Lana Del Rey’s best album?

Lana in the Born to Die era was such a moment. Truly iconic.

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I find plenty to like about all her albums, but Norman Fucking Rockwell left me spellbound.

I miss the glamorous, Valley of the Dolls-esque Lana of a decade ago.

Born to Die was great.

Honeymoon is underrated

Agreed R5. It’s my favorite record of hers—very dark, atmospheric, and gothic. Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel… and Ultraviolence are runners-upz

Ultraviolence is every bit as good as Born to Die and Norman Fucking Rockwell. Honestly the only album of hers I can say I didn’t really like is Chemtrails.

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Hard to decide between NFR and Tunnel, but ultimately went with NFR because of Venice Bitch. Although that VB sample in Tunnel made me see the face of God when I heard it for the first time, so I guess they're tied for me.

I dislike the Jack Antonoff albums, but I still love Lana and listen to everything she sings. I want her to make another album with Rick Nowels but I seeing how she has been incorporated into Taylor Swift’s girl squad I can’t see that happening.

Ultraviolence and the Paradise edition of Born To Die all the way!

"Norman Fucking Rockwell!" is to this era what "The Hissing of Summer Lawns" was to the mid-late 70s....a masterpiece

NFR is the album that made me a fan. I absolutely love it.

I've liked songs off others. But NFR is just so inspired.

I would like to hear more of the unhinged Lana, like the glimpse of it we got in Black Bathing Suit.

“Honeymoon” is like being transported back to old, golden era Hollywood on a balmy summer night. The atmosphere is incredible. I also find “Chemtrails” and absolutely gorgeous listen. It’s stripped back, mellow and gorgeous.

Ironically, my least favourite one is “Born to Die” even though it’s unquestionably iconic and had a huge impact on the industry. It’s just a little too brash and pop for me. I prefer her more intimate, personal, mellow music.

She’s incredibly talented and I’m glad she stuck out all the hate and misogyny that got hurled at her. Her most recent album was truly robbed at the Grammys.

NFR fans - explain the appeal. Is it the song writing or the production? What are your favourite tracks?

r15 That still remains her most critically acclaimed album, so I think it's on you to explain why you're [italic]not[/italic] getting its appeal compared to her other albums.

R16 in a word, the production. Beyond the first two singles of MAC and Venice Bitch, it didn’t have the same relistenable quality I love about her other albums (with the exception of Chemtrails).

What did you love about NFR?

[quote]What did you love about NFR?

The production! But also the strange new depths her songwriting explored. I do agree about the relistenable quality, though I still rate it above others on account of being awed by it the most on a first listen.

Thanks for your sincere response, r18, I will give it another go.

You don't have to, you like what you like!

I agree with R4, I can’t really deal with new “Serious Artist” Lana, NFR was her last fully good album to me. I know she’s a sensitive person who took the mass critical backlash from her initial era of very hard and is enjoying being taken “seriously” despite making her sound frankly, homogenous and boring compared to the lush and experimental pop work she used to do. Even though her persona was more obviously “artificial” back then, it felt more true to her artistry than this piano ballads exhausted diva shit. Of her newest album, I liked Candy Necklace and A&W but didn’t care much for the other songs.

Ultraviolence is her objective best but my personal favorite is probably Born to Die. Cruel World is an amazing song. Am also in line with whoever thinks Honeymoon is massively underrated!

Has anyone on here listened to her unreleased leaked songs? If you’re a fan of Born to Die-Lust for Life era Lana fan, you’ll love them. Very trashy and fun and touching. A lot of them can be found on YouTube if you just search Lana Del Rey + unreleased.

R21 I love Queen of Disaster.

I saw her live in late 2019, just before the world went to shit. She was amazing.

R20 the drab piano of NDR put me off so much that I didn’t luxuriate in her songwriting, which is my favourite thing to do with her music. I shall try again.

R21 it is such a shame she didn’t get to properly release these songs.

