necessary sacrifice

but wheres the muscle beach baby

Ok this theory is outlandish but what if the retro beach footage is like in her painting and we like go inside it Mary Poppins style

does anyone have like a most cherished piece?

My “most cherished” pieces are probably just random rare stuff. Buckingham Nicks is definitely one of them. It’s a second pressing (1975 instead of 1973) and took me forever to find at a reasonable price. The Wind in the Willows (Debbie Harry’s first band/album) is another like that for that reason.

And pretty much any album that’s out of print and not on streaming services feels like a treasure to me haha.

 

All my Lana Del Rey albums for sure too though. I have 2-3 copies of each album (different versions) including AKA and Unreleased (bootleg but still important to me). Not as big as other people’s LDR collections but she’s the only artist I have multiple copies for, so they do mean a lot to me. Someday I’d like to separate them from everything else and give them their own shelf.

 

In general, all my Stevie Nicks/Fleetwood Mac and Joni Mitchell album collections are pretty precious to me too. They took a long time to collect and it’s all vintage (except for Rumours&Mirage oops).

 

I have so many records that it’s hard for me to single it down to one most cherished record.

Buckingham Nicks might really be it though.

Shades of cool was fucking GREAT I loved it. Also, Freak was my favorite. Bc I was tripping and so was FJM it was just such a cool experience, it felt so weird but cool at the same time. Ugh I loved that one

You’re making me want to watch Lana’s videos on psychedelics now.

Are you gonna try to watch her new videos on anything?

Her worst is UV if we talk about not making sense

 

Why is she wearing a wedding dress? Why is there a brown filter in it? Why is she eating an orange peel and sucking on the fingers of some guy?

Ok this might be a weird interpretation but I assumed she was supposed to represent Pamela Courson and the wedding dress represented how she always wanted to get married but Jim Morrison didn’t want to so she was like following him around and I assumed the oranges represented that she was from Orange, Cali. But idk there’s probably a better reason.

I watched MTWBT on acid and it made absolutely no sense she’s just sitting in a chair with glitter and when the bridge comes it just.... it made me laugh so much bc it didn’t make any sense whatsoever why is she sitting in a chair with glitter on her in the dark lmfao I realized it’s her worst video when that happened

Idk that sounds like a pretty riveting experience... did you watch all her videos on acid? Which was the best? I feel like Shades of Cool or Body Electric would be spellbinding.

i know, i edited i thought it was thursday already

 

my "we lost track of space, we lost track of time" moment

Yeah I just realized by the time I replied, you edited it already so the quote doesn’t even have that part lol. My response doesn’t even make sense now lol.

nvm this post makes no sense anymore

 

Stream FIILY & The Greatest tomorrow!

And yet they still haven't sent Doin Time to pop radio (even after going #1 for Triple A and top ten on alternative). Interscope doesn't make sense.

I was thinking maybe they were trying to make a clear statement that they’re pushing her as strictly an alternative artist now and not a pop star or something and sacrificed the chance for an actual pop hit for that statement. Maybe they’re pushing for an alternative Grammy nomination for this album and they have to draw a definite line between her and pop music for it (afterall, less competition in the alternative category than pop). Who knows.

Or maybe even Lana doesn’t want it to be a bigger hit and wouldn’t let them send it to pop radio. She’s always been more elusive in her decisions.

If we do get videos for all (or most) songs on the album, do you think the witchy footage from the trailer (&UO cover) that Chuck filmed could be from (or outtakes from) the Bartender video?

(Still haven’t listened to it, but have read the lyrics at least seventy-seven times)

 

Also since MAC/VB don’t count, do you think there’s still a chance of getting the HIAB video?

 

 

 

love seeing some fellow discogs users on here, but curious what's the oldest vinyl you guys are collecting? interested to see

I’m surprisingly not a discogs user (I usually stick to thrift shops and ebay) but I collect a lot.

My guess is my oldest vinyl is probably Frank Sinatra’s Close to You (1957). Most of my 40s/50s stuff are reissues or compilations but that one’s vintage.

The oldest one I’m actively looking for at the moment though is Surfin Safari (1962) because it’s the only 60s Beach Boys album I don’t have which makes me sad.

I wonder if HIaB is still a thing... Hell, maybe we'll get the Grease-inspired MV for the next era

 

How funny would it be if we were all trying to figure out what song that video is for just to find out she’s already working on videos for her next album lol

Yeah videoS by RICH and CHUCK - TG/FIILY and HIAB. And now the “grease” one if that’s ever happening. Gotta stay realistic after the uv-freak/bar-wm and cherry mess

We didn’t get the HIAB video though and Lana doesn’t count MAC and VB so we should expect something else from Chuck. I’m not saying we’re getting lots of music videos but this is the first time it actually looks like there’s a possibility. Usually it’s just us big fans that are aware of possible upcoming videos but she put it in the trailer this time so everyone knows. But yeah even if she does plan lots of videos and even films them, she does still have time to change her mind and scrap them.

