In 1988 This Band RULED…Just 3 Years Later Their MUSIC Was ERASED From Our Culture-Professor of Rock
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- Sometimes you just gotta kick back and let it rock. And that’s what today’s song is all about. One of the 80s’ ultimate party anthems, Poison and their hit Nothing But a Good Time is a high-octane antidote for the daily grind. But even though it nearly reached the top of the charts and anchored a multi-platinum record with Open Up and Say Ah!, this song actually came from humble beginnings. Living in a hole-in-the-wall warehouse, complete with cockroaches, this band was really slumming it. But at the same time, they were hustling hard. With an unrelenting work ethic for promotion their band they hit the streets and clubs of LA… determined to make a name for themselves. They even tried to hijack Van Halen and Motley Crue fans out in the parking lot before their shows. These guys would stop at nothing to make the big time. It was platinum or bust for Bret Michaels, CC DeVille, and Poison … But either way, these guys were determined to enjoy every minute of it. The story is coming up… NEXT on the Professor of Rock.
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So, it’s time for another edition of #1 in Our Hearts. This show honors songs that were so unbelievably great, they absolutely should've been #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart. But for whatever reason, be it radio play, lack of marketing, label support, or just sheer stupidity, the song came up short. On previous episodes, we have covered Pour Some Sugar On Me by Def Leppard, Patience by Guns N Roses, and Home Sweet Home by Motley Crue.
As for today’s episode, we’re going with Poison’s ‘Nothin’ But a Good Time’, a track that comes from their 1988 sophomore album ‘Open Up and Say… Ahh!’.
Heavy metal glam rockers Poison first formed back in 1983 in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. Instigated by lead singer Bret Michaels and drummer Rikki Rockett, they were soon joined by Bobby Dall on bass and Matt Smith on lead guitar. Known early on as ‘Paris’, this foursome proudly adopted a full-on 80s glam-metal look. Said Rikki, “We grew up with David Bowie and Alice Cooper, T. Rex… and that’s why we looked the way we did.” Kiss was an influence as well.
Paris was popular in Pennsylvania, but they knew that if they were going to make it, they had to get to where the action was. So with $400 in their pockets and their sights set on the Sunset Strip, they headed west to Los Angeles. That was in March 1983. Said Bobby Dall, “We sold everything we owned and went to L.A.-sold our cars, sold our stereos, our records. I sold my record collection!!!”
Soon after arriving Paris changed their name to Poison and got to work hustling the LA club scene. According to Dall, they were the “self-promotion whores of the town.” There wasn’t a day they that they weren’t promoting the band… stapling fliers, knocking doors, whatever it took…
Poll: What is your pick for the greatest song of the Glam Metal era?
Blue Murder - Jelly Roll
Cinderella - Heartbreak Station
Kix- Don't Close Your Eyes
RATT - Back For More
Tesla - Love Song
Uncle Tom's Cabin - Warrant
Gypsy Road
Uncle Toms Cabin
Raise Your Hands
Cherry Pie- Warrant
I think Wild Side and Nothing But A Good Time are it for me. Like both equally.
Having grown up in that era, i can attest firsthand that the 80s were truly "Nothing But A Good Time."
I wish I grew up back then!
Agreed! I was a teen in the 80’s and graduated high school in ‘89. It truly was a great time to be a teen.
Damn straight I'd go back in a minute
Good times
Yes. I grew up in the 80s. Graduated high school in 1990. In my 20s all thru the 90s. Had the best of both Worlds!!!😎
Love Poison! Went from positivity and fun to negative doom and gloom of Grunge. Glad my childhood was the first😊
That about sums it up.
Yep. From muscle cars, half t-shirts and aquanet, and laughing out loud 'till your stomach hurt to unwashed flannel shirts, whining about having to live a life and making suicide cool.
Grunge was better tho
@@Reardonsteel236 You know, I have to ask, what about grunge makes you think it was making suicide cool?
Pretty much what happened, musicians started to take themselves way too seriously in the 90s. In the 80s it was always about the fun.
Every Rose Has It's Thorn is one of the greatest ballads of the 80's.
💯
Oh yeah it does🎶🌹😉
A genre I never liked, but always had respect, as a diabetic, for Bret Michaels. I can only imagine what it took for him to even handle the day by day of that kind of career while dealing with diabetes.
Diabetes is a lot tougher than it sounds.
