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(2011/Camden) 36 tracks. more

Cyndi Lauper: True Colors: The Best Of (2-CD)

(2011/Camden) 36 tracks.

Article properties: Cyndi Lauper: True Colors: The Best Of (2-CD)

  • Interpret: Cyndi Lauper

  • Album titlle: True Colors: The Best Of (2-CD)

  • Genre Pop

  • Label CAMDEN

  • Artikelart CD

  • EAN: 0886975365623

  • weight in Kg 0.1
Lauper, Cyndi - True Colors: The Best Of (2-CD) CD 1
01 Girls Just Want To Have Fun Cyndi Lauper
02 Time After Time Cyndi Lauper
03 True Colors Cyndi Lauper
04 I Drove All Night Cyndi Lauper
05 She Bop Cyndi Lauper
06 Iko Iko Cyndi Lauper
07 When You Were Mine Cyndi Lauper
08 Change Of Heart Cyndi Lauper
09 All Through The Night Cyndi Lauper
10 What's Going On Cyndi Lauper
11 The World Is Stone Cyndi Lauper
12 Maybe He'll Know Cyndi Lauper
13 Hat Full Of Stars Cyndi Lauper
14 Who Let In The Rain Cyndi Lauper
15 Money Changes Everything Cyndi Lauper
16 Sisters Of Avalon Cyndi Lauper
17 Unhook The Stars Cyndi Lauper
18 The Goonies 'R' Good Enough Cyndi Lauper
Lauper, Cyndi - True Colors: The Best Of (2-CD) CD 2
01 Calm Inside The Storm Cyndi Lauper
02 Lies Cyndi Lauper
03 Boy Blue Cyndi Lauper
04 Someone Like Me Cyndi Lauper
05 The Faraway Nearby Cyndi Lauper
06 Primitive Cyndi Lauper
07 My First Night Without You Cyndi Lauper
08 Like A Cat Cyndi Lauper
09 Heading West Cyndi Lauper
10 Unconditional Love Cyndi Lauper
11 Dancing With A Stranger Cyndi Lauper
12 I Don't Want To Be Your Friend Cyndi Lauper
13 Kindred Spirit Cyndi Lauper
14 Hole In My Heart (All The Way To China) Cyndi Lauper
15 That's What I Think Cyndi Lauper
16 Sally's Pigeons Cyndi Lauper
17 Dear John Cyndi Lauper
18 You Don't Know Cyndi Lauper
Cyndi Laupert In 1984, Cyndi Lauper exploded into superstardom with a vengeance, scoring... more
"Cyndi Lauper"

Cyndi Laupert

In 1984, Cyndi Lauper exploded into superstardom with a vengeance, scoring four Top Five hits from her debut album, She's So Unusual. As much of a commercial monster as that record was, it took a few months for it to catch fire, not entering the Top Forty until four months after its October 1983 release. Her show at Cleveland's Agora Ballroom on December 14 of that year could have hardly been timed betterto catch her atthe threshold of success. With audience and artist still unaware of how iconic She's So Unusual was to become, Lauper stormed most of the record's songs, including the soon-to-be hits "Girls Just Want to Have Fun," "Time After Time," and "She Bop." As a treat for Lauper lovers, there were also a couple songs from her 1980 album as lead singer of Blue Angel, as well as another Blue Angel relic that wouldn't be released until a few years later.

Historically, Cleveland's often been among the first US cities to pick up on breaking artists, and an appreciative audience turned out for her show at the Agora, a still-running venue that had presented many top local and international rock acts since the late 1960s. This concert took place a few weeks into the Fun Tour, which had kicked off on November 22 and took in no less than 101 shows (mostly in North America) before finishing in December 1984. Backing her at the Agora, as she announces in her band introductions, were John Kay on bass; Sandy Gennaro on drums; John McCurry on guitar; and Kenni Hairston on keyboards. Although Lauper seemed like an overnight success when she stormed into the charts in 1984, her big break was many years in the making. As she confirms in a brief interview segment during this show, only a year before this concert, she'd been waiting tables in a Japanese restaurant. It was one of many odd jobs she took in the years before her solo debut, which wasn't exactly her debut in any case, as she'd fronted Blue Angel's self-titled 1980 LP. Issued on Polydor and featuring a more rockabilly-retro-flavored sound than She's So Unusual, it wasn't a success, Lauper leaving to embark on a poppier solo career.

