Money Changes Everything

"Money Changes Everything"
Single by The Brains
from the album The Brains
B-side"Quick with Your Lip"
Released1978 (1978)
GenrePop rock
Length3:35
LabelGray Matter
Songwriter(s)Tom Gray
Producer(s)
  • The Brains
  • Bruce Baxter
The Brains singles chronology
"Money Changes Everything"
(1978) 		"Raeline / Treason"
(1980)

"Money Changes Everything" is a song by American rock band the Brains from their eponymous debut studio album (1980). Originally released in 1978, the song was reissued as the lead single from the album in 1980, by Mercury Records. Frontman Tom Gray is credited as the sole writer of the song, while production was collectively helmed by the Brains and Bruce Baxter. The song was popularized in 1984 by Cyndi Lauper, who released a cover version of the song as a single from her debut studio album, She's So Unusual (1983).

Background

The original single was released in 1978 by the Brains as a 45 rpm single on Gray Matter Records. The B side of the single was a song called "Quick with Your Lip". The initial underground success of the song led to the Brains being signed by Mercury Records. They rerecorded the song under the guidance of producer Steve Lillywhite for their 1980 debut album, The Brains. Critic Greil Marcus, listing it at number 10 of his Real-Life Rock Top Ten 1979, said, "Singer Tom Gray told his story in a strangled voice, as if he were trying to explain, but instead he laid a curse. This damned single ranks higher than I've placed it, but if it were anywhere else I couldn't end with it, and there's no other way the decade could end."[1] Marcus would later write of the song, "It was hard, it hurt, and Cyndi Lauper's version makes the original sound compromised. She makes you wonder if Brains composer and singer Tom Gray even knew what he was talking about."[2]

Gray, with his band Delta Moon, also recorded a version of the song for their 2007 album Clear Blue Flame.[3]

Critical reception

Ralph Heibutzki of AllMusic highlighted the "sassy cynicism" of the song, further commenting that "Money Changes Everything" represented a concession to "mainstream sensibilities" for The Brains.[4]

Track listings and formats

  1. "Money Changes Everything"  – 3:35
  2. "Quick With Your Lip"  – 3:23
  • 7" vinyl reissue[6]
  1. "Money Changes Everything"  – 3:25
  2. "Girl in a Magazine"  – 3:07

Credits and personnel

Credits and personnel are adapted from the "Money Changes Everything" single liner notes.[5]

  • Bryan Smithwick – bass, producer
  • Tom Gray – writer, vocals, keyboards, producer
  • Charles Wolff – drums, producer
  • Rick Price – guitar, producer
  • Bruce Baxter – producer

Cyndi Lauper version

"Money Changes Everything"
Single by Cyndi Lauper
from the album She's So Unusual
B-side"He's So Unusual" "Yeah Yeah"
ReleasedMay 21, 1984 (UK)[7]
December 1984 (US)
RecordedJune 1983
at The Record Plant
(New York City, New York)
Genre
Length5:02 (album version)
3:59 (single edit)
LabelEpic
Songwriter(s)Tom Gray
Producer(s)Rick Chertoff
Cyndi Lauper singles chronology
"All Through the Night"
(1984) 		"Money Changes Everything"
(1984) 		"When You Were Mine"
(1985)
Music video
"Money Changes Everything" on YouTube

Cyndi Lauper's recording of "Money Changes Everything" was released as the fifth US single from her album She's So Unusual. It has been released in over 27 variations across the world, the most common being a two track 7" vinyl single (with varying covers). There was also a less common 12" vinyl single version. Lauper's cover features an appearance by Rob Hyman of the band the Hooters, playing his "hooter" (a Hohner Melodica) on the song's solo.

Lauper recorded an acoustic version, with guest artist Adam Lazzara (from the band Taking Back Sunday), for her 2005 album The Body Acoustic. "Money Changes Everything" became She's So Unusual's first release to fail to achieve top 10 status on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 27.

