Twelve Deadly Cyns...and Then Some
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{{Infobox album
| name = Twelve Deadly Cyns...and Then Some
| type = greatest hits
| artist = Cyndi Lauper
| cover = 12DeadlyCyns.jpg
| alt =
| released = August 22, 1994
| recorded = 1983–1994
| studio =
| genre =
| length = 57:52
| label = Epic
| producer = Cyndi Lauper
| prev_title = Hat Full of Stars
| prev_year = 1993
| next_title = Sisters of Avalon
| next_year = 1996
| misc = {{Singles
| name = Twelve Deadly Cyns...and Then Some
| type = compilation
| single1 = (Hey Now) Girls Just Want to Have Fun
| single1date = September 5, 1994{{cite magazine|title=Single Releases|magazine=Music Week|page=27|date=September 3, 1994}}
| single2 = I'm Gonna Be Strong
| single2date = January 30, 1995 (UK){{cite magazine|title=New Releases: Singles|magazine=Music Week|page=27|date=January 28, 1995}}
| single3 = Come On Home
| single3date = August 14, 1995 (UK)
}}
}}
Twelve Deadly Cyns...and Then Some is a greatest hits album by American singer Cyndi Lauper, released in the UK on August 22, 1994, and in the US on July 18, 1995, through Epic Records.{{cite web|url=https://dutchcharts.nl/showitem.asp?interpret=Cyndi+Lauper&titel=Twelve+Deadly+Cyns%2E%2E%2E+And+Then+Some&cat=a|title=Cyndi Lauper albums}} It contains a collection of singles from the singer's first four studio albums. It also contains three new songs: "(Hey Now) Girls Just Want to Have Fun", "I'm Gonna Be Strong" and "Come On Home", all of which were released as singles. To promote the record, the singer embarked on a worldwide tour. A video album was simultaneously released and contained music videos of fourteen songs.
The album was a commercial success and has sold more than 4 million copies worldwide.{{cite news|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/269131356|title=One Fine Day for love songs|date=March 9, 1997|access-date=January 14, 2022|work=New Straits Times|language=en|first=Gerald|last=Martinez|id={{ProQuest|269131356}} |url-access=subscription|via=ProQuest|quote=Her greatest hits collection, released in 1995, sold an impressive four million copies worldwide.}}
Background
After the release of Cyndi Lauper's third album A Night to Remember, in 1989, Epic was disappointed by its poor reception and the singer's declining in popularity in the charts and record sales. Fearing another failure, Epic had the idea of releasing a compilation of the singer's greatest hits.{{cite web|url=https://www.cyndilauper.com/album_det.php?shname=10dc|title=Cyndi Lauper - 10 Deadly Cyns|website=Cyndi Lauper|accessdate=August 28, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031120090243/http://www.cyndilauper.com/album_det.php?shname=10dc|archive-date=November 20, 2003|url-status=dead}}
A different greatest-hits album titled 13 Deadly Cyns was considered to be released in 1992 prior to the release of Cyndi's fourth album Hat Full of Stars, with a promo tape being released in the UK that year.{{cite web |url=https://www.cyndilauper.com/album_det.php?shname=13dc|title=Cyndi Lauper - 13 Deadly Cyns|website=Cyndi Lauper|publisher=|access-date=August 28, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031120090336/http://www.cyndilauper.com/album_det.php?shname=13dc|archive-date=November 20, 2003|url-status=dead}} This version of the album included all singles (worldwide and regional) from Cyndi's first three albums (except "When You Were Mine", "Boy Blue" and "Primitive") as well as her 1992 single "The World Is Stone". The shorter 7" studio edit of "Money Changes Everything" was included on this promotional release instead of the album version which would appear on the final release.
