Heartbreak Station

After successful albums that effectively followed contemporary hard-rock trends, 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. But the sales figures don't matter (it only sold a million copies); Heartbreak Station shows that Cinderella has more genuine rock & roll grit than most of the metal bands of the late '80s. — Stephen Thomas Erlewine.