True Colors: The Best of Cyndi Lauper

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True Colors: The Best of Cyndi Lauper
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Compilation album by
ReleasedJune 12, 2009 [1]
Recorded1983–1996
Genre
Length139:03
Label Sony Camden
Producer Various
Cyndi Lauper chronology
Bring Ya to the Brink
(2008)
True Colors: The Best of Cyndi Lauper
(2009)
Memphis Blues
(2010)

True Colors: The Best of Cyndi Lauper is a 2009 compilation album by Cyndi Lauper, released exclusively in Australia, New Zealand and the European Union as part of Sony Camden, a budget range of compilations by Sony Music. [2]

Contents

The set features two discs, both with 18 songs, spanning from the start of Lauper's career (1983's She's So Unusual ) through to 1996's Sisters of Avalon . All studio albums through the period are represented, and placed alongside most of the singles from this time are several album tracks. The songs are not placed in chronological order. [3] All of the tracks from A Night to Remember (except "Intro", "A Night to Remember" and "Insecurious") appear on the set. In fact (excluding the latter two of the absent songs), tracks 6 through 13 on the second disc of this compilation are an exact replication of the track order on A Night to Remember. The cover of the album was first used as the cover for her cover of Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On". [3]

Sony Camden also released another Cyndi Lauper compilation in Australia in 2009; the single-disc Time After Time: The Best of Cyndi Lauper, variants of which have been released (earlier) worldwide.

Track listing

True Colors: The Best of Cyndi Lauper– CD 1
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Girls Just Want to Have Fun" Robert Hazard 3:56
2."Time After Time"
4:02
3."True Colors"3:49
4."I Drove All Night"
  • Kelly
  • Steinberg
4:12
5."She Bop"
3:49
6."Iko Iko"
2:10
7."When You Were Mine" Prince 5:03
8."Change of Heart"
4:25
9."All Through the Night" Jules Shear 4:30
10."What's Going On"3:51
11."The World Is Stone"4:18
12."Maybe He'll Know"
  • John Turi
  • Lauper
4:26
13."Hat Full of Stars"
  • Lauper
  • Nicky Holland
4:29
14."Who Let in the Rain"
4:37
15."Money Changes Everything"Tom Gray5:03
16."Sisters of Avalon"
  • Lauper
  • Jan Pulsford
4:21
17."Unhook the Stars"
  • Lauper
  • Pulsford
3:58
18."The Goonies 'R' Good Enough"
  • Lauper
  • Lunt
  • Arthur Stead
3:40
Total length:74:39
True Colors: The Best of Cyndi Lauper– CD 2
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
19."Calm Inside the Storm"3:58
20."Lies"
  • Lauper
  • Willis
3:41
21."Boy Blue"
4:48
22."Someone like Me"
4:06
23."The Faraway Nearby"
  • Gray
  • Lauper
3:02
24."Primitive"
  • Lauper
  • Kelly
  • Steinberg
3:50
25."My First Night Without You"
  • Lauper
  • Kelly
  • Steinberg
3:03
26."Like a Cat"
3:25
27."Heading West"
  • Lauper
  • Kelly
  • Steinberg
3:56
28."Unconditional Love"
  • Lauper
  • Kelly
  • Steinberg
3:57
29."Dancing with a Stranger"
4:13
30."I Don't Want to Be Your Friend" Diane Warren 4:23
31."Kindred Spirit"Lauper1:19
32."Hole in My Heart (All the Way to China)"Richard Orange4:00
33."That's What I Think"
  • Lauper
  • Hyman
  • Willis
  • Bazilian
4:19
34."Sally's Pigeons"3:50
35."Dear John"
  • Lauper
  • Bazilian
  • Hyman
3:42
36."You Don't Know"
  • Lauper
  • Pulsford
5:15
Total length:64:24
(139:03)

Charts

Chart (2009-2011)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [4] 146

Certifications and sales

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI) [5] Gold100,000

Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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