I need to see that LL
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 18:58 (eleven years ago) link
New Year's Eve 1983 MTV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5K8vBJ1nKI
Also the fact that she was 30 when she was doing this is so awesome to me
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 19:05 (eleven years ago) link
holy shit that first side is such an amazing thing
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 19:07 (eleven years ago) link
This MTV NYE thing is A M A Z I N G
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 16 January 2013 19:09 (eleven years ago) link
Guys I'm listening to it now and damn it's just so good.
― go to party leather (ENBB), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 19:09 (eleven years ago) link
yeah the NYE performance is balls-out, she sounds so incredible
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 19:12 (eleven years ago) link
guess I need to listen to this full album huh
― Influential Acid Jazz Pioneer (crüt), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 19:13 (eleven years ago) link
yes you do
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 19:14 (eleven years ago) link
"Witness" is not bad either
― Euler, Wednesday, 16 January 2013 19:14 (eleven years ago) link
"I'll Kiss You" is the sleeper.
If her Goonies track had been included as "Good Enough" then we'd have a perfect album.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 19:23 (eleven years ago) link
otm
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
and yeah I love 'Ill Kiss You'
"When You Were Mine," but can I put in an honorable mention for:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cj5IyCA08A
― Sailor-neighbor of Chaucer's wife (Tubby) (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 19:29 (eleven years ago) link
I watched her reality show this weekend, it's kind of terrible but I love her anyway. She's the best
Knew that would be a VGrrl post :-)
I remember a Time Magazine story on Cyndi and Madonna at the time of this album; they were equally big stars at that point. (Then the whole unfortunate pro wrestling thing - but some great tracks on the next few albums.)
Anyway, a v classic album, have to vote Time After Time.
― il caresse sa dingding (Paul in Santa Cruz), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 19:35 (eleven years ago) link
True Colors was the first time an artist I adored disappointed me.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 19:36 (eleven years ago) link
OMFG that german TV clip looks so amazing i'm kind of afraid to click it
― consistency is the owlbear of small minds (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 19:41 (eleven years ago) link
no it's rad, she has a huge amazing Cure-looking stage
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 19:41 (eleven years ago) link
I need to try to remember to look up the great sentence Matos wrote abt WYWM in his Prince book when I get home. I don't want to mess it up from memory
― consistency is the owlbear of small minds (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 19:42 (eleven years ago) link
xxpost I didn't think the wrestling was unfortunate! but that totally outs me as a crazy fangirl AND a wrestling fan
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 19:42 (eleven years ago) link
Different album, but now I'm looking for this amazing Japanese tv performance she gave of "I Drove All Night" where she was carried in on the shoulders of some buff servant men, had on a long red wig and looked positively amazing and it's not there anymore. This is a SAD DAY.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 16 January 2013 19:45 (eleven years ago) link
;_;
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 19:47 (eleven years ago) link
I remember that!!!
This is basically impossible
― Drugs A. Money, Wednesday, 16 January 2013 20:02 (eleven years ago) link
I remember a Time Magazine story on Cyndi and Madonna at the time of this album; they were equally big stars at that point.
I very distinctly remember standing at the bottom of the staircase (which should be in the photo, if i can find it) and my mom saying that she thought Cyndi was way more talented than Madonna, who was going to be a flash in the pan as far as she was concerned. I agreed with her iirc.
― this customer is a jerk (La Lechera), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 20:14 (eleven years ago) link
all through the night v. time after time
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 16 January 2013 20:17 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, there's a reason this poll was never done before. It's on my shortlist of perfect albums (every track is great). If you also figure in the equally-excellent b-sides and soundtrack cuts from that era ("Goonies R Good Enough", "Right Track Wrong Train", "Such A Thrill"), it's just such an amazing run.
― (hcnuL dlO) * (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
i still agree with your mom, la lechera!
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 20:22 (eleven years ago) link
plaintive impassioned hope forever forward v. quiet melancholic time travel
it's raining today so, time after time
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 16 January 2013 20:24 (eleven years ago) link
Cyndi's problem was thinking she was good for writing more than two songs per album.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 20:24 (eleven years ago) link
lol i've never listened to this record before
lol it's amazing
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 20:28 (eleven years ago) link
So why were The Hooters so mediocre? (Weren't they?)
― il caresse sa dingding (Paul in Santa Cruz), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 20:35 (eleven years ago) link
I liked the Hooters (and so did my mom)
― this customer is a jerk (La Lechera), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 20:39 (eleven years ago) link
They had some extremely crappy lyrics, but a lot of their songs were pretty good. One of them was about ~zombies~ (I think it was about religion but I was kind of focused on the zombies at 10)
― this customer is a jerk (La Lechera), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 20:41 (eleven years ago) link
ALL YOU ZOMBIES
i love that song!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 20:42 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LE0KpcP05I
Hooters were plenty okay. I'm listening to "And We Danced" right now and it's still one of my mid-80s faves.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 16 January 2013 20:44 (eleven years ago) link
yeah the Hooters rule, at least what I know of their hits
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 20:45 (eleven years ago) link
When I talk about crappy lyrics, I mean shit like "she was my be bop baby at the union hall" and they had a horrible quasi reggae song too iirc. I liked Johnny B (lol Johnny B) and Zombies the best. My mom used to kid me for only liking the glummest songs. This was a year or two before I bought my first Cure album, so we could retroactively easily see where all of this was heading.
