1. Money Changes Everything
2. Girls Just Want To Have Fun
3. When You Were Mine
4. Time After Time
5. She Bop
6. All Through The Night
7. Witness
8. I'll Kiss You
9. He's So Unusual
10. Yeah Yeah



1. Lucky Star
2. Borderline
3. Burning Up
4. I Know It
5. Holiday
6. Think Of Me
7. Physical Attraction
8. Everybody

What say thee org community?

I love them both and Madonna is great fun, but based solely on the quality of the music, I'd give an edge to She's So Unusual. I love the punky edge to Cyndi's first solo album. It was edgier in both image and sound. Still a pop album, but it was more adventurous. Madonna's pop album stuck close to the dancefloor; Cyndi's was dance friendly but it also rocked. I also think both produced an equal number of pop classics.

I remember everyone thinking Cyndi's career would thrive and Madonna would amount to little else than a flash in the pan. Cyndi certainly had the vocal chops and songwriting skills to back that up. Funny how things turn out.

Both are good albums.

I prefer Cyndi Lauper's, very good tracks.

A lot of good singles and filler on those two. "Borderline" is still one of Madonna's very best songs, but I have to give the nod to Cyndi. "All Through the Night" is my jam!

Madge's debut. Cyndi's SSU is great for those first six tracks, but takes a dip in quality for the remainder of it, IMO. Madonna, on the other hand, has only one possible weak link with "I Know It".

I like them both.

After all this time,"She's So Unusual"is the one I go back and listen to more.

This was a real debate circa 1984.

Cyndi still wins.

though i do enjoy both records but this one DEF wins 4 me

TommyRoss said:

I remember the same thing. She's So Unusual's popularity continued into 1985 and was being compared to Like A Virgin too.

squiddyren said:

Nothing on She's So Unusual is as weak as "I Know It".

Madonna is a more consistent listen, to me anyway. Cyndi's album loses steam by the time Witness starts.

jayaredee said:

Both Witness and I'll Kiss You are fun for me, especially the latter tune.

TommyRoss said:

Yeah i never really liked anything after All through the Night, though I don't mind Yeah Yeah.
I actually hold the "Madonna" album as one of her essentials along with Like a Prayer.

She's So Unusual is even more essential to Cyndi than Madonna is to Madonna.

jayaredee said:

As do I. Those are my two favorite Madonna albums, I just like She's So Unusual more than Madonna. In the end, I'd gladly listen to either.

CinisterCee said:

SSU has songs that are still relevent today.

Madonna was a lot of fun,and still is...

SSU is Cyndi's peak .....
imo

Cyndi. Both of the albums have some crap tracks, so it's a matter of which good tracks you prefer. I don't listen past All Through The Night on SSU, but it doesn't matter since the first 6 songs are so strong. I love Time After Time, adore the Money Changes Everything cover, and appreciate the fact that Cyndi didn't fuck with the genders in When You Were Mine.

Kudos for the Prince cover "When You Were Mine".

CinisterCee said:

Is it blasphemy if you like it better than the original

VoicesCarry said:

That's why I like both those remakes. She made them her own without compromising anything at all about them.

CinisterCee said:

No kidding, it was her biggest if not only mark in pop culture.

jayaredee said:

Definitely not her only. She has classic songs that are not on this album.

VoicesCarry said:

Yeah but nothing as classic as anything on SSU.

jayaredee said:

True Colors IMHO is her truest mark...how many freaken covers, soundtracks and commercials include this song?

and Roy Orbison proved what a songwriting legend she is by elevating "I Drove All Night" to a classic.

jayaredee said:

True Colors is probably one of her best-known songs. I'd rank it as a classic. And her cover of I Drove All Night is the definitive version.

This is a tough one! I listen to Madonna more to this day, but I sure as heck wore out my Cyndi tapes back in the day.

And I love ALL the songs on "She's So Unusual". "I'll Kiss You" is new wave insanity!

oopsies...i always thought Lauper wrote I Drove All Night but it looks like like Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly. the same team who wrote Whitney's "So Emotional", Madonna's "Like A Virgin" and Lauper's "True Colors".


the song was originally recorded by Orbison, but without a record deal wasn't released until after Lauper released her version and had a hit (and after his death).

GangstaFam said:

Totally.

sosgemini said:

A silent red alarm near vainandy's bed just went off.