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The Power Of Poison Is On Full Display With 30th Anniversary 180-Gram #RedVinyl Reissue Of Open Up And Say… Ahh! #RockIcons Salute Five-Times Platinum Best-Selling Album With Restored, Controversial Original Cover Art Via Capitol/UMe on #April20 #LOSANGELES, April 20, 2018/@PRNewswire/ -- @capitolrecords /@umemusic is poised to celebrate the #30thanniversary of Poison's best-selling #album, 1988's five-times- #platinum Open Up And Say… Ahh!, with a sensationally reproduced 180-gram reissue. The LP was pressed in two collectible color variants: red vinyl (available at select retailers) and a limited edition of 1,000 in #greenvinyl (available exclusively at The Sound Of #Vinyl). Order Poison's Open Up And Say… Ahh! here This exciting #LP #reissue also restores the album's original full-frame #coverart, which initially featured a glammed-up cat person's elongated tongue extending fully down the middle of the #coverimage, ultimately protruding between the last two words of the #album title that had been scrawled across the bottom. Yet back in the day, Open Up And Say… Ahh! was instead issued with a tighter, widescreen, mostly green-eyes-only view amidst a black background. Originally released on May 3, 1988, Open Up And Say… Ahh! cemented Poison's status as one of the biggest bands of the 1980s, in turn garnering four Top 20 hits and including their first No. 1 single, "Every Rose Has Its Thorn." Produced by Tom Werman (Cheap Trick, Ted Nugent, Twisted Sister), engineered by Duane Baron, and recorded at Conway Recording Studios in Los Angeles, Open Up And Say… Ahh! sealed Poison's standing in the #rockpantheon with ten tracks chock-full of instantly singable choruses mixed with fist-pumping riffs, courtesy of the four-man-band chemistry between vocalist/rhythm #guitarist @bretmichaelsofficial , lead guitarist C.C. DeVille, bassist #BobbyDall, and drummer #RikkiRockett. The #acousticdriven universal lover's lament "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" reached No. 1 in December 1988, and fans of the #cultfavorite 1991 film Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey will recall the power ballad's ubiquitous chorus as being the answer to the eternal question, "What is the meaning of life?"