Heartbreak Station


Heartbreak Station is the third studio album by American rock band Cinderella, released in 1990 through Mercury Records. It hit #19 in the US on December 21, 1990 and went platinum for shipping a million albums on February 26, 1991.
The album featured three singles, two of which charted in 1991 on Billboard's Hot 100. "Shelter Me" peaked at #36 in the US and the title track went to #44. "The More Things Change" was the third single and did not chart.

Critical reception

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."
This mentioned from the Chicago Tribune website, "The band's new PolyGram Records album, Heartbreak Station, features more rootsy blues rock. Yet despite Cinderella's blues leanings, critics often lump the group in with party bands like Poison and Warrant."
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."
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. 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.

Track listing

Album credits

Musicians

Cinderella

Production

Track information and credits adapted from Discogs and AllMusic, then verified from the album's liner notes.

Charts

Chart Peak
position

Singles

Certifications