Best LDR Musical Moment

[I Was An Angel 340]

1. Most of Velvet Crowbar, she just feels it, here voice is so mature
2. The ending of Yayo form AKA is absolutely hypnotizing
3. The "Don't Tell Me It's Over" from Hollywood's Dead always gets me
4. Maybe it's stupid, but in the beginning of Blue Velvet, with the music, she does that soft "mmm..." MAN that always melts me!
5. On the beautiful Oh Say Can You See, when she sings "The voice of Nirvana says, come as you are, an I will, Night time is almost ours" - so hauting
6. At parts in Is It Wrong she sounds so sexy and mature I just love it
7. LUCKY ONES
8. When she hits the high note on Cola - "come on come on woah oh uh uh uh wo hu ha ho ho ho huuu haaa yeahhhhhhh" MAAAAN
9. When she hits the low note at some parts in Body Electric (especially whem she sings it live)
10. NOIR
11. Kinda Outta Luck - "can you be my SAVIAH!" - Iconic
12. Dangerous girl - "Do you love me? Yes yes. HELL YES!" I love it ^^
13. ~~Million Dollar Man live~~
14. And, of course, her live performances of Heart-Shaped Box are beyond beautiful, she gets so emotional, and that 30 seconds when she holds that note... I just can't. 2:03 - 2:29 *_*

I probably forgot a lot, those are the few that came to my mind

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SNL

[Creyk 11,699]

SNL

 

You were joking, but that twirl was iconic :twirls: :twirls: :twirls:

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The piano riff playing through Diet Mountain Dew

 

   

[my ol man isa batman 480]

 

I think this is the most anticipated part of all the lyrics in all her songs for me

It's so perfect.

 

He said, “Lana Ray, will you serve me lemonade”

and I said, “Yes, Bill, I will, it’s the day of the parade

And you look even more handsome than you did the day that I left you

How do you spend your nights, honey, still watching TV

I long to be in your arms honey, come back to me please”

 

 

omfg yes its like it possesses you to singalong 

[elllipsis 1,441]

Off To The Races --- Glass room, perfume, cognac, lilac fumes, says it feels like heaven to him.

 

On Our Way --- I love so many things about this song, put I'll have to pick the way she sings How you get so hot? It is VERY hot.

 

Catch and Release --- I really fucking love this song, especially -Yes, I've seen page six lately, ah / I told you both them broads was crazy / Hackin' in your phone and shit & You lured me in with all your gold / Catch and release and you're so cold. Love what's going on with her voice in those 2 moments.

 

And this live performance:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gRtaGAyP-I

Fave moment is from 2:13 onwards.

I bet that, like, half those views are mine. I even ripped it from YT because I wanted to have in my iPod and be able to watch it / listen to it whenever.

 

[iloveguineapigs 168]

Hollywood.

It's up there with Blue Jeans, Blue Velvet, Hollywood's Dead and Video Games for me. The 80s movie soundtrack feel, the Goldfrapp-esque synths in the chorus, but my favorite moment is the 2nd part of the bridge "Oh-oh, oh-oh c-can you feel that? Oh-oh, oh-oh my heart shakin' fast, I can feel that you're the one for me- you'll be my first, you'll be my last"  and then glides right into the chorus I just...

 

The entirety of Blue Velvet, instrumental, vocal, outro, and that "hmmmm" in the beginning

 

Sometimes when she does MDM live, she says "I'll follow you down, down, down...like, anywhere, anywhere" and that little "like" is so cute

 

The high note in the middle of v2 of Come When You Call Me, such a sexy, soft core porn, cheesy, wonderful mess of a song.

 

"Geronimo!" in DICWB's video version, i think.

 

Body Electric pre-Paradise live. That heavy piano and her voice cracking, just

 

St. Tropez, "maybe we could dot dot dot...lose control" lol. I love the 90s island pop feel of that one and on Paradise with the "DOPE, THAT'S SICK" bridge

 

There are so many more

[JhnMabius 175]

I like it when she pushes her voice to the limits because she rarely does that, for example

 

-Million Dollar Man (The belts in the chorus are amazing specially when she uses her raspy voice, and the bridge is beautiful)

-Heart-shaped Box (the highest note she has ever belted, a flawless E5)

-Off to the races (This song is HARD to sing, I dont know how she does it without running out of air, also the bridge always leaves me in shock, her voice sound so dark and shes not even doing low notes and suddenly she sounds like baby lollipop girl in the bridge and chorus, Ive never in my life heard a voice like that)

