Cyndi's best album by far!
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She's So Unusual was Cyndi's debut album and is an absolute classic!  I saw Cyndi live in 1984 on her first tour  ("The Fun Tour") when she was 31 years old.  OMG!  She was pure euphoria.  Best female singer/entertainer of all time.  Certainly talent-wise.  People have no idea how great this girl was in the early to mid 80s.  She was so freaking amazing in her prime and a real sweetheart!  Back to the album.  If you could own only one Cyndi Lauper album this is the one!  The single best album by a pop/rock female ever recorded, IMO, and one of the greatest albums of all time in any genre --  period.  A timeless masterpiece.
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I bought this album about 6 months ago and ever since I bought it, I've barely listened to anything else--it has literally been in my CD player for months. I absolutely love it! I love every single song on it, and I have no complaints. It's simply brilliant. The vocals are outstanding and the guitar riffs are fairly plain, but very nicely arranged. Michelle Branch definitely has a future in this business, and I'm sure she'll continue to shine for years to come.
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The reason I get this album is because I love New Jack Swing!
Teddy Riley Introduce the New jack Swing to me,
What a wonderful music,
If you love New Jack Swing and don't own this album,
I suggest you stop watching review, just go and get it!

The first day I got this album,
I play it from start to end 3 or 4 times!
It's just too Great!

Don't Be Cruel - The title track, a classic New Jack Swing song,
One of the Hits from this album! 5/5

My Prerogative - I think everybody remember this song clearly,
Because Britney cover this song in her last "Best of" album,
A New Jack Swing classic,
thanks for Teddy's produce this tight Beat!
Infectious chrous, you just can't stop Hummin'!
The Biggest Hit in this album also The Biggest Hit between 1988-1989,
Bobby most famous song! 5/5

Roni - The first slow song in this album,
My words just can't describe how good this song is!
Great Chrous, And also the Bridge is very Impressive!
I always keep singin' the bridge!
Lyrics is good! Too romance!
One of my Favorite too! 5/5

Rock Wit'cha - Another Slow love song and just as incredible as Roni!
Bobby can Kill any ladies with this Love Song,
I really love this one! 5/5

Every Little Step - Another Hit from this album,
every time I listen to it, I just wanna dance,
you can't stop dancin', movin' or noddin' your head!!!
A Great New Jack Swing! 5/5

I'll Be Good To You - Another Solid New Jack Swing,
The bass line is really nice,
Good but Not Outstandin'! 4/5

Take It Slow - Take things slow with ladies,
Another slow jam in this album, The Chrous is nice,
This one is Alright! 4/5

All Day All Night - One more slow song,
The chrous is simple and Catchy! 4/5

I really Love You Girl - The only song I don't like in this album,
But still Not a filler, I just don't like this! 3/5

5 Top 10 Hits!
[Don't Be Cruel, My Prerogative, Roni, Rock Wit'cha, Every Little Step]
With Producers like LA & Babyface and The King of New Jack Swing Teddy Riley,
Make this album becomes one of the Best New Jack Swing albums ever!
And I think It's the Best Selling New Jack Swing album too,
I heard it sells more than 10 million over the world!

Bobby Brown is one of the icon which represent The New Jack Swing Era!
His Music influence ton of RnB artist!
And Till today, 2005, Britney still did a nice cover of My Prerogative!
Any Question?
You can't go wrong with this!
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I am really impressed with this release from Kelis.

I got this CD around the time second single Trick Me was being played, and have really loved it ever since.

It is so nice to hear an album that is not filled with songs about 'love' etc. This is a woman who is not afraid to speak about sex.