The idea was badly received by Lauper, who believed she had few albums and singles released. As a result, in agreement with the label, she decided that after her next album, which she was hopeful about, it would be the right time to release a greatest hits.{{cite book|title=Cyndi Lauper: A Memoir|last1=Lauper|first1=Cyndi|last2 =Dunn|first2 =Jancee|publisher=Simon & Schuster|year=2012|isbn=978-1-4711-1424-3|location=Great Britain|pages=226}}
Production and content
The album's lead single was "Hey Now (Girls Just Wanna Have Fun)", which combines the original lyrics of "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" with a new chorus based on the 1974 hit "Come and Get Your Love" by Redbone.{{cite magazine|last=Bessman|first=Jim|title=Lauper rejuvenats career with "Cyn"-ful epic anthology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0QsEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA13|page=13|date=June 10, 1995|magazine=Billboard|issn=0006-2510}} A music video featuring drag queens was shot to accompany this single and it aired heavily on television. The song was also featured in the film To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar.{{cite magazine |last=Atwood |first=Brett |date=August 5, 1995 |title="Wong Foo" soundtrack |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xwsEAAAAMBAJ&dq=cyndi+lauper+greatest+hits+hey+now&pg=PA16 |location= |publisher=Lynne Segall |issn=0006-2510 |magazine=Billboard|page=15}}
The album's second single, "Come on Home", was written by Lauper and Jan Pulsford, who would work with Lauper on much of her next album, Sisters of Avalon. The final new recording on the album was "I'm Gonna Be Strong", which Lauper had previously recorded with the band Blue Angel in 1984. Lauper said that the album included new songs because she believes that "music is a living thing", so she didn't want to make an album with only old songs, since a new audience was consuming her music at that moment.{{cite web|url=https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/fsp/1994/11/01/ilustrada/10.html|title=Cyndi Lauper lança sua coletânea com show único em São Paulo|work=Folha de S.Paulo|date=November 1, 1994|accessdate=September 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202094524/https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/fsp/1994/11/01/ilustrada/10.html|archive-date=February 2, 2017|url-status=live}}
"The Goonies 'R' Good Enough", from the soundtrack of The Goonies, was notably absent from the album despite having made the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100.{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/cyndi-lauper-mn0000122754/awards|title=Cyndi Lauper|first=Stephen Thomas|last=Erlewine|work=AllMusic|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130731014453/http://www.allmusic.com/artist/cyndi-lauper-mn0000122754/awards|archive-date=July 31, 2013|url-status=dead}} Lauper omitted the song due to the fights that had marked its production; Lauper further said in an interview with Matthew Rettenmund that she despised the song.{{citation needed|date=October 2024}} Similarly, "Hole in My Heart (All the Way to China)", which appeared in the 1988 film Vibes, in which Lauper starred,{{cite book|last=Lauper|first=Cyndi|title=Cyndi Lauper: A Memoir|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NtorDgAAQBAJ&dq=cyndi+lauper+Hole+in+My+Heart+%28All+the+Way+to+China%29&pg=PA182|date=February 28, 2017|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=978-1-4391-4789-4|pages=182–}} was included only on the Japanese edition of the album.
The US and Canadian editions of the album omitted several tracks included elsewhere as Lauper was contractually prohibited from including more than 14 tracks on an album in the US, due to the division of songwriting royalties.{{cite web|url=https://www.cyndilauper.com/album_det.php?shname=tdc |title=Cyndi Lauper - Twelve Deadly Cyns... And Then Some|website=Cyndi Lauper|accessdate=August 28, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031120104100/http://www.cyndilauper.com/album_det.php?shname=tdc|archive-date=November 20, 2003|url-status=dead}}
A video album was released on VHS, LaserDisc and later DVD. In addition to all of Lauper's music videos to date, it included interview footage shot in and around Coney Island. The video peaked at #12 on Billboard Top Music Videos.[https://web.archive.org/web/20191225182524/https://www.billboard.com/music/cyndi-lauper/chart-history/VDM Billboard: Cyndi Lauper - Music Video chart] Billboard.com. Retrieved September 25, 2021.
