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@venice biotch Conngrats on the award - your art/rat thread was a gamechanger here - one of the best threads since I joined over a decade ago.

I'll never be able to express how much David Lynch means to me, so I'll just say that he was one of the artists who the world instantly becomes worse with his passing. He truly loved movies and loved the people who saw them. My favourite thing about him is that he would make 'difficult' films, but be sure that people understood them more than they allowed themselves to accept. So watch Mulholland Dr twice - it's not about the twist; it's about the journey, like all of life. I have posted this clip so many times already, but it sums his artistic world up.

Firstly, I know nobody cares about my opinion. But, on first listen, this is really enjoyable, but I'm confused who else is liking this. I mean, when pop artists go 'back to the 80s', it usually doesn't mean back to the cassette culture of 1981, where labels like Industrial, Come Organisation and United Dairies would put out random craziness from bands with names like Whitehouse and Nurse With Wound. That is some of my favourite music in the world, but I still get confused when it briefly crosses over. I'm always happy when the dingiest darkest music gets more ears (unironically) listening. Maybe next will be a cover of '150 Murderous Passions'?

A certain person here did the same sort of 'in you face' thing to Lana a while back too, so we're not immune from it.

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Be fair - it must be awful to be in a prison somewhere where the guards force you to listen to music you hate, and post on a forum dedicated to those artists.

I just tapped on the comments on the first twitter post I saw showing this post (I think it was Pop crave or something like that). I know I shouldn't read the comments, but sometimes life is boring.

In case you are wondering how deeply online some people are, there is a group of Taylor fans that are on Twitter etc claiming this post is 'Taylor Shade' because there's some obscure thing going on about Taylor not using spice or not using the right spices or something, as though Lana walks around the supermarket thinking about Taylor

There is nobody funnier in the world of music.

Pole dancing to Candy Necklace at Coachella.

This was phenomenal!

It could be, but also, he's my age, so like me, bands like Mazzy Star and Nirvana were huge when he was in late high school/early post-school years, and it's just as likely he's just been listening to them since then.

'Dolly's Interlude' cracked me up, because if you've heard her Rock covers album, you'd know nobody does awkward, fake 'ad-libbing' quite as terribly and charmingly as Dolly. The thought of something like that existing with Dolly and Lana is just too much

Home from work, and I'm getting excited. We've already had the cancelled record, so I'm confident this is for real (even if the date slightly changes). And I know why people care about the artwork, but in my life experience, iconic records make iconic covers, not the other way around.

Not in a million years. There are about twenty artists that the record industry relies on entirely for money from sales of physical items, and Lana is towards the top of that list.

I love that I thought 'I've got to leave for work in five minutes - let's just quickly check lanaboards for a sec ..'

A lovely poster.

Tomorrow is 11 years since I heard Lana for the first time, and I think I only just realised today what 'I Fucked My Way Up To The Top' is actually trying to say, which shows how slow I can be sometimes. I may have to get out the old wordpad app and write an essay on it ...

Another piece of advice that might not be as obvious - ALWAYS take the vinyl itself out of any covers/inner sleeves you're shipping it with, and put it in a plain white sleeve or plastic cover (if you have those). Otherwise, you'll almost certainly get seam splits from the record moving around and knocking against the cover. If you don't have a plain inner sleeve, you can make your own out of paper, and tape it up to a piece of cardboard. Your makeshift paper cover will probably be damaged a little during shipping, but the recipient can just throw it away and refile the record in the unharmed proper sleeve

Thanks for sharing this! I love it. It sounds like they've listened to the original a lot, and it's yet more evidence that musicians love Lana. If you're listening to the radio broadcast, it starts at 1:22:00. Apparently the radio show is only up for a couple of weeks, so hopefully someone grabs this.

Not just the audio, but it's here: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8v15sk I hate dailymotion, but at least it's still online.

That looks AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWFUL.

I'm jealous of you! Really, I'm glad you had a great time. A good friend of mine has managed to see a bunch of these shows this year and it all sounds amazing. The new DG album is excellent too, and my favourite song is the one that Romany sings!

I happened to be watching the show 'Loudermilk' on Netflix (about a recovering alcoholic ex-music reviewer), and in the third season, Lissie is a vital and major part of the season arc! Highly recommended as a show in general, but especially if you're a fan.