three trains in the night, them.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Thursday, 17 January 2013 02:36 (eleven years ago) link
I was looking for some of Cyndi's Mona Flambe appearances (e.g. backing up Koko B. Ware's "Grab Them Cakes" on American Bandstand) but it looks like they've been taken down. You can't sleep on her WWF affiliation as a major aspect of her fame around this period.
― (hcnuL dlO) * (Old Lunch), Thursday, 17 January 2013 02:37 (eleven years ago) link
I love Change of Heart
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 17 January 2013 02:38 (eleven years ago) link
love this acoustic version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KONNeaMaiPY
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 17 January 2013 02:53 (eleven years ago) link
it must make her crazy to have to sit down to sing
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 17 January 2013 02:54 (eleven years ago) link
One time when I was moving out of a house I lived in during college I'd packed up all the devices that could play music except for my turntable, and I pulled this out of my record collection and played it on repeat for like four hours. It's been one of my favorite albums ever since. Another time when I lived in another college house that had no furniture in it, a good friend was visiting and I put a shitty portable turntable w/ a built in speaker on the floor in an empty doorless room adjoining the kitchen while we made dinner and him and I fake-nervously slow danced to "Time After Time" together like we were at a junior high prom. It was extremely endearing.
― Yo! MTV La Tengo (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 17 January 2013 03:20 (eleven years ago) link
<3 <3 <3
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 17 January 2013 03:21 (eleven years ago) link
"Change Of Heart" was a worthy post-SSU single, but otherwise, yeah: she peaked right out of the gate.
"I Drove All Night" is my favorite song of hers, and it's from the third album in 1989, so the quality didn't exactly fall off a cliff.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 17 January 2013 03:23 (eleven years ago) link
She's So Unusual is fking awesome, there's no beating that. But Night To Remember is a great album, much better than True Colors; I also really like Sisters of Avalon, and that last covers album she did, Memphis Blues was really good too. She never really disappeared imo, it's weird to hear ppl say that
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 17 January 2013 03:27 (eleven years ago) link
oh and before I forget, check this out: 7 months pregnant performing on Leno in 96. Insane.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhAyBROa38k
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 17 January 2013 03:32 (eleven years ago) link
I love how 100% she is.
― this customer is a jerk (La Lechera), Thursday, 17 January 2013 03:39 (eleven years ago) link
She never really disappeared imo, it's weird to hear ppl say that.
From the charts she did. She had lots of Top 10 hits between 83 and 86, then one in 89 and then that was it...
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 17 January 2013 17:14 (eleven years ago) link
she started releasing "meaningful" shit like that song about the pigeons
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 17 January 2013 17:26 (eleven years ago) link
Feeeeed the birds, tuppence a bag
― consistency is the owlbear of small minds (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 17 January 2013 17:26 (eleven years ago) link
i'm gonna rep for all through the night.
my favorite LP, some days.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 17 January 2013 18:19 (eleven years ago) link
All Through the Night: the best thing Jules Shear ever wrote?
― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Thursday, 17 January 2013 18:31 (eleven years ago) link
"If She Knew What She Wants" is perfect too.
Hi songs are perfect only when women sing them.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 17 January 2013 18:37 (eleven years ago) link
xpost
dunno. he was kind of a "cult songwriter" in the 1980s i guess. are those polar bears albums any good?
i grew up in chicago and jules shear was the kid of "this is real, well-written pop" dude that WXRT was championing... which honestly put me off, since a lot of other stuff they were similarly championing was terminally bland.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 17 January 2013 18:40 (eleven years ago) link
I actually don't know ANY of his own recordings.
― consistency is the owlbear of small minds (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 17 January 2013 18:40 (eleven years ago) link
coda (?) beginning at 3:30 makes this fucking song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwkUY7LebDY
a tear just came to my eye, no shit.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 17 January 2013 18:41 (eleven years ago) link
yeah it's beautiful
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 17 January 2013 18:41 (eleven years ago) link
are those polar bears albums any good?
Not really? Except they're kind of fun to hear. It's hard to explain.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 17 January 2013 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
I spent way too much time thinking about this. One of the most underrated albums. Guess I'll go "Time After Time" but this album has the best sustained group of covers of all time (great non-obvious selections and incredible versions).
