Track Information
The album’s themes are partying ("Nothin’ but a Good Time", "Your Mama Don't Dance"), lost innocence ("Back to the Rocking Horse", "Fallen Angel"), lost love ("Every Rose Has Its Thorn"), anti-social behavior ("Bad to Be Good"), and, most importantly, sex ("Love on the Rocks", "Good Love", "Tearin’ Down the Walls", "Look but You Can’t Touch").
Vocalist Bret Michaels wrote the band's most successful single, "Every Rose Has Its Thorn", in response to a failed love affair with a Los Angeles stripper. Poison had been playing at a cowboy bar called The Ritz in Dallas, Texas. After the show, Michaels called the woman at her apartment and heard a man's voice in the background. Heartbroken, Michaels wrote the song with an acoustic guitar in a laundromat.
The song "Nothin' but a Good Time" was born from the merger of a guitar riff by C. C. DeVille and a chorus by Michaels. Michaels later explained that he was in search of a "kick ass big arena rock song" which would make him feel good about his life. The song was about "not wanting to be held back by working a job and being depressed", as portrayed in its music video.
The track "Your Mama Don't Dance" was a cover version of the 1972 song written by Loggins and Messina from their 1972 self-titled album.
Two additional songs written for the record - "Livin' for the Minute" and "Gotta Face the Hangman" were later released as B-sides (although "Hangman" was later included on Crack a Smile... and More!).
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