Chemtrails Over the Country Club - Post-Release Discussion Thread + Poll

[Future Jazz 8,944]

chemtrails over the country club is one of her best songs ever. everything in it is so delicate, so pristine, so carefully crafted. the intro in the music video is pure bliss and introduces the song perfectly, when she starts singing i literally ascend. the violin, the harmonica, the layered vocals, i have no words

[bluechemtrails 22,833]

After some good rankings Chemtrails climbed up to 25 in the year end list aggregate:

https://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/summary/2021/

It's not so bad, not far behind Billie and Adele and way ahead of Lorde and Taylor or others.

[Bonita 11,758]

she's so sick for White Dress 

[clementines 9,659]

this fucking album........

[SalvaWHORE 32,716]

White Dress is on the same level of genius alongside Venice Bitch i suppose

[lanabanana11 3,805]

i reeeeallly want to hear or at least know some details about the yes to heaven rework for chemtrails. I have a feeling she did some lyrical changes and actually rerecorded the vocals.

I feel like Chemtrails would have been the perfect song for chemtrails also because of all the religious references (tulsa jesus freak/if you dont pray youll never learn/contemplating god under the chemtrails etc)

[OscarScheller 793]

GUYS TELL ME WE KNEW ABOUT THISIn cotcc the title track during the outro, lana can be heard sighing 4:16-4:17

 

[rural legend 2,128]

On 12/20/2021 at 11:23 AM, Future Jazz said:

chemtrails over the country club is one of her best songs ever. everything in it is so delicate, so pristine, so carefully crafted. the intro in the music video is pure bliss and introduces the song perfectly, when she starts singing i literally ascend. the violin, the harmonica, the layered vocals, i have no words

Agreed! It's probably my favourite Lana song ever. Black Beauty has been my favourite for the longest time but Chemtrails might have dethroned it.

[nope 1,314]

Chemtrails might not be my favorite Lana album, but White Dress and COCC are definitely in my top 10 favorite Lana songs. 

[Cherry Blossom 20,087]

On 12/22/2021 at 12:09 AM, lanabanana11 said:

i reeeeallly want to hear or at least know some details about the yes to heaven rework for chemtrails. I have a feeling she did some lyrical changes and actually rerecorded the vocals.

I feel like Chemtrails would have been the perfect song for chemtrails also because of all the religious references (tulsa jesus freak/if you dont pray youll never learn/contemplating god under the chemtrails etc)

i’d loveeee a yes to heaven version with the dreamy airy jack antonoff guitar, similar to wild at heart and not all who wander. it could have been a really interesting rework of the song! 

[Golden Hour 4,970]

Sitting here laughing to myself after I remembered COCCarch

[Super Movie 50,264]

At this point, I'm like 99% sure that the title track is my favorite song on the album and one of my top 10 Lana songs ever. It's so beautiful

[alittleparty 2,279]

Oh yeah the title track is otherworldly. I love how it defies being any one genre. I mean what is it even? Is it folk, is it jazz, is it singer-songwriter indie, is it a rock ballad, is it Sgt. Pepper, is it churchy?

 

When she first announced the title it sounded like it was going to be some kind of cultural critique, about conspiracy theories and the 1% lying by the pool while the world burns kind-of-thing. And then the song we got was not that at all. Instead it's a nostalgic fairy tale, really personal, opting out of the horrible world of 2020 by drifting into memories and simple pleasures, washing her hair doing the laundry and watching tv. That's the statement. It's so brilliant and accurate I love it.

 

Looking back now, you can see it's the gateway to the diaristic BB songs.

[bluechemtrails 22,833]

This album is kind of her best in the way that you can put the CD on your car radio when you're traveling with your family without doing anything wrong.

[Golden Hour 4,970]

I Talk to Jesus and SYTH being on this album would've made it another career highlight I fear.

[wildflowerwildfire 6,420]

discogs just ranked chemtrails as the best album of 2021 

[Deadly Nightshade 12,032]

yosemite... white dress... cocc

top 3 

[Liz Taylor Blues 17,615]

We deserved a Wild At Heart music video in the style of Video Games/ OG Blue Jeans/ Diet Mt Dew/ Jump MV.

[bluechemtrails 22,833]

Looking For America would have been the perfect 12th song on this album.

[NikoGo 51,919]

The 1-2 punch of title track into Tulsa Jesus Freak honesty might be my favorite transition in her discography. The second the outro of Chemtrails ends, I automatically think “you should stay that close to Jesus” and by the end of Tulsa Jesus Freak I want to listen to title track again 

 

She knew what she was doing putting the title track next to the almost title track.