As requested by many, here’s the fantastic Caroline Records / BMG release of CINDERELLA 5-CD box set tiltled “The Mercury Years” which brings together all four of the band’s studio albums with the label: 1986’s Night Songs, 1988’s Long Cold Winter, 1990’s Heartbreak Station and 1994’s Still Climbing, plus a bonus disc with hard to find B-sides and Live tracks.
“The Mercury Years” isn’t a ‘just put all albums into one box‘ cash-in release. The whole thing has been remastered by Andy Pearce and Matt Wortham from the Rock Candy Records headquarters. And the collection has been put together in collaboration with Cinderella’s mastermind Tom Keifer.
Housed in a clamshell box which we believe isn’t attractive enough – as the packaging inside is excellent, each album with its own separated artwork, and there’s a 16-page booklet featuring a new interview with Keifer by journalist Malcolm Dome (Rock Candy Records), where they discuss the band’s history and legacy.
So, this is a Rock Candy Records product, and while we have featured here at other fine remasters from some of these essential Cinderella albums, this Box Set sounds awesome.
Additionally, this is the first time Cinderella’s ‘Still Climbing’ gets a remastering, and we have a bonus disc with tons of B-sides and the rare ‘Live Train To Heartbreak Station EP’ complete.
As said, sound quality of the whole Box Set is spectacular – with “The Mercury Years” you get ALL you need from Cinderella.
A MUST HAVE
Disc 1 Track List (Night Songs):
01. Night Songs
02. Shake Me
03. Nobody’s Fool
04. Nothin’ For Nothin’
05. Once Around The Ride
06. Hell On Wheels
07. Somebody Save Me
08. In From The Outside
09. Push, Push
10. Back Home Again
11. Nobody’s Fool (single edit)
12. Shake Me
13. Galaxy Blues
14. Night Songs
Disc 2 Track List (Long Cold Winter):
01. Bad Seamstress Blues/Fallin’ Apart At The Seams
02. Gypsy Road
03. Don’t Know What You Got (Till It’s Gone)
04. The Last Mile
05. Second Wind
06. Long Cold Winter
07. If You Don’t Like It
08. Coming Home
09. Fire And Ice
10. Take Me Back
11. Don’t Know What You Got (Till It’s Gone) [single edit]
12. Coming Home (single edit)
Disc 3 Track List (Heartbreak Station):
01. The More Things Change
02. Love’s Got Me Doin’ Time
03. Shelter Me
04. Heartbreak Station
05. Sick For The Cure
06. One For Rock And Roll
07. Dead Man’s Road
08. Make Your Own Way
09. Electric Love
10. Love Gone Bad
11. Winds Of Change
12. Shelter Me (radio edit)
13. Move Over
14. War Stories
Disc 4 Track List (Still Climbing):
01. Bad Attitude Shuffle
02. All Comes Down
03. Talk Is Cheap
04. Hard To Find The Words
05. Blood From A Stone
06. Still Climbing
07. Freewheelin’
08. Through the Rain
09. Easy Come Easy Go
10. The Road’s Still Long
11. Hot & Bothered
Disc 5 Track List:
01. Jumping Jack Flash
02. Nobody’s Fool
03. Push Push
04. Once Around The Ride
05. Somebody Save Me
06. In From The Outside
07. Rock Me Baby/Bring It On Home
08. Second Wind
09. The More Things Change
10. Somebody Save Me
11. Heartbreak Station
12. Don’t Know What You Got (Till It’s Gone)
13. Gypsy Road
14. Shake Me
Cinderella – The Mercury Years [Box set] 2018,FLAC+MP3
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