The Sun Also Rises

Here's the list! https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-songs-of-all-time-1224767/

YES YES YES! I thought the same when I saw this on my Instagram feed earlier ... I'd love to see it

Anne is one of my all-time favourite book characters and Anne and Gilbert are one of my favourite book couples. The series is probably my go-to comfort read

I just finished reading The Master and Margarita, it was so weird, so funny (it's a satire), and overall just excellent. I rated it 5/5

Also, not that anyone asked, but these are a few of my favourite Placebo songs! Without You I'm Nothing (probably my most played song) My Sweet Prince The Crawl Centrefolds Swallow Drink You Pretty Song to Say Goodbye Burger Queen Every You Every Me Protege Moi Where Is My Mind (Live version with The Pixies) Taste in Men Lady Of The Flowers Brick Shithouse

Kind of painful to see this thread so neglected. Anyway I just bought this https://www.placeboworld.co.uk/products/brian-molko-selected?variant=44444113371393

Even better? And well deserved!

Yes it's definitely 100% giving late 60s/early 70s Pink Floyd for me! Weirdly my OH says he can hear some Pink Floyd-esque instrumentation in Lana's other songs. This is probably the first time I've noticeably heard it. I realllllllllly hope its explored more in her work after Lasso

It's gorgeous and I love it!! I wish she sang for longer, because oh my gosh does she sound beautiful. The song simply isn't long enough. I actually love the outro, it gives a beautiful vintage space-y sound that's dreamy but slightly eerie too. I'm reminded of Pink Floyd's "Echoes" and "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" in some of those really ambient sounds, but it also reminds me of the video game Bioshock Infinite The production is really interesting. I love the "old vinyl" sound. The vocal layering at the end of the singing section took me awhile to get used to!!! Her low register sounds gorgeously rich - it seems like we're all noticing in more and more performances she's getting that classic 2010-low back. And the higher octaves here? STUNNING! I would love for Lana and Jack to explore the spacey jazz-rock-blues Pink Floyd-Ella Fitzgerald-Etta James type sound more

What a coincidence! I literally took out my vintage ee cummings book and re-read this one today! It is beautiful, one of my favourites too

I agree! Like I mentioned earlier, it's really giving me WILD WEST Annie Oakley gunslinger, western movies, a woman sitting in an abandoned old saloon singing about her ex boyfriend who died and now she's going to seek revenge on his killers, or an ex who wronged her and now she's going to seek revenge

That's not embarrassing, it's just so British I swear every other country knows so much more about them than wem do. My Mum can never remember who is who out of Phillip, Charles, and William The family names really do sound like royals though. And now there's the honorary family member Margaret too!

King Charles is Queen Elizabeth's son, which is a little bit better than what you're thinking at least

I read the "lyrics" and I can honestly say I liked them. I think they are genuinely poetic and can see what he was going for. He has a nice speaking voice too. I think it would have worked way better as spoken word with Violet style slightly creepy music behind it, and a bit more editing of the lyrics. BUT, as it is I can't listen to more than a 20 seconds with that awful clown squeaking nose. It's honestly quite heartwarming how supportive Chuck, Charlie, Lana, and Rob are of each others artistic pursuits. I wish I had that kind of family.

Oh this look is gorgeous! Seeing that big long bow and the fringe/bangs I definitely think that's what they were going for! I love her little fashion nods, people don't talk about it enough! I didn't think it was possible for the title track to be even sadder

They also announced an "indefinite hiatus" just a few days before the Grammys, which filled me with an unquantifiable rage about how a band that's only released one album and already potentially disbanded beat OB

That article is so heartwarming and cute, a much needed feel-good read

About a month, 2nd March

After the Grammy's especially (and Taylor's domination everywhere) I think it will probably go to Taylor. ALTHOUGH, to be fair, Lana did play two major shows in the U.K. last year unlike Taylor so I suppose there's that! Plus, DYKTTATUOB is Lana's sixth No.1 album in the U.K. and BTD still hasn't left the charts! There's a lot of love for her here. The album was ranked really highly by U.K. critics & journalists as well. Let's see!

