CYNDI LAUPER “She's So Unusual” /LP/

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.

The third full-length studio album by legendary American Pop singer.
The album was originally set to be released in 1988, under the name "Kindred Spirit", but was delayed until 1989 and the songs from the initial project were reworked.
On "True Colors", Cyndi Lauper began to edge her way into adult contemporary territory, but it was on "A Night To Remember" that she concentrated all of her attention on becoming a self-consciously "mature" singer/songwriter. 
Although the album is called "A Night To Remember", Lauper jokingly preferred to call it "A Night To Forget", given its poor reviews and disappointing sales, compounded by the problems she encountered with producer and boyfriend David Wolf⁠f during the production of the album.
The album sold moderately well but did not enjoy the same commercial success of her two previous albums, despite the success of the album's lead Single, "I Drove All Night", which became a Top 10 hit, her last in the U.S.A., earning Lauper a Grammy nomination. In the UK, however, "A Night To Remember" was Lauper's highest-charting album, peaking at No.9. According to the book "St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture (Volume 3)", the album sold half a million copies in the United States in 1989.
Although not certified by RIAA, BPI, and others trade associations, the album was certified Platinum in Australia and United Kingdom and Gold in Germany, Italy, and United States. Worldwide, the album has sold more than 1.5 million copies.
CBS Records Inc./Epic Records/Sony Music Entertainment Inc., 1989 (EPC 462499 2). Made in Austria. Repress.


Tracklist:
1. Intro 0:27
2. I Drove All Night (Céline Dion cover) 4:11
3. Primitive 3:48
4. My First Night Without You 3:01
5. Like A Cat 3:23
6. Heading West 3:54
7. A Night To Remember 3:43
8. Unconditional Love 3:55
9. Insecurious 3:31
10. Dancing With A Stranger 4:11
11. I Don't Want To Be Your Friend 4:21
12. Kindred Spirit 1:16
Total playing time: 39:41 min.