No-Man's-Land
	No production credits
	Released on 1982
	US CHART POSITION #188
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F rom Nationalist Party pin-up girl to Tusken Raiderette in three-and-a-half easy, unbalanced steps. Which proved not be her lucky number, as few followed her to No-Man’s-Land. And so another promising star flickered and was gone, leaving Nina Hagen to carry the torch of Eastern European ice goddess on her lonesome. Lest I strike too elegiac a tone, let us marvel instead that Lene made it this far. I mean, the Lene Lovich sound essentially consisted of Ultravox + yodeling, not exactly a formula for success. And yet Lene and Les Chappell resisted the temptation to turn it into a pure, profitable novelty. Like Devo or Adam & The Ants, the Lene Lovich experience looked like a freakshow to some. To the disenfranchised who constituted her fans, however, the real freaks were the ones listening to John Cougar and REO Speedwagon. No-Man’s-Land might be reckoned her last proper album, since later releases were just infrequent blips on the radar screen. Not surprisingly, it sounds most like a Lene Lovich record, recycling many of the same sounds and effects from earlier efforts. The opening “It’s You, Only You (Mein Schmerz)” is a clear winner, but the rest of the record is more or less Lene being Lene. While it’s consistent in vision and execution with her previous works, No-Man’s-Land is no place for neophytes. In fact, Stateless might be all you need to scratch your Lovich. Fans will probably want to pick this up because of a general dearth of yodeling witches, but Fearless it ain’t.

TRACK LISTING

1. IT'S YOU, ONLY YOU (MEIN SCHMERZ)    (H.Sinzheimer/F.Bakker/A.Danielson/J.Voster/J.Tarenskeen/E.DeZwaan)    3:54
2. BLUE HOTEL    (M.Goldsand/Lene Lovich/Les Chappell)    3:42
3. FACES    3:32
4. WALKING LOW    3:20
5. SPECIAL STAR    4:39
6. SISTER VIDEO    (Jimmie O'Neil)    4:49
7. MARIA    3:03
8. SAVAGES    3:41
9. ROCKY ROAD    6:37
   
   CD reissue bonus tracks
   
10. NEW TOY
11. CATS AWAY
12. DETAILS
13. BLUE HOTEL (VERSION)
14. NEVER NEVER LAND
    
    All songs written by Lene Lovich/Les Chappell unless noted

CREDITS

LENE LOVICH -- voices, saxophone, trumpet, remix
LES CHAPPELL -- voices, guitar, synthesizer, remix, photography
MARK HAYWARD-CHAPLIN -- bass
JUSTIN HILDRETH -- drums
DEAN KLEVATT -- piano
JEFF SMITH -- synthesizer
BOGDAN WICZLING -- drums
Thomas Dolby -- synthesizer (9)
Jimmie O'Neil -- rhythm synthesizer, vocals (6)
Damian Korner, John Walls, Bryan Evans, Alvin Clark, Peter Rackham, Gordon Fordyce, Martin Rushent, Steve Nye -- engineers
Bob Clearmountain -- remix
Dick Wingate -- remix

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