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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 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”).

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

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". [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]].

== Track Listing ==