Crowd of Full Pockets

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…

The Original Sin album is bizarre. Steinman is clearly just given free reign to do as he pleases here, which is how we get a sequence like “original song, Doors cover, classical interlude, music-less speech, original song.” That he’s doing it under a “group” name that he invented for three real singers and one fictitious…