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I give 2.5 stars. Rounding up because there were a couple of songs where the pleasantness of the three-part harmony outweighed the obnoxious raspy whispery BS earlier in the album.
sounds very nostalgic, almost dreamy, definitely more a depressing vibe but her lyrics are good
Lana is Lana, geen stemgeluid kan dat evenaren. Ik kende geen enkele liedjes van dit album, maar kon er wel van genieten. Al lijken veel songs op elkaar
Shimmery, sparse. Early on into the record, I came to the conclusion that this is music you listen to, wine-drunk, in the bathtub, while slipping under the water. It's depressing, but quietly so. I enjoyed it quite a bit more than I thought I would, but it's not anything I plan to revisit. Call it a 3.5. Favorite tracks: "Tulsa Jesus Freak", "Not All Who Wander Are Lost", "Dark But Just A Game"
Litt for kjedelig. Kanskje en dag vil eg like den
An enjoyable listen, but rather one-note in its tone, sound, themes, and production. Reminds me of the result if an artist listened to Tori Amos and decided to make an entire album based on the slow songs from "Boys for Pele".
I've got nothing against sad girl music and I like this album. But I don't really have that many occasions to listen to sad girl music. I'm not a sad girl. I'm not even a sad boy. I did listen to this album at the gym, so it probably didn't really get a fair shake, but I don't think I'd listen to this very carefully in other contexts as more than nice background music. Not a bad album though.
I did not really know what to make of this. It has some beautiful moments but was overall just a bit too dreary for me. I liked the country-influenced tracks at the end most of all. Not sure why this is here, I'd put different albums from 2021.
Noen melankolske fininger
A significant step down from Norman Fucking Rockwell. Best Track: White dress
Such a disappointment after NFR. All the songs are at the same tempo, and sound like overproduced mush. Unnecessary Joni Mitchell cover only highlights the difference in songwriting quality. Shame, barely scrapes a 3
I've only really heard Lana's top songs and I really like them! But though her voice is beautiful, I found this album to be a bit one dimensional.
This is generally not my style of music. I can hear jazz and a little bit of country influences. She has a talent for evoking a feeling, like a long distant memory, with words. I might give some of her other work a try. I would recommend this to a friend to give a listen.
Bah. Normalito.
Had heard it before and will probably listen again. Need to be in the right mood as it gets a bit monotone
Decent listen. Default Lana album I guess?
I was prepared to really dislike this album. My expectations were low given it only came out last year and Lana isn’t someone I’ve ever given much attention to. That changed with “Down at the Men in Music Business Conference” in White Dress, a line that’s an unexpected fit for the melody but works beautifully. The whispery vocals feel vulnerable and secretive. It pulled me straight in. The title song, Tulsa Jesus Freak, Yosemite and Dark But Just a Game are all highlights. Reminiscent of Warpaint. The problem with this album is it often feels like listening to one long 45 minute song. I found it more enjoyable listening in 2 halves with a long breather in between. 3/5
Unique sound. I purchased.
Lana makes good music, but man every song sounds the same to me. Not in a bad way. The first song was my least favorite on this one. Cool seeing such a new album on the list.
It's not terrible, but it's Lana Del Rey repeating her schtick. Her affectations are occasionally grating; for example, the breathy voice on 'White Dress'.
Downbeat as expected from Lana's music, but quite enjoyable. Surprised to find two very recent albums on consecutive days.
I had not heard of her or her music, and I like this album. Dreamy and ethereal at times, very well composed and performed, superb singing voice, and I would like to read the lyrics because the pieces I caught were interesting. I love the album name and cover art, too. Seems like an interesting artist so I'll look into her other work, too.
Folk. Suave y melódico, pero aburrido
1ère moitié solide, 2ème moitié osef Prefs: White Dress, Chemtrails over the Country Club, Tulsa Jesus Freak, Wild at Heart, Dark but Just a Game Moins pref: Breaking Up Slowly
Lana is one of the few talented modern artists (great songwriter & singer), but this album was too snoozy & cheesy for my liking. I like her work, but this album just wasn't for me.
3.8 - This is a very tastefully produced record, from the cover art and album title, to the spare and subtle sound engineering, to the subdued but effective vocals. I love the way Lana Del Rey evokes deep Americana with references to Louisiana two-step, small towns in Arkansas (pronounced like "Kansas") and church-y truisms like "not all who wander are lost." And I'm just a sucker for her weepy damsel-in-distress persona that she augments with her doe-like eyes and hushed delivery - she reminds me of Hope Sandoval of Mazzy Star. Mostly the songs are easily interpreted and float within a somber melancholy. My hunch is that most of this record's charms that seem so compelling on initial listen, will fade upon subsequent returns and that I'll probably find boring what I once found gorgeous.
Prve dvije pjesme su mi 5/5. Ovo ostalo je otislo u zaborav.
What a difference a day makes. This album feels like it succeeded where PJ Harvey failed. Songs about sham glamour and how unaware people are to the world around them. IT's a good mix of slow meaningful melody and poignant lyrics. 59/100gecs
Although I quite like a lot of Lana Del Rey's discography Chemtrails Over the Country Club feels too sparse. It feels like the album is picking back up into a what I was used to with Dark But Just A Game but it's back down after that. There are some great vocal bits on Not All Who Wander Are Lost but I don't really like the chorus. Breaking Up Slowly is another standout 63/100 gecs
Meh, didn't love it. I'm not a huge Lana Del Rey fan for starters. Definitely waaay too mellow of an album to start my morning.
silky voice helps me forget that her style isn't quite my taste
Has a serene sound that you can lose yourself in… also, if we’re doing albums from last year, does that mean that next year I’ll have more than 1001 albums to listen to?
An album name like this one makes me like it before I start listening to it. It's a nice piece if American folk sung incredibly well. Was this released after we started the 1001 voyage?
Ethereal and dark. Classic Lana with poetry and juxtaposition
Chyba są lepsze albumy, tutaj myślę sobie nowość, zobaczmy co tak zajebistego jest, że dostało się od ręki na listę. No nie powala, wszystko tak samo brzmi.
I used to think that all Lana del Rey songs in every record sounded exactly the same. That statement is still true to me. However, this particular album has surprised me, maybe because I was expecting more summertime sadness and born-to-die wishes and what I found was a more mature aura surrounding the compositions. I fell in love instantly with the magical whispers of “White Dress” and with the ballad “Let Me Love You Like A Woman”.
Very unique sound and captures the sad mood very well. Not exactly my cup of tea tho
Don't think I've listened to this one of hers before and it's not my favorite. Doesn't have an anchor hit to draw you in. The album starts real rough with some strained whisper singing bet gets better.
It’s not bad. It’s just not my jam.
Why is this on here? Alex jones thinks the chemtrails over the country club are turning the WASPs gay. I kinda like her whisper-singing thing in general, but this is maybe excessive.
It was interesting although repetitive.
A few bangers here and there, but overall a subpar album, everything kinda sounds the same, not much variation.
