Cyndi Lauper Album: “Twelve Deadly Cyns...And Then Some”

this would be a 5-star cd if "the goonies 'r' good enough" was on it, but for some strange reason it's not. what makes it even worse is that the song isn't even available on any of her other albums or on any compilation albums. why is it that some artists and record labels feel the need to put a few new songs on their "best of" albums at the expense of songs that, in cases like "the goonies 'r' good enough", were top 10 hits? it makes no sense. note to sony music: the next time you put out a cyndi lauper hits album, please make sure to include "the goonies 'r' good enough", or at least put it on a compilation album. if you're going to put a new song in the place of a song that was a major hit, at least have the courtesy to make the song you're leaving out available on some other album. otherwise, this is a good cd; an 80's pop diva singing (most of) her biggest hits.

Twelve Deadly Syns released in 1994 has still been comprehensive guide to Cyndi Lauper music. Interestingly though she let the compilation include two of the Blue Angel days' tracks I'm Gonna Be Strong and Come on Home by which you can enjoy the different color of Cyndi music. Particularly I'M GONNA BE STRONG is an excellent addition showcasing Cyndi's intensive vocal countering well with Bette Midler or Barbara Streisand. HEY NOW is the self-rendition of GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN. But I feel this one just ruins the original and should have had a different song instead. Two of collaboration with HOOTERS works fine in this CD. One of which TIME AFTER TIME is the very song which gave the Hooters an opportunity to debut with amazing result. The more recent collaboration THAT'S WHAT I THINK is fun pop track and I also love this.

Verdict: Great and Comprehensive compilation and has interesting approach to include unknown days tracks for fans. Well done.

Rating: 88 out of 100. HEY NOW contributed the loss of points.

Also Japanese version has three more tracks and that would add to the relative minus to this 14-track version.

Recommended for: Wide range of 80s pop rock fans.

Buy it it you like Cyndi Lauper, or if you think that you *might* like Cyndi Lauper. The first songs are from "Unusual", all the best stuff except for the Prince song (which is first rate). Oh, and "Unusual" has the three bonus live tracks, those are very nice. Cyndi tells the audience that "she loves them to", and asks the age old rhetorical question, "is it true that everybody bops?".

But back to "12 Deadly", Cyndi included "I'm Gonna be Strong", where she demonstrates that in terms of vocal range, and emotional intensity, she is up there with the best.

The last half or so of the CD is mostly "True Colors" and "Hat Full of Stars" stuff, and all I have heard from those. The only song that I really don't care for is "Whats going On". I liked the Marvin Gaye version, maybe that is the problem. That was from "True Colors".

Only one song from "A Night to Remember". That CD has three songs that are considered her best by many fans, so i assume that the record company did not want to interfere with sales on that one. i like the "A Night to Remember" CD a great deal.

"12 Deadly" ends with two previously unreleased songs with a reggae beat. "(Hey Now) Girls Just Wanna..." is quite nice, that song really was not appreciated enough for itself, when you get the Video out of your head (albeit a great video), you realize that the song stood on its own merits.

i agree with most fans, "Goonies" should be here, but it is said that Cyndi hates it. i don't know, but maybe she hates the video that went with it, that was lame, right up there with "Plan 9 From Outer Space". Cyndi was cute in everything she did, and the part where she complains about the gas station is funny, but *i* would be embarassed if i had done that video. So maybe that is why she hates "Goonies."

Last thing, i like the thank you's that Cyndi puts in the liner notes...i get the impression that she is really a nice person (not saying an angel...who is?), but clearly she has many friends, and that says a lot about her. She seems to always worry about hurting anybody's feelings by leaving them out. Not the cookie cutter thank you's but heart felt ones, you can tell.

Cyndi Lauper was a sensation in the early 80s. She started to flop with the releases of A Night To Remember in 1989 (her third album) and Hat Full Of Stars in 1993 (her fourth album). This album is a collection of Cyndi's hits from the first four albums and they are her most greatest hits, despite the fact that The Goonies 'R' Good Enough, the hit theme from the film, The Goonies, is not included on here.

I'M GONNA BE STRONG

GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN

MONEY CHANGES EVERYTHING

TIME AFTER TIME

SHE BOP

ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT

CHANGE OF HEART

TRUE COLORS

WHAT'S GOING ON

I DROVE ALL NIGHT

THAT'S WHAT I THINK

SALLY'S PIGEONS

HEY NOW (GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN)

COME ON HOME

Containing only the best of her hits, this is a must-have Cyndi Lauper album.

The release of Cyndi's cynful toonz on a compilation in 94 only served to revive (majorly in Europe) a talent that has been long overlooked and dormant since the True Colors effort. This cd only cover up to the Hatful of Stars cd, and even then doesn't give it full justice - the title track shoulda been a single! However, this is not a Greatest Hits 9as not all the big singles are on here) but rather a delectable taste of old and new/reworked trax which served to remind (along with a reggae update of Girls Just Wanna Have Fun) the world wot a wondrous and overlooked talent Lauper is. The re-recording of Blue Angel's I'm Gonna Be Strong is a harrowing vocal performance than would leave Franklin in awe and shame....torturous. All Through The Night and Time After Time timeless, and True Colors, poetry on a musical canvas, all of which reveal the range of auper's tonsils. I Drove All Night shall no doubt remain Lauper's mature chef d'oeuvre and the only track from the highly under-rated and magnificent A Night To Remember. I could go on...loadsa happy toonz too....Change of Heart with Bangles on backing is powerfully confident, She Bop (who'da thought ...[this] would be such a catchy song topic???) and the signatory classic Girls Just Wanna will go down in time. Hat goes off to Lauper for Who Let In The Rain ..... an anguished song that just chills. Add to that the wondrous poetry of Sally's Pigeons and the reowrking of Plamandon's French Epic The World Is Stone and you have one helluva ride from the girl who not only wanted to have fun but show the world wot a lost talent she is.....Come On Home a dodgy reggae thingy, and well worth skipping over. The sad thing is that sales of this cd indicated that there may have bene life in the old Lauper...yet the follow-up album, Sister of Avalon (an absolute KLASSIK) did nothing. The world's loss....but definitely my gain. A misunderstood genuis...this cd only gives a taster as to how amazin she really is