Pico Ocean Boulevard

the uv era non-album songs are so unbelievably strong and iconic...  my Melancholia uv unreleased era album keeps me alive
these are the song I have on it, but I have no idea abt an order
 
The Good Life
Fine China
Color Blue
Yes to Heaven 
Angels Forever 
Ur Girl 
Beautiful People
Cherry Blossom
Wait For Life
Summer Wine
Riverside
Big Eyes
I Can Fly
Some Things Last a Long Time
Money Power Glory (Demo)
 
 
  her mind was almost too powerful 

How to disappear as well. I had problems getting into this song but now I really like this track. It's somehow such a dreamy track.
And I had a weird "relationship" to the title track. At first, I liked this song but after a few weeks/months I didn't really like the song and now I start to like NFR again.  The TNBAR demo lyrics are superior but I get used to album version lyrics and can really enjoy this track now. Doin' Time isn't necessary for the album but it is nice to have this cute little bop before Love Song. Love Song is soft, beautiful and touching but I think because it is placed after DT it has more intensity..like you are dancing to DT and then Love Song starts and suddenly you find urself lying on the floor with tears in your eyes...

Venice Bitch is still that bitch. What a beautiful song.

NFR! Album Timeline (from what we can infer based on what Lana and Jack have said and conclusions made on LB!) Just thought it would be nice to compile all the info here
 
 
Early 2016 / 2017 re-work
The Next Best American Record 
- originally written and recorded for Lust for Life in 2016
- NFR version likely rewritten/rerecorded in 2017 with "Topanga lyrics" (in an interview with Zane Lowe on July 12, 2017, Lana stated that TNBAR was "all about Topanga")
 
February - March 2017
California
- written/produced with Zach Dawes while Lana had her side-band from December 2016 to March 2017
- additional production with Jack in 2018/2019
 
Late 2017
Bartender 
- written/produced with Rick Nowels prior to Jack's involvement 
- mentioned by Lana to Pitchfork at the Grammys on January 28, 2018 - regarded as "a weird track...[that] doesn't belong to an album yet"
 
Happiness is a Butterfly
- Rick is credited as a writer, so we can conclude that HiaB was in its early stages while Lana was primarily working with Rick
 
 
January 2018 - sessions with JACK ANTONOFF begin
At this point, The Next Best American Record, California, and Bartender are the first three songs "finished" for the album.
 
Love Song
- written the morning after the Clive Davis Party/the morning of the Grammys (January 28, 2018) with Jack in approx. an hour
- first song formally written for the album with Jack
 
Hope is a Dangerous Thing For a Woman Like Me to Have - But I Have it 
- journaled by Lana slowly over three years 
- same session as "Love Song" (January 28, 2018)
- recorded a cappella / subsequently accompanied by Jack on piano 
 
 
February - March 2018
Norman Fucking Rockwell
- confirmed as the third song written in an Instagram Live in the studio on September 4, 2019
- originally titled "Bird World"
- regarded as "the cliffnotes of the album" by Jack in an Instagram Live in the studio on September 4, 2019
 
Mariners Apartment Complex 
- confirmed as written at the same time/shortly after the title track in an Instagram Live in the studio on September 4, 2019
- referred to by Lana as what she hoped would be "at the heart of the record" in an Instagram Live on September 3, 2019
 
Venice Bitch
- confirmed as written at the same time/shortly after the title track and "Mariners Apartment Complex" in an Instagram Live in the studio on September 4, 2019
- title was used as a caption in an Instagram post of Lana's mural on a building in Venice, California on February 22, 2018
 
Happiness is a Butterfly
- first snippet posted by Lana on March 29, 2018
- marks Jack's involvement with the song since Lana and Rick starting it in 2017
 
September 2018
- in an interview with Zane Lowe on September 18, 2018 to premiere Venice Bitch, Lana confirms:
- the album is called Norman Fucking Rockwell
- at this point, it has 11 tracks
 
 
October 2018
Cinnamon Girl
- some lyrics written on October 3/4 2018 after Lana was "fucked up in Boston" (Instagram Live, September 4, 2019) along with "How to Disappear"
 
How to Disappear
- some lyrics written on October 3/4 2018 after Lana was "fucked up in Boston" (Instagram Live, September 4, 2019) along with "Cinnamon Girl"
- references "Joe," a boxer who Lana is presumed to have had a relationship with
- regarded as "the last song recorded" for NFR! by Lana at the Apple Event in Brooklyn, NY on October 30, 2018
 
November - December 2018
The Greatest
- references Lana's comments on Kanye West's Instagram post from September 30, 2018
- must have been recorded AFTER "How to Disappear" considering Lana's activity and references, and comments on/in the song.
- potentially "the last song" at one stage of mastering, as Lana confirmed the album was "finished" and "mastered" in an Instagram Live on December 30, 2018.
 
March - April 2019
Doin' Time
- recorded for the Sublime doc. produced by Interscope
- in an interview with Vogue Korea in May 2019, Lana stated that NFR! has 13 tracks, which would make sense if Doin' Time were the last song tacked onto the record at the time
- in an interview with 104.3 MYfm on August 28, 2019, Lana revealed that she wanted to include Doin' Time on the tracklist next to "Venice Bitch" a few days after finishing the track; this makes sense as "Fuck It, I Love You," which appears next to "Venice Bitch" in the tracklist instead, had likely not been recorded yet.
 
