Swallow This Live | ||||
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Released | November 12, 1991 | |||
Recorded | 1991 | |||
Genre | Glam metal | |||
Length | 59:37 (disc 1) 55:32 (disc 2) | |||
Label | EMI Music, Capitol | |||
Producer | Poison | |||
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Swallow This Live is the first live album by American glam metal band Poison. It was released in 1991 by Capitol Records. The album peaked at number 51 on the Billboard 200, [2] number 42 on the Cash Box albums chart, [3] and was certified Gold in 2001 by the RIAA. [4]
The album features sixteen live tracks from Poison's first three studio albums Look What the Cat Dragged In , Open Up and Say...Ahh! , and Flesh and Blood . These live tracks were recorded in Miami, Orlando, and Tampa during the Florida section of Poison’s Flesh and Blood world tour. Swallow This Live also contains four new studio tracks, which were the last recorded before guitarist C.C. DeVille departed from Poison later in 1991. One of these, "So Tell Me Why", was released as a single and reached number 25 in the United Kingdom in November 1991 [5] and features a music video.
Disc 1
Disc 2
The UK single disc version contained a cut down track listing that lost the guitar and drum solos and the tracks "Let It Play", "Life Goes On", "Ride the Wind", and "Love on the Rocks".
Capitol Records released a digitally remastered edition of Swallow This Live in a single-disc format on June 1, 2004. Aside from the bonus studio tracks, this release is missing "Poor Boy Blues," the drum solo, and the guitar solo (although part of the guitar solo was included in the first 3+1⁄2 minutes of "Every Rose Has Its Thorn"; the main song starts at 4:47). In addition, much of the profanity from the original release has been edited out and the track listing was slightly altered to have "Thorn" as the last song on the disc.
Swallow This Live: Flesh & Blood World Tour is a Poison concert video, recorded Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre in 1991. It was initially released as a pay per view concert but a planned home video release was later cancelled.
Chart (1991–1992) | Peak position |
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Australian Albums (ARIA) [6] | 46 |
Japanese Albums (Oricon) [7] | 47 |
UK Albums (OCC) [8] | 52 |
US Billboard 200 [9] | 51 |
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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United States (RIAA) [10] | Gold | 500,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
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