1. Intro- Probably the best intro on any album. Really funny, and sorta dirty!

2. Trick Me- a feel good, sing-a-long, summery tune. Everyone knows this, and loves it. it is so catchy, and the perfect was to start the album. it sets the tone for the whole thing. 9./10

3. Milkshake- the first single from here. Produced by Neptunes, with a fantastic beat, sexy lyrics and catchy chorus, wot more could u want! 8/10

4. Keep It Down- I think this song is about a sex act (keepin the head down!). I love this. Rocky feel to it, with smashing drums. Really like this. 7/10

5. In Public- THE BEST on the album! it was a single, but i never saw the vid! his features husband Nas, and is brilliant. RnB/HipHop. The bass line is phat, the lyrics are wicked, u can dance to it, and chill to it. LOVE IT! 10/10

6. Flashback- 'U make me cum, a lot'. Says it all! i really like this. it's a simple song, wicked beat, again very catchy. 8/10

7. Protect My Heart- Did NOT like this at first, but REALLY like it now! Neptunes again. Beat is phat, her vocals are so smooth,a nd i love the two breakdown bits! 7/10

8. Millionairre- Talk about a beat! everyone knows this, wrote, produced and featuring Andre 3000, this is fast, beaty, catchy and crazy stuff! The rap is sheer quality! Kelis don't feature much on this, but it is wicked! third single. 7/10

The rest of the album is very good, but nothin to write home about. Even if i had heard the album before i bought it, i would have still bought it for the first 8 tracks.

This is real feel good. somethin different.

I really recommend this to RnB, HipHop and Pop fans. Im even gonna say some Rock fans will enjoy this if they aint scared to look outside the box, coz the beats on this are wicked!

OVERALL- 8/10.
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This is the perfect album to listen to when you want an album that is deep, good quality, and not all sunshine and lollipops. If you are a Tori Amos fan, you would be missing out if you didn't buy this album:)
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Follow up to her first album "Drive", which is the biggest selling album by a local artist in New Zealand, Bic's second album, Beautiful Collision, is a stunning, groundbreaking, beautiful (of course), that combines sweetness of life, clever lyrics, and work its way to your heart after a few listens to it.
Produced by the same producer who produced Coldplay, this is an extraordinary album that you will never want to put it away at any occasion. It features the 1st and 2nd single, "get Some Sleep" and "Something Good", and check out "Election Night", another superb song that leaves you wishing for more.
I have been listening to this album for more than 3 months now, and it is still on my Top 3 CD list........!!!
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Michelle Branch has done it again. Her freshman album "The Spirit Room" was full of catchy choruses and funky melody. Her sophomore album, "Hotel Paper" clearly shows that Branch has matured with her lyrics and her music. You can relate to at least one song on her album. Its a mixture of everything and i personally love it. You cannot ask more from Branch. It is the best that ive heard in a loooong time. No female artist in her field of music can outdue her from what she shows on this album. Its definitely worth buying!
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Some of the neg. reviews strike me as very comical. I guess everyone has to play critic. I've been fortunate enough to be a huge fan of Ms. Lauper's since day one. Her voice continues to blow me away. She and Russ Titelman produced At Last as a collaboration, and they have come up with the best produced standards disc i've heard all year. Cyndi voice is in top form, giving an A+ performance on every single song here. She even lets her voice show the flaws when needed. She's not like anyone else in music. She's an individual who knows exactly what she wants the music to sound like and how she wants the song to be presented. She is in my opinion the greatest interpeter in pop music today. Cyndi can out perform any one of those underwhelming, bore me to hell, pop diva wannabe's. She's an exciting, exhuberant entertainer with something to say. Cyndi, you're The Greatest!!!!!!
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This was WAY better than I expected.  After that tremendous first album, I did not think she could do it again.  I was WRONG!  There is not one bad song on here.  I can't wait to listen to it again!!
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I recently bought the target edition of this album and I can say that this album is possibly one of my favorite albums of 2016. Each song shines bright without outshining the others, which is really hard to do! The two extra target tracks ("Outta My Hands (Loco)" and "Cologne") both are super amazing! "Outta My Hands (Loco)" is a sexy dance song that is great for any party while "Cologne" is a song about thinking your lover is still with you because you always smell their cologne. This whole album is sexy yet empowering and is also very real, my favorite songs would be "Revival", "Hands To Myself", "Sober", "Survivors" ext. This whole album is so amazing, and i'd totally recommend this album to anyone. All i have to say though is just buy this album at Target, as it is only 14.99 there, it would save you a lot of money. (I bought it at target)
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I've probably posted this story before in a review of one of Cyndi Lauper's albums, so I won't belabor it here. But the thing that convinced me that Cyndi was a good as I had been hearing (and reading) back in 1984 was not either of the first two hit singles played constantly on the radio (good as "Girls Just Wanna..." and "Time After Time" were). I had no idea what a commanding singer she could be until I walked into a record store where they were playing "Money Changes Everything" on the stereo. It was one of thos "aha" moments you hear about. So that's what they were talking about. I stood riveted as she wailed out those final beautifully angry notes. As scorching a vocal eruption as anything Janis had ever put to record.

