Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2017

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Massive Albums November comes to a close as Bill and Brian chat about Cyndi Lauper's smash debut She's So Unusual (1983, Portrait). Bill and Brian talk about learning to appreciate pop albums, the contributions of the Hooters' Rob Hyman and Eric Bazilian, how Lauper made this album of cowrites and voters her own, the influence of ska, reggae, and new wave on the album, Brian not saying "motored," Betty Boop, and more as we make out way through the album track by track!

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Great Albums podcast. I'm Bell. And I'm Brian. And this is another edition of
0:05.5	Massive Album, November. What are we talking about today, Brian?
0:09.7	1983's She's So Unusual by Cindy Lauper. What we do here every week on the podcast is take an album of music and talk about what makes it great.
0:35.0	We try to have the conversation around the music that fans do,
0:38.0	and we cap it all off with a track-by-track review in which we talk about the things we like
0:43.1	about the songs and the things we think about while listening to them.
0:46.3	Ooh, yeah, I love me some track-by-track. And with massive album November, every November,
0:51.6	we make sure to take some time and focus on some of the biggest
0:55.1	selling albums of all time. And with certified six times platinum in the United States, something like
1:01.2	16 million worldwide. Yeah, I think that this is going to be definitely a massive album. Oh yeah,
1:09.2	this qualifies. And we're going to be doing it alone, Brian.
1:13.4	I know, I know.
1:14.6	There's no guest joining us.
1:16.3	Yeah, I know.
1:17.1	We done messed up, A. Ron?
1:20.2	Some of you who have been paying attention to our social media stuff may have noticed
1:24.7	because every massive album November,, at least the last two,
1:28.0	we do a thing where we do kind of silhouettes of the album covers.
1:31.9	Yes.
1:32.0	And then we put, you know, the number of albums sold.
1:36.1	And then it's kind of like, you know, we'll reveal this when the episode is available.
1:40.9	And some of you may have noticed that Cindy Lauper was not the image that was in our
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