10 Forgotten Rock Music Gems From The 80s You Need To Rediscover

10. Night Songs - Cinderella

The end of the hair metal revolution just ends up looking all the more sad in retrospect.

For example, just look at this Cinderella album cover. This is the kind of thing that your parents probably have in a junk drawer or a musical box of shame. If you pop this baby into the stereo though, there's nothing to be ashamed of about this opening track.

Yeah, don't let the mile high hair and 8-inch heels fool you on this one... there's actually a lot more to take in with the track Night Songs. Compared to the usual pretty boy singers coming out at the time, Tom Keifer has one hell of a shout on him, almost like he's going for a mix of somewhere in between Steven Tyler and the fiercer side of Janis Joplin.

The backing track alone doesn't feel like it belongs anywhere near the conversation of hair metal, being more in the vein of ZZ Top's playbook. When most bands were looking to serve the bottom line of what the party rock world wanted to see, it's always nice to see a band doing what they want to do and not caring what anyone else thinks of them. The trip that you'll have on this track doesn't seem all that fun on the surface, but if you have these riffs leading the way, it might be a more pleasant journey through the night.