sparklrtrailrheaven

as anyone who knows me can guess, i would be all here for a full-circle collab between lana and david kahne-- after the sameness i perceived in the HM tracks, i would love to see lana return to david's production that worked so well on AKA-- tailored to now suit a more mature lana.

is the second version of 'tv in black and white' fake? i've heard it was just a remix, but i really don't want to believe that bc it was so much better

These are great! 

Honeymoon especially-- I'm really looking forward to seeing more! 

reviving this thread because I heard Life On Mars? the other day and remembered what a legend Bowie is. I'm currently bringing his discography.

yesssssssss! i stan for bowie as hard (or harder) than lana. i've been listening to 'low' a lot lately-- 'sound and vision' especially has been running thru my brain all week

queen of petting dogs 

what are some alternate titles for lana's albums? 

i know AKA was also called "Nevada" and I remember there being a few alt. titles for BtD, as well

Since Super Movie and Dance for Money have both been crossed off my list (never thought I would say that), it's time I make a new one-- I'm including other stuff besides songs that I want to leak:

1. STEVEN MERTENS AKA

2. HOMEMADE VIDEOS/LIVE VIDEOS

3. RUBY TUESDAY

4. DAVID KAHNE-PRODUCED TRACKS (LEMONADE MOTORCYCLE HEAVEN, COCONUT & KEY LIME PIE, BOUNCE, etc.)

5. RESISTANCE

6. ANY LIZZY SONGS FROM 2005-2009 

7. MORE INFO ON AKA (ESP. ABOUT ORIGINAL TRACKLIST) 

lizzy grant trailer park stuff makes me smile 

same!!! i was just watching one of the gramma vids this morning bc i needed a boost

Ruby Tuesday

Super Movie

Dance for Money (Snippet)

Trash Magic v3 (if it exists)

STEVEN MERTENS-PRODUCED AKA (Brite Lites snippets)

 

(plus ANY 2007/8 Lizzy trash. I don't care whether it's laptop demos or fully produced or studio outtakes or LQ trash like the NLMG demo. I live for that era so) 

my list keeps getting smaller and smaller. . .. . . . . i'm so happy 

The last one is by the amazingly talented @@annedauphine 

Yeah, I thought I got that one from Anne! I have her MPG cover like that one saved, too <3 

If anyone knows who did the rest of these, please tell me, because I saved them a while ago and don't remember who did what

I've got a few I've collected over time: (apologies to whatever users made these, I don't remember who made what)

I did the released version, and it was almost perfectly accurate! The only issue was that for some reason, TLY and FK ended up near the very bottom, despite them being two of my favorites. Anyway, here's my top 25: 

Thank you SO much for creating this! I'll definitely do it in a bit 

Did the unreleased one, what is Little Carmen tho? 

Little Carmen is the acapella demo of Carmen 

I don't care who else's threads get the porn treatment, but don't you dare disgrace the name of Lana Del Ray a.k.a. Lizzy Grant with your basic, bland, white dudes that you can't even be bothered to post in quality high enough to see more than some blurry af pixels... disgusting 

Here's a fun question:

Had AKA been successful, what unreleased tracks do you think would've been used for a follow-up album? 

I finally found a Lana ranker-- not the same one (and apparently not as thorough as Moy's, since it hasn't been updated for HM and also doesn't include most unreleased-- it does have Sirens, tho), but pretty cool nonetheless: http://jesseepinkman.tumblr.com/lanadelreysong

My ranking is pretty spot on-- I left out the last 10, because they're all either Sirens tracks or bonus tracks I haven't listened to all that much. Anyway, here goes:

I would love to see this with HM and unreleased included 

considering i'm still not over the first groundbreaking Sirens cover, i'm more than ready, kinq 

(if this is that sirens concept you teased tht time w/the cream/navy blue color scheme, i'm gonna fall out and die rn)

who is lana del rey? ?? lizzy grant who? ? ? ? the good sis Kali Uchis is all that matters to me now 

thanks to the good heaux @@Bekim for posting lottery, bc i listened to it and got hooked and then listened to por vida and got even more hooked and now i'm obsessed

sis Kali is like the perfect marriage of lana, little jackie, 60s girl groups, and some like 90s TLC-type music and i am SHOOK 

now i've gotta catch up on all her other music before this album drops

OMG woke up to all this amazing feedback! Love you all! Did these for fellow stans to enjoy!     Will work on an Unreleased cover as soon as I can @Sparkletrailerheaven any specific details/ themse you'd like to see? 

nothing all that specific, just with the same feel as these covers! just as long as it's something that won't look out of place with all the unreleased tracks 

These are SO perfect 

Can you do an Unreleased cover? 

@@sparklrtrailrheaven @@longtimeman please correct me if i'm wrong, but i think i was the first to find that article way back in the day! you know, david nichtern is also one of the foremost buddhist meditation teachers in america, and i hope his practice was a useful tool to deal with the - to me - unjust hand he was dealt. without his (and his label's) gamble on lizzy/lana we probably would never have discovered her. it's likely she would have eventually achieved mainstream success in one of her incarnations or facets, but i know i wouldn't have been such a huge fan without "AKA", which is still my absolute favorite album of hers. imagine a world in which that record never existed, or amounted to simply a handful of demos in lana's laptop! i'm so glad that wasn't the case, and that you created this thread @@sparklrtrailrheaven, because even though we longtime fans, many of us from the original LDR.FM, are well aware of these facts, it's great to have them grouped together coherently, with evident love, for everyone - oldtimers and newbies alike - to discover and revisit both the information and the album, and celebrate its wonderful, bizarre "cohesive yet kaleidoscopic" glory! ♥

I agree wholeheartedly! <3 I think this album (and the people who worked on it, including David Nichtern!) have never received their due. So, I was so happy to be able to start this thread, so as you said, we could coherently gather information and spread the love for AKA! Also, kudos for finding that article! It's certainly one of the most informative out there about this period in Lana's history. You're too sweet

I agree too about AKA's artwork-- while I've grown to love it in association with the album, it was not executed well at all. Even Kill Kill's artwork, while not perfect, looks a lot more inviting and evocative of the music than AKA's. Honestly, despite only being released 6 yeas ago, I think AKA was a bit ahead of its time in some respects. Lana was definitely making music that was hard to define, but with more genre-hopping mainstream artists these days (think Marina & the Diamonds or Melanie Martinez, whom I often see grouped in the same circles as Lana),  AKA could be better marketed and received if it were released today, imo. 

I don't know if this is the right thread for this, (and sorry for double-posting!) but has the theory ever been raised that Lana took her name from Delray Beach in Florida? We all know Florida is a favorite place of Lizzy's, and I found this article about T.R.A.F.F.I.C. that mentions that the first T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference was held in 2004 at Delray Beach: http://www.dnjournal.com/cover/2014/september-october.htm

This has probably been mentioned, but still thought it was pretty cool 

I strongly recommend that if you haven't read it, give a good read to the article from mtv linked in the first post. It answers a lot of questions about the album and makes some great points about Lana's artistic and business acumen. It's my theory that the record sold very very few copies (something closer to 100-200), based on how long it took most of us to get hold of an original digital copy, and the fairly low sales for independent releases at the time. I'd love to have this confirmed or refuted definitively, but it would help to explain why it was so easy to suppress at the time.

Yeah, the MTV article is the probably the definitive article on AKA to read, especially since David Nichtern is interviewed and has a lot of first-hand insight on Lizzy and the recording of the album. 

I definitely agree about the album probably selling few copies, which is kind of unusual due to the push it got from Amazon and iTunes, you know?