"Crack a Smile" was mostly recorded in 1994, near the end of the last big metal boom (isn't it great how metal is so circuitous - it fades after awhile but it always, always comes back) and - because the fans were skewing away from the fun, poppish big sounds of Poison and their ilk and moving toward the gritty grunge sound of Pearl Jam and Nirvana - it was completed but never released. Until now."Crack A Smile" is a cool record.The songs are guitar driven but the radio friendly stuff we listened to way back when. And they're not half-bad. But mostly, it's just pure sleaze hard rock (or 80s pop metal) from the days when metal was fun. Remember those days? I do. And I miss them. "One More for the Bone" and "Set You Free" are outtakes from the original "Crack A Smile" album and track #15 is an unfinished demo from the CD. Also included is "Face the Hangman," an outtake from "Open Up and Say ... Ahh!" and four cuts from MTV's Unplugged. Those four cuts are "Your Mama Don't Dance", "Every Rose Has Its Thorn", "Unskinny Bop" and "Talk Dirty to Me".
Poison are: Bret Michaels, vocals, rhythm/acoustic guitar; Bobby Dall, bass, backing vocals; Rikki Rockett, drums, percussion, backing vocals; Blues Sarceno, lead/rhythm/acoustic guitar; piano; backing vocals; C.C. DeVille, lead guitar.
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