Best Ever Albums

Re: I Feel Like I'm Taking Crazy Pills!

LedZep — Sat, 17 Apr 2021 09:16:33 GMT

Author: LedZep

Posted: 04/17/2021 13:16

It's probably my favourite album by Lana. The most consistent by far, gets better with every listen and flows really well. I even kinda liked the lyrics this time around. Maybe it's just that her over the top stories don't seem so ridiculously cheesy when it's over gentle folky instrumentals. Plus Weyes Blood.

Re: I Feel Like I'm Taking Crazy Pills!

DommeDamian — Fri, 16 Apr 2021 15:17:15 GMT

Author: DommeDamian

Posted: 04/16/2021 19:17

yeah leave cancel culture on twitter �'�
but the new record imo is absolutely awful, definitely the worst album of 2021, that i've heard.

Re: I Feel Like I'm Taking Crazy Pills!

RoundTheBend — Fri, 16 Apr 2021 14:13:08 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 04/16/2021 18:13

fuck cancelled

Opening track is interesting. The rest is a step above, but only a step.

Re: I Feel Like I'm Taking Crazy Pills!

cestuneblague — Fri, 16 Apr 2021 14:00:35 GMT

Author: cestuneblague

Posted: 04/16/2021 18:00

After coming up from under my swamp-shaped rock, I finally listened to the new lana. What are other's thoughts, do we still like new Lana or not so much anymore or has she been cancelled or wut

Re: I Feel Like I'm Taking Crazy Pills!

cestuneblague — Sat, 30 May 2020 01:03:43 GMT

Author: cestuneblague

Posted: 05/30/2020 05:03

(Scratched)

Really anyone who wants to take on a stupid "think"piece and use that to try and defend your work almost always ends with them getting stinged. Internet essays are a hornets nest, either avoid completely or spray from a distance. Ur not the victim here Lana, even if the original criticsm may have admittedly been quite shallow... as always.

Re: I Feel Like I'm Taking Crazy Pills!

LedZep — Fri, 29 May 2020 05:06:29 GMT

Author: LedZep

Posted: 05/29/2020 09:06

Tha1ChiefRocka wrote:

This is some high quality stuff right here. :lol:

Thanks chief! Took like 3 minutes to make 😁

On a more serious note, I really hope she can put all of this behind and just continue making music she likes. People saying this is all some kind of Kanye-type promotion, but she seems real upset in the video to me.

Re: I Feel Like I'm Taking Crazy Pills!

Tha1ChiefRocka — Thu, 28 May 2020 12:04:50 GMT

Author: Tha1ChiefRocka

Posted: 05/28/2020 16:04

Link

The black and white film grain filter is the cherry on top of the irony sundae.

Re: I Feel Like I'm Taking Crazy Pills!

Tha1ChiefRocka — Thu, 28 May 2020 11:28:11 GMT

Author: Tha1ChiefRocka

Posted: 05/28/2020 15:28

LedZep wrote:

This is some high quality stuff right here. 🤣

Re: I Feel Like I'm Taking Crazy Pills!

LedZep — Thu, 28 May 2020 06:07:56 GMT

Author: LedZep

Posted: 05/28/2020 10:07

Re: I Feel Like I'm Taking Crazy Pills!

Tha1ChiefRocka — Thu, 28 May 2020 02:23:50 GMT

Author: Tha1ChiefRocka

Posted: 05/28/2020 06:23

Haha, Chicken Little strikes again. The sky was falling, but nobody believed me. I told y'all she's a poser to the maximum degree.

Re: I Feel Like I'm Taking Crazy Pills!

cestuneblague — Sat, 23 May 2020 06:16:24 GMT

Author: cestuneblague

Posted: 05/23/2020 10:16

Chief... yer thoughts? I'm angling for my popcorn bowl riteaboutnow...

Re: I Feel Like I'm Taking Crazy Pills!

