Tuesday, January 31, 2017

"Call It Poison" by The Escape Club

The London pop rock band, The Escape Club, stormed onto the scene with their smash #1 hit, "Wild Wild West" in 1988. The band attempted to repeat this success with a strong follow-up single in 1991, "Call It Poison". In my opinion, the tune had the goods, but for some reason it stalled out at #44. Astute listeners may be able to pick out the sample of Deep Purple's "Strange Kind Of Woman" in this song.

The band's second single from that album, "Dollars & Sex", did much better. The tear-jerker of a song about dying called "I'll Be There" reached #8, and it strangely proved to be the epitaph for the band's chart career.

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