Cyndi Lauper: C or D?

*poop*

i haven't heard anything more than '...fun', though - which is definitely classic - what other songs should i seek?

Well, the videos are all excruciating, but at least Cyndi had Lou Albano in hers.

or is it...

I just remember her having this kind of 1949 Andrews Sister v. 1989 fashion victim thing going on in the video. Regardless, it's still one of my favorite songs of all time.

Celine Dion's version made me hate her even more -- as if such a thing were possible.

Cyndi = classic.

EXACTLY what I was gonna say! Ya just KNOW that in an alternate universe, it's not Madonna but Cyndi who...etc.

Well, the videos are all excruciating, but at least Cyndi had Lou Albano in hers.

-- Ned Raggett

Sorry Ned, couldn't disagree more. I hated "Girls..." and Cyndi herself when I first heard her, mostly because she didn't sound like Black Sabbath. But the video for "Time After Time" was quite moving, and won me over. Utterly Charming & Disarming: The bit right at the start when she awakens her boyfriend by allowing a ceramic dog (modeled after RCA Victor's "Nipper", I think) to "lick" his cheek. And later, in the "She Bop" video, she endeared herself to me all over again with her fairly clumsy (and so what!) top-hat-and-cane soft shoe number. And there was even a little animated bit accompanying the synth-break! I was always fairly indifferent to video - most of 'em were forgettable, which means that I've forgotten them! Cyndi Lauper's videos I never forgot.

Er, it's when she started to write ALL her songs that she started to suck! (and when we realized she had nothing to say).

Image-wise, and somewhat musically too, Cyndi was the blueprint for what Madonna would do.

But Madonna seemed to be able to do it with more artistic control and more longievety.

CAPTAIN Lou Albano

Near the end fade of "All Through the Night," there is a melismatic "oooooooooo" that lasts for thirty-one seconds, and it breaks my heart every time I hear it. Every time.

Those thirty-one seconds of "oooooooooo" alone establish her as classic. "She Bop" and "Time After Time" and the rest of it is icing.

what sort of critical judgment is that? who cares? that one album contains songs that i get a great amount of pleasure out of and that--as i mention of--i've been getting pleasure out of for 20 years.

Cristina and P!nk? Hahahahaha...REMEMBER THEM?

I met Cyndi Lauper once. She was very cool and down to earth. never cared for her music so much, but "Time After Time" is a lovely tune, I'll give ya that.

curious typo there. it's been said that "in a sassier,
zestier, brighter, funnier world, cristina would have been madonna."

I'm surprised to see no discussion here (or at Popjustice) about the new album. I heard it today for the first time and it's pretty good (well, considering the somewhat low expectations I had).

geir hongro makes me as mad as he ever did. what a dipshit. some other ridiculous "rockism" on this thread too.

i like moments on the new one--but yes, one listens to a new cyndi lauper lp expecting nothing much at all.

i don't know why people insist upon the madonna/cyndi lauper comparison, except that it was made at the time. they came out of very different scenes and their music seems informed by very different sensibilities (even if i can imagine cyndi singing "true blue").

http://youtube.com/watch?v=3C6AXnnjgqI

hey, she's watching a colorized movie! bad, bad cyndi!

Tonight I had the great misfortune of having to endure 6 girls with one guy trying to sing "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" at karaoke. Now, let me tell you something, I really hate that song to begin with, and always did. Definitely the bottom of the barrel of 80's music in my opinion, right down there with Huey Lewis & The News, but to endure these women with this guy (who barely sang at all really) who could not EVEN SING trying to do this song. I'm surprised I lived through it, really.

i'll fuck with "time after time" til the end of days

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4ARx0XGk90

Why does the melody to this song suddenly sound familiar from some other source I can't identify? I need to go listen to the original. Maybe it's a combination of the song's being very familiar to me but nothing I've heard in a while.

Which just inspired me to listen to the original, which I haven't heard for forever, I am caught off-guard by how much I have forgotten about how it sounds, and also pretty happily surprised by it. I need to get a copy of this album again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7eloXr2iak
Redbone - Come and Get Your Love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aLNwOxPsjg
Robert Hazard - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

Ok, the Cyndi hit is always described as being a cover of Hazard's song. But it sounds so much like Redbone's 1974 track 'Come and Get Your Love' that I can't believe they didn't sue.

More confusingly, the wiki page for the song says:

"(Hey Now) Girls Just Want to Have Fun" was the first single from Cyndi Lauper's Twelve Deadly Cyns...and Then Some hits collection from 1994. This song is a new reggae-tinged arrangement of Lauper's own "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" standard, with a musical tip of the hat to Redbone's "Come and Get Your Love".

