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PANDORA'S BOX "original sin" vinyl 1989

album chart action:
#43 Sweden.
no chart stats but reached platinum status in South Africa

single chart action:
no chart action anywhere from my research!

an album written and produced by Jim Steinman...
a band made up from from various artists who either sang or performed on Bat Out Of Hell...
album was released as a double vinyl set but apparently has been released on a single compact disc...
typical Steinman stuff happening here, grandeous mini rock opera's, powerful lyrics and vocals, the odd interlude between tracks, a couple of spoken intro's to songs also...very similar to the Meat's "deadringer", and Jim's own "bad for good" albums...
Meatloaf has covered most of these songs since then and this album contains the original(and best) version of "its all coming back to me now", made famous by Canadian Celine Dion...
elsewhere on here there are two cover versions....one is The Doors' "twentieth century fox", the other is a Bacharach one in "my little red book", i have not heard the originals of those ones so i cannot draw comparisons between them...i like the Burt cover, i wasnt aware "20th century fox" was a Doors song, but i dont like it anyway!...
i cannot rate the interludes or the spoken word tracks as they are not techniqually songs, but i like all of them things..
one track on here called "prey lewd" is a piano instrumental which encompasses parts from several tracks from the album...
i read somewhere once that Jim Steinamn actually regards this album as his finest piece of complete songwriting, not sure about that personally and with a lack of sales im pretty sure the general public would agree...
allmusic give this album a converted score of "2.4"...i cant see where they get that from, but as usual mine and allmusic's ideas are usually poles apart...

I LIKE THIS ALBUM

worst track: twentieth century fox
best track: its all coming back to me now

tracks:

..."the invocation(spoken word intro)
1. original sin **
2. twentieth century fox *
3. safe sex **
4. good girls go to heaven(bad girls go everywhere) **
..."requiem metal(instrumental interlude)"
..."ive been dreaming up a storm lately(spoken word)
5. its all coming back to me now ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLdYfx54OIg vevo video(above two tracks)
6. the opening of the box(instrumental) **
..."the want ad(spoken word)"
7. my little red book **
8. i just wont quit ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WSMfe9k8bI audio
9. prey lewd(instrumental) **
10.the future aint what it used to be **

3s=2
2s=7
1s=1

rating: 2.1