Neptune-Avenue

Hum I think "Pretty When You Cry" and all the songs that Dan didn't touch (unfortunatelly) are the most demo-like we have now 

Really wanna hear this cheesy classic rock + singer-songwriter album she had first

Anthony Burgess: Ultraviolence (Ultraviolence)
 
Belinda Carlisle: Heaven is a place on earth (Video Games)
 
Beverly Donofrio: (Riding) // Driving in Cars with Boys (Driving in Cars with Boys)
 
Bruce Springsteen: I'm on fire (Summertime Sadness, Body Electric)
 
Bryan Adams: We were young and wild and free // You're young, you're wild, you're free (Cruel World)
 
Charles R. Cross (Kurt Cobain biography): Heavier Than Heaven // Heavier than heavenly (On Our Way)
 
Cyndi Lauper: Girls just wanna have fun (Driving in Cars with Boys)
 
Elvis: One for the money, two for the show (Million Dollar Man)
 
Ernest Hemingway: The sun also rises (Money, Power, Glory)
 
Funkadelic/Kanye West: Feet don't fail me now (Born to Die)
 
Gilbert Ryle: The ghost in (the) // your machine (She's Not Me)
 
Gods and Monsters (Jeff Buckley's first band): Gods and Monsters (Gods and Monsters)
 
Green Day: On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Beautiful Player)
 
Guns N´Roses: Guns and roses (Guns and Roses)
 
Guns N' Roses: Sweet child of mine (Bel Air)
 

John Derek (Knock on Any Door) + True Romance: Live fast, die young and have a good-looking corpse // live fast, die young, leave a beautiful corpse (Driving in Cars with Boys)
 
John Newton: I once was lost, but now am found, was blind, but now I see // Lost but now I am found, I can see but once I was blind (Born to Die)
 
Lou Reed: Take a walk on the wild side (Born to Die)
 
Marilyn Monroe: Diamonds are a girl's best friend //  Diamonds are my bestest friends  (The Body Electric)
 
Nabokov: Light of my life, fire of my loins (Off to the Races)
 
Nabokov: A paradise whose skies were the color of hell-flames // Paradise is a hell-coloured flame sky (Angels Forever, Forever Angels)
 
Nabokov: Lolita (Lolita)
 
New Radicals: You’ve got the music in you (Westcoast)
 
Nietzsche: God's dead (Gods and Monsters)
 
Nirvana: Come as you are (Oh Say Can You See)

 
Oscar Wilde: Life imitates art (Gods and Monsters)
 
Phil Collins: I can feel it coming in the air tonight (Guns and Roses)
 
Samuel Johnson: He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man // Man who makes a beast out of himself got nothing to lose (Tired of Singing the Blues)
 
Tennessee Williams: Relying on the kindness of strangers (Carmen)
 
The Beatles: (Lucy's) // Harvey's in the sky with diamonds (Cola)
 
The Crystals: He hit me and it felt like a kiss (Ultraviolence)
 
The Pogues: Queen of New York City (Old Money)
 
T-Rex: Children of the bad revolution (Children of the Bad Revolution)
 
The Who: Talking about my generation (Brooklyn Baby)
 
To Have and Have Not: You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow //  You know how to whistle, don't 'cha? Just put your lips together and blow (Put Your Lips Together)
 
Tom Petty: Honey put on that party dress (American)
 
Whitman: I sing the body electric (I Sing the Body Electric)
 
Whitney Houston: Run to you (Old Money)
 
Whitney Houston: Queen of the night (Go Go Dancer)
 
Woodkid: Run, boy run (Money, Power, Glory)
 
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Chet Baker: Let's Get Lost (West Coast video)
 
Erik Satie: Gymnopedie no 3 at the end of the Carmen video

Its a telephone chat

thank you so much these are perfect!, I love this shoot as well,its hard to find it any bigger unedited though :\

I swear to god this is just an arrangement of several questions from different interviews, half of it is from the 'kulturnews' one 

Hmm, I feel like I have read this interview somewhere before

hmm. that makes a lot of sense, but i think i'm still being thrown off by his wording? "we're so used to that, we play that game really well" 
 
almost as if it really had nothing to do with being in the spotlight. it seems as if he included himself in the 'game', as if he were referring to something general and... human? i'm also confused because the comment was delivered in such a nonchalant manner 
 
@@evilentity? help pls 

From this point i transcribed up to when the start playing Brooklyn Baby which is about 9 minutes in.
 
