeymoon - Although the songwriting might be one notch below UV, the production is probably my favorite of her career.
4. Born to Die - uneven, but the highlights are still some of her best songs.
5. Lust for Life - also very uneven, but with a couple highlights (in my feelings, heroin)
6. Norman Fucking Rockwell - i'm not a fan of how this record sounds over-all, but there's a few highlights for me (fiily, the greatest, title-track)
7. Chemtrails - She was really losing me on this record.  A couple highlights, but I haven't gone back to the album since the first month it came out.
8. DYKTTATUOB - Listened to it once and haven't re-listened.  It's sad to see my connection with her music dying on the vine.
9. Blue Banisters - Listened once the day it came out, never listened again.

I kinda understand what you say… when I saw my ranking I remembered being disappointed with Lust For Life and thinking it was her worse album when it was released (considering the ones released by major label). I miss that time, she was so impeccable then

I can relate to a lot of your points, especially 1, 6, and 8, and, to a lesser degree, 7, though it's been on OB that I feel my connection with breaking Lana for the first time, which is sad for me.
 
I know that artists don't necessarily progress and get better and better with each album, painting, play, film, poem, or book, but I can only relate in the most general way to songs like 'Sweet,' 'Margaret,' 'The Grants,' and 'Grandfather.' The distance from her material on early songs like 'Summertime Sadness' is what I loved--we even find it on 'late' unreleased tracks like 'Serene Queen'--but it seems that's a part of her artistry she's moved away from on OB.  
 
Of course, I respect her right to do whatever she wants to do, whatever she wants to explore, 100%. 

#oldschoolfanwarning
 
1. Paradise - while it's not a perfect release, any album with Ride, Gods & Monsters, Cola, Body Electric is gonna top my list.  I wish she had included a few more songs of the era (Y&B etc) to make it a proper album and not just a BTD side-piece.
2. Ultraviolence - Probably her best proper album.  No skippable songs.
3. Honeymoon - Although the songwriting might be one notch below UV, the production is probably my favorite of her career.
4. Born to Die - uneven, but the highlights are still some of her best songs.
5. Lust for Life - also very uneven, but with a couple highlights (in my feelings, heroin)
6. Norman Fucking Rockwell - i'm not a fan of how this record sounds over-all, but there's a few highlights for me (fiily, the greatest, title-track)
7. Chemtrails - She was really losing me on this record.  A couple highlights, but I haven't gone back to the album since the first month it came out.
8. DYKTTATUOB - Listened to it once and haven't re-listened.  It's sad to see my connection with her music dying on the vine.
9. Blue Banisters - Listened once the day it came out, never listened again.

#oldschoolfanwarning
 
1. Paradise - while it's not a perfect release, any album with Ride, Gods & Monsters, Cola, Body Electric is gonna top my list.  I wish she had included a few more songs of the era (Y&B etc) to make it a proper album and not just a BTD side-piece.
2. Ultraviolence - Probably her best proper album.  No skippable songs.
3. Honeymoon - Although the songwriting might be one notch below UV, the production is probably my favorite of her career.
4. Born to Die - uneven, but the highlights are still some of her best songs.
5. Lust for Life - also very uneven, but with a couple highlights (in my feelings, heroin)
6. Norman Fucking Rockwell - i'm not a fan of how this record sounds over-all, but there's a few highlights for me (fiily, the greatest, title-track)
7. Chemtrails - She was really losing me on this record.  A couple highlights, but I haven't gone back to the album since the first month it came out.
8. DYKTTATUOB - Listened to it once and haven't re-listened.  It's sad to see my connection with her music dying on the vine.
9. Blue Banisters - Listened once the day it came out, never listened again.

Sorry. This is what I do:
1. Rank my favorite released Lana’s songs. So for example my current top ten is:
#1 OTTR
#2 Black Beauty
#3 A&W 
#4 NFR
#5 COCC
#6 Doin’ Time
#7 Cinnamon Girl
#8 Fuck It I Love You
#9 Cola
#10 Freak
 
2. Each of the ranked songs will have an amount of points which will be the same as their position on the ranking (so OTTR has one point, Black Beauty has two etc.)
 
3. Then I sum the points of the songs of the album I want to rank
 
4. Then I divide the sum of the points by the number of tracks in the album
 
5. Considering that the song I like the most has the lowest point (OTTR will have only one point) and the song I like the least has the highest point (For Free has 155 points I guess lol), then the album with the lowest score will be my favorite album and the album with the highest score will be my least favourite. this method takes a lot of work but it’s fun because you also make your top released songs from Lana and I think it’s pretty accurate 
 
that being said, my ranking is:
1 - Ultraviolence
2 - Norman Fucking Rockwell
 
3 - Born To Die
4 - Honeymoon
 
5 - Lust For Life
6 - Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Boulevard
 
7 - Chemtrails Over the Country Club
8 - Lana Del Ray AKA Lizzie Grant
9 - Sirens
10 - Blue Banisters

Love how she was dragged to hell and back for the mesh mask in 2020 and now she's the only celeb wearing a face mask in 2023

If any of these collabs (taylor, billie, nikki etc.) happen in the future, I hope they're on their respective albums, not on lana's.

not sure if there's another thread for this... but just saw this 4/5 star review: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/lana-del-rey-ocean-blvd-album-review/

not sure if there's another thread for this... but just saw this 4/5 star review: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/lana-del-rey-ocean-blvd-album-review/

Black Beauty

- ride
- born to die
- honeymoon
- cruel world
- nfr
- white dress
- love
- the grants
- text book
 
had to relisten to text book for the first time since that album came out.  unless the rest of Ocean Blvd is really good and requires full album listens, i have a feeling the grants is not gonna get any more plays from me.  but these top 4 i could listen to all day every day.

fine i'll do it too
- ride
- honeymoon
- love
- born to die
- cruel world
- white dress
- nfr
- the grants
- text book