'Ultraviolence' Year-End List Placements

[DominicMars]

I can appreciate that she makes some damn catchy music, and that her album tracks can be miles ahead of her radio singles, but in general I find her persona and videos grating

[ilovetati]

I can appreciate that she makes some damn catchy music, and that her album tracks can be miles ahead of her radio singles, but in general I find her persona and videos grating

There's also very little depth to the majority of her music. It's catchy pop music, but nothing beyond that.

[LiamViljoen]

When I first joined this site it was crawling with Taylor Swift fans, threads would litterally become enveloped with people talking about their favourite song off Red. Where have they gone?

 

Don't really care much about her but Blank Space and Wildest Dreams are pretty awesome.

"Threads would literally become enveloped with people talking about Taylor Swift"

 

Just realised that's happening right now.

[HEARTCORE]

please stop pitting women against each other.....its gross

[Tammy]

@@prettydrugs: Judging? LOL Wasn't this thread about record sales, statistics and so on - and was it me who brought TS up here in a nasty way? But what to expect from a person like you who just seems to know the word 'pathetic' while trying to clarify its position, what a wide range of vocabulary you have.

 

Long live TS and LDR ...

[Rem]

Boston Globe #1

[longtimeman]

Boston Globe #1

 

As tweeted by Tinashe - https://twitter.com/Tinashe/status/544302878576631811

 

[Guest Dot]

As tweeted by Tinashe - https://twitter.com/Tinashe/status/544302878576631811

 

OMG!

[slang]

National Public Radio, I think, has always been supportive, so it's not surprising she made their list of top picks.

 

LDR is also mentioned in the context of being the anti-Taylor-Swift, who is also on his list of 9 picks.

 

http://knprnews.org/post/ken-tuckers-top-9-albums-2014-plus-book

[prettydrugs]

@ get help

 

btw Ultraviolence landed #3 on RollingStone readers' poll of best album of 2014! happy

[Tammy]

get help

 

 

 

Take your own sad advice, drug queen!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Enough time wasted with you.

[ofcharsky]

updated list

 

Boston Globe - #1

Entertainment Weekly - #4

Les Inrockuptibles - #18

Pretty Much Amazing - #10

Drowned in Sound - #70

Spin - #41

PopMatters - #73

Rumba - #22

The Sunday Times - #22

Digital Spy - #14

Cosmopolitan - #7

TIME - #6

Rhapsody - #9

Complex - #3

Q Magazine - #19

Mojo - #40

Consequence of Sound - #13

Loud and Quiet - #36

Clash - #39

Slant Magazine - #3

Laut - #44

Daily Record - #13

Crack - #10

The Digital Fix 

Stereogum - #12

RollingStone - #7

Musikexpress - #16

Variance - #5

FasterLouder - #30

Gorilla vs. Bear - #10

Amazon - #4

Idolator - #5

All Music Guide 

Magnet #21

NME - #25

Dazed and Confused - #3

Vulture - #6

Gigwise - #15

Intro - #23

[prettydrugs]

#3 Complex http://www.complex.com/music/2014/12/best-albums-2014/

 

Earlier this year, Lana Del Rey performed a 10-song set at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery—the place where her idols lay to rest, within the city that she's idolized, the Old Hollywood she attempts to embody within her music. She, frankly, peaked. Just two years after her second, highly acclaimed Born to Die album, Lana linked up with Black Keys virtuoso Dan Auerbach for a ride through the West, with enough twang to make even her own idols bow before her. Because that's what Lana does best—takes the iconic old souls, farms their depression, and crafts it into a stunning, no matter how contrived, body of work.
Ultraviolence is just under an hour, a refreshing 11 songs that Lana perfected to represent all rumors about the artist she really is. "West Coast," the woozy first single, followed by "Sad Cry," a tale about being the other woman, are two tracks that define the album. Followed up with cuts like "Brooklyn Baby," which she wrote with Lou Reed in mind, to "Fucked My Way Up to the Top," a bluesy diss track that comments on the media's perception of her. Throughout all 11 tracks on Ultraviolence, Lana makes one thing clear and it's that her want to retreat from the same glory and fame she desired balances seamlessly with her longing for the glamorous world in the first place.