Ever since I've been fan, whether it was the hip thing to be or not. When others were writing her off as a cute novelty act, I was championing Cyndi Lauper as a great singer. My diva pantheon is select and a bit quirky, but for me Cyndi was right up there with Janis, Grace, Judy Henske, Nico, Laura Nyro and Tracy Nelson (no, NOT the actress, silly).

But it was that one song that made a believer out of me, so imagine my disappointment when this German "best of" import left it out. I mean, I won't argue with too many of the songs that did make it onto this disc, and have to wonder if maybe it's not just a kind of European thing. It's hard to imagine "Money..." being left off of ANY American compilation (so far it has not, to my knowledge). But it did not make it onto this Deutsche disc nor its French equivalent (LES INDISPENSIBLES).

Unlike the American (and British) 12 DEADLY CYNS, this compilation is a little less heavily weighted toward SHE'S SO UNUSUAL. Well, actually both had five tracks from the first solo album, but this European product at least gives the sophomore effort TRUE COLORS equal representation with five tracks from that one. The oft maligned and always underrated NIGHT TO REMEMBER is at least represented by two songs, and it's nice to see that aside from "I Drove All Night" (still the best version for my money) the brooding, very grown-up sound that album introduced is captured by one of its better ballads, "I Don't Want To Be Your Friend," on which Cyndi surprised many by sounding uncannily like Joan Armatrading.

The more recent American release THE ESSENTIAL CYNDI LAUPER also includes the much in demand "Goonies R Good Enough," so its inclusion here may no longer be reason enough for fans to shell out for this import. However, TIME AFTER TIME does offer another much sought after rarity, the European single "The World Is Stone." This gorgeously sombre composition has also finally appeared on an American CD--oddly a budgetline Christmas CD entitled "Feels Like Christmas," which is certainly inexpensive, but the Gallic gloom seems totally out of place on a holiday CD. It's like mixing absinthe in the egg nog.

And here it's all of a piece with such other bits of tristesse as "True Colors" and "Time After Time." It hangs together beautifully. Whoever determined the sequence of the songs did a masterful job by wisely throwing chronology out the window (pretty much) and coming up with a record that flows pretty much seamlessly from beginning to end.

But then it works pretty well on random select too. A testament ot Cyndi's talent for sure. And the entire CD is a testament to her universal appeal, I'd say. Too bad she lacks the recognition in this country that the Europeans and Japanese have accorded her since the beginning
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My favorite of the Gloria albums so far, she lets rip now that she's totally established, and the result is a true bright spot, devoid of the  usual love ballads that she intersperses with her pop songs. And whoo!  Expect your heart rate to skyrocket after this!
The first two songs  "Heaven's What I Feel" and "Don't Stop" are a whirlwind  of synthesized sound and magnified vocals--magnificent! "Oye" is  a bit more sexual, and a bit more Latin. "Real Woman" is more of  a scaled down version of the first two songs, while "Feelin'" is  a little poppier than the rest of the album.
Wyclef Jean the rapper  appears on most of "Don't Release Me", while Gloria handles the  chorus. "Don't Let This Moment End" is the same power-packed type  of song as "Don't Stop", with a background chorus that is simply  amazing. "Touched By An Angel" and "Lucky Girl" are  fluffier bits of song, but still enjoyable.
After the catchy "I Just  Wanna Be Happy" comes the most important of all the songs, "Cuba  Libre," harkening back to the fact that Gloria came from  Cuba.
Gloria made this album a thing of beauty, forever switching from  one powerful song to another until the customer is left breathless and achy  for more!
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this is probably cyndi's best dance single till her new album comes out. what makes this a great dance cd is cyndi's great voice and freestyle/house/dance king producer tony moran  does a fantastic job on tm all mix. Tonys mixers are alot better than junior vasquez which seem alittle slow. Hopefully on her new album ,with her  maxi singles, she lets tony do some more superior mixes. If she does maybe she will win a grammy for best dance artist.
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This album is amazing. It's fulled with killer synth sounds, amazing beats and a lot of energy. It's a typical soundtrack of the 80's. She invited major artists of that time in this album (The Bangles, Billy Joel, Pee-wee herman, mix master Shep Pettibone). All the ingredients of success are here.

