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“Talk Dirty to Me” by Poison
From the album Look What the Cat Dragged In (1986)
“Talk Dirty to Me” by Poison appears on 31 radio countdowns from 14 stations between 1990 and 2026. It was first released in 1986 on the album Look What the Cat Dragged In. Its best result is #106 on the Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #862 classic rock song of all time.
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"Talk Dirty to Me" was the second single from Look What the Cat Dragged In, Poison's debut, and when it came out in February 1987 it gave the glam metal crew their first American top 40 hit, climbing all the way to No. 9 on the Hot 100.
The song arrived with its guitarist. C.C. DeVille showed up to audition in 1985, refused to learn the band's songs and insisted they play one he said he'd written in his old band, the Screaming Mimis: a rough early draft of this very tune, a teenage-love romp built on a riff inspired by Eddie Cochran. The others couldn't stand his attitude but loved the song, and hired him largely to get it. Bret Michaels sings, Bobby Dall and Rikki Rockett hold the bottom end, and Ric Browde produced.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
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