Beautiful voice, but the album is boring
This album started out as a 4 and then slipped to a 3. While I enjoyed a few of the songs thoroughly - White Dress, Let Me Love You Like a Woman, Dance Till We Die - the rest of the album was a drag. I have a love-hate relationship with LDR. I was one of the impressionable young girls in 2012 that fell in love with her and her music, only to end up feeling a bit robbed of my innocence due to her normalization of weird/disturbing/inappropriate relationship shit. It’s just music, I know, but tell that to a fifteen year old. Thought some of the stuff she promoted was not only acceptable, but kind of cool. Now as an adult I look back on it and cringe. I’ve avoided listening to her newer stuff because I cringe thinking about things from that time in my life. I can’t possibly be accountable so I’ll have to blame LDR. Just kidding, but listening to her I can’t help but feel like she’s always pandering and never authentic. I don’t know just me probably.
Smooth, beautiful, well crafted, but souless. I do like Lena Del Rey, I didn't really find enough in this album to keep me interested - I far prefer Born to Die or NFR. Also, I do think for an album this recent to be in this list it needs to be undisputedly special, which I don't think this is. Maybe time will tell and I'll like it more in 5 years time, but put it in then, once we've had time to prodcess it, not now.
I really like Lana Del Rey but... it was the Born to Die album that I first discovered her and I feel like that sound is more my kind of vibe: dark but bubble gum pop, if that makes any sense. I see that she's continued to deconstruct the American dream with this album but honestly, I wouldn't put this on a 1001 albums list - you'd want to have Born to Die for that. I feel it's a much stronger album all around.
Although I generally like the artists (especially earlier albumens) The first song really put me off.
Well that was quite a pleasant surprise. This isn't really the kind of thing I'd usually listen to, and will likely never listen again, but I enjoyed the journey. This is what this project is all about for me, finding things I'd never have heard otherwise, totally different to my usual preferences. This album is full of nice simple love songs, nothing over the top, nothing trying too hard. I don't really understand how an album three years old even gets onto the list, but I enjoyed it nonetheless.
4 "Dark But Just A Game" has been a favorite of mine for a long time. But the whole album sure gets a little samey 3
A little too melancholy for me to vibe with overall, but I enjoyed her as an album artist way more than any of the singles I'd previously heard
I'm not exactly sure why this is on the essentials list, not because it's bad, but just because it came out so recently I don't know how it is had nearly enough time to be considered as such. That's really my only complaint though. 3.5/5
3, soothing
Not my favorite Lana album
She has a beautiful voice. I probably wouldn't listen to it regularly but I enjoyed the album overall. Easy to listen to.
Fine
Chemtrails over the Country Club by Lana Del Ray (2021) Here we have slow, superlatively feminine pop—reflective, comfortable, swimming in the past, and finding comfort in the present. Lana Del Ray successfully pulls off some very difficult vocal styles. She is able to whisper exceedingly airy tones with excellent pitch and articulation (“White Dress”) and to dub herself in octaves and widely spaced harmonies (“Chemtrails over the Country Club”) with fine choral blend (outros to “Let Me Love You Like a Woman” and “Wild at Heart”) and delicate precision throughout. Truly applaudable. I don’t think I’ve ever heard a better example of vocal recording on multiple tracks (yes, including Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody”). Now on the last verse of “Dance Till We Die”, her attempt at power blues reveals her vocal limitations, but she doesn’t stay there for long, shifting back to her beautifully soft timbre for the closing chorus. The album is quite well produced, with subtle but warmly wrapped instrumentals and small scale orchestral backgrounds, mixed with a very close sound in the vocal recording. It is as though Lana Del Ray is sitting squarely in front of me, singing right down onto my forehead, so close I can feel her breath. My hair is softly blowing back with each phrase. This is definitely music for headphones. You won’t want ambient noise spoiling the experience. I’m sure this music is very difficult to perform live. There’s an embarrassingly annoying hum in the opening strains of “Dance Till We Die”. Some engineer didn’t get the memo: “We need silence in the background, dammit!” Del Ray’s lyrics are intelligent and well structured, and only occasionally bordering on the trite, but way too self absorbed—not good as art, but excellent as therapeutic role play for the feminine listener, which, I suppose, is the purpose. And the very wild lyrics of “Wild at Heart” are not well suited to the very tame music. The exception to these criticisms here is the closing track “For Free”, which, if you think it sounds like it was written by Joni Mitchell rather than Lana Del Ray, rest assured that it was. I’d recommend this record for my sister, as a pleasing alternative to the likes of an Adele or a Céline Dion, but not to take the place of a Joni Mitchell or a Judy Collins (or a Bonnie Raitt or a Loreena McKennitt or . . . well, you get the point). 3/5
I am surprised to see a 2021 album here, especially when I made for the first time my list of favourite albums of the year in 2021 and I didn't listen to this one. Well, I guess you cannot listen to them all. I am not big on Lana Del Rey, but as soon as the piano and her whispered voice comes in I am already bought. I won't have time to listen to it more than once as I fell back in the challenge and have three other albums to catch up with, but my general impression is that this album totally reflects the black and white atmosphere of its cover art. All the songs sound intimate and kind of nostalgic. Actually, you know what? I am adding it to my Discogs wish list as I write. That's how much impressed I was with this album.
malo previše stressy-depressy za mene, zato je i ne slušan inače jer je to cili njen vibe, al budući da to nisu loše pisme nego ih ja jednostavno ne volin evo jedna 2
lana’s music makes me feel miserable. not terrible but not great
Haunting voice which I love but a whole album gets a bit samey and dull
pretty voice. Soft piano music.
Enjoyed it a lot more than I imagined. A bit samey toward the end though and I think may not age well - the breathy female singer of today
Good, very laid back. Won’t revisit but was a nice peaceful morning soundtrack.
3.2 - decent modern folk album with haunting feel. Good vocals. Enjoyed White Dress immensely. Solid album for background listening.
Ennakkoajatuksena oli, että tämä on luultavasti hyvä levy ja olisi varmasti pitänyt kuunnella aiemminkin. Levy lähtikin hittibiiseillä liikkeelle, mutta sitten ekan kolmen biisin jälkeen muuttui tasapaksummaksi. Ja ne ekat biisitkin tuntuivat lähinnä alkulämmittelyltä, että kohta lähtee. Olisin halunnut tykätä enemmän, mutta valitettavasti yli kolmosta ei kehtaa tarjota.
Onpas uusi levy listalla (2021). Mielikuva Lana Del Reysta oli varsin negatiivinen, erityisesti äärimmäisen tylsän Flow-keikan johdosta. Levyn alku oli varsin lupauksia herättävä, mutta nopeastihan se lässähti juuri sellaiseksi eteerisen taiteelliseksi huokailuksi kuin pelkäsinkin. Ehkä levyn kohokohdiksi voisi nostaa kaksi ensimmäistä kappaletta ja Wild at Heartin kertosäkeen. 2,5 joka saa armoa tällä kertaa.
I dig it
I really liked this and picked up some mellower Father John Misty vibes.
Nobody sounds good for an entire album in head voice. Anyway, this music still has this crazy tendency to make me feel nostalgic even though the lyrics are of a life and a memory relatively foreign to mine. Spooky. Extra points for covering Joni, even though no one could ever outdo the original.
I was ready to give up on this one during the 1st song. Track #1 is horrible. But the rest were pretty okay.
I’ve heard Lana Del Ray is good at lyrics, but I’m not generally lyric focused listener. I’m not sure why she gets vaulted over Taylor Swift, who I also think is overrated, was it because she caused Taylor to pivot to more thoughtful Indy inflected pop? To me it sounds pretty standard. There were a few highlights. But nothing spectacular. I was excited when Weyes Blood showed up on the last song, but that only proved to me that it wasn’t top tier when I heard a great voice.
