Customer Reviews

March

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March has a few great songs and the rest fall flat!!! Wonderland of course is very good as well a Rage and Life but it becomes dated to say the least. For die hard Lovich fans it is a must have though.

Having bought her recent BEST OF this fall,(she and her band
were very under-appreciated!)Many wild really cool songs stylings. I checked this one
out(MARCH) and its not bad. Lots of her trademark vocals diving and swooping here
and there. The production is somewhat different from her earlier
80's work, lots of influences going on,her dreamscape songs
can be dark, I hear the crisp production the CARS gave us, I even hear some Ian McColloch, traces of NEW ORDER some 80's overblown rock guitars(but it works for the most part on these
tunes) but its Lene's vision that moves these songs, some are
better than others but as a whole not bad. Some might find these
dated and lost in the 80's but that period had some of the most
interesting music I've heard over the past 30 years.

1989...DM's Violator, Pretty Hate Machine, Kate's Sensual World...it was an epic time for listeners of technology-driven music. Lene's last "real" record was right there with the best of them.
It would be awesome to hear someone like Reznor (or maybe the Prodigy) pulling out the remix stops on songs like "Life" and "Natural Beauty".
One of the diamonds from that magic year - treasure hiding in plain sight.

This has a definite pop feel and sound, not as exciting as the earlier music and some of it sounds like bad 80's music. I don't think this is the Lene I like. The most memorable track is called "Rage" and has a bit of a chant/rap part in it which reminds me of her mentor Nina Hagen. All in all I think this is an o.k. albumn, but not as good as her first two. It doesn't have catchy songs like the other two. And I was a little disappointed in it when I first heard it. After a few listens I still think it is not classic Lene.

It's funny, but in listening to <b>March</b> I've pretty much run the gamut of all the previous reviews, beginning with the less-favorable ones. When I first put this on, I thought it was awful. I had just come from <b>Flex...Plus</b> and <b>Stateless...Plus</b> which are both masterpieces and had never heard <b>March</B> when it first came out in 1989. Yet the Lovich-Chappell team are intact and as responsible for <b>March</B> as the previous albums so what you find is that after first dismissing the stuff as nowhere near <b>Flex</B> or <b>Stateless</b> you suddenly find yourself listening through and suddenly finding gems like "Life" and "Wonderland" and then gradually discovering "Make Believe" and "Vertigo" and the extended remix of "Wonderland" and so on. Then you realize "Dah-yum" this whole album's pretty good!!! And it is. Thing is that it does reflect very much a thick '80's disco sensibility as opposed to the earlier sparseness of Lovich's work. So it kind of reflects the defects of its late-'80s era, which lie in overproduction. But it is still fun, upbeat and it retains the most important thing about Lovich's lyrics: her seminal message of creativity and optimism. If you are fan of Lovich (and would you actually be reading this if you weren't???) then the CD is definitely a must-have. After all, a so-so Lovich is pretty much worth any first rate work by anybody else. Not every album can be a masterpiece, and this one isn't in relation to the grand achievements of the earlier Lovich-Chappel collaborations, but it is a great listen.

Of course, it hasn't got hits like Lucky Number, but it has got very beautiful songs, songs about emotions and humans, like "Make Believe","Natural Beauty","Life","Rage"! The whole album is dominated by Lene's electronic and voice noises! Music for a relaxation on your sofa -not for your shaking body! Her mysterious lyrics are especially good! It's a different world that leads us into one of Lene's creepy dreams.....very good!

I'm a long time fan of Lene Lovich, and I found this cd by chance when looking for another copy of 'No Man's Land'. I got this cd back in 2000 I believe. I read somewhere that Lene just hated the way they produced 'No Man's Land', and that that was her least favorite album because of it. If you've heard both versions of "Special Star", the original, and the one on 'No Man's Land', you'll see exactly what the fuss is. I must be weird though, because I love both versions!

This cd has definitely been produced, similar to (though perhaps not quite so much as), 'No Man's Land'. So if that's an issue for you, you might not like it.The songs run the gamut of Lene's styles, from the silly, to the seriously political, love songs to a club danceable tune. The songs are not really dated, per se...but they do have that trademark LL '80s style. Four years after buying the cd, I still listen to it regularly.

As a long time LL fan, I highly recommend it. It is not like 'Stateless', though.

Actually, if you were to listen to this CD without further knowledge of Lene it would either be a great CD or just awful. So you see where I'm in the middle. First, I would like to say this is a fine written album. I've always loved her phasing and vocal style. I will say on this CD she is in a little different space. Whether she is meaning all this- she is in a more commerical base here(maybe record company BS) Without that, I love the writing on this CD, She is at an emotional level that someone that is from space(she has said she is) can identify with. All that said, I love "Life" (great vocal)probabably the one true non produced track on the CD. I guess when I think of my over all problem with the disk is that I find myself in the course of the day humming the melodies to these songs. Which is good. However, the production(over) is what makes me hate this CD. I would think Lene would too. So late 80's that it just sucks. These songs have a passion and a will that no one will ever hear through the desperate beat of the end of new wave. God, why did they do that to these good songs? Of course, I do have to add that why someone{Lene) looking soooo stand offish has so many song about love?(just a queston). Anyway, ten+ we miss her. I heard she is always thinking of her "next" record. I hope she listens to Flex or Statless before going in the studio.

Even when this album was first released in the early 90s it sounded hopelessly dated. Time has been even less kind to this unlistenable mess: this is the worst collection of songs I've heard. As a long time fan of Lene I still only managed to listen to this twice before binning it. Avoid.