Long Cold Winter by Cinderella (Metal)

Pros: Hair metal tends to stink, but this album is actually pretty good
Cons: Not a fan of the "big" single from the disc

I've been thinking back to those pop metal years a lot lately. Why? Well, we've got Rocklahoma coming up in July over in Oklahoma that features a lot of those 80s hair metal bands (don't laugh -- over 100,000 people showed up for the four day festival in ...

Pros: Solid, commercialized metal. Same satisfying vocalizations. Worthy music for metal fans.
Cons: Less powerful thematics than Night Songs, their first album.

I wrote earlier that Cinderella's debut album Night Songs appeals to us because its themes are core to the experience of blue collar Americans. We know how it is to live paycheck to paycheck without any relief, how the world beats us down every chance it ...

Pros: Hard edged blues/hard rock, tight musicianship
Cons: Well, it is butt-rock...

If you are at familiar with my music reviews, you may already know that I have a weakness for 80's hard rock. Call it butt-rock, cheese-metal, or glam-rock, but during the 80's is when I really dove into music and this genre was at the forefront. At...

Pros: great ballads, good blues and hard rock
Cons: none

This album is my second best of all Cinderella albums. It has some hard songs, such as 'If You Don't Like It' and 'Fire And Ice', it has some blues songs, such as 'Bad Seamstress Blues' and 'Long Cold Winter' and it has some great power ballads such as...

Pros: it's great
Cons: none

This is Cinderella's second album,a follow-up to Night Songs(which I also recommend).It was released in 1988(although if you look at the release date under the discography listed on this site it says 1990).For those of you not familiar with them they...

Pros: good songs
Cons: none

I have nothing but fond memories when I think of this band and especially this album.Cinderella is a classic 80's band who's songs are catchy and brilliantly written.Songs like "Don't know what you got til' it's gone" and Gypsy Rose are...

Pros: Cinerella's Best
Cons: can't get enough

I was a Cinderella fan right from the release of "Night Songs". Here was a hard rocking band that oozed talent from every orifice and then some. I played their cassette almost endlessly. Then, one day walking to high school, I noticed some...