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The album’s themes were 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 behaviour (“Bad to Be Good”), and, most importantly, sex (“Love on the Rocks”, “Good Love”, “Tearin’ Down the Walls”, “Look But You Can’t Touch”).

Michaels wrote the 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, Michales wrote the song with an acoustic guitar in a [[laundromat]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Open_Up_And_Say...Ahh!].

The track “Your Mama Don’t Dance” was a cover version of the 1972 song written by [[Kenny Loggins]] and [[Jim Messina]].

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10. Bad to Be Good

== References ==

* [http://www.classicrockrevisited.com/trax/classic%20trax%20poison.htm Classic Rock Revisited, Classic Trax, Interview with Bret Michaels. Retrieved January 6, 2005.