Cinderella's Album "Long Cold Winter"

Regardless of the atrocious frilly outfits, mile high hair and overall glammy image, Cinderella was definitely a step ahead of the game back in the 80s hairspray pile. Long Cold Winter was a huge improvement from their 1986 debut, Night Songs, and one of the better rock albums to come out in 1988. Cinderella took a much more steady road in terms of songwriting, mixing a bit of the blues, AC/DC vocals and plain ol' fashioned rock.

The songs just oozed with catchiness and was the sort of thing that was made for riding down the open road with the windows down. "Gypsy Road", "Second Wind" and "Fire and Ice" are all the stuff that fist pumping rock arena dreams are made of. But on the flipside, Cinderella could also pull on the heart strings with soulful ballads such as "Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone)" .The title track is a haunting, organ filled number that proved the band had a little more depth than some of their fast car driving contemporaries. Long Cold Winter is certainly one of the best albums to survive the glam overdose of the 80s and something I like to still put on to wax nostalgic about those long gone days.

• 1. Bad Seamstress Blues/Fallin' Apart At The Seams
• 2. Gypsy Roadvideo and lyrics
• 3. Don't Know What You've Got (till It's Gone)video and lyrics

• 4. The Last Milevideo and yrics
• 5. Second Wind

• 6. Long Cold Winter
• 7. If You Don't Like It
• 8. Coming Homevideo and lyrics
• 9. Fire And Ice
• 10.Take Me Back

The next album to follow "Heartbreak Station" is one of my personal favorites of all time if not the Best.This album explores alot of territory of different music styles.The music is real, the songwriting is of a very high level, and the album speaks for itself once you've heard it.