Flesh and Blood (Poison album)
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| Studio album by Poison | ||||
| Released | June 21, 1990 | |||
| Recorded | 1989 - 1990 at Little Mountain Sound Studios, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada | |||
| Genre | Glam metal, hard rock | |||
| Length | 57:38 | |||
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| Producer | Bruce Fairbairn, Mike Fraser | |||
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Original banned blood version
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| Singles from Flesh & Blood | ||||
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| Entertainment Weekly | B− |
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Flesh & Blood is the third studio album by American glam metal band Poison, released in 1990 through the Enigma label of Capitol Records. The album peaked at #2 on the Billboard charts and it sold over 7.2 million copies worldwide.
The album spawned two top 10 singles: "Unskinny Bop" and "Something to Believe In", as well as three other hit singles: "Ride The Wind", "Life Goes On", and "(Flesh & Blood) Sacrifice".
Flesh & Blood was certified Platinum in 1990 and Triple Platinum in 1991 by the RIAA. It has also been certified by CAN 4x platinum and by BPI gold.
The album was recorded and mixed at Little Mountain Sound Studios, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with Canadian producer Bruce Fairbairn and mixer Mike Fraser.
The front cover of the album featured the Poison logo and album title as a tattoo on Rikki Rockett's arm. The cover was originally planned to have a slightly different version of the tattoo cover that featured the tattoo after being freshly inked. This showed the skin as red and inflamed with dripping ink or blood. This cover was pulled though and instead a cleaned up tattoo was shown. The original cover was released for the initial pressing in Japan but was subsequently removed from all later pressings (including those in Japan). The record’s marketing reflected the end of the more extreme elements in Poison’s "glam" image, including its excessive make-up and teased, girlish hair (see Look What the Cat Dragged In), featuring a look similar to Guns N' Roses.
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