New thread, because this might wrongfully be forgotten in a year or two. Because there is no mention of her on ILM so far apart from mine. Because I want to marry and have steamy sex with and cry over this brilliant song. Because I have played it on repeat endlessly. Because David Lynch should take note. Because it is fantastic.
― I for one am (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 6 August 2011 22:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
yes plz. ILG got there first btw.
― Mordy, Saturday, 6 August 2011 22:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
ILG? Point me towards it plz
― I for one am (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 6 August 2011 22:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
rolling thread of stuff worth reading on videogames
― Mordy, Saturday, 6 August 2011 22:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
Did not catch that, but we seem to agree on this on a deep fundamental level Mordy <3
― I for one am (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 6 August 2011 22:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
Not until October when this song gets a vinyl release. There's no EP or LP yet, either. Agony.
song is so gorgeous.
― Mordy, Saturday, 6 August 2011 22:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
great song.came to it via pitchfork via grizzly bear.
― sean gramophone, Saturday, 6 August 2011 22:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
Link doesn't work for me (not after deleting the first part of it).
I tried and tried and made a lame attempt reviving a slowcore thread earlier today but I cannot classify this song, which is really for the best. My song of the year so far, no doubt.
― I for one am (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 6 August 2011 22:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
i'll cosign that -- helps that i haven't heard much i love this year, but this really is amazing + beautiful. a little cat power'y, no?
― Mordy, Saturday, 6 August 2011 22:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
If that is true I have to listen to way more Cat Power! I keep thinking Nancy Sinatra for some reason.
― I for one am (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 6 August 2011 22:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
"i heard you like the bad girls honey / is that true?" destroys me every time
― Mordy, Saturday, 6 August 2011 22:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
Hah! So true... me too...
― I for one am (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 6 August 2011 22:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
Holy shit this song. October, really? Fuck! WILL BUY LIKE FIVE HUNDRED TIMES.
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Sunday, 7 August 2011 01:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
me three re: that line
this is a great song
― teledyldonix, Sunday, 7 August 2011 02:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
i am SUPER IMPRESSED by this song
― lex pretend, Sunday, 7 August 2011 12:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
what else is there out there by her?
the stuff i'm reading suggested a nellie mckay angle, press wise
― lex pretend, Sunday, 7 August 2011 12:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
Whoah, this might be the first time the Lex is as impressed by a song as I am! Good times :-)
There's only two or three songs out there. Will be released in October on vinyl and mp3
― I for one am (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 7 August 2011 12:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
Wow, what a smoky little thunderstorm of a song! Youtube-to-mp3 converted immediately. Wish I was still in a position in life where I could freely abuse nyquil, cause I could totally see drinking half a bottle and listening to this on repeat for 3 hours.
― kkvgz, Sunday, 7 August 2011 12:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
adding to the chorus here; this song is marvelous
― rameau: first blood (donna rouge), Sunday, 7 August 2011 18:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
I mean, goddamn
can't really find a single coherent thought to express about this song — after "pull up in your fast car, whistlin' my name" everything goes black w/ multicolored streaks of stars
― swaguirre, the wrath of basedgod (bernard snowy), Sunday, 7 August 2011 19:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
... I suppose I'll go ahead and lay this card on the table tho: how much 'irony', if any, do y'all hear in her delivery?
― swaguirre, the wrath of basedgod (bernard snowy), Sunday, 7 August 2011 19:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
Hmm. Her delivery is deliciously knowing, but I don't think it's disingenuous.
― Vast Halo, Sunday, 7 August 2011 19:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
Will be released in October on vinyl and mp3.
Bah. I get that vinyl fits her aesthetic, but eschewing CD will be a cruel blow to those of us who don't own turntables but do care about sound quality.
― Vast Halo, Sunday, 7 August 2011 19:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
so much
― lex pretend, Sunday, 7 August 2011 20:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
"diet mtn dew" is excellent too
i have a few residual suspicions about what i suspect is a shtick, as well as the very conveniently simultaneous way she's been noticed by critics, but these are quality, quality songs
― lex pretend, Sunday, 7 August 2011 20:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
Uploaded by LanaDelRey on May 27, 2011www.facebook.com/lanadelreyHOLLYWOOD SADCORE
― ice cr?m, Sunday, 7 August 2011 21:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
hopefully the attention del rey gets will give me an opportunity to wave fiona apple in people's faces again, at least
― lex pretend, Sunday, 7 August 2011 21:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
This song is beautiful...
― Matt DC, Sunday, 7 August 2011 21:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
Also liking this a lot, with bernard snowy on the excellence of that first line.
― boxall, Sunday, 7 August 2011 21:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
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I don't know if there won't be a CD, but at least there will be an mp3 and vinyl.
