Lene Lovich - Blue Hotel

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[@seasnakes6337]

I had chance to meet her in Washing DC nigh club back in the 80. Very pleasure experience

[@jackwilton6350]

Lene was and is brilliant. Way ahead of her time. A fabulous original. Sublime taient ❤.

[@raymondgerald9261]

She really was SPOT ON predicting today's obsession with cell phones📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱📱

[@kyachdistent1301]

You mean mobiles.

[@geraldfriend256]

Tesla saw it coming too.

[@geupelboi]

You're absolutely right! Wow!

[@bellandhowell2899]

Unfortunately

[@alan_mythicalgnome]

See it's true! Lene is psychic!

[@user-wp8vy8le3y]

I just keep re-watching this track and video (and Luck Number) since it popped up on KZbin - I had forgotten just how kooky and original and catchy Lene Lovich was. I just love the endingof this clip - the original footage from the Saturn V Apollo 4 rocket and booster discard and the two as 'space travellers'; mind you - that was being done by Mr. Bowie ten years before - and by other bands like Hawkwind - before Ms. Lovich !

[@Coasterdude02149]

There was no better decade for music and art than the 80's.

[@harrymay2528]

Agree

[@ah-nononoo]

Uhhg

[@kyachdistent1301]

Exactly. Amazing how many people won't admit it, but you can't expect sniffy old miserys and the retarded generation of brats born the last 3 decades to admit that!

[@haintedhouse2990]

i loved the 80's and I know it's been 11 years but music and art changed the world in the 60's.

[@roadracer517]

Lotta awesome music coming out even now. Try some colleges and KEXP KRCL KBAC to start

[@standingwave73]

Still absolutely love this song. A high point of the 80's new wave. Such a great full bodied voice.

[@kyachdistent1301]

@@nick16279 Nothing wrong with being termed New Wave-which presented many of the best artists, trouble is it was mainly used for the men, and the cool women-Kim Wilde, Toyah, Grace Jones and Lene Lovich were lucky to be even described thus, when they were as good as the men were!

[@khristievigeant9495]

God I loved growing up in the 80's there was nothing like it!!!! Visual Artistry really came in to play like no other!!!! Love you Lene!!!!!!

[@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music]

I feel sorry for kids today; they don't even know what music is.

[@haintedhouse2990]

Despite her new-wavy demeanor she was a stunning beauty evident from her appearance in the 'Its You Only You' video.

[@Thrivinginthespotlight]

Kind of lole Danielle Dax

[@mikeyg8002]

Another pioneering singer from Detroit who was more popular outside of her own country. Suzi Quatro being the other.

[@CharlesLoukas]

Suzy's version of Warm leatherette is great

[@robhernandez3593]

The album this song came from was way ahead of time and innovate. Again, the label hated it and gave the band a tin of hassle. Thanks for posting.

[@garyhope2]

One of my all time favorites. A true original. Brilliant. Lene Lovich. Saw her live in LA once a long time ago. Nina Hagen popped up on stage for a guest appearance. Saw Nina separately in LA also.

[@maxwellsmart6487]

Luckyu to see them both AND together!!! NH,LL.. . . .. .. ..

[@kyachdistent1301]

@@maxwellsmart6487 I agree.

[@brucekilby9957]

Two great singers together. I saw lene with Les and band,but with Nina as well amazing.

[@Violentic81]

those two are a fantastic match

[@Majoofi]

How did she know that everyone would always be staring at screens in their hands?

[@sanjushka464]

haha b cause every true shamans and witches knows that stuff lol

[@rockmassa4151]

I Thought The Same Thing 😎

[@aniliname]

especially at pictures of themselves

[@ah-nononoo]

Oh, honey.... because she spent time at the Hotel Blue

[@maxwellsmart6487]

Any one else in a blue hotel durinh covid??🧢

[@juan_carlos_baldeon_ramirez]

Mr. Bandin knows the best music of the 80's

[@kultureklub]

Love Lene Lovich. So sad she was far ahead of her time and practically stood alone even in the 80s crowd. It was Lene that led me (in 80s America) to listen to other Euro-similar sounds ..... all of them in the New Romantic scene. Strange, though, I don't recall that Lene was ever with the in-crowd at The Blitz or if she had ever mentioned even being there on occasion. Anyhoo, her sound was definitely New Romantic but there was a certain ambiance about her that placed her in the center of her own crowd. All these years later (geez, it's been 32) she's more listenable that ever before.