Critical reception

Stewart Mason of AllMusic praised Lauper's cover version, stating that the song's arrangement "is brighter, sharper and much more commercial than the Brains' rather weedy, comparatively lo-fi and dullish take on their own song." He further praised Lauper's singing abilities, particularly the long note she holds at the climax of the song.[11] Billboard described the song as "hard rock meets hard realities" and designated it as one of the new releases with the greatest chart potential.[8] Cash Box called the song "a hard rocking effort which forgoes any novel vocal twist" that provides "a sad look at the realities of cash and its effects."[9] In Peru's most prestigious radio station, Radio Panamericana, "Money Changes Everything" was in the Top 20 year end charts.

Track listings and formats

Personnel

Charts

Chart (1984–85) Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[19] 19
Canada - RPM Magazine[20] 23
Chilean Singles Chart[21] 10
Colombian Singles Chart 3
German Singles Chart 54
New Zealand RIANZ Singles Chart[22] 14
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 27
U.S. Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks 37
U.S. Cash Box Top 100 Singles 31

References

  1. ^ Marcus, Greil, "Fear in the Marketplace: Real-Life Rock Top Ten 1979", New West, January 11, 1980
  2. ^ Marcus, Greil, "Free Speech, #1", Artforum, May 1984.
  3. ^ Hal Horowitz (July 24, 2007). "Clear Blue Flame - Delta Moon | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved August 1, 2016.
  4. ^ Heibutzki, Ralph. "The Brains – The Brains". AllMusic. Retrieved May 21, 2022.
  5. ^ a b Money Changes Everything (United States 7-inch vinyl liner notes). The Brains. Gray Matter. 1978. GM 1.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  6. ^ Money Changes Everything (United States 7-inch vinyl liner notes). The Brains. Mercury. 1980. 76065.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  7. ^ "Music Week" (PDF). p. 14.
  8. ^ a b "Reviews: Singles". Billboard. Vol. 96, no. 51. December 22, 1984. p. 72.
  9. ^ a b "Reviews" (PDF). Cash Box. December 22, 1984. p. 9. Retrieved July 26, 2022.
  10. ^ Evans, Paul (2004). "Cyndi Lauper". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. p. 476. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
  11. ^ Mason, Stewart. "Cyndi Lauper – Money Changes Everything". AllMusic. Retrieved May 22, 2022.
  12. ^ "Cyndi Lauper – Money Changes Everything (Live) (1984, Pitman Pressing, Vinyl)". Discogs.com. 1984. Retrieved February 24, 2021.
  13. ^ "Cyndi Lauper – Money Changes Everything (Vinyl)". Discogs.com. May 1984. Retrieved February 24, 2021.
  14. ^ "Cyndi Lauper – Money Changes Everything (1984, Vinyl)". Discogs.com. 1984. Retrieved February 24, 2021.
  15. ^ "Cyndi Lauper – Money Changes Everything (1985, Vinyl)". Discogs.com. 1985. Retrieved February 24, 2021.
  16. ^ "Cyndi Lauper – Money Changes Everything (Live!!) (1985, Vinyl)". Discogs.com. February 25, 1985. Retrieved February 24, 2021.
  17. ^ "Cyndi Lauper – Money Changes Everything (1984, Vinyl)". Discogs.com. 1984. Retrieved February 24, 2021.
  18. ^ "Cyndi Lauper – Money Changes Everything (1985, Vinyl)". Discogs.com. 1985. Retrieved February 24, 2021.
  19. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (Illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 173. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. N.B. The Kent Report chart was licensed by ARIA between 1983 and 19 June 1988.
  20. ^ "RPM Top 100 Singles - February 9, 1985" (PDF).
  21. ^ "Cyndi Lauper - Money Changes Everything". December 23, 2003. Archived from the original on December 25, 2003. Retrieved April 23, 2020.
  22. ^ "Cyndi Lauper - Money Changes Everything (Song)". Recording Industry Association of New Zealand. Retrieved August 28, 2022.

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