Alternative Live Versions

[Violets in Your Eyes 313]

I couldn't find a thread for the times that Lana performed versions of her songs that are significantly different from the album versions ("rock" versions, acoustic versions, etc.), so I figured I'd start my own. I don't have much yet bc there are performances I know of, like the "rock" versions of Body Electric and Off to the Races, but I don't know the dates/locations. Here's what I have so far, but it'd be great if anybody wants to help out and try to make a more complete list!

08.20.2009//Mexicali Live (Teaneck, NJ) > "Gramma" (Acoustic)

09.14.2011//Glasslands Gallery (Brooklyn, NY) > 1. "Dark Paradise" (Alt. Lyrics)

10.10.2011//The Premises (London, England) > 1. "Blue Jeans" (Acoustic) / 2. "Born to Die" (Acoustic) / 3. "Video Games" (Acoustic)

11.07.2011//Nouveau Casino (Paris, France) > 1. "Born to Die" (Demo) / 2. "Without You" (Demo)

11.16.2011//Scala Club (London, England) > 1. "Radio" (Demo)

11.30.2011//Virgin Mobile Mod Club (Toronto, ON, Canada) > 1. "Off to the Races" (Early Mix)

12.07.2011//Troubadour (West Hollywood, CA) > 1. "Million Dollar Man" (Demo)

06.01.2012//NPR World Cafe (Philadelphia, PA) > 1. "Blue Jeans" / 2. "Born to Die" / 3. "Carmen" / 4. "Video Games"

06.03.2012//El Rey Theatre (Los Angeles, CA) > 1. "Lolita" (Violin Version)

06.24.2012//BBC Radio 1's Big Hackney Weekend (London, England) > 1. "Video Games" (Piano/Strings Version)

09.25.2012//iTunes Festival (London, England) > 1. "Blue Jeans" / 2. "Body Electric" / 3. "Born to Die" / 4. "Million Dollar Man" / 5. "National Anthem" / 6. "Radio" / 7. "Summertime Sadness" / 8. "Video Games" / 9. "Without You"

11.24.2012//Langs de Leeuw (Amsterdam, Holland) > 1. "Ride" (Acoustic)

04.27.2013//L'Olympia Bruno Coquatrix (Paris, France) > 1. "Burning Desire" (Rock Version)

05.11.2014//Skyline Stage at the Mann Center (Philadelphia, PA) > 1. "West Coast" ("East Coast")

06.20.2014//Citadel Music Festival (Berlin, Germany) > 1. "Body Electric" (Rock Version)

06.28.2014//Glastonbury Festival (Pilton, England) > 1. "Young and Beautiful" (Rock Version)

09.15.2015//Maida Vale Studios (London, England) > 1. "High By the Beach" / 2. "Honeymoon" / 3. "Terrence Loves You"

02.09.2016//Wiltern Theatre (Los Angeles, CA) > 1. "West Coast" (Radio Mix)

08.01.2017//House of Blues (Anaheim, CA) > "Off to the Races" (Rock Version)

04.16.2018//Mercedes-Benz Arena (Berlin, Germany) > 1. "Honeymoon" (Alt. Lyrics)

10.30.2018//Howard Gillman Opera House (Brooklyn, NY) > 1. "How to disappear" (Acoustic) / 2. "Venice bitch" (Acoustic) [Clean]

12.05.2018//The Ally Coalition Talent Show at The Town Hall (New York, NY) > 1. "How to disappear" (Acoustic) / 2. "Venice bitch" (Acoustic)

 

Edited August 18, 2020 by donniedelrey

[daphnedinkley 13,773]

oh niiice! this is a great thread idea!

on 13/05/13, she performed a kind of extended version of Dark Paradise - one of my fav live performances actually

iTunes festival 25/09/12, she performs orchestral/acoustic versions of quite a few songs: Blue Jeans, Body Electric, Born To Die, Summertime Sadness, Million Dollar Man, Radio (my fav live version of this track ever!), Without You (also my fav of this track!!), National Anthem (truly amazing)

 

[daphnedinkley 13,773]

i'm not sure when exactly this was - 2012 i'm guessing? - but here she performs a demo version of 'Radio'

Edited to add some more! -

I feel like this counts as a sort of "rock version" of Burning Desire, she's performed this a couple of times but the absolute best version was at the ICONIC Olympia show  27/04/13

Rock version of Body Electric, Berlin 20/06/2014

Acoustic version of Ride that was.... somewhere? sometime?  idk she sounds great tho

Rock version of Young and Beautiful at Glastonbury, 2014

 

[takeitdoen 10,629]

Always keen to share this knock out performance of Video Games in 2012 (her best performance of it ever) - with the string quartet and piano + a phenomenal held climax note.

@daphnedinkley that Radio demo performance is CRAZY, she sounds amazing! The iTunes performance is among some of my favourites too.

ETA: I've never listened closely to how much she changed those lyrics Radio at the iTunes performance?? She looks like she forgot the lyrics and made them up UGH ICONIC.

