Look What the Cat Dragged in

Look What the Cat Dragged in

Editorial Reviews
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Poison was the ultimate party band of the '80s; they seized on the trappings of pop metal, and played them to the hilt. While their music was never exactly original, it was fun, and it still is. Look What the Cat Dragged In is arguably their most entertaining album, because it was recorded before they tried to infuse their music with "serious" themes that ultimately dragged down their later recordings. The best songs on this album are the unabashed party anthems, including "I Want Action" and "Talk Dirty to Me". "Let Me Go to the Show" is pure tongue-in-cheek, its adolescent viewpoint and fervor showing just how well Poison knew their target audience. A guilty pleasure if ever there was one. --Genevieve Williams

Tracks:

Cry Tough
I Want Action
I Won't Forget You
Play Dirty
Look What The Cat Dragged In
Talk Dirty To Me
Want Some, Need Some
Blame It On You
#1 Bad Boy
Let Me Go To The Show
Bonus Track: I Want Action (7' Single Remix)
I Won't Forget You (7' Single Remix)
Don't Mess Around With Jim (Demo)

Customer Reviews:

your better off picking up The Best of Poison: 20 Years of Rock.......2007-02-15

The Good
Look What the Cat Dragged In (as well as the other releases) sounds a lot more crisp and clean as I remember it, but still shows how the group was honing their sound. That's not a bad thing, but Poison really blows the roof off these songs today. Sometime you forget that songs like "Cry Tough," "I Want Action," "Talk Dirty to Me," and "I Won't Forget You" were from their debut album (and that it was 20 years ago!). The bonus track included are 7" inch mixes of "I Want Action" and "Cry Tough," as well as an unreleased cut "Don't Mess Around with Jim."

Open Up and Say...Ahh is where Poison really made their mark. Oddly enough this release didn't spawn as many hits as their debut, but it does contain their most successful track ever "Every Rose Has It's Thorn." In addition to that, MTV favorites "Nothin' But a Good Time," "Fallen Angel," and "Your Momma Don't Dance" will refresh the memories of your youth. Another notable change is the inclusion of the original album cover. Honestly, it's quite tame even for back then. I even discovered a few long-lost album tracks that were just as good as the singles ("Back to the Rocking Horse," "Tearin' Down the Walls"). Bonus tracks include one song "Livin' for the Minute" and a 10 minute interview that involves the band talking about themselves and the album (from back then).

Anyone that loved Poison's first two albums kind of got a bad taste in their mouth with the release of Flesh and Blood. Once again, not because it was bad, but it was because Poison was starting to drift away from their over-the-top pop-metal sound, to a more gritty and bluesy sound. The most memorable rocking track from this album would be "Unskinny Bop," but for the most part, the other hit singles were ballads or borderline ones ("Life Goes On," "Ride the Wind," "Something to Believe In"). Bonus tracks include and acoustic version of "Something to Believe In" and an unreleased instrumental demo of "God Save the Queen."

The Bad
Doesn't make much sense on the part of Poison and Capitol to remaster and release these albums within months of releasing an 18 track greatest hits package. Who wants these three albums when you can just have the best songs all on one CD? For the bonus tracks maybe? I doubt it. None of the bonus tracks are anything special. Who the hell cares about 7" mixes and an interview? How many times are you going to listen to that? Sure there are a couple of unreleased tracks, but take it from a Poison fan, you can live without them.

The Verdict
Nice to hear the sound updated, kind-of neat to hear the unreleased stuff, but your better off picking up The Best of Poison: 20 Years of Rock. It has all of the hits and none of the filler (well, except for the new cover songs).

Great Re-release.......2006-08-17

Great sound quality, and whoever did this one finally got the remixed version correctly on here for "I Won't Forget You," which is listed on the recently-released greatest hits but is only the original version. This is not an earlier as one reviewer wrote, but a later remixed version for the video and single when it was released as a single. My only suggestion would have been for them to have included the original version of "Cry Tough" which if you look at the liner notes, was remixed before the album came out, thus the version many of you have heard is not the original. Coincidentally, the guy who remixed "Cry Tough" on the album is the same guy who later remixed "I Won't Forget You" for the video/single, which the reissue doesn't credit.

Finally Remastered!.......2006-08-12

Has it really been 20 years since the original release of Look What the Cat Dragged In? 1986 was the year that "hair metal" truly established its dominance over the music industry. Albums like Bon Jovi's "Slippery When Wet", Europe's "the Final Countdown" and Cinderella's "Night Songs" all played a role in bringing metal to the top of the pop charts that year, but it was Poison's makeup drenched debut album that sealed the deal.

Look What the Cat Dragged In was the ultimate victory of style over substance. Poison's over-the-top stage antics and outrageous glam appearance had as much to do with their success as their music, which wasn't exactly groundbreaking. The songs on the band's debut were by-the-numbers odes to getting laid, talking about getting laid, partying (to get laid), and drinking (before, during, and after getting laid). It's shallow as hell, and easy to make fun of 20 years later, but at the time this album made perfect sense to me. Obviously I wasn't the only one to think so, because the album sold a zillion copies and featured some pretty huge radio/MTV hits like "I Want Action" and "Talk Dirty to Me."

Look What the Cat Dragged In may be a pretty basic album, but it certainly made an impact. Scores of lipstick and spandex bands would soon come out of the woodwork, though none of them ever really came close to Poison's success. The band had a chemistry and personality that was hard to beat, and that was reflected in their music.

