Audio CD review:
Cyndi Lauper - Twelve Deadly Cyns and Then Some

Cyndi Lauper - Twelve Deadly Cyns and Then Some

Band: Cyndi Lauper Title: Twelve Deadly Cyns and Then Some Rating: Release Date: 18 July, 1995 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 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 Colors 9: What's Going On 10: I Drove All Night 11: That's What I Think 12: Sally's Pigeons 13: Hey Now (Girls Just Want To Have Fun) 14: Come On Home

Customer Reviews Not Cyn-ful Enough It was what made "[[ASIN:B000051Y0G She's So Unusual]]" so brilliant; Cyndi was so totally outside the mold that everything on it quaked with the stellar portrayal of the artist as a young woman. Cyndi Lauper is one of those eighties singers whose talent was modest but personality was overwhelming. From the classic anthem "Girls Just Wanna have Fun" to the emotional bulls-eye of "Time After Time," Cyndi and all her friends established the pattern that would follow for the rest of her career (and to win her a best new artist Grammy). Cyndi found songs to match her one-of-a-kind voice and would deliver them with style. That she had a knack for plucking gems from obscurity also helped. The Brains' apocryphal "Money Changes Everything" is one such example, ditto for "[[ASIN:B00000266K True Colors]]'s" rocking "Change of Heart. " She was such a colorful fusion of styles and personality that the singles on this "Essential" collection still often sound buoyant and alive even now. It was around the time of "[[ASIN:B0000026KU A Night to Remember]]" and "[[ASIN:B00005G3WY Hatful Of Stars]]" that Cyndi's efforts to sound serious got the better of her. On "[[ASIN:B000002AM9 Twelve Deadly Cyns and Then Some]]," Cyndi wisely chose to include "Sally's Pigeons" (co-written with Mary Chapin Carpenter, of all people), where the emotional heft matched the ambition, where the title track (which was chosen for her "Essential" collection) didn't. That ambition also lead to Cyndi's activism. "True Colors" has become something of a gay anthem, a call to recognize yourself as the person you are. It became the Nom De'Tour of Cyndi's summer 2007 tour for the Human Rights Campaign (along with Indigo Girls, Debbie Harry and Erasure, among others), and her tireless work on behalf of the Matthew Sheppard Foundation and other causes. Her timeless music couples with her work for the future. I'm not sure what merited a remake of "Girls Just Want To have Fun," other than it was a British hit. This CD is also prior to "[[ASIN:B0000071IP Sisters of Avalon]]" and "[[ASIN:B00006ANVQ Shine]]," so all songs from these CD's are not to be found. Unforgiven however, is excluding "The Goonies R Good Enough" on a Best of Cyndi Lauper CD. A quickie knock-off to a Steven Spielberg screaming kids movie, it is all the things great about Cyndi's hits; melodic, energetic and sing-along-quirky. It makes "[[ASIN:B00008PX8X The Essential Cyndi Lauper]]" the best single disc collection of Cyndi you can get without shelling out for pricey double-disc imports. These Cyns Are Good For You "Twelve Deadly Cyns. . and Then Some" is the offical greatest hits of Cyndi Lauper. The album was released in 1994 and is the best greatest hits of Cyndi's to date. The album features Cyndi's number one hits of her career, the album also features at that time three new songs made specially for this compilation, they are "Hey Now (Girls Just Want To Have Fun)", "I'm Gonna Be Strong" which is a re-recording of a song that Cyndi sang when she was with the group "Blue Angel" and "Come On Home". The album was released with similar packaging but track listings varyed based on which songs charted in various parts of the world. It's greatest sales success was in Japan where it went Platinum 5x. It's greatest chart success was in the United Kingdom where it reached #2 on the charts spending almost nine months on the chart, eventually going double platinum selling almost 900,000 copies. In the USA it reached Gold status. The album would go on to sell over four million copies worldwide. There was some issue with the division of royalties due to the wide array of co-writers on the various tracks that prevented Cyndi from releasing the longer version in the United States. The album was originally called "13 Deadly Cyns" and in fact a promotional cassette with this title (and an alternate track listing) was pressed and distributed in the United Kingdom in June of 1992. Out of all the Cyndi Lauper greatest hits compilations, this is the one to buy, it was released by Epic, where Cyndi still makes albums for. P. S. - Better late, then never. Cyndi Lauper's Best Stuff If you are a fan of Cyndi's hugely beautiful voice and and her perky, positive New York attitude this is the CD to have. This is a compilation of all of Cyndi Lauper's greatest hits. It has all of her hits plus two previously unreleased songs that are just as good. The lyrics of all songs are also provided. If you have just discovered how interesting Cyndi is, this is a lot cheaper than buying all her original CDs. . You can see a complete list of all Cyndi Lauper discography, or go back to the Cyndi Lauper tabs