Long Cold Winter

Long Cold Winter is the second studio album by American glam metal band Cinderella. It was released in July 1988 on Mercury Records.

For the Laura Ingalls Wilder novel, see The Long Winter (novel).

Long Cold Winter
Studio album by
Cinderella
ReleasedJuly 5, 1988[1]
Recorded1987–1988
Studio
Genre
Length43:51
LabelMercury (USA)
Vertigo (UK)
ProducerAndy Johns, Tom Keifer, Eric Brittingham
Cinderella chronology
Night Songs
(1986)		 Long Cold Winter
(1988)		 Heartbreak Station
(1990)
Singles from Long Cold Winter
  1. "Gypsy Road"
    Released: June 1988
  2. "Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone)"
    Released: August 1988
  3. "The Last Mile"
    Released: January 1989
  4. "Coming Home"
    Released: March 1989

The record reached No. 10 in the US and became double-platinum for shipping two million copies in the US by the end of the year, just as their debut album Night Songs had done earlier. It was later certified triple platinum.[1] The album features four singles, which all charted on the Billboard Hot 100. "Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone)", the band's highest-charting single, reached No. 12, "The Last Mile" reached No. 36, "Coming Home" reached No. 20, and "Gypsy Road" hit No. 51, more than a year after the release of the album.[3]

Reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[4]
Classic Rock[5]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal5/10[6]
Kerrang![7]
Rock Hard8.5/10[8]
Rolling Stone[9]

The album received mixed-to-positive reviews. All the music critics remarked the shift of the band's musical style from the clichéd glam metal of their debut to more blues-oriented compositions,[4][5][7][8][9] but they did not agree in the evaluation of the songs' quality. Contemporary reviewers criticized the album for being "too bluesy"[7] and too derivative of other more famous bands' influences.[9] Only Rock Hard reviewer considered Long Cold Winter "a surprisingly strong rock'n'roll album, rough, unpolished, powerful, but still melodious", and praised Keifer's vocals and the level of songwriting.[8]

Modern reviews are similarly polarized. Steve Huey of AllMusic reviewed Long Cold Winter as "a transition album for Cinderella, mixing pop-metal tunes with better hooks than those on Night Songs with a newfound penchant for gritty blues-rock à la the Stones or Aerosmith", and further explained his rating by saying "[not] all of the songs are memorable, but most of them are".[4] Canadian journalist Martin Popoff was harsher in his judgement and wrote that Cinderella strived to be "a next Stones or Aerosmith, not realizing that such talents are both rare and natural, and that without the gift and conviction, [their] attempt reeks of imitation and crass commercialism."[6] 22 years after its release, Geoff Barton re-evaluated the album for the British magazine Classic Rock, praised the band for their change of musical style and called Long Cold Winter "a minor classic."[5] In 2019, Chuck Eddy of Rolling Stone also praised the album and wrote that "in retrospect Long Cold Winter ranks with any blues-rock of the Eighties".[10]

Track listing

All music is composed by Tom Keifer except "If You Don't Like It" by Keifer and Eric Brittingham.

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."Bad Seamstress Blues/Fallin' Apart at the Seams"5:19
2."Gypsy Road"3:55
3."Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone)"5:56
4."The Last Mile"3:51
5."Second Wind"3:59
Side two
No.TitleLength
6."Long Cold Winter"5:24
7."If You Don't Like It"4:10
8."Coming Home"4:56
9."Fire and Ice"3:22
10."Take Me Back"3:17
Total length:43:51

Personnel
Cinderella
Additional musicians
Production

Charts

Album
Chart (1988) Peak
position
Swiss Albums Top 100[11] 7
Billboard 200 (US) [12] 10
Norwegian Albums Chart[13] 13
Finnish Albums Chart[14] 15
RPM100 Albums (Canada)[15] 24
German Albums Chart[16] 24
UK Albums Chart[17] 30
Australian Albums Chart[18] 32
Swedish Albums Chart[19] 38

Singles
Year Single Billboard Hot 100[3] Mainstream Rock[20] UK Singles[17] US Cash Box[21] Canada Top Singles[22] Finnish Singles Chart[14]
1988–1989 "Gypsy Road" 51 20 54 — — 19
"Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone)" 12 10 54 17 68 —
"Coming Home" 20 13 — — — —
"The Last Mile" 36 18 — — — —
"—" denotes a single that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Certifications
Country Organization Year Sales
USA RIAA 1997 3× platinum (+3,000,000)[1]
Canada CRIA 1991 2× Platinum (+200,000)[23]

