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CYNDI LAUPER “She's So Unusual” /CD/


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CYNDI LAUPER

The first Australasian release of the first full-length studio album by legendary American Pop singer.
One of the great New Wave/early MTV records, "She's So Unusual" is a giddy mix of self-confidence, effervescent Pop craft, unabashed sentimentality, subversiveness, and clever humour. In short, it's a multifaceted portrait of a multifaceted talent, an artist that's far more clever than her thin, deliberately girly voice would indicate.
"She's So Unusual" peaked at number four on the Billboard 200 chart, due to the success of the album's first Single on U.S. radio and heavy airplay of its music video on MTV. In the weeks following, the album's sales remained stable thanks to the following four singles and Lauper's world tour and appearances on popular television and radio programs. Overall, the album stayed 77 weeks on the Billboard 200. It became one of the best-selling albums of 1984. At least until 1986, the album was the second best-selling album in Canada by a female artist during the decade, behind Whitney Houston's self-titled debut album, selling more than 900,000 copies. "She's So Unusual" has since sold over seven million copies in the United States, where it was certified seven times Platinum by the RIAA. The album has sold over 16 million copies worldwide.
"She's So Unusual" was voted the eleventh best album of the year in The Village Voice's annual Pazz & Jop critics' poll for 1984. The album and its Singles earned Lauper six Grammy Award nominations, including Album of the Year and ultimately winning the awards for Best Recording Package and Best New Artist. "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" was nominated for Record of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, and "Time After Time" was nominated for Song of the Year. Lauper earned ten MTV Video Music Award nominations. "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" received six nominations, including Video of the Year, and won for Best Female Video. "Time After Time" received three nominations and "She Bop" received one nomination.
"She's So Unusual" was ranked at number 494 on Rolling Stone's list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" in 2003, rising to number 487 in a 2012 update of the list, then to number 184 in a 2020 update. Rolling Stone also placed "She's So Unusual" at number 41 on its 2002 list of "50 Essential Albums by Women in Rock", and the record retained the placement on a similar list published by the magazine a decade later. In 2012, Slant Magazine listed it as the 22nd Best Album of the 1980s, calling it an "absolutely peerless collection of profound Pop jewels". In 2019, the Library of Congress selected "She's So Unusual" for preservation in the National Recording Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
National Album Day 2020 release.
Australian re-edition contains three bonus tracks, two of which was never released before.
Epic Records/Legacy/Sony Music Entertainment (Australia) Limited, 1983/1984/2002 (499943.2). Made in Australia. The first Australasian pressing.


Tracklist:
1. Money Changes Everything (The Brains cover) 5:05
2. Girls Just Want To Have Fun 3:58
3. When You Were Mine (Prince cover) 5:06
4. Time After Time 4:01
5. She Bop 3:49
6. All Through The Night (Jesus Shear cover) 4:33
7. Witness 3:40
8. I'll Kiss You 4:12
9. He's So Unusual (Helen Kane, 1929) 0:45
10. Yeah Yeah (Mikael Rickfors cover) 3:16
Bonus Tracks
11. Money Changes Everything (The Brains cover; Live) 4:35
12. She Bop (Live) 5:20
13. All Through The Night (Jesus Shear cover; Live) 4:48
Total playing time: 53:22 min.

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