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Post by Horacewimp on Jul 5, 2015 15:18:42 GMT
This week I bring you what was one of the most played cassettes in my car during 1984, Cyndi Lauper’s album She’s So Unusual. I listened to this with my mate while travelling from Birmingham to Worcester while dating Mrs. Wimp, my mate was dating her friend. Information from Wikipedia: She's So Unusual is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Cyndi Lauper, released on October 14, 1983. Lauper earned several awards and accolades for the album, including two Grammy Awards at the 27th Grammy Awards, one of which was for Best New Artist. She's So Unusual peaked at number four on the Billboard 200 chart and stayed in the chart's top forty for 65 weeks. It has sold over 6 million copies in the United States and 22 million copies worldwide. 1) Money Changes Everything 2) Girls Just Want To Have Fun 3) When You Were Mine 4) Time After Time 5) She Bob 6) All Through The Night 7) Witness 8) I’ll Kiss You 9) He’s So Unusual 10) Yeah Yeah Youtube Playlist
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Post by jrmugz on Jul 5, 2015 15:24:35 GMT
Cool, HW, looking forward to hearing what this whole thing sounds like. I think everyone would have to agree that "Time After Time" is an amazing classic.
Jim
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Post by unomusette on Jul 6, 2015 13:00:45 GMT
Excellent choice, I might not get round to reviewing it until next week as I'm away from tomorrow until next Tuesday. But review it I most certainly will, looking forward to it
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Post by jrmugz on Jul 6, 2015 14:56:56 GMT
OK HW, here is my review of Cyndi Lauper "She's so Unusual".
01. "Money Changes Everything" - Good warning about not trusting those who can be easily swayed by money. Kind of a mediocre pop song. Seems like the words "money changes everything" would be tough words to put a good melody to. 02. "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" - Thank God my girls aren't stupid like this. What I take with me out of it is the need for light-hearted humor. Decent pop arrangement. Works. 03. "When You Were Mine" - Disqualifed from being a song, in my book, for unnecessary use of the f-word. 04. "Time After My Time" - Masterpiece. 05. "She-Bop" - Light-hearted clever pop. Tasteful use of synthesizers. Works pretty good. 06. "All through the Night" - Nice cover song. 07. "Witness" - Feels like one-of-them-there-filler-types-of-songs. 08. "I'll Kiss You" - Would have sounded better as an instrumental. Like the groove. 09. "He's So Unusual" - GONG! 10. "Yeah, Yeah" - Decent music; don't like the lyrics.
Star Rating: 3 out of 5 Prime Cuts: "Time After Time", "She-Bop", "All Through the Night" Bottom Line: Not my kind of woman or artist; but she has a unique voice, sings with a lot of soul, and has some talent.
She definitely shines really well with the ballads, I have to admit. "Time After Time" and "All Through the Night" sound really good and are definitely the two strongest trackes, in my book anyways.
Thanks for sharing, HW; was interesting to hear what that whole first album was about, since well familiar with four of them from the MTV days, so some good nostalgia. Got you marked down for a couple months from now.
Jim
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Post by Horacewimp on Jul 6, 2015 15:37:52 GMT
Thanks Jim ( jrmugz) for the review, I must admit for me the album goes downhill after track 6, I think the first half of the album is very strong. I didn't hear the F word in "When You Were Mine"? I think it is a cover of a Prince song.
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Post by queenofthehours on Jul 6, 2015 15:38:29 GMT
I only know about three Cyndi songs and two of them are on this LP so I'm looking forward to it.
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Post by jefflynnenut on Jul 6, 2015 16:08:59 GMT
Love this album! Got it on tape in '84!
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Post by Chippa on Jul 7, 2015 20:03:36 GMT
I think I might have listened to this album once, but it was a long long time ago. Like back before records became "cool", again.
I'll give it a go, and get my review up soon.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2015 1:38:48 GMT
I had this tape when I was a kid and played it so much, that it almost wore out!
