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Free Music Review: Aint Nothin' But a Good Time ... party on.
Hit: 4 Stars
If you're a die hard POISON fan, then add a star. If not, then you'll probably downgrade this by at least 2 stars.
I suspect that the people who say they listen to POISON albums for the music are like the ones who claim they read PLAYBOY Magazine for the articles. POISON was like a frat-party version of MOTLEY CRUE (or maybe MOTLEY CRUE were a tough backstreet-kid version of POISON). In any case, MOTLEY CRUE were dangerous and thrilling, while POSION was fun ... and they still are.
Here's a collection of songs that POISON performs in concert. Like nearly every other album they've released, it's just party music. THE KINKS said 'it's only jukebox music', and THE ROLLING STONES said 'it's only rock and roll ... but I like it.'
POISON was a lot like 1970's KISS re-done for the 1980's. KISS had sci-fi suits and face-paint, POISON had outrageous hair and androgyny. Both were slammed by critics, but won legions of fans who could care less what snooty idiots at 'Rolling Stone' or other magazines thought. Most of the critics are gone and forgotten, but the bands (POISON, KISS, and MOTLEY CRUE for that matter) are still filling venues and selling music.
The best cuts are the glam/punk & trash-rock songs:
* Little Willy (originally performed by Sweet)
* Suffragette City (originally performed by David Bowie)
* I Never Cry (originally performed by Alice Cooper)
* What I Like About You (originally performed by The Romantics)
* Just What I Needed (originally performed by The Cars)
* You Don't Mess Around With Jim (originally performed by Jim Croce)
The others are a mixed bag. 'I Need to Know' (originally performed by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers) lacks the nuances that made it a favorite song for fans. the KISS song 'Rock and Roll All Night - (and party every day)' falls a bit short on this CD -- works OK in concert though.
'Dead Flowers' (originally performed by The Rolling Stones) is a total flop here. If anyone needs to cover a STONES' song from the late 1960's or early 1970's, they either need to call on Johnny Winter (listen to his versions of Jumping Jack Flash) , or get Keith Richards to play the guitar parts, it seems.
On CD, 'We're An American Band' lacks the urgency and punch that have sustained the original version, but again, it works well in concert.
So put this in your CD, MP3 or iTunes player, and head on up to Sturgis in August -- ain't nothin' but a good time.
Free Music Review: Fans will dig this
Hit: 4 Stars
The idea of a Poison cover album at first seemed super-lame. Maybe I wasn't psyched for this album because of last year's abysmal "Yeah" (2006) from Def Leppard, or it might have been because Poison plays the same set-list every tour (with no songs dating past 1990) and are content being a nostalgia act. Why not just release a new album of all new material? The idea of a cover album seemed like a cash-crab from a creatively bankrupt band. For whatever reason, my expectations for this CD were low.
To my surprise, however, I really love this CD. You can't argue with most of their choices--Tom Petty, the Stones, Alice Cooper, Bowie, etc. If you're thinking that it's sacrilegious for Poison to cover those artists--you needn't worry, as Poison really pulls it off. While you may still prefer the originals, Poison actually does a good job of making these songs their own, hence the name of the album "Poison'd" (2007). Even the really stupid "Little Willy" by Sweet sounds good.
One thing that "Poison'd" has going for it is the band sounds really, really good; perhaps as good as they have ever sounded. While Poison will never be the most technically proficient band on the planet, they sound really tight and on fire on this CD and totally into what they are doing. In other words, they still know how to rock and aren't just interested in going through the motions to get a product out.
I do have one bone to pick with "Poison'd" however, which is its inclusion of five past cover songs (over a third of the album). For one thing, some of them sound out-of-place, as the new songs sound fresh and the old covers "Rock N' Roll All Night," "Your Mamma Don't Dance" and "You Don't Mess Around with Jim" sound stale by comparison, as they are twenty years old. All five of these past covers are available on past albums and probably most people buying this CD already have them. How hard would it have been to just record five new covers? It was really stupid and lazy to put those old songs here.
Despite losing a few points for the inclusion of past cover songs, "Poison'd" is still a winner as the band sounds great and really makes these songs their own. Producer Don Was is a perfect fit for the band and will hopefully be around to produce a new Poison studio album.