[@zaiten2012]

Nate Parrish I'm curious to know what euro-similar bands you found thanks to Lene. I'm terribly smitten with her music right now. No doubt there's something romantic about her, but it definitely ain't New Romantic. I'd say she has less to do with Duran Duran or Ultravox and more in common with The Cure and Bauhaus. I reckon she was a pioneer of new wave gothic.

[@josephdilorenzo7791]

+German Salazar Well, Thomas Dolby played keyboards with her band for a time...and wrote several songs with the band.

[@paolacicchetti1966]

definitely post-punk,(similar to Kate Bush and Sparks for her vocals) just saw her in concert with another post-punk group, Psychedelic Furs! Still great at 68!

[@niclawson1520]

She is also from Akron Ohio, she's not a Brit.

[@jeffmoore6208]

I thought everyone knew that from the very start of her career.

[@eduardo_corrochio]

Still loving this tune, since first hearing it in 1982.

[@maurizioagostini5032]

So do I!

[@RobertoLobina-fn1or]

Non riesco a capire come mi sono potuto dimenticare di te dopo che mi hai dato modo di vivere in quel periodo 80 90.se non fosse stato per te sarei morto.

[@CherylRae7]

I saw Lene everytime I could.... she always had an awesome show.

[@bryancooper9581]

A rare beauty, in body and voice. Thank you, Victoria!

[@DondeArandas]

she's bad ass. always dug her tracks, since the eighties

[@paulkerswell3229]

Saw her recently supporting the psychedelic furs and she was amazing

[@rocksteadyrein6516]

I love the "freshness" of this song, unique....

[@kyachdistent1301]

Typical that the brainless of 1982 that orgasms over the coming of the antichrist (madogga) and let's the likes of Weller, Wham!, Sting, Stranglers, Kid Creole, Phil Collins, The Cure, Fun Boy Three, Bananarama and any amount of shite novelty records go into the charts all the time at utterly undeserved and astoundingly unrealistic placings UTTERLY ignores this truly amazing song. That's TYPICAL masses behaviour THAT is! They do to ALL the best people and always have and always will!

[@rocksteadyrein6516]

@@kyachdistent1301 I said that 4 yrs ago, I agree with you now--100%

[@kyachdistent1301]

@@rocksteadyrein6516 The thing is, I'm sad to say, I only came across Lene as more than just a 'one-song wonder' very recently, so naturally now I'm on her videos often and listening to her stuff, and this is one of the best songs of the lot. So typical of a 1980s audience. Wish I'd discovered her years ago; it doesn't help her legacy is shunted out of the way of so many, but at least I'm here now, but praise you, you've known of this song a lot longer than me. It has No.1 written all over it.

[@JWC-AirWalker]

Having grown up in the 60s and 70s, I have to admit you had it better musicwise in the 80s.

[@lestermonee3549]

Doubt 80s listen to this... I grew up in the 90s and 2000s...but that Tiffany song brought me to Lene. (I think were alone now). And of course the Jetsons brought me to Tiffany. (you and me).

[@paulovv1689]

yes...80s listened to her...you are wrong she was part of new wave just like Ian Dury, Madness, Feelies, Ramones, Devo and many others

[@myriammimi4875]

Every decade has something good (and bad........) to bring to this world.............. musicwise or «whatherverwise»...............

[@widM_]

lester monee Ramones? They were not new wave at all.

[@BackToTheBlues]

I loved Lene's music and didn't half used to fancy her! Strange to think I ended up going out with someone for fifteen years who looked facially very similar to her, and only realised it after we split up this year.

[@templocal]

It feels as if this song has been written for Facebook... decades ago!

[@alan_mythicalgnome]

With 1970s and 1980s music topping the currently topping the charts. How about releasing this one Lene. Re release the album on CD as I want one.

[@vladdrakul7851]

Stay a while at the Blue Hotel, Excite your mind Acid Queen #1. Her favourite music? Jim Morrison and the Doors. Too Right. And Lene Lovich songs show it. Also no surprise David Bowie wanted her. The best Female original Artist I know. Beautiful, original, seminal the best of the best. New Toy, You can't Kill me, Wonderful One, Angel, Mein Schmertz, The Freeze, Lucky Number One, Say When, The Night, What would I be without you, etc etc. The superior punk Acid Queen, better than Grace Slick!!

