Label: Bad Reputation (Japan), BAD100801
Style: Glam Metal, Hard Rock
Country: Clifton Heights, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Time: 65:25
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 508 Mb
Cinderella
were really asking for the hair metal label when they dressed up like a
cross between the New York Dolls and a Madison Avenue transvestite on
their debut album “Night Songs,” even if musically they sound nothing
like Poison, Warrant, Winger, or Ratt, the truest examples of that genre
moniker. Cinderella actually sounded like a toned down AC/DC with
ballads, incorporating more blues than their reputation would belie. Tom
Keifer strutted around like the cock-of-the-walk with his throat ripped
out (before singing like he just had his throat ripped out almost
caused to him literally have his throat ripped out), and the remainder
of the band followed suit, riding the blues with a small infusion of
glam to some truly classic albums.
If you’ve never heard “Gypsy
Road,” I suggest you just stop listening to music right now. It’s the
best song off “Long Cold Winter,” their career in general, and arguably
of the entire genre itself. That ballsy, bluesy riff is the kind that
generations should pass down when teaching their young how to properly
rock (something that is sadly in major decline). “Gypsy Road” is the
blues drenched pinnacle of “Long Cold Winter,” and sets the tone for
what is easily their dirtiest and prettiest album at the same time. Even
though 90% of power ballads seemed a tad forced due to record company
execs demanding them as they bent over songwriters crying tears of sheer
terror onto the pages of the contracts that so ripped them off, but
“Don’t Know What You Got Till It’s Gone” is absolutely sincere. It has
that towering chorus, those pleading verses, that tear-jerking refrain.
It’s like Warrant’s “Heaven” or Steelheart’s “I’ll Never Let You Go” if
Jani Lane or whoever Steelheart’s lead singer could write better
ballads. The story behind “Long Cold Winter” is the singles are the real
stand-outs but the lesser known tracks are great blues jams. “Last
Mile” is a melodic clinic that showcases great chorus harmonization and
should have been much bigger, and “Coming Home” is arguably the most
underrated song in the history of “hair metal.” I’ve seen Cinderella
live twice and believe it or not that song is the one that resonates the
most.
“Long Cold Winter” stands as one of the greatest pillars of
80’s hard rock, eclipsing “Night Songs” which is good in its own right
and annihilates everything else they ever did. I like “Gypsy Road” so
much that I get pissed off when somebody plays “Shake Me” or “Nobody’s
Fool” or any other song than “Gypsy Road” itself. Tom paid the price for
his screeching, as the guy can barely talk anymore, but his balls-out
approach on this album was probably worth it.
(sputnikmusic.com/review/47434/Cinderella-Long-Cold-Winter/)
01. Bad Seamstress Blues - Fallin' Apart At The Seams (05:19)
02. Gypsy Road (03:56)
03. Don't Know What You Got (05:55)
04. The Last Mile (03:52)
05. Second Wind (03:59)
06. Long Cold Winter (05:24)
07. If You Don't Like It (04:10)
08. Coming Home (04:57)
09. Fire And Ice (03:22)
10. Take Me Back (03:20)
11. Push Push (bonus track live) (03:13)
12. Once Around The Ride (bonus track live) (03:32)
13. Shake Me (bonus track live) (05:12)
14. Galaxy Blues (bonus track live) (05:55)
15. Jumpin' Jack Flash (bonus track live) (03:13)
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