Cyndi Lauper
True Colors - Epic 1986
Tracks: 1. Change Of Heart / 2. Maybe He'll Know / 3. Boy Blue / 4. True Colors / 5. Calm Inside The Storm / 6. What's Going On / 7. Iko Iko / 8. The Faraway Nearby / 9. 911 / 10. One Track Mind
Comments:
Compared to her debut album "She's so Unusual", and indeed most of Lauper's Epic albums, "True Colors" from 1986 is probably a slightly disappointing album. Stylistically, the album is well in line with its predecessor, it is the songs themselves that do not maintain quite the same high level.
The title track written by Steinberg/Kelly is, of course, a fine song and a Lauper classic. Also "The Faraway Nearby" written by Lauper herself in collaboration with Tom Grey, is a great and catchy pop-rocker. But apart from those and the charming old 1960s song "Iko Iko", the rest of the album is more or less ordinary 1980s pop songs, seasoned with a bit of Marvin Gaye Motown and a little 1950s sound "Maybe He'll Know".
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