-Cola (The last falsetto note at the bridge is so weird and powerful)

-Yayo (On Lana performance at The Cutting Room on 2017 she does an effortlessly beautiful and well supported Bb5, the second highest note she has ever sang :')

 

Shes almost a female Jeff Buckley, amazing voice

[cinnamon 224]

1. This live performance of Video Games - I love how the crowd sings along, it's amazing! so beautiful 

2. This live performance of Dark Paradise - favourite part is from 3:35 - 3:45

3. "Heaven is a place on earth with you" in Video Games

4. "I've been out on that open road" in Ride - her voice is so gorgeous when she sings that 

5. the 'ooh ooh oh ooh' in American 

6. 'baby I'm a gangsta too, and it takes two to tango' - Jealous Girl

7. The chorus in Bel Air, Starry Eyed, She's not me (Ride or die) and Born To Die

8. "Life is beautiful, but you don't have a clue" in Black Beauty

9. all of Dark Paradise and Yayo

 

I could go on but I'd end up writing a novel 

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I AGREE WITH THIS WHOLE THREAD OMG IM ACTUALLY CRYING JUST THINKING ABOUT THESE MOMENTS

[YUNGKALIMXEL 88]

"All he wants to do is party with his pretty babyyyyyyy yeah!"

[Platinum Greenwich 13,845]

"Geronimo!" in DICWB's video version, i think.

 

[YUNGKALIMXEL 88]

"I'm little scarlet, starlet"

"glass room, bathroom chateau marmont"

[Sitar 22,210]

This is a GREAT thread topic

 

 

 

YES YES YES! Well said. This is my #1 moment too! I wrote about it once on LDR.FM, how that part is otherworldly, on another level entirely. I sincerely believe that it’s one of the best moments in pop music of the last, oh, 15 years. MM is what i use to first introduce my friends to Lana.

 

I’m honestly really terrible when it comes to harmonic theory and analysis, so i’m not exactly sure what’s going on there. She’s obviously changing the melody of the chorus, but there’s more going on. I used to think the song changed keys there from its home key of D minor, but now i realize there’s no modulation there, she’s just flatting the fifth (in this case the A become an A flat) which makes a tritone (the interval that was once viewed as the devil in music, its use prohibited by the church!) and creates some diminished harmonies, introducing some really nice dissonance. That’s as much as i can tell you, if you know theory at all this tells you almost nothing, and if you don’t know theory, then this tells you nothing at all. Any musicians here? Anyway, this section is FUCKED and totally, totally, totally, totally, totally brilliant. Sitar, to say that it sounds “turned inside out” is a very keen and intuitive observation because the tritone is the most unstable interval in music and is always looking to resolve; it's used mostly to create musical tension before a release/resolve.

 

Let’s start a petition for Lizzy to work with Kahne again even though she probably doesn’t want to! Give Emile the boot!

 

Using this in my Lana Del Rey essay 3

 

If anyone could identify the exact notes of the normal choruses as well as the final chorus (@), I'd be indebted 2 u

[Tammy 2,291]

'Everytime I close my eyes
It's like a dark paradise
No one compares to you
I'm scared that you won't be waiting on the other side.'

 

Everytime when I listen to 'Dark Paradise', it reminds me of my 2nd fav singer Roy Orbison who died in '88 and his songs had that kinda poetry - I never got the chance to see him live, but I hope 'on the other side' one day.

 

[Yoshi 219]

The super high note on Ride before the last chorus alwayyys gives me chills

[GangstaBoy 3,930]

For me it's the final chorus of Million Dollar Man: it's so powerful I don't even know how to describe it. The orchestra combined with that boiling tea kettle sound (I don't know how to put it haha) takes me really away, I can't help thinking of bursting flowers and fireworks.

This is, in my opinion, one of Lana's most underrated and brilliant songs...

[Greenwich 1,052]

You're like the Lincoln Tunnel, when it's lined with yellow lights on a dark night. (Yayo @ Canal Room)

[eternixy 300]

"Make a getaway, top down" - from the video version of On Our Way. 

 

That is seriously one of my favorite moments of her entire career. 

[GangstaBoy 3,930]

How could I forget "We get DOWN, every friday NIGHT, dancin' and grindin' in the pale moonlight, Grand Ole OPRY..." The way she pronounces those lines is hypnotizing.

 

Also when she hits those high notes in Cola I'm like