New Toy

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New Toy is the first extended play by American singer-songwriter Lene Lovich released in 1981 by Stiff Records. It was released outside the United Kingdom in three different versions, one featured six new songs, while the other two contained songs from her previous albums, Stateless (1978) and Flex (1979).

The main single "New Toy", in which she makes fun of the consumer society, was released in February 1981 and became successful in charts, peaking at number 19 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs number 53 on the UK Singles Chart, and number 29 on the Australian Kent Music Report. It was written by Thomas Dolby, about his new Fairlight CMI synthesizer. He created the song specifically for Lovich after seeing her perform live.

The songs "Special Star" and "Savages" later appeared on her third studio album, No Man's Land (1982) and all the songs from the EP appeared on the CD re-issue of the album.

Track listings

New Toy (US Version)

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"New Toy"	Thomas Dolby	3:18
2.	"Savages"	Lene Lovich Les Chappell	3:50
3.	"Special Star"	Lovich Chappell	3:11
4.	"Never Never Land"	Jimme O'Neill	4:05
5.	"Cats Away"	Lovich Chappell	3:41
6.	"Details"	Lovich Chappell	3:12
Total length:			21:17

New Toy (Limited Edition)

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"New Toy" (Extended Version)	Dolby	4:36
2.	"Cats Away"	Lovich Chappell	3:48
3.	"Money Talk"	Lovich Chappell	3:17
4.	"The Night"	Al Ruzicka Bob Gaudio	4:10
5.	"Too Tender to Touch"	Lovich Chappell	4:17
6.	"You Can't Kill Me"	Judge Smith	3:47
Total length:			23:55

New Toy (Japanese Version)

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"New Toy"	Dolby
2.	"Lucky Number" (Disco Version)	Lovich Chappell
3.	"Bird Song"	Lovich Chappell
4.	"Details"	Lovich Chappell
5.	"Joan"	Lovich Chappell
6.	"Cats Away"	Lovich Chappell

Credits and personnel

• Lene Lovich - vocals, songwriter, producer
• Les Chappell - songwriter, producer