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Gross. Ugh, Dave fucking Navarro. That guy is like a maggot inside the putrid shit of a dead hog. What a clown. But i would totally pay like five bucks to hang out with Lizzy and Sebastian Bach while they're camwhoring.

Maybe, just maybe, Lana Del Rey is like a China Russian Doll, and when you open her up, inside of her there is Lana Del Ray, and inside of Lana Del Ray there is Lana Rey Del Mar, and inside of Lana Rey Del Mar there is Sparkle Jump Rope Queen, and inside of Sparkle Jump Rope Queen there is May Jailer, and inside of May Jailer there is Lizzi Grant, and inside of Lizzi Grant there is Lizzy Grant. Someone just needs to start opening Lana Del Rey up.

Right, i understand now; i didn’t know CD-R promos were referred to as acetates (weird). I initially took your post to mean that one of those Ride singles was an actual acetate aluminum test record, which is why i was shocked.

Oh, okay, i see where the confusion lies. According to this wiki entry we are talking/thinking about different things. So you're talking about a CD, not a record, like a heavy, metal plate, right?

An acetate?! Surely that can't be, no? How in the world is it possible that in 2012 acetates are being sold officially? Is this something that happens and i'm just out of the loop? EDIT: Oh wait, i just realized i missed the operative word promo. Still weird that acetates are going around nowadays though.

We have HLH in 320, it was one of the very first things Jldr gave us on the first day of the forum opening up. Not to imply that MP3 is "good quality."

This was a really popular shirt when i was a kid, i would see it all the time. It was worn by, like, "cool" dads who frequently giggled moronically under their breath while making misogynistic sex jokes. Some of these dudes would buy it for their twelve year old son. I was scared of life. I wonder how much of a spike in interest there's been in this shirt in the last two months.

I don't remember which tracks were on it, but some of the common titles that we already had at that point (i think Blue Jeans demo was one of them?) had different track running times than what we had. Also, that thread was on .fm, not here. I believe some people bid on the CD, but the price started going up way too high, so no one from the forum won the auction.

It's felt a lot like a playground around here lately. I wish people would stop paying any mind to some of these dramatic spazzes who have recently joined. Look at that, i'm doing it right now. This thread is now 32 pages...

Oh, i should also qualify my above post with the fact that there is also a ton of "drug music" that i fucking hate. It can go so many different ways.

I'd also like to try to preemptively steer this conversation away from a pro/anti-drug thing because the politics of it, for a lot of people, are often hard to separate from discussing facts and other people's histories. I myself don't do drugs and have never been a user, but a lot of my favorite music was made with the aid and influence of many different types of drugs, and it would be absurd for me to deny the prominent role that drugs have played in the creative arts (for hundreds and hundreds of years, mind) simply because i am not a user of them.

I love when she looks like she’s the daughter of a member of the country club--white blouse with Peter Pan collar, Lacoste cardigan, skinny jeans, loafers. Oh my

OMG, i love the Afraid backing track. Ha! Oh, you.

How do you know what is and isn't productive for her? You do know that there is a lot of music in existence that most likely would not have been possible without drug use, yes? Also, "drugs" could be anything, uppers, downers, etc. And there are probably a ton of drug users who are also musicians/song writers whose first order of business while on drugs is to write.

Two things: 1. There are countless examples of people writing (and recording) music while on drugs or intoxicated. It has been proven to be, at least for some period of time, very productive for some people. 2. Her demeanor during her live performances, those descriptions of her not being all there could very well be a manifestation of nervousness. That is not an uncommon way to come across when you're up on stage in front of a crowd and you're a nervous performer, you can look quite out of it.

The alliteration in this thread title I am trying to not think about Diet Mountain Dew going into Mizrahi's mouth. Gross.

The emotional quality (or lack thereof) in music is a purely subjective point, yes, but a large part of the premise of this thread/argument is absurd because Lana Del Rey has a relatively big vocal range, and i'm talking about her tessitura, so i'm not even including the extremes of her register where she still hits notes that are outside her vocal comfort. Yeah, she's not Yma Sumac, or even Mariah Carey, but those singers are rare in pop forms of music. She is also known for switching seamlessly between vocal styles, tone quality, and octaves within a song, sometimes even within one phrase. I wish people were familiar with the definition of a word before tossing it around so that is has absolutely no meaning.

What the HELL is going on in here? Singing and music don't have to do anything. If you think her singing "doesn't change" you're not listening to enough of her stuff. Also, by definition, her singing isn't monotone. Woops... Who are you? Who am I? Why am i responding to this? Will someone smash a cinder block into my head?

I was hoping you would be holding the pages open and that your nails would be showing in the pictures.

Thanks to evilentity for putting together an amazing, highly entertaining, and quite informative show with a great selection of songs! That must have taken so much time and energy to put together, and it really shows. Maybe in another 6 months we'll get another evil show For those who asked about a download for my cover, i am going to do a minor remix to adjust a few tiny things (OCD never dies) and then i'll post a soundcloud link. Stay tuned. And thanks for the nice comments in the chat <3 OH! And Madrigal and TPD should post a picture of their face now that evil has shown his visage. I was serious before, you two do it and i'll go next. Then Neal will go after me, right?

I just saw this mentioned in a status and started to watch the video out of curiosity, but i couldn't watch more than a minute and a half of it. Jesus.

Dimitry, out of curiosity, when you go to listen to either Born to Die or Paradise, which one do you play? Do you have a go-to one for every time you want to hear the album or do you play various ones? Have you even played everything pictured in your collection? If so, you haven't noticed any differences between the different (CD) editions, have you? I'm curious to hear the mastering for the vinyl.

Don't see what the time of day has to do with it. Most studios are open until very late into the night, and some even 24 hours. And that has been the practice, to my knowledge, since at least the '60s. It's totally common to have sessions at night. I wonder about something. It's been stated before that there was a little bit of tension and friction between Lizzy and Kahne while recording the record. I wonder if most of it centered around the vocals, if he demanded a lot of takes out of her and if she maybe wasn't used to that and didn't like doing a lot of takes. I feel like i remember reading that she usually records a vocal (or likes to) in one or two takes (this was before she mentioned cutting the new Yayo in one take) and if maybe it was taxing for her to have someone demand more and sort of be a slave driver about it. That tends to be tough on a lot of people and it tires them out (though the results are usually very rewarding and totally worth it). And so i wonder if maybe this might explain, also, why there seems to be a lot more work put into her vocals pre-BTD. I know i've mentioned this a lot on here before, but there's a lot of stuff on BTD and Paradise where i cannot comprehend how the producer didn't ask her to do another take. There also seems to be more complex layering on AKA. I don't know, maybe Kahne worked her hard and she sort of resented that. He's definitely more "old school" than other producers she's worked with, and this is a quality seen more with older producers. The age old question, eh? These sort of alternate reality scenarios could obviously go so many ways, but i feel another smaller label would have eventually come along regardless. But there's also being in the right place at the right time, which is crucial. If anything, i think it just would have taken longer, but i think it was inevitable.

From the German KulturSPIEGEL interview that was just translated and posted: Seven months is a pretty long time. That's interesting that someone unknown would be given so much time to cut a debut record. Do we believe Lizzy? Oh, the uncertainty.