Aerosmith recorded the song “Pandora’s Box” for its 1974 album Get Your Wings. The track appears on the band’s second studio album, released by Columbia Records.
Get Your Wings followed Aerosmith’s self-titled debut and helped establish the group’s early hard-rock sound. The album was produced by Jack Douglas, who later became closely associated with several important Aerosmith recordings. “Pandora’s Box” is one of the album’s original songs and uses the mythic title as a rock-song image rather than retelling Hesiod’s narrative.
Aerosmith formed in Boston in 1970. Its classic lineup included Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Tom Hamilton, Joey Kramer, and Ray Tabano during the period surrounding the album’s creation. The group later became one of the best-known American rock bands.
The song should not be confused with the 1929 film Pandora’s Box, the 1951 film Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, or the ancient Greek myth. The shared title points to the same broad cultural metaphor of released trouble and uncontrollable consequences.