Especially since he was making such sweet music!
True. Diabetes doesn't kill you but it causes about18 other things that eventually do.@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980
Nothing But a Good Time is more than just a song. It perfectly describes Poison's music in the 1980's. If you were ever having a bad day (or wanted to make any day even better), you just popped in one of their CD's. Their concerts were a BLAST! Even their disastrous MTV Awards was entertaining "must see TV." Underappreciated by critics at the time, their music lives on.
Definitely a feel good song!
Poison's songs were killer in the 80s, and are still nothin' but a good time 40 years later.
They sure had a lot of fun!
Yes, this should have been a #1 song !! Poison gave you a great rock show and that song is still so fun and full of energy !!
Have you seen them?
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 yes, several times
For those who never got see Poison back in the 80's. Give their "Swallow this Live" album a listen. It's almost like being there, listening to that album.
I can't say i like this particular song but i agree that 80s big hair bands are exactly what the world needs.
Poison and Def Leppard were my first experiences with 80s rock (I was born in '80). Nothing But a Good Time and Momma's Fallen Angel were top favorites for sure, and still are
I saw Poison open up for David Lee Roth. Ended up seeing them in concert 4 times & was never disappointed. Open Up & Say Ahh! Back To The Rocking Horse & Tearin'Down The Walls were my favorite tracks.
"Good Love" was another killer song
@billyt9987 Good Love took me a long while to get into. The riff just didn't jive with me & I liked Bang Tango & Enuff Z'Nuff, so I did like "different" styles. But that one riff, probably a good year to like it.
When did you see them?
@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 I saw them open for DLR during his Skyscraper tour, so that was in support of Look What The Cat Dragged In. I saw them again for Open Up during that tour & the last 2 times were in 2000? That was one of those summer concert tours. Some dates were Ratt, Cinderella, while others were Great White added to the lineup. I saw them again a year after that. But that's when my youngest was born, so it got harder to go.
@@Wintersoldier73 And it must have been a blast each time!
These guys blow Motley out the water live to this day. I mean Motley are using backing tracks live which is insane.
Exactly! I seen one of their shows, poison literally brought the house down. Poison kicked major ass!
Are you smoking . Poison was good for a bunch of transvestites motley Crue were the bad boys of rock
I bought this cassette the day the album dropped and was one of the lucky ones who go the cover you see in this video with the tongue. Shortly after the album’s release, it was censored and with the change they made, you could only see her eyes on the cover. I remember friends saying… “I’ll give you Theater of Pain and Out of the Cellar for that copy!!” Such a great time.
My favorite band. As a kid with no money,I found a way to see them 5 or 6 times, once with my younger brother at his 1st concert. Love all their songs!!
I still dwell in this genre daily. Radio tuned to Hair Nation and frequently spin Cinderella, Dokken, Warrant, Mindstorm, Winger etc....
Yes! I love listening to Hair Nation! They play some great stuff.
The glam made the bands visually appealing, but every one of them has some musical chops. Great song writing and talent. I do not think they ever got the credit they really deserved for how talented they really are.
I just discovered Winger's new album and I was so excited. They werent a glam band but with Kip Looking so dreamy with this five o'clock shadow and doing those splits in his videos, They got way too much attention From female fans and got mocked mercilessly for it. They are a stellar band and I'm so happy that thirty-five years later, they're still kicking a. I hated how Metallica and Mike Judge mocked them, it was undeserved. Well Kip became a classical musician, and a successful one! It takes a lot of talent to play metal--a heck of a lot more than screeching "Rape me" while strumming the same chords over and over... Like some truly overrated and awful bands that followed in their wake, cough Nirvana cough.
These musicians need their justice!
Poison is terrible.
@@machineman268 They had a certain look that girls loved. And a sound that guys could rock to. Even their big ballad Every Rose Has its Thorn appealled to non metal fans, showing hints of what was to come in Bret's career in country music.
Personally, I would rank them as a decent bad, like Brittany Fox RATT and Cinderella. As far as "hair metal bands" Motley Crue were the kings in my school. But the girls worshipped Bon Jovi-- yes they were more hard rock than metal but they were a hair band. Not me I was a White Snake/DefLeppard/Guns N Rose's fanatic. And Winger, too! Forget those lipstick wearing glam guys, Kip Winger and his hairy chest, 5 oclock shadow and ballet splits made my pre teen heart pitter patter.
