Call them superficial, but blasting these is still a headbanger’s ball. A rather confused work, but with coordinates that point to a disturbing. Timewise, the perimeters were clearer: mid Eighties to early Nineties, pretty much. Poison Tongue/ Bloody Throat is a grindcore band playing old Factrix compositions. More holds up musically than you might guess: Trimming this list to a mere 50 albums was so tough that in the long run Guns N’ Roses had to be disqualified for transcending the form and W.A.S.P. Swept under history’s rug and summarily dismissed as fake when thrash and grunge came along, hair-metal’s been out of the spotlight long enough by now to be forgiven for all but its sleaziest sins.
As did the music, at least through the rest of the decade - and most of it grew increasingly prettified and prefabricated, until it didn’t. In any other era they might’ve just been labeled “hard rock,” but at some point somebody came up with the probably pejorative term “hair-metal,” and the name stuck. Ness (nessaabarrett, nessa barrett) latest TikTok videos 10.3M Followers, 406.8M Likes Watch Nesss trending TikTok music, hashtags, songs and more. Visually flamboyant and prone to shout-along hooks in ways that made them saleable in a video-single format, bands like Def Leppard, Quiet Riot, Twisted Sister and Ratt owed way more to British glam-rock or Aerosmith than to Black Sabbath. “Temptest Nightmare” is the biggest shocker on the EP, an electronic new wave cut deeply rooted in goth rock, a sound which is nowhere to be found in the band’s later work.Catchy, concise and more committed to getting parties rolling or groping groupies than conquering Valhalla or thinking depressive thoughts, what first passed as metal on Eighties MTV didn’t have much in common with what gets called metal now - or even what had mostly been called metal in the Seventies. “Expiration” is a cool Halloween song and sounds very 1983. “Let Freedom Ring” was re-recorded for their debut album in 1987, it’s stripped to little more than Starling’s voice, a drum machine, and a warbly (but not overpowering) synth.
“Laced” is a much less produced sound for the band with tracks like “Seal It With A Kiss” which sounds like a track that Company B would have recorded on their debut record, but Starling’s vocals bring it home as a Pretty Poison track.
The EP is well before the band had their biggest hit in 1987 “Catch Me (I’m Falling)” which became a top-ten hit in the United States on the Billboard Hot 100. The EP is well before the band had their biggest hit in 1987 Catch Me (I’m Falling) which became a top-ten hit in the United States on the Billboard Hot 100. “Laced” is the debut EP by the American Synth-pop band from Philadelphia, Pretty Poison formed by Jade Starling and Whey Cooler. Pretty Poison - Laced (US 12' EP) (1983) Laced is the debut EP by the American Synth-pop band from Philadelphia, Pretty Poison formed by Jade Starling and Whey Cooler.
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