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| Artist: Cyndi Lauper
Label: Epic
Category: Music
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Rating:  126 reviews
Sales Rank: 1437
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 706592
UPC: 886970659222
EAN: 0886970659222
ASIN: B001725ZB4
Release Date: May 27, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | High And Mighty | | • | Into The Nightlife | | • | Rocking Chair | | • | Echo | | • | Lyfe | | • | Same Ol' Story | | • | Raging Storm | | • | Lay Me Down | | • | Give It Up | | • | Set Your Heart; Where Are All My Friends | | • | Grab A Hold | | • | Rain On Me |
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Album Description
Explicit Version. Cyndi Lauper's 2008 album, Bring Ya To The Brink, is Cyndi's first album of new material in 12 years. More than 25 years after her debut, Cyndi is still exploring new artistic territory. With Bring Ya To The Brink, she found herself inspired by beat drive music that has filled dance clubs throughout Europe and No. America. Sony. 2008.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 121 more reviews...
 Great come back! October 13, 2008
Someone said in 1983: Cyndi Lauper will stay, Madonna will be out of the bussiness soon. 25 years later, Madonna has made her worst album ever and Cyndi has come back with the album Madonna should have had recorded. Great production, great songs, electrifying, avant-garde and certainly enjoyable!
 What happened to Cyndi Lauper?!?!? September 29, 2008
3 out of 8 found this review helpful
I always thought Cyndi Lauper was immune to the pressures of the recording industry. Was I proven wrong with this album!
I think I understand what Lauper was thinking when she recorded it: "Madonna did it and she's succesful, so I can do the same!". NOT. She has a tremendous singing voice, her 2003 effort "At Last" was beautiful, to say the least. Why would she ever record an album with horrible lyrics over terrible electronic music is beyond me.
Two stars - only because Cyndi still has an incredible singing voice. I wish she'll return to record better stuff in the future.
 THE OLD GIRL STILL GOT IT ! September 26, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
FINALLY THIS MAGNIFICENT SINGER COMES OUT WITH SOMETHING WORTH LISTENING TO FROM BEGINING TO END SINCE THE 80'S ,I MEAN YES IN EVERY ONE OF HER CD'S OF THE LAST DECADE OR SO THEY'RE HAVE BEEN A FEW GOOD SONGS BUT NOTHING LIKE HER 80'S RECORDS UNTIL NOW IN MY OPINION PERFECT SELECTION OF SONGS FOR HER UNIQUE AND STUNNING VOCALS, TOO BAD NO REMIXES SO FAR, I CAN ONLY IMAGINE THE HUGE HITS THEY WOULD BE BUT IN ANY CASE THIS CD IS A MUST HAVE, BEAUTIFUL.
Still Having Fun! September 7, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Cyndi Lauper is back in a big way. I saw her perform just before album was released and she bought the house down. She definately has not lost her touch. Talent never fades just resignates. This is definately a pop/rock soul fest, with a variety of songs to move your body and your mind. This will take you to the Brink but won't leave you there without something to take away. Excellent work, welcome back Cyndi.
it's nice is to be proven wrong September 2, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
When I first looked at the 5-star rating in the U.S. (after more than 100 people voted on it) and in the UK (with 10+ people all giving it 5 stars) I became slightly suspicious. Was it possible to get such a level of consensus on what seemed to me a past-due-date artist? Or was it simply perhaps the gay community rallying behind one of its favourite heroines? Some sort of a payback. Well, I had to find out...
I've always been a big fan of Cyndi's voice. I've always listed her as one of the top-5 female voices in the business. But as many may agree, I thought that after her first couple of albums like many other artists she had no powder left in her. But it's nice is to be proven wrong. This is a phenomenal album.
With hints of rap in `Into the Nightlife' or of Aretha Franklin/Pointer Sisters in `Give it up' or even of OMD's in `Echo'. But please do not take this comment in the direction that the album is a pastiche/meltdown of sounds and styles. No. Better to understand it like a description of a wine that has hints of vanilla, berries, and oak, and yet is none of them. It is the particular blend of the ingredients that give the wine its own personality.
It's in some way, an album that stops time. It seems that we are back in 1985 and that nothing else has happened: the wars in Iraq and none of Bush administrations; the internet and the dot com bubble; or even, the housing crisis. It brings the optimism from that era to today's doom and gloom. It's such a needed therapy! For a sample of this you only have to listen to Echo with its Limahl-esque sounds of Never Ending Story or Set Your Heart with its `Love-Cruise' style trumpets.
Must songs: Echo, Into the Nightlife, Lay Me Down; Give It Up; Set Your Heart; Rain On Me
If I had to say a negative would be the over use of the `neon' sound, but even then it would like saying there's too much guitar on Led Zepellin or too much Piano on Billy Joel.
Do not be tempted to song-picked this album. There's no point.
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