I recognize the name, but I have never heard any of her music before. I love her sound though and I will definitely listen to more of her. This is my first listen. Absolutely love it, but need to hear it more! 3/5 for now.
A quietly beautiful album. Sparse arrangements that showcase her fragile vocal delivery and subtle, distinctive phrasing. Reminds of Cat Power, but lacks the emotional depth and power in her voice. Finally, the pacing of the album is too slow without any variation thus lacking in drama and ultimate tension 3.5 🌟
5/10, meh.
Melody is nice, have a good time listening to it, but the harmony is boring.
A bit sleepy and lyric-laden, but stories told are detailed and imaginative
Inoffensive, but unmemorable. I do like the title, though. Fav new track: Chemtrails Over The Country Club
Not a great singer
Some nice, sparse songwriting.
7/10
Obviously good at what she does; its just not for me!
Almost gave this a higher rating, but some of the lyrics are cheesy af…but maybe that’s part of her appeal?? Idk
Buena voz para canciones melancólicas y profundas. Una línea bastante clara en cuanto al contenido. No experimenta. Para descubrir tranquilamente. Me han parecido algunas canciones algo parecidas
Lana Del Rey’s deal is so tiring these days
Thought I was going to be completely taken a minute in to the opening track. What follows is often uninspiring, boring, and corny. RYM: N Saved a song: N
The first and maybe biggest problem here is that I don't like her vocal performance on most of the tracks on this album. Generally, it's weak and wispy, like a dissipated cloud. And the music is just barely there. There are a few artists that I like despite employing a similar minimalistic approach, but here it just doesn't do much for me. The guitar parts are surprisingly nice when you can pick them out, shimmering and slinking along behind the mouthful of cotton gauze that is the rest of the music. In contrast to the guitars, the piano just plods along without the tiniest hint of musicality. It's much better when she uses something closer to her full voice, like on "Let Me Love You Like a Woman," "Dance Till We Die," and "For Free." Just to show that I am a self-contradicting, complex character, I will say that I do like "Yosemite" which has more of a delicate, airy feel. Since there's not much appealing to the music or the vocals, I was thinking maybe the lyrics are good. Listening to the first song I was wondering why she has to say "Down at the Men in Music Business Conference" so many times. It doesn't flow well. But then I thought, maybe that's the point? Unfortunately, that might be the peak lyrically. A lot of the lyrics are like the music, evocative at times but mostly insubstantial, at worst awkward and lazy. From the title track: "Drag racing my little red sports car I'm not unhinged or unhappy, I'm just wild" "Under the chemtrails over the country club, yeah You're born in December and I'm born in June" I guess being wild is her theme song. References to astrology, the archetype of feeling meaningful despite not having any meaning at all. Here's anther track, "Wild at Heart": "I left Calabasas, escaped all the ashes, ran into the dark And it made me wild, wild, wild at heart The cameras have flashes, they cause the car crashes But I'm not a star If you love me, you'll love me 'Cause I'm wild, wild at heart If they love me, they'll love me 'Cause I'm wild, wild at heart" When the album finished, another song came on Spotify: "I get wild on you, baby I get wild and fuckin' crazy like you never knew, knew, knew I get wild on you, baby I get wild and fuckin' crazy like the color blue, ooh-ooh" The lyrics range from impressionistic to overly concrete. Sometimes there are a lot specific details, quotes from other songs, and various cultural references that don't add anything in particular to the overall meaning of the song. They refer to things without saying anything about them. "Summer, sizzling Listening to jazz out on the lawn Listеning to White Stripes when thеy were white-hot Listening to rock all day long" The first part is obviously a reference to Joni Mitchell's "The Hissing of Summer Lawns," an obvious influence, but any specificity gets lost when jumbled in with the other lines. I think the main point of this song is her wondering if maybe she was better off when she was young and naïve, but the way it is put together is awkward and lazy. I mean, I guess "listening to rock all day long" is something you might do when you are young and naïve, but come on... While "listening to jazz" is something someone might say because they don't know jazz so it's all just "jazz," listening to rock is something no one would say unless they are older than a baby boomer or younger than 5. It sounds stupid coming from the mouth of the narrator of this song about the music business! "Yosemite" also plays on this theme of naivete: "Seasons may change But we won't change Isn't it sweet how we know that already?" Obviously, we aren't meant to take that at face value. But instead of making it tempting to believe, to have some tension between the naivete and cynicism before pulling the rug out from under us, she immediately makes the narrator sound stupid. "Not All Who Wander" is just a bumper sticker followed by a bunch more clichés. This (and the astrology from a philosophy graduate who specialized in metaphysics) makes me start to wonder if there's not a deeper layer of cynicism behind these songs. Like she comes up with a basic concept for a song, free associates a bunch of words, puts the words into lines without considering how the lines work together, then calls it done because she cares that little about it. "It's beautiful how this deep normality settles down over me I'm not bored or unhappy, I'm still so strange and wild" I've enjoyed plenty of music with stupid lyrics, but usually the lyrics were fun to sing or shout along with because the music was fun. That's not the case here. I'm giving this album a 2 because I think the music deserves a 2. She has a good voice and can sing if she tries. I don't usually pay a lot of attention to lyrics unless they are particularly good or particularly bad. If I hadn't paid so much attention to the lyrics to write this review, they wouldn't have bothered me. Essential listen: no Desert island disc: no
I love the title track but I struggle to stay interested in the rest. Why is this on here if it's her worst album?
This soft, breathy vocal thing does not work for me.
I am going to assume that my lack of knowledge of everything that came before this album is a big part of the problem here for me. I have been aware of her career from reasonably early on. I can figure out the kind of things that I have been buying that has resulted in me being bombarded with algorithmic recommendations of her albums. I’m not sure what it has been that has stopped me from exploring her work, but it’s been quite instinctual and honestly, more often than not, that has been a reliable barometer. The thing is though, whatever I had assumed that Lana Del Rey would sound like (and the few encounters I’ve had with her music over the years has done nothing to dissuade me of that assumption) this album is different. I was expecting a combination of Sharon Van Etten, Waxahatchee, Weyes Blood, Julien Baker (and other sad indie girls), plus maybe a touch of Joanna Newsom. That might be happening on earlier LDR albums, but today, listening to ‘Chemtrails Over the Country Club’ I heard a singer/songwriter halfway between Angel Olsen and a beatless Lady Gaga but a lot less engaging than either. Fans, I expect, would be appalled by that, but they should be more appalled that I was simply bored. You could say I just don’t get it, but I get and enjoy all the other names I’ve mentioned. It probably makes more sense in the context of her other albums, and if you’ve “grown with her”, but I have to react to what I’ve heard and this album did little for me. I tried making it work by focusing on the lyrics, but they sounded like someone who believes everyone should be hanging off her every word because it’s all so profound. I was not convinced. I could go back and start at the beginning, educate myself and maybe enjoy this album more after trawling through 5 or 6 other albums, but I’m not that arsed so I’ll just go back to awaiting the next Weyes Blood album.
The soporific virtues of Hollywood sadcore. If you like this sort of thing then this is exactly the sort of thing you’ll like.
An undeserved spot on the list. Boring. Not bad but just samey and boring. If you like that kind of thing then carry on but really? 1001 greatest Albums ever? No...
