The Sun Also Rises

This sounds weird, but I was watching this video and the first half of the visuals (especially from 0:12) are very much the environment/colours I was picturing for Lasso

Ride 30 Cola 11 Bel Air 49 Adjusted due to @Embach, @JDaniel and me posting the same choices at once (great taste ), this is the accurate scoring now

13 Beaches 88 Cherry 54 Heroin 92 Get Free 20

Cruel World 13 Shades Of Cool 98 West Coast 93 Pretty When You Cry 34

White Dress 100 COTCC 44 Tulsa Jesus Freak 26 Dark But Just A Game 48

Ride 30 Cola 14 Bel Air 46

AKA 4 Born to Die 6 Paradise 6 Tropico (scrapped album) 4 Ultraviolence 21 Honeymoon 16 Lust For Life 11 NFR! 8 VBBOTG 3 COTCC 6 Blue Banisters 5 Ocean Blvd 14

Charli XCX - 15 Marina And The Diamonds - 33 Florence + The Machine - 15 Ethel Cain - 11 Ariana Grande - 13 The Beatles - 11 Courtney Love/Hole - 10 Sky Ferreira - 10 Taylor Swift - 1 Cheryl/Cheryl Cole - 9 Halsey - 11 Billie Eilish - 15 Nirvana - 13 Melanie Martinez - 14 Kim Petras - 10 Stevie Nicks - 12 Katy Perry - 7 Britney Spears - 11 Beyonce - 10 Grimes - 11 Kendrick Lamar - 10 Jeff Buckley - 11 Madonna - 11 Nicki Minaj - 10 Ice Spice - 0, OUT!! Kate Bush - 14 Cher - 10 Michael Jackson - 10 Kesha - 11 Dua Lipa - 10 Carly Rae Jepsen - 10 Kanye West - 9 Fiona Apple - 11 Mazzy Star - 14 Father John Misty - 12 Mariah Carey - 10 Azealia Banks - 3 Iggy Azalea - 10 Bridgit Mendler - 10 Tinashe - 10

13 Beaches 90 Cherry 56 Heroin 90 Get Free 18 I love all these songs

Charli XCX - 15 Marina And The Diamonds - 33 Florence + The Machine - 14 Ethel Cain - 11 Ariana Grande - 13 The Beatles - 11 Courtney Love/Hole - 10 Sky Ferreira - 10 Taylor Swift - 1 Cheryl/Cheryl Cole - 9 Halsey - 11 Billie Eilish - 15 Nirvana - 12 Melanie Martinez - 14 Kim Petras - 10 Stevie Nicks - 12 Katy Perry - 7 Britney Spears - 11 Beyonce - 10 Grimes - 11 Kendrick Lamar - 10 Jeff Buckley - 11 Madonna - 11 Nicki Minaj - 10 Ice Spice - 2 Kate Bush - 14 Cher - 10 Michael Jackson - 10 Kesha - 11 Dua Lipa - 10 Carly Rae Jepsen - 10 Kanye West - 9 Fiona Apple - 11 Mazzy Star - 14 Father John Misty - 12 Mariah Carey - 10 Azealia Banks - 3 Iggy Azalea - 10 Bridgit Mendler - 10 Tinashe - 10

Charli XCX - 15 Marina And The Diamonds - 33 Florence + The Machine - 13 Ethel Cain - 12 Ariana Grande - 13 The Beatles - 11 Courtney Love/Hole - 10 Sky Ferreira - 10 Taylor Swift - 2 Cheryl/Cheryl Cole - 9 Halsey - 11 Billie Eilish - 15 Nirvana - 11 Melanie Martinez - 14 Kim Petras - 10 Stevie Nicks - 12 Katy Perry - 7 Britney Spears - 11 Beyonce - 10 Grimes - 11 Kendrick Lamar - 10 Jeff Buckley - 11 Madonna - 11 Nicki Minaj - 10 Ice Spice - 4 Kate Bush - 14 Cher - 10 Michael Jackson - 10 Kesha - 11 Dua Lipa - 10 Carly Rae Jepsen - 10 Kanye West - 9 Fiona Apple - 11 Mazzy Star - 14 Father John Misty - 11 Mariah Carey - 10 Azealia Banks - 2 Iggy Azalea - 10 Bridgit Mendler - 10 Tinashe - 10

The forth weekend of August, for my partner's birthday When was the last time you walked barefoot on the sand?

