Lene Lovich - I Think We're Alone Now

[jenbeckpdx]

The last couple sentences in the artist bio are particularly venomous. Obviously written by someone who is not a fan. Lena is an underground artist, and she has a huge following!

[jenbeckpdx]

You said wunderbar!!! I love Pennsylvania Dutch! It's so cute! Le sigh :)

[UDIEIGIGGLE]

Wunderbar.

[stuartshame]

Thanks for this! I introduced Lene at a club in London a few years back and was chatting to her backstage. She is lovely but totally totally bonkers!

[DomSezXL]

Why has it been uploaded with a minute of silence at the end?

[MichaelHansenFUN]

i remember this-thanks eric cleghorn

[arjanbg]

Pssss, I think we are alone now

[TheGockelgorski]

Sweet music. :)

[AzzarClarKyy95]

how can you think that this is better than Tiffany!! so not true, and besides this song didnt belong to either Lene or Tiffany, it belonged to Tommy James!!!

[locochack71]

Apenas la recuerdo era un niño cuando sonaba su música y ya me gustaba me parece recordar un vídeo de lene lovich cantando la de hey mickey que canta ahora toni basil bueno en los 80s por que lene lovich es de los 70s el vídeo lo vi en MEXICO en un programa estadounidense de vídeos musicales que se llamaba 20,20 ,en fin gracias por subir el vídeo.

[klaus8700]

ich fand sie immer sehr genial...hab alles von Ihr gesammelt...schon in der späten Schulzeit...nun bin ich 45 Jahre alt und sie hat grossen Erfolg in der Werbung mit Lucky Numner1

[Buzzcocks64]

OMG I now officially hate Belinda Carlisle. I didn't realise she had unashamedly ripped this off from one of the best punk birds in the business.

[megamollie9]

@Buzzcocks64 it was`nt Belinda Carlisle it was a girl called Tiffany.

[Buzzcocks64]

@megamollie9

Aha, thanks for the correction. You're absolutely right. I now officially hate Tiffany as well as Belinda Carlisle ;-)

[mctal474]

me encanta esta rola, pero no sabia que era la original con lene lovich,que ya deporsi me gustaba tanto gracias por subirla. saludos

[LeSelenite]

I never heard the original song but this is 100 times better than Tiffany! More inspiring and less pop, which is great.

[LTF6161]

A really great album. I bought it on a whim back in what? '79? Fantastic.

[JustLikeThatBird]

THIS is how a cover is done!

[pmurphypapirrin]

viejos tiempos muy buena cancion

[AlfieNoakesOhHo]

I want money, that's what I want

[Hollandia777]

Ha-ha-ha, "Tommy James & the Shondells"! xDD

[stephywilecat]

I love this arrangement better than Tiffany's and even the original by the Shondells. She captures the sexiness as well as the innocence of the lyrics, all the while giving it a 60s soul/girlgroup feel.

[ZLUGGO]

Brilliant. Tommy James & The Shondells recorded many excellent tunes.

[MsBkirk]

This is heaps better than Tiffany's hit version.

[adobePC]

@MsBkirk

I agree but is still sucks compared to the origial by Tommy James and the Shandels.

[cc1sportingtorver]

@MsBkirk Sure! Anyway, Tiffany was just a child when this came out :)

[Hanzey666]

@cc1sportingtorver Tiffany maybe wasnt even born when the original was written....

[walter4092]

@Hanzey666 tiffany was born in 70 i believe , this is the first time i heard this version and it s fantastic 

[Hanzey666]

@walter4092

Tommy James wrote this song in 1966 ,and Tommy James & The Shondells brought it out to become a hit

in 1967. You know ....the same guys as ,,Mony Mony,, & ''Crimson and Clover'' Big 60''s hits too !! Sometimes the ,kidds, nowadays dont know to well about such things. A few years back I was in a shop where played DonMcLean''s American Pie on the Radio in background. Two 16 years old were complaning about how this version ,Raped, Madonna''s awesome Hit-single..... Sad excample eeyh

[walter4092]

@Hanzey666 you re right and even i was an dj and following the charts since 66 , and have the song crimson and clover , i didn t kwow that .i m not a kid anymore , i m 57 now , but it s true what kind of music they re playing now

in my opinion it starded with the kids born after 1987 , look at the charts beginning 2003 , i stopped with searching after good songs , you dont find them , it s very sad , i grew up with Beatles , Stones , Move , The who ,

[helierguy]

@Hanzey666 Pure ignorance on there part. I'm a huge Madonna fan but I would never disrespect McLean's fantastic version & I believe I'm old enough and wise enough, I would hope, to know the diff. I was born in the 70's so 80's is really my era but I still love Bowie, Blondie, T Rex, Led Z, D Purple etc. But I was lucky that I had parents who introduced me to these artists. God help us with this new ''gen z''!!!!! Gen Y are pretty hit and miss in regard to knowing about musical history I mean.

