Pandora's Box - Original Sin torrent

1988 release of Jim Steinman's project saw the vocals of Ellen Foley, Elaine Caswell, Deliria Wilde, Gina Taylor come together with Jim's compositions.

Lovely stuff, mostly much better than the later covers, even the ones done by Meat Loaf.

Taken from Jim's website:

Pandora's Box "Original Sin" project is both a watershed and a masterwork in the career of its writer and producer, Jim Steinman. The basic gestures and orchestral sound of Steinman's earlier work is reflected in the large scale architecture of the "Original Sin" LP. Via Pandora's Box, however, a more distinctive personal style has emerged.

As much a concept as an album, "Original Sin" anticipates Steinman's new kind of musical drama, a drama of inwardness rather than incident. Known for raising and defying expectations simultaneously, Steinman's work with Pandora's Box can serve the insightful as a glimpse of what future Steinman productions might involve.

"Original Sin" advocated a new synthesis of rock, opera, and theater. Voices are treated as instruments, threads in a symphonic tapestry of unprecedented sensuousness. The common thread, actually more of a taut, sturdy rope, might best be described as frustrated desire. The search for love in a world hostile to the emotion crops up again and again. These songs are people with characters who are alienated, impoverished, and often struggling with despair.

What's on the man's mind lyrically is another matter; a combination of pop-culture, sex, internal dialogues, sex, and hallucinogenic memories would seem to be some topics of inquiry. The lines between rock and opera are non-existent. This is theater in its purest form, produced and directed by Jim Steinman. His singular artistic vision has gained him a reputation as a perfectionist with a clear understanding of what he wants to bring forth