I'm one of those people who grew up in the 80s and 90s, and I never understood why people hated on "Hair Metal," or "Party Rock" so much. I loved it alongside what everyone calls "Alternative Rock" or "Grunge." I think people just claim to hate it, but secretly throw their fists in the air when "Nothin ' But A Good Time" comes on and nobody is around.
Definitely the type of music you want played at your party.
If you were a grungy , long haired, metal head it just wasn’t considered cool to like some hair metal bands. I was a grungy, long haired, metal head. Good music speaks for itself however. You would never have seen me front row at a Poison show pumping my fist but I did like their music. Flesh and Blood is one of my favorite albums.
You're recollection of this song and this time in history are Spot-On! Great times! Teenagers today simply don't understand what it was like to live through that era. It was truly an epic, magical time to be alive.
We definitely need a return to the Glam Metal days - so much fun, glad I lived it (and still live it)!!!
I absolutely loved Poison back then. They were so much fun and put on a great show
Never saw them, but I even bought their first album on cassette. Also Vixen's Vixen. The music was just fun.
I wish I had seen them live.
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980I saw them. They were pure energy.
Still do! Saw them on the stadium tour last summer with Joan Jett, Def Leppard and Motley Crue. MC needs to retire they were pretty bad, but Poison and Def Leppard sounded as good as they did in the 80s and 90s.
I may be more of a hard rock metal punk guy, but I’ve never apologized for my love of those first 3 Poison albums. I know many may consider this heresy to say, but if you objectively listen to their music/songs, they were the true spiritual successors to early Van Halen just based on the catchy, fun sing and rock along songs and party attitude. And to this day whenever I start strumming Every Rose Has Its Thorn on my acoustic guitar , everyone sings along. It’s become a campfire standard!
I lived a few miles from Mechanicsburg, when Poison hit it big. I remember the drummer bought his mom a new Cadillac with a personal license plate that read POISON. I would see her from time to time. It felt good that local guys made it!👍😎🎶🎶🎶
Love this era so many great and fun bands and I still listen to these bands and songs today at 55. This music is the soundtrack of my life 🤘🏻
I hear ya!
Rock on 🤘
That's the music I grew up to, I bought the album the day it was released, I was in the shop when the box was brought in and first out the box. Good times. lol
Virtually no musicians today put in the work they did back in the day to get to fame, so in my eyes these guys deserved what they got.
Only the professor of Rock could find the deeper meaning, bigger context of Poison...you're beautiful Adam, and almost always correct.
I saw them twice back in the 80s and also met Rikki in the 90s on my Birthday. He came in to the restaurant I was working at the time. He was very nice and even signed my card, which I still have to this day! They put on great concerts, very high energy...A Great band!
I miss the 80’s and this genre of music. I saw Poison in concert and remember my friend and I were screaming every lyric at the top of our lungs. Then, when Every Rose started and our lighter’s began to flicker, hers lit the woman that was in front of us’s hair on fire 😮We were able to get it out and the woman didn’t even notice?! Maybe it was all the Aqua Net, or maybe it was just that we were only 13 years old. Either way, it’s been a huge source of laughter for us to this day! Thanks professor for reminding me of the best moments in my childhood! I really needed it today!
We could definitely use cheerful songs with a positive mood like hair metal today..
Wore this cassette out driving from KC to cherry point NC and back twice. Saw them on their open up and say ahhh tour in Long Beach. A great listen start to finish.❤
One of my favorites! Summer 88, I was 14 and having the time of my life. This was part of the soundtrack. ….and still is for that mater! Awesome content, thanks for all the great, hard work. Cheers, MC
I saw Poison open up for David Lee Roth in 1988, at the Frank Erwin Center, in Austin, TX. They put on a great show!
Love Poison and all the 80s stuff! Let's party everywhere and everytime! Love Life and enjoy good music!
My favorite band when I was a kid. Such happiness! 🎉🎉🎉
As a Judas Priest/Dio fan I cannot say I did not throw some shade at the glam bands back in the day. This changed because of a friend who asked me to use my ticket connection to get tickets for Bon Jovi. Because the person obtaining the tickets for me expected me to be using them personally I had to go and I did a lot of grumbling about it.
Bon Jovi blew me away live and their opening act was a little known Skid Row.
