Original Sin - Pandora's Box

First let me say I am a huge Jim Steinman fan. I think that the music he creates is some of the best of the rock era. We all know and love the classic Bat out of hell and its timeless songs 2 Out Of 3 Ain't Bad and You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth as well as the title track. Bonnie Tyler's Total Eclipse Of The Heart and Holding Out for A Hero. Well let me say that all of the tracks on this album are up there with those named above. Pandora's Box is a girl group formed by Steinman to record these songs while he was waiting for Meatloaf to get round to recording Bat Out of Hell II. Some of the songs will be familiar as Meatloaf covered some on Bat II and ...  Read the complete review

It is 2007, someone said you have to listen to this and passed me the CD. I said ok Meatloaf stuff (and i love Meatloaf stuff!!) they said, just listen to the CD... This is the most amazing CD buy it NOW and listen. The tracks seem familiar and we have heard lots elsewhere, but there is something different, special and unique about the tracks here. THIS IS AS AMAZING AS THE TRANS SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA ...  Read the complete review

Back in the late seventies, a young stayleyvegas was out with his friends during the long, hot, school holidays. One day, one of his friends turned up with his new birthday present. This was the must have item of the times and stayleyvegas and the unfortunate others were green with envy as the present was shown off to the group by a beaming mate. It was a ghetto blaster! We had only heard about these and it was huge!! It was full of switches and knobs and huge speakers and “Wow, it’s got a graphic equalizer on” even though to this day I am not sure any of us know what the graphic equalizer actually did. But boy did it look good. “Listen to this” my friend ...  Read the complete review