Free Music Review: Poison is back and in a very cool way! ]This CD really rocks!
Hit: 4 Stars
This CD really rocks! Rock-pop songs but were Poisoned! Amazing and enjoyable to party and enjoy life!
You love them or hate them, Poison is one is the best rock bands, very skilled musicians with diferent styles and personalities that make Poison's music very enjoyable that the people can related to (even if the songs are old-from early or late 80's or 90's or Covers!)
This new album is pretty cool and fun! Each cover is very well performed and played with the Poison's mark, the boys had fun recording it and people will have fun listening! Great deal that is digitally remastered, sound quality could not be better.
Very good were added: "We're an American Band" and "Rock and Roll all night" (one recent recording and a classic that was almost lost).
Now, this cd could be a lot better having the next as value add:
-Where is Dr Hook "Cover of a Rolling stone" from "Crank a Smile"(CAS)? Also is a great song under Poison's vibe-yes, with Blues Saraceno on guitars
-A CD holds 80 minutes space and Poison take between 4 or more years to deliver new material, where are more covers songs that could get a hard rocking edge sound? What about: from Thin Lizzy: I'm a Rocker, Jailbreak (Cowboy Song could be great for next Bret Michael's solo album), from Van Halen: Panama or Unchained, from Judas Priest: You got another thing coming or Living after midnight, from Kiss: Deuce or Sttruter, from Motley Crue: City Boy Blues, from Aerosmith "sweet Emotion", what about a medley of Poison's "Let it Play/Sweet Home Alabama" from Lynyrd Skynyrd but jamming with Cinderella (Tom Keifer and Bret Michaels singing together this classic would be a hit), or Poison "Rock and Roll Bandit" -original version of Nothing but a good time.
-or what about 2nd CD added with: complete MTV Accoustic session (6 songs) with Good love or Let it Play-still unreleased-, remaster of studio tracks from Swallow this live and Power to the People (9 songs), + "when the Whip comes down" from Native Tongue recoding sessions and news songs such as Talking Loud, Steal the night away, Rock like a rocker, as others songs thet wrote when they were Paris.
Please somebody at Capitol take note, I think I'm not the only fan dreaming about something like this.Thanks!
Free Music Review: not bad at all...
Hit: 4 Stars
I am a huge Poison fan of 20 years, but I have to admit that when I heard this disc was coming out, I was not very excited. I didn't really want to hear a disc of cover songs, and was not very impressed by the list of songs chosen, most of which are songs I don't even like. But after seeing Poison on tour this summer (which I try to do every year), I found myself wanting even more of a Poison fix, so I bought this album. Surprisingly, I rather like it! The songs all have a definite Poison flavor, including that one-of-a-kind CC DeVille guitar sound. I also find that the very songs that I dislike the originals of the most (such as "What I Like About You" and "Suffragette City") are some of the songs that I like the best coming from Poison. Who'd have guessed? I am glad to have Rock n' Roll All Nite included, as I previously only had this on tape format, but could have done without yet another copy of Your Mama Don't Dance. Still, this is a good album and I am glad I ended up getting it. My one complaint is that the hilarious cover of Justin Timberlake's "SexyBack" is only available on discs bought at Walmart (where I intentionally got mine). What was the point of that? Otherwise, not a bad outing from my favorite band of all time.Free Music Review: Poison'd proves that Poison rock.
Hit: 4 Stars
Poison'd proves that Poison are one of the greatest rock bands, as this cover album shows they can do it as good as, even better then most.
10 new tracks, although not every copy includes the track 'Sexy Back' and even though 'You dont mess around with Jim' was released before, alot of people probably haven't heard it.
My only complaint is that they didn't include 'Cover of the rolling stone' from Crack a Smile with the other 5 previously released covers which are at the end of the album as bonus tracks.(WHY LEAVE ONE OUT ?)
They could've even added a couple of tracks from Rikki Rockett's solo cover album 'Glitter for your soul' - 'Tear it down' with Bret Michaels on lead vocals and 'Life's a gas' with Rikki Rockett on vocals.
Even better would,ve been more new songs.
Poison however will gain alot of new fans with this album and should now do a brand new rocking original studio album.