So chuffed this is getting love here!
― I for one am (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 7 August 2011 22:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
i can't remember the last time i kept having to come back to a song so much on the first day i heard it
― lex pretend, Sunday, 7 August 2011 22:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
<3
Me too. Tirelessly repeating it.
― I for one am (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 7 August 2011 22:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
just got in and literally the first thing i did was go to my computer to play the youtube video - my groceries are still sitting on the floor
― rameau: first blood (donna rouge), Sunday, 7 August 2011 23:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
I like this song but I'm getting a promotional street team vibe off of this thread...
― LaMonte, Sunday, 7 August 2011 23:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm as unnerved as anyone by the seemingly unanimous consensus (+ as lex aptly put it, "residual suspicions about what i suspect is a shtick")... but at the same time, it really *does* feel like this totally unique, amazing, timely song that just... appeared from nowhere.
I've only ('only') played it like a half-dozen times today tho, and am trying to balance my desire for further listening against my desire to adopt a more critical and self-aware position in said listening (I get suspicious when something seems "too good to be true"). not that I'm rushing to be the first one to burst the internet echo chamber's bubble of irrational exuberance; just that I'd like to deconstruct my own and other people's reactions to this (very very good) piece of music in order to understand *why* it's hitting us all so hard.
― swaguirre, the wrath of basedgod (bernard snowy), Monday, 8 August 2011 00:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
off the top of my head, start with—the ever-present mystique of the total blank-slate unknown artist, who is doing—a well-done pastiche(?) of a much-loved style that is not especially popular or prominent at the moment, coupled with—a strikingly original video that supports the aesthetic of the song (i.e. doesn't just feel like a gimmick), while also giving it—an unmistakably contemporary 'twist'; all topped off with—a hot girl, who is—singing about video games, but also—love,—love,—glorious bittersweet terrible love
― swaguirre, the wrath of basedgod (bernard snowy), Monday, 8 August 2011 00:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
I really hope this gets released as a one-sided 12" single that plays on 45rpm, because I'd buy the shit out of that.
Don't really wanna be friends with anyone who could hear this song and not melt.
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Monday, 8 August 2011 00:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
This is great and I did melt. But I composed myself enough to play it again. Four times in a row.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 8 August 2011 00:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://radioexile.com/2008/10/27/spotlight-on-lizzy-grant/#more-75976
― Kerm, Monday, 8 August 2011 00:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
Kill, Kill: http://www.spinner.com/2008/12/18/lizzy-grant-kill-kill-video-of-the-day/
― Kerm, Monday, 8 August 2011 00:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
nice find! song's not bad either
― swaguirre, the wrath of basedgod (bernard snowy), Monday, 8 August 2011 00:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://coxy.co/post/8443458829/i-recently-posted-a-music-video-for-video-games-by
― Kerm, Monday, 8 August 2011 01:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
Will be released in October on vinyl and mp3
or you can get the instrumental karaoke version right now
― LaMonte, Monday, 8 August 2011 01:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
fucking awful video
― J0rdan S., Monday, 8 August 2011 01:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
Just wanna put it out there that I posted this video to WS back in early June to no fanfare.
Also I heard a joke: Q: how'd the hipster burn his mouth? A: he ate pizza before it was cool.
― jaxon, Monday, 8 August 2011 03:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
^^knew i'd seen it before
― Kerm, Monday, 8 August 2011 03:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
It’s hardly a shock that her music so far is so diverse given all the people she’s been in the studio with over the past year, some of whom include Eg White (Adele, Duffy), Chris Braide (Cheryl Cole, Paloma Faith), Guy Chambers (Robbie Williams, Katie Melua), and newcomers Robopop (Neon Hitch, Gym Class Heroes).
I’m not sure if Miss Del Rey has landed a major label record deal yet (I’m sure she probably has and is just waiting to announce it), but she’s under the same PR company in the UK as Adele and Bjork, so the wheels are certainly in motion.
― lex pretend, Monday, 8 August 2011 09:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
none of those names she's been in the studio with are remotely promising :/
Nine songs wouldn't even have been an EP, but a full new LP.
― LeRooLeRoo, Monday, 24 September 2012 21:48 (7 months ago) Permalink
Should've been part of an LDR Taschen coffee-table book.
