Product Description

Think of her as a novelty if you want--with her squeaky-voiced, New Yawk accent, her flame-coloured hair and her pals in the World Wrestling Federation--but realise that she was one of the most distinguished pop singers of her time. Between 1983 and 1986 Cyndi Lauper had seven top-10 singles and she had range. There were cheeky anthems to girldom ("Girls Just Want To Have Fun", "She Bop"), there were timeless ballads ("Time After Time" and "True colours", her two well-deserved number ones), and there was real rock jangle ("Money Changes Everything").
That New Yawk soprano managed to carry both impudence and compassion, and found in some songs what even the songwriters could not. Lauper's "All Through The Night" is a grand pop melody that Jules Shear's original version barely suggested, and her take on "Money Changes Everything" is a power-pop epic with a wave of synthesizer and electric guitar that drowns the original by the Brains. TWELVE DEADLY CYNS, which features eleven hits and album tracks, a soul-reggae remake of "Girls Just Want To Have Fun", and two other new songs, continues the story post-1986 and finds muchof the distinction gone but the pop sensibility still strong.
1989's "I Drove All Night" is a neat Roy Orbison homage; "Sally's Pigeons", a 1993 writing collaboration with Mary-Chapin Carpenter, is an unlikely flirtation with singer-songwriter-dom; and the previously unreleased "I'm Gonna Be Strong" is a dramatic stab at an old Gene Pitney ballad. They're not so much pop singles as they are musings of an orange-haired cabaret singer.

Track Listing

1. I'm Gonna Be Strong
2. Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
3. Money Changes Everything
4. Time After Time
5. She Bop
6. All Through The Night
7. Change Of Heart
8. True Colours
9. What's Going On
10. I Drove All Night
11. World Is Stone
12. Who Let In The Rain
13. That's What I Think
14. Sally's Pigeons
15. Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (2)
16. Come On Home

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2902 in Music
• Released on: 1994-08-22
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

fantastic compelation-amazing voice
the only greatest hits album that i find to be better than Madge's immaculate collection(Madonna)...i love the songs on here and it had me dancing around the house with joy...AMAZING!!!
buy this album now it features powerful ballads and genuinely fabulous pop/rock songs...i love it as will you.

A Timeless And Powerful Greatest Hits Album With The Wow Factor.
This album is defiantly one of the best Cyndi Lauper albums to own, as it includes the smash hit highlights from her heyday, primarily the 80's, this album sums up Cyndi Lauper perfectly, all the songs on this album are rock solid, and i guarantee there will be no need to skip tracks, one of the best greatest hits albums around.

The songs that stood out the most for me were `Money Changes Everything', here we see Cyndi Lauper the rocker an amazing vocal performance, same can be said for the amazing opening track `I'm Gonna Be Strong', we'll never know how the so called `pop princess' could reach heights like that, that's an incredible vocal range, `I Drove All Night' very good, and in my opinion just as well done as Celine's later version from the `One Heart' album, `True Colours' a great ballad never forgotten, `Time After Time', again another ballad and highlight from the album, `All Thorough The Night' I thought this was very very good one of my top favourites, great driving song,`Change Of Heart' oozes 80's pop, never the less very well done up-tempo song, `She Bop' still 80's pop, but it has a techno space feel to it, and this was reflected later on when i saw the music video for it, and finally `The World Is Stone' great song, i believe there's also a French version of this song `Le Monde Est Stone', by Celine Dion.

This is one of the definitive Cyndi Lauper albums to own, because its perfect for die-hard fans as well as people who are being introduced to her, it covers many moods as well as a few genres, and Cyndi Lauper's voice is amazing and unique throughout, Cyndi is truly one of a kind, a timeless classic i would defiantly recommend.

My first of many...
I've just come across this CD again, after going to look at the new stuff here and I thought perhaps it might bare reviewing.
I write my first novel with the help of this CD and others.
A powerful voice full of energy, Cyndi has been one of my most enjoyed vocalists. Not too caught up in herself or pop startdom she has continued to evolve her own form of pop and to this end I have come back full circle.
Heady beats and tracks that give a full expression of her vocal range and talent - from the nostalgic 'Sally's pigeons' to 'I drove all night'it is an album I never have to skip a track on. The two mixes of 'Girls just wanna have fun' don't clash either, you will appreciate them both as being very different whilst holding the spark that has remained in all of her work.
It's a must have album - I have had to replace mine three times now from use.
Go girl!