Accolades
Publication Year Country Accolade Rank
Metal Rules 2003 US Top 50 Glam Metal Albums[24] 15
Rock Hard 2005 Germany The 500 Greatest Rock & Metal Albums of All Time[25] 457
L.A. Weekly 2011 US Chuck Klosterman's Favorite Hair Metal Albums[26] 9
Rolling Stone 2014 US 50 Rock Albums Every Country Fan Should Own[2] 42
Rolling Stone 2019 US 50 Greatest Hair Metal Albums of All Time[10] 10

See also

References
  1. "RIAA - Gold & Platinum". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved June 18, 2021.
  2. Eddy, Chuck (November 12, 2014). "50 Rock Albums Every Country Fan Should Own". Rolling Stone. Retrieved June 19, 2021. here's where hair-metal found its roots — which, oddly enough for suburban Philly boys, turned out mainly to be in Seventies Southern rock
  3. "Cinderella - Hot 100". Billboard. Retrieved May 16, 2011.
  4. Huey, Steve. "Cinderella - Long Cold Winter review". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved September 26, 2011.
  5. Barton, Geoff (January 2011). "Cinderella - Long Cold Winter". Classic Rock. No. 153. London, UK: Future plc. p. 113.
  6. Popoff, Martin (November 1, 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 73. ISBN 978-1-894959-31-5.
  7. Hotten, Jon (July 2, 1988). "Cinderella - 'Long Cold Winter'". Kerrang!. No. 194.
  8. Stratmann, Holger (1988). "Review Album: Cinderella - Long Cold Winter". Rock Hard (in German). No. 28. Retrieved May 22, 2013.
  9. Neely, Kim (November 3, 1988). "Cinderella - Long Cold Winter". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on August 26, 2006. Retrieved September 26, 2011.
  10. Eddy, Chuck (August 31, 2019). "Rolling Stone - 50 Greatest Hair Metal Albums of All Time". Rolling Stone. Retrieved June 18, 2021.
  11. "Cinderella - Long Cold Winter". Hitparade.ch (in German). Media Control Charts. Retrieved July 20, 2021.
  12. "Cinderella - Billboard 200". Billboard. Retrieved May 16, 2011.
  13. "Cinderella - Long Cold Winter (Album)". Norwegiancharts.com. Media Control Charts. Retrieved July 21, 2021.
  14. "Sisältää hitin: Levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1961: C > Cinderella" (in Finnish). Sisältää hitin / Timo Pennanen. Retrieved July 15, 2021.
  15. "Top Albums/CDs - Volume 48, No. 20, September 03, 1988". Library and Archives Canada. September 3, 1988. Retrieved July 21, 2021.
  16. "Album – Cinderella, Long Cold Winter". Charts.de (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved July 21, 2021.
  17. "Cinderella Official Charts". Official Charts Company. Retrieved July 21, 2021.
  18. "Cinderella - Long Cold Winter (Album)". Australian-charts.com. Media Control Charts. Retrieved July 21, 2021.
  19. "Cinderella - Long Cold Winter (Album)". Swedishcharts.com. Media Control Charts. Retrieved July 21, 2021.
  20. "Cinderella - Mainstream rock". Billboard. Retrieved June 10, 2021.
  21. "CASH BOX Top 100 Singles – Week ending NOVEMBER 26, 1988". Archived from the original on October 7, 2012. Cash Box.
  22. Canada, Library and Archives (July 17, 2013). "Image : RPM Weekly". www.bac-lac.gc.ca. Retrieved June 19, 2021.
  23. "Gold Platinum Database: Search for Cinderella". Music Canada. Retrieved July 15, 2021.
  24. "Metal Rules - Top 50 Glam Metal Albums". Metal Rules. December 2003. Archived from the original on November 26, 2017. Retrieved February 24, 2021.
  25. [...], Rock Hard (Hrsg.). [Red.: Michael Rensen. Mitarb.: Götz Kühnemund] (2005). Best of Rock & Metal die 500 stärksten Scheiben aller Zeiten. Königswinter: Heel. p. 25. ISBN 3-89880-517-4.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  26. Westhoff, Ben (December 6, 2011). "Chuck Klosterman's Favorite Hair Metal Albums". LA Weekly. Retrieved March 4, 2021.
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