Disco de Cinderella: “Rocked, Wired & Blused: The Greatest Hits”

Back in the 1980s, when I was "metaler than thou," I trashed Cinderella as "just another hair band."

Well, a hair band they were. But now that I can drop the tough pose, hey, their stuff was pretty good! What has *happened* in between then and now is the death of music.

Tell me that I'm supposed to take lame "Coldplay" seriously, but not Cinderella. Sorry, I just can't do that. "Gypsy Road" is just plain and simple hard rockin' fun, to cruise to with the top down.

Take, for instance, "Shake Me." By 80's standards, it was pop. Twenty years later, I'm headbanging to it incessantly. Again: I'm supposed to respect Justin Timberlake seriously, but not Cinderella? Can't do that, either.

Time for all you "purist" metalheads to realize what greatness lies in these so-called cheesy hair bands. It's a wonderful feeling getting all sentimental about music I thought I was too good for twenty years ago, but something deep inside me told me wasn't really so bad after all.

Shame on me for being such a jerk. I'm even warming up to Bon Jovi, Poison, and Whitesnake now. It may have taken two decades, but now I'm Nobody's Fool.

Being from Philadelphia, this band was a huge deal in the 80s. I even remember when they went from being a "local bar band" then Night Songs came out and they were on MTV and it was cool to see their success. However, while Cinderella was (is) a good band, I don't think they are ever going into the Hall of fame or anything like that. Back in the day I had Night Songs on cassette and Long Cold Winter on LP, and now a couple of decades later I wanted to hear "Shake Me" again so I picked up this CD. I debated between getting Night Songs and this greatest hits, and figured the hits disc might have some gems I hadn't heard. My overall feeling to this CD is.... "eh." After several listens, Shake Me is still my favorite and often the only song I listen to from this disc. If you're anything less than a hardcore Cinderella groupie, this CD should be all you need from this band. Tom Keifer's voice kind of wears on me after a while. Eric Brittingham is a heck of a nice guy. I wanted to love this CD but it kind of fell short of my hopes. Standout tracks: Shake me, Nobody's Fool, Gypsy Road

ROCKED, WIRED & BLUESED is yet another great anthology of the 80s blues-metal band Cinderella. During the first half, you can hear how they quickly changed from a pure "hair band" to a heavy metal version of Lynyrd Skynyrd or the Outlaws, and continued to evolve in that direction until they lost their recording contract in the mid-90s. Even if you have ONCE UPON A..., you should not pass this one up.

I liked these songs when they came out 20 yrs. ago. Always thought the name was cheezy (still is). This cd has 19 tracks and every one of them rocks. Some good jams that I had never heard before too. Nice blues slide guitar work w/ a bad attitude on vocals. Worth picking up.

I bought this CD after reading the positive reviews here.....This was my introduction to this band. I cant believe it....HOW GOOD are they, really? I mean EVERY SONG in this collection is AWESOME!!! GREAT!!! A CLASSIC!!! I like their sound. They kept it different to stand out. It has an AC/DC feel to it..Combine that voice with soulful, occasionally bluesy music, and some awesome rocksy guitar, and you get a winning combination!! Great! This band and this greatest hits compilation is highly recommended.