CINDERELLA - Night Songs
FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 02.08.1986 RECORD COMPANY: Vertigo Records 8.0
METALFAN RATING: 8.9
USERS RATING: 8 votes
Top 1986: #9 |
Cinderella LINE UP: Tom Keifer - voce, chitara, pian Jeff LaBar - chitara Eric Brittingham - bas Fred Coury - tobe Jim Drnec - tobe Jody Cortez - tobe invitat: Jon Bon Jovi - voce |
TRACKLIST: 01. Night Songs02. Shake Me03. Nobody's Fool04. Nothin' for Nothin'05. Once Around the Ride06. Hell on Wheels07. Somebody Save Me08. In from the Outside09. Push Push10. Back Home Again |
Cinderella’s debut album, release with a line-up that, to their credit, is still found under the same name (after the few gives and takes, though). Glam rock like it’s the mid-80s, when If you were American and a rocker, you were either into thrash, glam, alternative – less and, possibly, from Canada. (Even Geoff Tate had a “dude” haircut back then).
At the first chords you’d think you got the wrong record, as it gives out sounds that would feel more at home for Saint Vitus or Black Sabbath, it’s the track Night Songs that is slightly unusual for glam rock. But since it’s hard to sing about dark and thrilling stuff when you’ve poured all the hairspray bottle in your head and your clothes look like Sir Elton’s closet, we swiftly return to glam land and its ideology by songs like Shake Me, Nobody’s Fool (power ballad, probably their best known song – and it’s not bad at all), Nothin’ for Nothing or Once Around the Ride. The tempo increases with the heart rate, here comes Hell on Wheels – heavier, but with a faint scent of blues skulking about like 007 in a crowd.
And then we get to the delightful moment that is Somebody Save Me. And it is delightful not because the song speaks about dreams, relationships, job and all that ready to crumble, not for the rousing musing with a good riff and trotting tempo, but because our very own Compact have a little song known as Cine esti tu, oare? that sounds like a total facsimile. From now on, my dear Watson, I leave you to investigate. Nothing special happens until the end of the album, three more decent or pretty songs, according to taste, well settled in the glam rock model. They even have a VIP guest, Mr. Jon Bon Jovi, with backing vocals on two songs. Personally, for me the best (or catchiest, to be honest) songs are Night Songs, Nobody’s Fool and Somebody Save Me. Otherwise, an album that may not be the philosopher’s stone of rock music but is well made and deserves a double bagel: 8. Take a bite, comrades!
Cristake Nota: 8
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He he, albumul asta imi aduce aminte de liceu! Cred ca dintre toate trupele de glam din anii '80, Cinderella suna cel mai aproape de blues-rock, poate si datorita vocii lui Tom Keifer.
Yup, mai au si iz de country pe... "Heartbreak..." daca nu ma insel, pe o piesa.