Thank you! Your last sentence She is THE legacy and THE legend of our generation

I woke up and .... I don't think I can even bring myself to watch the main show now in retrospect knowing that she doesn't win anything. Anyway, I'm feeling really really awful and I need to rant, so, here's my own QFTC I think the "music industry" is scared of Lana, because she's one of the biggest pop stars in the world right now and she doesn't owe them anything. Her success has been through her own hard work over decades of persistence. As much as journalists tried to push the industry plant theories during BTD, deep down they all know that she's there, standing among them, because she sang to crowds of just ten people in bars, she wrote and wrote and wrote and pushed and pushed and pushed and when finally she hit the radios, people listened. And people loved her. The fact that Lana is the force she is without having a single Grammy, without getting huge radio play, without pandering to the critics, the zeitgeist, the egos that need stroking .. that's what they're all afraid of. Intimidated by. I think she's one of the only huge artists of our time who took the "traditional" struggle route (touring tiny jazz bars and local pubs) and went "viral" (on tumblr). She incapsulates both the old and the new way of gaining success. Plus, her music, her looks — they're endless homages to icons of the past. There's countless references to literature, movies, singers, poetry, cultural icons, fashion. And yet despite building so much on our collective nostalgia, Lana is authentically herself. Despite what magazines try to push, no Lana fan wonders who she is under her references. Nobody thinks it feels empty. It's such a feat to be able to effortlessly reference the past while influencing the future generations. It's been said time and time again how Lana is the reason that Billie, Olivia, even Taylor make the music they do today. For someone who is blinded by their own fear and hatred about Lana's struggles in the past, her "bad influence," her "inauthenticity," having an artist who is simultaneously able to exist in the past, present and future is the epitome of power ... power they didn't bestow and power they didn't want her to have She has built a legacy (and DYKTTATUOB was the cementation of that legacy, whether it won or not) that will surpass 99% of the people in the music industry currently ... And it's been said time and time again but things that appeal (mostly) to women are derided. Any kind of media. I totally get what Lana was saying in QFTC although it wasn't worded well (and this probably won't be either). Nothing has changed, not really. I know Lana said in the Billboard awards that she's glad people feel they can't express themselves now as it didn't feel that way in 2008, but I don't think anyone, Billie Taylor and Olivia included, is singing about the experience of being a woman like Lana is: Just look at A&W ... we still have some way to go before people (mostly MEN) accept that it's just as worthwhile to sing about the experience of SA, alcoholism, suicide ideation, abusive relationships, and family trauma as it is to sing about being powerful and strong as a woman (and you can be those things while singing about those topics that everyone just wants to ignore). It takes courage to sing about these things when so often nobody in your own personal life wants to listen! But singing to millions of people? The vulnerability? Beautiful. There are millions of women (and men) who see the power in that. On the same topic, I absolutely hate that some stupid articles before the Grammy's didn't even mention Lana's name once despite her being nominated in 2 major categories, yet mentioned Jack in relation to Lana's work. As much as I am happy for Jack for his win it feels much the same way that he won in part thanks to her artistry while she is barely mentioned in the media coverage, on the carpet ... anywhere. Except by Jack and Taylor themselves (). This might be controversial but it reeks of sexism to me. I just HATE how she is treated almost as if her name is dirty so they just avoid saying mentioning her as if she doesn't even exist. URGH I AM IN SUCH A BAD MOOD

Thank you Definitely bed for me though, I'm going to spend all night dreaming of Lana winning AOTY and SOTY to manifest into reality when I wake up

How long until AOTY and SOTY are announced? I actually can't decide if I want to stay up or not

Her face looks absolutely breathtakingly gorgeous here. And that long ribbon? WOW. But I wish the bangs were just slightly shorter to really show off her eyes. Anyway I'm off to bed now everyone since its so late, I hope to wake up to good news x