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Track Listings
| 1. Overture | |||
| 2. Midnight | |||
| 3. Fate | |||
| 4. What Good This Deafness | |||
| 5. Mephistopheles | |||
| 6. What Is Eternal | |||
| 7. Moment | |||
| 8. Vienna | |||
| 9. Mozart | |||
| 10. Dreams of Candlelight | |||
| 11. Requiem (The Filth) | |||
| 12. I'll Keep Your Secrets | |||
| 13. Dark | |||
| 14. Fr Elise | |||
| 15. After the Fall | |||
| 16. Last Illusion | |||
| 17. This Is Who You Are | |||
| 18. Beethovan | |||
| 19. Mephistopheles' Return | |||
| 20. Misery | |||
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Product Description
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Trans-Siberian Orchestra's first two recordings, a pair of late-'90s Christmas albums, hinted that some day TSO might evolve into a latter-day ELO or even an ELP. Instead, this overwrought concept album shares more common ground with ALW (Andrew Lloyd Webber) or Meat Loaf. TSO, in fact, aims to retrace a path once traveled by producer Jim Steinman, the mastermind behind the theatrical, over-the-top rock opuses that briefly transformed Mr. Loaf and Bonnie Tyler ("Total Eclipse of the Heart") into mass-audience favorites. TSO ringmaster Paul O'Neill (once a guitarist in Broadway productions of Jesus Christ Superstar and Hair) here ditches the holiday themes and instead scores a simple-minded fairy tale (whose text spans a 32-page CD booklet) that involves Beethoven's soul, the devil, and an imaginary Symphony No. 10. Too often, the music is the servant of the project's thin plot, and the rock-classical instrumental bravura that initially attracted public attention to TSO (at times, the group sounds like a symphonic Boston) is obscured by overheated vocal rantings. Meanwhile, the guitar-driven rendering of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony ("Requiem") is mundane. Yet, one vocal track, "After the Fall" with singer Patti Russo, jumps off the record as a Tyler-esque knockout, raging with emotion and melodic luster. It doesn't save the album, but it helps. --Terry Wood
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