Track Listing

1. Change Of Heart
2. Maybe He'll Know
3. Boy Blue
4. True Colours
5. Calm Inside The Storm
6. What's Going On
7. Iko Iko
8. Faraway Nearby
9. 911
10. One Track Mind

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4351 in Music
• Released on: 2000-02-14
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

AN UNDERESTIMATED GEM OF CYNDI LAUPER'S...A MAGNIFICENT ALBUM
while Shes So Unusual started her long career as a successful cultural icon and unique artist...this album continued her career and took her to new hights...in many ways her previous album(Shes So Unusual)is superior to this album but True Colours shows off a unique style and is very,very good there are fbulous tracks on offer for this album,while there are a couple sturdy tracks that lack some of the power needed for the album it is a very high priority that you buy this album...NOW!!!

Change Of Heart-5/5
Maybe He'll Know-3.5/5
Boy Blue-4/5
True Colours-5/5
Calm Inside The Storm-3/5
Whats Going On-5/5
Iko Iko-4.5/5
The Faraway Nearby-4/5
911-5/5
One Track Mind-5/5

all in all very good and of a very high standard which i recommend for everyone to listen to.
it shows off her unique vocal talents and gives a very 'world' feel to it that i love.
one of her best although not quite Shes So Unusual,Hat Full Of Stars,Sisters Of Avalon or the stunning BRING YA TO THE BRINK...it is of a unique and fab standard that makes it a classic with a few lil masterpieces of music on here.

Second album from Cyndi
Less successful than her phenomenal 1984 debut, She's so unusual, this 1986 follow-up album is nevertheless interesting. I suspect that the rise of Madonna following her sensational album, Like a virgin, had a lot to do with it as people were less interested in Cyndi than they had originally been. Even so, this album was still quite successful, yielding two top three American hits.

The album opens with Change of heart, a track on which the Bangles provide vocal backing. It made the top three in America but only crept in near the bottom of the UK charts for a couple of weeks. The most successful single was the title track (a superb ballad), which topped the American charts and just missed the UK top ten.

Cyndi wrote or co-wrote most of the remaining songs (she did not contribute to the two hits already mentioned) but included a couple of interesting covers, these being What's going on (the title track to Marvin Gaye's classic seventies album) and Iko Iko (a hit on both sides of the Atlantic for the Dixie Cups in the sixties).

This album and its predecessor are definitely worth a listen, but while they were Cyndi's most commercially successful albums, Cyndi has recorded some great music since then including an outstanding Christmas album (Have a nice file) and a wonderful collection of standards (At last).

True Cyndi
I first heard of cyndi Lauper six years ago now when I was ten years old. I was watching TV and saw her performing "Girls just want to have fun" on top of the pops 2. I asked my father to write her name down and the next day went searching to see what music I could find of hers. I found her first record "She's so unusual" and later that month purchased it. I became an instant fan and she has became my second favourite singer of all time (my first being her eighties rival Madonna). "True Colours" is a very good record and although it is one of my favourite cyndi records its not what I would advise first listeners of her music to purchase. Sometimes it is far better to start at the beginning of an artists career and then progress into their current work and I believe Cyndi's music should be followed with this rule so start with off with her first record "She's so unusual" and then progress to her second 1986 album "True colours". "True Colors" may have not succeed as well as her predecessor in the UK (it reached a disappointing No#25) but it is by no means a weaker album. It opens with "Change of Heart" a song which, did particularly well in the US but flopped over here in the UK. The opening track "Change Of Heart" is a brilliant opener to the album. It includes backing vocals from "The bangles" and has your pulse racing with excitement and joy because it is such a fun record. "Maybe He'll know" is my least favourite song on the album. I think it is rather cheesy and has a low quality feel, which effects the album, but don't let this put you off the record as their are so many chems. The next song is my favourite none released song off the album "Boy blue", I think it is a very good eighties record and although it is a bit too long and sounds dated it fits the bill for this genre of album and is particularly fun. The title song "True colours" is fantastic and has to be one of my favourite Cyndi records. It has such an airy warm feeling to it and should have performed so much better on the British charts where it peaked a very disappointing No#12 at least it managed to get to No#1 in the states though. The rest of the record is very good and the only song I don't really like is the ender "One track mind" that is a bit disappointing for an album with so much depth and quality. Overall I find "True colours" a very good record and although some fans of her predecessor album stopped liking her because it was more mature and adult oriented I find the actual album tracks to be stronger than the ones on "Shes so unusual". If you like Cyndi's first record "She's so unusal" then to be a true cyndi Lauper fan you must like "True Colours" because from that moment on Cyndi's work became much more maturer and although her records were fun and exciting after her first record she has not recorded another album like it because no two albums of Cyndi's work are the same. They may have similar elements to them but she always includes a new direction of music which she then surpasses onto her next record. If you like "True colors" after purchasing it then I would continue buying her back catalogue and if you cant be bothered buying all of her records just buy "Twelve deadly sins..." which is the BEST greatest hits collection of her work, I do not recommmed buying her other greatest hits packages, it may cost slighter more but believe me its worth it!. I would also recommened "At last" to her die hard only fans as it is a record of much quality and excellence especially the title track which she makes her own. Cyndi is so underrated and I sometimes wish she received so much more success than she had during the eighties as she is such a versatile singer. As I fan I would sum Cyndi Lauper as FUN AND ORIGINAL buy this or any of her albums and dont judge her work buy her image but buy the quality of it. WHAT YOU WAITING FOR!!!!