I guess that people who love Poison will buy whatever they put out and they are banking on that
but I think if they truly want be respected they should put out some new music
I doubt they care tho..[/COLOR]
Poison's last "original" studio album came out in 2002. Named
Hollyweird. It was very lazy and uninspired. I would know, I promoted the shit out of it on the radio to help out one of the old hair bands.
I played that son of a bitch record tirelessly just to support them. That's what I do/did with bands I used to be fond of. Granted, it had a couple good songs but everything else was dicey and the two good songs on the record paled in comparison to their "best" stuff.
For starters, CC Deville was allowed to sing lead vocals on not one but
TWO songs on that record in 2002, both of which were
awful.
Why?
Well, a condition for him returning to Poison in the late 90's was that he be allowed to sing at least one or two songs per studio album from here on in. This is a very little known (and 100% true) tidbit that is rarely discussed. Deville worked that deal out with Bret Michaels and I've been told by someone who manages artists (who doesn't manage Poison) that it is in a contract laying around somewhere.
It was either give in and let CC take over more of a role in Poison, otherwise they would have been forced to carry on with replacement guitarists which would have forever prohibited them from doing an "original lineup" reunion.
Since 2002, they've done nothing but cover songs, live releases and greatest hits stuff. Not including various solo projects from the members, which to me don't even count. However, even leading up to that record in 2002, Poison was already getting pretty lazy.
In 1993, they recorded a studio album called
Native Tongue. Between 1993-2002, they released one greatest hits album around 1996 (their very first one), they also recorded a full studio album that was finished but rotted on the shelves for around five years before their label Capitol finally allowed it to be released. That album was called
Crack A Smile. It only got released because the greatest hits album from '96 sold over a million copies, Capitol remembered they had a finished studio album from Poison still laying around and decided they should cash in.
That's an odd point considering Capitol declined to release the album after Poison initially recorded it because it was the middle of the grunge era and they assumed it wasn't going to sell worth dick.
Aside from this, in 1999, Poison issued a live album called
Power to the People which happened to have five new studio songs on there, including a song sung by CC Deville who had just rejoined the band a short time before.
So in a nine year period, Poison cut about an album and a half worth of material which included an album that was unreleased for years and also a collection of filler songs for a live record.
That says all you need to know.
