Cinderella - Rocked Wired & Bluesed: The Greatest Hits
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Artist: CinderellaEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2005-01-25
Music Label: Island / Mercury
Soundtracks:
- Night Songs
- Shake Me
- Nobody's Fool
- Somebody Save Me
- Bad Seamstress Blues/Fallin' Apart At The Seams
- Gypsy Road
- Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone)
- The Last Mile
- Long Cold Winter
- If You Don't Like It
- Coming Home
- The More Things Change
- Shelter Me
- Heartbreak Station
- Winds Of Change
- Blood From A Stone
- Hot And Bothered
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Music Review: Hard Rock from the Liberty Bell City
Rating: 4 Stars
The surprising success of Cinderella (multi-platinum top ten albums, numerous top 40 singles) is interesting in that history has kind of forgotten them. When hair metal gave way to grunge, most bands of their ilk fell to the wayside and Cinderella was no exception. Mercury records unceremoniously dropped them when Still Climbing failed to move the tonnage the band's previous albums had. And unlike the more showy bands of the time, Cinderella seemed to fade into the woodwork.
That's too bad, because as this best of comp shows, Cinderella was often better than their teased hair peers. Despite the glammy dressing on the covers, Cinderella delivered gutsy hard rocking blues (even when drenched in the mammoth stadium reverb so popular in the 80's). Topped off by frontman Tom Keifer's cat-in-heavymetal-heat howl and his solid songwriting, the 17 songs here still pack and impact. They band had a solid enough show that when Jon Bon Jovi caught this Philadelphia based act at an early gig, he brought them to the attention of Mercury records (who were host to Bon Jovi and Def Leppard at the time), had him sing background on the debut and sent Cinderella on the road to support BJ's Slippery When Wet. Platinum success was soon in their flamboyant grasp.
The early half of their career (Night Songs and Long Cold Winter) showcase a band drenched in blues but unafraid to throw in a good pop hook. The title track of "Night Songs" even recalls the atmospherics of Black Sabbath before Keifer's wail sets it apart. The band also had the pre-requisite power ballad with "Nobody's Fool," is the same league as similar hits from Whitesnake and mentor Bon Jovi.
The band was also restless, and by the third album had made some serious style shifts. 1990's Heartbreak Station changed focus to s grittier blues rock, with slide-guitars and dobros entering the mix. The title track and "Winds of Change" point to a band maturing and preparing for a long-term run, even though the band's bread and butter audience was on the brink of discovering Nirvana and Soundgarden. Add a tune to Wayne's World ("Hot and Bothered"), and that catches you up with Cinderella before the scene collapsed around them.
"Hot and Bothered" eventually ended up on "Still Climbing," but four years and a paradigm shift left Cinderella high and dry. There is not much lacking here (although "War Stories" would have been nice), and the first three albums are as good a set of time-capsules for 80's rock as you're likely to find.
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