Open Up And Say...Ahh!!! (studio album) by Poison

From VictorVale 04/12/2023 23:27

Classico!

It's alright, but there's not much interesting here beyond the singles. Fallen Angel and Every Rose Has Its Thorn are great. Nothin' But A Good Time is OK, and Your Mama Don't Dance is a decent cover. The rest of it is thoroughly mediocre hair rock.

From Strangel 09/12/2018 23:34

This was the first vinyl album I bought with my own money. Not much street cred with this pretty awful album but I thoroughly enjoyed it as a 14 year old and it has nostalgic importance only to me now which gives it a pass mark.

Ridiculous and very little depth, but perfectly serviceable glam metal/pop metal. Don't expect anything more. Poison's best album, and "Every Rose Has Its Thorn", "Nuthin but a Good Time" and "Mama Don't Dance" are well-produced tracks.

There are some albums that may not be that great but for one reason or another find a place in a listeners heart. This is one of those albums for me. I was young, life was crappy and this provided a good escape to an 11 year old me.

From Brandon8 05/01/2017 03:47

Poison's 2nd album is a continuation of their 1st still a lot of fun with a lot of big hits as well.

Ridiculous as hell, and totally Silly, but a lot of fun if you switch your brain of first. Terrible, but enjoyable.

This band is a guilty pleasure for me. Kind of like eating popcorn slathered in butter, drinking a orange crush and watching a bad horror movie. You know you shouldn't but you just can't look away....

From paladisiac 12/24/2014 16:57

This is very good glam hair metal. No, it's not deep, but it's quite entertaining. CC Deville shows off his sub-EVH chops on some songs (like "look but you can't touch"). "Open Up.." also contains their only #1, the power ballad "every rose has its thorn" -- wish all of my songs about strippers were as good. (Power ballads were really the only hair metal #1s, even in hair metal's glory days.) This fun album (with a cool "your mama don't dance" cover) and "look what the cat dragged in" proves poison was probably the #4 hair metal act behind def leppard, bon jovi and motley crue. (Of course, i'm not counting VH & GnR as hair metal.)

From Graeme2 06/27/2014 21:24

Before I was full into music and had no idea and was very young hair metal seemed like a good idea. However hindsight says what the hell were you thinking listening to this! So much hate for this album .......because its crap! I acan appreciate them for what they are....rubbish. Dear me. Every rose has it's thowern.