She's So Unusual (Remastered)
Cyndi Lauper
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Money Changes Everything | Cyndi Lauper | 5:05 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Girls Just Want to Have Fun | Cyndi Lauper | 3:58 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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When You Were Mine | Cyndi Lauper | 5:06 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Time After Time | Cyndi Lauper | 4:01 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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She Bop | Cyndi Lauper | 3:49 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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All Through the Night | Cyndi Lauper | 4:32 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Witness | Cyndi Lauper | 3:40 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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I'll Kiss You | Cyndi Lauper | 4:12 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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He's So Unusual | Cyndi Lauper | 0:45 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Yeah Yeah | Cyndi Lauper | 3:16 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Money Changes Everything (Live) | Cyndi Lauper | 4:35 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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She Bop (Live) | Cyndi Lauper | 5:20 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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All Through the Night (Live) | Cyndi Lauper | 4:48 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
| Total: 13 Songs |
iTunes Review
Looking back, it’s hard to imagine the mid-1980s without Cyndi Lauper — her giddy vocal hiccup and dizzy-dame persona helped define the pop culture of the time. She’s So Unusual (1983) launched her as a solo artist and remains her definitive statement. Lauper came across as lovably odd, but no bimbo — she played the hard-boiled realist in “Money Changes Everything” and the freewheeling hedonist in “Girls Just Want To Have Fun” with equal conviction. Sexual rule-breaking is a persistent subtext in these tunes, heard in the twitchy “She Bop” and the lustful “I’ll Kiss You.” From a different place comes the naïve tenderness of “All Through The Night” and “Time After Time.” Cyndi veers between punky affectation and old-fashioned sincerity with aplomb, propelled by techno-pop keyboard lines draped in atmospheric guitar shadings. She’s So Unusual made Lauper a star and gave the music world a much-needed dose of pure pop pleasure. Its combination of good-natured raunch and girlish innocence still has the power to send you bouncing and bopping (if not hiccupping) with abandon.
Customer Reviews
Indisposable!
I got this cassette for my 8th birthday, and 22 years later it is still one of the most powerful, thrilling, delightful, and fun listening experiences I have. I now have the remastered digital copy with the extra live tracks. The master review on the iTunes page for this collection sums it up nicely, though I've never thought about Cyndi Lauper's voice as thin! It is vast and rich, though it is also true that the fullness of her voice has strengthened with age. Check out her recent live DVD to get a taste of what maturity has offered this artist. Unlike so many brilliant voices and songstresses whose voices lose their rookie spunk (Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, and others), it's as if Ms. Lauper came into her own when she turned 50! Perhaps the best is even yet to come.
Years beyond just "having fun".
Years after having tired of hearing "Girls Just Want to Have Fun", I have to say that this is probably one the most amazing albums in my collection. I know that the song, along with "True Colors" and the perennial classic "Time After Time" are her signature songs but one must look deeper into the album to understand Cyndi Lauper. "Money Changes Everything" is a brilliant album opener. Originally a song by a punk band called The Brains, Cyndi charges out of the gate with concise vocal assault on the fickle nature of love. Lauper's brilliant re-reading of Prince's almost-classic "When You Were Mine" makes you feel that the original was an unfinished work. "She Bop", despite its "at-first-glance" silliness, is an ode to self-pleasuring. Not too many songs like that make onto the radio in these days of neo-conservatism. Strangely, it was a massive hit in the year 1984. Kudos! "All through the Night", a tender Jules Shear song, is probably one of my favourite moments on this album. It's one of the forgotten singles but is a classic in its own right next to "Time After Time". Do yourself a favour and skip "Girls". There's so much more to this album, and this artist, than that one shining moment.
Cyndi- You did great
If you are reading this then I just want to tell you that you wrote some of the best songs ever
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 | $1.29 | 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 | $1.29 | 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 |
