Today, we wrap up our look back at the album that was Standing On The Edge; an album not without its highlights, but one that most surely revealed just how desperate the band was to boost their chart status. Thus, it was the first appearance of a "song doctor", if you will, in the form of Mark Radice, who had a hand in the writing of a majority of the songs on this effort.
So, here we have the last two tracks on the album:
COVER GIRL
Musically, this is one of the album's highpoints; an up-tempo rocker that you just know was gonna sound great live! Unfortunately, the lyrics were unspeakably bad, as indicated by the song title. "Cover Girl"?! This from a band once capable of delivering deliciously demented rockers like "Daddy Should Have Stayed In High School" and "The Ballad Of TV Violence (I'm Not The Only Boy". Seeing them reduced to writing songs like "She's Got Motion" and "Cover Girl" was just painful.
I mean, this was total Rod Stewart territory - a more rocked-up "Infatuation", if you will.
WILD WILD WOMEN
Speaking of horrific titles. Yikes. Everything about this song is lowest common denominator. Musically, it's as cliched and predictable as anything you'd find on a Poison album that nobody bought (you know, the ones recorded after CC Deville had split). Lyrically, this is a real low-point for the band.
Driving to me, it'll be easy
After all that's what it's for
If the fire's too hot, get out of the kitchen
Or do it, do it, do it, on the floor
Oh, man.
NOTE: The Standing On The Edge tracks are available through the weekend so grab them now, before they're gone.
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