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Today's the Day! Listening to it now for the first time. I really like it so far - very good production, and pretty bouncy and great. It both sounds nothing like her other records, but unmistakably her. Full review coming if I get the time.

I'd love this in theory, but I think she really doesn't like heavy music much, despite her ex's who were into Sunset Strip type hard rock. I'd love to hear her do up tempo/non wimpy singer songwriter stuff, something like Cash Savage or Jen Cloher

This could be true, but the photos look like they were taken from a really long distance away, and she probably didn't even know they were being taken. Her expression is more likely to be the serious emotions that you experience when you're trying to make sure coffee isn't going to go everywhere

Fun game! I tried not to cheat, but ended up having to look up an 'I' one. Let Me Love You Like A Woman Old Money Never Let Me Go Get Drunk Tulsa Jesus Freak I Talk To Jesus Music To Watch Boys To Every Man Gets His Wish Money, Power Glory Art Deco Not All Who Wander Are Lost

Making up the musical scores for different musicians (usually string players and session players) to be able to come in and play their parts.

Not necessarily looking for a download of this, but is there anywhere to actually listen to it? Youtube? Spotify?

This is your regular reminder that engaging with the mentally ill never ends well for anybody. I hope this woman finds some peace and has someone close to her who encourages her to get help.

Totally. She undoubtedly, however, sings "You take the whale" in HBTB The worst misinterpretation, though, is that the colours mentioned in 'Blue Banisters' refer to someone being beaten up/bruised, which is not only a gross thing to make up without any evidence, it also makes zero sense in the larger context of the song.

As far as anything in the fog of war can be said to be true, this seems to be true. And although dictators always tend towards madness, their madness always seems to follow the same script. And part of that script is that even the ones who are clever enough to have studied history (like Putin is), they all think they're the exception to the inevitable rule. Or to put it another way, they're like the guy falling from a tall building passing the tenth floor and thinking 'So far, so good!'

This post sure aged like milk that's already gone through someone's digestive system.

Awesome! I'm always on the lookout for heavy music based podcasts, and this seems more worthwhile than a lot of them. \m/

In a world where it's popular to call somebody 'Hitler' because they steal your parking spot, or they're your teacher and they don't give you an extra day on a paper, this is some reading to explain why those of us who are obsessed with history are comparing Putin to him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_occupation_of_Czechoslovakia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anschluss

Just like Trump, his ideology is what happens when fascism gets fully absorbed into the personal attainment of wealth. Unlike Trump, he's not a moron, which makes him much more dangerous.

I expect that you would also have been cheering on Slobodan Milošević because of the Ustaše. (I know where that comes from - I have relatives who smile every time they hear about a German dying).

Putin's following a script laid down by history that has constantly backfired or ended in complete destruction for the country pursuing it. But like every psychopath who fancies himself as a genius, he believes he's the one who it's going to end differently for. I just wish people like him took the cyanide or blew their brains out before they caused the massacres, not after.

I'll be honest, I'm stunned that there are members of this board who are buying into the idea of "Denazification" as a valid justification for this invasion. I don't know if they're just trolls, or have simply never read a history book about what happened in Germany during and immediately after World War II, but it doesn't reflect well on the American education system.

Regina has a new record, "Home, Before and After" coming out June 24! First single "Becoming All Alone" out now.

This is a wild find! I've been believing for a while that K is possibly more than one person; that if it's not a single person, then one of the people known as 'K' is Josh; and that the death row stuff was just poetic license from a bored young Lizzy.

When I come to a thread to post something and reailise I posted it a year ago.

I've always thought it was strange that you're considered a 'hater', because as much as I've yelled at the screen when reading some of your posts (and I've yelled plenty!), you've pretty much always tried to have some basis for your criticism. Obviously, we all have off days - I had one here a few days ago and was nastier than I should have been - but this forum gets very few straight up trolling posts, which is why this stood out so much. (We get plenty of drivel, but it's a better class of drivel ).

So, the first six tracks of Born To Die are a perfect double 1-2-3 punch, but aside from that ... Shades of Cool - Brooklyn Baby - West Coast: Always puts me in a wild mood. I'm tempted to say every three consecutive songs on Blue Banisters, but I'll just say Dealer - Thunder - WW.

I've told this story many times before, but I came to Lana a little late (November 2013), the morning after the 50th Anniversary of JFK's assassination. She was just in the air for some reason, and I think one of the Tropico trailers came out that weekend, but I kept seeing this hate for this artist who I vaguely remember had a lot of love sent her way not that much earlier. I was in my late thirties, and thought that I'd seen it all in music. I'd been through (personally) Heavy metal, punk, indie rock, noise, jazz, and on and on. I didn't think I could still be surprised. And then I saw the Born To Die cover and something sparked in me. There was something about it. It was the opposite of any other pop record cover at the time. I can't even explain how it made me feel, and then to be hit with the Paradise Edition cover as well, which was posed and framed the same as BTD, but was so different as well. It felt like art. I downloaded the album from Youtube and put it on my ipod, and went for a walk. The first thing I noticed was that it didn't sound like anything else I'd heard. People talked about it being trip-hop or sadcore, but I'd grown up on the first waves of those styles. This was its own thing. But it was everything. Lana's voice. The production. The music. The lyrics. The songs. All perfect. Song after song, and by the time I found myself back at home, I was up to National Anthem, and was lost in it. The shift in tone between the first and second verses - of someone finding themselves through presenting a front for people, of telling white lies about yourself, of figuring out how to get what you want. It was satirical without distancing itself ironically from real life. I was sick of songs with no stakes, and here were (so far) six songs that all were about things that mattered to the singer. For the next three months or so, (I bought The Paradise Edition the day after I heard it), I coudn't listen to anything else. I don't mean that I didn't want to - I would flick something on, and listen for ten seconds, before putting Born To Die back on. I had been like that with records when I was twelve years old, but not since then. And back then, I only had access to about twenty records in total, and if I wanted to hear a different record, I'd have to go through the whole process of getting together some money, getting myself to a record shop, sneaking it in to the house, and finally finding a time when my parents were away and I could copy it onto a cassette so I could listen to it in my room. But here, with the whole world of music at my fingertips, I could only listen to this one record. Born To Die might not still be my favourite Lana record, but it's the one that started it all, both for her and for me, and it will forever be a masterpiece.

It's a 7-11. If you buy more than one thing there, they call the cops.

Consequence can stick it up their jumpers. It's too late to get back on the Lana train now ...

Congrats to all the winners!