Heartbreak Station

Heartbreak Station is the third studio album by American rock band Cinderella, released in 1990 through Mercury Records. It hit #19[2] in the US on December 21, 1990 and went platinum for shipping a million albums on February 26, 1991.[3]

For the song, see Heartbreak Station (song).
Heartbreak Station
Studio album by
Cinderella
ReleasedNovember 20, 1990
Recorded1990
Studio
  • Bearsville Sound Studios, Bearsville, NY
  • House Of Music, West Orange, NJ
  • Kajem Studios, Gladwyne, PA
  • Studio in the Country, Bogalusa, LA
Genre
[1]
Length52:42
LabelMercury (USA)
Vertigo (Europe)
ProducerJohn Jansen & Tom Keifer
Cinderella chronology
Long Cold Winter
(1988)		 Heartbreak Station
(1990)		 Live Train to Heartbreak Station
(1991)

The album featured three singles, two of which charted in 1991 on Billboard's Hot 100. "Shelter Me" peaked at #36[4] in the US and the title track went to #44.[5] "The More Things Change" was the third single and did not chart.

Critical reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic [6]
Rolling Stone[7]

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."[6]

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."[8]

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."[9]

People begins their review with scarcasm, "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. They seem to like the album, as they conclude the article by saying, "So as I was saying, you can’t go wrong if you buy this new Mötley Crüe record. Ask for it by name." It appears they think it sounds like a lot of other bands, not that that's necessarily a bad thing. The bands they compared the album to haven't done so bad for themselves.[10]

Track listing

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

Side one
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
Side two
No.TitleLength
1."Dead Man's Road"6:30
2."Make Your Own Way"4:11
3."Electric Love"5:16
4."Love Gone Bad"4:14
5."Winds of Change"5:26
Total length:52:42

Album credits

Musicians

Cinderella

  • Tom Keifer – Vocals, Electric Guitar, 12 & 6 String Acoustic Guitar, Mandolin, Piano, Lap Steel Guitar, Mandocello, Dobro, Acoustic & Electric Slide Guitar
  • Eric Brittingham – Bass
  • Jeff LaBar – Guitar, Slide Guitar
  • Fred Coury – Drums, Percussion, Background Vocals

Additional musicians

Production
  • Producer – John Jansen, Tom Keifer
  • Art Direction, Design – Mitchell Kanner
  • Booking (Agency) – ICM, Karen Veitch, Phil Ernst
  • Booking (European Agency) – ITB, Rod MacSween
  • Crew (Studio Drums) – J Harman
  • Crew (Studio Guitars) – Bobby Schumann
  • Design – Scott Townsend
  • Engineer – Gary Lyons
  • Assistant Engineer – Brian Stover (tracks: A1 to A5, B2 to B5)
  • Assistant Engineer – Chris Laidlaw (tracks: A1, A5 to B1)
  • Assistant Engineer – Gene Foster (tracks: A2 to A4, B5)
  • Assistant Engineer – Jim Odom (tracks: A2 to A4, B5)
  • Assistant Engineer – Matthew "Boomer" Lamonica (tracks: A4, B3 to B5)
  • Assistant Engineer – Nelson Ayres (tracks: A1 to A5, B2 to B5)
  • Legal (Legal Eagle) – Paul Schindler
  • Management – Dallyn Pavey, Entertainment Services Unlimited, Larry Mazer, Nan Borsello, Roni Jane Feldman, Steve Wood
  • Management (Business) – A.G. Epstein & Co, David Robkin, Susan Rabinowitch
  • Mixed By – Steve Thompson
  • Mixed By – Michael Barbiero
  • Mixed By (Assistant) – George Cowan
  • Mixed By (Assistant) – Mike Reiter
  • Photography By (Assistant) – Andrew Clatworthy
  • Photography By (Back Cover, Collage) – Mark "Weissguy" Weiss
  • Photography By (Collage) – Neil Zlozower
  • Photography By (Collage) – Robert John
  • Photography By (Collage) – William Hames
  • Photography By, Photography By (Collage) – Ross Halfin

Track information and credits adapted from Discogs[11] and AllMusic,[12] then verified from the album's liner notes.[13]

Charts
Chart (1990) Peak
position
US Billboard 200[2] 19

Singles
Year Title Chart Position
1991 Shelter Me US Billboard Hot 100[4] 36
The More Things Change – –
Heartbreak Station US Billboard Hot 100[5] 44

Certifications
Region CertificationCertified units/sales
United States (RIAA)[3] Platinum 1,000,000^

^shipments figures based on certification alone

References
  1. "Genre". AllMusic. 2016. Retrieved August 19, 2016.
  2. "Cinderella Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved March 20, 2020.
  3. "American album certifications – Cinderella – Heartbreak Station". Recording Industry Association of America. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Album, then click SEARCH. 
  4. "Cinderella Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved March 20, 2020.
  5. "Cinderella Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved March 20, 2020.
  6. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. Review at AllMusic. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
  7. Rolling Stone review
  8. "Cinderella Earns Respect, Gets Little, Doesn't Care". Los Angeles Daily News. 18 October 1990. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
  9. "Cinderella - Heartbreak Station". LA Times. 20 January 1991. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
  10. Staff, People (4 March 1991). "Picks and Pans Review: Heartbreak Station". People. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
  11. "Cinderella – Heartbreak Station". Discogs. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
  12. "Cinderella – Heartbreak Station". AllMusic. Retrieved 18 March 2020.
  13. Heartbreak Station (liner notes). Cinderella. Mercury. 1990. 848 018-1.CS1 maint: others (link)
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