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Probably the greatest passive-aggressive-contractual-obligation-filler of all time, good ol’ Alice has no recollection of making this album, which makes it even spookier and weirder and darker than it already is. Thematically it’s about a man’s descent into madness, it is also musically and literally the same thing. Here you can download for free Poison Double Dose Ultimate Hits (2011) 2CD. Dose: Ultimate Hits is a double disc greatest hits compilation album released.
Poison's best album still has a bit of filler that fails to deliver the big hooks and catchy riffs of their best material; when that happens, Bret Michaels' affected 'rawk & rowl' singing accent begins to grate. But thankfully, that doesn't happen very often on Open Up and Say.Ahh!, which solidified the group's status as hair metal's top party band. The ballad 'Every Rose Has Its Thorn,' Poison's only number one hit, and the Top Ten 'Nothin' But a Good Time' became their most widely recognized signature songs; a cover of Loggins & Messina's 'Your Mama Don't Dance' also hit the Top Ten, and the sometimes-overlooked 'Fallen Angel,' one of their best songs, got plenty of MTV airplay. But the agreeable raunch of album tracks like 'Love on the Rocks,' 'Good Love,' and 'Look But You Can't Touch' helps make Open Up and Say.Ahh!
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Poison's best overall album. Steve Huey. Poison's Greatest Hits 1986-1996 is as definitive as a Poison compilation could hope to be. Featuring a full 18 tracks, including all of their Top 50 hits ('Talk Dirty to Me,' 'I Want Action,' 'Nothin' but a Good Time,' 'Fallen Angel,' 'Every Rose Has Its Thorn,' 'Your Mama Don't Dance,' 'Unskinny Bop,' 'Something to Belive In,' 'Stand,' among others) plus two unreleased cuts ('Sexual Thing,' 'Lay Your Body Down'), the album boasts every worthwhile song the group ever recorded, augmented by Bret Michaels' track-by-track commentary. Though the album isn't sequenced in chronological order, it plays like an excellent mixtape, which actually makes the album more listenable.
Even on a compilation, Poison wears a little thin - there are still dull moments among these 18 songs, mainly in the form of lesser-known album tracks and singles - but still, Greatest Hits 1986-1996 is the most enteraining album the band ever released. Stephen Thomas Erlewine. Apparently disappointed with critical hatred of their previous work, Poison made a bid to be taken seriously after the massive success of Open Up and Say.Ahh!
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Even the title of Flesh & Blood indicates a desire for more substance and reality in their music, as do darker songs like 'Valley of Lost Souls,' '(Flesh & Blood) Sacrifice,' 'Life Loves a Tragedy,' and a more reflective power ballad, 'Life Goes On.' There's still the adolescent sleaze of the Top Five hit 'Unskinny Bop,' but for the most part, Poison shies away from party anthems in favor of Bret Michaels' toughness-in-the-face-of-tribulation philosophizing. Sometimes it works surprisingly well, aided by the band's most consistent songwriting and a wider musical range that occasionally veers into swampy blues-rock. At other times, though, Michaels comes off as well intentioned but too self-consciously proud of his own ambition to recognize when he oversteps his bounds, as on parts of the hit ballad 'Something to Believe In.' Compared to their earlier output, Flesh & Blood is by no means a bad album (especially with the presence of one of their best songs, 'Ride the Wind,' an ode to motorcycles and their surrounding lifestyle). It's just not what Poison does best. Steve Huey.
Released to coincide with the veteran pop metal outfit’s 25th anniversary, Capitol/EMI's two-disc, Double Dose: Ultimate Hits Poison collection features 35 tracks, including classic singles like “Every Rose Has Its Thorn,' “Talk Dirty To Me,” 'Unskinny Bop,” and 'Something to Believe In.' To be fair, Poison hardly had enough “hits” to warrant a two-disc “hits” collection, but the group’s amiable blend of lip-glossed glam and stadium balladry was almost always listenable. Wisely, much of the material is culled from the band’s early days, with fan favorites like “I Want Action” and “Look What the Cat Dragged In” leading the charge. The myriad covers songs from 2007’s Poison'd! Feel a little tacked on and opportunistic (much like the record itself), but this is the band that wanted “Nothin' But a Good Time,' and this walk down memory lane proves that they more than lived up to their end of the bargain. James Christopher Monger.
