When You're a Boy
When You're a Boy is the debut solo album by Susanna Hoffs. It begins with the "Billboard" Top 40 single "My Side of the Bed", includes the track "Unconditional Love" (co-written by Cyndi Lauper), and ends with a cover of "Boys Keep Swinging", the 1979 song written by David Bowie and Brian Eno. The album's title comes from the lyrics to the latter. The album peaked at No. 83 on the US albums chart. Three singles were released from the album: "My Side of the Bed", "Unconditional Love", and "Only Love". The  first two featured the non-LP B-side "Circus Girl". Reception. Jimmy Nicol of "Q" gave the album four out of five stars and wrote, "An album which expands the Bangles' brief into undreamed of territories. She reveals herself to be a highly inventive composer, lyricist – and even humourist... After all, how many other American pop stars embarking on a solo career would name their album after a late '70s English art-rock 45?" AllMusic's review was negative, giving it one and a half out of five stars, remarking that "Although the album was released in 1991, it sounds  like bad mid-'80s music. Hoffs and the Bangles had a few catchy pop ditties; however, there are none to be found here."