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  5. Posted

    9 hours ago, honeybadger said:

    VOTE for best vinyl variant. AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this is the most important thing you will ever do in your life. 

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    best ocean blvd vinyl variant post-release with photos edition

     

    yes i put this in a status and yes i am also putting it here. and yes i accidentally posted it in ldr village thread. it is because i am SO SERIOUS! this is information necessary to the function of humanity. VOTE NOW!

     

    (i am actually not that serious, only vote if you want obviously!)


    I adore every single variant I think they're all her best but i believe the boob vinyl is the best variant for this album because it perfectly reflects all facets of the album: open, full of metaphor, unfiltered, sexy, vintage etc

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  9. Posted

    21 minutes ago, Olympia said:

    You mean you hate it? I recently thought he's my favorite make up artist on her 😅🙈 love it. 

     

    Yes, I think he’s very heavy-handed and gives her that caked-on Kardashian same-face syndrome, especially the lips he does are always crudely overdrawn in that kind of butthole looking shade of pink-brown. He has the contemporary gay man’s touch, while Pamela has the historically-informed female touch - she does the most tasteful, antique-inspired Lana face. She is the Neil Krug of makeup, which is to say she’s Lana’s perfect match

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  13. Posted

    33 minutes ago, rollwithme said:

    has anyone mentioned how Christine and the Queens has a song called Track 10 on their new album? it’s honestly insane


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  15. Posted

    I’m guessing that the white vinyl was always intended to have the boob cover which would have been so perfect but I don’t want to acknowledge that reality. Although apparently the white vinyl sounds bad so that’s one win. She must have changed her mind at the last minute and then changed it again after the vinyls were already in production… I so relate to that so I can’t really complain. It would have been nice to get a new pic on the back of the vinyl at least instead of reusing the one from the retail variant :pft: I’m still on the fence about buying it which is really sad to me

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  18. Posted

    8 hours ago, Louise said:

    I took your quote to Bartender lyrics, because Lana references Heart with its hit, Love Alive

    'Cause they don't know yet what car I drive
    I'm just tryna keep my love alive

    Instead of post a fan cam of Love Alive - they are fewer and far between before the age of the smartphone! here is a '70's live tv broadcast of Soul of the Sea:

    Today you turned around to my heart's call
    This tiny life ain't been strangled after all
    Time, time, time, time
    Never ask what's become of us
    Just dedicate your sorrow
    Here and now
    To the soul of the sea
    And me . . .
    - https://genius.com/Heart-soul-of-the-sea-lyrics

    Being an "Ann" enthusiast, you see why I am excited about Lana, and feel Ann passed the torch to her!

    Lana is student of the '70's - her Dad's era, and I'm his age . . .

    Here are two side by sides for a funny tweet I created a couple years ago, saying Ann passes the torch to Lana - neither want to be the the tree which falls silently in the woods. There is the debate: if a tree falls in the woods, and noone hears it, did it make noise?

    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DeO5PoGU0AA2T8N?format=jpg&name=900x900

    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DeO5SFoV4AAQOvI?format=jpg&name=900x900

     

     

    I think Lana is the torchbearer of the last vestiges of that truly great songwriting and storytelling of the 70s, and I think she knows it. Beyond the aesthetics, which is what she has always been known for and reduced down to, she really has a spiritual connection to that collective consciousness, to other 'souls of the sea’, to her family and to God. I think from the very beginning to now she has been tapping into that but is just more aware of, and driven by, the connectedness these days. She will never be the tree that falls with nobody there to hear it because to do so would be to remove herself from those connections, and to extinguish the torch she has been passed. She continues to defy the corporate trends in pursuit of this dream and duty, which is what makes her my number 1 role model :wub:

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  19. Posted

    27 minutes ago, Louise said:

    Thanx! Thanx for collecting and posting the audio tracks! It is as though the louder tracks lack texture . . . not a treat to the ears as much as Candy Necklace for its variety of ups and downs . .  . Appreciate this kind of discussion. I have one ongoing with a musician friend who is high up in tech understanding. There aren't many musicians I would bother to make a case for a quieter production around their vocals, because I do not listen to the pop girlies, and I wear hearing protection whenever I go out, and quit gyms to protect my ears! It isn't for me to say their offerings . . .  because to each his own . . . Here is a little live fan cam of Ann Wilson which the image is out of focus, but for once the band around her dials back to allow the star, Ann's voice, to mine the gorgeousness out of Simon Garfunkel's folk song, American Tune, which melody I recognized from a documentary about Haydn's Emperor Quartet came from Serbian folk song! The piano is too loud, but because it is only the piano which is competition to Ann's voice and louder and softer in parts, finally you could hear the artistry, the inflections.

     

     

    Oh you sound just like me :wave2: I’ve never heard of Ann Wilson but that was GORGEOUS!

     

    Imagine if Lana was still compressing like the other pop girlies - we would have never gotten that barely-audible and absolutely brilliant whispered “Texas” in Paris, Texas :wub: 

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  20. Posted

    I just want to put my 2 cents in about the quietness/muffled sound of the album. This is because Lana has gradually stopped competing in what’s called “the loudness war” in music, which is where pop music is made to be as loud as possible without distorting. This is great for streaming and shopping mall speakers and stuff because any song from any musician can play in sequence and it will all be at the same volume. Here you can see the waveforms of Born To Die, Norman, Candy Necklace and Say So by Doja Cat. See how Say So is just a solid bar of black? If Candy Necklace wanted to explode into a loud outro, it could, but Say So is entirely a loud explosion and can’t go anywhere else. It also means that in the context of an album, if Lana wants one song to get louder than all the rest as part of the emotional trajectory of the album (Grandfather), she is able to do that. In comparison to any given pop music right now, Lana’s will sound quiet and muffled because it hasn’t had the Father, the Son AND the Holy Spirit compressed and EQ’d out of it  :wub:

     

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  22. Posted

    1 hour ago, cjfinley said:

    I ordered on the CA store before it was added to the AU store and it works out $25 cheaper including shipping! The AU store might sell more items if the prices weren't so ridiculous

     

    Omg, it’s cheaper for me to order this vinyl from Canada and pay for it to be put on a cargo ship and delivered all the way to my front door than it is for me to walk into any given record store near me and buy the standard vinyl :oprah2:

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