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what was the first unreleased Lana song you ever heard?
 
mine was 1949, back in early 2015. i came across it on youtube and was SHOOK that it was lana. keep in mind i didn't know lizzy grant or may jailer even existed yet. i sent it to my then lana-guru friend who said "it's cute. sounds like lizzy grant" and mentally i went "whomst'd've?". to not look like an idiot i googled her and i was SHOOK x2 and replied nonchalantly "yeah, but i'd love if she rerecorded it" (note: this was before i even knew paradise yayo was a revamped AKA yayo. so at least it seemed realistic to said friend)
 

 
right after that i listened to axl rose husband, and i think serial killer. axl rose husband is still in my top 10 unreleased, but 1949 holds fond memories of that summer for me, depsite it being knocked past #10 by other unreleased tracks
 
i'm so grateful for it though, i would've never gotten as into lana had i not found it! at that point i was still just casual BTD scum with some UV faves, and i probably would have forgotten about lana if i didn't discover her massive unreleased discography. it keeps things very interesting, and i'm also so grateful that it all led me to this community 

hi i make cover edits of miss lana del rey because i love design and i love ha


 
 

I can't believe anyone is mad about this union. This man is behind this project and particularly this song:
So on brand for Lanz idc idc....If Jack Donaghue can yank us out of the Jack Antonoff era with his esoteric veiny death grip– I might just renew my stan card.

so i noticed there's that one user's welcome thread focusing on their vinyl collection, and i was thinking "huh i wonder if LB has a thread dedicated to vinyl enthusiats" and shockingly....it does not
 
i've been collecting records for nearly two years now (and i have the complete lana discog + AKA, not counting special edition/picture disk releases). maybe i'll post pictures later but that's a lot of work for right now
 
feel free to discuss vinyl here, audiophiles to aesthetes, and drop pictures of your setups and/or collections!
 
**no elitism please. there is enough of that on r/vinyl**
 

so i noticed there's that one user's welcome thread focusing on their vinyl collection, and i was thinking "huh i wonder if LB has a thread dedicated to vinyl enthusiats" and shockingly....it does not
 
i've been collecting records for nearly two years now (and i have the complete lana discog + AKA, not counting special edition/picture disk releases). maybe i'll post pictures later but that's a lot of work for right now
 
feel free to discuss vinyl here, audiophiles to aesthetes, and drop pictures of your setups and/or collections!
 
**no elitism please. there is enough of that on r/vinyl**
 

i dont want LIB or Yosemite. give me marilyn or give me death (or steven mertens' AKA)

The most gorg verses she's ever cooked up, prepared, and served methinks...!

what was the first unreleased Lana song you ever heard?
 
mine was 1949, back in early 2015. i came across it on youtube and was SHOOK that it was lana. keep in mind i didn't know lizzy grant or may jailer even existed yet. i sent it to my then lana-guru friend who said "it's cute. sounds like lizzy grant" and mentally i went "whomst'd've?". to not look like an idiot i googled her and i was SHOOK x2 and replied nonchalantly "yeah, but i'd love if she rerecorded it" (note: this was before i even knew paradise yayo was a revamped AKA yayo. so at least it seemed realistic to said friend)
 

 
right after that i listened to axl rose husband, and i think serial killer. axl rose husband is still in my top 10 unreleased, but 1949 holds fond memories of that summer for me, depsite it being knocked past #10 by other unreleased tracks
 
i'm so grateful for it though, i would've never gotten as into lana had i not found it! at that point i was still just casual BTD scum with some UV faves, and i probably would have forgotten about lana if i didn't discover her massive unreleased discography. it keeps things very interesting, and i'm also so grateful that it all led me to this community 

Summer Bummer been on repeat so I gave LFL a relisten and yeah.. I forgot how good this record is. She gets flowers from me at least

Summer Bummer been on repeat so I gave LFL a relisten and yeah.. I forgot how good this record is. She gets flowers from me at least

Ghetto Baby and I can't and won't apologize!

Ghetto Baby and I can't and won't apologize!

The most gorg verses she's ever cooked up, prepared, and served methinks...!

Mm yea me encantaaan Kitten Heel y Vuelta

his impact 

I respect everyone's right to their own taste and opinion. 'Violets For Roses' is one of my all-time favorite songs by Lana. The subtlety of the "a-has" to drive the melody home towards the end--about 3:41--is amazing, and something only Lana (or early Tori Amos) could do. 
 
I agree with those who said "Jack had nothing to do with it"--meaning 'VFR'--we know from 'BPBP,' 'White Mustang' and 'Change,' among other pre-JA tracks, that Lana has been writing simple, '70s-Carly-Simon-like songs, sometimes with minimalist production for a while. This goes way back--'Old Money,' another of all my all-time Lana songs, was very simple in structure and melody.
 
I agree that JA may have brought, or seems to have brought, a certain amount of blandness and/or obviousness to Lana's music, but for me, 'VFR' isn't an example of that. And for me, whatever 'NFR!' leftovers made COCC were better than most of NFR!, an album I'm not a great fan of.  
 
Lana has said she "grew up in a Carly Simon household" with a suggestion of disapproval, but she's middle-aged now and what we find on LDR9 may reflect that (or not), just as Carly Simon and Joni Mitchell were entering middle age in their latter 70s work (Mitchell was 33 at the time of 'Hejira,' and even has a 1981 song that begins, "Caught in the middle, Carol, we're middle class, we're middle-aged..."). 
 
I'd love to see Lana take command and do something really powerful, energetic, and blistering, like 'Serene Queen,' on LDR9, but we don't know where her head is at right now and we may never see that side of her again (though the JA 'bombastic' tracks seem to a suggest otherwise).  

Maybe not intentional on her part but I like the idea that this could've been tucked into her subconscious. She did study philosophy after all, with an interest in religion. I like this parallel a lot

So none of yous are able to screen record and post a link to the snippet for those of us on a social media detox... Toxic ass fandom
Living proof that literacy rates are down in America... I found Elle's post

Sounds like we‘re in for another whining over a muffled piano album. I‘m SICK OF IT.

for the record she's rhyming baby with crazy

heres a link to the snippet
 
 

So none of yous are able to screen record and post a link to the snippet for those of us on a social media detox... Toxic ass fandom
Living proof that literacy rates are down in America... I found Elle's post

So none of yous are able to screen record and post a link to the snippet for those of us on a social media detox... Toxic ass fandom
Living proof that literacy rates are down in America... I found Elle's post

So none of yous are able to screen record and post a link to the snippet for those of us on a social media detox... Toxic ass fandom
Living proof that literacy rates are down in America... I found Elle's post

/-: Meh........... sorry. Maybe it will be better post prod?