The glories of late 80s music

I'm listening to Cyndi Lauper. I LOVE Cyndi Lauper. She has been around since my earliest musical memories, which involve both her and Madonna's 'Like a Prayer' which i choreographed a dance to when it first came out in 1989, which would have made me 5. It was what I'd retrospectively call an interpretative dance, beginning with me crouched, hands over head, slowly rising during the introduction to run around in a little circle, then stand as though cast out of my circle at the words 'everyone must stand alone.' I followed this with the obligatory hands praying gesture while looking heavenward, then dramatically falling to my knees at the words "I'm down on my knees." The memory grows blurry at this point, but i'm sure the rest was equally fabulous.

Anyway, back to Cyndi. I owned cassette albums of both She's so unusual and Night to remember. Unfortunately I no longer have these tapes and the albums only exist on my harddrive. It's just not the same. One cassette i do still have though is my original CASSINGLE of 'locomotion' by Kylie. It's a bright red tape which has the same four remixes of locomotion on each side. I remember telling Dad that the sides were different just to hear them all again when we were driving from Brisbane to Sydney when I had first got the tape. God that must have driven my parents mad. I think I was 4 or 5 at this stage. The tape still works. I can vouch for that. Although I must state for the record that i have most certainly not put it on recently and sung along karaoke style. Note to self: Sing Locomotion next time at drunken Karaoke. I wonder if my Kylie cassingle would be a collector's item on ebay yet? Hmm... possibly, there is only one listing for it on ebay. Give it a few more years and i'll be sitting on a veritifiable goldmine!

BTW - Tourism, next time ur online remind me to send you Cyndi's version of 'When you were mine.' It's not exactly Tegan and Sara but it's interesting! :D