Lana Del Rey's Best First Single

[Daenerys]

Curious to see thoughts on what this board feels is Lana's best first single.

Lana has released 9 first singles and has been in the music industry for over a decade. What would you consider her best first single out of her nine album releases? 

Video Games - Born To Die
Ride - Paradise 
West Coast - Ultraviolence 
High By The Beach - Honeymoon
Love - Lust For Life
Mariners Apartment Complex - Norman Fucking Rockwell
Let Me Love You Like A Woman - Chemtrails Over The Country Club
Blue Banisters - Blue Banisters 
Did You Know... - Did You Know... 

Feel free to rank them, or share the reasoning behind your choice. 

There's only one vote, so choose wisely. 

[rnb]

video games

[God]

1. Mariners Apartment Complex
2. West Coast
3. Love
4. Video Games
5. Blue Banisters
6. Ride
7. Don't forget me!!
8. High by the Beach
9. Let Me Love You Like a Woman

[SabrinaFan]

1. West Coast
2. Love
3. High by the Beach
4. Video Games
5. Blue Banisters
6. Mariners Apartment Complex
7. Ride
8. Did You Know
9. Let Me Love You Like a Woman

[Daenerys]

1. Video Games
2. Ride
3. West Coast
4. High By The Beach

These are her top 4 for me, and looking at the list all together makes me think that these are also her best albums in her discography. It mirrors how I see her artistic progression, from making breath-takingly emotional music to becoming more of a singer-song writer force in her subsequent albums. You can tell after the Honeymoon album in 2015, that she was starting to shift towards the lower-level production, and 60's and 70's kind of quiet sound scape of her later albums.

5. Love
6. Let Me Love You Like A Woman

I can't remember anything about the songs or melodies for Mariners Apartment Complex, Blue Banisters and Did You Know..., which I think is more reflective of her style on her last couple of albums.

I feel like Norman Rockwell, was the last album of hers I loved, but it's mostly because of the highs found on that record, more than the cohesive feel of them. That is replicated to a lesser extent with Lust For Life, Chemtrails Over The Country Club, and Blue Banisters. A lot of the material on her later albums is quite sleepy. It took me forever to get into Blue Banisters because of it, even though I think there are some good tracks on the album.

[1Q7]

West Coast 100%.

[#brayden]

"Love" is my favorite of the bunch.

[imbuemyblue]

I know I CANNOT be the only person with 'Ride' at number one?!?! Her magnum opus?! Be serious, people!

[Daenerys]

Feb 1, 2023 22:15:12 GMT -5 imbuemyblue said:

I know I CANNOT be the only person with 'Ride' at number one?!?! Her magnum opus?! Be serious, people!

The music video to me is better than the song for me. 

I think I also prefer the SOHN mix as well. 

[Ｓｏｕｎｄｃｌ🕤ｃｋ]

#1 Ride
#2 Mariners Apartment Complex
#3 Video Games
#4 West Coast
#5 Love

[Ernesto]

1. Love
2. Ride
3. West Coast
4. Video Games(2017)
5. Mariners Apartment Complex

[dbhmr]

Those first four are immaculate. Impossible to choose, so I went with the one that started them all.

[Glove Slap]

West Coast

[Mayman]

1. West Coast
2. Mariners Apartment Complex
3. Ride
4. Love
5. Did You Know That There's A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd?
6. Video Games
7. High By The Beach
8. Blue Banisters
9. Let Me Love You Like A Woman