Capitol/UMe
Capitol/UMeIt’s about time hair metal started getting some respect. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Poison‘s monster hit album, Open Up and Say…Ahh!, it’s been re-released on 180-gram red and green vinyl.
The reissue also features the album’s then-controversial cover, showing a female model made up to look like a tiger, with glowing green eyes, big ’80s hair, black claws, and an extended tongue that looks to be about a foot long, all tinted blood red. Later issues of the album featured an all-black cover image, with only the model’s eyes exposed as if through a tear in the cover.
Released May 3, 1988, Open Up and Say…Ahh! was Poison’s second album and features “Nothin’ but a Good Time” and their cover of the Loggins and Messina hit “Your Mama Don’t Dance,” both of which were top-10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100. It also includes the power ballad “Every Rose Has Its Thorn,” the glam rockers’ only U.S. #1 hit. The album’s since gone five-times platinum in the U.S. and remains Poison’s most successful release.
If you want the red vinyl version, you can only get it at Amazon, at least for now — list price is $14.29. You’d better move fast if you want the green vinyl pressing, though. Only 1,000 copies are available for $24.98 a pop, and only from TheSoundofVinyl.
Just to refresh your memory, here’s the track list for Open Up and Say…Ahh!:
“Love on the Rocks”
“Nothin’ but a Good Time”
“Back to the Rocking Horse”
“Good Love”
“Tearin’ Down the Walls”
“Look but You Can’t Touch”
“Fallen Angel”
“Every Rose Has Its Thorn”
“Your Mama Don’t Dance”
“Bad to Be Good”
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