Cyndi Lauper was a huge pop force in the 80's and had a nice amount of hits and had some great music videos to go along with them which really helped to make her a star. It's a shame this is an import cuz it's actually better than "12 Deadly Cyns." This album has all of Cyndi's big hits including her two #1 singles "Time After Time" and "True Colors" *both fabulous ballads.* It also has other top 10 singles such as "All Through the Night" *one of my faves* "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" *who can forget this one?* "Change of Heart," "I Drove All Night," "She Bop," *hehe* and the fantastic piece of pop ear candy "The Goonies R Good Enough" which was unfairly left off of "12 Deadly Cyns". Sure, the song is annoying to some but I will forever connect it to my childhood and the awesome movie that she recorded it for. I highly recommend this. Cyndi Lauper is a great and unerrated artist. She helped make the 80's what it was. Love her or hate her for it.

I am a huge Cyndi Lauper fan, but this collection falls short of being a "best of" CD truly representative of the artist's finest work. None of the songs appearing on this CD are remastered and exhibit pretty poor sound quality. Even Cyndi's 1995 American "best of" CD sounds better than this newer release.

Also, the hits on this CD are the album versions, not the superior (and harder to find) single versions. The recordings of "She Bop" and "What's Going On" spring to mind, because the album versions are truly inferior to the mixes that were popular on American radio. (The single versions can be found on the previoulsy mentioned 1995 collection called "Twelve Deadly Cyns.")

Also, not all of Cyndi's hits appear on this CD. Where are "Hole In My Heart," "Boy Blue" and "My First Night Without You"? All cahrted respecably but are left off in fvor of some non-single tracks. Well, I guess some fans will pick up this CD for the Top Ten hit "Goonies 'R' Good Enough," but the song doesn't hold up as well as Cyndi's other '80s material. (She was wise to leave the "Goonies" tune off her domestic anthology, even though fans--myself included-- complained.)

A few great non-hit songs are here, like "When You Were Mine" and "I Don't Want To be Your Friend," but there is a lot of filler, like the subpar song "The World Is Stone" and the cover of "Iko Iko"

Bottom line: skip it. Go with the domestic anthology. It has much better songs and superior sound quality.

I STILL CAN LISTEN HER MUSIC.
,,GIRL'S JUST WANNA HAVE FUN''IS ONE OF BEST SONGS EVER,AND OF COURSE,THERE ARE SO MANY GOOD SONGS-TIME AFTER TIME,SHE BOP,I DROVE ALL NIGHT,IKO,IKO....
GREAT!!!