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Bring Ya to the Brink
Participated by Cyndi Lauper
Studio : Epic
by Epic
Release Date : 2008-05-27
Publisher : Epic
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
EAN : 0886970659222
UPC : 886970659222
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 122 reviews)
List Price : $18.97
Our Price : $7.76
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Album Description |
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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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it's nice is to be proven wrong |
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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BRILLANT! |
This is the best album of Cyndi Lauper. Incredible!amazing!
Into the Nightlife number 1 in Billboard last week is the best dance song of 2000!
Don't lose the oportunity to buy this CD!
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Just...A SUPERB DANCEFLOOR ALBUM! |
Nothing to add to the previous 5-stars-reviews!
This album is great! I personally love INTO the NIGHLIFE and RAGING STORM.
It is such a shame that the ambum has not received the appropriate commercialization/marketing. Here in Italy it is not commercialized, had to buy a 28 import version!
Cyndi has nothing less than Madonna and Kylie Minogue.
Well done!
Enrico |
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Bring ya to the brink of tears |
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when I bought this cd I was shocked to say the least. I was shocked even more when I logged on to see how people had reviewed it and most of all liked it. I have been a cyndi fan from the very first album and though there have been hits and misses in her career I have to say this was one major miss. I had to keep checking the cd case to make sure I was listening to cyndi lauper. I thought I had picked up the "B sides" to Madonna's Music or Cher's living proof cd. Cyndi has always been one to buck the system and be different. I applaud her for that. But this cd sounds like every other dance cd out there. It doesn't even sound like her. Where are the piercing vocals???? That distinctive cyndi croon. I disliked this cd so much this is the first time I have ever entered a review. I applaud cyndi for wanting to try something different at this stage in her career but when you have such a strong commanding voice, why over dub it with techo dance beats?! The wait between cd's and downloads grow longer and longer with the hit artists of the 80's and I sorta feel ripped off. I hope that cyndi eventually returns to what made her so hugely popular.....her voice and rewards those of us who feel she let us down on this one. |
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LATEST LYNDI LAUPER CD "Bring ya to the brink" |
Superb! Brilliant CD and especially the second track "Into the Nightlife" which is my favourite by far!! Due to apparent explicit lyrics it seems this CD is not easy to obtain in the UK outside of Americancivilwar so this might be useful info.
A definite must-have for your collection - try to grab a listen just to that track "Into the Nightlife" - the CD is worth purchasing for that alone!! |
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