CINDERELLA - Night Songs

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. 

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