*European first pressing.
Contains 9 tracks total.
Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Pop Rock
Label Number: CDCBS 86319
© 1986 CBS
Not totally unique, Secret Dreams & Forbidden Fire nevertheless
depicts a cool portrait of '80s pomposity. Producer/director Jim Steinman
always kicks his records off in style, and the breathtaking,
go-for-Baroque "Ravishing" is no exception. Building to "Livin' la Vida
Loca," Desmond Child's songwriting ascent continues with "If You Were a
Woman," which morphed into "You Give Love a Bad Name" for a certain Bon Jovi
big shot. No having a cranium-blasting "Faster Than the Speed of Night"
or chart-busting "Total Eclipse of the Heart" immediately makes Secret
Dreams & Forbidden Fire substandard to the 1983 Steinman/Tyler
collaboration. This power-keg feels a bit sleeker and more streamlined:
a fighter plane instead of a luxury jumbo. The ubiquitous Footloose soundtrack showcased colossal closer "Holding Out for a Hero," so even that ditty doesn't prop this platter. Todd Rundgren
(another member of this bizarre clique) joins his distinctively plain
voice to Tyler's for a deranged duet on "Loving You's a Dirty Job but
Somebody's Gotta Do It" (not the Ratt
killer). "No Way to Treat a Lady" follows "Straight From the Heart" as
an attempted Bryan Adams interpretation. Too much ado piled on top of
the glittering "Band of Gold" almost breaks the back of a very sturdy
song. Naturally the unsubtle Steinman
production boasts an excess of everything, but somehow this secret
dream needs a bit more fire. Not a bad pickup from the delete bins
though.
tags: bonnie tyler, secret dreams and forbidden fire, 1986, flac,
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