longtimeman

This is great stuff - I'd heard about Father Yod, etc, but had not thought of him being an influence on Lana. Very nice research @@Lanakai

Lou Reed: "Come take a walk on the wild side" (Born To Die) Bryan Adams: Cruel World: "You're young, you're wild, you're free" // Heaven: "We were young and wild and free". Funkadelic: "Feet don't fail me now" (Born To Die/One Nation Under A Groove) Phil Collins: "I can feel it coming in the air tonight" (Guns and Roses)

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A couple of (generally positive) podcast reviews of UV - both of them show the time that the part of interest begins: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBbt7Xt6egM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg-TtwXj7W8

It's probably important to put this here - a song I hated for many years, but now kinda like, and Bryan has shot some nice pics of Lana too.

We get it. You made it, you're proud of it. You don't need to spam every thread with it.

I wouldn't call it philosophy - just the usual moralistic garbage from the religious right. I'd file it next to the 'Lana is a brainwashed puppet of the Illuminati' videos.

This is more of a general LDR piece than a review, but it's of interest (and I don't think it's been posted here): http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2014/06/20/323943849/darkness-comes-alive-the-paradox-of-lana-del-rey

Aren't we all

"Music to watch boys" doesn't really make sense in English - it sounds like you're saying that the music is watching the boys. The 'to' at the end is a construction that tells what you're doing while you're watching boys - meaning, listening to this music. ETA: Or, if you want to stretch the phrase out into a sentence, it would be something like: "This is the music that has been made especially to be listened to, while you are sitting on your banana lounge, watching the boys (or girls, or whatever it is you enjoy looking at)."

This song has been growing on me, but I have to repeat from another thread that there are certain lines in songs that capture a person or a situation so densely and perfectly, and are just about the best statement of Lana's whole body of work, bringing to life her, her partner and the room they're in within a few mundane sounding words.

Aside from UV, Chvrches - The Bones Of What You Believe 2CD set - I love this, but the extra songs and remixes are a bit boring Lorde - Pure Heroine Elbow - The Take Off and Landing Of Everything

I knew there was something about that photo of Chuck and Lana Lana, like a lot of artists, draws from a whole range of sources, including real life, so I wouldn't be surprised if the Source was one of those (if you'll excuse the pun). My first thought, like a lot of people, was that Jim = Jim Jones, but nothing else in the song has anything to do with the People's Temple, except possibly for the violent end, and mass murder isn't really Lana's scene.

I find this all disturbing, in the best sense of the word.

I'm glad we can be united in this

I thought it was a fun set, pretty typical of Lana's recent live shows, and she didn't seem more or less nervous than at any other performance. I was worried about this going to sleep last night, but waking up this morning to the video, I'm happy.

If somebody would like to do an HQ needledrop rip and share it with me, I wouldn't complain.

I really wonder if you've ever seen any other performers, to make a comment like that. I've seen performers do all sorts of things to deal with their insecurities (which every performer has, and tries to mask in one way or another) - I've seen them get drunk and abuse the audience; I've seen them ignore the audience completely; I've seen them turn up the 'rock star' act to 100% in a tiny club where they looked ridiculous; I've had artists pull me up on stage so that I could dance around [note: I'm a not particularly good looking guy who clearly wasn't being brought up for the eye candy value], and distract everyone's attention from what was going on. Lana, in those times she's directly with her fans, seems so embarrassingly, ridiculously real that it almost hurts to watch her. If she acted any differently outside of shows, I'd wonder, but she's the same in every video I've ever seen of her meeting fans in the street, outside shows, at random encounters, and so on. She actually doesn't owe anybody anything in these meetings, but she has always seemed to me (as someone who's only seen videos) to be as genuine as is possible. If you want to experience a singer who introduces every song and sings every line to the back row, you can check out pretty much every other pop artist in the world at the moment. Lana is one of the very few singers around who is actually unpredictable and exciting enough to make watching videos worthwhile - you never know how she's going to sing something, or what she's going to do. Almost nothing is scripted, and the things that she repeats are so awkward and charming that she never looks like she's just crossing them off her list. The end of relationships in real life is almost never like it is in the movies - it's messy and ugly and heartbreaking, and it never makes any of the parties involved look good. Lana herself puts it beautifully in 'Cruel World' by singing 'I'm finally happy, now that you're gone', and sounding like she's about to break down. I find the easiest way of making sense of all of her contradictions and strange statements is to consider her a regular person, unschooled in how to act correctly, but trying to do the right thing. Sort of like the rest of us, when we're at our best.

Come on folks. This is Lana we're talking about. 1) It's probably a joke. 2) Wouldn't we rather her talking about getting right onto another record than saying she's quitting music again? 3) I want this now!

This would be too perfect

It's the Herald-Sun (Murdoch press). I'm thankful they spelled 'Lana' correctly. Also, this isn't really a review, more a discussion about the record, but William Bennett is one of my favourite artists/musicians who has been around in experimental/wild music since the late 1970's (http://www.allmusic.com/artist/whitehouse-mn0000820195) - the two are not 100% positive about UV and LDR, and they seem to get things about her that a lot of journalists just don't understand at all. http://www.electronicbeats.net/en/features/conversations/william-bennett-and-lisa-blanning-on-lana-del-reys-ultraviolence/

Fuck, I hate the gossip industry

I agree - I was a little worried when I saw who the writer was, because he (?) used to only write electronic reviews, and hated anything with guitars or real instruments, but it seems he's gotten over this. I can't really overstate how important and cool this review is for this city - this is pretty much the music review that people who like music but don't follow fansites will read, and a 4 star review placed next to it listed as #1 on the ARIA chart (our exact equivalent to Billboard) will make a lot of people curious.

I hope this shows properly for everybody - one of Melbourne Australia's two newspapers (The Herald-Sun) gave a great review, and you can see UV at #1 Edit: For some reason, this might not be showing up for everyone. Try http://walkingaboutblues.tumblr.com/image/89899388489