Reception
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev2 = Cash Box
| rev2score = (favorable){{cite magazine|first=Steve|last=Baltin|title=Pop Albums|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/90s/1995/CB-1995-08-05.pdf|magazine=Cash Box|date=August 5, 1995|page=13|accessdate=November 8, 2022}}
| rev3 = Robert Christgau
| rev4 = Entertainment Weekly
| rev4score = B+Eddy, Chuck (July 21, 1995). "The week". Entertainment Weekly. Issue 284.
| rev5 = Music Week
| rev5score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite magazine|first=Alan|last=Jones|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1994/Music-Week-1994-08-27.pdf#page=19|title=Market Preview: Mainstream - Albums|magazine=Music Week|date=August 27, 1994|page=19|access-date=June 14, 2025}}
}}
In his review of AllMusic, music critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine gave the album four out of five stars and said that although she returned to success with a collection of greatest hits, with the exception of the songs "True Colors" and "Change of Heart", the only songs by Lauper that have really been successful are on She's So Unusual, which he said was "a more consistent and fun album".{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/twelve-deadly-cynsand-then-some-mw0000174189|title=Twelve Deadly Cyns ...and Then Some|first=Stephen Thomas|last=Erlewine|publisher=AllMusic|accessdate=September 6, 2021}} Robert Christgau gave the album a "C" rating and, like Erlewine, felt that Lauper's subsequent material (after She's So Unusual) was inferior.{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|authorlink=Robert Christgau|year=2000|page=173|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xVQbszFuEGMC&pg=PA173|title=Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s|accessdate=August 11, 2013|publisher=Macmillan|isbn=0312245602}} The album sold 565,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.{{cite web|url= http://www.billboard.com/features/ask-billboard-1000463343.story |title=Ask Billboard | Billboard.com |website=billboard.com |accessdate=January 8, 2012|first=Keith|last=Barth|date=January 6, 2007 }} As of 1997, the album has sold over 4 million copies worldwide.{{cite journal |last=Antunes|first=Marcelo|date=June 30, 1997|title=A bruxaria pop de Cyndi Lauper|url=http://memoria.bn.br/DocReader/885959/240617|journal=O Pioneiro|page=4|language=pt |access-date=August 28, 2021|quote=The 1995 compilation Twelve Deadly Cyns...and Then Some gathered her greatest hits, regained some lost points and reached the milestone of 4 million albums sold around the world. }}
Track listing
{{track listing
| extra_column = Edition
| title1 = I'm Gonna Be Strong
| note1 = new recording
| writer1 = Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil
| extra1 = All
| length1 = 3:52
| title2 = Girls Just Want to Have Fun
| note2 = from She's So Unusual, 1983
| writer2 = Robert Hazard
| extra2 = All
| length2 = 3:54
| title3 = Money Changes Everything
| note3 = from She's So Unusual, 1983
| writer3 = Tom Gray
| extra3 = All
| length3 = 5:04
| title4 = Time After Time
| note4 = from She's So Unusual, 1983
| writer4 = Cyndi Lauper, Rob Hyman
| extra4 = All
| length4 = 4:04
| title5 = She Bop
| note5 = 7" single remix; from She's So Unusual, 1983
| writer5 = Cyndi Lauper, Gary Corbett, Rick Chertoff, Stephen Broughton Lunt
| extra5 = All
| length5 = 3:46
| title6 = All Through the Night
| note6 = from She's So Unusual, 1983
| writer6 = Jules Shear
| extra6 = All
| length6 = 4:29
| title7 = Change of Heart
| note7 = from True Colors, 1986
| writer7 = Cyndi Lauper, Essra Mohawk
| extra7 = All
| length7 = 4:25
| title8 = True Colors
| note8 = from True Colors, 1986
| writer8 = Billy Steinberg, Tom Kelly
| extra8 = All
| length8 = 3:47
| title9 = What's Going On
| note9 = 7" single remix; from True Colors, 1986
| writer9 = Marvin Gaye, Al Cleveland, Renaldo Benson
| extra9 = All
| length9 = 3:54
| title10 = I Drove All Night
| note10 = from A Night to Remember, 1989
| writer10 = Billy Steinberg, Tom Kelly
