Time After Time: The Best of Cyndi Lauper

Artist: Cyndi Lauper
Label: Sony Music Catalog
Category: Music

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Format: Limited Edition
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 766486616523
EAN: 0766486616523
ASIN: B00005066E

Release Date: 2000-11-16

Time After Time: The Best of Cyndi Lauper

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Tracks:

Girls Just Want to Have Fun
She Bop
I Drove All Night
What's Going On
Time After Time
True Colors
All Through the Night
World Is Stone
I Don't Want to Be Your Friend
Goonies 'R' Good Enough
Maybe He'll Know
When You Were Mine
Iko Iko
Change of Heart
Hey Now (Girls Just Want to Have Fun)

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Album Description

Limited German 'Best Of' compilation for the 80's era pop icon, pressed onto a gold disc. 15 tracks (one more than the closest domestic, '12 Deadly Cyns' and featuring seven cuts not included on that release, 'The World Is Stone', 'I Don'tWant To Be Your Friend', 'The Goonies 'R' Good Enough', 'Maybe He'll Know', 'When You Were Mine', 'Iko Iko' and 'ChangeOf Heart'. 2000 release. Standard jewel case housed in a slipcase.

Album Details

From Sony's 'best of the Best' Series. Features all of Lauper's Smashes ('girls Just Wanna have Fun', 'time after Time', 'true Colors', 'all Throught the Night') plus Several Interesting Covers, Including Marvin Gaye's 'what's Going On', 'when You were Mine' by Prince, the Dixie Cups' Staple 'iko Iko' and More. Also Includes the Theme from the Film 'the Goonies' and a 1994 Reworking of 'girls Just Wanna have Fun'.

Customer Reviews:

Great Album.......2007-04-16

I bought this CD and was sent another one, not this one. So becareful when buying this CD. But overall after buying this CD a second time, the album is great!

Missing "Money"...Otherwise Fine.......2005-10-19

I've probably posted this story before in a review of one of Cyndi Lauper's albums, so I won't belabor it here. But the thing that convinced me that Cyndi was a good as I had been hearing (and reading) back in 1984 was not either of the first two hit singles played constantly on the radio (good as "Girls Just Wanna..." and "Time After Time" were). I had no idea what a commanding singer she could be until I walked into a record store where they were playing "Money Changes Everything" on the stereo. It was one of thos "aha" moments you hear about. So that's what they were talking about. I stood riveted as she wailed out those final beautifully angry notes. As scorching a vocal eruption as anything Janis had ever put to record.

Ever since I've been fan, whether it was the hip thing to be or not. When others were writing her off as a cute novelty act, I was championing Cyndi Lauper as a great singer. My diva pantheon is select and a bit quirky, but for me Cyndi was right up there with Janis, Grace, Judy Henske, Nico, Laura Nyro and Tracy Nelson (no, NOT the actress, silly).

But it was that one song that made a believer out of me, so imagine my disappointment when this German "best of" import left it out. I mean, I won't argue with too many of the songs that did make it onto this disc, and have to wonder if maybe it's not just a kind of European thing. It's hard to imagine "Money..." being left off of ANY American compilation (so far it has not, to my knowledge). But it did not make it onto this Deutsche disc nor its French equivalent (LES INDISPENSIBLES).

Unlike the American (and British) 12 DEADLY CYNS, this compilation is a little less heavily weighted toward SHE'S SO UNUSUAL. Well, actually both had five tracks from the first solo album, but this European product at least gives the sophomore effort TRUE COLORS equal representation with five tracks from that one. The oft maligned and always underrated NIGHT TO REMEMBER is at least represented by two songs, and it's nice to see that aside from "I Drove All Night" (still the best version for my money) the brooding, very grown-up sound that album introduced is captured by one of its better ballads, "I Don't Want To Be Your Friend," on which Cyndi surprised many by sounding uncannily like Joan Armatrading.

The more recent American release THE ESSENTIAL CYNDI LAUPER also includes the much in demand "Goonies R Good Enough," so its inclusion here may no longer be reason enough for fans to shell out for this import. However, TIME AFTER TIME does offer another much sought after rarity, the European single "The World Is Stone." This gorgeously sombre composition has also finally appeared on an American CD--oddly a budgetline Christmas CD entitled "Feels Like Christmas," which is certainly inexpensive, but the Gallic gloom seems totally out of place on a holiday CD. It's like mixing absinthe in the egg nog.

And here it's all of a piece with such other bits of tristesse as "True Colors" and "Time After Time." It hangs together beautifully. Whoever determined the sequence of the songs did a masterful job by wisely throwing chronology out the window (pretty much) and coming up with a record that flows pretty much seamlessly from beginning to end.

But then it works pretty well on random select too. A testament ot Cyndi's talent for sure. And the entire CD is a testament to her universal appeal, I'd say. Too bad she lacks the recognition in this country that the Europeans and Japanese have accorded her since the beginning

Great Pop of the 80's.......2004-10-09

Cindy Lauper recorded some great songs in the 1980's. Most of her best recordings can be found on this fine compilation.

My two clear favourites are "Time After Time ( already an all-time classic ) and "True Colors".

But other great pop-songs like "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" and "Iko Iko" are great listening. In fact most of these tracks have stood the test of time.

A few songs are a little burdoned by the typical heavy and monotone drum sound typical of the eighties.

If you want to seek out some of Lauper's original albums, "She's so Unusual" is highly recommendable.

TIME AFTER TIME,SHE IS REALLY GOOD!!!.......2003-03-16

I STILL CAN LISTEN HER MUSIC.
,,GIRL'S JUST WANNA HAVE FUN''IS ONE OF BEST SONGS EVER,AND OF COURSE,THERE ARE SO MANY GOOD SONGS-TIME AFTER TIME,SHE BOP,I DROVE ALL NIGHT,IKO,IKO....
GREAT!!!

An uninspired collection of Cyndi Lauper's work..........2003-02-07

I am a huge Cyndi Lauper fan, but this collection falls short of being a "best of" CD truly representative of the artist's finest work. None of the songs appearing on this CD are remastered and exhibit pretty poor sound quality. Even Cyndi's 1995 American "best of" CD sounds better than this newer release.

Also, the hits on this CD are the album versions, not the superior (and harder to find) single versions. The recordings of "She Bop" and "What's Going On" spring to mind, because the album versions are truly inferior to the mixes that were popular on American radio. (The single versions can be found on the previoulsy mentioned 1995 collection called "Twelve Deadly Cyns.")

Also, not all of Cyndi's hits appear on this CD. Where are "Hole In My Heart," "Boy Blue" and "My First Night Without You"? All charted respectably but are left off in favor of some non-single tracks. Well, I guess some fans will pick up this CD for the Top Ten hit "Goonies 'R' Good Enough," but the song doesn't hold up as well as Cyndi's other '80s material. (She was wise to leave the "Goonies" tune off her domestic anthology, even though fans--myself included-- complained.)

A few great non-hit songs are here, like "When You Were Mine" and "I Don't Want To be Your Friend," but there is a lot of filler, like the subpar song "The World Is Stone" and the cover of "Iko Iko"

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