Cinderella Albums Ranked

Cinderella was an American rock band formed in 1982 from the suburbs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The band emerged in the mid-1980s with a series of multi-platinum albums and hit singles whose music videos received heavy MTV rotation. Cinderella initially had a heavy metal and glam metal sound before shifting into a more hard rock and blues rock based sound. By the mid-1990s, the band’s popularity declined severely due to personal setbacks, break-ups, and changes in the music industry. After a brief hiatus, Cinderella reunited in 1996 and continued to perform live, but never released any studio material after their 1994 album Still Climbing. Here are all of Cinderella’s albums ranked.

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4. Still Climbing (1994)

“The ’90s was a ghastly time for music, everything that was popular had to be grim, void of all things colourful and showed no signs of fun at all. With that, band’s like Cinderella were thrown to the wolves just as they were hitting their stride. Widely considered their worst album, Still Climbing actually shows a band willing to adapt, clearly moving far from their ’80s glam days and further into blues rock territory like The Faces before them.”

3. Heartbreak Station (1990)

“Heartbreak Station, Cinderella’s third studio album and ultimately their last record to achieve platinum success, is one of the forgotten gems in the 80’s hard rock era. Long Cold Winter, for all its virtues, was marred by its pop-metal conventions. Heartbreak Station erases such principles. Filled with Rolling Stones / Aerosmith sensibilities and a fearlessness to deviated from the generic formula of hair metal, this genuinely great album showed that Cinderella had more genuine grit than their poodle-haired contemporaries.”

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2. Long Cold Winter (1988)

“This is no “Hair Band”. If ever a band was unfairly labeled, it was Cinderella. This is band of gifted, talented musicians, led by Tom Keifer, who is one of the most brilliant musicians alive. The album title should be your first clue that this is no ordinary “Hair Band”, it paints a picture (Along with the almost majestic, masterfully understated cover) of what’s to come. There’s a very dark undercurrent to this album that’s often missed, and it helps shape the album into the masterpiece it is. (All thier albums had a dark undercurrent, which often went unnoticed, even the debut ‘Night Songs’ which was thier most “Hair Band”-ish effort.)

1. Night Songs (1986)

“For a debut, this one is really good. I was in high school when this came out and one look at the cover back then and I remember I was wondering…well, I can’t say it here. But I got it anyway and it was really good. There are a few songs that seem out of place, but overall this is a really good album. This was hair metal, sure, but not the abysmal Warrant/Winger/etc type, this had a more bluesy feel to it and actually decent lyrics to boot. I think they were underrated as a band back then. If you are into the 80’s L.A. sound, this is worth listening to.