This really is a fun album to revisit, for nostalgia sake, if nothing else.
Girls Just Want to Have Fun is a terrific song, no matter how dated it sounds. All Through The Night, and Time After Time are KILLER ballads. She Bop is silly fun, as is He's So Unusual.
While it doesn't quite make my list of the top five albums of the eighties, it's easily in my top ten.
Speaking of Cyndi, does anyone else remember when she was doing her stint in WWF(now WWE)? That was fun!
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Post by Chippa on Jul 9, 2015 19:20:54 GMT
@brax, I loved when Cyndi was doing the whole Rock n Wrestling deal. Rowdy Roddy Piper was fucking hilarious.
Money Changes Everything- Great opener. Love the guitar/synth combo going on throughout the song. Pretty sure this song was a minor hit.
Girls Just Want To Have Fun - Ear candy extraordinaire! A bubblegum pop tour de force. Love those percolating analog synths. A truly memorable 80's hit, for sure.
When You Were Mine - Straight up 80's pop with a candy coated sheen. Really good melody, too.
Time After Time - One of the greatest ballads of the 80's. Someone should play this for some of the new crop of top 40 radio hitmakers, to show them how you write a memorable and timeless pop song.
She Bop - A sly little song about the joys of masturbation. Very clever lyrics, and again, a really catchy melody.
All Through The Night - I really love the keyboard sound on here, especially the synth-bagpipes.
Witness- Ska flavored fun. I'm guessing Gwen Stefano and No Doubt might have been influenced by this song.
I'll Kiss You - Funky with some new wave touches. Not bad.
He's So Unusual - Cute, and thankfully short.
Yeah Yeah - Did Yoko Ono inspire those opening howls? Kinda love the call and answer lyrics. Solid closing track.
Overall, I give this an 8/10. A couple of very minor missteps, but this is mostly an album of super catchy pop music.
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Post by Horacewimp on Jul 9, 2015 20:19:35 GMT
Thanks Chippa for the review glad you enjoyed it and the first to mention the Elephant in the Room "She Bop"
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Post by jrmugz on Jul 9, 2015 21:21:03 GMT
Interesting about the subject of She-bop, so I looked it up in the Catechism of the The Catholic Church. It's below. Jim www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p3s2c2a6.htm2352 By masturbation is to be understood the deliberate stimulation of the genital organs in order to derive sexual pleasure. "Both the Magisterium of the Church, in the course of a constant tradition, and the moral sense of the faithful have been in no doubt and have firmly maintained that masturbation is an intrinsically and gravely disordered action."138 "The deliberate use of the sexual faculty, for whatever reason, outside of marriage is essentially contrary to its purpose." For here sexual pleasure is sought outside of "the sexual relationship which is demanded by the moral order and in which the total meaning of mutual self-giving and human procreation in the context of true love is achieved."139 To form an equitable judgment about the subjects' moral responsibility and to guide pastoral action, one must take into account the affective immaturity, force of acquired habit, conditions of anxiety or other psychological or social factors that lessen, if not even reduce to a minimum, moral culpability.
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Post by Helmut83 on Jul 10, 2015 0:53:06 GMT
Jim, to counterbalance that, I think it would be interesting to see what biologists have to say about the subject. For all I know, it's a natural thing, and more important than that, it doesn't cause harm to anyone (at least if performed by usual standards).
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Post by jrmugz on Jul 10, 2015 3:49:30 GMT
Jim, to counterbalance that, I think it would be interesting to see what biologists have to say about the subject. For all I know, it's a natural thing, and more important than that, it doesn't cause harm to anyone (at least if performed by usual standards). You're talking physically, but for the soul it feeds selfishness. Jim
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Post by Helmut83 on Jul 10, 2015 5:10:37 GMT
Then sexual intercourse, as opposed, should feed the soul with generosity, so I infer the Cathecism of the Catholic Church must encourage people to have sexual relations.
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