Cinderella - Long Cold Winter
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Artist: CinderellaEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Island / Mercury
Soundtracks:
- Bad Seamstress Blues Fallin' Apart At The Seams
- Gypsy Road
- Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone)
- The Last Mile
- Second Wind
- Long Cold Winter
- If You Don't Like It
- Coming Home
- Fire And Ice
- Take Me Back
Free Music Notes for Long Cold Winter
Free Music Review: Not your average hair metal album
Hit: 5 Stars
You could tell things weren't going to be the same just looking at the cover to Cinderella's 1988 sophomore album Long Cold Winter. The stark white cover stood in direct contrast to the poofy hair and silly posing of Night Songs. Likewise, from the very first notes of the bluesy intro Bad Seamstress Blues, you knew Cinderella had taken a big step forward. They were still a hair metal band, but a newfound maturity was plain to see.
Soulful, blues-based hard rock is what the band delivered with this album, and man did they do it with style. Fallin' Apart at the Seams is a monster of a blues-rocker, and Gypsy Road is so infectious that there's no way it wasn't going to be a hit single. Of course, the ballad Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone) was THE big hit from this album, and while I understand why it was huge (it was essentially Cinderella's Every Rose Has Its Thorn) it's probably my least favorite song here. It certainly can't hold a candle to the soulful title track, where Tom Kiefer's whiskey-soaked wail sounds like he's literally ripping his heart out. The vaguely Southern road anthems Coming Home and The Last Mile were also pretty big hits, and are among the album's better songs. Even "filler" songs Second Wind, If You Don't Like It, Fire and Ice, and Take Me Back were still head and shoulders above what most bands were releasing at the time. There really isn't a song on this album that I'd consider weak (OK, If You Don't Like It was a bit silly, but it still rocked).
Long Cold Winter is the album that made it impossible to write Cinderella off as "just another hair band". It's by far the band's best work, and is an essential album for any 80's rock collection.
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From the very first track ("Bad Seamstress Blues"), it was obvious that Cinderella was moving in a different direction with this album, toward a mix of the pop metal that was their forte with a bluesy inflection reminiscent of Aerosmith. Songs like "Fallin' Apart at the Seams" and "Gypsy Road" showed this influence clearly while making the album more musically interesting than its contemporaries, although the anthemic "The Last Mile" and the hit single "Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone)" were definite highlights. Added to the mix were ballads like the title track, as well as less grandiose tunes such as "Coming Home." Not exactly a classic album, but a likeable listen overall. --Genevieve WilliamsPop Music CDs
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