Track Listing

1. High And Mighty
2. Into The Nightlife
3. Rocking Chair
4. Echo
5. Lyfe
6. Same Ol' Story
7. Raging Storm
8. Lay Me Down
9. Give It Up
10. Set Your Heart; Where Are All My Friends
11. Grab A Hold
12. Rain On Me

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1047 in Music
• Released on: 2008-05-27
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics

Album Description
Explicit Version. Cyndi Lauper's 2008 album, Bring Ya To The Brink, is Cyndi's first album of new material in 12 years. More than 25 years after her debut, Cyndi is still exploring new artistic territory. With Bring Ya To The Brink, she found herself inspired by beat drive music that has filled dance clubs throughout Europe and No. America. Sony. 2008.

Customer Reviews

it's nice is to be proven wrong
When I first looked at the 5-star rating in the U.S. (after more than 100 people voted on it) and in the UK (with 10+ people all giving it 5 stars) I became slightly suspicious. Was it possible to get such a level of consensus on what seemed to me a past-due-date artist? Or was it simply perhaps the gay community rallying behind one of its favourite heroines? Some sort of a payback. Well, I had to find out...

I've always been a big fan of Cyndi's voice. I've always listed her as one of the top-5 female voices in the business. But as many may agree, I thought that after her first couple of albums like many other artists she had no powder left in her. But it's nice is to be proven wrong. This is a phenomenal album.

With hints of rap in `Into the Nightlife' or of Aretha Franklin/Pointer Sisters in `Give it up' or even of OMD's in `Echo'. But please do not take this comment in the direction that the album is a pastiche/meltdown of sounds and styles. No. Better to understand it like a description of a wine that has hints of vanilla, berries, and oak, and yet is none of them. It is the particular blend of the ingredients that give the wine its own personality.

It's in some way, an album that stops time. It seems that we are back in 1985 and that nothing else has happened: the wars in Iraq and none of Bush administrations; the internet and the dot com bubble; or even, the housing crisis. It brings the optimism from that era to today's doom and gloom. It's such a needed therapy! For a sample of this you only have to listen to Echo with its Limahl-esque sounds of Never Ending Story or Set Your Heart with its `Love-Cruise' style trumpets.

Must songs: Echo, Into the Nightlife, Lay Me Down; Give It Up; Set Your Heart; Rain On Me

If I had to say a negative would be the over use of the `neon' sound, but even then it would like saying there's too much guitar on Led Zepellin or too much Piano on Billy Joel.

Do not be tempted to song-picked this album. There's no point.

BRILLANT!
This is the best album of Cyndi Lauper. Incredible!amazing!
Into the Nightlife number 1 in Billboard last week is the best dance song of 2000!
Don't lose the oportunity to buy this CD!

Just...A SUPERB DANCEFLOOR ALBUM!
Nothing to add to the previous 5-stars-reviews!
This album is great! I personally love INTO the NIGHLIFE and RAGING STORM.
It is such a shame that the ambum has not received the appropriate commercialization/marketing. Here in Italy it is not commercialized, had to buy a 28 import version!
Cyndi has nothing less than Madonna and Kylie Minogue.
Well done!
Enrico