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Poison - Best Of Ballads & Blues (2003) RE-UPPED

Posted By: Shar'EmAll

Date: 23 Sep 2016 11:45:32

Poison - Best Of Ballads & Blues (2003) RE-UPPED

Poison is an American glam metal band that achieved great success in the mid-1980s to mid-1990s. Poison has sold over 30 million records worldwide and have sold 15 million records in the United States alone. 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 single, "Every Rose Has Its Thorn". In the 2000s, with the original line up back together, the band found new popularity after a successful greatest hits reunion tour in 1999.

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 will understand.

– Review by William Ruhlmann, allmusic.com

Tracklist:

01. Every Rose Has Its Thorn
02. Something To Believe In
03. Life Goes On
04. I Won't Forget You
05. Good Love
06. Lay Your Body Down
07. Until You Suffer Some (Fire and Ice)
08. Be The One
09. Life Loves A Tragedy
10. Only Time Will Tell
11. Poor Boy Blues
12. Theatre Of The Soul
13. Bastard Son Of A Thousand Blues
14. The Last Song
15. Something To Believe In (Acoustic Version, Featuring New Lyrics)
16. Stand (Acoustic Version)

All Tracks were 24-bit Remastered in 2003.
Compilation Produced by Mark Copeland.
Mastered by Evren Göknar at Capitol Mastering.

Thanks to Boris1

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