[@avgpsycho-6972]

Glad that these songs of the past are still here and i can find and listen to these beautiful songs of the past ( even though im very young)

[@cgothik]

ABSOLUTE Queen…!

[@dannyjoe47]

Beautiful voice ! Thanks for posting.

[@davidwood4113]

They should have been much bigger than they were, Lene was way ahead of her time. I saw Lene's band last year in Birmingham, she was still as mesmerising as ever. No Les though, which was a shame.

[@zaiten2012]

David Wood what happened to Les? also, is the blond bassist family?

[@davidwood4113]

Les is doing his own thing with a different band, I hear. I don't think the present band are related to Lene, no. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. I saw Lene and her band again very recently at the Roadhouse, they were excellent and Lene was amazing! :)

[@robertmagaly2549]

SUPER... J'adore... Magnifique voix (entre nina et autres)... J'ADORE

[@stevepettit2064]

what a song this is!! inexplicable should been huge hit this ahead of its time for sure saw her couple years ago she was fab! i love this video think its les chappell her partner with her here.

[@jmuk9165]

Saw her tonight in Wimborne , Dorset. Awesome

[@ChuChu353]

Beautiful video from my youth. Les & Lena forever!

[@ccarta192]

God the early 80's and the second British invasion the groups were coming at us so quickly. Alot good music coming out of england west Germany Australia and Los angeles

[@wilmaschuurmans4592]

beautiful woman en good singer

[@cheekymonkey9718]

OMG she had the first iPhone! LOL I used to play this in my Walkman when i had a paper route in Colorado. Memories!

[@1man1bike1road]

no its definitely Android lol

[@MaxGravitas]

Wow, she is mesmerising.

[@user-wp8vy8le3y]

I've just listened again to Lene Lovich and watched this video clip. I remember 'Lucky Number' being released as a single in 1979 in my teenage years. I wonder if her Serbian-Balkan roots and ancestry have anything to do with her 'gothic' fixation and appearance - yes, I am aware that she is from Detroit, USA originally but later grew up in the UK. I think that musically she was probably influenced, too, by artists from the past - and probably contemporaries - like Iggy Pop and David Bowie. She also sounds a bit like the French singer Edith Piaf - but very original, too. You can see her influence on later musical artists, too - most notably Lady Gaga and probably Billie Eillish of the recent generation of female singers - who also, I think, owe a large debt to Mr. Bowie !

[@user-wp8vy8le3y]

It's also interesting to watch clips like this from the late 1970s/early 1980s to see the influence on contemporaries of the time; the Stranglers single and video of 'Duchess' springs to mind; probably Devo's track and video of 'Are We Not Men ? We are Devo !', Kate Bush's stuff like 'Wuthering Heights' from this era and I would suggest Bowie's stuff and videos - 'Ashes to Ashes', for example.

[@usa567hjfth7]

I love lene she amazings me.

[@diegoshepherd3464]

great song

[@perpetual61]

R.I.P Twin Towers

[@SuperBoomshack]

Shout out to the World Trade Center

[@RickHenryChristopher]

Great video!!! Great song!!!

[@n.e.barton1299]

Lene predicted cell phones The Twin Towers are sadly missed.

[@LuismiguelTorresAraujo]

34 años despues este clasico sono en 1982 en Super Fm Lima Peru

[@davidr7393]

+Luis miguel Torres Araujo HABLA BIEENN NO ME DI CUENTA u.u

[@sherizurich1188]

A special tune of Music ! Good Strong Voice

[@mrman8342]

I like the singing frogs in the B/V

[@jeromediggins8666]

How did miss this ? Love it !

[@TheBoyMooner]

Beautiful song

[@mariokovac2488]

bravo super

[@beataspiewakjonsson1749]

Love this song and the album Have a nice day 😻

[@karenlau4981]

😍Great Song！！！

[@chrisrice3551]

Pure magic!!

[@chrisolson1710]

Absolutely wonderful...thank you for posting! The effects are very old fashioned now, but the video is more charming for it.

[@artrimb]

Long live, Lene!

[@rockmassa4151]

Lena Rock's 😎

[@anthonybragalia5931]

If it's Lene, you'll Lovich!

[@voxxclamantis9668]

Lene lovich, the best

[@stevepope6095]

Wow! I never got to see this video version !

[@meredrums1]

This was a great tour. Thomas Dolby on Keys, at least in Dallas. Killer Boris on drums. Lene looked hot with the bid Sax.

