Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell (sync listen Sunday 8pm)

[Cerro de Casa]

09 Norman fucking Rockwell
10 Mariners Apartment Complex
10 Venice Bitch
08 Fuck it I Love You
08 Love Song
10 Cinnamon Girl
09 How To Disappear
10 California
10 The Next Best American Record
08 The Greatest
07 Bartender
10 Happiness Is A Butterfly

 

[Iguana]

Just realized this was an easter egg for the next album "Chemtrails over the Country Club" - HER MIND

She just repeats the same themes a lot

 

[POP!]

"Hope..." did NOTHING for me when it was released randomly in Jan 2019. Love it now.

 

[RJN]

And yes we need an Alanis sync!!

Under Rug Swept!

 

[Iguana]

And yes we need an Alanis sync!!

We did JLP a few months ago but I think SFIJ would be PERFECT for a depressing February evening

 

[Jark]

Just realized this was an easter egg for the next album "Chemtrails over the Country Club" - HER MIND

yes! although maybe an easter egg for Chemtrails the song, given that in 2019 the next album was still meant to be called White Hot Fever, no?

 

[Cerro de Casa]

"Hope..." did NOTHING for me when it was released randomly in Jan 2019. Love it now.

I think it serves well as a harbinger to Chemtrails which I think will pick up where 'Hope...' left off.

 

[POP!]

yes! although maybe an easter egg for Chemtrails the song, given that in 2019 the next album was still meant to be called White Hot Fever, no?

True

 

[Cerro de Casa]

I've been tearing around in my fucking nightgown
24/7 Sylvia Plath
Writing in blood on the walls
'Cause the ink in my pen don't work in my notepad
Don't ask if I'm happy, you know that I'm not
But, at best, I can say I'm not sad​

 

[Cerro de Casa]

I've been tearing around in my fucking nightgown
24/7 Sylvia Plath
Writing in blood on the walls
'Cause the ink in my pen don't work in my notepad
Don't ask if I'm happy, you know that I'm not
But, at best, I can say I'm not sad​

Pure poetry.

 

[Jark]

True

I think I still like that as a title more than Chemtrails. god I hope that album in some way lives up to Norman.

 

[Tisch]

Under Rug Swept!

We did JLP a few months ago but I think SFIJ would be PERFECT for a depressing February evening

JARK DOUBLE SPECIAL

 

[Iguana]

Under Rug Swept!

As we've done JLP might as well do them in order if people are up for it! There aren't that many after all

 

[Cerro de Casa]

We did JLP a few months ago but I think SFIJ would be PERFECT for a depressing February evening

As one may have witnessed from my recent FLOP Tori non-sync I'm better at attending syncs than organising them so I'm happy not to take charge

 

[Jark]

hope is a beautiful closer for an album like this to have - and it has it

09 Normal fucking Rockwell
09 Mariners Apartment Complex
07.5 Venice Bitch
08 Fuck It I Love You
10 Doin' Time
10 Love Song
10 Cinnamon Girl
09.5 How to Disappear
11 California
10.5 The Next Best American Record
09 The Greatest
07 Bartender
10 Happiness is a Butterfly
09 hope is a dangerous thing...

 

[POP!]

I kind of wish the album ended with "Happiness is a Butterfly" because there is a hint of optimism to it - "Hope..." is just kind of unabashedly miserable (not in a bad way)

 

[RJN]

As we've done JLP might as well do them in order if people are up for it! There aren't that many after all

I've only heard the one But I'd be interested in any of them

 

[Tisch]

Still living (dying?) for the most famous woman you know on your iPad line

 

[POP!]

09 Normal fucking Rockwell
09 Mariners Apartment Complex
10 Venice Bitch
10 Fuck it I Love You
08 Doin' Time
09 Love Song
13 Cinnamon Girl
10 How to Disappear
10 California
09 The Next Best American Record
07 The Greatest
10 Bartender
10 Happiness is a Butterfly
08 Hope is a Dangerous Thing...