| extra10 = All
| length10 = 4:12
| title11 = The World Is Stone
| note11 = from Starmania/Tycoon (Soundtrack), 1992
| writer11 = Luc Plamondon, Michel Berger, Tim Rice
| extra11 = International, Japan
| length11 = 4:25
| title12 = Who Let in the Rain
| note12 = from Hat Full of Stars, 1993
| writer12 = Cyndi Lauper, Allee Willis
| extra12 = International, Japan
| length12 = 4:37
| title13 = That's What I Think
| note13 = single edit; from Hat Full of Stars, 1993
| writer13 = Cyndi Lauper, Allee Willis, Eric Bazilian, Rob Hyman
| extra13 = All
| length13 = 4:23
| title14 = Sally's Pigeons
| note14 = from Hat Full of Stars, 1993
| writer14 = Cyndi Lauper, Mary Chapin Carpenter
| extra14 = All
| length14 = 3:46
| title15 = Hey Now (Girls Just Want to Have Fun)
| note15 = new recording
| writer15 = Lolly Vegas, Robert Hazard
| extra15 = All
| length15 = 3:54
| title16 = Come on Home
| note16 = new recording; US version released in 1995 (instead of 1994 as the rest of the world) contains unique alternate mix
| writer16 = Cyndi Lauper, Jan Pulsford
| extra16 = All
| length16 = 4:33
| title17 = Hole in My Heart (All the Way to China)
| note17 = from Vibes (soundtrack), 1988
| writer17 = Richard Orange
| extra17 = Japan
| length17 = 4:03
}}
{{Track listing
| headline = Bonus track (Japan, 2008 remastered edition){{cite web |url=https://www.sonymusicshop.jp/m/item/itemShw.php?site=S&ima=3525&cd=EICP000000994 |page= |title=Cyndi Lauper – Greatest Hits Remastered Limited Edition |date=|accessdate=November 26, 2017}}
| title18 = Hole in My Heart (All the Way to China)
| writer18 = Richard Orange
| note18 = Live at Summer Sonic 07
}}
Personnel
- Cyndi Lauper, Stacy Drummond – art direction
- Michelle Willems – design
- Kim Stringfellow – photography
- Marlow Palleja – cover lettering
- Laura Wills – styling
- Jody Morlock – makeup
- Helena Occhipinti – hair
Charts
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| scope="col"|Chart (1994)
!scope="col"|Position |
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| scope="row"|UK Albums (OCC){{cite web|url=http://uktop40.republika.pl/najlep%20sprzalbumy%20uk%201994.html |title=Najlepiej sprzedające się albumy w W.Brytanii w 1994r |work=uktop40.republika.pl |publisher=Z archiwum...rocka |accessdate=May 8, 2016|url-status=unfit |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120927004009/http://uktop40.republika.pl/najlep%20sprzalbumy%20uk%201994.html |archivedate=September 27, 2012}}
|align="center"|22 |
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Certifications and sales
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{{certification Table Entry|region=Japan|type=album|title=グレイテスト・ヒッツ|artist=シンディ・ローパー|award=Platinum|number=3|certmonth=June|certyear=1995|relyear=1994|accessdate=December 8, 2015|salesamount=800,000|salesref={{cite news|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=igsiAAAAIBAJ&q=Lauper+copies+sold&pg=PA32&article_id=4561,1834455#v=onepage|title=Style Points|work=The Day|accessdate=February 25, 2024|first1=David|last1=Bauder|first2=Scott|last2=Benarde|date=November 9, 1995|page=32}}}}
{{certification Table Entry|region=New Zealand|type=album|title=Twelve Deadly Cyns|artist=Cyndi Lauper|award=Gold|id=1994-11-25|source=newchart|access-date=2024-11-20|relyear=1994}}
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{{certification Table Entry|region=United Kingdom|type=album|title=Twelve Deadly Cyns|artist=Cyndi Lauper|award=Platinum|number=2|relyear=1994|id=57-2540-2|accessdate=December 8, 2015}}
{{certification Table Entry|region=United States|type=album|title=12 Deadly sins|artist=Cyndi Lauper|award=Gold|relyear=1994|salesamount=565,000|salesref={{cite web |url= http://www.billboard.com/features/ask-billboard-1000463343.story |title=Ask Billboard | Billboard.com |work=billboard.com |accessdate=January 8, 2012|first=Keith|last=Barth|date=6 January 2007 }}|accessdate=December 8, 2015}}
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References
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