As for Poison, I saw them three times during The Open Up and Say Ahh tour because of work and found their stage show a little too choregraphed for me but when Nothing But a Good Time comes on my car radio the windows go down and the speedometer ticks up.
There are many styles of music that I enjoy immensely, lots of stuff that really touches my soul, but it's hard for me to think of anything I enjoy listening to (and watching!) more than '80s glam metal. When I listen to any of those bands from that era, I can't help but feel a rush of energy and positivity!
I remember reading an interview with Bret Michaels where he said his refusal to sign over the publishing rights to their songs was a contributing factor to labels refusing to sign them
Being from South Central Pennsylvania, Poison have always been a beloved band around these parts. They always draw big crowds whenever they play especially anytime they play the Hersheypark Stadium. They still got it after all these years. They definitely put South Central PA on map musically.
I am considering seeing them now that you’ve said this.
Me too! Where you live?
This is such an awesome song. When Johnny Lawrence played this at the beginning of Cobra Kai, it just set the tone for how awesome the show was going to be.
I have to agree Perfect song choice.
Cool!
@@ProfessorofRockkeep it coming with the 80s rock, would love to see more on Dokken, RATT, Warrant, GNR and LA Guns etc, would be cool to see you talk about the LA guns and GNR history.
Yep! These guys were great, watched them live right next to a freaking speaker. My ears are still ringing! lol
Glam metal is sooo underrated and my favorite time of metal!
Poison is so much fun live. 80's 'Glam' was full of fun energy, and Poison was all about putting on a good party show. They understood the 80's ballad as well. They are still touring because people still want that feeling.
How many times have you seen them?
@@ProfessorofRockSaw them with Tesla as the opener and then with Warrant as the opener, two unbelievable shows
I saw Poison open for Ratt in 87. I didn't know who they were; I went to see Ratt. I was blown away! They put on such a great show!
@@ProfessorofRock Once live in the early 2000's with Cheap Trick and Bad Co in So Carolina. They never came to Salt Lake while I was here. I have also seen most of their live performances on tv from 88-94. They were my favorite band of the era. I was 12 in 1988. They got me beyond the classic rock I had grown up with. I really hope they come to Salt Lake next time around. I would love to see them again.
@@ProfessorofRockI remember seeing them at Rockers in Phoenix when they got banned from Arizona for a while.
I wasn't a glam metal fan back in the day, but I totally appreciate it in retrospect, particularly in regard to what our 'top 10' has devolved into. Like synthpop, it was iconically '80s, aka The Greatest Decade Ever™. It's also nice to see a band from the middle of nowhere PA go out to LA and hit the big time on raw talent. And not many bands can say they turned down Slash. Let me also add that I'm so impressed that the prof's folks-- wittingly or not-- let Poison be his first show. Mine were worried about me going with friends to see Howard Jones when I was at the ripe age of fifteen asking to go to my first concert. While my tastes have widened quite a bit since the '80s and while glam rock might not be in the top of my 'desert island' list of tracks or albums, it's surprising how many songs to which I can still remember the lyrics, breaks, solos, etc.
Saw poison for the first time when they were on your with Ratt. My cousin had an extra ticket and asked me if I wanted to go. I said he'll yea!!! Then the second time I saw them was when it was Cheap Trick, Poison and Def Leppard it was so flipping AWESOME all 3 bands together. Best concert on the Planet ever!!!!!!! We Rocked out so hard and the best part. I got to share it with my teenage daughter. Was her very first concert she loved it!! Poison is so awesome, Bret Michaels is the coolest! But.... NOTHING OR NO ONE CAN TOUCH DEF LEPPARD!!!!!!!!
"Cry Tough" is my favorite off of their 1st album. Still is my favorite now.
Loved Poison! This is one of my favorites they did.Still listen to them!
It's a classic!
Same.
This is the song that launched my love for Poison. First saw the video on Good Rockin' Tonight on Friday night, saw the replay Saturday at noon and the saw the CD at the record store that afternoon and bought it.
Watching the music video for "Nothin But A Good Time" as a ten year old back in 1988 is what made me want to start playing the guitar. The whole band looked so damn cool!
Poison was a great band with some killer music. Nothing But A Good Time is the quintessential 80s party rocker. As I recall, Poison caused some controversy with the cover art for Open Up and Say Ahh.
