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“Fallen Angel” by Poison
From the album Open Up and Say… Ahh! (1988)
“Fallen Angel” by Poison appears on 5 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 1990 and 2025. It was first released in 1988 on the album Open Up and Say… Ahh!. Its best result is #375 on the 99.1 PLR Big 500 (2022). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #2,521 classic rock song of all time.
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"Fallen Angel" was the second single from Open Up and Say... Ahh!, Poison's second album, in 1988, and for all its glam-metal gloss it tells a small-town-girl-in-the-big-city story. Its heroine leaves a little town in Ohio for Los Angeles to chase an acting career and sheds her old life along the way, which hit close to home: Bret Michaels, Bobby Dall and Rikki Rockett had all left Pennsylvania for Los Angeles chasing their own shot at fame.
All four, with C.C. DeVille on guitar, share the writing credit, and Tom Werman produced, mixing it with Duane Baron and John Purdell. It reached number 12 on the Hot 100 and went gold, yet it was the only single from the album that fell short of the top ten. "Bad to Be Good" rode along on the B-side of the seven-inch.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
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All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 524 | Z-Rock | Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990) | 1000 |
| 2022 | 375 | 99.1 PLR | 99.1 PLR Big 500 (2022) | 500 |
| 2023 | 882 | Q104.3 | Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2023) | 1043 |
| 2024 | 816 | Q104.3 | Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2024) | 1043 |
| 2025 | 989 | Q104.3 | Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2025) | 1043 |
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