What is the most cringeworthy song by the band POISON ?

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What song by Poison Is the most cringeworthy?
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poor boy blues
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pieceofme wrote: Wed Jan 08, 2025 7:04 pm I want action
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DangerZone wrote: Wed Jan 08, 2025 6:49 pm poor boy blues
Good call. That whole album is the cringeworthy and embarrassing
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Your Mama Don't Dance and it's not even close.
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Love_Industry wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2025 12:04 am Your Mama Don't Dance and it's not even close.
Agree. It’s almost as bad as Motley Crue “Smokin’ in the Boys Room”
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TeslaFan wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2025 4:34 am
Love_Industry wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2025 12:04 am Your Mama Don't Dance and it's not even close.
Agree. It’s almost as bad as Motley Crue “Smokin’ in the Boys Room”
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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Love_Industry wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2025 5:42 am
TeslaFan wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2025 4:34 am
Love_Industry wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2025 12:04 am Your Mama Don't Dance and it's not even close.
Agree. It’s almost as bad as Motley Crue “Smokin’ in the Boys Room”
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.
Not sure how you can call smokin misguided when it was a hit for them.
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Wild Obsession wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2025 6:27 am x3 for "Poor Boy Blues"..........cringe
"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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steviedoes wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2025 7:42 am
Wild Obsession wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2025 6:27 am x3 for "Poor Boy Blues"..........cringe
"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.
"Bastard Son" would have been my 2nd choice :lol: .......... I guess (faux) Bert and his attempt at (faux) "traditional blues", don't mix.........
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Love_Industry wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2025 12:04 am Your Mama Don't Dance and it's not even close.
Gets my vote. For some reason I hate it, but Loggins and Messina doesn't bother me.
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pieceofme wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2025 6:28 am
Love_Industry wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2025 5:42 am
TeslaFan wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2025 4:34 am

Agree. It’s almost as bad as Motley Crue “Smokin’ in the Boys Room”
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.
Not sure how you can call smokin misguided when it was a hit for them.
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....
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Let Me Go To the Show, but #1 Bad Boy is rough, too.
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Brainy Lane wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2025 3:56 am #1 Bad Boy
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"Doin' as I Seen on My TV"
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"Life Goes On"
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Fat_Elvis wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2025 11:40 am "Doin' as I Seen on My TV"
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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Nate S Axel wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2025 11:45 am
Fat_Elvis wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2025 11:40 am "Doin' as I Seen on My TV"
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!
I thought about mentioning that, but it's hard for me to dislike anything on Crack a Smile.
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You guys are all wrong here.

Ball and Chain or Don't Give up an Inch

Both are pure dog shit!
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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.
Same... love that album.
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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.
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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. :x
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Brainy Lane wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2025 3:56 am #1 Bad Boy
Beat me to it.
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