Lana Del Rey's Ultraviolence was originally a double album with over 40 tracks.

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Lana's longtime guitarist Blake Lee does an interview for his own solo music release, talks about meeting Lana at around the 30 min mark: https://www.totallyradio.com/shows/the-keep-slack-album-club/episodes/the-keep-slack-album-club-blake-lee-no-sound-in-space
 

• Discovered her through Video Games, which he and his mom both loved
• Got connected to Lana through Byron, Lana's pianist
• Lana originally wanted subtle synths and not live guitars for her live shows
• First live show they played together was a secret show in Brooklyn in Fall 2011
• Thinks she's one of the fastest writers he's worked with; only needed 1-2 takes to record a song
• Ultraviolence had to be whittled down from 40 songs, and all the demos sounded very good
• She has a tendency to say no if something doesn't feel right; prefers to let things happen naturally and organically
• Hopes the unreleased songs can see official release along with Flipside on streaming

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Stream Blake's new ambient album here:

 

 

[Movimento Perpétuo]

Can we have all the vault tracks please? 

[RideOrDie]

and the body electricians will be begging for rest of the vault to be delivered till the end of time 

[Fender]

leak it fat

[SupremeGoddess]

not having flipside on streaming is such a major crime. legitimately one of the best songs in her career 

 

should've have been in the standard instead of filler my way to the bottom 

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2 minutes ago, RideOrDie said:

and the body electricians will be begging for rest of the vault to be delivered till the end of time 

You don't know the world like I do

You don't know how good people can be

 

Still can't get over the butcherification of this one

[Venice B]

Thank you Dan Auerbach for not letting this ***** get away with everything she wanted, unlike some producers who have been working with her 

[Jon Snow]

some of the scrapped UV demos are the best songs in her discography 

 

[ontherocks]

52 minutes ago, SupremeGoddess said:

not having flipside on streaming is such a major crime. legitimately one of the best songs in her career 

 

should've have been in the standard instead of filler my way to the bottom 

I replace Cruel World with Flipside as an opener. Always hated CW tbh. 

[Liafen]

omg we were ROBBED

[alexrex]

Wasn't enough for Taylor Swift to steal from Lana's (and Hilary Duff) artistry and lyricism, but also her release ideas  

[YellowRibbon]

We need Ultraviolence (From The Ashtray)

[Supervillain]

Where did he say it was supposed to be a double album? It's pretty common for artists to record a lot of songs for their records...

[Mr. Peanutbutter]

40 tracks and she decided to close the album with The Other Woman and add Guns N Roses to the bonus tracks 

[Bussea]

Cult Leader, I Talk To Jesus, Fine China and Angels Forever could've been on streaming this whole time??? girl hurry up and put together a 10 year anniversary release NOW

[Bad_vocal_technique]

Flip side, is this happiness and Black beauty should've been on the standard version.

 

 

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20 minutes ago, Supervillain said:

Where did he say it was supposed to be a double album? It's pretty common for artists to record a lot of songs for their records...

He probably meant she had enough strong material that it could've been a whole separate album...me thinks she was just over the whole UV era by the time of its release that she quickly moved onto the Honeymoon sessions. He's right though, almost everything that leaked since then sounded great.