True Colors: The Best of Cyndi Lauper is a 2009 compilation album by Cyndi Lauper

Cyndi Lauper

Cynthia Ann Stephanie "Cyndi" Lauper is an American singer, songwriter, actress and LGBT rights activist. She achieved success in the mid-1980s with the release of the album She's So Unusual and became the first female singer to have four top-five singles released from one album...

, released exclusively in Australia as part of Sony Camden, a budget range of compilations by Sony Music.

The set features two discs, both with 18 songs, spanning from the start of Lauper's career (1983's She's So Unusual

She's So Unusual

She's So Unusual is the debut studio album by American pop singer-songwriter Cyndi Lauper. Released in 1983 by Portrait Records, the album catapulted Lauper to stardom with such hits as "Girls Just Want to Have Fun", "Time After Time", "She Bop", "All Through the Night", and "Money Changes...

) through to 1996's Sisters of Avalon

Sisters of Avalon

Sisters of Avalon is the fifth studio album released by singer and actress Cyndi Lauper.Thematically the album expounded on the issue of complacency and ignorance in popular culture and the discrimination of minorities, gays, and women. Songs like "Love to Hate" and "You Don't Know" address the...

. 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. All of the tracks from A Night to Remember (bar "Intro", "A Night to Remember" and "Insecurious") appear on the set. Tracks 3 through 13 (excluding the latter two songs) are, in fact, placed in order on the second disc of the compilation.

The cover of the album is the art originally used for her cover of Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On

What's Going On (song)

"What's Going On" is a song written by Renaldo "Obie" Benson, Al Cleveland, and Marvin Gaye. It was the title track of Gaye's groundbreaking 1971 Motown album What's Going On, and it became a crossover hit single that reached #2 on the pop charts and #1 on the R&B charts...

".

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.

Disc 1

1. "Girls Just Want to Have Fun
   Girls Just Want to Have Fun
   Girls Just Want to Have Fun may refer to:In music:* "Girls Just Want to Have Fun", the first major single released by singer Cyndi Lauper on She's So UnusualIn film:...
   
   " – 3:56
2. "Time After Time
   Time after Time (Cyndi Lauper song)
   "Time After Time" is a song by American singer Cyndi Lauper, released as the second single from her album She's So Unusual. It reached number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart on June 9, 1984, and remained there for two weeks...
   
   " – 4:02
3. "True Colors
   True Colors (song)
   "True Colors" is a song written by songwriters Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly, additional lyrics by Cyndi Lauper. It was both the title track and the first single released from Cyndi Lauper's second album. It was the only original song on the album that Lauper did not help write...
   
   " – 3:49
4. "I Drove All Night
   I Drove All Night
   "I Drove All Night" is a song written by Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly and made famous by Cyndi Lauper. The song was originally written for Roy Orbison, who recorded it in 1987, but his rendition was not released until 1992, after the song had become a top 10 hit on both sides of the Atlantic for...
   
   " – 4:12
5. "She Bop
   She Bop
   "She Bop" is a song by American singer Cyndi Lauper, released as the third single from her album She's So Unusual. It reached number three on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart on June 9, 1984. Worldwide, the song is her most commercially successful single after "Time After Time", and reached number...
   
   " – 3:49
6. "Iko Iko
   Iko Iko
   "Iko Iko" is a much-covered New Orleans song that tells of a parade collision between two "tribes" of Mardi Gras Indians. The song, under the original title "Jock-A-Mo", was written in 1953 by James "Sugar Boy" Crawford in New Orleans. The story tells of a "spy boy" or "spy dog" "Iko Iko" is a...
   
   " – 2:10
7. "When You Were Mine
   When You Were Mine
   "When You Were Mine" is a song written and released by Prince on his 1980 album, Dirty Mind. Though not released as a single, the song received a promotional 12" release...
   
   " – 5:03
8. "Change of Heart" – 4:25
9. "All Through the Night
   All Through the Night (Cyndi Lauper song)
   "All Through the Night" is a song performed by American singer-songwriter Cyndi Lauper from her debut album She's So Unusual. It was written by Jules Shear for his album Watch Dog, as a mid-tempo folk-rock song. After The Cars recorded their own version, which they did not use on any of their...
   
   " – 4:30
10. "What's Going On" – 3:51
11. "The World Is Stone
    The World Is Stone
    "The World Is Stone" is a single by American singer, Cyndi Lauper. This is the English version of the French song "Le Monde est stone" , which was part of the Starmania musical and has been most notably associated with Fabienne Thibeault, Marie Carmen and Céline Dion.The song was composed by Michel...
    
    " – 4:18
12. "Maybe He'll Know
    Maybe He'll Know
    "Maybe He'll Know" is the fifth and final single from Cyndi Lauper's album, True Colors, released only in Holland in 1987. It is a remake of a song that Lauper recorded with her former band, Blue Angel. The two versions are slightly different lyrically in a few lines...
    