Yep! They recalled all the Albums, tapes, and CD’s with the original “Tongue” cover and replaced it with the blacked out upper/lower version. If you have one of the original ones before they were censored (like I do), they’re worth a few bucks now.
This song pretty much encapsulates what the 80's were about. It was all about the good times. I would wake every day to an excitement of what the day would bring.
The 80's were the best. Keg parties every Friday and Saturday night. Cruising around getting stoned rocking out to newest release by are favorite bands. In the words of Styx "those were the best of times".
I read the comments of the songs and all I can think ...I love the late 70s to 80s rock...was there a bad song? I don't think so...awesome! Thanks Adam, my bride and I love your channel.
I was born in 71, so I just missed the greatest era in music (50s-60s). But I was a teenager in the 80s so I got to be a part of the decade of metal. I appreciate Poison a lot more now than I did back then. I'm glad that they and many other 80s metal bands are still doing their thing these days and going strong.
I was born in 1970 and don't feel I missed out on hair metal at all. Music has been like breath for me since about '78 and metal has been my favorite genre since the start. AC/DC, Black Sabbath and Ozzy after he left, W.A.S.P., Poison, Motley Crue....
@@jenntate8029I meant that I just missed the 50s and 60s. I was there for 80s metal, like I said in my comment.
Ah,best decade ever,my teenage years,thanks man!
16 years old when this dropped. It was certainly a good time. 😉 🤘🏻🔥
I’ve always felt glam music was feel good music more than just partying.
They came from my backyard, sort of. Being a PA/MD native.
We just called them rock bands at the time, where i qas at. It wasn't until later that the type of rock was given names or were caught on by us.
Brett Michaels is so humble, great attitude, at least in his "grown up" days!!
loved it, played in a band early 90's because of Hair Metal and it's influence on my eternal soul! rock'n'roll!
Great memories with this song. When I got my first drum set I cranked up this song in-front of my Mother and played the drums to this song. It was loud as hell in my room but my Mother loved it. I'll always remember that magic time.
❤
That's great that your mom supported you. My parents were pretty cool too. They took me to see my first 2 concerts- CCR, and the Eagles on the Hotel California tour in 77. Great times!
Yes, I love this song, it gives off distinctive party vibes, and is great to rile yourself up before heading to a party!
EXACTLY! Ha ha! Thanks Trina!
Perfect for a party! 🎉
Love this tune and what it represents. I can’t help but feel uplifted every time I listen to it!!!
Love this tune when it came out in Autumn of 1988 along with Fallen Angel . Top Album which peaked at 11 spent 67 weeks in our chart here in Australia ,Nothing but A good Time peaked at 15 in August 1988
....loooooooooooooooove "Fallen Angel"! ...remember the Video where the 'Angel' knees the sleaze!? ....ha-HAA! ...OUCH!
@@RBS_ The gal the sleazy guy kisses in the blue shirt in the booth on Fallen Angel... I grew up with her, her and a few other gals I knew have been in music videos from back then......
Good info, Peter.
This was my go to Saturday evening song no matter what I was going to do that night. It got me going to remember this is my time to have fun with nothing but a good time. I can see Slash jamming with Poison but Ci Ci was a better fit for sure even if they left him in a Louisiana swamp, lol. Definitely a #1 in my heart. Great episode professor your show is definitely a good time and it don't get better than this!!!
Thanks My Name! I appreciate it!
Definitely a fist mic pumping one.
Loved them back in the 80's. I bought them on vinyl and CD!
Cool!
I took my Mom to see the stadium tour in Houston and Poison went toe to toe with Def Leppard. They put Motley Crue to shame for sure. I learned to play guitar by playing along with guys like Cici, which helped me graduate to the likes of Van Halen. After all, I watched the man play eruption flawlessly. Cici is very underrated. Slash is good, he is just a bit over explained if you ask me.
I went to a Poison concert back in 2003 (along with Vince Neil and Skid Row), and had a pretty good time.
This was definitely a good time! Husband always says how they were such “beautiful girls” on their record pictures 😂😂😂 Love me some glam rock! This was a really good tale I didn’t know.
Thanks for the tales that make music come alive.
Slash had a look too “ugly” for Poison lol I’m glad they found a better match.
...ha-HAAA!! ...remember CC, and that 'wink'!? ....thought it was Pamela Anderson for YEARS! ...ha-HAA! ...Ironic, 'eh!??