― canonical casual cordouroy (Eazy), Monday, 24 September 2012 22:29 (7 months ago) Permalink
If at least three of these aren't Kasabian covers then I ain't gonna be motivated to download it off no blog
― 'Separate Lives', by Phil Collins & Marilyn Manson (PaulTMA), Monday, 24 September 2012 22:53 (7 months ago) Permalink
seems Cola features the line ”My pussy tastes like Pepsi cola, my eyes are wide like cherry pies”
― piscesx, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 04:42 (7 months ago) Permalink
if your pussy tastes like Pespi cola, you may want to get to a doctor immediately and get your insulin levels checked
― cake-like Lady Gaga (DJP), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 05:42 (7 months ago) Permalink
Pepsi douche
― 50 Shades of Greil (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 05:43 (7 months ago) Permalink
"You can be my full-time, daddy, white and gold" sounds so much better than "I love you 'till the end of time, and I want you to be the one I share my life with".Thank you mom for being amazed by Lizzy Grant and for listening her songs 24/7 and for introducing me into this wonderful-vintage life called Lana del ReyaBeautifulMessM 1 minute ago
Hey, I like Pepsi. Shut your mouth.Kristofer Fredrick in reply to collegehippie (Show the comment) 1 minute ago
― human centipede hz (thomp), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 10:50 (7 months ago) Permalink
maybe collegehippy's mouth was full of coca-cola.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 12:40 (7 months ago) Permalink
mmm box set..
http://store.universal-music.co.uk/restofworld/born-to-die-the-paradise-edition/lana-del-rey-born-to-die-the-paradise-edition-deluxe-edition-box-set/invt/0602537173990/
― piscesx, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 14:41 (7 months ago) Permalink
What in the
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 14:48 (7 months ago) Permalink
oh ffs
― cake-like Lady Gaga (DJP), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 14:51 (7 months ago) Permalink
Retromania!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 14:52 (7 months ago) Permalink
Remember January?
maybe this will be the only album she ever releases and she'll just add some new songs to it every once in a while
― silverfish, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 14:57 (7 months ago) Permalink
that way there will be no vote-splitting during greatest albums of all time polls
― silverfish, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 14:58 (7 months ago) Permalink
hahaha
― cake-like Lady Gaga (DJP), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 14:58 (7 months ago) Permalink
i don't get why this is so weird, isn't it par for the course that every vaguely successful major label album gets re-released a gazillion times with new add-ons each time? iirc there was a gaga box set for the fame monster...
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 15:07 (7 months ago) Permalink
that's stupid too, although at least there was actual interest in a rehashed Lady Gaga album
― cake-like Lady Gaga (DJP), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 15:08 (7 months ago) Permalink
Fame Monster was released with The Fame attached in the UK at least
― syntax evasion (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 15:08 (7 months ago) Permalink
yeahh this pointless box set thing happens a few times a year at least, dying gasp of the music industry etc etc
― human centipede hz (thomp), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 15:18 (7 months ago) Permalink
my reaction stems from this being a particularly pointless box set even in the arena of pointless box sets
― cake-like Lady Gaga (DJP), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 15:19 (7 months ago) Permalink
it's not tho! it's just an averagely pointless box set!
http://store.universal-music.co.uk/restofworld/rock/boxset-keane-strangeland-super-deluxe-version-box-set-2012/invt/0602527987767/
http://store.universal-music.co.uk/restofworld/privateering/mark-knopfler-privateering-super-deluxe-box-set/invt/0602537043231/
― paradiastole, or the currifauel, otherwise called (thomp), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 15:22 (7 months ago) Permalink
hahahahahaha what the hell
― cake-like Lady Gaga (DJP), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 15:23 (7 months ago) Permalink
I think there's a slight difference between extravagant box sets that are released when the original albums come out, as another option for the "superfans", as opposed to box sets that get released months later that force fans to rebuy the same album.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 15:23 (7 months ago) Permalink
see also "gold" and "silver" VIP packages to tours (where you get a meet-and-greet and early access to the merchandise stalls YAY)
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 15:24 (7 months ago) Permalink
i don't know how it "forces" anyone to do anything really. and at least they're getting 9 new songs (basically another album) for the price of buying the alubm again, a lot of deluxe editions are like 2 new songs. (xpost)
― some dude, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 15:26 (7 months ago) Permalink
The cool thing is that one of these boxes actually contains Lana Del Rey's severed ear.
― DJ Mooncup (NickB), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 15:26 (7 months ago) Permalink
you see you laugh but the gaga box set actually DID contain a "lock" of her "hair"
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 15:27 (7 months ago) Permalink
and not off her head
― syntax evasion (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 15:28 (7 months ago) Permalink
well, for £25, that's not bad contentwise...
― Mark G, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 15:31 (7 months ago) Permalink
well, yeah, the "new" stuff wildly varies from set to set. in terms of "forcing" fans to buy stuff, i'm looking at it from the point of a fan who isn't going to illegally download the new stuff. a lot of these deluxe editions get released with new songs that you just cannot get any other way. i'm not sure if its still this way, but the Katy Perry rerelease of her recent album on iTunes had the "new" material greyed out an only available as 'Album Only', meaning you had to buy the entire thing again to get the new stuff. how is that not forcing the hardcore fans to re-buy the same material again?
