Poison : Flesh And Blood

This is Poison's third studio album and marks a step up musically for the band. In particular, CC Deville, much maligned for his guitar work through the years, made a huge leap in his style of play. The album spawned two hit singles, Unskinny Bop and Something To Believe In, but Life Goes On, Flesh and Blood, and Ride the Wind all became hit singles to varying degrees.
The album cover was supposed to show the Poison logo and the name of the album tattooed on Rikki Rockett's arm, but instead was pulled at the last minute due to Rikki's arm still being inflamed from the tattoo process. The album also features several songs that take on a darker, more personal note than the previous two Poison records.

As for the meaning of Unskinny Bop, the band has admitted it really means nothing. It was a musical measure that CC was playing and Brett liked. The producer thought that Unskinny Bop was a perfect lyrical fit for the music, and the song stayed on the album.

Relive Flesh and Blood today, released in 1990, if you get a chance. The album marks a maturity in Poison's sound, and it is our Album O' The Week. For your pleasure, I've included a picture of the original album cover, complete with Rikki's puffed up arm. Enjoy your Thursday Angels, I'll see you in a bit.

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Permalink Reply by Andrew "aXemAn" on November 6, 2008 at 8:46am: My favorite Poison album is always a toss-up between the first 3....This is a great album, and one of the favorites in my collection. The big hits on it are good...but it also included a number of greatly underrated songs like; Life Loves A Tragedy, Don't Give Up An Inch, and Ball & Chain..among others.

Love this album, good write up Rob!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by SlamThunderhide -- MFA Admin on November 6, 2008 at 9:01am: Interesting -- I was listening to this just this morning for the first time in a long time. It has my all-time favorite Poison song on it, Life Loves a Tragedy.

That's the only album cover I've seen for this that I can recal (and I'm almost positive it's the one that I had, but not 100% sure)l -- what was the alternate one?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by phoenixheart on November 6, 2008 at 9:07am: I just went out and looked at my copy and that's what's on it...lol I would love to see the alternate as well:); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Eddieleppard on November 6, 2008 at 9:11am: Yes th entire album is amazing, is one of the classics albums in rock music; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by SlamThunderhide -- MFA Admin on November 6, 2008 at 9:13am: Ahhh...I got it Phoenix. It's a very minor difference between the banned and the released:; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by phoenixheart on November 6, 2008 at 9:18am: So I got up again and looked...lol My cassete is the second one but the cd is the first one...so both have actually been released.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by SlamThunderhide -- MFA Admin on November 6, 2008 at 9:20am: And there you have it. Great sleuth work by both you and I -- we can get some shit done, can't we? We should run for Pres and VP in 2012 -- you can be the pres. (it's time for a woman president) and I will sit back and ride your coat tails...; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by phoenixheart on November 6, 2008 at 2:32pm: Well...I won't be old enough yet..lol hehe well, shit screw the president bull, we should start a business...any rock triva ?'s ans'd...lol That'll work;) Either way you could still ride my coat tails I guess, no ones ever done that before:); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by phoenixheart on November 6, 2008 at 9:14am: Now being as I am a Poison fan:) I love all their music but this cd in particular seemed to be more blues influenced and very emotionally charged....Ride the Wind will always be close to my heart....as will the whole cd, this tour was the first time I saw them and the memory still lingers(which little else does in this brain) And Something to Believe in came out during a time which I think gave a bit of inspiration...This cd was def. a turn for Poison, I feel that they did go more bluesy and it worked...most of the songs still resinate with me...But I do believe that Unskinny Bob had to do with CC and some young ladies who were "unskinny" but that's just putting things from interveiws together from through the years:); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by CRUE-REGIO on November 6, 2008 at 9:18am: i like this record, yeahhh.

But just remind me, does this include: "Life goes on" "Ride The wind".

I do know for sure that "Unskinny bop" is here (by the way, probably one of the worst singles ever released by Poison) but the rest is good including the title album song.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by wildrobbie on November 6, 2008 at 9:22am: i have been a poison fan since "talk dirty to me" and have all their albums.love the first three the best.but if i had to choose just one album to keep,it would be this one.i love every song ont it.especially "life loves a tregady".whole i love CATand OPEN UP,there is now way i could give up this.it is one of my all time favirote albums.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Tawnya on November 6, 2008 at 9:22am: I think this is Poison's best album. Ride the Wind and Life Goes On are my favorites and are great songs from these guys!; ▶ Reply to This

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