100% vibes 0% melody
Oh, a modern album. Those are rare. I think Lana Del Ray has better albums that this one. My luck would be Born to Die or Ultraviolence. White Dress is an ok song though I find the lyrics don't fit the melody well personally. Chemtrails has a weird autotune sound. Tulsa Jesus Freak is just a bad song. Let me love you Like a Woman is probably my top pick of the album. I understand why people like LDR though I would prefer to listen to Lorde or Courtney Barnett or Adele or any number of other similar artists. This is sad girl music to pack magic cards.to.
678/1001 2026.08.12 😴😴🌑🌑🌑
Litt kjedelig for å være ærlig. Skulle gjerne likt dette bedre, hun har andre bra låter 🤷
I thought I liked Lana del Ray but this sounded like one long song
Things I know about Lana Del Rey (for some reason): she married a regular dude who is a gator fan boat tour captain in Louisiana?
2.25 - I LOVE two LDR albums and I like a few others okay. On first listen, this one is no where near as good as what I've heard before.
Like many Lana records a strong few songs to start off, dissipating into a slower second half, some duets to keep things interesting that dont necessarily land
Ok, I really hate the whisper singing. This is just too grating. Definitely not the audience for this.
Another contempo! Another contempo! It's been too long since the last 2020s album. Okay, maybe not. Evermore was only 46 albums ago, though the gap was way longer before that. This is my second-last contempo album. Given that they're exceedingly rare (0.46% chance of rolling an album released in the 2020s) I like to think my week is blessed whenever I pull one of these. Hopefully those chemtrails will lead me to a lucky pot of gold. Anyways, I don't know anything about Lana Del Rey other than that Radiohead's management got on her ass a few years ago for plagiarising Creep in one of her songs, which is a somewhat strange thing for Thom to approve given his flippant nature towards that song. Guess he's gotta defend all of his music lest someone starts pilfering the post rock guitars from How to Disappear Completely. Anyways, I'm curious to know what Del Rey's music sounds like. My impression has always been that she's a breathy, adult contemporary singer. Eeyup. A breathy, adult contemporary singer she is. This is discount Taylor music, I'll be honest. Del Ray reaches for hollow falsettos more than adept songwriting or competent instrumentals, and it shows. The lyrical content is kind of annoying. I'm not sure if it's because of or in spite of stan culture, though I've noticed that a lot of late-2010s/early-2020s girly pop albums center themselves around insipid subject matters and petty interpersonal squabbles. The intent is clearly to make these artists more relatable and human to their audience, though the problem with such an approach is that most of these pop artists have been immersed in entertainment since childhood or hail from parents with ties to showbusiness, which obviously stunts their ability to relate to the average human experience. Most of these kinds of songs are also ghostwritten, though to Del Rey's credit that doesn't appear to be the case with her music. I'm not normally a stickler for lyrics, though the bottom line is that they have to be in service of a good song, which these unfortunately aren't. Like I said earlier, Del Rey constantly reaches for breathy, weightless, falsetto performances without any of the songwriting chops to make these performances land. As a result, many of these songs ring empty and hollow, which causes much of the album to blend together into a grey mush. The instrumentation isn't anything to write home about, though I suppose it's competent. The alternative guitars occasionally have a pleasing sound, the pianos guide many of the songs in a competent direction and the acoustic guitars provide some much-needed variety on the few songs where they feature though that's just about all this music is. "White Dress" is also pretty fucking annoying. I had to get that last bit off my chest before I closed out this review. Anyways, yeah. This album wasn't offensively bad, though I did think it was offensively not good. I don't have a scan of the 2021 book, so I'm moseying right on down to Wikipedia to deduce why this album is in here. Let's see. Del Rey's fifth top-five album in the US. Critics were favourable to the album and it made a few best-of lists. It had a very strong chart performance, making the top ten in 26 of the 29 countries where it charted in addition to topping the charts in 6 countries. The year-end placements were surprisingly tame in comparison to the weekly charts. It landed the year-end charts in 7 countries, notably being the 27th best-selling album in the US, the 48th in Belgium and the 76th in Switzerland. Hmm. Lana Del Rey definitely appears to be a prominent act, though I'm doubtful that this is her most significant, career-defining release. "Norman Fucking Rockwell" appears to be the more critically lauded and commercially successful release when looking at the Wikipedia page. As a result, I'm pretty sure this album is only in here because it was newer when the 2021 book was published. That isn't a good enough reason to justify this album over what is obviously her career highlight, so we're swapping this one out for NFR. I switcharoo this inclusion.
Logan - 2/5 Seth - Didn’t listen
I was all set to give this a 3 for leaving me unmoved but not sounding bad. I decided to give it another shot and listen to the lyrics more carefully. Now here we are.
Lana fan, definitely her worst album
I have complicated feelings over Lana Del Rey as well as this album. Knowing this album was on the 1001 list of albums feels disingenuous when the list and album came out at the same time. It furthers the claims of Lana Del Rey being an industry plant who continues to be shown preferential treatment as such. But beside all of this, it’s particularly egregious to see Chemtrails Over the Country Club be placed on this list when Born to Die covers the same disillusioned Americana themes as this album does and (in my opinion) does so in a better fashion. Lana Del Rey is not a bad musician. But I don’t believe this album deserves to be listened to over her other ones. Breathy, repetitive, and weak compared to some of her other songs. 9/1001
Supremely mid. Not my thing at all and a lot of it just ends up blending together.
I’m surprised Lana Del Rey made the list, but THIS is the album that made it? Not Born to Die? Woof.
Sounds like someone is stepping on a mouse.
This album just feels very muted, it never actually takes off. Just hanging around the launch pad, singing about love and about loneliness. She's got quite a nice voice, but it gets a bit samey after 20 minutes. Sorry Lana.
This isn’t bad but it all feels quite generic
Oh, so this is what she sounds like. It's so bland and generic. Forced breathy vocals over some nicely manicured tunes. No thanks on to the next one.
First time I listened to Lana Del Rey. She has a nice voice, but I didn't feel much variation in the songs. Kinda snoozed through it.
I have always liked what I've heard of Lana Del Rey, though I wouldn't really consider myself a fan. I've never heard this album but I basically know what to expect I think. Four songs in and so far all of these songs sound the same. She has a great voice but I want to hear her actually sing. I realized that all I've heard from her she just kind of does this breathy speaking thing. It's cool but maybe open up a bit once in a while. As a whole this album is pretty boring. It never takes off or goes anywhere, it's 11 songs that all have the same structure and tempo. It's a shame because I know that Lana Del Rey is capable of better. 2.25/5
Definitely an album for the fans. A few good songs but largely uninteresting. Lots of the songs had interesting moments, but they were hidden by several minutes of repetitive moaning. The title track was pretty good.
Lana Del Rey certainly is an excellent singer but her music … No, no, no! It's simply not interesting except maybe for going to sleep
I really like some of her other albums such as Born to Die. This was just a bit dullm
Rather bland
LDR is one of those contemporary artists that I feel like I'm supposed to know more about but I'm now an old man yelling at clouds. Anyways, this album didn't interest me in the slightest.
Sorry Lana das wird nix mit uns.
Good voice, but the songs are all slow and boring from this album
How was this included on the list? Every song sounds the same, which would be fine if the sound was good. Her voice being the only thing saving this from a 1 star. Had to listen to TOOL to finish out my day.
