Poison - Poison's Greatest Hits 1986-1996
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Free Music Notes for Poison's Greatest Hits 1986-1996
Free Music Review: How can you not love this! A review by a mini-van driving soccer mom...
Hit: 5 Stars
Around a year ago, we were driving in the van on the way home from the pool...My husband & me, and our 4 kids in the back. "Every Rose Has It's Thorn" came on the radio. I cranked it up, and my husband & I sang along, every single word. Our kids stared in disbelief, the oldest (9) semi-mortified with embarrassment, and, I'd like to think, a little impressed. Right then & there I told my husband we needed some Poison. I ordered this cd the minute we got home.
It's been in the van ever since.
It's been played at least 90% of the time we are in that vehicle since the day we bought it. I think we didn't even change the disc at all (or very seldom) the first 4 or 5 months.
This is great for a road trip or for those short day to day runs to & from Wherever with the kids. "Nothin' But a Good Time" is an excellent way to start off a long car ride. "Sing it, kids!" is what we'll say, sort of kidding. Sometimes they do! :) How precious it was to hear our 3 year old daughter singing the chorus of "Every Rose Has It's Thorn"! Oh, my gosh! :)
This music was popular when my husband & I were in college. We loved it then & we love it now. It's fun to share this with our kids, who seem to enjoy it, as well. If they want to listen to Hannah Montana, they can do it on headphones.
We are not cool, rocker types, nor have we ever been. We are 38, married with 4 kids, uncool as can be. This music is a part of our past & we love it. This is a great compilation. It's every Poison song you want, and then some.
Enough said?
Free Music Review: Cheap Imitators at Best
Hit: 5 Stars
I liked this band much better when they were called....KIX!
What a bunch of rip off artists these guys are.
They came to every Kix show they could and stole their act.
Has anyone noticed that Poison is the name of an early Kix song?!
Coincidence? I think not. Enjoy this album if you must.
Go check out the real McCoys by supporting Kix's albums. They are true rock and roll. These guys are total clowns.
Free Music Review: Plenty of hits, not many misses
Hit: 4 Stars
This best of collection is worthy of note for a few reasons. Firstly, you know those best of albums where it seems that the person putting the project together didn't really know what the bands best songs actually were? Like the couple of Savatage best of discs and the Collection of Metal disc that did such disservice to Saxon? Well this ain't one of them. This actually is basically the best of Poison, the hard rock band who gave us so many memorable if brainless good time party rock anthems back in the 80's.
The party gets started here with Nothin' But A Good Time which is probably the bands biggest rock hit. Talk Dirty To Me and Unskinny Bop bounce along with swerve and verve and then things tone down for the bands massive ballad hit Every Rose Has It's Thorn. Now back in the 80's it was compulsory for hair metal bands to talk the talk and then churn out soft ballad hits for the record company. Well Poison certainly did have the big ballad hit but they actually did rock out. After Rose... Fallen Angel kicks things back into a rock vein before I Won't Forget You reminds us that not all the hits have stood the test of time. A couple of anonymous tunes mar proceedings before Look What The Cat Dragged In and I Want Action take you on a timewarp to the best party you ever went to in the 80's - or would of if you were alive at the time.
The rest of the thing cruises on down the highway with buoyant and simple musicality and the only cover that scored the band a bit of a hit Your Mama Don't Dance stands out a bit from dross like Cry Tough and So Tell Me Why. The `standard' tracks are finished off by Something to Believe In which was from the bands difficult Flesh & Blood album and is a good example of the bands somewhat faltering attempt to show growth from their brainless brief of rawk rock.
Extra quality is in the form of bonus tracks entitled (I kid you not) Sexual Thing and Lay Your Body Down both if which are previously unreleased. Neither is up there with the bands most vital hair metal moments but they aren't band and I love getting extra quality, so these tracks are still a plus.
Overall the album feels remarkably coherent given the songs were recorded over the course of a decade and that's probably largely due to the undemanding nature of the bands modus operendi, these guys aren't exactly pushing for a spot in Dream Theatre.
Many people have rubbished this band over the years, myself included at times, but the infectious optimism of this band deserves a place in the record collection of even the most jaded hard rock/metal fan. This album is not perfect because Poison don't have sixteen songs you simply have to own but they do have a clutch of `em and this disc is an excellent way to gather them all up. And besides, your buying it online dude, nobody is gonna see you in the store with this in your hand so click it into your shopping cart.
Free Music Review: Poison
Hit: 4 Stars
The ultimate collection of this once great group. All the hits are here but little else. CC still rocks!Free Music Review: Good
Hit: 3 Stars
Awesome songs and horrible songs. Although more awesome then horrible.
3 1/2 stars. 6 Awesome, 4 Good, 2 ok, and 6 horrible.