Can someone shed light on this? The original version still sounds damn similar to Redbone to me. (I've not heard this newer version.)

no one else hearing this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaqeAABlH3Q

vs the original:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIb6AZdTr-A&feature=relmfu

former definitely sounds ultra like it, but i can hear a heck of lot of it in the original GJWHF too. mostly around the vocal melody. i'm not up on music theory though, is it different enough to avoid being sued? (maybe my brain's screwed up and projecting the hey now version backwards)

the 1st album is deathless. hard to pick highlights, but 'when you were mine' has been on repeat here all day.

WOW. Funny you should post this -- I listened to "When You Were Mine" three times yesterday.

kismet! how great is that tune?

I'll ask the guitar ripples going from speaker to speaker after the synth plays the hook.

I always thought her version presaged the sound of The Cure's Disintegration: that massive synth thud.

Also, pretty sure it's my favorite album cover of all time:

http://i.imgur.com/oJVhk.jpg

if the answered weren't already abundantly clear...CLASSIC

http://intergenerational.org/truecolors.php

is "Good Enough" the greatest song ever? YES.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Scu81EW4UC8

well, it's good enough for me

She's So Unusual is one of a very small number of absolutely unimpeachable '80s pop albums, but the Goonies tracks and b-sides from that period were equally top notch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyPmHXwr4m4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzF7WqfkOzo

Spectacular cover I think not yet mentioned on this thread -- "Midnight Radio," the appropriately momentous ending in a "Rock and Roll Suicide" vein for Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Here's a version of the original by John Cameron Mitchell, from the film:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdbzButOFLM

Cyndi's take from the Wig in a Box tribute album backed by the Minus 5:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnahXt19KNc

And Cyndi and John Cameron Mitchell performing it live together:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-gsWC_cphM

WOAH I had good enough in my head randomly THIS MORNING!

Not to mention:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKcYGOIJhqo

And in one of several WWF-related appearances as Mona Flambe, (she's in the white hat):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKrlk26I-2A

She's just pretty much great.

my fave:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmFYp6rhmqk&feature=related

There was a pretty severe drop-off after the period around the first album, but there was at least one pretty good single off the second album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nGmTKS1i7Q

Plus, her pre-solo girl group pastiche band Blue Angel was solid:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UMsfs8f87w

And then, to get mildly off-topic, here's an amusing music video from the same era featuring child doppelgangers of Cyndi, Prince, Billy Idol, Ric Ocasek, and The Boss:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L0H_w9kBx8

There's a thread somewhere which has my paeans to "Yo Little Brother." It did shit nationally but was a HUGE South Florida radio hit in early '85 (same writer-producers as "Let The Music Play").

WOW. I had no idea Lauper sang the Pee-Wee song!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC04J1a7iVU

Alfred, I lived in Memphis in '85 and I remember "Yo, Little Brother" pretty distinctly, so it may have done all right in the south more generally. Although I'm still trying to remember everything that I thought was a huge hit when I lived in Jacksonville but which apparently never cracked the national charts.

Love Goonies R Good Enough, it's the only good thing about that dumb movie. I'd never seen that single cover before. Look at her having a roaring time with that dessicated corpse. Girls just want 2 have fun!

I have to think Cyndi Lauper for this early playground conversation.
CLASSMATE: Do you know what SHE BOP is about?
ME: no.
CLASSMATE: It's about female masturbation.
ME: I don't know what that is.
CLASSMATE: [writes SEX in the snow on the ground]
ME: [still confused]

tbh I'm not even sure I knew what the song SHE BOP was

Abbbottt that needs to be a 1 pg comic, pls proceed!

should i see her live? is she just going to do blues covers or whatever she is up to these days or is she gonna sing when you were mine?

GO

sorry, didn't mean to post the same thing to two cyndi threads!

That's TONY-AWARD-WINNING-COMPOSER CYNDI LAUPER to you, bub.

I got a nice copy of She's So Unusual at the record sale today :D

:D

I just bought two tickets to see her in November. This is the 30th anniversary She's So Unusual tour, so I think you can be safe assuming she will do all the hits from that and more.

she should just do the whole damn album. more than 1/2 of it is hits anyway, right?

Yeah I'm wondering if it'll be an album-straight-through deal. I sort of hope not, I'd be happy to hear all the songs but mixed into a full set with other stuff.

Setlist.fm says she's been doing the whole album straight through, and then mixing up the encore with 3-5 other songs.

goddammit how did I miss this tour uuuggh

Huh, that totally frontloads her biggest hits -- really just leaving "True Colors" for the end. Oh well, I'm sure it'll be a good time.

Setlist.fm says she's been doing the whole album straight through, and then mixing up the encore with 3-5 other songs.

― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, August 24, 2013 8:31 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that's not a very long concert

I want to be the one to walk in the sun

cosigned

is THAT what she says?

KISS U KISS U I KISS U

is THAT what she says?

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, October 15, 2014 10:56 AM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well I think she says "wanna"

I've always heard the song as a K-Pop ancester, so I just hear and love the rush of words ands sounds.

*ancestor

well that line that slocki quoted is key b/c she added it and it's one of the way she seems to completely transform the meaning from the original

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aLNwOxPsjg

she actually changed it i think? from "i want my girls to walk in the sun"?

anyway... that line... is my favourite thing ever right now. it's like a rift briefly opening up to a dimension of pure joy

Some guys take a beautiful girl
They try to hide them away from the rest of the world
All my girls have got to walk in the sun
Because girls just want to have fun
Yeah, girls just want to have fun

"all my girls"

ew

HAVE GOT TO

let's all have a moment's silence to thank Cyndi

I dont'...even understand.

her Christmas single with the Hives is freakin amazing.

she posted on Instagram that she's in Nashville recording with country producer Tony Brown. I'm intrigued...

Ok so I just watched VIBES for the first time --
-- loooved it
-- <3 <3 <3 Cyndi
-- am I crazy or was there a scene with a longhaired guitar player who was also in the video for madonna's "la isla bonita"?

i always wondered who that guy was and now i am even more curious because i previously thought he was a resident of la isla bonita

ha, I have and have enjoyed the film score to Vibes but have never seen it, this is a failure of character on my part which i'll remedy

i felt like a dummy for not watching it -- when it came out i probably thought it was too goofy and i was in that phase where i wanted to talk about nuclear annihilation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-yis9av6xc

Cyndi on Johnny Carson

Watched it a couple weeks ago and was blown away. What a performer. Plus a great talk show couch guest.

Yay! It was one of my fave movies as a kid & I still love it to this day.

Cyndi said in her memoir that shooting it was a pretty bummer experience though :/ Dan Aykroyd was supposed to costar alongside her & he quit when she got signed on (was v dismissive of her lack of experience in the rehearsal) and her & Goldblum didn’t get on much better, she was pretty miserable.

I think the fact that they kinda hate each other makes for funnier moments between them in the movie

bummer :( didn't know people were so snobby to her but i am not surprised. those were messed up times. i thought jeff goldblum seemed like just the right sort of weirdo for her but he was high on the fly and probably wanted to be more serious. it was a much better movie than i expected it to be!

watching that johnny carson video reminded me of how much i LOVED cyndi as a kid.

Vibes is great! I treasure the DVD I bought for like $3. Good to pair with Transylvania 6-5000, although Vibes is a superior film. Cyndi Lauper shoulda been in more movies.

Yeah I read that Ron Howard was originally signed on to direct & I wonder if she wouldn’t have had a better experience if he had been behind the camera. Who knows tho.

It’s a shame ppl were kinda jerky to her because she’s great on camera. i think she could have done some really great projects with the right people and/or more encouragement

Transylvania 6-5000 is my wife’s favorite movie

It's the best movie ever made by a chemical company with money they couldn't expatriate from behind the Iron Curtain

Like that Tonight Show clip. Wondering who is in the band. It’s not the guys from The Hooters, is it?

Don't see the Hooters there. Wiki lists the band for her Fun Tour as Kenni Hairston – Keyboard & Vocals, Sandy Gennaro – Drums, John Kumnick – Bass
John McCurry – Guitar & Vocals. It's probably that band.

Just watched Vibes for the first time last night. I won't go so far as to say that it was good, but Cyndi Lauper and Jeff Goldblum were very good.

Anyway, I thought that Hole In My Heart (All the Way to China) was a weird choice of an end title credits song for a movie that takes place in Ecuador, but I highly recommend it. Don't recommend the music video though.

apparently they didn't get along on set at all!

I can definitely imagine that, but I don't think it reflected in their performances at all.

Just found this - from Lauper's appearance of The New Show, which was another sketch show Lorne Michaels produced for NBC. (Broadcast on Friday nights, it lasted only one season. He returned to SNL the following year.)

Lots of fun, especially when Lauper gets on the camera crane.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xZtdcgS27o

Lol thank you for not spoiling the guest dancer at the end there

Incognito Cyndi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geovHVnj42Y

Speaking of incognito Cyndi, I assume I am the last person on earth to find out she sang the pee wee’s playhouse theme?

Second last.

i'd never seen the goonies music video until today and that thing is in a whole separate tier of music videos.

Yeah, I never saw it in the 80s, but I wish I had.

Third last

xxxpost

Saw her Farewell Tour in Sacramento tonight - she still sounds incredible. And i got so emotional! I teared up over almost every song <3 Love her so much