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True Colours: The Best of Cyndi Lauper

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This budget 2-CD compilation from Australia is an almost perfect overview of Cyndi Lauper's career, and features practically every hit single, plus some album cuts you may not have thought about before.

The Pros:

1. The sound mastering seems pretty good to my amateur ears. Not sure what audiophiles would think, but I didn't really notice any issues.

2. A generous helping of 36 tracks. Disc 1 contains most of the hits. Every track from the US issue of The Essential Cyndi Lauper is here, and many more. This collection covers Cyndi's career from She's So Unusual to Sisters Of Avalon.

3. A few rarities are found here too - namely The World Is Stone, Hole In My Heart, and The Goonies 'R' Good Enough.

The Cons:

1. I think a few more tracks could have fit onto this collection - namely the singles "Ballad Of Cleo And Joe," "Disco Inferno," "Into The Nightlife," "At Last," "Shine," and maybe one of the tracks from The Body Acoustic, which would have truly made this a career-spanning retrospective, not to mention providing an additional rarity, since as far as I know, "Disco Inferno" has only been available on CD single and the soundtrack to A Night At The Roxbury. This collection was released in 2009, but doesn't go past 1997, ignoring three (four if you count the Japanese release of Shine) studio albums between 1997 and 2009.

2. The insert contains no information on the songs whatsoever, and the biography isn't that well-written. Very minor quibble, this is a compilation from Sony's budget label, but I've definitely seen budget releases go the extra mile for their inserts.

3. This could be either a pro or a con, depending on how you look at it. Two almost-complete albums are included. "911" and "One Track Mind" are the only songs from True Colors that aren't on here, and almost the entire A Night To Remember album is presented in sequence on disc 2, with the exception of the intro, title track, "Insecurious," and "I Drove All Night," the latter of which is on disc 1. While these songs are all fantastic, these albums are still readily available - do we need two near complete albums taking up space that could have been filled by more singles and a few more rarities?

If you want a great overview of Cyndi's career, you'll be hard-pressed to find anything much better. Despite the fact that it ignores anything she did after 1997 and contains two almost-complete albums that are readily available, as opposed to making more room for singles and rarities, this collection still outdoes The Essential by a mile by giving you everything from that collection and more.

Unlike the disappointing, 14-track "Essential", this includes all Cyndi's chart hits plus later ignored-by-radio songs like "That's What I Think". The songs I was glad to see here/missing from Essential are "What's Going On", "Boy Blue", "Hole in My Heart (All the Way to China)", and "My First Night Without You" as well as "That's What I Think". Liner notes consist of only one CD page but at least all the key songs are here in one place.

`True Colours' is a double best of collection from this eighties icon and whilst Lauper is still creating decent music these days, it is still great to listen to this and relive good memories.

This has all the hits you would want, as well as some others thrown in for good measure. `Time After Time', `True Colours' and `Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' are all here and sound as fresh as ever and tracks I love like `She Bop' and the Goonies track are also here to please her fans. With two discs worth of music you get a great selection of her tracks and if you only wanted to buy one album of her stuff, then this is a pretty good place to go. You may want to go and check out more after hearing this, but this will keep you going until you do.

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Finally a best of that has all the great cyndi songs on it!! I have all her cds but I do love best of cds to for the car and stuff.

So many times though best of's leave off so many fan favorite songs and this one is complete! All the freat songs and fan favorites!! Love this cd and love love cyndi!!