True Colors: The Best of Cyndi Lauper
Compilation album by
Cyndi Lauper
ReleasedJune 12, 2009[1]
Recorded1981–1996
Genre
Length139:03
LabelSony Camden
ProducerVarious
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]

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 Hazard3:56
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"Prince5:03
8."Change of Heart"
4:25
9."All Through the Night"Jules Shear4:30
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 Warren4:23
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

Region Certification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)[5] Gold 100,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

References

  1. ^ True Colors: The Best of Cyndi Lauper | JB Hi-Fi. JB Hi-Fi. Retrieved May 15, 2011.
  2. ^ Camden — Sony CMG — Ranges Archived 2011-04-14 at the Wayback Machine. Sony CMG. Retrieved May 15, 2011.
  3. ^ a b True Colors: Best of Cyndi Lauper - Cyndi Lauper | Allmusic. Allmusic. Retrieved May 15, 2011.
  4. ^ "ARIA chart history 1988 to 2022, received from ARIA in 2022". ARIA. Retrieved December 2, 2023 – via Imgur.com. N.B. The High Point number in the NAT column represents the release's peak on the national chart.
  5. ^ "British album certifications – Cyndi Lauper – True Colors - The Best Of". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 21 January 2024.
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