MrFameKills

Wow, so much love for this masterpiece. Love seeing so much taste ❤️

Honeymoon is a cohesive masterpiece ... TLY ends with her humming and GKIT begins with it, Freak transitions into Art Deco through her vocals being echoed, Swan song samples HBTB vocals in the intro .. her BEST album!

Some people really go a long, distasteful way to get some attention ...

Love is a classic

Hey, it was me. I'll find my original post and paste it here.

I don't know if you guys ever realized that, but the Honeymoon instrumentals (and vocals) play a lot around the "time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future" theme (and some people here even say the Burnt Norton interlude is useless in the album, when, in fact, it's a major role in the understandment of the album themes) which I believe is a central role in the album and the thoughts Lana put in its creation.
 
Like, if you listen to "Music to Watch Boys to" you can hear, right in the beggining, that the chorus without instrumental goes forward, while, in the back sound, the echoes are played backwards.
 
We have this again in "High by the Beach" with the vocals being played going high and being repeated right after backwards and that goes throughout the entire song, everytime these "scream" (yawns? I don't know how to describe it) appear. The instrumental itself is also going forward and backwards sometimes.
 
Art Deco brings it again, with the trip beats in the beggining being played forward and backwards. The instrumental in Burnt Norton is essencially this. Played forward and backwards, forward and backwards, giving the feeling of an endless loop.
 
At the end or Religion the beats slow down to bring Salvatore, where the flutes are first going up and in a second beind played in reverse. 
 
And the best of all, right in the beggining you have the sound of a man crying compulsively, which is repeated a lot of times. The cry itself lenghts less than a second, but they repeat it like, 9 times, so it seems like a continously cry. At the end of the bridge, when the violins rise again (at the end of the piano part) you can see that the cry is now going up, like a laugh, 'cause they're playing it backwards. God, it's fu**ing amazing. This part is more notorious if you listen to the instrrumental isolated, you can find it in here: 
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I listened some of the same pattern in the Swan Song instrumental, but right now I'm not remembering to tell you especifically. Overall, that's just shows how Lana is a fu**ing incredible artist, how everything is planned and she is really focused in materializing an idea, a thought, a belief in what she creates. It's simply overwhelming.

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isn't it sad that one of lfl's best songs isn't even on the album
bar deserves better 

Marina ate 

Legendary artist, better than Madonna etc
 
C'est Une Belle Journee is so fucking beautiful and unsettling. Love her lyrics even if I don't understand half of 'em
 

another fave

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Marina ate 

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Raise Me Up

i filtered it a little, it doesnt sound to different but it does make her actual voice clearer when she says you are in love http://picosong.com/w9dqv/

I JUST FIGURED OUT CHERRY BGV
 
Can I get a fuckin' hallelujah?
Looking at me like a magazine
Can I get a fuckin' hallelujah?
Sippin' on ya like a coca-cola
Can I get a fuckin' hallelujah?
Looking at me like a magazine
Can I get a fuckin' hallelujah?
Sippin' on ya like a coca-cola
 
The code has been cracked, all we needed to do was find out the Cherry BGV to unlock Yosemite

I'm fascinated to hear what she came up with before Dan came along, but don't think we'll ever get to hear it. Lana has nothing to gain and everything to lose by having it heard (if it's not as good as the released version, people will say she only got the songs right with help; if it's better than the released version, people will criticise her for releasing the wrong version). And I'm still amazed that she went from having everything leaked, to having UV not leak at all, which is unbelievable in this day and age (the leak we all got came from a copy purchased in a store).
 
That said, I love the alternate version of 'West Coast', and if there was a record like that, I'd be first in line for it. That vibe only fits a couple of other songs on the record, though, and is nothing at all like the only other alternate version we have (Black Beauty demo). The demos that were leaked before UV came out all sound like they're from different projects, and none of them have quite the right mood for what UV ended up being, except BB. The other songs she released outside of the records were in a darker singer/songwriter style (Leonard Cohen, Lee and Nancy), and it feels like the first version of UV was going to be a lighter companion to those (Joni Mitchell and the Eagles rather than Nico and the Velvets). I wonder whose idea it was to have those loud guitar solos in PWYC and SOC, and whether there is much distorted guitar on her original record. 
 
Just look at the bonus tracks - any of these could have been potentially the basis for the sound of a whole album:
West Coast (alt version) - laid back 70's rock
Black Beauty - Dark 80's power ballad
Guns and Roses - No idea how to characterise this one, but as far away from 1987 Hard Rock as you can get with rock instruments
Florida Kilos - Up tempo 2000's pop
Is This Happiness - Downbeat Jeff Buckley-ish torch song
Flipside - late 80's - early 90's Sonic Youth/Hole/Nirvana-ish sound