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''No Muss...No Fuss'' is the fifth studio album by American rock singer Donnie Iris, released in 1985.〔http://www.discogs.com/master/view/656457〕 ==Background== Between 1980-84 Iris had released four studio albums, three of which were released through MCA Records. A string of moderate and minor hit singles followed, including the two Top 30 tracks "Ah! Leah!" (1981) and "My Girl" (1982). However the studio albums and certain singles did not meet the commercial success expected from the label. In 1984 Iris and his band The Cruisers left the label, and signed with the small independent label HME Records. In the aftermath of mainstream indifference and legal tangles with MCA, Iris released ''No Muss...No Fuss'' in 1985 on the HME label.〔http://www.allmusic.com/album/no-mussno-fuss-mw0000854980〕 Although it wasn't a major commercial success it did peak at #115 on the Billboard 200, which was a higher charting than Iris' previous two albums.〔http://www.allmusic.com/album/no-mussno-fuss-mw0000854980/awards〕 The lead single from the album was "Injured in the Game of Love", which reached #91 on the Billboard Hot 100. It fared better on the Mainstream Rock chart, reaching #28. Backed by the album track "I Want You Back",〔http://www.discogs.com/Donnie-Iris-Injured-In-The-Game-Of-Love-I-Want-You-Back/master/400787〕 it was Iris' last single to make an appearance on the American charts, as was the album.〔http://www.allmusic.com/album/no-mussno-fuss-mw0000854980/awards〕 A second single was also released in America, but as a promotional release only; "State of the Heart".〔http://www.discogs.com/Donnie-Iris-State-Of-The-Heart/release/5938362〕 The album was recorded at Beachwood Studios, in Beachwood, Ohio, and was mastered by George Marino at Sterling Sound.〔http://www.parallel-time.com/nomuss.htm〕 Iris would not record any release any further material until the 1992 album ''Out of the Blue''. Just prior to the release of ''No Muss...No Fuss'', the band split into different directions. Drummer Kevin Valentine and bassist Albritton McClain left to join a new group, The Innocent, and were replaced by Scott Alan Williamson on bass and Tommy Rich on drums. That same year, keyboardist Mark Avsec released a solo project under the moniker Cellarful of Noise. Even after releasing the eponymous debut album that same year, Avsec and Iris maintained that Donnie Iris and the Cruisers was still their main focus, and that they wanted to continue to release new albums with the band and its new line-up. The band returned to the studio in 1986 and recorded a new album titled ''Cruise Control''; however, a lawsuit with the band's former label MCA resulted in the shelving of that album pending the resolution of the lawsuit. It has still not been released as of 2013. Also around this time, the HME label went out of business, leaving Iris as an unsigned act. Iris then partnered with Avsec on the second Cellarful of Noise album, ''Magnificent Obsession'', which was released in 1988. The album produced a moderately successful single, "Samantha (What You Gonna Do)." In the early 1990s, Iris set up a mortgage company, SIMCorp, as a side business from the band, and this still operates today. In a 2008 interview with Iris, he revealed ''"We had run into legal troubles with MCA. We ended up going to court over it. Actually, nothing really came of it, nobody won or lost anything, but we did lose time because I couldn't go into the studio to do any recording until that one was settled. Once it was done we were able to start recording again. That took a couple of years."''〔http://www.ifc.com/fix/2008/05/talk-donnie-iris〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「No Muss...No Fuss」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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