Best LDR Musical Moment

[Sitar]

I'm not talking about your favorite song, or your favorite lyric. I'm talking about the moment in a song that makes it special, that you find yourself waiting for and anticipating. Production elements, a particular accent or vocal trick used, kicking in of a certain instrument...all this applies. However, this is exclusively Lana.

 

 

For me, it's the final chorus of "Mermaid Motel". I don't know the musical jargon of the technique she uses there in her vocals (Monicker could probably teach me a thing or two), but it's absolutely mesmerizing and a real contender for one of the most brilliant, effective decisions she's made in her music. How's that for a grand statement? Even if the credit goes to David Kahne for that last chorus, maybe that's just confirmation of what a dream team they were. It just instantly stops me, the way it seems almost...turned inside out? Just go listen to it, it starts at 3:02.

 

 

 

While I did wanna share that, I'm really interested to know your musical moments with Lana. Anticipating some "dark nights" from "Yayo", don't disappoint me

[YUNGATA]

Can we do live performances? If so, this:

There are two moments for me. First, when she does the chorus at 2:48 and she's bellowing and it sounds so emotional and you can see it from her voice that it's coming from a very deep place. The second moment is directly after when she sings along to what sounds like could be a saxophone solo. I love that and wish it could be on the album version.

 

As far as studio material goes, in Every Man Gets His Wish the lines:

I was working down in the corner cafe

You would drive by in the Chevrolet

Whistle at me as my hips go sway

"Lana Del Rey how you get that way?"

 

I just smile. It's so sweet and classic Lana to me.

[Sitar]

As far as studio material goes, in Every Man Gets His Wish the lines:

I was working down in the corner cafe

You would drive by in the Chevrolet

Whistle at me as my hips go sway

"Lana Del Rey how you get that way?"

 

I just smile. It's so sweet and classic Lana to me.

 

That whole bridge Makes it pretty close for me, but when that "Mermaid Motel" chorus kicks in I'm instantly a burlesque dancer and that counts for something.

[plush]

That Angelic, Heart Breaking Voice in "Lucky Ones"

"Feels Like, Feels Like, You know it Feels Like Falling In Love For The First Time . That high, angelic voice when she sings it just runs to my eyes and liberates a soothing tear that goes down my face.

 

 

[Lana Del Rey]

Erm

I don't know why, in Aviation 'Do you think I'm crazy, 'Cause I'm going to Pensacola'

I love the way she sings it...

[HunterAshlyn]

I can't narrow it down to one, but in Radio when she sings:

 

"No one even knows how hard life was-

I don't even think about it now, because...

I finally found you."

 

[teethclick]

When she sings "you said I’d never make it out of here alive, at the rate I was going, I’d be lucky to die" and "I said, he loves my heart-shaped sunglasses, he loves the heart shape my ass is" in Every Man Gets Him Wish.

[Myriam]

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”

[YUNGATA]

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”

 

 

When she did this in the that live version I squealed a little bit. 2qt4me

[Myriam]

When she did this in the that live version I squealed a little bit. 2qt4me

 

sammeee! #orgasm

[YUNGATA]

sammeee! #orgasm

And with that blonde hair and trailer park darling look. Oh she's such a sweet young thing.

[Tristesse]

I think it's the second part of the second chorus, in Off To The Races .. It's just .. wow

eargasm

[PrettyBaby]

See my siggy photo, please and thank you.

[Trash Magic]

The single moment that made me fall in love with her was "he holds me in his big arms, drunk and I am seeing stars, this is all I think of" paired with the clip of the stars from the original video it was just magical :cry:

[Gangster Bitch]

starting with 3:37 in

brings me to tears she sounds so angelic. i loved those three nights idk i think her performance live was the best.

 

the end of million dollar man when she says "so why is my heart broke ? i don't know.."

 

body electric in hackney.

 

(and almost all of her pre-lana songs, they just have a different vibe that i love)

 

oh and the demo of diet mtn dew the verse which she says "hit me my darling tonight, i dont know why but i like it.."

[Guest Maru the Cat]

Sitar, this is such a great idea for a topic! :')

• In Raise Me Up (Mississippi South) - 3:20 - When she starts singing "Rai - Rai - Rai - Raise me up!!"
  
• Any song she has a country twang to her voice - I would love a country-inspired album
  
• In Gogo Dancer - 3:02 - "I know it makes you wi-ld, I know it makes you WIIII-LD!"
  
• The entirety of Sirens just 'cause I can kick it like that and be nonspecific B)
  

[Trash Magic]

Ten dollar ring omfg

 

[Guest Maru the Cat]

Ten dollar ring omfg

 

[Poison Ivy]

And I said: how do you spend your nights, honey? - the live version of Trash kills me generally, it always did. And Dark Paradise, everything about it. There's a lot more but I fear that I'll start to mention bits I love of every song and make this post crazy-long

[evilentity]

Anticipating some "dark nights" from "Yayo", don't disappoint me

Yes, "Hello heaven, you are a tunnel lined with yellow nights on a dark night" is one of the best moments for me, but even more so the dark, eerie, and obsessive bordering on creepy turn "Yayo" takes after that.

 

Can we do live performances? If so, this:

There are two moments for me. First, when she does the chorus at 2:48 and she's bellowing and it sounds so emotional and you can see it from her voice that it's coming from a very deep place. The second moment is directly after when she sings along to what sounds like could be a saxophone solo. I love that and wish it could be on the album version.

That is a great emotional performance of MDM, and I know I'm beginning to sound like a broken record on this, but I believe her performance at Òran Mór in Glasgow remains her best (although I do love the way she wails "I'm fine" on some other live performances, like Hackney I think). She nails all the tricks, does some great scatting, and way she screams "I don't know" at 3:03 gives me chills. If she hadn't forgotten to sing into her microphone at one point, it would be perfect. Perhaps she sang it so well here because Barrie was probably there.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-xGx7raw7Q

 

 

Some other great moments:

- The high vocal harmonies in "Serial Killer"

- The intros to "Kinda Outta Luck" & "She's Not Me"

- Some of the breathier vocals on AKA, especially "Kill Kill", "Jump" and "Mermaid Motel"

- "Goddamn, goddamn" in live version of "Pawn Shop Blues"

- "Mmmmmmm" at the end of the chorus in "Video Games" and at the end of some lines in the chorus of "Kill Kill"

- "Pushing up my (moans) in your face, in your face" in "Go Go Dancer"

- "Not even they" and "their heavy words" in "Radio"

- Alterna-rock live version of "Brite Lights", the whole thing

- "Come on, come on" in "For K Part 2 (Demo)"

- "savior" in Kinda Outta Luck