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2008-12-13After seeing and hearing "Talk Dirty To Me" for the first time on MTV, I was a big fan! I loved the way POISON looked and sounded even before I heard the rest of their songs. How releived I was to find out that whole album totally rocked! It has been one of my favorites of all time ever since. A lot of people stick their noses up at glam rock now, but back then it was HUGE! And so much fun to listen to. noone did it better than POISON...The Glammiest Band In The Land! Every song on this album is a fun rocker (except "I Won't Forget You" which is a power ballad and really catchy nonethelsss). Anytime I need to get in a good mood, I put this album on. 5 stars!
Other albums I bought that sound like this are: Sloopjohnd , Night Songs and Open Up and Say...Ahh!
2008-04-24This was the first LP I bought with my first weekend job wages.I had seen the video on MTV, CC, The blonde bombshell, stole my heart with his guitar playing, from that moment I was a Poison fan and always will be.
Following severeal house moves and one country move!! I lost my LP and was so so happy when I saw this album again. I had to have it.
It sounds as good today as it did when it first came out, (obviously better being digitally remastered). But I tell you, Poison had and still has that magic from the first opening track to the closing one, this album shows the world why we adore the talented quartet that is Bret, CC, Bobby and Rikki. The Glam Kings!!
Rock on boys, we love ya!!
2007-02-15The Good
Look What the Cat Dragged In (as well as the other releases) sounds a lot more crisp and clean as I remember it, but still shows how the group was honing their sound. That's not a bad thing, but Poison really blows the roof off these songs today. Sometime you forget that songs like "Cry Tough," "I Want Action," "Talk Dirty to Me," and "I Won't Forget You" were from their debut album (and that it was 20 years ago!). The bonus track included are 7" inch mixes of "I Want Action" and "Cry Tough," as well as an unreleased cut "Don't Mess Around with Jim."
Open Up and Say...Ahh is where Poison really made their mark. Oddly enough this release didnt spawn as many hits as their debut, but it does contain their most succesful track ever "Every Rose Has It's Thorn." In addition to that, MTV favorites "Nothin' But a Good Time," "Fallen Angel," and "Your Momma Don't Dance" will refresh the memories of your youth. Another noteable change is the inclusion of the orginal album cover. Honestly, it's quite tame even for back then. I even dicovered a few long-lost album tracks that were just as good as the singles ("Back to the Rocking Horse," "Tearin' Down the Walls"). Bonus tracks include one song "Livin' for the Minute" and a 10 minute interview that involves the band talking about themselves and the album (from back then).
Anyone that loved Poison's first two albums kind of got a bad taste in their mouth with the release of Flesh and Blood. Once again, not because it was bad, but it was because Poison was starting to drift away from their over-the-top pop-metal sound, to a more gritty and bluesy sound. The most memorable rocking track from this album would be "Unskinny Bop," but for the most part, the other hit singles were ballads or borderline ones ("Life Goes On," "Ride the Wind," "Something to beleive In"). Bonus tracks include and acoustic version of "Something to beleive In" and an unreleased instrumental demo of "God Save the Queen."
The Bad
doesnt make much sense on the part of Poison and Capitol to remaster and release these albums within months of releasing an 18 track greatest hits package. Who wants these three albums when you can just have the best songs all on one CD? For the bonus tracks maybe? I doubt it. None of the bonus tracks are anything special. Who the hell cares about 7" mixes and an interview? How many times are you going to listen to that? Sure there are a couple of unreleased tracks, but take it from a Poison fan, you can live without them.
The Verdict
Nice to hear the sound updated, kind-of neat to hear the unreleased stuff, but your better off picking up The Best of Poison: 20 Years of Rock. It has all of the hits and none of the filler (well, except for the new cover songs).
2006-08-17Great sound quality, and whoever did this one finaly got the remixed version correctly on here for "I Won't Forget You," which is listed on the recently-released greatest hits but is only the orginal version. This is not an earlier as one reviewer wrote, but a later remixed version for the video and single when it was released as a single. My only suggestion would have been for them to have included the orginal version of "Cry Tough" which if you look at the liner notes, was remixed before the album came out, thus the version many of you have heard is not the orginal. Coincidently, the guy who remixed "Cry Tough" on the album is the same guy who later remixed "I Won't Forget You" for the video/single, which the reissue doesnt credit.
2006-08-12Has it really been 20 years since the orginal release of Look What the Cat Dragged In? 1986 was the year that "hair metal" truely established its dominance over the music industry. Albums like Bon Jovi's Slippery When Wet, Europe's The Final Countdown and Cinderella's Night Songs all played a role in brininging metal to the top of the pop charts that year, but it was Poison's makeup drenched debut album that sealed the deal.
Look What the Cat Dragged In was the ultimate victory of style over substace. Poison's over-the-top stage antics and outrageous glam appearence had as much to do with their success as their music, which wasnt exactly groundbreaking. The songs on the band's debut were by-the-book odes to getting layed, talking about getting layed, partying (to get layed), and drinking (before, durring, and after getting layed). It's shallow as hell, and easy to make fun of 20 years later, but at the time this album made perfect sense to me. Obviously I wasnt the only one to think so, because the album sold a zillion copies and featured some pretty huge radio/MTV hits like "I Want Action" and "Talk Dirty to Me."
Look What the Cat Dragged In may be a pretty basic album, but it certainly made an impact. Scores of lipstick and spandex bands would soon come out of the woodwork, though none of them ever really came close to Poison's success. The band had a chemestry and personelity that was hard to beat, and that was reflected in their music.
The 2006 reissue of Look What the Cat Dragged In gives the album a much needed tune-up. If you've ever had the orginal disc in a changer with some more recent albums, you can tell that its sound quality is quite poor. You almost need twice the volume just to hear it. Thankfully, this album has been digitally remastered and the sound quality is as good as anything released today. They also added three bonus tracks. The first two are early versions of "I Want Action" and "I Won't Forget You", which are a bit rougher than the album versions. A demo called "Don't Mess Around With Jim" is also included. This is a stomping, bluesy number that really doesnt fit with the rest of the album, but is intresting enough as a bonus track.
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