Tha1ChiefRocka — Sat, 7 Dec 2019 15:30:30 GMT

Author: Tha1ChiefRocka

Posted: 12/07/2019 20:30

Link

Going on to youtube to listen to some music, and this ad just ruined my day. 😢

I think it is a redemption album

ars2458 — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 10:37:53 GMT

Author: ars2458

Posted: 11/15/2019 15:37

I personally love born to die, and I have liked a handful of other Lana songs since that album. Until NFR I thought that Lana wasn't going to make another great album. This album definitely proved me wrong. So yeah, to me it is proof that she is a legit artist and it is not some kind of fluke.

Re: I Feel Like I'm Taking Crazy Pills!

mickilennial — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 02:29:59 GMT

Author: mickilennial

Posted: 11/15/2019 07:29

baystateoftheart wrote:

I finally listened to this. Going to give it a second try before fully passing judgment, but as of now my bewilderment is not too far off the thread title.

It's very good as I expected, but what really mystifies me is why everyone is talking about this as a quantum leap from her earlier work??? I don't see much of a difference in quality between Born To Die / Paradise and this. I guess I can see how it's more appealing to people who want something that sounds more 'arty' and has fewer catchy hooks. And that's a fairly prevalent view in online music communities. Fwiw I skipped Ultraviolence, Honeymoon, and Lust For Life. For those who have heard those, does this album have extra appeal as a comeback record of sorts?

I suppose in some way it does, but my stance has always been pretty warm for Lana. She had a solid debut which she followed with one of my favorite albums of 2014. Her follow-ups haven’t really lived up to the consistency of Ultraviolence. As I’ve grown older I’ve divorced myself from rapid fanbases, so I kind of take music as it is without any “hype” or “community acclaim” influencing my opinions. This is not to say there isn’t an appeal to come back with a good album after two lukewarm ones, but I think we’re overplaying things here.

Re: I Feel Like I'm Taking Crazy Pills!

baystateoftheart — Mon, 11 Nov 2019 22:29:40 GMT

Author: baystateoftheart

Posted: 11/12/2019 03:29

CryingGameDahlin wrote:

Lana stans are still the fucking worst. Good gawd. That is all.

What happened?

Re: I Feel Like I'm Taking Crazy Pills!

RoundTheBend — Mon, 11 Nov 2019 22:12:07 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 11/12/2019 03:12

CryingGameDahlin wrote:

Lana stans are still the fucking worst. Good gawd. That is all.

And I thought it was RHCP fans...

Re: I Feel Like I'm Taking Crazy Pills!

cestuneblague — Mon, 11 Nov 2019 21:54:05 GMT

Author: cestuneblague

Posted: 11/12/2019 02:54

Lana stans are still the fucking worst. Good gawd. That is all.

Re: I Feel Like I'm Taking Crazy Pills!

babyBlueSedan — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 21:03:09 GMT

Author: babyBlueSedan

Posted: 09/26/2019 01:03

I hadn't heard Born to Die until a couple weeks before this came out, so I can't really speak to her past albums or trajectory as an artist. But the reason I like the new one way more than Born to Die is because of how restrained it feels. Born to Die has great hooks but it also has a lot of orchestral flourishes that sometimes do more harm than good. NFR has a dream pop vibe despite never really going into dream pop territory musically, and it's an album that totally relaxes me. I also think the sprawling, laid back instrumentation fits her voice much better. Born to Die has a nice dichotomy between her jaded, sometimes lazy (in a good way) vocals, but hearing them over music that is similarly restrained really helps to sell them. I also tend to think her vocals are really great despite them sounding kind of effortless; the closer is a tremendous vocal performance and her Leonard Cohen impression of "I'm your man" on Mariner's Apartment Complex is one of my favorite parts of the album.

I wouldn't really call this one more arty, whatever that means. I think there's more going on but I get the same overall vibe I get from Born to Die, just done better. And while I suppose there are fewer hooks, the hooks on The Next Best American Record, Bartender, and the closer always have me singing along. A lot of the other tracks have nice subtle hooks that blend together with the verses and kind of surprise you. I also think this one is more focused and nuanced lyrically, and the lyrical themes fit well for the current social climate. But that's not something I picked up on during my first listen.

FWIW this is my favorite album of the year, it really surprised me and I'm still finding things about it that I love on every listen.