 

[RJN]

I kind of feel like "hope..." isn't really part of the album

 

[Cerro de Casa]

09 Norman fucking Rockwell
10 Mariners Apartment Complex
10 Venice Bitch
08 Fuck it I Love You
08 Love Song
11 Cinnamon Girl
09 How To Disappear
10 California
10 The Next Best American Record
08 The Greatest
07 Bartender
10 Happiness Is A Butterfly
10 hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have, but I have it

 

[Cerro de Casa]

What an ALBUM!

 

[Iguana]

08 NFR!
09 MAC
11 Venice Bitch
08 FIILY
09 Doin' Time
08 Love Song
10 Cinnamon Girl
06 How To Disappear
11 California
06 The Next Best American Record
10 The Greatest
08 Bartender
09 Happiness Is A Butterfly
10 hope...

Amazing!!

 

[Cerro de Casa]

Spotify just played 'Chemtrails Over the Country Club' after 'hope...' and the transition was seamless.

 

[POP!]

OK it is confirmed that Norman is her best album. Ultraviolence has just as many stratospheric highs but it also loses a *bit* of steam in the second half

 

[Cerro de Casa]

@ZenGiraffe - the auto-refresh test feature is working very well. Cheers!

 

[RJN]

09 Norman Fucking Rockwell
10 Mariner's Apartment Complex
10 Venice Bitch
09 Fuck it I love you
10 Doin' Time
10 Love Song
09 Cinnamon Girl
07 How to disappear
11 California
10 Next best American Record
11 The greatest
07 Bartender
08 Love is a Butterfly
09 Hope...

AMAZING album

 

[POP!]

Spotify just played 'Chemtrails Over the Country Club' after 'hope...' and the transition was seamless.

My Spotify played into "Groupie Love" which felt so produced in comparison.

 

[Tisch]

10 Norman Fucking Rockwell!
10 Mariners Apartment Complex
11 Venice Bitch
08 Fuck It I Love You
08 Doin Time
10 Love Song
12 Cinnamon Girl
08 How to Disappear
12445 California
09 The Next Best American Record
11 The Greatest
07 Bartender
09 Happiness Is a Butterfly
09.5 Hope Is a Dangerous Thing...

 

[Jark]

average score is 9.25/10 - I don't think we've done another sync where anything has matched that.

the only other recent album off the top of my head that maybe matches up to NFR!, in a very different way, is What's Your Pleasure. both have the same utterly impeccable standard of songwriting and production across the board - no fillers, everything working in beautiful harmony from front to back, artist firing at the peak of their powers. but of course NFR! being so emotional gives it an edge.

 

[ZenGiraffe]

@ZenGiraffe - the auto-refresh test feature is working very well. Cheers!

Thanks. There seems to be one thing though.

Can anyone see the very first post on the thread?

 

[RJN]

Thanks. There seems to be one thing though.

Can anyone see the very first post on the thread?

No I can't actually

 

[Cerro de Casa]

Thanks. There seems to be one thing though.

Can anyone see the very first post on the thread?

No I can't! I can see that the thread was created by POP! on the forum index but the first I see is by Tisch.

 

[RJN]

@ZenGiraffe I think it worked really well, but would it be hard to keep up with something like ASFM where there are so many posts so quickly?

 

[ZenGiraffe]

Yeah same here. I'll see if I can figure it out. Thank you for being my first guinea pigs though!

 

[Iguana]

@ZenGiraffe I think it worked really well, but would it be hard to keep up with something like ASFM where there are so many posts so quickly?

I don't think so, because the posts just line up below where you are currently looking in the thread, so you can still read at your own pace. But it would save having to constantly refresh during the results show which would be great!

 

[Iguana]

My Spotify went straight into California again. Not complaining

 

[ZenGiraffe]

Live mode is off again, and the first post has reappeared for me.

 

[POP!]

THANKS EVERYONE FOR JOINING. We've sync'd every album - our next sync will be the release of Chemtrails

 

[Iguana]

Thanks very much for running these @POP!