Today's Retro Spin was a toss up between Cyndi Lauper's 1986 album True Colors and 1989 A Night To Remember. I ended up selecting the latter for two reasons. One, it has my all time favorite song from the singer on it. Two, as I went down the track listing of True Colors, my eyes landed on, Iko Iko, a terrible cover by Cyndi Lauper.
A Night To Remember starts out with a short and forgettable intro before jumping into my favorite song from Lauper, I Drove All Night. From there, I admittedly knew nothing else from the album.As track two, Primitive, started up, I decided to hop over to the Weekly Top 40's site to look into the album a bit further. While looking, I have to admit, Primitive actually struck a good note with me. I was digging the tune and added it to my shuffle list.
With regards to the charts, it looks like Lauper had very little success with A Night To Remember. I Drove All Night reached number six, My First Night Without You charted and disappeared the following week at number ninety-six. After hearing the latter, I wasn't all that impressed with it. The song was just okay.
From there, the album took a bit of a nose dive. Even the title track, while okay, wasn't as impressive as I Drove All Night, which would have also made a great album title. Things picked up slightly, I'm talking just a tad bit, with track nine, Insecurious, but then immediately went back to relatively bland with track ten.
Overall, I maybe wanted more from this album than I got. Having my all time favorite song from Lauper on it, I guess I was just expecting more. I wanted to love it from start to finish. This never came to fruition, and it was pretty disappointing that it didn't. I don't hate A Night To Remember. I'm glad I took the time to hear it front to back. However, I don't see myself doing so again in the future.
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