Thunder Revenant

Blue Jeans vs Body Electric

it's not a 16 track album. And it's not exciting to know that even if u preorder a deluxe version, you don't get all the music. But yeah, I don't want to kill anyones happiness, I just don't think it's "yeah a new track we all get for the album!" but more of just another song you have to get extra.

Yah, really amazing that the day the preorderd cd arrives I will still have to buy tracks and burn my own CD again to have a complete UV. Why can't she just put them on the basic album?

I'd prefer to have one complete album instead of many tracks which are spread all over the place.

This kind of things really ruin anticipation for me.

Yeah, instead of releasing one complete Ultraviolence to us, she just spreads exclusive bonus tracks all over the place. Nope, I don't like that. I am happy for every new song, but why can't she just release them all together? I was ok with one bonus track for Itunes, you can just download there it and that's it. Now there is another one, which is NOT on Itunes, which means we all have to buy this version or download it illegaly. I like it that she's releasing lots of songs, but why in this messy, stupid way?

Question of taste. I really love Burning Desire,. Well, if it's itunes exclusive, this ensures that more people will buy the album on Itunes or ATLEAST a lot of people will buy "This Is Happiness". Well, at least we all can access Burning Desire and This is Happiness via itunes, and are not bound to get a preorderversion-or-never-have-the-song (legally). Still, I would have prefered it to be (at least) on the limited physical album versions.

Well .. not so exotic isn't it

Would make sense if you conisder the lines "I can hear violins" or "I can hear sirens"

She posted a snippet of the studio version on Facebook, featuring some outtakes from West Coast as well as some new scenes, one is her sitting on a smoky area, wearing the red dress she has in the West Coast fire scenes. Deifinitly sounds nice, but the live version seems to be very accurate, as the snippet sounds very similar to it.

We kind of have an idea of what Black Beauty will sound like, too. I mean, it was just the demo, but with UV we also "just" know how it sounds live.

Well, Ultraviolence seems to contain lyrics or parts/themes of lyrics from some of Lana's unreleased songs. Hundred Dollar Bill (featuring the violent relationship, the world ultraviolence and Jim), Driving In Cars With boys (the nickname-topic, especially the Poison Ivy one), Ghetto Baby ("crying tears of gold"),the jazz-singer thing which is also mentioned in Dum Dum as well as the "hit me and it felt like a kiss"-reference from Beautiful Player. So yeah, it's not an old song but she definitely considered topics she already sang about in unreleased songs, from which some of them are old. I don't think UV is about Barrie, I mean, just because she writes the songs and says she uses personal experiences in them, not everything has to be literally this way. Artistic freedom and everything, you know what I mean?

Yeah, I hope so too. It definetly has some potential. Reading can save lives. I said that i assume that the jimmy Lana keeps on singing about is a fictional person which is based on a real person and has aspects of his personality.

I guess al songs mentioning a "Jimmy" are about a fictional character, who has his roots in a former lover of Lana. Most likely there is a lot she makes up, so the songs are interesting. I think all the Jim-songs are indeed about the same Jimmy, bu well - it's kind of a fictional character she likes to use cause his "gangster"-style fits into the stories she wants to tell.

I guess it's a question of taste. Everything from Born To Die and Paradise had a more or less common sound and atmosphere. Kind of like between the "Upper Class Vintage Beauty Queen", the "Trailerpark Darling" and the "wasted, motorcycle riding bikerbabe". Ultraviolence sounds really different, toned down and with it's very own atmosphere. Also, they music we heard so far seems to be arranged in a different way compared to BtD. That means, if someone loved BtD, he is not necessarily a fan of the UV-sound.

I like the lyrics, I like the topics used (well, really seems like a 'new' version of HDB in some ways) and I like that this one sounds like it could be a "sonical brother" to Born To Die, you know, the way she sings and the instumental also has elements you could compare. I also like that this is kind of a straightforward song unlike West Coast and Shades of Cool. Even tough I like these two, it's nice to see that there are songs on UV besides Black Beauty and the West Coast Radio Mix that do not have big differences between chorus and verse. However, i also can not say that this one really "hit me and it felt like a kiss" like for example Body Electric did when she performed it for the first time. It's - well, it's a typical lanasong and there is nothing really bad about it, but judging from the live version this may not be my all-time-favourite song from the album.

Ok, it wont be on the amazon ltd. deluxe edition. This one "just" features the WC Radio Mix as it seems. I'm kinda pissed, I mean, now I have to download it from Itunes and burn a cd to have a "complete" UV and the "original" one in my shelf will always miss a track, like it is with the Paradise Edition. Well, at least a new song I guess.

Hope it's gonna be on the CDs which feature a "bonus track". And I donät think there are other "exclusive songs". Just TIH and the radio version of WC as options.

It's just the vocals of the Radio Mix, which is indeed a very cool version of West Coast.

I don't think she recorded so many different bonus songs ;D I guess if it's a LIMITED version, there still could be the hope that it's on it. The only other option I see is West Coast (Radio Mix), cause ... yeah, I don't think she recorded 2 or 3 songs just for exclusive versions of the album.

I do not think they use the Dan Auerbach mix. It lacks so many feautures, like background "oohoos" and this "mic check, one two, get it girl!"

I really like this song a lot, even tough I was very sceptical when i heard the snippets. West Coast, in its album version, really needed some time to grow on my (whilst I LOVE the radio version of it) but with soc it's just like "love at the first listen" My favourite line is "and when he calls, he calls for me and not for you!" So happy! And another good thing about this song is that unlike West Coast, this one sounds really like a completly different style compared to the BtD era. I mean, I love the BtD era sound so much, but I prefer it if different records have different atmospheres and even if Lana said it would be that way, I wasn't 100% sure after WC. It sounded different, but there still could have been a BtD like album behind it. Now I am sure Ultraviolence is going to slay on a unique way!

I HOPE so much this is gonna be on the Ltd. Deluxe Edition tehy sell on Amazon ...

Yeah, she said she wrote it with him and that there's a lot of guitar in it. I am still very excited about Old Money and the Nino Rota sample it features

I don't think there should be the need to mention this in the first place. But .. yeah, the fact Lana is only place 82 just shows they are not only sexist but irrelevant