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Oh well.

Uh top 5 anyway: 1. End of the World 2. Glow 3. Valentine 4. Neon Fashion and Glowstixx 5. Take My Hand

Well, St. Tropez was the missing link in fitting Summer Wine into my Miss America playlist perfectly. Heaven-sent Although is Ooh Baby alright after Summer Wine? Not particularly offensive, but maybe I should move Back to tha Basics there or something.

Oh is this a real conflict? I'm sorry, I mean it's just standard procedure. We love discussing freaky organization here

No idea how some of you can keep such a giant unreleased album. Merged anyway I mean it's been going since October so

I already posted the Zoo cover, so I'll keep going. I mean COME ON. HipsterRunoff seething at her fame. Every candid I've ever loved has been lost in the sands of time unfortunately.

Summertime Sadness vinyl had to re-ship But I bitched so the shipping was free.

Vile. I, too, wish HDB hadn't banned this trash. Only so I could do it with fucking gusto.

I don't hear "island hot spot"

yes i loev lana sass

Yes indeedy it's wonderful

...what?

The way I received it, already cut up, has the Grins intro as a How Can I outro. Never even realized this until I listened to True Romance a bunch of times

Oh, they're also selling the single from the deluxe edition, that's why it's double charting. Shit, I wish they'd combine, the second is #141 in the US.

I wonder if it'll be the same instrumental and everything. Break My Fall is so good so I will probably still only use Lana's version, though

I mean that probably means you don't have any hope in liking her, it's one of the more accessible songs. Otherwise, Be a Body and Oblivion are pretty good.

Lyrics! Mad disappointed she says "wasn't looking for a thug" rather than "fuck" in So Far Away.

Ride deserved it more, beautiful flop

...of Kate Nash?

All of this makes sense. On the flip side, it could be about Barrie because he plays for her at his shows and I can't imagine she's writing the song without relationship permanence in mind--i.e., growing old with someone. She's currently with Barrie and it sure doesn't seem like she's just passing the time until she gets to heaven and reunites with K. This is pretty much the same reason I doubt that Bel Air is about K. It seems like she's moved on, although she continues to honor lost love. I can see why Blue Jeans or Dark Paradise would be about K because she wasn't necessarily in a relationship at the time. Who knows, maybe if her and Barrie broke up, she'd continue to sing about how that dead man was her one true love (evidently similar to the subject matter she returned to post Mike, etc, breakups).

Definitely see Kate Nash inspiration in "Chas' Song" and "Mauritius"--I keep singing both in my head with the "Birds" melody.

It's coming! Is August still a safe estimate?

Oh cool! Definitely something new. Can't really understand what, though. Man, that was a really good performance. And she looks so good. Very very proud.

Her unreleased sounds the same, too I'd argue Lana's released efforts are more interesting. Not to say every song on either of Lana's albums are better than anything on Florence's. Perhaps "Over the Love" is better than "Young & Beautiful". (I'd put "Blinding" ahead of a lot of Born to Die because every now and then she just is that good.) But lola's comment and your follow-up pushed us into the dangerous territory of comparing them in their entirety, something I'm not really in the business of. However, I do think Flo is suffering a tad from overexposure. I know what to expect from her nowadays, especially on a soundtrack contribution (f'real, look at her soundtrack songs, there's a pretty obv formula people go to her for). Lana still manages to throw me off with stuff like Summer Wine and Cola. Not sure if I'm making a point or just discussing. I'm dizzy.

I can't imagine her changing that much, but the exterior is certainly part of a character--she even admitted to it, with some reply on twitter that I can't find that says something like "at least I created it". The more exposure she gets, the more I think she's opening up. The Ride video personally gave me a lot of insight. Most of her actions so far seem to be driven by equal parts of mental vulnerability (depression, addiction), love, and ambition.