This album was a bit drab for me…
Pleasant enough but very bland. Plus I is from the ghetto so this LA rich chick music is not my scene, man.
Normally I don’t mind a bit of Lana but this one is ass
I like a few songs by Lana. None are on this. The songs on this are all nice enough but it's very boring and they all seem similar and come from the same place. I'll give a 2
Not a bad album but just didn't find anything that special about it.
Vocals are not for me.
Cool album cover, okay album
Not for me. I can see the vision though I guess.
This album does to NLOGs and Art hoes what Kind of Blue does to jazz cats. I see the importance of something like this to a young person. But I'm far too crtical for this feign attempt at artistic, mysterious and haunting piano melodies against a boring retelling of sad events. That being said production is mint, vocals were not bad. Songs were a little lackluster but can't win em all.
Wasn't a big fan of this one, I was kinda just waiting for it to be over. Lana Del Rey has a nice voice however.
I like this album less after hearing it in full. I am not the target audience, I know. Much of it sounds sterile, repetitive and tired. I feel tired after listening to it, which I believe is tied to the vocal style. The one song where she does show off her true singing voice is poorly written and doesn't come until about halfway through the album.
I did not hate it.
I don't hate Lana but I didn't necessarily love this. It feels like it's meant to be very close and intimate but her vocals are crazy processed, just made it feel a little dissonant on first rip. Might enjoy more on future listens.
Notable Textzeile: Meet you for coffee at the elementary schools We laugh about nothing as the summer gets cool It's beautiful how this deep normality settles down over me I'm not bored or unhappy, I'm still so strange and wild Ich habe neulich schon von Mittelmaß gesprochen und es ist wirklich bemerkenswert wie etwas 100 Mio Streams haben kann und dabei so unauffällig. Ich vermisse insgesamt Höhen und Tiefen bei diesem Album, nicht musikalisch, die Stimme geht ja schon oft ziemlich hoch - sondern emotional. Wenn es schon darum geht ruhige, die Gefühle betreffende Musik zu machen dann wäre es doch schön was zu haben was todtraurig ist, was was Hoffnung antäuscht und dann in die Tiefe fällt oder – Achtung verrücktes Konzept – sogar die kurzen Highs der vielen Lows des Lebens feiert. Gibt es nicht. So gibt es auch kein Song der richtig raussticht sondern perfekt produzierte, warme Mittelmäßigkeit, auch textlich. Das lustigste ist noch „Not all those who wander, It's just wanderlust“ - hätte witzig oder cool sein können, wenn es nicht mit so wie bedeutungsschwangerer Schwere vorgetragen würde.
Klingt ein wenig wie "nach den ersten starken Alben keine Energie mehr für Hits". Das klingt alles gut, aber warum das in der Liste ist - dont know. Sind dann alle andern Alben davor auch hier? Underwhelmed sowohl von LDR als auch von Antonoff.
Meh
Kinda bland
Mid chick album
I've never really liked Lana Del Rey. Sorry, I know that jeopardizes my basic white girl cred.
if you played me any one of these songs i think id really enjoy it. if you played two back to back id assume this was one really long song. there is very little variation between these songs and the slow tempo makes them feel like they drag on forever.
Great music for not me.
I can tell she’s got a great voice but doesn’t really use it, instead continuing to use a whispery, paper thin delivery which gets tiresome after half a dozen songs of it. Enjoyed the Joni track and its evocative music of a sepia toned time, but found it was a bit one-note after a while
I've only listened to Summertime Sadness, and never really got the Lana obsession that allows her to be somehow the ~32nd most streamed artist on Earth. And wow, what a fucking SNOOZEFEST. Piano ballad after piano ballad. Yeah, she can sing and the songs are very well written - but holy shit man, can I at least hear an instrument that isn't a piano? Maybe some drums? Anything? This is just straight sleepy bedtime music. 45 minutes going on 45 hours. I wanted to rate this at least a 3 but honestly I was so bored throughout the entirety of this thing I can't in good conscious give it anything higher than a 2.
She has a beautiful voice but her music is very slow.
u prvoj pjesmi (bleh) spominju se dva katastrofalna američka benda koja sam morao slušati zbog ove stranice: white stripes i kings of leon... super mudseter za ostatak albuma... (koji je ipak u konačnici nešto podnošljiviji od albumâ navedenih debila) ovaj album tipična je, dosadna i preproducirana pop-bezvezarija koju je napisao i producirao džek čifutkov, čovjek koji stoji iza gotovo svih suvremenih pop senzacija, pišući im dosadne i predvidive pop pjesmuljke. takav je i ovaj album, nevjerojatno dosadan, neoriginalan i prije svega gotovo u potpunosti lišen bilo kakve duše. šteta, jer del rey stvarno ima neloš glas. kao najmanje lošu pjesmu izdvojio bih »breaking up slowly«, sve ostalo je za bacit, osim možda posljednje stvari, obrade džoni mičel. dat ću velikodušno labuda, iako bih najradije dao kečinu jer ovaj album predstavlja problem golemog monopola na suvremenoj (američkoj, ali zbog njihove kulturne dominacije svjetskoj) glazbenoj sceni, gdje gotovo sve popularne pjesme piše svega šačičica odavna uguženih ljudi
Beautiful voice, and she's clearly going for an Emily Lou Harris vibe here. But, man, could she have made the song tempos any slower?! Waiting for anything interesting to happen in these songs is like waiting for honey to drip off a spoon. Agonizingly downbeat no matter how sweet it sounds.
i just don't like this genre
Just a bit too breathy for me in the vocals and a bit slow.
Born To Die was right there.
Kinda boring to be honest. Lana has one song that I really like and it isn't on here. Also, chemtrails aren't real. Everything's a conspiracy if you don't understand basic science.
Olipa jotenkin tosi tylsiä ja mitäänsanomattomia kappaleita ja mää kummiskin tykkään folkista. Vaikka tää onkin sitä tosi rajalla. Ja yleensä en kiinnitä huomioita sanoihin kauheasti, mutta niitäkin särähti tässä typerästi. Laulutyyli ja jotenkin se lausumistyylikin ärsytti. Petyin. Parhaat: Wild At Heart
i’ve tried multiple times to get into lana del rey but i never seem to be able to. although some of these songs were sort of beautiful, they didn’t hold my interest at all
Difficult to do a rating for this one. I absolutely hated the first song and even needed to skip it half way through. Which has not happened yet. Other songs were kind of okay, even good. I just did not like the singer's voice. Especially how she sang, it was very breathy. Not for me.
There was music playing for the last 45 minutes? Huh. I remember nothing.
Indistinct mumbling with no form or substance, to be used exclusively as a sleeping aid
Pleasant enough but way too sleepy for my preference.
This would hit if I was a depressed teenage girl but I'm not
OK c 'était archi chiant
A popstar who dreams of being a tradwife on Quaaludes who dreams of being Bonnie in Bonnie and Clyde. I'd say it's much ado about nothing, but it's really not worth disturbing Shakespeare for.
Prefer Lana Del Rabies. Never really bothered with Del Rey based on the odd track I've heard but this isn't horrible and I wouldn't turn it off if it came on the radio. Just not something I'd expect to be on a list of albums to listen to before I die.