Put some lip gloss on Slash I can see it!!! 😂😂😂
@@pcooper3559yeah he could have pulled it off. He’s not ugly, but he didn’t have the glam style the Poison boys did. I don’t think he would have gone for the lipgloss much less full makeup 😂😂😂
Sometimes, happiness is all about getting the girl and then some…
Just plain ol' rock n roll. Could I have done any better? Doubt it, these guys laid it all out for their fans! Good on them, and good for all who like to Rock.🤘🤪
EXACTLY! Love it.
They were just having fun.
I don’t ever recall referring to any of these bands in the 80’s as hair, glam, or any of the monikers given to it today, we just all called it rock. I suppose it’s akin to how Yacht rock got it label as well.
I seen poison in concert a little over a year ago. They kicked major ass!!! They literally brought the house down. They were the best act that night. When they sang "rose", the whole audience was moving from side to side, singing along with them.
Nothing but a good time , was the anthem of our middle school, it played before games and even our parents were into it. Nothing like seeing your principal singing along to glam Rock,.
It couldn’t happen at my school today. They only want to play Drake and Lil Baby 😂
I forgot how much I loved Poison and other metal bands
Poison isn't metal.
Poison is one of my favorites. I found half of a Poison Open Up & Say Ahh! cassette strung out in front of my house in the early 90's, with the other half of it a couple thousand more feet further down the road. I wound up that bad boy and enjoyed listening to it. I also found a copy of Look What the Cat Dragged in a few years earlier about a half mile or so from home all strung out and still in great shape. And I found an unbroken Poison greatest hits album in the 2000's. I loved listening to those.
I was working in a sweat shop barely surviving when this song came out. The video just made the meaning even clearer to me and my coworkers. Nothing but a good time was what we all needed. Hair metal got me through some extremely tough times. I lived here I go again by Whitesnake. It's amazing how songs can speak to you, and help you get through tough times.
It’s sad that people overlook a lot of hair metal songs. Some of them teach good lessons.
@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Yes they do.
Say what ya will, but Poison came up with some damn great party tunes!! They were certainly a classic Sunset Strip band, & Nothin But A Good Time, (& CCs classic performance @ the MVAs), proves it!! 6:45
Absolutely!!! Brett's Hollywood Taxi bike is what changed my mind on Harleys! I was a sport bike guy back then but I loved that thing!! (and I hate yellow and red, go figure!)
I have so much respect for what they do.
Like their music now much more than then. If I could choose my speaking voice,it would be Bret's. Wouldn't mind having that singing voice either.😎
Poison is one of those hard rock-metal bands that went clear past me while I was growing up. I don't even think I heard of them until their segment of Behind the Music first aired on VH1. Chances are, I heard Charlie Daniels' cover of "Every Rose" (or something like it) before I heard Poison's original.
Those hard rock Hoosiers that I have often commented about having tried to play with during 2008 put "Talk Dirty to Me" in the set of songs that we never got to play live. I wish this song had been right next to it.
At least it’s a good karaoke staple.
1983-84 and 1987-88 were perhaps some of the most competed and creative periods in music history. Everybody released awesome music, of every genre. All different and enjoyable to this day. The charts don't lie... 1991-92 were a sea-change and a also incredibly competed period. And then... No more.
Great episode! They definitely learned a lot from Kiss. I especially like the homage they paid on the cover of the album to Gene and Peter.
This music contrasts so greatly versus what we ended up listening to in the 90s. Poison's glam, upbeat, effeminate, over-the-top, and brightly-colored image got replaced by the glum and angsty image of grunge (Nirvana, Alice in Chains) and morbidity of goth rock like Nine Inch Nails, Tool, and Marilyn Manson. I'm not sure why things turned so dark when times in the world were actually pretty good.
This is why I found grunge so depressing. I never understood where those feelings came from when everything was so good back then.
I agree- I never liked grunge. It pretty much killed good rock n roll. 😔
I never understood how we went from upbeat party songs like this and "Unskinny Bop" to the grunge era in two short years. I once saw a stand up comedian say if anything epitomizes the emergence and shadow of HIV over the American conscious it was the difference between "Nothing But a Good Time" in 88 and Pearl Jam's "Alive" in 91. I actually switched to country music until that wave had passed. Now I am going back and finding really good hard rock and metal bands that didn't get airplay because of the Nirvana movement.
"finding really good hard rock and metal bands that didn't get airplay"
like who?