Re: I Feel Like I'm Taking Crazy Pills!

baystateoftheart — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 20:19:55 GMT

Author: baystateoftheart

Posted: 09/26/2019 00:19

I finally listened to this. Going to give it a second try before fully passing judgment, but as of now my bewilderment is not too far off the thread title.

It's very good as I expected, but what really mystifies me is why everyone is talking about this as a quantum leap from her earlier work??? I don't see much of a difference in quality between Born To Die / Paradise and this. I guess I can see how it's more appealing to people who want something that sounds more 'arty' and has fewer catchy hooks. And that's a fairly prevalent view in online music communities. Fwiw I skipped Ultraviolence, Honeymoon, and Lust For Life. For those who have heard those, does this album have extra appeal as a comeback record of sorts?

Re: I Feel Like I'm Taking Crazy Pills!

cestuneblague — Mon, 9 Sep 2019 10:19:49 GMT

Author: cestuneblague

Posted: 09/09/2019 14:19

Yeah I mean it may look like I'm bagging on the album a bit too much as I did love a lot of it, perhaps it's a bit of a Melodrama/Be the Cowboy situation as perhaps the praise feels just a bit too hyperbolic (even if I think this is a bit better than both of those still pretty strong releases in the end). I guess if I had to pinpoint the few problems that kind of disrupt the atmosphere Lana's going for is Doin' Time, which had it been closer to the beginning or the end of the album it would've felt more acceptable but smack dab in the heart of it all something was just a bit off-putting about it, I think since the first four songs create this really strong mood of a more confrontational, emotional directness that this just sort of feels incongruent with the album taht surrounds it, maybe one that fits with Lana's general style but not really with NFR. In some ways had she covered Santeria it would've pulled off the general trick she was kind of, ultimately unsuccessfully, going for (switching sides to take the point of view of her secretly-vulnerable n'er do well lover) and would've felt more musically consistient with the album as a whole. I mean it's fine as it's own stand-alone thing but throws the mood of the album off for a bit, which she doesn't really re-rail until the excellent Cinammon Girl. And yeah California feels like it wants to be this big, epic song about desperation towards a doomed love affair but it feels strangely apathetic from the start and kind of just fizzles out about halfway through, and yeah Bartender just feels kind of one-note and a b-side castoff that could've been trimmed from an already slightly bloated album.

But yes it's strengths definitely out-number it's weakness, I mean Venice Bitch is a miracle it works so well as it should've felt pretty trite since it's pretty much one hazy 10 minute guitar solo but it's a stunner, and the three songs around it despite a good number of usual Lana Del Rey-isms are her at her lyrically strongest (even Fuck It I Love You, which I was initally a bit hesitant at perhaps because of it's somewhat trapp-y feel) and, despite the generous turn-of-phrase deliveries, her most direct and confrontational. I love the cinematic vibe of Cinammon Girl and the hopefullness of the soda shop throwback How to Dissapear, probably her sweetest and most optimistic track to date, and despite that the glaring hubris of The Greatest that almost begs you to hate it (did she really need to name-check Brian Wilson) it comes as close as possible to delivering on the title's promise. And I think some people have a problem with the Next Great American Record, but I do really love it's late 90s electro-alternative vibe, in many ways fitting with an album that does so effectively conjure a 90s set of mind (with it's slightly ironic reverance and inward-outward re-working of the pearls of the past with an anxious, intrepid look towards the future). And yeah the finale does make perfect artistic sense, but I don't know if I can quite put my finger on it why I think it's a bit of a missed oppurtunity. Perhaps just wanting a grander, shattering statement of purpose that would've made me forgive the occassional mis-step and think this release was completely singular and vital, but it just feels... consistient.

So yeah what can I really say, there's a lot to love here and the album as a whole is very, very, very strong. And yes maybe it's just a slight gap towards this GOAT hype and my own very high but not to-the-heavens admiration that can kind of slightly magnify the few things that don't work about it. Again a lot of people really love it and I can definitely see why. Perhaps my feeling towards it is more "I really really really like you" than "Run away with me", but all in all yes still one of the year's best so far and I think the time Lana's distinct but hitherto slightly un-refined vision has finally all come together. Given I don't know where she can really go from here without changing up her style completely, but if this is a swan song to the Lana at least as we've known her so far it's a more than fitting send-off.