The title of “Pray Lewd” is a pun that reveals what it really is: a prelude of the album. So, why is it at track 13? I don’t know. Steve Margoshes appears as the solo piano player here. It opens with a version of “Original Sin” played at breakneck speed. Then he plays “It’s All…

If this album is remembered at all, it is typically for being the original release of “It’s All Coming back to Me Now.” However, to me, that’s not the highlight. If Elaine Caswell’s lead vocals are mentioned at all, it is typically for her original lead performance of “It’s All Coming back to Me Now.”…

I always think of the Original Sin album as one of Steinman’s career highlights, but it’s also rather bizarrely choppy. The best songs on the album are amazing, but it’s rather strange that he follows the clear single, the song that everyone expected to be an enormous hit (and it was, eventually, just not in…