 
 

What I love about this is that these are two  well-read individuals who have truly done their research regarding Queen Lana. They are making VIABLE deductions and quantifications based on what they KNOW and have actually RESEARCHED. This is such a welcome discourse in comparison to those we are used to regarding any Lana discussion, where pseudo intellectuals and idiots bash her without any good reason. Jon, the guy who is so supportive of her, is clearly a fan. I love that. He lives for her and was defending her at every turn. I love when people find the beauty in Lana, the beauty all of us on this site find in the Queen. Amazing discussion. SO GOOD!

I hear both Bourbon and Suburban...   Get a little bit of bourbon in ya Get a little bit suburban and go crazy   Might be wrong tho

I really like it, you have an amazing eye choosing pictures

So I'm bringing back my fan made covers, in a new thread cuz I didn't wanna post in the old one cuz it's too old.

This EP has all the tracks from 2007 and it's named "Sunset Motel" (thnx to Ultraviolence for the name)
IDK wich font I should use for the name but guess I should share it.

Since Black Beauty is no longer and Unreleased track I needed a new cover for my EP of songs between 2012-2013
As for request just tell me the title & gimme the picture and I'll do my magic. If you have an specific idea, please share it

Other Covers Not Only Lana Covers

thanks for posting this! i feel sometimes i am too critical a fan, and being trapped in the bubble that is lanaboards, i really easily lose of what an anomaly she actually is in the pop world and the unique talent and devotion to her artistry she truly possesses... i'm just too busy ragging on her for all the dumb shit that she says. and monicker was right about the discourse being great between the more dismissive/skeptical person and the supportive person. that was neato, i think i needed to hear these perspectives to remind me why it is i'm still a fan

two things i especially liked
1) the synthesizer is a homage to dre! 
2) there was this line was something like "lana's just not very good at explaining herself", which i think accounts for 95% of the things i give her shit for 

here is the obligatory bear gif!

 

I'll do the rest tomorrow, gotta go to sleep right now!

Could someone tell me where this is from?
 

most likely a K-mart {:

Ha, I knew it. In my draft of my track-by-track UV review I'm working on I'd written this:
"Many reviewers have interpreted this as being sarcastic like MPG & FMWUTTT, as a satire of Brooklyn hipsters... I'm not so sure. It seems a little too on the nose. I think she takes herself a little too seriously as an artist and is a little too much of a beatnik wannabe for this to be satire. I think she means it earnestly. And I think she's a little too thin-skinned for that kind of humorous self-deprecation. Besides, it's not the first time she's declared herself a 'Brooklyn baby'."
 
Yeah, there's an entire thread discussing this question because her statements pertaining to this have been so all over the map. Despite that, I think there's little reason to doubt she probably did write a song called "China Palace" when she was very young.
 
Probably next to some lame department store and a Thai food place she wasn't in the mood for.

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to offend you... I didn't think Pawn Shop Blues was the first song she ever wrote either, because it's too good... But she has said before that it was, and now she's saying it's China Palace, which could be true, but there's still that fact that she changed her answer.... And I'm pretty sure she recorded many other songs before Pawn Shop Blues! I'm sorry, but I just think she's not telling the truth about her first song it doesn't matter too much, I know it's kinda hard to remember something like that very clearly

Lana had an interview with a major radio station in Sweden last week where she revealed that her first ever written song was called "China Palace" and it's about strawberry daiquiri!
 
Edited all the redundant stuff and here's what we got:


 
Transcribed version by yours sincerely:
 

I'll PM you a download link.

WHEN DID EVERYTHING LEAK WHERE ARE THE LINKS OMG IM GONNA HAVE A HEART ATTACK WHAT

Madame Figaro. - Do you have the feeling that the image is always as important as the music? 
Lana Del Rey. - with the first record, I didn't have the feeling that I interested people musically. The project was dictated thus more by the images. This time, I hope that the public won't focus on appearances. I felt controlled by the blurred perception that people had of me, but I don't feel dependent from it now.
 