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Friday, 18 January 2013 02:27 (eleven years ago) link
is it really underrated? It's often listed as one of the decade's best.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 January 2013 02:27 (eleven years ago) link
I had to go with All Through The Night. It makes me so weepy and happy and her singing at the end is so pretty
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 18 January 2013 02:28 (eleven years ago) link
<i>is it really underrated? It's often listed as one of the decade's best.</i>
Not often enough! I mean it's not underrated on here, sure, I think it even made Rolling Stones Top 500 albums of all time list (too low though), but it seems like most of hte time I hear reference to Cyndi Lauper she's basically just a punchline.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Friday, 18 January 2013 02:35 (eleven years ago) link
i think 'girls just wanna...' has sort of eclipsed the rest, tho it's probably only like the 4th or 5th best track.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 18 January 2013 02:37 (eleven years ago) link
But it's so much better than the original. Whoever thought the right way to do that song was late 70's male rock grumbling was pretty insane.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Friday, 18 January 2013 02:39 (eleven years ago) link
It's a testament to how awesome Lauper's performance is that not once have I ever tired of "Girls..."
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 January 2013 02:40 (eleven years ago) link
in greil marcus's review of this album he talks about how annoyed everyone he knows is by 'girls.' i can't even imagine being the kind of person who finds cyndi lauper's voice annoying.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 18 January 2013 02:46 (eleven years ago) link
grouchy ppl
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 18 January 2013 02:47 (eleven years ago) link
Robert Hazard is a multimillionaire, I trust.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 January 2013 02:53 (eleven years ago) link
http://itsnotpossible.typepad.com/trashfan/cyndi2.jpg
― to each his own but (Eazy), Friday, 18 January 2013 02:54 (eleven years ago) link
In the 1980s albums poll we did several years back -- that we never saw the results of? -- I think this was my number 5 or 6 album. I love so many of the songs that voting for one feels arbitrary, but the build from verse to chorus on "All Through the Night" is the thing I'd most like to hear at the moment.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Friday, 18 January 2013 03:04 (eleven years ago) link
She is just so absolutely enchanting in Vibes, I wanna marry her. Watching it right now.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Friday, 18 January 2013 03:15 (eleven years ago) link
I didn't know The Bangles sang the backing vocals on "Change of Heart"!
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 January 2013 03:24 (eleven years ago) link
wait I didn't know that either!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 18 January 2013 03:26 (eleven years ago) link
Makes sense.
Judging them from their work here and Tom Petty's "Waiting For Tonight," I'm wondering why they couldn't become a Trio for L.A. post-punkers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Change_of_Heart_%28Cyndi_Lauper_song%29
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 January 2013 03:28 (eleven years ago) link
lots of high-profile cameos (is that the word?) on that album. Billy Joel!
― Scoobie Dufay (Paul in Santa Cruz), Friday, 18 January 2013 03:29 (eleven years ago) link
Nile Rogers on guitar too
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 18 January 2013 03:30 (eleven years ago) link
"Money Changes Everything" over "Time After Time"
― da croupier, Friday, 18 January 2013 13:28 (eleven years ago) link
the "wywm" cover doesn't do anything for me, but it's the only case where i actually like the track she's covering. and i honestly can't recall "all through the night" but with everyone raving about it i want to make sure "money" gets a vote cuz its outstanding.
― da croupier, Friday, 18 January 2013 13:30 (eleven years ago) link
considering her ability to rescue sounds from bellowing new wavers i wish she'd make an album of graham parker covers
― da croupier, Friday, 18 January 2013 13:33 (eleven years ago) link
rescuing songs, i meant to say
yeah haha she was pretty good at dismissing the sounds of New Wavers and coming up with her own.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 January 2013 13:59 (eleven years ago) link
my relationship with this album has mostly been knowing the hits, throwing it on when house-sitting for someone who owns it, and then just going back to the hits
― da croupier, Friday, 18 January 2013 14:06 (eleven years ago) link
admittedly with those hits being so totemic and so front-loaded on the album, it's not the best way to get into the deep cuts.
― da croupier, Friday, 18 January 2013 14:08 (eleven years ago) link
finally voted for "She Bop," which hasn't been mentioned much – my introduction as a child to how much fun garish synths could be (didn't know it was about jerking off until years later; blame Capt Lou).
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 January 2013 14:12 (eleven years ago) link
Songs my mom heard me singing around the house and told me in no uncertain terms to stop (she usually let me sing anything I wanted, so her telling me to stop was a big thing):"Like a Virgin""Sexual Healing"
"She Bop" was no problem. I didn't know what it was about either; thought it was about bopping.
― this customer is a jerk (La Lechera), Friday, 18 January 2013 14:32 (eleven years ago) link
girls just having fun!
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 January 2013 14:36 (eleven years ago) link