Cyndi Lauper - Money Changes Everything

There ought to be a way for us to reward a singular achievement properly, such that the artist/creator can live well and satisfied and we don't have to endure their labored attempts to equal or exceed their nearly perfect first outings. For example, Cyndi Lauper should never have to make another record. She's So Unusual was and is so outstanding - the combination of some of the song-writing ever with her great, great pipes - that it needs nothing else, certainly not a follow-up album.

Meatloaf's Bat out of Hell album comes to mind as another in this class - such a solid, complete performance that pretty much ends a career as well as starts one.