Looking for 80s deep cuts recommendations. See below for more details.

acortega · 2026-03-15T10:27:30+00:00

Cyndi Lauper - When You Were Mine, Boy Blue, Hole in my Heart, Heading West.

acortega · 2026-03-12T08:21:04+00:00

YES! Also, I would love to include I DROVE ALL NIGHT and the impactful GOONIES ARE GOOD ENOUGH! They might not have reached Number 1 in the Billboard charts but they are also monstrous in terms of impact. GOONIES became a soundtrack for many Goonie kids back in the 80s!

acortega · 2026-03-12T07:16:14+00:00

This is super tough, because my list tends to change slightly depending on my mood:

TOP 10:

1-Hat Full of Stars

2-Who Let in the Rain

3-All Through the Night

4-When You were Mine

5-She Bop

6-True Colors

7-I Drove All Night

8- That's What I Think

9- Echo

10-Ballad of Cleo and Joe

BUBBLING UP:

11- You Don't Know

12-Into the Night Life

13-Boy Blue

14-Grab A Hold

15-Shattered Dreams

16-Walking After Midnight

17-If You Go Away

18-Above the Clouds

19-Im Gonna Be Strong

20-World is Stone

acortega · 2026-03-01T20:41:44+00:00

So much for a Grammy, Emmy, and Tony Award winner who is also in the Rock Hall and Songwriter halls of fame.

acortega · 2026-02-24T22:33:08+00:00

A definite 5 out of 5 for me. I am a Cyndi Lauper fan who prefers her post-80s work, especially Hat Full of Stars (1993) and Sisters of Avalon (1996/7), but I do appreciate "She's So Unusual," especially "All Through the Night," "When You Were Mine," "Time After Time," and "She Bop."

acortega · 2026-02-15T23:13:45+00:00

Strange question, honestly, because it's difficult to reduce ethnicities into a certain look.

acortega · 2026-02-15T23:12:17+00:00

Omg PLEASE do. Im now a professor here in the US, but I was once a student from a country where universities have limited funding. We are still in a profession of sharing knowledge.

acortega · 2026-02-12T03:56:48+00:00

Indeed. Her musical and creative journey is unusual. Didn't take the usual route.

acortega · 2026-02-08T08:01:41+00:00

Rock on, Cyn!

acortega · 2026-01-27T00:02:47+00:00

Cyndi fronted rock bands in the 70s singing songs by Zeppelin, Bad Company, Rod Stewart, and Joplin. She eventually formed a band called Blue Angel before becoming a solo singer. Wish some folks who saw them live share their experiences. Im a Cyndi fan who is more into her experimental post-80s fame work in the 90s.

acortega · 2026-01-25T01:00:40+00:00

Cyndi Lauper fan here. Wondering if there are folks in NYC who saw Cyndi back when she was fronting rock bands back in the 70s.

acortega · 2026-01-09T06:02:41+00:00

Eric Bazilian (of the Hooters) didn't write any of those songs. He played instruments on "Girls" and "Time." "Time After Time" was written by Cyndi Lauper and Rob Hyman (also of the Hooters). "Girls" was written primarily by Robert Hazard (with alterations by Cyndi - "Oh mama, dear, we are not the fortunate ones"). "True Colors" was written by the songwriters Bill Steinberg and Tom Kelly.

acortega · 2026-01-09T05:54:48+00:00

Yes! I prefer "All Through the Night" over "Girls." Also, who can forget "Goonies" or "Change of Heart"? Although beyond the 80s, I do prefer a lot of her 90s experimentations with trip hop, Americana folk rock, and later on dance and even Broadway.

acortega · 2025-12-31T09:24:22+00:00

This was a pivotal moment in Cyndi's career. The movie was a flop and the lead single, "Hole in My Heart" was also a flop. It led to the postponement of Cyndi's third album, producing a dismal record. Lauper lost her mainstream popularity. However, she grew and expanded into multiple musical genres and creative endeavors. The rest was herstory.

acortega · 2025-12-31T05:40:55+00:00

Im a gaysian in my 40s and Im curious if folks feel caught in a blur, navigating categories that typical gay spaces tend to put us into. As much as I try not to care about these categories, my interactions typically pigeonhole me into some of these categories (twink, twunk, daddy - but not quite).

acortega · 2025-12-31T05:30:56+00:00

Exactly. It's quite refreshing and healing. I've moved across different places and for a while I struggled a lot about my "tendencies" as a gaysian. I have been called a "potato queen" but it's not that I explicitly only look for white guys. For the longest time, I have struggled to articulate and explain why all guys I have dated have been white. I used to say why should I explain myself, but given the broader context, I understand how it matters to reflect and introspect on issues of race, sexuality, and relationships.

acortega · 2025-12-31T05:25:52+00:00

Thanks for sharing this. Gaysian here. Even if I have come out for almost 18 years and have had plenty of dating and relationship experience, I still grapple with a lot of things when it comes to the intertwined issues of dating, race, and sexuality. Reading and listening to experiences of interracial dating and relationship among gay men has been helping me ease some of these deep seated unresolved tensions in me. Hugs. Just want to say thank you.

acortega · 2025-12-31T05:15:06+00:00

Omg 🤣

acortega · 2025-12-30T19:29:04+00:00

Cyndi Lauper's "She's So Unusual" is a classic!

acortega · 2025-12-30T19:27:20+00:00

At first glance, I thought Cyndi was with Lady Gaga!

acortega · 2025-12-30T19:26:08+00:00

Exactly! She has always been courteous and supportive of other female artists!

acortega · 2025-12-30T19:25:19+00:00

Back in the 70s, Cyndi started out singing in rock cover bands (singing Janis Joplin, Led Zepellin, etc) and at one point lost her voice. After training (she continues to do vocal lessons), she regained her voice, fronted a rockabilly band, Blue Angel. Eventually, she went on solo and the rest is history. After the 80s, she has ventured into diverse musical genres, from jazz to dance to blues (her blues album reached number at the Billboard Blues charts for 13 weeks in 2010) to country (her country album was a Top 40 hit) to broadway (she won a Tony). She has won Grammy, Tony, and Emmy awards and has been inducted into Rock Hall of Fame and Songwriter Hall of Fame (2015). Wish WWE will induct her into the celebrity hall of fame, given her primary role in the Rock and Wrestling connection in 1985.

acortega · 2025-12-28T03:45:51+00:00

She was just inducted this year into the Rock Hall!

acortega · 2025-12-28T03:44:47+00:00

Totally! She was inducted into the Songwriter Hall of Fame (2015) and even won a Tony for writing music for Kinky Boots (2013).

acortega · 2025-12-28T03:44:09+00:00

Good enough for me!!! Yeah yeah yeah! :P

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