Merry Christmas...Have a Nice Life
Cyndi Lauper
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Home On Christmas Day | Cyndi Lauper | 4:06 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Early Christmas Morning | Cyndi Lauper | 5:06 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree | Cyndi Lauper | 2:45 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Christmas Conga | Cyndi Lauper | 3:31 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Minnie and Santa | Cyndi Lauper | 3:55 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Feels Like Christmas | Cyndi Lauper | 4:31 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Three Ships | Cyndi Lauper | 2:08 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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New Year's Baby (First Lullaby) | Cyndi Lauper | 4:27 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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December Child | Cyndi Lauper | 3:11 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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In the Bleak Midwinter | Cyndi Lauper | 4:02 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Silent Night | Cyndi Lauper | 4:18 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| Total: 11 Songs |
Album Review
Cyndi Lauper closed out her Epic Records contract with this holiday album, which consists mostly of original compositions. Lauper seeks the Christmas spirit in some snowless locales, giving a Cajun sound to "Early Christmas Morning" and an appropriately tropical feel to "Christmas Conga." She favors folkie arrangements and is heard playing dulcimer, recorder, and ukulele, among other instruments, which lend a homemade feel to the tracks. Merry Christmas...Have a Nice Life! is an unusual but ultimately winning collection, rendered with Lauper' s typical cockeyed conviction.
Customer Reviews
Favorite holiday album
This album is one of my all-time favorite holiday collections. Lauper's original songs range from fun and witty ("Minnie and Santa" and "Christmas Conga," which dares you not to dance along) to reverent and emotional "New Year's Baby" and "December Child"). Her take on some Christmas classics are gems, too. It's the best version ever of "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" (sorry Brenda Lee!). Love it!
Bonga Bonga Bonga Do the Christmas Conga!
Bonga Bonga Bonga Do the Christmas Conga! Need I say more? Classic!!!
New music... sounding like classics
Cyndi pretty much can pull of any genre of music, and this album is no exception. Original compositions, save Silent Night (here in a tender and simple arrangement and best known when Pampers used it as its holiday commercial theme a few years back), add an intoxicating, yet somehow familiar, twist on Christmas tunes. This is an excetional Christmas album: fun, tender, joyous, romantic, silly...it's all here. Highly recommended.
Biography
Born: June 22, 1953 in Brooklyn, NY
Genre: Pop
Years Active: '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s
Top Albums and Songs By Cyndi Lauper
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Girls Just Want to Have Fun | She's So Unusual (Remastered) | 3:58 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Time After Time | She's So Unusual (Remastered) | 4:01 | $0.69 | View In iTunes |
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True Colors | The Essential Cyndi Lauper | 3:46 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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All Through the Night | The Essential Cyndi Lauper | 4:29 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Girls Just Want to Have Fun | The Essential Cyndi Lauper | 3:55 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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The Goonies 'R' Good Enough (Single Version) | The Essential Cyndi Lauper | 3:38 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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She Bop | The Essential Cyndi Lauper | 3:48 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Time After Time (Una y Otra Vez) | The Essential Cyndi Lauper | 4:01 | $0.69 | View In iTunes |
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I Drove All Night | The Essential Cyndi Lauper | 4:10 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Time After Time | Rarities, B-Sides and Other Stuff, Vol. 2 | 4:19 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
