Track 6 from The Goonies (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (1985)

Tracks 7, 8, 9 and 10 from True Colors (1986)

Track 18 from At Last (2003)

The "Girls Just Want To Have Fun" single had one of Lauper's few non-LP b-sides, and "Right Train, Wrong Track" is a pretty good song, so it was cool to kick off the playlist with the flipside to her biggest hit. I used pretty much every song that wasn't a single from her first two blockbuster albums, plus that b-side and her second contribution to the Goonies soundtrack. I kind of look at most female pop stars through the lens of the archetypes of Madonna and Cyndi Lauper. The really driven singers that work hard to stay at the top like Taylor Swift or Lady Gaga are on the Madonna path, while people that have one or two huge albums and then seem to just do what they want while they're in the spotlight are on the Cyndi Lauper path (that could be anyone from Billie Eilish to Alanis Morrissette). 

"Witness" and "What A Thrill" are both songs that began as demos by Blue Angel, the band Lauper fronted that released one unsuccessful album in 1980, written by her and bandmate John Turi. Aimee Mann sings backup on "The Faraway Nearby," and Paul Reubens appears at the end of "911" in character as Pee Wee Herman (apparently Lauper did uncredited vocals on the "Pee Wee's Playhouse" theme song, only admitting that's her doing the Betty Boop impression years later in her autobiography).