NamiraWilhelm

1Live: Can you relate to the appellation “diva”? (she starts laughing like a diva) Lana: I’m not laughing like a diva. I don’t think I call myself a diva, maybe an icon. She really said that? love it edit: no, she didn't at all, just listened. You guys might find it better to hear the audio rather than rely on what's been written....

*kinda wants a copy of this faulty album*

I see, I'll have to have another hunt round. Did you ever get hold of Karen O at home btw? I should hunt those down too...

Although my post now looks a bit mental lol. Not that i can be bothered to change it. Ah well.

Hmm, i guess that's why i came up empty when i tried having a nose around for MOAR songs by them. How did you find out about the secret album, is there a handy list of their unreleased stuff somewhere? Pwease?

Yeah yeah yeahs are awesome. But yeah, providing links for other artists would be just as tiresome as doing them for Lana songs. But i appreciate the lists people are providing! Just head over to youtube and go on a rip frenzy people. I now have a nice unreleased Ellie collection

i asked where the official discussion thread was, people said there was only a rate paradise thread and not a true discussion thread and agreed we should make one! So poo, quite frankly!

thanks! Ripped and stored

I'm glad I'm not the only one that places BA and G&M last!

Yeah I guess i should have just said sounds artificial rather than suggesting their was auto tune, I guess i just assumed that's what was making it sound artificial but there are other things that can attribute to that like what you've listed.

Wow, no idea Ellie had so much unreleased O.o this is a highly useful thread! I can't believe i didn't know she'd covered Joleen xD epic

You don't agree then? I'm very likely wrong, as I've said before I'm a music retard, but some parts sounded artificial to me. I'll re listen when I have time.

She looks ruddy beautiful Yep someone please record

I wanna see what pet got rejected!

There seem to be lots of lil threads for discussing Paradise but no main discussion thread, so here we are. If there already is, well, i blame the people that agreed we should make one. Rate tracks 1-9 in order of best to worst, and blather about them freely please, without fear of reproach Or I'll sing the Different Strokes theme song at you. Me first; Body electric Ride American Blue Velvet Burning Desire Yayo Cola Gods and Monsters Bel Air i realise how unpopular my order is, but no amount of listening can make me like Bel Air and Gods and Monsters. The former to me seems nonsensical, I'm not sure even she knows what she's trying to express in this song. I realize I'm in danger of being branded a cretin but I'm just not digging the lyrics at all. Same with G&M; just not digging it, and all the f'ing going on just cheapens it for me. Same with Cola, I know people have gone crazy for it, but I'm just not loving it. The infamous pussy line was all well and good in the intro, but to repeat it and echo it at the end? It turns the song into a parody for me. And i can forgive a lot of things, baby you da bestest for just one example, I know (unlike the critics) that she isn't retarded, she's deliberately speaking in a cutesy Betty Boop type way, but i cannot forgive 'Niceys'. Nicely would have been fine, although admittedly i dislike the word 'nice' in song lyrics anyway. And there's too many 'babys' for my liking Yayo... It's tolerable but it's got nothing on the earlier versions. I'm not sure why she'd prefer it this way (although she did say she never liked the way the original turned out, did she actually say she was happy with this one?) I will continue to listen to it though, just in case I'm being biased. Burning Desire is pleasant enough. I don't really have much to say about it, but it doesn't make my ears cry either. Goes without saying that Blue Velvet is an epic song, and Lana's low pitches suit it well. Given that it's a cover that's all the credit she'll get on that one. American is a pleasant surprise. I've really taken to it. I love it even, I'm not sure why exactly, i just find it very charming. A very sweet song with a happy vibe, even if it sounds a bit miserable as usual. I was quite taken with Ride when i first heard it. The 'I hear the birds...' part is a bit Johnny Cashesque to me, which is just dandy. Vocals are a lil unrealistic, like several tracks on the album. Body Electric is ruddy beautiful. The lyrics, the sound. I'm totally enamoured by it. I will say this though; I never thought I'd prefer her live version to the studio version. The artificial sounding vocals are irritating though. And I'm going to throw in a moan about the track list having a similar sound. She really is the queen of sadcore >.< we know from her unreleased tracks that she's capable of a range of sounds, and is very good at them, so why this intent to sound the same? People who have -only- heard her released singles must have such a gloomy view of her music. If it's just the sound she wanted for her Born to Die era, and will vary it on the second album, fine, but I'm not hopeful. At least Born to Die had some happier tunes like OttR and Lolita. YOUR TURN

I was wondering what happened to her, Foundations was epic tbh

so many people dismissed it as generic and were glad it wasn't on the EP... but i wants to hear it

Yeah i saw that too! Ouch... well i guess i should nab it from here then >.<

Is that a pretty standard price then? ..... fine.

I wonder if her wanting to re-record certain tracks from Lana Del Ray is the reason we never got the re release... I guess she'd rather pick her favourites and recycle them... I'm not digging the new Yayo, not sure I'd want re recordings :/ And i suppose her dislike of how TIWMUG turned out explains why she's never sung it live.

Yeah, UK peeps, i only know of hmv, amazon and ebay, where else sells them please???

Body Electric Lana! Why did you sing it live over the others if you weren't going to release it! I haven taken to Cola yet :/ singing the pussy pepsi line at the beginning fine, but towards the end, repeating it and echoing it? It just made the song into a parody for me

Lana likes the word, we'll probably hear it a lot. Its the new swimming-glimmering.

Really digging this song by Jessie Ware. I may give her more of my time.

I want the Ride vinyls! I know it was listed on amazon but when an item has like NO details i get suspicious