Fight Club vs Taxi Driver

Let The Light In 61 A&W 99

10/10 Love all the LFL-era photoshoots and this is such a sexy, confident, ethereal, BOSS at the men-in-music-business-conference LOOK

Sirens 4 No Kung Fu 1 Kill Kill 4 AKA 6 Born to Die 5 Paradise 5 Tropico EP (movie score) 3 Tropico (scrapped album) 8 Ultraviolence 15 Honeymoon 11 Lust For Life 8 NFR! 8 VBBOTG 5 COTCC 6 Blue Banisters 5 Ocean Blvd 10

Sirens 4 No Kung Fu 3 Kill Kill 4 AKA 6 Born to Die 5 Paradise 5 Tropico EP (movie score) 3 Tropico (scrapped album) 8 Ultraviolence 15 Honeymoon 10 Lust For Life 7 NFR! 8 VBBOTG 5 COTCC 6 Blue Banisters 5 Ocean Blvd 9

Sirens 4 The Phenomena of Lizzy Grant 0 - OUT No Kung Fu 5 Kill Kill 4 AKA 6 Born to Die 5 Paradise 5 Tropico EP (movie score) 3 Tropico (scrapped album) 8 Ultraviolence 14 Honeymoon 10 Lust For Life 7 NFR! 8 VBBOTG 5 COTCC 6 Blue Banisters 5 Ocean Blvd 8 Something has gone wrong because Tropico music score was on 3, not 2, so I voted and took it back up to 3

Sirens 4 The Phenomena of Lizzy Grant 1 No Kung Fu 5 Kill Kill 4 AKA 6 Born to Die 5 Paradise 5 Tropico EP (movie score) 3 Tropico (scrapped album) 8 Ultraviolence 14 Honeymoon 10 Lust For Life 7 NFR! 8 VBBOTG 5 COTCC 6 Blue Banisters 5 Ocean Blvd 7 Edit: Adjusted for a post I missed

Sirens 4 The Phenomena of Lizzy Grant 3 No Kung Fu 6 Kill Kill 4 AKA 6 Born to Die 5 Paradise 5 Tropico EP (movie score) 3 Tropico (scrapped album) 6 Ultraviolence 14 Honeymoon 10 Lust For Life 7 NFR! 8 VBBOTG 5 COTCC 6 Blue Banisters 5 Ocean Blvd 6

Happy Birthday, Norman Fucking Rockwell! I can't believe it's been five years since this perfect work of art came into the world! I'm never sure where to place NFR! on my Lana ranking — it's perfect. Sometimes, I think it's too perfect. The thing that sets NFR! apart for me is that it doesn't just immerse me in Lana's world; it's the one album that inspires me to create. After listening, I want to reach for my pen and paper and start writing. I want to make my life a work of art. I want to live, and, to quote Lana, "You make me feel like there's something I never knew I wanted." All of Lana's other works transport to me to a place or time within my life. NFR!, though, feels like it is life itself. It has an evolution through so many experiences and feelings that it seems like the ultimate journey, seen through the eyes of someone who is desperately in love, and living with true freedom. Not the type of freedom in BTD that comes from the kindness of strangers, gas stations, and accepting the nihilist nature of life — but the freedom of feeling the ocean crash over your body, surrendering yourself completely to love and life, of riding the wave. of feeling so comfortable in your own being that you allow yourself to exist with abandon ... My top songs are Mariners Apartment Complex, Venice Bitch, How to Disappear, The greatest, and hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have - but i have it. Honestly, the strength of just two of those favourite tracks would be enough to give the album a spot in my top records of all-time. That's how great I think they are. Lana's poetry is "hot like a gun" as she says. She's never been a better songwriter than in NFR!, which encapsulates perfectly her strongest style of songwriting; telling a story through disjointed fragments, feelings, snapshots in motion. 1. Norman fucking Rockwell: Possibly her best opening lines of an opening song, ever. Iconic. 2. Mariners Apartment Complex: Some of my favourite Lana lyrics, ever. This is a beautiful song in every way possible. It's very reminiscent of Leonard Cohen (and references him "I'm your man") and almost every single line is quotable. 3. Venice Bitch: Her magnum opus, as people like to say. The psychedelic-style soundscape is inspired. The lyrics are referential and although simplistic, it's the kind of song I'd want to live in. It's literally perfection. 4. Fuck it I love you: The pop song of pop songs. 5. Doin' Time: Possibly the only on-album Lana cover I wouldn't have guessed was a cover if I didn't know the original song. The production, her vocals, and the music video are all incredible. It's the perfect choice for NFR!. Not sure why it gets hate. 6. Love song: Not one I listen to often but when I do, I feel it. The lyric "You know that I'd just die to make you proud" is probably one of her most relatable. 7. Cinnamon Girl: I'll never forget the first time I heard this. It felt like Ultraviolence, but in this era. "There's things I wanna say to you, but I'll just let you live" is on the same level as "Sun and ocean blue / Their magnificence, it don't make sense to you." 8: How to Disappear: Probably the finest example of Lana's ability to tell stories through songs. I love the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young reference in the lyrics esp. as she name drops them later in Bartender. 9: California: Great song title and heartbreaking lyrics. 10. The Next Best American Record: Honestly, not a week goes past without me thinking of this verse and the way she sings it: "It's you—all the roads lead to you / Everything I want and do / All the things that I say / It's true—all the roads lead to you / Like the 405 I drive through." 11: The greatest: A top 10 Lana song. Incredible. No words. It's captured this era for me in a way that no other song has and probably no other song ever will. From the guitar solo to the last verse, it's how it feels to live in these uncertain times, stuck between nostalgia for times past, hopelessness, and everything moving so fast around you ... 12. Bartender: Despite the hate, I love this song. I had a phase of being obsessed with it that never really ended. 13: Happiness is a Butterfly: A hard listen. It reminds me of what could be in in love but always slips through the fingers. 14: hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have - but i have it: Lyrical masterpiece. Top 10 Lana song. The most beautiful album ender I've ever heard. Also, as someone who grew up next to the sea and lived in SoCal for awhile, NFR! just feels like home. It feels like I've lived in those songs (and not in a super painful way like OB) I'm just so thankful to live in the same time as Lana, an artist who captures my soul in her music in a way I'd never be able to express in my own art.

