Cliquer sur une vignette pour aller sur Google Books.
Chargement... She's So Unusualpar Cyndi Lauper
Aucun Chargement...
Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Lauper's debut album, featuring "Time After Time" and a handful of other hits. 5/4 (One of my favorites). I first heard this album a few months ago, and I'm still in awe at how good it is. Lauper's singing has virtuostic skill, ragged rock and roll swagger, and a goofy sense of humor -- all of it somehow simultaneously. And half the songs on the album are classics. INFORMATION-This album contains the following tracks: 1 Money Changes Everything (Tom Gray) 2 Girls Just Want to Have Fun (Robert Hazard) 3 When You Were Mine (Prince) 4 Time After Time (Richard Hayman / Cyndi Lauper) 5 She Bop (Rick Chertoff / Gary Corbett / Cyndi Lauper / Stephen Broughton Lunt) 6 All Through the Night (Jules Shear / Traditional) 7 Witness (Cyndi Lauper / John Turi) 8 I'll Kiss You (Cyndi Lauper / Jules Shear) 9 He's So Unusual (Al Sherman / Abner Silver) 10 Yeah Yeah (Mikael Rickfors)
One of the great new wave/early MTV records, She's So Unusual is a giddy mix of self-confidence, effervescent popcraft, unabashed sentimentality, subversiveness, and clever humor. 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. Then again, Lauper's voice suits her musical persona, since its chirpiness adds depth, or reconfigures the songs, whether it's the call to arms of "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" or the tearjerking "Time After Time." Lauper is at her very best on the first side, all of which were singles or received airplay, and this collection of songs -- "Money Changes Everything," "Girls," "When You Were Mine," "Time," "She Bop," "All Through the Night" -- is astonishing in its consistency, so strong that it makes the remaining tracks -- all enjoyable, but rather pedestrian -- charming by their association with songs so brilliantly alive. If Lauper couldn't maintain this level of consistency, it's because this captured her persona better than anyone could imagine -- when a debut captures a personality so well, let alone a personality so tied to its time, the successive work can't help but pale in comparison. Still, when it's captured as brightly and brilliantly as it is here, it does result in a debut that retains its potency, long after its production seems a little dated.
Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
Discussion en coursAucunCouvertures populaires
Google Books — Chargement... GenresAucun genre Classification décimale de Melvil (CDD)372Social sciences Education Primary education (Elementary education)ÉvaluationMoyenne:
Est-ce vous ?Devenez un(e) auteur LibraryThing. |
Written-By – T. Gray*
5:02
2 Girls Just Want To Have Fun
Written-By – R. Hazard*
3:55
3 When You Were Mine
Arranged By – William Wittman
Written-By – Prince
5:07
4 Time After Time
Written-By – C. Lauper*, R. Hyman*
3:59
5 She Bop
Written-By – C. Lauper*, G. Corbett*, R. Chertoff*, S. Lunt*
3:43
6 All Through The Night
Written-By – J. Shear*
4:29
7 Witness
Written-By – C. Lauper*, J. Turi*
3:38
8 I'll Kiss You
Written-By – C. Lauper*, J. Shear*
4:05
9 He's So Unusual
Written-By – A. Silver*, A. Lewis*, A. Sherman*
0:45
10 Yeah Yeah
Written-By – H. Huss*, M. Rickfors*
3:17
Credits:
Backing Vocals [Additional] – Dianne Wilson, Ellie Greenwich, Jules Shear, Krystal Davis, Maeretha Stewart
Bass [Additional], Guitar [Additional] – Neil Jason
Design [Cover Concept] – Cyndi Lauper, Janet Perr
Drums [Additional], Percussion [Additional] – Anton Fig
Guitar [Additional] – Rick DiFonzo, William ("Rock Pygmy") Wittman*
Guitar, Bass Guitar, Other [Hooter], Saxophone, Backing Vocals – Eric Bazilian
Keyboards, Backing Vocals – Rob Hyman
Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals – Cyndi Lauper
Percussion [Extra Additional] – Rick Chertoff
Photography By – Annie Liebovitz*
Producer, Arranged By – Rick Chertoff
Synthesizer [Additional] – Peter Wood (2), Richard Termini