Original Sin (album)

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Original Sin

Studio album by Pandora's Box
Released	1989
Recorded	The Power Station, New York City
Genre	Rock
Label	Virgin
Producer(s)	Jim Steinman
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Original Sin is a concept album performed by Pandora's Box and produced by Jim Steinman. Steinman wrote the majority of this album, although there are a couple of cover versions. It was the group's only album. Although a commercial flop, it is held in very high regard by Steinman fans: it attracts favourable amateur reviews on sites such as Amazon.com.

Although the album was not a commercial success (except in South Africa), many of the songs have gone platinum with other artists. Jim Steinman is said to be very proud of the songs on this album, even though Original Sin sold very poorly in comparison with his other albums and songs.

Steinman regularly reworks previous material for a newer project, and much of Original Sin has been recycled, as listed in the table below. Some demo versions of tracks recorded by others are listed. Some tracks will also be released on The Dream Engine's debut album.

1 Track listings and cover versions
- 1.1 Backing vocalists
- 1.2 Band
2 References
3 External links

[edit] Track listings and cover versions

Track No.	Title	Main Vocalist	Subsequent Cover Versions
1	The Invocation	Ellen Foley
2	Original Sin (The Natives Are Restless Tonight)	intro and outro by Laurie Sargent, lead vocals by all the girls, primarily Gina Taylor	Taylor Dayne on the soundtrack to the 1994 movie version of The Shadow; Meat Loaf on Welcome to the Neighborhood; rewritten for Tanz der Vampire/Dance of the Vampires
3	Twentieth Century Fox	Ellen Foley	this is a cover version: The Doors (1967)
4	Safe Sex	Gina Taylor	A demo of "Safe Sex" performed by Canadian vocalist Karine Hannah has been leaked onto the internet from the period when she was working with Steinman on an ill-fated album; it is expected to appear on The Dream Engine's debut album^[1]
5	Good Girls Go To Heaven (Bad Girls Go Everywhere)	Holly Sherwood	Meat Loaf on Bat out of Hell II: Back Into Hell
6	Requiem Metal	a sample from Verdi's Requiem Mass
7	I've Been Dreaming up a Storm Lately	monologue performed by Jim Steinman	re-used in an early draft of the American version of Tanz der Vampire/Dance of the Vampires
8	It's All Coming Back To Me Now	Elaine Caswell	Céline Dion on Falling Into You; Meat Loaf and Marion Raven on Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose
9	The Opening of the Box	an extract from The Storm, from Steinman's 1981 album Bad for Good	reused in the American version of Tanz der Vampire/Dance of the Vampires
10	The Want Ad	monologue performed by Ellen Foley	featured in Jim Steinman's musical Neverland
11	My Little Red Book	Ellen Foley; written by Burt Bacharach
12	It Just Won't Quit	Elaine Caswell	Meat Loaf on Bat out of Hell II: Back Into Hell
13	Pray Lewd	piano solo of Original Sin, It's All Coming Back... and It Just Won't Quit, performed by Steven Margoshes	covered at some Dream Engine/Over the Top concerts
14	The Future Ain't What It Used to Be	Gina Taylor	Erika Christensen on Wuthering Heights OST; Meat Loaf and Jennifer Hudson on Bat Out of Hell III

Rory Dodd mostly contributed background vocals and his voice was barely distinguishable in the songs, unlike that of Fire Inc, where he is definitely more audible in the background. Todd Rundgren also helped out with the background vocals this time. Another Bat Out of Hell veteran who contributed with her voice was Ellen Foley.

Audio sample:

"It's All Coming Back to Me Now" (1989) (file info) — play in browser (beta)
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