[@Markknott29]

A musician got hold of some master tapes from an 80’s band and decided to have them digitised so the information could be stored on a USB stick which would forwarded to the buyer. The guy decided that he would ask for money to be donated to enable him to achieve this. There were 5 people who could’ve contributed to his scheme but he decided only to ask 3. He suggested £125 should cover one portion of his costs as he was intending to ask others to contribute the same amount until the full cost had been raised. What he omitted to tell his friend, who gladly parted with the £125, that the USB stick would be available ‘GRATIS’ to anyone else who wanted one. The friend who parted with his hard earned cash felt duped and betrayed by his long-standing friend of 40 years. He kept thinking of the old phrase ‘A fool and his money are easily parted’… The man who performed this deed is not regarded as a ‘Scammer’ or a modern day ‘Robin Hood’ but he is regarded, by his family and friends, as a genuinely good person and a great Dad. My opinion of this person has changed, to put it politely. If he agreed to clear his conscience and return the money I would consider that an end to the matter. You hear stories of Scams on the news, but you don’t expect it from your friends.

[@RobertoLobina-fn1or]

Tu e Nina eravate le uniche Regine ,e basta.🖤💥

[@Esther0393]

Happy 65th, Lene!

[@nicholasmiller872]

love you Leneo Lovich ❤️❤️❤️💋💋😢

[@elgatto6750]

Vision from a Smartphone in the 80s.The Films in the Hand are the Handys yet,also like "Popey goes to army " by Walt Disney In1936.Walt Disney Is the spiritual Father from a Smartphone.

[@JWC-AirWalker]

Great video. Thanks.

[@namafarm]

so frikking Prophetic

[@poppysgymnastics779]

Nama Farm v

[@standingwave73]

Still have this album.

[@genosse007]

Number One at the BS CONSHINELS CHARTS NOW ON TIME!!!

[@maxwellsmart6487]

Great tune great voice!!☪️➰✔️🐲🐉🦖🦖☪️

[@irishguy13]

Outstanding.

[@tannyanokturnal4573]

Blue Hotel!!!!! Wuuuuuuuuuh

[@MrsOliva]

Blue Hotel - Earth planet.

[@laraknapp4538]

THANK YOU FOR SHARING Виктория Васина ":)

[@mikeshaffner5050]

Two Towers..Era Great 80s vid...

[@alan_mythicalgnome]

And to think years later we are watching Lene in the palm of our hand, on our mobile phones. Well this video wasn't that whacky after all.

[@gonzalotorres7830]

temon!!!!

[@hilrant648]

love yaaaaaaa xxxx

[@Agnethatheredhairkid]

When I first heard Lene, I didn't like her because I thought she was too weird. I have now changed my mind. The woman is excellent! She reminds me vocally of Siouxsie.

[@jessemacias2]

Where is this Blue Hotel? Does anyone know?

[@karmasong74]

Many people obtaining photographic evidence of smartphones!

[@ZenHussies]

Old school special FX are so wonderfully crap and infinitely more charming... imagine that hand done today, it'd be too realistic and less magical

[@paulshillitomusic]

That was state of the art back then :-)

[@zaiten2012]

paulshillitomusic hardly so. maybe for TV.

[@Alexaphex]

музон норм)

[@voxxclamantis9668]

Lena!

[@robertmagaly2549]

A l'époque je pensais que c'était Nina... SUPER...

[@GGoAwayy]

Hello! buhbuh BWAH buhbuh BWAH buhbuh BWAHBWAH bwah

[@gustavod3241]

The blue hotel is the earth?

[@YZEtc]

First guess is Blue Hotel = planet Earth, and the words are about encouraging aliens from outer space to visit Earth and make contact with the people of the Earth.

[@ME-ru4hv]

Better than the usual suspects Yaz etc.. her band and music is amazing

[@maxwellsmart6487]

Helllllooooooooooooo!

[@flowerpowerargenta]

Supremo

[@SweetPimpin]

When your hand is a television

[@dominica4799]

Is she a time traveler?

[@stuartmorley3836]

Women of today are constantly looking at the screen in their palms....

[@asedky]

epic

[@robertjromero9488]

She's so unusual. Oh, wait. That's another 80s singer also. 😄

[@dbfhorses]

The very definition of "it wasn't a hit."

[@fredpontasse4557]

nice

[@marcelstroemerdj]

krass

[@sauluribe7082]

Images on palm. Someday feesable.

[@sauluribe7082]

And the Twin Towers in the background shot nineteen years before their fate.