    " – 4:26
13. "Hat Full of Stars
    Hat Full of Stars
    -Album information:Issued in 1993 it deviated from her pop-rock sound of previous projects and delved heavily into alternative music. It also furthered Lauper's growing penchant for writing topical songs about social issues....
    
    " – 4:29
14. "Who Let in the Rain
    Who Let In The Rain
    "Who Let in the Rain" is a single by Cyndi Lauper released in 1993.-Song information:The single was the first from the Hat Full of Stars album. It is a ballad about the end of a relationship that proved popular among Lauper's fans. Outside the United States, it was a modest hit peaking in the top...
    
    " – 4:37
15. "Money Changes Everything
    Money Changes Everything
    "Money Changes Everything" is a song written by Tom Gray, frontman of The Brains, and was the band's only underground hit. It was recorded by Cyndi Lauper for her debut album, She's So Unusual and was released as a single in 1984, peaking at #27 on the Billboard Hot 100...
    
    " – 5:03
16. "Sisters of Avalon
    Sisters of Avalon (song)
    "Sisters of Avalon" is a single from the 1997 album of the same name, by Cyndi Lauper.-Song information:The song is about sisterhood and it shows the power of women Lauper wanted to show through the song and the album as a whole...
    
    " – 4:21
17. "Unhook the Stars" – 3:58
18. "The Goonies 'R' Good Enough
    The Goonies 'R' Good Enough
    "The Goonies 'R' Good Enough" is a song by American singer Cyndi Lauper. It was released as a single for The Goonies, a 1985 film which was released around the same time as the single...
    
    " – 3:40

Disc 2

1. "Calm Inside the Storm" – 3:58
2. "Lies" – 3:41
3. "Boy Blue
   Boy Blue (Cyndi Lauper song)
   "Boy Blue" is a pop song written by Cyndi Lauper, Stephen Broughton Lunt, and Jeff Bova for Lauper's second album True Colors .It was released as the album's fourth single in 1987 . The single version is a remix...
   
   " – 4:48
4. "Someone Like Me
   Someone like Me
   "Someone Like Me / Right Now '04" is the third single from pop-group Atomic Kitten's third studio album, Ladies Night. It was the last single to be released by the band before they went on hiatus.-Background:...
   
   " – 4:06
5. "The Faraway Nearby" – 3:02
6. "Primitive
   Primitive (song)
   "Primitive", a song written and performed by singer Cyndi Lauper, appeared on her third album A Night to Remember . Lyrically it describes the physical reaction the body has to sexual tension or physical attraction to someone: "My heart starts pounding like a fist/I see you there and I just can't...
   
   " – 3:50
7. "My First Night Without You
   My First Night Without You
   "My First Night Without You" is the second single released from Cyndi Lauper's third album A Night To Remember .-Song information:The ballad is about coming home for the first time without a partner being there after a break up. The video clip is also about this, with Lauper coming home after a...
   
   " – 3:03
8. "Like a Cat" – 3:25
9. "Heading West
   Heading West
   "Heading West" was the third single from Cyndi Lauper's album A Night to Remember."Heading West" was written by Lauper, Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly. The same team wrote "My First Night Without You, and the latter two wrote "True Colors", and "I Drove All Night". The song is about moving on from a...
   
   " – 3:56
10. "Unconditional Love" – 3:57
11. "Dancing with a Stranger" – 4:13
12. "I Don't Want to Be Your Friend" – 4:23
13. "Kindred Spirit" – 1:19
14. "Hole in My Heart (All the Way to China)
    Hole in My Heart (All the Way to China)
    "Hole in My Heart " is a song recorded by pop singer Cyndi Lauper for her 1988 film Vibes. It was written by Richard Orange, formerly of the band Zider Zee.-Song information:...
    
    " – 4:00
15. "That's What I Think
    That's What I Think
    "That's What I Think" is a 1993 single by Cyndi Lauper from her album, Hat Full of Stars.-Song information:Produced by Lauper and Junior Vasquez, the song peaked in the top 40 in a couple of countries and was a dance hit in the United States. Its popular remixes caused the track to climb on the...
    
    " – 4:19
16. "Sally's Pigeons
    Sally's Pigeons
    "Sally's Pigeons" is a pop song by Cyndi Lauper that was featured on her 1993 album Hat Full of Stars. It was released as the album's second single in some countries, and as its third in others....
    
    " – 3:50
17. "Dear John" – 3:42
18. "You Don't Know
    You Don't Know (Cyndi Lauper song)
    "You Don't Know" is the first single from Sisters of Avalon by Cyndi Lauper.-Song information:The song is about the wishy-washiness of politicians. Lauper refers to the arrogance of the media in this song, as well as in other songs on the Sisters of Avalon album.This song contains the word...
    
    " – 5:15