Also that honeymouns’ “we’re gonna get a video for every song” post… what do they mean with the NFR (song) video? And not even Lana thinks MAC/VB are actual videos… she named FIILY/TG the first mv from NFR.

Omg what if she filmed new videos for everything and they’ll slowly come out then at the end we can put them all together

 

I know I’m being delusional BUT the trailer did say videos by Rich Lee and Chuck Grant and shes never credited the music videos in the trailer before like that soooo yeah I’m a dreamer

No gatefold at all. I am fairly sure that was reported here, that and no photos at all in the booklet. Let’s hope they were incorrect.

Well if there’s no gatefold, it’ll be NFR and UV as the pair of double vinyls without gatefolds. But I’m still crossing my fingers for a gatefold for now.

i meant landscape as in a horizontal photo, the opposite of a portrait photo

Ohhhh lol sorry for misunderstanding. I assume there could be a wider version of that photo though with more of the California skyline behind her (maybe the man in the water reaching out for her lmao jk). That’s what I imagined when I said I hoped it was the gatefold.

Didn’t someone report here that had seen the finished product that there were no photos whatsoever in the booklet, and no gatefold cover?

As in there’s no gatefold? Or there’s no photo in the gatefold?

aren't gatefold photos usually landscape photos? Maybe we'll get a different one inside

Both Honeymoon and Lust for Life had a picture of her in the gatefold. The deluxe Born to Die did too. The deluxe Ultraviolence had the New York skyline instead. And the standard Born to Die, Paradise, and Ultraviolence don’t have a gatefold. So there is precedent for the landscape, but it’s been a photo of her more often.

A vinyl w that cover and somehow the vinyl itself clear w glitter inside of it...

I'd die

I’d be throwing my money towards her if she released that instead. I already ordered 3 vinyls, but I’d order another without thinking if she did this.

I hope that pic is the cd lable or at least inside the booklet

Omg what if that’s the gatefold pic on the vinyl?????? Please please please

Since we’re all doing it now:

1. Norman fucking Rockwell (probably)

2. Ultraviolence

3. Honeymoon

4. Paradise

5. Lust for Life

6. Aka Lizzy Grant

7. Born to Die

 

But all her albums are amazing and better than any other artist so the ranking means nothing.

 

Also I love how almost everyone’s rankings are different because it shows how each of us connect in different ways to her art.

I think Lana has great lyrics, and yeah, sometimes they can be a bit cringey but so is everyone else’s lyrics. If you overanalyze anyone’s lyrics, they seem silly. Even Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen have cringey lyrics often. Or like even read some Ginsberg poems or something. Everyone has cringey lines. They either create a feeling or don’t, and that’s all that matters.

i didn't even say you were wrong i was just adding that stevie nicks has multiple ventures whereas lana is just lana, she doesn't have a band or another musical project so calm down sis

I wasn’t trying fight you... I’m just a huge Stevie Nicks/Fleetwood Mac fan and I just was clearing up any misunderstandings about her in regards to performing so we’re all on the same page. I just can’t help myself when anyone brings up Stevie.

It so unfair that Lana's album leaked 2 weeks before release and Taylor's new album still has not leaked 3 days in advance

It’s Taylor Swift. She probably has her album locked up at Area 51.

stevie has fleetwood mac in addition to her solo endeavors though and i believe they just ended/are currently on their final tour

i just can't see modern music culture touring like how some are touring in their 60s+ now so i don't know

Stevie Nicks always had both Fleetwood Mac and her solo career and both were at like the height when she was Lana’s age. She still didn’t tour as much as she does now. She even knows she tours more now because she when she’s not, she gets bored and starts aging faster. Also FM have done so many farewell tours and they've all admitted they’ll probably never stop and keep referring to their tours as the last one “just in case”.

thank you i guess i mean more in narrative terms… what is the thread tying it together, what is the story she's telling.

 

maybe it's just the common sense deduction and i'm reading too much into it. i just feel like i'm missing something.

Actually, I feel like it has more of a narrative than her other albums. It’s like her spiritual/political awakening. The first side she’s still kind of hung up on love, the second side is more her having fun and being cool which ends with her realizing the world is a mess, then the third side is her coming into that awakening seeing the world around her then goes into the fourth side of her trying to change and be better and finally ending in the death of ego almost. Idk it feels like a very linear story. But we all see different things in her albums.

doesn't mean that she wants to tour at 71

she barely tours now at 30 something

I mean, I highly doubt Lana will be still touring at 71, but how much she tours now probably won’t determine how much she tours in a few decades. Stevie Nicks tours way more now than she did at Lana’s age.