I’ve tried to get into Lana Del Rey in the past and I just don’t get it. Not that it’s bad, she’s clearly a good songwriter and singer, but listening to her music does absolutely nothing for me. There was like 20 seconds in the second half of Dance Till We Die where drums come in and I started thinking there could be something here, but they quickly disappear again and the song returns to the same boring, melancholic drone.
This isn’t a bad album. I know starting like that isn’t amazing, but I enjoyed relatively significant parts of it. It’s like all of her nostalgia, rockability, big hair, mournful music. My problem is despite the best efforts of one Lana and one Jack A, I just want to listen to Norman fucking Rockwell; an album which does the exactly same thing but better and stronger. Like I don’t know why I would ever listen to this over that, and that this came second is even weirder to me. Like you did it! Stop trying and do something else; not this again. It’s the gap year hanging around the high school; which would be a Lana nostalgia song.
Just could not get into the album. There’s too much one note sound throughout every song.
First track seemed incredibly long, then o realised I was on track 5. Very much a one trick pony. Wasn't terrible, but not for me.
Was looking forward to listening to a Lana album. I hoped for more than I got. All too one dimensional and slow. She has a great voice for sure, although she sometimes uses it a bit weirdly for my taste. Just sing! Left me uninspired.
New rule, if I'm adding a song to my playlist and feeling pretty whatever about how I decide then I think that means 2 stars
I listened to this whole album and didn’t realize I’d listened to a whole album. There is artistry here and she is clearly talented. But the whole think blended into 12 extremely similar sounding songs. I can only listen to mumble core over fanciful indie tracks so many times. Sorry Lana.
Not my genre
I cannot figure out how to rate this ... some of it was nice, all of it was the mush-mouthed over-reverbed pandemic-era apartmentcore that I just don't care for.
Felt monotonous and hard to distinguish tracks, not the Lana del Rey album I'd choose
This just wasn’t made for me
Just sad slop. Generic and inoffensive
Ennuyeux… un petit 2 mais tout juste
J'écoutais plus trop Lana Del Rey à la sortie de cet album-là et cette écoute me confirme que j'ai rien raté, ses précédents étaient bien plus intéressants methinks !!
Lana Del Rey is trying. I appreciate the effort, even as it sometimes tests my patience in a focused listen, but maybe she intends to resist such a mode? Let Me Love You Like a Woman and other tracks occasionally drift up from the generally gauzy feeling to elevate the album. Del Rey doesn't want you to know how hard she's trying as she mines fragility... she tries to embody a delicate sensation of soft, airy protection. She wants to be the veil between raw vulnerability and healing. I feel an intention in her music to envelop the listener, to wrap around us — and yet it often operates as hazy background instead. It's these contradictions that make the record greater than the sum of its parts while it also leaves me ambivalent.
Chemtrails Over the Country Club talvez tenha sido o álbum que mais tenha representado a experiência Lana Del Rey na minha vida até o momento. Eu estava muito empolgado para ouvir o álbum por ser o sucessor de Norman Fucking Rockwell, mas ele me decepcionou muito na época. Eu lembro de gostar de algumas faixas, mas, na verdade, ao longo dos últimos 4-5 anos eu não havia retornado a escutá-lo até ele aparecer nessa lista. Conforme vi que ele foi sorteado para o dia de hoje, fiquei surpreso e decidi escutá-lo - infelizmente, ele envelheceu ainda pior do que foi na época. Até mesmo as músicas de que eu havia gostado se tornaram bem entediantes. É certamente o pior álbum da Lana e eu não consigo entender a presença dele nessa lista quando NFR, Born to Die, Ultraviolence e Lust for Life existem. Por era, a Lana proporcionou memes e entretenimentos históricos que deixaram o álbum mais "palatável" na época - infelizmente, é um álbum que não vence o teste do tempo. 2/5.
Better than expected … but still fairly mediocre.
Feels really weird hearing Lana without any EDM backtrack being stuffed ten deep in a small, absolute mid bar that puts the tables up at night and tries to turn into a club. Really feels like this album got thrown in here purely based on name recognition. And I get it, it’s really hard to write history while it’s happening, but this one’s just a miss. Every song is just about the same piece of melodramatic copy pasta.
- Very croony and not to my taste at all
Have never really listened to her before. She is talented, but the vibe and mood of this album just didn't do it for me. Too slow and the near whispering of the vocal became tiresome after a while. 2.5/5 Won't listen again
Came after Paranoid, which as many write was the easiest 5. After the first song I thought that's clearly a 1, could not skip on the way so listen on. All i,n it's amateurish at best. But taken as a historical document on the COVID era it has is Existenzberechtigung
Bits of it are fine, I guess, but Video Games aside*, I never really got the hype. *obviously not on this record
Pretty boring. Her voice is sometimes OK, but there were pretty obvious uses of autotune used. Not my thing, but I can see why some would like this. 2.5/5
out of all of lana's albums, why THIS one? It's such a nothing album.
The constant mumbling seems completely uninterested and doesn't catch me in any way. I don't get its significance, but maybe it's just not for me.
can't hear completely due to is so boring
Might get some hate for this but she’s always been boring to me
boring
4/10
I've never been so bored. I'm not sure she has been either.
Lana feels like a chameleon artist. She sounds like a lot of other similar artists and she has talent, but I think I would rather listen to the original she is mimicking. Not a slam against her per se, but nothing she has made has ever hit with me. Admittedly I'm not into female pop stars that much either.
This was massive surprise for me I had a very different impression untill listened to this album
Boring music about a milieu that leaves me cold.
Not my style/tempo
I've heard worse. Not a fan of this one.
Got a little Swifty there for a bit.
One song - fine. A whole album? Not fine. I started to listen to this in the morning before work and I swiftly turned it off as it wasn't a very moral-boosted pre-work listen. I listened to it after work and feel low, depressed and beaten. One song - if I have to. A whole album? Never again.
This was pretty boring. I’ve enjoyed some LDR in the past, but none of that was here.
All sounds the same.
Not impressive…well, fine instrumentally I guess.
Not my type Muy low suspiros
This only makes sense to listen to if you’re depressed or if it’s a gloomy day and you want to mope. All of the songs sound about the same - slow, wailing, melancholic. It reminds me of Taylor Swift’s evermore album except the songs on this album are forgettable. (2)
I really dislike this genre of wistful, breathy, sighing 'singing'. It sounds so pathetic and downtrodden. I prefer female singers with at least a degree of strength in their voices. A shame, because this app seems to have relatively few female solo artists.
I may just still be traumatized by that initial SNL performance, but I really dislike this. Like Taylor Swift fell asleep and kept making music.
Too breathy and meandering for me
The songwriting is better than I expected but I am not at all keen on her delivery which appears overly aloof and bored at times - though it appears that she is intentionally putting this on because it is either expected of her or because it is her ‘thing’ rather than her preferred method of delivery. The songs got more tired by the end but that could just be because the dynamic range used was quite flat; there are only so many plodding, melancholy ballads that I could really stand in one sitting.
too much for an entire album
Damn this album really had like 10 seconds of exciting music.
I like Lana, this album has some good ones but not my fav. 2.5
Slow paced and boring
Incomprehensible why this album is so high. 2/5
Lana Dull Rey. Lovely voice. Boring music.
Some of the songs are somewhat interesting on their own. But holy liftin' what a slog it is to get through this thing as a whole. An absolutely dull, plodding experience.
