What is the most cringeworthy song by the band POISON ?

[Spongie]

Something to believe in

Awful. Stick to party rock.

[rockker]

Bad to be good is pretty bad

[Love_Industry]

"I Want Action". There are worse songs, but the fact that they had so little material for the debut that they had to rip off a Kee Marcello song from his early band Easy Action makes it completely pathetic.

Marcello sued them and got a few cool mil out of an average song he wrote long before he became famous with Europe.

[Darrien]

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.

Hard disagree on Life Goes On (minus the shitty lead intro) I think it's a well written Poison Song but yeah, the song Flesh & Blood has always sucked.

[Hellsinkey]

Let Me Go To The Show

How old was Bert? Oh, 23.

[gtrjay]

Let Me Go To The Show

How old was Bert? Oh, 23.

23 and asking Momma to go out.
It was a metaphor of what Gen Z has now become.

[Love_Industry]

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.

Hard disagree on Life Goes On (minus the shitty lead intro) I think it's a well written Poison Song but yeah, the song Flesh & Blood has always sucked.

I'd say the opposite. Life Goes On is a sappy, formulaic later day hair metal ballad I do not need to hear ever again and F&B is one of their better songs. But then I don't know Warrant enough to recognize when someone is stealing from one of their songs.

[Mister Freeze]

Lies and money become the white man's god

[daveg]

I at least like all of the songs named so far. It's Poison...almost all of it is cringy/cheesy/dumb...but they are also awesome.

Unskinny Bop might be the top of the cheeze pile...but it was everywhere for a long while. Made it to # 3 on the charts. I'm not gonna go out of my way to listen to it, but if it comes on a playlist every few months, I'll definitely turn it up.

[DonJuanDeMarco]

Nobody has mentioned Hollyweird yet? Did we block that out? The entire album was a WTF moment.

Their first 3 albums were 3 of the first albums I ever bought so I love every song. I thought Native Tongue was awesome too. Did not like Crack a Smile or Hollyweird at all though.

Now, Bret as a SOLO artist has some cringeworthy songs. I won't deny that but we'll save that for another thread.

[rockker]

Nobody has mentioned Hollyweird yet? Did we block that out? The entire album was a WTF moment.

Like the band does We just block it out like it didn’t exist.

[LitaStrauss]

Rockstar off Hollyweird. Actually, all of Hollyweird. I don't understand how the first three Poison records and Hollyweird had all the same members. Not that the first three Poison records were deep Bob Dylan type lyrics, but Hollyweird is like they all had a stroke or something. I think that's easily the worst rock/hairband album of all time by a band that had once had multi-platinum albums.

[pieceofme]

Rockstar off Hollyweird. Actually, all of Hollyweird. I don't understand how the first three Poison records and Hollyweird had all the same members. Not that the first three Poison records were deep Bob Dylan type lyrics, but Hollyweird is like they all had a stroke or something. I think that's easily the worst rock/hairband album of all time by a band that had once had multi-platinum albums.

Sleek had stopped writing for them by then.

[Charles Bukaki]

"If you could hear me think, this is what I'd say"

It doesn't get more stupid than that.

[DangerZone]

"If you could hear me think, this is what I'd say"

It doesn't get more stupid than that.

true.
Brett must have snuck a look at Hagar’s book of poems