Night Songs by Cinderella (Metal)

Pros: Tom Keifer. A Good Slice Of The 80s Hair Metal Pie.
Cons: Uninspired riffs. Marginally average drummer, bassist and guitarist.

Definitely one of the bands most people cringe at when remembering the 1980s, Cinderella (not to be confused with that young lass who lost her glass slipper). But despite their often traumatizing taste in clothes (look at the CD cover above), they played ...

Pros: A few great, energetic tracks
Cons: A lot of generic songs

Cinderella achieved something admirable with 1986's Night Songs -- a power ballad that's actually pretty good. Every pop metal band in the 1980s had to have a power ballad, of course, but most of them were just awful. "Nobody's Fool," however, is ...

Pros: Fairly strong bite for a glam album. Keifer had a unique and painfully scratchy voice.
Cons: Side two is where I start to find us in a rut.

Another guilty pleasure from the 1980’s Cock Rock Catalogue, and one I’m not even too afraid to admit to liking. I mean, they may have looked like special ed teenage boys in drag, but Tom Keifer at least had a seriously carnivorous voice, even if ...

Pros: Unique sound differentiates them from other metal bands. Themes still applicable today.
Cons: Short for an album (only 38 minutes). Wish it had 4 or 5 more songs.

I graduated high school in the mid-80's. Cinderella was one of the metal bands that my friends and I listened to on cassette as we gathered on the street corner before school or drove around town after school and on weekends. Their music spoke to us and ...

Pros: Ten amazing tracks that will make you a fan, if not already!
Cons: Can't think of anything.

I can remember the first time I heard Cinderella on the local rock station. I was in High School and the hit Nobody's Fool was climbing the charts, I knew there was something more to these guys than just the one track. Sure enough, after picking up Nigh ...

Pros: This is a great 80's hard rock/metal album
Cons: They look like girls

OK, OK, so Cinderella looked like girls, and were riding the "Hair Band" wave, but sometimes there's actually some substance behind all of that hair spray, lipstick and eye shadow, and Cinderella's "Night Songs" is a classic album with some great music...

Pros: Cinderella mixes good song writing with a great sound
Cons: A few filler songs

Cinderella burst on to the music scene in 1986 with Night Songs. They had been discovered by Bon Jovi and they have a similar "light metal" sound. While Bon Jovi had his moments, Cinderella was a more consistent band which appealed to an...

Pros: Cool cover, great songs
Cons: Like most albums in the 80's it's too short

Before they decided to become a Country/Blues/Rock band whose songs sounded like a soundtrack to "Deliverance", Cinderella put out one of the greatest sleaze metal albums of all time. The reasons behind this change in style are unknown to me,...

Pros: Eric Brittingham had the best hair of the 80's
Cons: Unlike Eric's hair, this album is short

Cinderella was cool for a number of reasons. One, Eric Brittingham had the best hair of the 80's. Two, Cinderella had a great name. Three, this album cover rocks.

Ok, so yeah, Cinderella looked good, but how did they sound? Night Songs is...

Pros: Very heavy
Cons: only one ballad

This album is the most hard hitting of Cinderella's albums. Released in 1986, it seems that Cinderella was out to prove that it could rock with the best of them. Tom Keifer was the wonder of the band, writing all the words and music, doing lead vocals,...