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Heartbreak Station
Heartbreak Station is the third studio album by American rock band Cinderella, released in 1990 through Mercury Records. It reached No.19 in the Billboard 200 US chart on December 21, 1990, and went platinum for shipping a million albums on February 26, 1991.
The music was described as "bluesy [and] brawny" by VH1.
Three singles were released, two of which charted on the Billboard's Hot 100 in 1991. "Shelter Me" peaked at No. 36 and the title track climbed to No. 44. "The More Things Change" did not chart.
It is the band's last album to feature drummer Fred Coury before he left the band the following year, although he did provide drums on one song on their next album Still Climbing.
Heartbreak Station marked a shift in the band's sound, wherein they moved further away from the glam metal style they had in Night Songs and Long Cold Winter and took a bluesier, stripped-down approach. In an interview with the Los Angeles Daily News a month before the album's release, when asked about the band's stylistic shift from their prior albums, lead vocalist Tom Keifer stated, "The sound has progressed from the last album. We produced it from a rawer, simpler approach. We stripped it down from a production standpoint, so there's not a lot of reverb or overdubs." Keifer also cited blues as a large influence on his songwriting in the album.
John Paul Jones, the former bassist of Led Zeppelin, arranged the strings for two songs on Heartbreak Station; the band requested Jones's help after they were impressed with orchestral arrangements Jones had contributed to songs by The Rolling Stones and Donovan.
In a retrospective interview with Classic Rock Revisited in 2013, Keifer reflected on his songwriting approach and his feelings towards the band's sound in Heartbreak Station, stating that, "We grew out of those '80s' processed slick things. That is the thing that was most intentional. Your writing and playing grows and grows, and it is organic, and it just happens." Keifer discussed his disillusionment with the polished sound of 80s rock that had been present on the band's prior records and that he instructed the album's mixing engineer, Michael Barbiero, to give the songs a rawer feel because "everybody was caught up in that whole '80s' sound. I told him it was time to do something different."
In 2017, Keifer gave an interview with a radio host working for the Detroit-based rock radio station WRIF wherein he stated, "In terms of production, which is something that is a learning experience as you go, of the Cinderella stuff, I think Heartbreak Station [is] my favorite because I just love how dry and how raw that record is. And we evolved into that sound, whereas the first two records were a little more 'flavor of the day' in the processing – you know, things were a little slicker and kind of processed in the '80s – and we evolved into this more organic, kind of dry, raw, real sound on Heartbreak Station." Keifer stated that the raw sound made it easier to feel "the emotion. . . . of the music and the players."
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Heartbreak Station
Heartbreak Station is the third studio album by American rock band Cinderella, released in 1990 through Mercury Records. It reached No.19 in the Billboard 200 US chart on December 21, 1990, and went platinum for shipping a million albums on February 26, 1991.
The music was described as "bluesy [and] brawny" by VH1.
Three singles were released, two of which charted on the Billboard's Hot 100 in 1991. "Shelter Me" peaked at No. 36 and the title track climbed to No. 44. "The More Things Change" did not chart.
It is the band's last album to feature drummer Fred Coury before he left the band the following year, although he did provide drums on one song on their next album Still Climbing.
Heartbreak Station marked a shift in the band's sound, wherein they moved further away from the glam metal style they had in Night Songs and Long Cold Winter and took a bluesier, stripped-down approach. In an interview with the Los Angeles Daily News a month before the album's release, when asked about the band's stylistic shift from their prior albums, lead vocalist Tom Keifer stated, "The sound has progressed from the last album. We produced it from a rawer, simpler approach. We stripped it down from a production standpoint, so there's not a lot of reverb or overdubs." Keifer also cited blues as a large influence on his songwriting in the album.
John Paul Jones, the former bassist of Led Zeppelin, arranged the strings for two songs on Heartbreak Station; the band requested Jones's help after they were impressed with orchestral arrangements Jones had contributed to songs by The Rolling Stones and Donovan.
In a retrospective interview with Classic Rock Revisited in 2013, Keifer reflected on his songwriting approach and his feelings towards the band's sound in Heartbreak Station, stating that, "We grew out of those '80s' processed slick things. That is the thing that was most intentional. Your writing and playing grows and grows, and it is organic, and it just happens." Keifer discussed his disillusionment with the polished sound of 80s rock that had been present on the band's prior records and that he instructed the album's mixing engineer, Michael Barbiero, to give the songs a rawer feel because "everybody was caught up in that whole '80s' sound. I told him it was time to do something different."
In 2017, Keifer gave an interview with a radio host working for the Detroit-based rock radio station WRIF wherein he stated, "In terms of production, which is something that is a learning experience as you go, of the Cinderella stuff, I think Heartbreak Station [is] my favorite because I just love how dry and how raw that record is. And we evolved into that sound, whereas the first two records were a little more 'flavor of the day' in the processing – you know, things were a little slicker and kind of processed in the '80s – and we evolved into this more organic, kind of dry, raw, real sound on Heartbreak Station." Keifer stated that the raw sound made it easier to feel "the emotion. . . . of the music and the players."