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Open Up and Say… Ahh! by Poison
Open Up and Say… Ahh! is an album by Poison, released in 1988. 5 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 135 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Every Rose Has Its Thorn”, on 65 lists with a best position of #44.
Open Up and Say... Ahh!, Poison's second album, came out on April 27, 1988, through Enigma and Capitol, with Tom Werman producing. The lineup from Look What the Cat Dragged In was intact: Bret Michaels singing and playing rhythm guitar, C.C. DeVille on lead guitar, Bobby Dall on bass and Rikki Rockett on drums, four good-time merchants out of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania.
It's a party record and it knows it. "Nothin' But a Good Time" is a blast of power chords and gang shouts, "Fallen Angel" and "Look But You Can't Touch" strut and preen, and they even trot out a cover of Loggins and Messina's "Your Mama Don't Dance". Then comes "Every Rose Has Its Thorn", a slow, heart-on-sleeve power ballad that went all the way to number one, the only time Poison ever got there. The album stalled one rung short of the top of the Billboard 200 and went 5× platinum by 1991.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Open Up and Say… Ahh! on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Every Rose Has Its Thorn#498 of all time | 65 | #44 | – | 1990–2026 | |
| 2 | Nothin But a Good Time | 61 | #41 | – | 1990–2026 | |
| 3 | Fallen Angel | 5 | #375 | – | 1990–2025 | |
| 4 | Your Mama Don't Dance | 3 | #344 | – | 1990–2022 | |
| 5 | Look But You Can't Touch | 1 | #452 | – | 1990 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.