Track Listing

1. All Over Nothing At All
2. Halfway To Heaven
3. I'll Cry For You
4. Little Bit Of Lovin'
5. Talk To Me
6. Seventh Sign
7. Prisoners In Paradise
8. Bad Blood
9. Homeland
10. Got Your Mind In The Gutter
11. Till My Heart Beats Down Your Door
12. Girl From Lebanon

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #41733 in Music
• Released on: 1992-02-01
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Import

Customer Reviews

Brilliant!
"Prisoners in Paradise" has got to be one of the most under-rated rock albums of all time which is shameful and wrong as it's a real masterpiece from Europe and far better than "The Final Countdown".
If you have any sense and appreciate good, rock music then this is a CD in which you should and must have in your collection.
Highly recommened for the superb title track alone!

My Favourite Europe Album
The quality of my CD is not so good anymore as I have played this to death. I love this album with the Europe sound! Ironically I hated "The Final Countdown" but love all the stuff on here. Every song is a classic to me and I love to sing along in the car now! Highly produced and a classic in its time it is a shame it didn't do very well in terms of sales but it is well worth purchasing - even if only for the cool cover! My next favourite is "Start From The Dark" which I feels picks up a little of this sound and propels it forward. This album proves that Europe are a top band!

Polished; neglected
By the time this album was released in 1991, `the band Europe' were off the radar in UK chart terms. Out of This World, whilst containing some fantastic guitar playing from Kee Marcello and completely burying the notion that Europe were a one-song, one-album band, was never going to replicate the success of its predecessor. A song as big and successful as The Final Countdown paradoxically hurts the artist responsible in the long-run: it becomes too synonymous and too much of a straightjacket. Record executives aren't so rational in their analysis however. If you have a record which goes multi-platinum and then two years later one that yields comparatively low sales, by the same band, they see it as a failure. As such, Europe were forced to ditch the initial ideas for what became Prisoners in Paradise, and were sent down a more `commercially-friendly' path. The result is not as bad as it sounds it might be. The sound is definitely a notch further `Americanised' than on TFC or OOTW - bringing in Beau Hill (Ratt) as producer and collaborating with Desmond Child (Bon Jovi, Aerosmith, Kiss) would have that effect. Opener All or Nothing is reminiscent of Bon Jovi, and Whitesnake's late 80s albums had clearly been absorbed by those concerned. The Bon Jovi influence is perhaps a little too evident on the title track with `Julie and Jimmy' being directly descended from Livin' On A Prayer's `Gina and Tommy'. That's what the execs wanted though... Overall, the sound is bigger and more epic than anything Europe had previously released. Kee Marcello's guitar playing shines through once again. His `euphoric' sound being evident throughout. Tracks like Halfway to Heaven, I'll Cry for You and Talk to Me really do showcase one of Europe's greatest guitar players - continent-wise that is. It's also good to hear John Leven's bass, always integral to Europe's sound, being given a little more prominence in the mix. Prisioners in Paradise is a polished record with plenty of high-points, not quite as consistent as the band's previous release, it definitely does not deserve to be interned in obscurity.