Anita Malfatti

Manifest manifest manifest 

The album just showed up at my door

There’s a picture of a polish girl holding the vinyl and we can see her socks in the picture. Therefore polish sock lady. 

i'm obsessed with the thought that polish sock lady is living her life in poland probably not realising that she is a lanaboards legend. her legacy will live on. don't forget her like the tunnel under ocean blvd.

When the file is called Tú Sabías Que Hay Un Tunel Debajo de Ocean Boulevard_Lanita.zip 

This thread is a parody of itself 

Why am I believing you. Guys I’m so broken mentally

did you know that there are banisters that are blue? 

did you all know that there’s a tunnel under ocean Boulevard? 

lust for lisa vibes  og’s know 

i love how tender the customer service guy is

Just had to move a bunch of posts to the Blue Banisters Thread...let's try to keep BB discussion to that thread and out of the Ocean Blvd thread everyone 

i’m just glad i can stream thunder correctly so i’m all good with that album 

LFL is my personal worst, but even then like you say there are always tracks that I love across albums. My favourite Lana album changes sometimes in fact, although I’d say I Chemtrails might be my most consistent one - I virtually only ever listen to it all the way through.
 
(and though I love cherry blossom and thunder, I will absolutely concede that the fact that they use YouTube rips is unforgivable lol)

I can't stand her singing out of tune in most of BB songs. But, for me, BB is like LfL: the ordinary/forgettable work that precedes a masterpiece!! so it's absolutely fine

I don't entirely disagree, but I would argue the imperfections need to be contextualised (for example, if the album was about her imperfections, to give a cliche example) otherwise I think we're reading way too much into it assuming the sloppy sound engineering is intentional. For people that don't know what I mean, listen to the breath after the words "my daddy had one too" at 3:24 in text book; they've clearly clipped her breath half way through and its so jarring. the album is fullllll of this stuff. (Edit: and as someone who makes my own music, it's soooo easy to fix these little issues and I cannot fathom how they were overlooked.)
 
However I do agree with you in that I can imbue the album with meaning (that wasn't intended) that makes me like it more, eg. the imperfections reflect where she was at.
 
Anyway there are some gems on the album so I don't wanna be a hater...just making the point that its by far her worst.

Exactly, since she said that I'm just pretending that album never existed and I'm happier since then 

Lana said on the RS interview that she didn't want anyone to listen to Blue Banisters so maybe we should all stop.

there are moments of gold on the album but its definitely her worst. not to mention how sloppily her vocal stems are edited; you can literally hear when they clip her vocals mid-breath which bothers the hell out of me. and the choice to not autotune the second verse of Arcadia. I just.....LOVE lana and never say negative stuff about her but this was an objectively average album. thankfully it seems she's back on track with Ocean Blvd.