Her voice is getting better and better, more mature and controlled than ever before (at least until 1989's I drove all night or 1992's The world is stone, of course). This album is much better than her first She's so unusual. Here even the tracks that were not released as singles could almost all have been (One track mind, 911, Calm inside the storm : all hits hits hits). Not to mention great moving songs too like Boy Blue or True colors.

My only regret here is the inclusion of the always unnecessary covers (like Iko Iko or Marvin Gaye's What's going on). Although she performs them incredibly well I'd rather have 2 more original songs from Cyndi Lauper and her songwriters than these. It's like she always had to put at least one cover on each album (the previous had her cover Prince's When you were mine). I am not very found off the track The faraway nearby too, but oh well, the rest of the album is great so who cares. And after all, an album with 7 very good songs out of 10 is still an incredible achievment in my book !

The song Maybe he'll know is even catchier in its remix form, unfortunately it can only be found on the "I drove all night" cd single, but this version here is still very fun and enjoyable to listen to).

True Colors is to me, along with Madonna's True Blue, Michael Jackson's Bad and Depeche Mode's Music for the masses : one of the best albums of years 1986/1987 : a true classic, an unforgettable gem. If you don't already know and own it, what are you waiting for ? It is still as cult and relevant today as it was 26 years ago. Just timeless and irresistible.
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All the great songs you rememberd as a kid or teen are right here! Cyndi lauper at her best!
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I love Confessions, but this... this is a peace of Madge! The best album ever!!!!! Her voice is incredible... it remembers too much the 80's Madge. Each song makes you want to go to the dance floor... to dance in the bathroom, bedroom... even the classroom. Your feet can't stop shaking... even if you are the most powerful mind control person... or feet control for that matter. You can't stop listening to it. I bought it two weeks ago and can't stop listening to it! I can't believe she reinvented herself again! Yeah, Hard candy is a pop music album as everyone is saying. It is full of R&B and hip hop, but instead of they influence Madge, she influences them. It is Madge hip hop and R&B... nobody has done it before. Every song has a dancing, moving beat exclusive of Mad. She is the Queen! If you didn't buy it... do it. You won't lose your money!!!!
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Cyndi Lauper is the #1 female pop diva of all time- no one sounds like her, or can sing Jazz, Pop, R&B, Reggae and Salsa all on the same album with perfection like she has here. Cyndi aces it time after time. Not only is she beautiful inside and outside, but she has the voice to match. She has so much passion and soul when she sings. I absolutely love what she has done with Unchained Melody, Stay and Until You Come Back To Me. Tony Bennett and Stevie Wonder must be tremendous fans of Cyndi's- since they are guest artists on two songs - Stevie plays his harmonica on his self-penned UYCBTM, and Tony duets with her on Makin' Whoopee. This whole album is a classic, like the artist herself. I'd give it 10 Stars If I Could! You should hear Cyndi's version of Silent Night from her Chrismas Album MCHANL. It's on the radio throughout the country. She sings like an angel on it. It's Gorgeous..