Cyndi hadn't forgotten her Blue Angel roots, however, digging into her old band's repertoire for three songs at the Agora. "I'm Gonna Be Strong," a big 1964 melodramatic pop hit for Gene Pitney, had been covered on the Blue Angel album. "Maybe He'll Know," the encore at the Agora show, had led off that LP, and had been performed by Lauper in Cleveland three years previously, though as she plaintively notes when introducing the number, "you guys didn't show up"; the song would be re-recorded for Lauper's 1986 album, True Colors. "What a Thrill," a rockabilly-new wave hybrid not all that far from some of X's material, had been demoed by Blue Angel, and would likewise be redone by Lauper as a solo artist, appearing on the UK B-side of her 1986 single "Change of Heart." "I guess you could say we were rockabilly," Cyndi said of Blue Angel in a January 1985 story in BAM magazine. "I wrote and arranged most of our stuff. But nothing always fell into place.

There was some magic in Blue Angel, but it didn't happen very often." When a follow-up album was in consideration, she added, "There were people they [Polygram] wanted me to copy. But the singers they wanted me to copy, I didn't think they were as good as me." Lauper moved into perkier new wave pop for She's So Unusual, however, and focused on those album's songs for her Agora show. Every track save "All Through the Night," in fact, was featured, though "All Through the Night" would end up being one of the Wt. Luna: aneth four big hits from the record.

The other smashes are here, of course, and "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" was likely already on its way to becoming the first of those, judging from her remark "I think you know this" as the song gets into gear. Also keep an ear out for the '20s tune "He's So Unusual"; she was backed by vaudevillian piano when she sang it on the album-of-nearly-the-same-name, but seems to be backed by ukulele here. Lauper might have been told to sound like other people when her career was in danger of expiration, but by the time of this recording, she was on the verge of making it big by sounding like herself "Throughout my career," Lauper told BAM, "I've always felt there was something very noodgy about the sound of my voice, which I thought was a terrible thing.

So I worked my butt off, literally, to change that sound, but I never could quite get the noodgy stuff out. The noodge is always there. "When I heard the sound of some real old records, I heard other singers that had that sound, that different sound, that noodge, you know? So, in a way, I guess it's been a blessing, even though I was always told that if I didn't sound like a flock of so-and-so's or the human so-an er love lost Now an inspired misfit turned ti weirdness into wealth—and, hell, she bops! d-so's, I'd never be successful."

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Tracklist
Lauper, Cyndi - True Colors: The Best Of (2-CD) CD 1
01 Girls Just Want To Have Fun
02 Time After Time
03 True Colors
04 I Drove All Night
05 She Bop
06 Iko Iko
07 When You Were Mine
08 Change Of Heart
09 All Through The Night
10 What's Going On
11 The World Is Stone
12 Maybe He'll Know
13 Hat Full Of Stars
14 Who Let In The Rain
15 Money Changes Everything
16 Sisters Of Avalon
17 Unhook The Stars
18 The Goonies 'R' Good Enough
Lauper, Cyndi - True Colors: The Best Of (2-CD) CD 2
01 Calm Inside The Storm
02 Lies
03 Boy Blue
04 Someone Like Me
05 The Faraway Nearby
06 Primitive
07 My First Night Without You
08 Like A Cat
09 Heading West
10 Unconditional Love
11 Dancing With A Stranger
12 I Don't Want To Be Your Friend
13 Kindred Spirit
14 Hole In My Heart (All The Way To China)
15 That's What I Think
16 Sally's Pigeons
17 Dear John
18 You Don't Know