This is the first record I ever owned. I got it for Christmas from my sister, Darcie back in 1984. I was in the second grade. I wasn't into Madonna (that changed) or Michael Jackson. They were too commercial. Throughout the many years since this album was released, it still holds up. EVERY FREAK'N SONG is beautiful and unique. The disc starts out with a somber rock ditty, "Money Changes Everything". SHes forcing the song a little bit but I always felt that was okay. Its never bad to have energy. "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" was her mega hit. The song, the video, iconic. She throws a hint of reggae into the vocal. She later rerecorded the song a decade or so later with even more island-flair. A better-than-Prince cover comes next. "When U Were Mine" packs more open heartedness than Prince's original. It even stretches to translate the meaning. Cyndi didn't even bother to change the pronoun. Is it gay? Who cares? "Time After Time" Is she channeling Nico? Was anyone else putting banjo on their ballads back then? The rest of the record is a pure delight. You get to hear her sing about masturbating (hey, they say that a stich in time saves nine, I soon better stop, or I'll go blind). "All Through The Night" is timeless. Its hard to imagine listening to this record and wondering how Madonna holds so much clout now. Lauper's She's So Unusual is better than ANY Madonna record ever made.Her follow up, 1986's True Colors was a 1/4 ass attempt. Not even the Bangles, nor Pee Wee Herman could hide the fact that its sound was just pitiful. There are some equally classic songs, "Change Of Heart"-with the Bangles, and "True Colors" that song was later completely destroyed by Phil Collins.