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| | Long Cold Winter | | | Music Artist : | | Cinderella | | Music Style : | | Arena Rock | | Record Label : | | Island / Mercury | | Release Date : | | 1990-10-25 | | Store Price : | | $11.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $10.99 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Bad Seamstress Blues/Fallin' Apart at the Seams
2. Gypsy Road
3. Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone)
4. Last Mile
5. Second Wind
6. Long Cold Winter
7. If You Don't Like It
8. Coming Home
9. Fire and Ice
10. Take Me Back
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 1988 Cinderella record on CD.
Submitted on: 2009-10-18 |
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| This records should be remastered as well. The band hasn't released any new material in quite some time. |
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 Great Album
Submitted on: 2009-07-17 |
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Out of all the hair metal bands that came out of the 80's, Cinderella was
arguably one of the best. No flashy guitar, like alot of the other hair bands were doing at the time, just honest, bluesy hard rock, reminiscent to Guns and Roses, one of my favorite bands." Long Cold Winter", Great album, period. |
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One of the All Time Best!
Submitted on: 2009-03-29 |
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| As far as metal goes, it gets no better than this! If you want a taste of the '80's metal this album is a must! Great musicians, great songwriting, and great vocals! 'Nuff said! |
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 Just Like The Cover
Submitted on: 2009-02-07 |
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| Cinderella's second album is not worth listening to. If you are a lover of "Night Songs" you will be severly disapointed with this album. Almost every song on the album is boring; there were no hooks in any of the songs. I listened to the album once and do not plan on listening to it again, unless I need a cure for insomnia. Any hair metal fan who loves listening to awesome catchy guitar riffs, and music with energy, should not look here. The songs on this album are just like the album's cover, plain and boring. |
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Hit-laden album is great for the wintertime blues
Submitted on: 2008-09-07 |
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It used to be fashionable to rip on fashionably conscious, 1980s-era bands like Cinderella, whose star was mightily crushed when Nirvana took over the music world in 1991. But strangely enough, despite all the decadent excess that occurred in the rock `n' roll world back in the `80s, today's music "scene" (if the Internet counts as a music scene) is sorely lacking talented, in-your-face bands like Cinderella. Laugh snidely if you want, but Cinderella and their enthusiastic, hard-touring brethren from back in the day were actual rock stars who regularly sold out arenas, churned out hit songs with ease, sold millions of albums and, most importantly, created some memorable music that has persistently survived. As Tom Keifer, the leader singer of Cinderella, would sagely say: You don't know what you got 'til it's gone.
The first half of "Long Cold Winter" is nothing short of masterful. "Bad Seamstress Blues"/"Fallin' Apart at the Seams" combines the gritty world of blues with the slick sound of great `80s heavy metal. Like many lead singers from the `80s, Keifer screams with a been-knocked-around vengeance that's endearing; and to say his voice is raspy is an understatement: it's almost a constant strain that would be painful if it weren't so cool amid the great music he writes. Guitarist Jeff LaBar employs memorable hooks and solos on greats like "Gypsy Road" and "The Last Mile," and like RATT and Def Leppard, Cinderella knew the value of top-notch backing vocals to enhance songs. Additionally, as the times required, a ballad was included on "Long Cold Winter" -- but thankfully one with substance. "Don't Know What You Got (Till it's Gone)" is, in my opinion, a genuine rock `n' roll heart-tugger that displays true soul and talent, despite its seemingly cliched theme.
Keifer's lyrics are at times defiant. One memorable line on the song "Gypsy Road" goes, "And who's to care if I grow my hair to the sky!" It's a cool rebuke to the '80s metal critics who scoffed at the teased-up look that surrounded this music, and Kiefer's bold defense in that single line stands up well even today. At other times his words paint a portrait of a rock 'n' roll vagabond who doesn't know the meaning of the word "home," perhaps because of the incessant touring his band used to do. And though a few tunes stray toward the generic ("If You Don't Like It," "Fire and Ice"), it took guts to write a total blues song like "Long Cold Winter," which, like some of the other tunes, contains a homey, warm feel that make this CD, as its title would suggest, a perfect complement for the wintertime blues. |
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