MIksi ihmeessä tämä levy? varmaan tullut ulos juuri ennen kirjan julkaisua, eikä edes parhaiten arvioitu del Rayn levy. Lisäksi levynä hyvin yksipuolinen -- olisiko ollut liikaa pyydetty laittaa yksi menevä kappale? 2/5
While pleasant enough, Chemtrails Over the Country Club feels flat, offering little variation or emotional payoff.
as much as Lana Del Rey's shtick can wear on a person, normally she can string together a pretty good experience lyrically and musically. this doesn't quite hit the mark, and kinda reeks of that pandemic-era consistently annoyed mood. could stand to sound a bit less nondescript too. deserves to be one of the 1001? i think Lana deserves at least one album on here, i would probably do two, but this being the choice is bizarre. i can only chalk it up to recency bias because there's no way this has the impact or acclaim that Born to Die, Ultraviolence, or Norman Fucking Rockwell! do. tldr: no.
I was swearing that I will not be listening to any other Lana del Rey album after she let me down after NFR, and here we are, accapting the challenge. I only liked Yosemite and I even saved it to my library, which is shocking to me. But I stand my ground, this album is shit compared to her previous works. Boring, slow, without any significant melodies or sounds.
Didnt really care for it- some nice songs with a lot of songs thay droned on and sounded similar. Im just not a hufe fan of Lana's style. Overall 2.5/5- not quite a 3
Not for me
Es como pollo sin sazonador, arroz blanco y verduras hervidas. Una comida entera sin sabor. Y sin un vaso de agua, te vas a ahogar escuchando esto.
Wanted to like to but just was a little boring
Disappointing followup to Norman Fucking Rockwell, which is her best work by a lot. This album meandered and bored me. I don't particularly like her breathy way of singing, it works sometimes but really overdone here. Let Me Love You Like a Woman is really good, and Dance Till We Die is great. For Free is also pretty good.
Primeiro álbum que escuto dela e a grande maioria das músicas pareceu a mesma coisa. Uma grande melancolia.
Niet echt mijn muziek
There's four or five different Lana Del Rey albums that I could name off the top of my head, even as someone who's totally unfamiliar with her work. This is not one of them, and I don't think I've even heard any fans of her mentioning its name before! I guess I just don't understand why this one's here and not Born to Die or Ultraviolence, which I associate with the indie-er girls I went to high school with, and which I think were fairly important in the direction 2010s music took? Anyway, this is fine but kind of boring. It's got me feeling like I need to check out Born to Die and Ultraviolence, so it's not a total loss of a day, I guess?
sybau <3
Some good songs but overall a bit repetetive and boring
1.5
Put me to sleep.
Singer Songwriter, 50 eme album => 2/5 Pas désagréable, mais (évidemment) trop basé sur le chant. L'accompagnement est plutôt en retrait, je me suis ennuyé assez vite. Pas de seconde écoute envisagée.
Still not my style. This is better than other artists of a similar style, but it's just not for me.
I feel like I try to like Lana more than I actually do.
Some interesting moments floating in undeserved pretentiousness.
The high, wispy singing in White Dress is some of the worst sounds I've heard on this journey so far. The rest of the album was inoffensive enough to pull out two stars, but no songs on here I'll listen to again.
I could see how people my age like her music, but it's just not for me.
This breathy whisper singing is not my thing. Extremely tedious to get through. The compositions and melodies are nice but the bedroom production style of modern pop doesn’t do it for me.
4/10
beetje traag he Lana
- Tja. Niet slecht gezongen, maar niet echt mijn ding. - 0 nummers toegevoegd aan MMMM - 0 nummer al toegevoegd aan MMMM
4/10 Exhausting
Lyrics are interesting, but most of her songs sound the same. Not for me.
She always comes across like she has no respect for her fans and this album wasn't that interesting.
never understood the love for lana del rey and her boring music
Lyrically sound but musically underwhelming like most ldr albums.
Boring, but otherwise mostly not bad.
I have never heard this album before today. My girlfriend is a fan and owns several of her albums but this is not one of them. It's pretty standard Lana Del Rey music. No big hits that blew me away but plenty of good songs with here signature style. It's probably not something that I would listen to all the time but I enjoyed it this time around.
Boring.
Not a bad album by any means, just a total snooze fest. Production can't be faulted though
Generally hadn't listened to much of her work and assumed I wouldn't like it, but was pleasantly surprised.
Hard to put my finger on why, but this one doesn’t grab me. I was pretty bored throughout.
ever heard of versatility
Wispy, soft and soporific.
Do not vibe with the sad cali girl music
Recent album from an artist I have heard of. But idk, Lana Del Rey isn’t for me.
booooring
I didn’t get far. Not a fan of whisper singing.
Track 1: The line "Down at the Men In Music Business Conference" sounds like something out of a Flight of The Conchords song. I appreciate the sentiment of wishing for simpler times. Nice atmosphere. Her vocals carry the dynamics, and the instrumentation is just bedding. Makes sense given the genre, but I wish she or the instruments let rip a bit more for that final chorus. Track 2: Musically, a better attempt at what track 1 did. Better peak. Lyrically, prefer track 1. Had to confirm what this song was about and still didn't resonate much. There's probably more of a story there, but it was a bit impenetrable to me. Seemed more focused on turns of phrase. Fair enough. That drum outro wasn't interesting and served no dramatic purpose. Let the song just end. Track 3: Appreciate a bit of a tempo change. Lyrically, most interested in this one so far. Musically, solid but not super noteworthy. To the point. Get in, get out. Track 4: A simple song. Probably the simplest so far, both lyrically and musically. It's crystal clear. My favorite so far. The only one I've added to a playlist. And not just any playlist, a dear playlist. I've lived in LA. This brought me back there. I could feel that drive to escape it. To adventure away from it with the one I love. I felt the Pacific Ocean's massive presence beside me. Track 5: Good song. Again, solid. Not super noteworthy, but that's fine. Mostly, I need to go rewatch Wild At Heart now. Digging the vibe of the album, but definitely need to be in a particular mood. Track 6: Mixing it up a bit. And not only that, mixing the song itself up a bit. Nice. Almost like a prog pop song. Track 7: Maybe a better song in isolation. As the seventh track, quite underwhelming. And I'm a sucker for songs about the road and wanderlust. But the themes, vibe, and sound pallette feel like we've already explored them. The only new idea is the random production dialogue snippets. And they don't sound interesting or uplift the song in any way. Track 8: The other track to go into that dear playlist. Smoldering. Just like the campfire atmosphere. Mariee Sioux-like. Again, transports me to the forests of California. I have been to Yosemite. Been on top of Half Dome. Marveled at the Sequoias. Deer in Tuolumne. Braved the canyon traffic. But this really brought me back to those campfire reposes after a day of adventure. Being together and basking. Track 9: Not feeling this one. In a world of break-up songs, this one feels mundane. Nothing really interesting here, melody, lyrics, instrumentation, all kind of whatever. Especially coming off that last track. And unlike Track 7, I think I would feel the same were I to hear it in isolation away from the album. Least favorite. Track 10: Nope. This is my least favorite. Track 9 was boring. This one I find boring and tone deaf. What is it even about? She hangs out with her heroes. But again, fame is hard everybody. But I'll keep struggling on....while name-dropping Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, Stevie Nicks, and Courtney Love. I even read she played this for Joan Baez at a dinner with her. A bit of the Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee thing here. Rich people complaining, and really about their privilege. Normally, I'm more tolerant than most. I understand that's now their perspective and they can't help it. That's the lens they have. But what is the conflict here? This song seems pointless. It might fit the album's theme and what Lana is struggling with, but the delivery doesn't land. Plus, the song isn't interesting musically. The new idea it brings with that bridge section just sounded like a flat Fiona. More Yosemites, please. Track 11: Best lyrics on the album. Well, they are Joni's and she is hard to top. Good cover. Would rather listen to Joni's. A perfect way to express exactly what I felt the last song failed at expressing. There is a way to tell a story, and express and receive sympathy when your hardships come from being in an envious position. That's your life now. Joni shows how her life has changed, but maybe she hasn't. Still sees things the same as she would before. A perfect thematic bowtie. However it may have upstaged Lana's own efforts to express the same theme. It's like closing a landscape photographer's exhibit with a picture he took of an Ansel Adams. Closing: Where Lana shines for me is in exploring place and relationship dynamics. I think she does well in a dialogue with herself explaining her relationship. In isolation of explaining herself, mixed results. Overall, I like the atmosphere of the album, but musically wasn't super impressed. More tone poem, which is fine. I like the tone. When she lands the theme of the song and the vibe, the song hits. She is the best instrument on the album. Beyond that, I remember some piano bits, but they are just doing a melody her voice will do anyway. 2 standout tracks. 1 great cover, but I credit Joni. 5 decent tracks of varying success. 1 meh. And 2 duds. Replayability feels non-existent for me except for the 2 standouts. I appreciate it. Glad I listened. Will listen to more Lana. She is now on my radar. There's enough here for me to see that she has something, but might work better for me with a different producer. But for my first Lana, this was probably a 2 out of 5. 2 is decent/good. As many problems as successes, canceling a a fair bit out, leaving behind a lot of mixed successes. Also not in a go-to genre for me, so take that into account.
