What is the most cringeworthy song by the band POISON ?
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What is the most cringeworthy song by the band POISON ?
What song by Poison Is the most cringeworthy?
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poor boy blues
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CCs 11 minute guitar solo on the live album
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Beavis & Butt-Head agree...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8xPCga3rpo
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Good call. That whole album is the cringeworthy and embarrassing
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Unskinny bop, how can ppl like that turd i will never understand
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Your Mama Don't Dance and it's not even close.
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Agree. It’s almost as bad as Motley Crue “Smokin’ in the Boys Room”
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Add Twisted's Leader of the Pack and you have the top 3 of misguided mid 80s hair metal cover tunes.
"Your Mama..." should be at #1 though as it was covered twice in a few years, and Y&T's version is even worse than Poisons.
Not that ANY band could save that song, it would suck even with 1978 Van Halen.
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x3 for "Poor Boy Blues"..........cringe
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Not sure how you can call smokin misguided when it was a hit for them.Love_Industry wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2025 5:42 amAdd Twisted's Leader of the Pack and you have the top 3 of misguided mid 80s hair metal cover tunes.
"Your Mama..." should be at #1 though as it was covered twice in a few years, and Y&T's version is even worse than Poisons.
Not that ANY band could save that song, it would suck even with 1978 Van Halen.

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"Poor Boy Blues" is the low point of the album, but it's much better than my vote for most cringeworthy Poison song - "Bastard Son Of A Thousand Blues". Pure cringe.
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"Bastard Son" would have been my 2nd choicesteviedoes wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2025 7:42 am"Poor Boy Blues" is the low point of the album, but it's much better than my vote for most cringeworthy Poison song - "Bastard Son Of A Thousand Blues". Pure cringe.

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Gets my vote. For some reason I hate it, but Loggins and Messina doesn't bother me.
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YMDD was a hit too for Poison. I think Mötley had so much momentum when Smokin' came out that any new song would have been a hit. I haven't met one Mötley fan who said it was one of his favorite songs. But I guess Smokin' as a first single, followed up by the ballad HSH and opening the album with City Boy Blues was them trying to reposition the band from the previous album's "satanic heavy metal" to something more accessible. The rest of the album wasn't that different....pieceofme wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2025 6:28 amNot sure how you can call smokin misguided when it was a hit for them.Love_Industry wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2025 5:42 amAdd Twisted's Leader of the Pack and you have the top 3 of misguided mid 80s hair metal cover tunes.
"Your Mama..." should be at #1 though as it was covered twice in a few years, and Y&T's version is even worse than Poisons.
Not that ANY band could save that song, it would suck even with 1978 Van Halen.
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Unskinny Bop
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Blame It On You
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Let Me Go To the Show, but #1 Bad Boy is rough, too.

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#1 Bad Boy went over big in the club days.
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"Life Goes On"
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Fun lyrics though:
Took my girl to rent a porno movie
I thought that it'd be kinda groovy
I thought that'd this impress my lover
And there she was right on the cover!
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I thought about mentioning that, but it's hard for me to dislike anything on Crack a Smile.Nate S Axel wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2025 11:45 amFun lyrics though:Took my girl to rent a porno movie
I thought that it'd be kinda groovy
I thought that'd this impress my lover
And there she was right on the cover!

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You guys are all wrong here.
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Ball and Chain or Don't Give up an Inch
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Same... love that album.Anthrax442 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2025 12:02 pm I thought about mentioning that, but it's hard for me to dislike anything on Crack a Smile.
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"#1 Bad Boy" is saved by the riff.
My vote is for "Cry Tough". Bland and cliched. The choice for that as the first single almost tanked the album.
My vote is for "Cry Tough". Bland and cliched. The choice for that as the first single almost tanked the album.
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Talk Dirty To Me. Pure garbage as is most of their music.
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Third place for me, after "Life Goes On" and "Your Mama Don't Dance" (even the original is boomer garbage), I'm going to vote "(Flesh & Blood) Sacrifice" for two reasons:
1. The parenthetical at the BEGINNING of the title? Ooh, look at the art rockers. Mom, I don't have my glasses on, is this PERE UBU??
2. I'm fairly sure that right before the chorus, the part that goes "Tonight's the night we give it up" was jacked from Warrant's "Ridin' High" ("Livin' just to live it up!"). Now how you gonna steal from WARRANT.
1. The parenthetical at the BEGINNING of the title? Ooh, look at the art rockers. Mom, I don't have my glasses on, is this PERE UBU??
2. I'm fairly sure that right before the chorus, the part that goes "Tonight's the night we give it up" was jacked from Warrant's "Ridin' High" ("Livin' just to live it up!"). Now how you gonna steal from WARRANT.

Re: What is the most cringeworthy song by the band POISON ?
Beat me to it.