I heard the streets were paved with gold,
I did whatever I said I would.
I swore the songs would not get old,
cos that's what my father said I could. (lmao)

[daphnedinkley 13,773]

29 minutes ago, takeitdoen said:

@daphnedinkley that Radio demo performance is CRAZY, she sounds amazing! The iTunes performance is among some of my favourites too.

ETA: I've never listened closely to how much she changed those lyrics Radio at the iTunes performance?? She looks like she forgot the lyrics and made them up UGH ICONIC.

I heard the streets were paved with gold,
I did whatever I said I would.
I swore the songs would not get old,
cos that's what my father said I could. (lmao)

YES! i remember my first time watching it and the minute i heard her start the verse with "i heard the streeeeets weeeere paved with gooooold" i was like o shit she's gonna fuck up  but then she pulled it off so well, and the little high pitched tone on "whatever i said i would" always makes me melt 

[Violets in Your Eyes 313]

@daphnedinkley @takeitdoen

These are all fantastic, I miss the live strings so much

 

[Dark Angel 203,501]

 

2012 lolita perfomance with just a violin, such a good performance. i'd love to have a studio version of this!

[sparklrtrailrheaven 9,113]

20 minutes ago, LemonadeHeavens said:

2012 lolita perfomance with just a violin, such a good performance. i'd love to have a studio version of this!

yessssss!!! this performance doesn't get mentioned NEARLY enough -- it's my go-to version of Lolita tbh

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6 hours ago, daphnedinkley said:

Rock version of Young and Beautiful at Glastonbury, 2014

 

Do we have this in 1080p? 

[daphnedinkley 13,773]

10 minutes ago, pinkdiamondinthedark said:

Do we have this in 1080p? 

on YouTube the closest I can find is this in 720p-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17p7_Zi_t8k

it's at 25:30 I think! but yeah the quality isn't great

[daphnedinkley 13,773]

1 hour ago, LemonadeHeavens said:

 

2012 lolita perfomance with just a violin, such a good performance. i'd love to have a studio version of this!

whyyyyyy is this my first time seeing this OMG

[Violets in Your Eyes 313]

2 hours ago, LemonadeHeavens said:

 

2012 lolita perfomance with just a violin, such a good performance. i'd love to have a studio version of this!

I love how simple it is, the violin is beautiful

[HeadBitch 6,862]

For the record:

- During the 2011 European tour, Lana pretty much performed the demo versions of all the songs with additional production from her band, that were a part of the set-list, excluding "Video Games", "Blue Jeans", "Diet Mountain Dew" and "You Can Be The Boss" (as it never made it to the album, but who knows if Emile Haynie tried to reproduce it). If I remember correctly, in an interview (maybe even several) before the start of 2012, she mentioned that the album was halfway done, as the songs were recorded but the production was in the works, which I guess would be the reason why. Gladly, we have a majority of the demos: 

1. Radio

Spoiler

As mentioned by @daphnedinkley earlier, a good example of "Radio"

And the demo: 

 

2. Off to The Races

Spoiler

Live:

Demo (from the album sampler):

 

3. Born to Die 

Spoiler

Live:

Demo (I think this is the one that came from Ben Mawson's soundcloud?):

 

4. Million Dollar Man

Spoiler

Live:

Demo:

 

5. Without You (this is the only one we don't have the exact same version, but the first half of the demo is the same, could be just the band adding it to it)

Spoiler

Live: 

Demo (sorry for the wrong pitch, this is the only YouTube video I can find of the version I'm mentioning)

 

- During 2012, nearly all the shows starting from the El Rey Theater to the iTunes Festival were drum-less, in the same style of Video Games. I remember she boasted about it in a few interviews.

 

And of course, this immaculate acoustic version of "Gramma":

 

[takeitdoen 10,629]

Back in 2012, she performed four pieces on NPR, and they were all beautiful and quite subdued with stripped back instrumentation and no drums. Vocals are top notch!

Spoiler

 

 

 

 

It's live the MTV Unplugged album we'll never get lol.

[kitschesque 9,884]

I find the drums in Honeymoon's choruses on live performances so good!

She also switches up the verses in Berlin here.

 

[rightofjupiter 16,731]

10 minutes ago, kitschesque said:

I find the drums in Honeymoon's choruses on live performances so good!

She also switches up the verses in Berlin here.

 

just came here to post about honeymoon live and you beat me to it! love how the guitar mimics the strings on the original 

[Violets in Your Eyes 313]

Updated the OP!

[house of balloons 12,795]

On 8/14/2020 at 9:21 AM, donniedelrey said:

04.27.2013//L'Olympia Bruno Coquatrix (Paris, France) > 1. "Burning Desire" (Rock Version)

 

this entire performance  i won 

[Violets in Your Eyes 313]

19 minutes ago, House of Balloons said:

this entire performance  i won 

Right it was honestly such an excellent show

[fvck 2,223]

On 8/15/2020 at 11:20 AM, takeitdoen said:

Back in 2012, she performed four pieces on NPR, and they were all beautiful and quite subdued with stripped back instrumentation and no drums. Vocals are top notch!

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It's live the MTV Unplugged album we'll never get lol.

How tf have I never heard any of these before??!? They’re AMAZING.