My favorite unreleased songs from her are Serial Killer (which I saw her perform live), 1949, Back to the Basics, Fine China, Every Man Gets His Wish, Prom Song (Gone Wrong), Go-Go Dancer, Meet Me in the Pale Moonlight, Smarty, Is It Wrong, Velvet Crowbar, Axl Rose Husband, Get Drunk, Dragonslayer...I truly like a number of them better than her official songs.

A couple of songs on Blue Bannisters were unreleased songs she cleaned up - Living Legend and Dealer. Yosemite off Chemtrails (the only song I liked from that album!) was from 2017. Some of her demos are online as well. I think the National Anthem demo is better than the version of the song that ended up on the record.

If she doesn't want to do trailer park Lolita/Valley of the Dolls anymore at her age, I understand, but if she wants to be "serious", I really love the Hole/Nirvana grunge sound on Get Drunk. Lyrics are very Courtney Love to me.

I love them all. I think Chemtrails is vastly underrated. I’ve listened to it and Honeymoon the most.

For me-

Honeymoon

Born To Die

Ultraviolence

Is the tunnel under Ocean Blvd the one featured in Whore 1991?

She's one of the few mainstream artists I rate right now. My favorites are Ultraviolence, NFR, and her latest, Boulevard.

Cover of Blue Skies for "The New Look" TV show. Very playful.

It’s Tunnel for me as a whole, Sweet, Kintsugi and the Jimmy bit of A&W are all heaven to me. Love is still my favourite and most listened to song by her though. Classic.

The one where she doesn't sing on it.

Was she the one revealed as a wealthy daddy's girl with a history of homophobic comments?

So much talent. So much stage presence.

I can't listen to LDR because she reminds me of the shiftless, aspy bottom I dated in 2014. He worshipped her.

Leave it to an unimaginative eldergay to still dredge out that SNL performance after all these year. Only things missing are a complaint about foreskins and euros not showering often enough, and you'd have a classic DL trifecta.

Women’s music. Crazy broad stuff.

r30, who sang the original? When I search on YT I find several artists, but none with the version I remember.

R36, my heart is yours.

Her music, gosh, blow out my brains already. Lame as fuck!

Gosh

I am shocked to learn that not only can someone name all of our albums, but has suggested they have listened to all of her songs.

She’s pissed that Beyoncé went country before her so she doesn’t know what’s going to happen with Lasso now, such a shame that we may be denied a new album from her because Beyoncé put on her cow boots.

Catchy! Maybe her first hit in a while?

Where the fuck is her new album? She usually cranks them out faster than that.

It's between NFR and Ocean Blvd. The only thing that bothers me about the latter is that Judah Smith Interlude.

It's due in two months' time, R45

r47 Really?! Oh, that's great news, can't wait.

[quote]The only thing that bothers me about the latter is that Judah Smith Interlude.

Same, but I choose to believe the interpretation that she was making fun of him and inserted that bit ironically. I think she's distanced herself from that church after the outrage as well.

How does this person with no voice have so many albums?

She has a great voice and does all sorts of interesting stuff with it on her albums. Orders of magnitude more experimental than someone like Swift. You're just deaf.

She cancelled Lasso as she doesn’t want to do a country album now that Beyoncé did one. It’ll be delayed. She’s confirmed with some fans and that video earlier in this thread.

Oh, thank fuck, Lana doing country is the last thing I need. Worst genre in existence.

Thank you, R52, I should have read the thread before posting. That's disappointing, I was looking forward to the September release. Can't really complain, though, given how prolific Lana is.

She's pretty consistently "Lana". So you either love that or hate it. I love it.

Norman and Born To Die are the ones I listen to the most.

Mine was Born to Die because for me, it's one of those albums where every song is excellent. And for as much as I do love her, listening to too much Lana makes me feel trashy and slutty, which i don't need as I turn 64 on August 2nd.

She's really in a class by herself. when I see her at events with other current female pop stars it just seems ... wrong. And Summertime Sadness remixed into dance music? Never liked it.

She always looks so fucking bored.

Honeymoon for me-