Modern Rock #1 Hits of 1995

regardless of how you feel about hair metal power ballads, '90s alt-rock power ballads are worse. i mean, fucking "Lightning Crashes" is in this poll.

it always baffles me that people rep for "Every Rose Has Its Thorn", which is without a doubt one of the worst songs ever recorded in the history of mankind that doesn't feature blatant racism

You know, not to belabor the point, but especially a Green Day song called "Gang of Dogs Playing Poker".

Hair Metal guys tended to have a good voice for the ballads whereas alt-rock guys wd just be grunting in a more sincere register

do you realize that if someone had just dropped a giant boulder on Poison back before "Talk Dirty To Me" came out, the world would be a much better place today

Not a good start to the long weekend: I reread the 21st Century Breakdown thread this morning because I forgot that Green Day released another album after 2004 and it was called 21st Century Breakdown.

you'd have to say Green Day's "animals engaged in popular pastimes" concept album's probly got a 50/50 chance of appearing eventually

only if the animals lived in red states

where poker is mostly legal, strangely enough.

have to give the dogs something to do

they should title it Doggystyle, a concept album about being alienated and homosexual in a red state

That list of songs is 83 wasted mouse-clicks.

in re: "Every Rose":

To hear that tears me up inside
And to see you cuts me like a knife

all responsible for these words finding public purchase should be taken out to sea and cast into the watery depths, fuck "every rose" forever

Not a good start to the long weekend: I reread the 21st Century Breakdown thread this morning because I forgot that Green Day released another album after 2004 and it was called 21st Century Breakdown.

― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, May 25, 2012 10:14 AM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

put your big boy pants on, because Green Day is set to release THREE ALBUMS this year

have we ever polled one of those "monster ballads" hair metal comps they used to advertise on tv?

To hear that tears me up inside
And to see you cuts me like a knife
oh it's called love
and it's cuts through life like a broken knife
it's called love love love love love

put your big boy pants on, because Green Day is set to release THREE ALBUMS this year

Thought you were kidding on this, but wow. Creatively titled ¡Uno!, ¡Dos! and ¡Tré!.

I loled.

hahaha wait

this is my favorite stupid album conceit since Sweat/Suit

¡Catorce!

hahahahaha omg

Thought you were kidding on this, but wow. Creatively titled ¡Uno!, ¡Dos! and ¡Tré!.

Please tell me that is going to be like the KISS solo albums from the 70s.

please tell me that these are going to be salsa reinterpretations of the first two Led Zepplin albums and the third Chicago album

i do hope the third one is just a Tre Cool solo album, his stupid showboating drum solos >>> Billie Joe's songs at this point

grunting in a more sincere register
might break my no new usernames rule for this

do you realize that if someone had just dropped a giant boulder on Poison back before "Talk Dirty To Me" came out, the world would be a much better place today

"Talk Dirty To Me" is hilarious, silly fun, I cast you out demon, etc.

DJP! Talk dirty to me is fuckin great.

CC pick up that guitar!

it's no "Nothin' But a Good Time."

I guess I should thank Poison for being so indescribably terrible that they drove me away from pop radio and into industrial and indie when I was 13

thanks Poison, you sad sack of shit for a band!

DJP this anti-Poison stance is not OK!

the one thing I will grant Poison is that Bret Michaels is a better singer than Axl Rose

although really a dead turtle is better than Axl Rose, so I guess my stance is "Poison: about as good as a dead turtle"

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5f/Open_Up_and_Say_Ahh_Cover.jpg

The album sucked, but that cover was like the "Yesterday & Today" of my youth.

my favorite Poison story:

as teenaged guys are wont to do, a bunch of us were hanging out talking about female musicians we thought were hot and one guy said "the drummer from Poison, man she's GORGEOUS"

hahahaha

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/RikkiRockett.JPG/800px-RikkiRockett.JPG

since when was the drummer even a hot chick?

Shades of Family Guy:

Peter: If you could be stranded on a desert island with any woman in the world, who would it be?
Glen Quagmire: Taylor Hanson.
Joe Swanson: Taylor Hanson is a guy.
Glen Quagmire: [Laughs] You guys are yankin' me. "Hey, let's put one over on Quagmire."
Peter: No, he's actually a guy, Quagmire.
Glen Quagmire: What? That's insane. That's impossible.
[Pause]
Glen Quagmire: Oh god. Oh my god. I've got all these magazines. Oh god.

he was going off of this:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b7/Poison-Look-What-the-Cat-Dragged-In.jpg

when we told him that was a guy, his response was "well if he was a chick I'd totally do her"

that whole LA school of "Liking the NY Dolls But Not Understanding What Made Them Good" was a toxic moment in music...you might even say it was...poison

Wow. That's a LOT of makeup on those dudes. I can see it (not sure which is the drummer there.. based off prettiness, bottom left?)

re the Poison album sleeve: are those their nicknames?

Wow. That's a LOT of makeup on those dudes. I can see it (not sure which is the drummer there.. based off prettiness, bottom left?)

I think that's CC? My guess is bottom right because that makes the story even more hilarious

Quoting lyrics to discredit good-to-great pop songs is really kind of dead end...

You'll burn the house down, then you'll do it again, and again, and again still.

hey wait are Poison to blame for the 2012 duckface epidemic? Hmmm..

that whole LA school of "Liking the NY Dolls (Insert Band) But Not Understanding What Made Them Good" was a toxic moment in music

Fixed. I mean, this is pretty descriptive of a whole slew of the shittiest music in the world.

drummer is bottom dude on the right side, cece is bottom dude on left side, bret is top left