Sleek wrote: ↑Wed Dec 27, 2023 4:21 pm
Tommy2Tone84 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 26, 2023 6:37 am
daveg wrote: ↑Mon Dec 25, 2023 6:14 pm
Winger - Madalaine
I remember it doing well enough. Same with Women by Def Leppard. I don’t remember Poison’s Cry Tough at all. I never knew it was the first single, Same with It’s So Easy. I remember WTTJ debuting on MTV in the fall of 1987.
Cry Tough was definitely a flop. Ended up doing liiiiiiiiiiiiike 6 months in the clubs because of it. Took that danged album almost a year to get traction.
It's so Easy was a definite flop as well...their second single Welcome to the Jungle flopped, too. Appetite was another record that was dead in the water for a year.
I can understand why the suits chose conservatively and went with Cry Tough first. It’s a catchy song. Has a bit of a throw back vibe to it. It always reminded me of a Ronnie Specter tune. I’m surprised it wasn’t a hit. The video is well done too.
It’s So Easy was a terrible choice. If the suits at Geffen were going to go with lewd and crude, they should’ve went with Rocket Queen. A definite fan favorite and probably my favorite AFD track.
I didn’t know much about either band. I first saw Poison in Hit Parader and immediately wrote them off cause I thought they were trannys. I hadn’t even heard them. Talk Dirty didn’t win me over immediately. But CC’s Chuck Berry meets Ace Frehley meets Rick Nielsen trip helped a lot. They were cheesy AF but they were fun and it was infectious. It certainly helped that all the girls at my jr high wanted to sleep with them.
GNR I had seen a small b&w photo of in 1985. Never heard or saw shit about them again until Sept or Oct 1987 when Jungle premiered on MTV. My circle of buddies and our high school was a buzz with GNR after that. The Ritz performance only added fuel to the fire. SCOM cinched it for the girls and less hip, jock and prep types. From my recollection GNR became the next big thing with the Jungle video that fall. There was no looking or going back after that. I got tired of them after a while but Rocket Queen and Paradise City would inevitably reel me back in.