― this customer is a jerk (La Lechera), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 20:46 (eleven years ago) link
Is 'All You Zombies' actually abt zombies tho? Even as a kid I was like 'eh, this isn't about REAL zombies'
― consistency is the owlbear of small minds (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 20:51 (eleven years ago) link
I remember their trademark melodica with a blowing tube attached to it-- for some reason we thought that instrument was called a 'Hooter' and hence their name
― consistency is the owlbear of small minds (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 20:52 (eleven years ago) link
You don't have to hide anymore!
I willfully pretended it wasn't about religion, I think. But there were lyrics about Noah and Moses and whatnot.
― this customer is a jerk (La Lechera), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 20:53 (eleven years ago) link
i think someone even hollers "yeah they were the israelites!" at some point(sorry cyndi)
Maybe they were coming from the same place as that guy who wrote horror novels abt Jesus Christ: Vampire etc
xpost !!! what?
― consistency is the owlbear of small minds (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 20:55 (eleven years ago) link
Oh no I just got to 'All Through The Night' ;_;
the feelingz
time after time y'all
but I'm not going to be critical of any winner in this poll
― for the relief of unbearable space hugs (Austerity Ponies), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 20:59 (eleven years ago) link
"some point" = 2:38 (re: Zombies)
Back to SHE'S SO UNUSUAL. Best track is hard, but best MOMENT is easy - the giggle in She Bop!
― il caresse sa dingding (Paul in Santa Cruz), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 21:07 (eleven years ago) link
was just thinking that! And the bizarre thing way she super nasalizes her voice immediately after
― consistency is the owlbear of small minds (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 21:10 (eleven years ago) link
bizarre way, that was meant to read
It's very 50's retro, if you like that kind of thing. "I'm Gonna Be Strong" (reprised on her greatest hits album Twelve Deadly Cyns) is great, though; it's like Cyndi attempting a big powerhouse ballad and then realize partway through that she doesn't quite know how to approach this kind of thing, so she just spends the last bit wildly and awesomely over-emoting.
― Inside Lewellyn Sinclair (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 2 April 2014 15:10 (ten years ago) link
yeah this girls just wanna have fun demo is really cool!like the raw little demo version of money changes everything too
― Raptain Chillips (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 2 April 2014 15:49 (ten years ago) link
i like the blue angel LP. a big part of cyndi's persona is on there, although as a whole it's more conceptual that her solo debut--a sort of kennedy-era rock n pop throwback, albeit with a modern-sounding rhythm section. fits into a certain strain of new wave (think b-52's but not quite as campy or dancy). i think it'd be better regarded if it hadn't been followed up by one of the greatest pop albums of all time.
― espring (amateurist), Friday, 4 April 2014 18:55 (ten years ago) link
god. greatest side one of all time
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Saturday, 7 July 2018 13:33 (five years ago) link
don't discount
I'LL KISS YOUKISS YOUKISS YOU
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 7 July 2018 13:34 (five years ago) link
absolutely it's just that side one contains three songs in a row that make me burst into tears ("girls" -> "when you were mine" -> "time after time")
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Saturday, 7 July 2018 13:36 (five years ago) link
The weakness of the final few tracks has always made this album feel like a missed opportunity.
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Saturday, 7 July 2018 15:51 (five years ago) link
I love this record. Also I will say that her last several live videos - ACl, Soundstage - have been excellent. Her voice is still amazing.
― nonsensei (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 7 July 2018 16:05 (five years ago) link
― i’m still stanning (morrisp)
The fuck outta here! Albums don't have to be perfect, not when this one has four of the greatest songs ever recorded.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 7 July 2018 16:07 (five years ago) link
They don’t have to be, but this one could have been!It’s one of my earliest memories of forming an opinion about an album – being disappointed at how this one peters out at the end, after such a dynamite side 1.
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Saturday, 7 July 2018 16:18 (five years ago) link
Albums don’t have to be perfect but this one damn near is. “Yeah Yeah” is the only really weak track on here; even the novelty-ish sorta title track knows well enough to not overstay it’s welcome.
― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Saturday, 7 July 2018 17:15 (five years ago) link
feeling a lot of intense love for cyndi today <3 <3 <3
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 31 March 2022 19:17 (two years ago) link
(not prompted by anything irl just listening to SSU for the first time in awhile and being slain anew)
Phew, your first post had me concerned
― Please don’t take / My time change away (morrisp), Thursday, 31 March 2022 19:21 (two years ago) link
Lol I realized that after posting
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 31 March 2022 19:25 (two years ago) link
I think it’s time I read her memoir. Don’t tell me if it’s lame
it’s good! she’s very forthright, interesting/sad upbringing its a quick read
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 31 March 2022 22:10 (two years ago) link
I'LL KISS YOUI'LL KISS YOUKISS YOU
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 31 March 2022 23:49 (two years ago) link
A Zoomcast a friend and I did last week on "Time After Time": the original video, and then its use across three movies and a TV show over the next 40 years.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGiOS_X2o7U
― clemenza, Sunday, 6 August 2023 13:15 (eight months ago) link