album Lana Del Rey - 'Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd'

[suburbannature]

Blue Banisters has some top tier Lana even if we want to pretend thats not the case

[Poete]

With this album she fully let the Lana Del Rey curtain down, shared her soul, finally got everything off her chest, and then brought it back up as the album closed with Taco Truck x VB. She let us see her at her core in this one.

[helpthomas]

50 minutes ago, Ramooon said:

I LOVE LOVE LOVE Chemtrails album but I didnt like any song on Blue Banisters

so can you tell me if I'll like the album and if yes someone please tell me what songs should I listen?

i think my rearranged tracklist is easier to digest for sceptic people, since it varies between the pure ballads and the songs with bigger arrangements better than the actual album;

Spoiler

1. the grants

2. ocean blvd

3. a&w

4. peppers

5. fishtail

6. paris, texas

7. candy necklace

8. fingertips

9. kintsugi

10. grandfather

11. sweet

12. let the light in

13. margaret

14. taco truck x vb

and the bolded songs are the ones i'd recommend you try out first if you preferred Chem 

[Pandora]

Fingertips still being the absolute collapse that it is... Jesus Christ

[State of Grace.]

I can't remember the last time I was this obsessed with a Lanita album. Not even NFR! had this much of a grip on me at first.

 

Edited March 27, 2023 by State of Grace.

[Pandora]

6 minutes ago, Poete said:

With this album she fully let the Lana Del Rey curtain down, shared her soul, finally got everything off her chest, and then brought it back up as the album closed with Taco Truck x VB. She let us see her at her core in this one.

the way you hit the nail on the head

[NOW]

13 minutes ago, Poete said:

With this album she fully let the Lana Del Rey curtain down, shared her soul, finally got everything off her chest, and then brought it back up as the album closed with Taco Truck x VB. She let us see her at her core in this one.

Yup this is exactly it. Her closers also tend to reflect where she wants to go on the next album…so if that’s the case here, then she might be working on something happier and lighter next.

[James_Dean]

20 minutes ago, suburbannature said:

Blue Banisters has some top tier Lana even if we want to pretend thats not the case

If y'all would've just listen to what I've been saying

[NOW]

I know she said she didn't focus on world building with this album but I feel like she did end up doing just that, even if that wasn't the goal. The fusion of different pop culture references is plentiful here, just with mixed in with more intimate details of her past.

 

Anyway, Rolling Stone also just did a podcast episode debating whether LDR can be classified as a pop star or alt star: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/lana-del-rey-ocean-blvd-discography-podcast-1234704020/

[stjosephprey4us]

Fishtail is such a ******* COLLAPSE ughh the drop live would completely slay me

 

[WildAmerican]

Daddy, I miss them
I'm in the mountains
I'm probably runnin' away from the feelings I get
When I think all the things about them
Daddy, I miss them
I'm at the Roadrunner Café
I'm probably runnin' away from the thoughts in the day
I'd have things to do with them, but they say

 

 

Edited March 28, 2023 by WildAmerican

[Infatuation_Junkie]

33 minutes ago, suburbannature said:

Blue Banisters has some top tier Lana even if we want to pretend thats not the case

Truth. 

[Bad_vocal_technique]

Fingertips is a ******* crime to my soul.

[VeniceBeach]

[aesthetic bih]

9 hours ago, raven said:

Well I've seen some people trying to convince us otherwise

Those same people: b-b-But onLy piAnos! 1!! nO meLodiES!!!

[aesthetic bih]

19 minutes ago, VeniceBeach said:

See when you make a good album

 

[On The Bound]

sweet is top 3...

[Poete]

Sweet is the love song of this album 

[Venice B]

1 minute ago, On The Bound said:

sweet is top 3...

Speak the truth king 

 

Also, I think I realized why I love Sweet so much: it kinda reminds me of Enya somehow? Especially how she ends the chorus, that's so Enya-like 

[aesthetic bih]

1 hour ago, Ramooon said:

I LOVE LOVE LOVE Chemtrails album but I didnt like any song on Blue Banisters

so can you tell me if I'll like the album and if yes someone please tell me what songs should I listen?

Let the Light In is very Chemtrails imo, it's also one of the best songs in the album! Maybe try that one first and see if you wanna continue with the album

 

[aesthetic bih]

Ahhh yesss Fingertips literally had my heart on CHOKE! Especially the last minute or so... 

[Big Bad Wolf]

24 minutes ago, WildAmerican said:

Daddy, I miss them
I'm in the mountains
I'm probably runnin' away from the feelings I get
When I think all the things about them
Daddy, I miss them
I'm at the Roadrunner Café
I'm probably runnin' away from the thoughts in the day
I'd have things to do with them, but they say

 

 

[Vagabond]

1 minute ago, aesthetic bih said:

Let the Light In is very Chemtrails imo, it's also one of the best songs in the album! Maybe try that one first and see if you wanna continue with the album

 

as a Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost stan, Let the Light In is maybe my favorite off the album (that and grandfather please stand on the shoulders of my father while he's deep-sea fishing - an absolute collapse) 

[Big Bad Wolf]

DYK is making me wanna do a COCC rerun. Stream the very underrated 'Not All Those Who Wander'  with me 

[SupremeGoddess]

1 hour ago, Ice Cream Skies said:

Just listen to it and give it a few spins over a few days. Idk. If you’re hoping for some easily digestible album from Lana where everything’s going to click on first listen, this isn’t it. But it’s 100% worth investing some time in, because the album is truly brilliant.

every day a new song hits! the interludes today were particularly magnificent