Angels Around Cinderellazip Top

Find an old soda can with a zip-top (or simulate with a pop tab). Hold it.

The most compelling theory among collectors is that “Angels Around Cinderellazip Top” refers to a specific radio broadcast recording from the "Heartbreak Station" tour.

In December 1988, Cinderella opened for ZZ Top on the "Afterburner" tour. At the Philadelphia Spectrum, a fan recorded the show on a portable cassette deck. During the transition between sets, the DJ famously said: "You’ve had angels around Cinderella, now get ready for ZZ Top."

If that fan later digitized the tape and guessed the track names, they might have filed the intermission banter (which included a guitar solo from Tom Keifer and a drum fill from Frank Beard) under that exact misheard title. This recording—lasting exactly 2 minutes and 14 seconds—is the elusive "white whale" for collectors who search for Angels Around Cinderellazip Top.

If you find a file named "Angels Around Cinderellazip Top," it is likely a homemade compilation of: angels around cinderellazip top

Here is the key piece of information for the diligent searcher. ZZ Top does have a song with "Angel" in the title. It is not on their major label albums, but on their legendary 1994 double-live album, "Antenna"? No. Wait, correction: The song "Angels" appears on ZZ Top’s XXX (1999) album as a bonus track in some international pressings, and more famously, a live version of "Angels" was recorded during the Eliminator tour.

However, the closest match is the deep track "As Time Rolls By" (which mentions "guardian angels") or the blues standard "Sure Got Cold After the Rain Fell" (which has celestial imagery). But one bootleg in particular, circulating on Soulseek and obscure torrent sites, is labeled: "ZZ Top - Angels Around Cinderellazip (Live at the Houston Astrodome, 1986)." That bootleg is what you are almost certainly hunting.

If your quest is for the absolute, unreleased, white whale of "Angels Around Cinderellazip Top," you need to look for a specific vinyl bootleg: "Texas Fairy Tales" (Zippo Records, ZT-1987). This unofficial release pairs live ZZ Top tracks from the Afterburner tour with obscure Cinderella demos. Side B, Track 3 is listed simply as "Angel." No other info. That is your target.

Be warned: Copies of this bootleg, if real (many debate it is a hoax), sell for $200–$500 on sites like Discogs and Eil.com. The audio quality is terrible—recorded from the audience on a 1980s handheld tape recorder. But for the true believer in "Angels Around Cinderellazip Top," that lo-fi hiss is the sound of magic. Find an old soda can with a zip-top

Let’s explore the second possibility. Cinderella, the Philadelphia-based glam metal band (Tom Keifer, Eric Brittingham, etc.), had a rawer, bluesier sound than their peers. They also had a song called Angels? No. But they did have a famous track: Nobody's Fool from Night Songs (1986). However, collectors know that Cinderella recorded several b-sides and live-only tracks.

There is a persistent rumor among tape traders from the 1990s of a demo titled "Angel on the Outside" or "Zipper Top Blues." No evidence of such a track exists in official databases (Discogs, AllMusic, Metal Archives). Therefore, "Angels Around Cinderellazip Top" is likely a corrupted file name. Imagine a 1990s Napster file: cinderella - angel_around_zz_top.mp3—a mislabeled track where a user accidentally combined two band names.

After hours of research, interviews with three collectors, and combing through dead forum posts, we must conclude that "Angels Around Cinderellazip Top" is more legend than reality. It is the Bigfoot of classic rock bootlegs—a creature born from miscommunication, accelerated by faulty metadata, and preserved by nostalgia.

But perhaps that is the beauty of it. In an age where every song is instantly searchable on Spotify, the idea of a track so lost that its very name defies logic is romantic. It reminds us of a time when you had to trust a friend’s mix CD, when a garbled file name was a puzzle, and when angels might actually have circled a certain glam metal band before the bearded bluesmen took the stage. If you have any information or an MP3

So keep searching. Dust off that old laptop. Plug in that external hard drive. Somewhere, on a forgotten backup from 2004, the Angels Around Cinderellazip Top might still be waiting.

If you have any information or an MP3 regarding this lost recording, contact the author via the Lost Media Wiki forums. Do not let the Zip Top remain silent.

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