This is #day428 of my #1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie challenge, and… if this book is about albums you must hear before you die, then this one clearly isn't. I do have a sentiment toward another of her records, Ultraviolence, since it contains a song that soundtracked me and my then-future wife's relationship, but that's about it. So, not giving it a 1, I'll award an extra star for that sentiment. This is a 2 out of 5. Looking forward to #day429.
Boring.
The lyrics were interesting and she's a good story teller but the music was boring. Personal enjoyment: 2/5 Relevance to this list: 1/5
Not a fan.
The only song of hers I know is "Video Games" which I really love despite its flaws. Sadly, it wasn't on this mediocre album.
This is ok. I like two or three of her albums to include "Born to Die" much more. This isn't bad but its nothing special.
Arrastado e enfadonho, apesar de seu instrumental caprichado, especialmente as partes vocais que soam teatralmente "melosas". Fraco!
I just can’t quite get into Lana’s music. She’s like the blandest parts of stuff like Lorde or Taylor Swift (that may be decisive, idk). Her voice is great but I just found the album so boring and uninteresting.
Overrated
The way she sang the line “down at the Men In Music Business Conference” immediately made me think of Jermaine Clement singing “Team Building Exercise ‘99”. Couldn’t take it seriously from that point onwards (about 30 seconds into the opening track)
Got marginally better as it went on but was still a very long 45 minutes
Pleasant enough in the right context I suppose, but very samey, and the gym was not the right context.
Goes on a bit. Seems like she needs a drink
Pretty dull. I forgot I was listening to it at one point
I do like Lana Del Ray and I think the opening two tracks are great - she can write a really great chorus. But then the album sort of peters out and gets a bit meh.
I get it, but I'm not into it.
Lana drones on about a trauma she imagines is universal, but mostly revolves around pools and sun and backyards. Sorry your ice cream melted. There’s one song near the end that features a beat and a pitch change, but it doesn’t last. The album ends with a cover of “For Free” that’s more plastic than a Chuck E. Cheese ball pit and requires the help of two others. Keep Joni’s name out your mouth, Lana.
Echoes of Gillian Welch
I was a little bit disappointed by this. I would have just preferred listening to Summertime Sadness on repeat instead
not what i expected at all
Pretty, but damn near unlistenable. Feel like I’d have to be depressed, on heroin, and numb in a unique way to enjoy this
You could make the case for pretty much any other Lana album to be included - the universally loved Norman Fucking Rockwell was right there! - but Chemtrails Over the Country Club is probably the worst choice. Apart from Wild at Heart none of the songs are particularly good or even memorable, it's some of the weakest writing and I feel like even the biggest Lana defenders don't care for it. Yet another baffling entry in this project.
Apple Music gives 1-5 “Essential Albums” when you get an artist search result. Lana had two Essentials, neither of which was this one. It doesn’t happen often that the 1,001 album isn’t an Essential and sometimes that ends up being cool — an overlooked gem. This isn’t one of those. Lame songs, pretentious lyrics, they sounded to me like more recent Taylor Swift eras throwaways. I listened to another of her albums awhile back and it was much better than this.
Some nice melodies and moments, but tooooo samey for my taste :(
I'm generally not really into rap, but this is some great stuff.
lana del not slay
Was going to go 3 stars because, though not my taste, I can respect the art. But the longer I listened, the less I admired it. Only exception is the duet because it at least added some variety of sound.
Beige music. Absolutely terrible
Wow she has some pipes. Each song was challenging, I was either inspired by the sparseness of the production, then the over production, then a line would catch me by surprise. I see why this so talked about. Unfortunately not for me.
Haunting vocals and great instrumentals but mostly boring lyricism and not a catchy hook in earshot
I didn't really care for the whispery breathy style of singing, and wondered if I was going to get through the album during the 1st song. None of the songs really captured my attention.
Snore
She’s got a beautiful voice, no doubt about that... But absolutely nothing else happens in this album. I could barely finish. It’s the kind of bland, inoffensive music that coffee shop chains play in the background while hip customers pretend to work on their laptop. I listened at home, and by the end of the album I tried to order coffee from my wife. She was not pleased. Thanks, Lana. I'm still rating it a 2* for her voice. Now someone please give the lady some real music to sing to...
Boxer is my favorite my far, but this is
I wasn't really into this. There were maybe a few moments where a song caught my ear, but overall it's a style that I just didn't care for. It's interesting that it's considered a folk/Americana album. Lyrically I think that makes a kind of sense, but it mostly just sounded like a pop album to me, though maybe a bit more on the gloomier side. Many songs struck me very much as "I can hear this as background music for a contemporary dance piece on So You Think You Can Dance." 2.4/5
Какая-то заунывная попса
Ever if she lives on a airboat in the swamps now, for whatever reason, I just can't get down with Lana
Not for me. Didn’t know what to expect. I thought she was a younger pop star.
The album meanders and lacks any vibe. Some individual songs are ok and as an album doesn't command attention.
A lot of the songs feel pretty repetitive resulting in a somewhat bland album. Not sure if it merits inclusion in this list. Croony/moody vibes
Boring, bland, repetitive and over-produced. Nothing new or interesting. The breathy vocal is annoying. How does this qualify as an album you must hear before you die? 1.5/5. Raising to 2.
Lana Del Rey’s music has never really been my cup of tea. I could never get into the soft breathy style. Just for her influence on pop music Lana definitely deserves a spot on the list. Without her we would have no Billie Eilish. I’m just not sure this is the album of hers to include. I do, however, really like the song Wild At Heart.