Good post!
Yeah, grunge basically washed out everything before it.
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980Yeah, it was sad. 😢
My gf at the time bought me Poisons cassette tape for my BD. I thought it was a chick band by the cover. Tossed it the glove box. A month later I finally figured out the Poison on the radio was the same Poison in the glove box. Fun times. 😊
C.C. DeVille is a HIGHLY underrated guitar player!!!
He was my first guitar influence!….specifically watching the Nothing But A Good Time music video.
I was 10 years old and that video/song blew me away!!
Those crunchy guitar chords and blazing solos….I was in awe!
Totally underrated and not appreciated enough….when someone things 80’s hair bands or 80’s power ballads Poison is usually the first to come to mind.
his solos are as memorable as the melody and chorus of the songs.
That same year I saw this video my brother came to visit from VA. And he had with him
Look what the cat dragged in and Cinderella’s Night Songs….I was hooked on hard rock!!!
The song that kicked off Countdown Revolution, the second iteration of Molly Meldrum's long-running ABC music programme Countdown (1974-1987). Revolution only lasted 18 months (July '89-Dec '90), but opened with Poison miming this.
Professor, I so much agree with the title of your video. Heavy Metal Glam Rock was the dominant feel-good music genre of the mid-to-late 1980's. I'd love to see it make a return. Poison were one of my favorite bands of that genre and this is one of their best songs.
YES! Thanks Stephen! What was your favorite song?
It would be a glorious return for sure.
Poison had a number one song with, Every Rose... A good accomplishment for them.
I still love the glam metal /Swedish Sleaze rock scene that still exists
Right on!
They’re keeping it alive!
There's a hair in my bubble gum. 👇
I got, Look What the Cat Dragged in for Christmas '86, my mum bought it for me and on Christmas day commented on them, saying they were a state and it was embarrassing. lol
Did my first gig with CC Devil. We were 15 and lived in Bay Ridge Brooklyn. CC s name is Bruce Johansson
Poison was part of my own good times. Everything changed in 91-92. As a teen in the 80s and a young man in the 90s, I enjoyed those years at 100%. Nothing that came later was close. As a still young man I was expecting the "next big thing" in music and culture in the 2000s and beyond. It never came.
yeah with the exception of the short lived nu metal fad, I think the music biz lost interest in any new rock acts post Foo Fighters. Usually the same powers who blame all their demise on internet and napster smh..
Glam and sleaze is still sort of having a underground 'afterlife' btw, especially some of the Scandinavian bands are right at the edge of mainstream
Cool song and story Professor! Can’t wait until tomorrow’s story!🤘🔥
Thanks for listening Brent!
Looked what the cat dragged in is one of my favorite tapes, probably next to GnR, Poisons, my second favorite 80s band.
Grew up on ac/dc and van hallen. Poison and motley crew rocked. Good music.
82 to 94 was thee quintessential time to grow up!!!🎉😎🥳
Best era ever!!! Music with positivity and with unique styles and rhythms. I'm so grateful for my memories during that time ❤
Talk Dirty to Me Fallen Angel Cause Your Momma don't Dance & Your Daddy Don't Rock n Roll. Have a great Hump Day everyone, from Tampa Florida..
Thanks Michael! You too!
Go do the unskinny bop and look what the cat dragged in! Rock on Michael 🤘
Saw them twice, once in the eighties, and the nineties. The band always sounded as good as their record.Brett made a point both times I saw them live, to switch up some of the words, so that real fans knew he was really singing at the time!! Awesome performance, both times.😊
Another great episode of memories! Poison opening for David Lee Roth was my first concert as well! What a time to be alive!!!!
There are some Swedish bands that have been playing this genre in the 21st century but of course, they're not top 40 material anywhere in the world. Having said that, I prefer the originals, I like "Nothing but a good time" very much, it's one of my favorites by Poison. I was into what MTV regularly used to play as far as Glam and whatever Metal subgenres or whatever (I hate labels in Rock n Roll 😐) and I enjoy them maybe even more now than I did back then. Definitely lost interest in the 90's but I always go back to their 80's material, just as I do when it comes to other completely different bands and artists from Duran Duran to R.E.M. to Bon Jovi, even if they've continued to release music throughout the years.
Keep up the cool job, Prof!
I’ve seen Poison like 5 times. Super fun rock shows.