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Ditching most of their party anthems, as well as guitarist C.C. Deville because he allegedly wasn't up to par, Poison adds guitar whiz Richie Kotzen and makes a bid for respect.
Leader Bret Michaels has decided to accentuate the populist strains of ballads like 'Something to Believe In' throughout Native Tongue. It often falls short - Kotzen's playing is too proficient for the lite metal hooks that the rest of the band have mastered - but Poison gets points for trying, and they do come up with some tracks, like the single 'Stand,' that could stand with some of their previous anthems. Stephen Thomas Erlewine. Like many of its lite metal peers, Poison attracted its initial audience of young males with hard rock and salacious lyrics, but expanded its appeal to young women with apparently heartfelt ballads, scoring a major breakthrough with the chart-topping 'Every Rose Has Its Thorn' in late 1988.
Since the band's reign of success was relatively brief, really only lasting from 1987 to 1990 and spanning only three albums, 1986's Look What the Cat Dragged In, 1988's Open Up and Say.Ahh!, and 1990's Flesh & Blood, Capitol Records has been hard-pressed to turn out an unending succession of hits compilations on the group - the type of compilations that usually keep record company bottom lines healthy long after an act goes into commercial decline. Best of Ballads & Blues is a clever idea, however, since it isolates the group's power ballads and midtempo numbers for all those former hair-teased honeys now driving mini-vans with baby seats in the back. The ballad hits are here, 'Every Rose Has Its Thorn,' 'Something to Believe In,' and 'Life Goes On' (all right up at the beginning of the disc), plus previously unreleased acoustic versions of 'Something to Believe In' and the late chart entry 'Stand' at the end. Those are the songs that used to set an arena's worth of cigarette lighters aflame and aloft (and continue to on the band's reunion tours). In between are some carefully chosen album tracks for a generous 75-minute running time. Those who wonder whether Poison really had that much slow stuff may note that there are a few modest rockers in the bunch ('Good Love,' for example), but nothing too upsetting.
Among their fans, the now-balding guys with tattoos may not get the point of this collection, but as usual the little girls (now women approaching middle age) will understand. William Ruhlmann. Not quite a new album and not quite a comp, Poison'd! Is a collection of covers from Poison, many recorded in 2006 and 2007 with producer Don Was, but also some pulled from previous albums dating as far back as Look What the Cat Dragged In and Open Up and Say.Ahh!
To the band's credit, it doesn't always sound like the music was recorded 20 years apart. Was' production is punchier, beefier than the early stuff, and Brett Michaels' voice is, conversely, a little rougher, but this is still recognizably the work of Poison, a band that never seemed all that heavy no matter how loud the guitars roar, a band that never seemed all that dirty no matter how much they wanted to wallow in sleaze. This inadvertent lightness means that they sound as convincing covering Loggins & Messina's 'Your Mama Don't Dance' or Jim Croce's 'You Don't Mess Around with Jim' as they do singing Grand Funk's 'We're An American Band' or Kiss' 'Rock and Roll All Night,' but it does rob Bowie's 'Suffragette City' of some needed muscle and turns the Who's 'Squeeze Box' into the insufferable cloying novelty it always wanted to be. But there are also some nice surprises along the way, particularly in the spirited, propulsive version of Tom Petty's 'I Need to Know,' the subdued country twang on the Marshall Tucker Band's 'Can't You See' (reminiscent of Michaels solo work) and, especially, the fizzy punch of Sweet's 'Little Willie,' one of the first times Poison had ever earned the glam appellation they so often receive. So, Poison'd! Is an uneven lot - as any theme-based comp spanning 20 years would be - but it's more fun than any new Poison album in recent memory and more fun than it should be, even if it's not quite as much fun as it could have been. But that's the perennial Poison problem - the image always was more fun than the reality.
Stephen Thomas Erlewine.
Poisonis an American glam metal band that achieved great commercial success in the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. Poison has sold over 30 million records worldwide1 and have sold 15 million records in the United States alone.2 The band has also charted ten singles to the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100, including six Top 10 singles and the Hot 100 number-one, 'Every Rose Has Its Thorn'.3 The band became icons of the 1980s MTV era and have had widespread commercial success. The band's breakthrough debut album, the multi-platinum Look What the Cat Dragged In, was released in 1986 and they hit their peak with the second album, Open Up and Say. Ahh!, which became the band's most successful album, being certified 5x platinum in the US.