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 15:33 (7 months ago) Permalink
Seems like a big part of LDR's appeal is the image, the way she is packaged and repackaged, so it seems like having new artifacts to complete your LDR set is pretty much giving the fans what they want. Not that the music isn't important at all, but the image is at least as important, if not more so.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 16:18 (7 months ago) Permalink
never got the album, will get this edition when they are selling it for a fiver in fopp ( a la 2 cd + dvd edition of lady gagas special edition of BTW).
― mark e, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 16:25 (7 months ago) Permalink
xpost yeah it was Amy Winehouse's Deluxe Edition Back To Black that really ushered in the Deluxe Era, as that was the first (only?) Deluxe Edition to be issued that had a really big hit single on it/from it (Valerie) that was a bigger hit(number 2 in the uk charts) than anything on the original parent album. that was the point i think labels woke up to it as a proper cash cow and not just as a thing the fans/ geeks would buy as Back To Black Deluxe edition was then separately a big hit in the uk album chart that Xmas.
there are probably some other good later examples too mind...
― piscesx, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 16:28 (7 months ago) Permalink
like i joked on fb, if the song's called "bel air," maybe the smoke silhouette is meant to represent the smog over the 405. kidding aside, i think this is quite pretty.
― lunar madness (get bent), Thursday, 8 November 2012 02:15 (6 months ago) Permalink
sheesh it seems like just yesterday that i forgot about her!
― scott seward, Thursday, 8 November 2012 03:30 (6 months ago) Permalink
best of the new tracks is America imo.
― piscesx, Thursday, 8 November 2012 04:57 (6 months ago) Permalink
http://cholaempire.tumblr.com/post/35960333637/my-grandmother-sameer-and-i-hear-ride-by-lana-del
Nan: What is this noise?Nan: Is it this udaas gori (sad white girl) again?Nan: You must put it off now.Nan: I am very tolerant of the new music but I cannot tolerate this.Nan: I will die. This woman and her singing will kill me.Nan: You will be responsible for my death.Nan: And both of you will die as I am the one driving.Nan: Lana will kill us all.
― goole, Monday, 19 November 2012 17:31 (6 months ago) Permalink
Why did no one ever tell me about the "My pussy tastes like Pepsi Cola" line?
For the most part, this Paradise ep is nothing, but that lyric is absurd and terrible and great all at the same time.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 15 December 2012 18:50 (5 months ago) Permalink
Amen to that
I kinda finding myself enjoying what I've heard off of paradise
― Raymond Cummings, Saturday, 15 December 2012 18:58 (5 months ago) Permalink
"Ride" starts it off pretty well, and "Cola" has that ridiculous lyric, but the rest of it isn't doing much for me.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 15 December 2012 19:00 (5 months ago) Permalink
so mary chainxxxp
― kristof-profiting-from-a-childs-illiteracy.html (schlump), Saturday, 15 December 2012 19:01 (5 months ago) Permalink
Those are the two I've heard
http://www.splicetoday.com/music/be-young-have-fun-lick-pepsi
― Raymond Cummings, Saturday, 15 December 2012 19:02 (5 months ago) Permalink
yeah "ride" is the only 1 i like
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 15 December 2012 19:05 (5 months ago) Permalink
o i guess i like body electric also
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 15 December 2012 19:07 (5 months ago) Permalink
The repeated "I sing the body electric" vocal ends up becoming an annoying and meaningless mantra at the end.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 15 December 2012 19:10 (5 months ago) Permalink
disco naïveté is good for discovering some stuff, but his Lana Del Rey fixation has now spilled over into fandom for her first true clone/imposter: Fe.
The other track, "Let It Go", is actually okay. That's why I'm not posting the video for it, because it becomes considerably less okay is you have to watch her singing it.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 17 April 2013 06:40 (1 month ago) Permalink
A bit less an imposter, but this bit of Brill building pop is definitely hitting some LDR buttons:
#!
The band's the google- and ILX-search proof Elephant (#11 of 16 artists with the same name, according to discogs). They last graced us with the EP Assembly in 2011.
― Me So Hormetic (Sanpaku), Thursday, 2 May 2013 20:21 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
iirc they sounded nothing like this in 2011, so...can we officially call them bandwagoneers?
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 2 May 2013 20:27 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Not a huge fan of her stuff but I'm enjoying the new track, the one from the Gatsby soundtrack monster.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 10 May 2013 10:22 (1 week ago) Permalink