Heartbreak Station

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Heartbreak Station
Heartbreak Station.jpg
Studio album by
Cinderella
ReleasedNovember 20, 1990[1]
Recorded1990
Studio
  • Bearsville Sound Studios, Bearsville, NY
  • House Of Music, West Orange, NJ
  • Kajem Studios, Gladwyne, PA
  • Studio in the Country, Bogalusa, LA
Genre
Length52:42
LabelMercury (USA)
Vertigo (Europe)
ProducerJohn Jansen & Tom Keifer
Cinderella chronology
Long Cold Winter
(1988) 		Heartbreak Station
(1990) 		Still Climbing
(1994)
Singles from Heartbreak Station
  1. "Shelter Me"
    Released: December 1990
  2. "Heartbreak Station"
    Released: March 1991


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,[4] and went platinum for shipping a million albums on February 26, 1991.[1]

The album featured three singles, two of which charted in 1991 on the Billboard's Hot 100. "Shelter Me" peaked at No. 36 and the title track climbed to No. 44.[5] "The More Things Change" was a promo single and did not chart.

Critical reception[]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic4/5 stars[2]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal7/10[6]
LA Times2/5 stars[7]
Rolling Stone3/5 stars[8]

Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic writes, "Cinderella reached back into the Stones and Aerosmith songbooks and created a sneering, raunchy hard rock album that was artistically their finest moment, even if it didn't reach the same commercial heights as its predecessors."[2]

This mentioned from the Chicago Tribune website, "The band's new PolyGram Records album, Heartbreak Station, features more rootsy blues rock (the disc is scheduled for a Nov. 20 release). Yet despite Cinderella's blues leanings, critics often lump the group in with party bands like Poison and Warrant."[3]

The LA Times writes, "Any band that can achieve a good approximation of the Stones' raw, cranking classic period--as Cinderella does here-- at least has the validity of a solid bar band. But Cinderella fails to justify and redeem its stylistic thefts by infusing a borrowed sound with a personal perspective."[7]

People begins their review with sarcasm, "The first thing that strikes you about this new album by Poison…er, uh, this new album by Cinderella…is how utterly original it is." They continue this theme throughout: "So as I was saying, you can’t go wrong if you buy this new Mötley Crüe record. Ask for it by name."[9]

Track listing[]

All tracks are written by Tom Keifer, except for "Love's Got Me Doin' Time" by Tom Keifer and Eric Brittingham.

No.TitleLength
1."The More Things Change"4:17
2."Love's Got Me Doin' Time"5:15
3."Shelter Me"4:42
4."Heartbreak Station"4:27
5."Sick for the Cure"3:58
6."One for Rock and Roll"4:26
7."Dead Man's Road"6:30
8."Make Your Own Way"4:11
9."Electric Love"5:16
10."Love Gone Bad"4:14
11."Winds of Change"5:26

Personnel[]

Track information and credits adapted from Discogs[10] and AllMusic,[11] then verified from the album's liner notes.[12]

Charts[]

Album[]

Charts (1990-1991) Peak
position
Swiss Albums Top 100[13] 8
Norwegian Albums Chart[14] 16
Billboard 200 (US)[4] 19
RPM100 Albums (Canada)[15] 28
German Albums Chart[16] 34
UK Albums Chart[17] 36
Finnish Albums Chart[18] 39
Swedish Albums Chart[19] 42

Singles[]

Year Single Billboard Hot 100[5] Mainstream Rock[20] UK Singles[17] Canada Top Singles[21]
1991 "Shelter Me" 36 5 55 27
"Heartbreak Station" 44 10 63 —
"The More Things Change" — 41 — —

Certifications[]

Country Organization Year Sales
USA RIAA 1991 Platinum (+1,000,000)[1]
Canada CRIA 1991 Platinum (+100,000)[22]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c "RIAA - Gold & Platinum". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved June 18, 2021.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Cinderella - Heartbreak Hotel review". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved July 25, 2021.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b "Cinderella Earns Respect, Gets Little, Doesn't Care". Los Angeles Daily News. October 18, 1990. Retrieved March 20, 2020.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b "Cinderella - Billboard 200". Billboard. Retrieved May 16, 2011.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b "Cinderella - Hot 100". Billboard. Retrieved May 16, 2011.
  6. ^ Popoff, Martin (August 1, 2007). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. pp. 80–81. ISBN 978-1-894959-62-9.
  7. ^ Jump up to: a b Boehm, Mike (January 20, 1991). "Cinderella - Heartbreak Station". LA Times. Retrieved March 20, 2020.
  8. ^ Eddy, Chuck (January 10, 1991). "Cinderella - Heartbreak Station". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on August 25, 2006. Retrieved July 24, 2021.
  9. ^ Staff, People (March 4, 1991). "Picks and Pans Review: Heartbreak Station". People. Retrieved March 20, 2020.
  10. ^ "Cinderella – Heartbreak Station". Discogs. Retrieved March 20, 2020.
  11. ^ "Cinderella – Heartbreak Station". AllMusic. Retrieved March 18, 2020.
  12. ^ Heartbreak Station (liner notes). Cinderella. Mercury. 1990. 848 018-1.CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  13. ^ "Cinderella - Heartbreak Station". Hitparade.ch (in German). Media Control Charts. Retrieved July 25, 2021.
  14. ^ "Cinderella - Heartbreak Station (Album)". Norwegiancharts.com. Media Control Charts. Retrieved July 25, 2021.
  15. ^ "Top Albums/CDs - Volume 53, No. 13, March 02, 1991". Library and Archives Canada. March 2, 1991. Retrieved July 25, 2021.
  16. ^ "Album – Cinderella, Heartbreak Station". Charts.de (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved July 25, 2021.
  17. ^ Jump up to: a b "Cinderella Official Charts". Official Charts Company. Retrieved July 21, 2021.
  18. ^ "Sisältää hitin: Levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1961: C > Cinderella" (in Finnish). Sisältää hitin / Timo Pennanen. Retrieved July 15, 2021.
  19. ^ "Cinderella - Heartbreak Station (Album)". Swedishcharts.com. Media Control Charts. Retrieved July 25, 2021.
  20. ^ "Cinderella - Mainstream rock". Billboard. Retrieved June 10, 2021.
  21. ^ "Top Singles - Volume 53, No. 10, February 09, 1991". Library and Archives Canada. February 9, 1991. Retrieved July 25, 2021.
  22. ^ "Gold Platinum Database: Search for Cinderella". Music Canada. Retrieved July 15, 2021.
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