Poison Double Dip with “Double Dose”

There comes a time in every music collector’s life where we utter, “Another (name of artist) compilation?!” The time has come to put Poison in those parentheses; their latest collection is due in stores on May 3.

Double Dose: Ultimate Hits does have a lot of worthy material for new fans. In addition to collating all the band’s notable singles, it includes a fair amount of album cuts and at least one or two non-LP tracks that were scooped up on reissues or prior compilations. But for hardcore fans, there’s nothing new – this is yet another in a long line of compilations, particularly after one that came out not too long ago. But if you need a primer for the band’s upcoming tour – or a reminder of something other than Bret Michaels’ questionable musical activities at present – here you go.

Double Dose is yours to buy at Amazon; check the track list after the jump.

Poison, Double Dose: Ultimate Hits (EMI/Capitol, 2011)

Disc 1

1. Nothin’ But a Good Time
2. Talk Dirty to Me
3. Look What the Cat Dragged In
4. Be the One
5. We’re an American Band
6. Life Goes On
7. Every Rose Has Its Thorn
8. Stand
9. Livin’ for the Minute
10. Little Willy
11. (Flesh & Blood) Sacrifice
12. I Won’t Forget You
13. Rock and Roll All Nite
14. Love on the Rocks
15. Suffragette City
16. Lay Your Body Down
17. Until You Suffer Some (Fire and Ice)
18. No More Lookin’ Back (Poison Jazz)

Disc 2

1. Unskinny Bop
2. Cry Tough
3. I Want Action
4. Your Mama Don’t Dance
5. Something to Believe In
6. Fallen Angel
7. Ride the Wind
8. Bastard Son of a Thousand Blues
9. Sexual Thing
10. Can’t You See
11. So Tell Me Why
12. What I Like About You
13. Face the Hangman (Outtake from Open Up and Say…Ahh!)
14. Cover of the Rolling Stone
15. Poor Boy Blues
16. Look But You Can’t Touch
17. Theatre of the Soul

Disc 1, Tracks 1, 7 and 14 and Disc 2, Tracks 4, 6 and 16 from Open Up and Say…Ahh! (Enigma/Capitol, 1988)
Disc 1, Tracks 2-3 and 12 and Disc 2, Tracks 2-3 from Look What the Cat Dragged In (Enigma/Capitol, 1986)
Disc 1, Track 4 and Disc 2, Tracks 13-14 from Crack a Smile…and More! (Capitol, 2000)
Disc 1, Track 5 from The Best of Poison: 20 Years of Rock (EMI/Capitol, 2006)
Disc 1, Tracks 6 and 11 and Disc 2, Tracks 1, 5, 7 and 15 from Flesh & Blood (Capitol, 1990)
Disc 1, Tracks 8 and 17 and Disc 2, Tracks 8 and 17 from Native Tongue (Capitol, 1993)
Disc 1, Track 9 was the B-side to “Every Rose Has Its Thorn” (Enigma/Capitol, 1988)
Disc 1, Tracks 10 and 15 and Disc 2, Tracks 10 and 12 from Poison’d! (EMI/Capitol, 2007)
Disc 1, Track 13 from Less Than Zero: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Def Jam, 1987)
Disc 1, Track 16 and Disc 2, Track 9 from Poison’s Greatest Hits 1986-1996 (Capitol, 1996)
Disc 1, Track 18 and Disc 2, Track 11 from Swallow This Live (Capitol, 1991)