May - June 2019
Fuck It, I Love You
- regarded as the "last song" recorded for the album in an interview with Annie Mac on August 22, 2019
- the version that appears on physical copies of the record was likely finished and mastered in May 2019, as Lana stated in an interview with KROQ on August 29, 2019, that she has to have finished a record 90 days before the release date so the vinyl can be pressed in time
- the version that appears in the music video was likely finished in June 2019, as Lana stated in an interview with KROQ on August 29, 2019, that she "was definitely done [the record] in June, just putting some final touches on it" - the final touches likely being the added "surf drums." 

I still have a theory that Yosemite was reworked into Mariner’s apartment complex.... though I’m probably wrong!! 

That is so sad she still has people getting inside her house
 
 
I don't blame her for getting angry, imaging someone getting inside your house and the next thing is a fucker taking pics of your license plate... that would be so scary for me

She gets out of the car as if she were going to hit the guy... And when she goes to talk, she is the cutest person in the world. lol
I love this woman!

Sad as fuck, fuck you stalkers
 
Love you Lana be safe

A video was just posted from this day where she asks a paparazzi not to photograph the license plate on her car, as someone recently showed up at her house:
 
Lana: "Listen to me! Stop. Excuse me, I saw you take a picture of the license plate. I just had someone at my house, so just I want you to be careful of the license plate, okay? Yes?"
Pap: "Oh, no problem. Yeah, I'll blur it out if that's the case, yeah."
Lana: "Thank you. That is the case. Thank you."
 

Life Is beautiful (If there is a full studio version), Yosemite, Roses Bloom for you, Wild One & Don't Stop would give me life.... And c'mon, Honeymoon music video in HD would free me!

I can imagine that she wanted to put TNBAR, Yosemite and Roses bloom for you on an album- She said at Amoeba LA in Summer 2017 that she will put out those two songs (i know she said as a standalone but TNBAR made into the album and TNBAR and Yosemite are sister tracks-the ying to the yang and she said that loves those tracks ). In December 2017 she posted again a video in which you could hear Roses bloom for you. She also had a writers' block in fall 2017. During the making of NFR! she decided to put Yosemite & Roses bloom not on the album because it wouldn't really fit or for whatever reason. Maybe she was thinking that California would fit into the album and decided to put it on NFR!.  I think she felt so comfortable with Jack that she showed him  Hope as PARADIXO said... but I think she wasn't planning to put it on an album before she meets Jack and felt so comfortable with him. Maybe she had parts of HIAB and decided to put in on NFR! as well and finished that song with Jack. But it is just speculation
And don't judge me...I have too much time to think about those things because of the quarantine

Ending the album with the Greatest would wreck me every time. It’s probably my fave from NFR and I get so emotional listening to it. But it’s also such a downer, I need to listen to something else to cheer me up a bit. VB would have worked perfectly as a closer. But I must say I don’t hate Hope as a closer. If LFA has made it to NFR, that track would have been the “most perfect” closer.There’s lots of praise for it on its own thread... It didn’t disappoint: it’s both dreamy/ chill and UV at the same time.

She also had California. 

P sure Hope was the second they did together. My guess is she had part of HIAB before they met considering Rick is credited as a co-writer

this total disappearance of her still gets on my nerves even after all these years

Really random but I had little to no sleep since like early yesterday*** more or less, and I dreamt that Lana was like, skipping along the solar system, planet to planet, kinda like Wipeout sized spheres, and that was part of The Greatest music video. That and rotating frames, bright nova starlights, and her sitting on the moon, touching the galaxies n causing supernovas. I kinda wanna see that happen now but lol 

Now really would be a great time for Lana to drop Yosemite, she said it's her most positive and hopeful song and I think that sentiment would be well recieved especially following the acclaim of Norman... 
 
Also quite a nice moment in her career, ending Norman with Hope Is A Dangerous Thing and then dropping Yosemite.
 
Dunno, just a thought. I'd love something new from her right now. The poetry album would be great right now.

im pretty sure she said 11 idrk tho I forgot which interview it was

you'll get electric chair for this

The third addition could be How to disappear and not The Greatest. The Instagram snippet she posted at the beginning of October 2018 of HTD (could be end of September as well ) sounded like a piano demo of the song. Lana did a Livestream at the end of October( if I remember correctly) in which there were right in the middle of making the beats of HTD.  So I guess they finished it in November and did FILLY after it. In the Livestream at the end of December, Lana said the album was finished. So I guess HTD, FILLY  and Doin Time. 
But in the end, it's only speculation and only Lana knows it  

The third addition could be How to disappear and not The Greatest. The Instagram snippet she posted at the beginning of October 2018 of HTD (could be end of September as well ) sounded like a piano demo of the song. Lana did a Livestream at the end of October( if I remember correctly) in which there were right in the middle of making the beats of HTD.  So I guess they finished it in November and did FILLY after it. In the Livestream at the end of December, Lana said the album was finished. So I guess HTD, FILLY  and Doin Time. 
But in the end, it's only speculation and only Lana knows it  

ok wait. Justice for SoC. those violins, and that bridge alone

I re-listend to the Black Beauty demo and I love the album version way more now.