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CRACK A SMILE ... AND MORE!
Poison
(EMD/CAPITOL)
Be afraid, be very afraid! The "lost" Poison tapes have been uncovered.
Okay, it's actually a 1994 12-track recording that was never released, what with lead singer Bret Michaels in a car accident and the glam-rockers pretty much on the skids at that time.
Six years later, a reunited Poison are back on the touring circuit and out pops Crack A Smile, expanded into 20 songs with B-sides, rarities, outtakes and bonus tracks from the band's 1990 MTV Unplugged appearance (Your Mama Don't Dance, Talk Dirty To Me, Unskinny Bop and Every Rose Has Its Thorn).
After you finish drooling (or gagging) at the Unplugged stuff (and bypass their inebriated version of Dr. Hook's Cover of the Rolling Stone), give the rest of Crack A Smile a listen. It's not bad; the atmosphere certainly sounds free from the pressures of Poison's serious music career. Wait ... Unskinny Bop, serious music? I reiterate: Be afraid, be very afraid!
Track Listing
01.Best Thing You Ever Had
02.Shut Up, Make Love
03.Baby Gets Around A Bit
04.Cover Of The Rolling Stone
05. Be The One
06.Mr. Smiley
07.Sexual Thing
08.Lay Your Body Down
09.No Ring, No Gets
10.That's The Way I Like It
11.Tragically Unhip
12.Doin' As I Seen On My TV
13.One More For The Bone (Outtake From Carck A Smile)
14.Set You Free (Outtake From Carck A Smile)
15.Crack A Smile (Unfinished Demo)
16.Face The Hangman (Outtake Form Open Up And Say...Ahh!)
17.Your Mama Don't Dance (Live Form MTV Unplugged)
18.Every Rose Has It's Thorn (Live Form MTV Unplugged)
19.Unskinny Bop (Live Form MTV Unplugged)
20.Talk Dirty To Me (Live Form MTV Unplugged)