Sisters of Avalon

Overview Edit

Sisters of Avalon is the fifth studio album released by singer and actress Cyndi Lauper.

Thematically the album expounded on the issue of complacency and ignorance in popular culture and the discrimination of minorities, gays, and women. Songs like "Love to Hate" and "You Don't Know" address the entertainment industry and media and their corruption. "Ballad of Cleo and Joe" is a song about the double life of a cross dresser. "Say a Prayer" is about the AIDS epidemic.

The record takes a deviation from previous projects, incorporating a blend of electronica production with a variety of antiquated instruments such as the guitar, zither, appalachian dulcimer, slide dulcimer, and omnichord. There is a permeating pagan theme highlighted by the track "Mother," an ode to Gaea.

The album was released in 1996 in Japan and in 1997 in other parts of the world. The Japanese version features a bonus track, "Early Christmas Morning". The track "Lollygagging" is a hidden track which is nothing more than Lauper and her musicians attempting to record the song "Hot Gets a Little Cold" but making a musical mistake and laughing about it.

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This particular version Edit

Record label:

unknown

Catalog number:

EK 66433

Release dates:

Apr 17 1997 in United States

2 other versions of this release

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What does a girl have to do?

After "Hat Full of Stars", Cyndi Lauper still could not get arrested and now with "Sisters of Avalon", an accesible and brilliant album I still hear Britney Spears squawking away instead of Cyndi Lauper's new material. Cyndi has grown so much as an artist and songs like the hard rock anthem's "You Don't KNow" and "Love to Hate" showcase her talent well. Dance halls should be blasting "The Ballad of Cleo and Joe" and we should all be slow dancing to songs like "Hot Gets a Little Cold" and "Fall I…

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Not what I thought

I have two other CDs from Cyndi Lauper that are different from her 80s music, and I love them, but this one just did not do it. Some tracks were good, and maybe it will grow on me, but I was not as impressed as I thought I would have been.

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Sisters of Avalon