Your voice appears to be less fragile, as if you were fighting against elements, in particular against the guitars which Dan Auerbach (singer and guitarist of the Black Keys) raised against you. 
I feel like a warrior. A tired warrior, but a warrior. The difference was that I was singing live, in the same room as the band, and recording everything in a single take. It sounded more natural. We kept numerous imperfections. I worked with the same team, began to produce in Electric Lady Studios, in New York, where I met Dan. Then I went to Nashville during six weeks to restructure the songs.
 
Does the record's name, "Ultraviolence", mean that you were not prepared for the success of the previous album? Are you ready now ?
Being rather a solitary kind of person, I don't feel more prepared, but at least I'm fighting. The last three years were very hard, they changed me. Even writing became difficult to me, because I was too much surrouded. When everything around you works as the same speed as you and bores you, suddenly the energy of a meeting an unknown can be rather powerful to give you back the desire and the idea of a melody. These moments became rare, I don't live that many fantastic experiences. For that, I need to take my old car, drive to the beach, and wait.
 
It seems obvious that you belong to the west coast and to all its myths, with your very cinematographic writting style for example. Is it a source of inspiration? 
Yes, undoubtedly, I see images when I write. Visions of future, colors. And I hope to have numerous facets. There is always a dichotomy in me. Concerning the cinema, Some people already proposed me roles in some independent movies shot in Laurel Canyon, set in the 1960s and 1970, but they weren't released. But acting, playing are natural extensions of my work. I would like to shoot with Darren Aronofsky. Or Hitchcock if he was still alive. My inspiration's also very linked to the history and the energy of Los Angeles, the characters I met, like my tattooer, Mark Mahoney. I like the "early 90s" feeling of the city, which evokes a kind of lost cinematography. Just like the spectacular landscapes of L.A. like Pacific Coast Highway, the shoreline.
 
Your albums abound in very melancholic contrasts. You seem to hide a secret under skin...
I try to remain reasonable and healthy, but, inside, I carry many contradictions. I have peaceful moments and a great deal of torments. It is tempestuous. As I adore the color of the words, I chose "Ultraviolence" as a title for the sound that it creates under the tongue, but also for the juxtaposition of a luxurious tone with the hardness of "violence". It pleases me.
 
When we listened to your album for the first time, we thought of rock, but is it more complex than that? 
I am delighted to hear that, even if the main influence is rock, in its most classic shape, in the style of The Eagles or Bob Seger. In fact, I wonder if it is not the ideal music to drive. (Laughter). There's an undisciplined and wild mood in this record. Besides, some were not very happy to discover that there was also a kind of a jazz tone in "Shades of Cool" (EDITOR'S NOTE : for us, the most beautiful song on the album). According to me, everything comes from the alchemy created between me and Dan Auerbach and the group. When I hear really fat and gritty electric guitars, it reminds me of music festivals, I picture an outside stage.
 
Weren't you afraid that this indie side made the record unsaleable?  A little bit, yes.   And you seem to be proud of it
Yes. (she laughs). I shouldn't, but it means that my work conveys exactly what I wanted to transmit. We took care and polished all the songs so that they really sound like me, to respect my philosophy, which is to compose songs which speak to me at first.   So, what could be seen as diva poses is in fact perfectionism. What pleases you so much in the act of creation?  I care a lot about my songs. When I was in Nashville, I rented a farm and, every day, I sat down for hours and listened to the band : I was in my place. When it's over, I feel empty and I wait for new signs. I've always looked for signs in everything. I think ceaselessly of death, the concept of mortality is a vagueness that is constantly threatening. I find it to be heavy, crushing, really. What is the purpose? And what if there's nothing after? I believe in a power bigger than us, who can guide us and help us to find the answers. But it is difficult to perceive it when you are constantly in movement.   Are you happy? 
Not really. It is difficult to be happy, I always feel a kind of malaise, and I'm stuck, always expecting something.I am a little disorientated. When I finish something, I am very annoyed…       I might correct some stuff.   Source : http://www.lana-delrey.fr/2014/06/photos-itw-lana-del-rey-en-couverture-du-madame-figaro.html

There's an interview I'll try to translate it, it's the usual Lana interview but some points are really intriguing, like she talks about movies and stuff