[manygate10]

@MsBkirk Agree!

[Khultan]

 The beginning sounds like the chords of Pressure Drop. Anyway, this sounds really good.

[jannforever13]

I saw Lene Lovich in the early 80's at he HOT KLUB DALLAS TEXAS-

still is incredible

[Scandalizzy]

this is for shour the best version of this song

[FoolOfGods]

I think I prefer this to the Tiffany offering that has been so recently 'brought back from the dead' ... Brilliant!!

[mystoermerwithme]

I wasn't aware that one could study Lovich at university, but gymnastix obviously did. Cum laude.

[liberal185]

BEVERLY HILLS NINJA!

[bansheeeee]

wow, you are a well of knowledge on lene lovich. she was one of my favorites in the late 70's. i saw her at the wiskey (a go go), she was great live. her saxaphone skills were really impressive. thanks for all the info on her.

[EricKenyonRKC]

That was not Lene, that was Laura Logic, some sax tracks on X-ray Specs and a great album, Essential Logic, 1977.

[djscotty1111]

@bansheeeee 1st time I heard Luck Number LUuuuuuuuVED IT ! then saw the video and thought I'd like to have her child ! :))))

Much later on in life... met a girl as mad as she is ,introduced her to Lene on Youtube She loves her !!! Met Nina Hagen in NYC @ 911 2002 Now would that be a Concert !!!!

Cheers!

[gymnastix]

I met Lovich in 1980, when a music writer for the arts department (of which I was editor) of our college newspaper interviewed her.

She struck me as one of the more interesting and unique persons I've ever had the occasion to meet.

I recall her saying much of the inspiration for her original songs came from her dreams. She somewhat reminded me of an eccentric, high school drama teacher under whom I studied.

[gymnastix]

Lovich began writing songs for her debut solo album, "Stateless," with longtime collaborator and life partner, guitarist Les Chappell, and released several, successful records ("Lucky Number," "Say When," "Home," "New Toy," "The Blue Hotel") and a few albums between 1978-86.

[gymnastix]

In 1978 a British disc jockey submitted Lovich's recording of Tommy James & The Shondells' "I Think We're Alone Now" to Stiff Records co-founder Dave Robinson, who signed the eccentric singer/musician to his fledgling label , which included an impressive roster featuring Elvis Costello, The Damned, Ian Dury & The Blockheads, Nick Lowe and Madness, among others.

[gymnastix]

Lovich's pop music career began after her involvement with The Diversions, a funk group with several records released by Polydor, and her contribution of lyrics to the song "Supernature" by French percussionist and disco music performer Cerrone.

[gymnastix]

Lovich's career has been very diverse--she studied art/sculpture and performed with underground theater groups, sang in cabaret acts and played saxophone, even busking in the London "Tube."

She recorded screams for horror films, and was one of an invited crowd of thousands who performed a sing-along when Chuck Berry recorded his last, biggest and most notorious hit, "My Ding-A-Ling," in 1972 at the Lanchester Arts Festival at the Locarno Ballroom in Coventry.

[gymnastix]

Lovich (born Lili-Marlene Premilovich, her stage name a shortened version) did not, as some of the posts discuss here, grow up an Army brat, but was born in Detroit, Michigan (to a British mother and Serbian father) and raised in Hull, England. She & her siblings were brought to the UK by her mother, a result of her father's health problems.

[gymnastix]

This is much better than the cover by Tiffany, whose version relied upon echo/re-verb and other studio trickery to enhance her rather perfunctory vocal talent.

Nevertheless, Tiffany's version was a #1 record while the Tommy James & The Shondells' 1967 original (the definitive version) only peaked at #4 on the charts.

The ear-piercing back-up vocals (Lovich herself) as the song fades out are tremendous, almost as impressive as Minnie Riperton's on "Lovin' You."

[himself801]

You could have saved yourself some typing by logging the information that doesn't appear in the Wikipedia entry and referred people there for the rest.

That said, you could have mention that this was her first single A side and the B side was the first recording of "Lucky Number". The version of "Lucky Number" that was her second A side was the version recorded for "Stateless".

[madchives]

oh my thanks for posting this, have record somewhere,,,,,,,,,

[MarraBlue]

Hey Folks: On this CD, she sings this in Japanese! It is a trip! I think she was an Army brat who grew up in Japan. It's a very cool song.

[SurlyInsomniac]

She wasn't an Army brat and she didn't grow up in Japan. She grew up in America and England. Other than that I agree with everything you said ;)

[alan8653]

Was there EVER a video for this great song????