The 2006 reissue of Look What the Cat Dragged In gives the album a much needed tune-up. If you've ever had the original disc in a changer with some more recent albums, you can tell that its sound quality is quite poor. You almost need twice the volume just to hear it. Thankfully, this album has been digitally remastered and the sound quality is as good as anything released today. They also added three bonus tracks. The first two are early versions of "I Want Action" and "I Won't Forget You", which are a bit rougher than the album versions. A demo called "Don't Mess Around With Jim" is also included. This is a stomping, bluesy number that really doesn't fit with the rest of the album, but is interesting enough as a bonus track.

Poison's debut album.......2006-08-06

Great debut album re released for the 20th anniversary with bonus tracks. Should've included more demos from that time like 'Rock like a rocker', 'Steal away the night','Razors edge' and 'Ain't sayin nothing'

Average customer rating:

Non major label classic
Open Up and Say YEAH!
The Best Album They've Done
Oh, give me some mascara
Dynamic party album

Look What the Cat Dragged In
Poison
Manufacturer: EMI Special Products
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Pop Metal | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B00000633P
Release Date: 1998-10-20

Tracks:

Cry Tough
I Want Action
I Won't Forget You
Play Dirty
Look What The Cat Dragged In
Talk Dirty To Me
Want Some, Need Some
Blame It On You
#1 Bad Boy
Let Me Go To The Show

Amazon.com

Poison was the ultimate party band of the '80s; they seized on the trappings of pop metal, and played them to the hilt. While their music was never exactly original, it was fun, and it still is. Look What the Cat Dragged In is arguably their most entertaining album, because it was recorded before they tried to infuse their music with "serious" themes that ultimately dragged down their later recordings. The best songs on this album are the unabashed party anthems, including "I Want Action" and "Talk Dirty to Me". "Let Me Go to the Show" is pure tongue-in-cheek, its adolescent viewpoint and fervor showing just how well Poison knew their target audience. A guilty pleasure if ever there was one. --Genevieve Williams

Customer Reviews:

Non major label classic.......2007-06-03

This is an 80's glam classic.

It is badly produced, the musicianship is questionable and the lyrics are so very 80's. That it waht makes it so groovy.

Oh yes and for the all the trendy people dissing this album it was the biggest selling album released in the US until the Offspring's "Smash" in 1995. The sales of this album got poison a major lable deal.

Open Up and Say YEAH!.......2006-06-30

What's left to say that hasn't already been said about Poison? This is one of the greatest albums of the 20th century. Buy It if for some reason you don't own it.

The Best Album They've Done.......2006-05-28

This Album is full of Fun, the lyrics are Highly sexually active & the music is very energetic.
This really defines the 80's glam Rock era at its best. if you want to get into Poison start with this album.

Oh, give me some mascara.......2006-04-23

Upon listening to this debut album by Poison, I was beginning to think the only things in life that really mattered were girls, sexily puffed up hair, screeching, sometimes spacy guitars, and the right shade of eyeshadow, all backed up by a never-ending summer.

Listening to this created in me mental vignettes of long-haired people at a beach, playing volleyball, while the barbeque sits on the tailgate of their truck in the parking lot, being watched over by more long-haired people, and all the women are, of course, in bikinis. Some are haughty to coincide with their leanness while others are crying tough due to some breakup. Who says it's not okay to be a 38-year old still feeling the thunder when Betty just won't say 'yes' (and when she does, it's time to brag).

Visual mental results aside, this music is dated in such an enjoyable way as it makes me wish I wasn't 8 years old when it came out; I listen to this and can't stop wishing the modern age was a little more fun. Even though this music, with all its campiness and station wagon charm, isn't a royal form of rock, it is so much more lively and funny and emotional (in such an 11th grade way) than the prone-to-spirit-less stuff the music managers and producers allow to be realeased today.

When Poison sings about how much they like it when girls talk dirty to them, there's something of the intrigue of the romance novel, and combine that with this lightened form of heavy metal and all the hair, and you've got yourself a memory of a different time that seems more intersting than the one we're in now.

Dynamic party album .......2006-01-22

While I liked their second album better, Poison's first album from 1986 was a very fun and exciting party album of rock and roll! They have the guitars loaded to excess on all the songs. Talk Dirty to Me is still a catchy, charged up song as well as I Want Action, Let's Go to the Show, the title song and others. But Poison slows it down a bit on the nice and melodic midtempo power ballad I Won't Forget You. Bret Michaels is an energetic showman and lead singer on a lot of the cuts but the true standout is the always humorous C.C. Deville, as his guitar leads and solos give a strong intensity to them. Poison does go a little overboard with the makeup and glam look on the album cover and photos, but their image paired well with the songs and live performances. One of the best arena rock albums of the latter half of the '80s.

Average customer rating:

Non major label classic
Open Up and Say YEAH!
The Best Album They've Done
Oh, give me some mascara
Dynamic party album

Look What the Cat Dragged In
Poison
Manufacturer: Capitol
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

General | Rock | Styles | Music

General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music

Pop Metal | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music

Hard Rock | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music

Glam | Classic Rock | Styles | Music
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Open Up and Say...Ahh!
Flesh & Blood
Crack a Smile... And More
Night Songs
Skid Row

ASIN: B000002UCW
Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

Cry Tough
I Want Action
I Won't Forget You
Play Dirty
Look What The Cat Dragged In
Talk Dirty To Me
Want Some, Need Some
Blame It On You
#1 Bad Boy
Let Me Go To The Show

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Customer Reviews:

Non major label classic.......2007-06-03

Open Up and Say YEAH!.......2006-06-30

What's left to say that hasn't already been said about Poison? This is one of the greatest albums of the 20th century. Buy It if for some reason you don't own it.

The Best Album They've Done.......2006-05-28

Oh, give me some mascara.......2006-04-23

Dynamic party album .......2006-01-22

Average customer rating:

Look What the Cat Dragged In
Poison
Manufacturer: Capitol Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000N0LJ34
Release Date: 2006-08-01

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