Mariners Apartment Complex going into Venice Bitch is quite possibly one of my favourite track runs in history, it almost makes me cry with how great those two songs are

Charli XCX - 15 Marina And The Diamonds - 23 Florence + The Machine - 11 (I added the band here ) Ethel Cain - 11 Ariana Grande - 12 The Beatles - 11 Courtney Love/Hole - 10 Sky Ferreira - 10 Taylor Swift - 7 Cheryl/Cheryl Cole - 9 Halsey - 11 Billie Eilish - 14 Nirvana - 11 Melanie Martinez - 13 Kim Petras - 10 Stevie Nicks - 11 Katy Perry - 9 Britney Spears - 11 Beyonce - 10 Grimes - 11 Kendrick Lamar - 10 Drake - 1 Jeff Buckley - 11 Madonna - 10 Nicki Minaj - 10 Ice Spice - 9 Kate Bush - 11 Cher - 10 Michael Jackson - 10 Kesha - 11 Dua Lipa - 10 Carly Rae Jepsen - 10 Kanye West - 9 Tate McRae - 4 Fiona Apple - 10 Mazzy Star - 14 Father John Misty - 11 Mariah Carey - 10 Azealia Banks - 6 Iggy Azalea - 10 Bridgit Mendler - 10 Tinashe - 10

Lasso has officially invaded my dreams Last night I dreamt that someone on LB somehow got access to the Lasso vinyl before it was released, but it didn't have any songs on it. It was a topic on LB and I was franticly trying to find where to buy it before I realised that it hadn't been released yet, someone just got hold of it early. The cover was in tones of blue and green and it was a dreamy arty painting that was kind of collaged (not like phone collages, like proper art collages), but I don't remember what was on it and the vinyl was swirled green and silver. Lana's team must have found out it had made its way into the hands of the GP and so they decided to release Lasso literally one day later via some shop nobody has ever heard of before and we were all clamouring to get it. I also dreamt that I got the chance to interview Lana, but I got the date wrong and turned up a week early, and then the dream stopped before the actual real date happened

Charli xcx - 14 Marina And The Diamonds - 19 Ethel Cain - 11 Ariana Grande - 12 The Beatles - 11 Courtney Love/Hole - 10 Sky Ferreira - 10 Taylor Swift - 8 Cheryl/Cheryl Cole - 9 Halsey - 11 Billie Eilish - 10 Nirvana - 11 Melanie Martinez - 11 Kim Petras - 10 Stevie Nicks - 10 Katy Perry - 9 Britney Spears - 10 Beyonce - 10 Grimes - 11 Kendrick Lamar - 10 Drake - 3 Jeff Buckley - 11 Madonna - 10 Nicki Minaj - 10 Ice Spice - 9 Kate Bush - 11 Cher - 10 Michael Jackson - 10 Kesha - 11 Dua Lipa - 10 Meghan Trainor - 2 Carly Rae Jepsen - 10 Kanye West - 10 Tate McRae - 9 Fiona Apple - 10 Mazzy Star - 14 Father John Misty - 11 Mariah Carey - 10 Azealia Banks - 9 Iggy Azalea - 10 Bridgit Mendler - 10 Tinashe - 10