March 31, 2011

THE ALBUM OF THE DAY
CINDERELLA...Night Songs (1986)
(CD, vinyl, Allmusic review)

The debut album from Cinderella reached number 3 on the U.S. Billboard album charts. I can remember one day in 1986 I had been watching some videos on MTV and on this particular day they had played several recent metal videos. Later on I walked into a record store and this album had been released the day before and was featured prominently in front of the store. I had never heard of them or any of their songs but I bought it anyway. It's an 80's "hair" metal record, nothing more, nothing less. It won't blow your socks off but you won't be bored, either. I recommend it if you've never heard it, it's a pretty cool album. The highlights are the 3 popular tracks, "Somebody Save Me", "Shake Me" and "Nobody's Fool."


ROCK BIRTHDAYS FOR MARCH 31
Mick Ralphs of Bad Company is 63; Angus Young of AC/DC is 56; Sean Hopper of Huey Lewis And The News is 58;

ON THIS DATE
1967 Jimi Hendrix sets fire to his guitar for the first time as he began his first British tour in London
1982 The Doobie Brothers announce that they are calling it quits
1992 Bruce Springsteen releases two albums of all new material on the same day, Human Touch and Lucky Town
1994 Kurt Cobain of Nirvana walks out of drug treatment center in California after only 3 days
2009 The Soundstage Sessions: Live in Chicago by Stevie Nicks is released

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