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Just pre-ordered! This is so exciting — it’s clear that there’s been a lot of care put into this

ooh I’m in if u have a free spot for me

featuring Reeve Carney, ironically

Love this so much!!! With all this in mind, where do you think she’s headed next artistically, @PARADIXO

it’s gorgeous!!!!! and that’s what AKA deserves

This actually worked for me! I can finally stop using LB on a separate browser, lmfao Thanks!!

I don't think the Bandcamp is legit! The earliest archive of it on the Wayback Machine is 2013, and that redirects you to a page to claim the 'lizzygrant' domain name, meaning it hadn't been opened yet. And I don't think anyone officially affiliated with Lana would've opened a Lizzy account post-2013 lmao

It's hard to say! She recorded the first version with Kahne in 2009, which was technically after the AKA sessions had wrapped, but I don't imagine she was really thinking about BtD yet -- just still kind of recording songs as they came to her. You could argue it as more of an AKA song (recorded with David Kahne, before AKA was even officially released) or as more of a BtD song (AKA sessions were done, it appeared on a BtD sampler), but neither distinction really means much, since it was kind of a freeform, floating track unattached to any project officially.

To give an answer to @YourGirl666's question about AKA outtakes, I don't think there *is* an answer. It's definitely fun to speculate about what might've been considered for the album, but in the absence of any provisional tracklists or confirmation from Lana (+collaborators) on the subject, the best we can do is look at what she was recording in that era and speculate. For example, we can definitely call "Loved You Then and Now" a COTCC outtake, because it appeared on an early tracklist for the album -- it was undoubtedly considered for the album, and just didn't make the cut. However, we can't say with certainty that "Pin Up Galore" was ever seriously considered for AKA -- sure, it was recorded with an important player in the AKA sessions in the same timeframe, and was even performed live alongside album tracks, but there's no proof that Lizzy ever considered putting it on the album. Lana's creative process just didn't seem to be overwhelmingly album-focused, this early in her career -- there's so much unreleased material pre-2011 that she couldn't have possibly intended it all for a specific project; she was just recording as songs came to her, and would eventually draw upon that back catalogue (or not) when it was time to assemble an album. She had the means to record on a whim, and platforms like Myspace and Reverbnation similarly gave her a platform to release music without tethering it to a larger project. So, to put it simply, nothing can really be called an "outtake" unless we have some kind of documentation to prove it. Lana is way too mercurial, especially with her tracklists, to call anything of that nature definite without some explicit word on the matter. That's why I listed ALL the songs she did with Mertens and Kahne in the OP -- there's definitely some she seemed to like more, but any of them were just as likely as others to have been considered, given the way she changes her mind (and tracklists) on a whim. Honestly, I'm really surprised that no songs were added or subtracted between AKA's recording in '07 and its release in '10, and I wouldn't be surprised if the only reason it DIDN'T happen is because Lana didn't have quite the level of creative control then that she'd gain later! Thinking about the alt-timeline AKA with Hundred Dollar Bill on it

1. PD version 2. AKA version 3. Laptop demo 4. Rich Whores rehearsal 5. NKF version …I think

@IanadeIrey Yes!! You’re a saint, oh my god I could only find the other unknown sound check song that Byron recorded and thank you @Surf Noir for also being on the right track and @Cherry Blossom for giving it a good shot!!

Driving me crazy rn: I have some snippet of Lana singing something like "change it up/switch it up" in kind of a high register stuck in my head, and I CAN'T remember what it's from!!!!! Thinking a soundcheck or maybe one of the live intros for White Mustang but I can't find it

The @Be Free leaks STILL rock my world!!! I'll never forget the day the Demo CD leaked, and we finally got to hear The Ocean... and then a few months later, getting the totally unknown, unexpected Mermaid Motel demo, which remains maybe my favorite leak ever to this day tbh No matter how many times I hear them, those still feel like 'new' leaks to me, and I'm just as excited as the day they dropped

just fixed them, thanks for the heads-up! Should both be visible now

I haven't caught up completely on the thread yet, so no idea if anyone's done something similar, but... I made two 9-track playlists as kind-of alternate takes on the album (because I love fucking with tracklists way too much...) The first is ARCADIA: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1X88dtqrBEh1yBhSqVy256?si=5e5bd11d36ca4971 -all the new, original songs from Blue Banisters. I haven't changed the sequencing, but I might mess with that later Then... THE NEXT BEST AMERICAN RECORD: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0KbP5OOTyCr21wU82hVnXJ?si=7abf7da331f74960 -we've received a lot of songs 'from the vault' over the past three records, so they're all collected here. It's kind of split into side A/side B to me -- with TNBAR and all the TLSP tracks on the first half, and Yosemite and the Barrie tracks on the second. So, not only does it function like the Unreleased album we never received, but also fulfills the 'yin-yang' dynamic TNBAR and Yosemite were always meant to have Hope you enjoy! I'm digging the album -- Dealer's kind of a game-changer, pretty obsessed

sun: get free moon: yayo rising: not all who wander are lost I’m OBSESSED

Off to the Races. Still my favorite, still convinced it’s one of her greatest ever. Borders on camp classic because oh my god... so glamorous and ridiculous and transcendent

for what it's worth, Bellevue is a very old and very famous mental hospital in Manhattan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellevue_Hospital I imagine that's what she and Courtney were discussing

I LOVE the COTCC cover

Honeymoon is my absolute favorite, but for Poll 2 I couldn't pick between FIILY/TG and Doin' Time. One's beautifully understated, and the other's ridiculously maximalist, and they're both killer

God this really is the most entertaining thread on Lanaboards

thinking about the Methamphetamines video... such a weird one-off in that she didn't do videos for any other laptop tracks (that we know of )

Perhaps her most underrated unreleased? Such a killer song, omfg

I just keep coming back and staring at it omfg... iconic photo and a true holy grail of Lizzy memorabilia

A dirty, dusty back road with sunshine and a cool Spring breeze blowing