Heard at Nate Jones’ very awesome BBQ yesterday, “Poison” is this week’s Weekend Song. Why? Because if you don’t like “Poison,” you probably have no soul and will be sentenced to a hellish eternity where Justin Timberlake is the highest manifestation of R&B music.
Question for the day. Is any revelation more damning than Ronnie Devoe’s admission that “me and the crew used to do her.” Somewhere, a heart was torn asunder. The moral of the story of course: never trust a big butt and a smile.
Download:
MP3: Bell Biv Devoe: “Poison”
10 comments
say what says:
August 3, 2008 at 1:47 pm (UTC -7)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvVZegDnbJU
Passion of the Weiss says:
August 3, 2008 at 1:55 pm (UTC -7)
That clip is so awesome it almost made me wish that I watched Scrubs.
Disco Vietnam says:
August 3, 2008 at 8:48 pm (UTC -7)
Scrubs is the best
J Pesos says:
August 4, 2008 at 8:56 am (UTC -7)
I’m feeling like “Poison” will be the next “Don’t Stop Believing” for non-suburban white kids to wild out to at dive bars/clubs, and this is a good thing. I already get it requested at the bar I work at semi-regularly. Much rather hear some new jack swing with an actual GROOVE than frat boys singing Bon Jovi. The early 90s retro revival can’t go mainstream fast enough.
J Pesos says:
August 4, 2008 at 8:57 am (UTC -7)
and if anyone knows any other great new jack songs, list them here.
DocZeus says:
August 4, 2008 at 11:30 am (UTC -7)
Pertinent Question: Poison…Great Song Or The Greatest Song?
Passion of the Weiss says:
August 4, 2008 at 11:47 am (UTC -7)
I vote greatest song. If for nothing else, it’s ability to get frat boys to stop listening to Journey.
I also vote “Hootie Mack” as the worst follow-up ever.
CommishCH says:
August 4, 2008 at 2:55 pm (UTC -7)
Saw BBD in concert at McNichols Arena, Feb 1991.
The early 90s fashion would make us all cringe. My girl at the time rocked some jeans that were airbrushed with BBD’s slogan (“Mentally Hip Hop Smoothed Out On the R&B Tip With a Pop Feel Appeal To It”) on the leg and “Do Me” on the ass. Some dude in the mall charged her like $25 to do it.
Kevin J. Elliott says:
August 4, 2008 at 2:58 pm (UTC -7)
Lest we forget “Do Me” — the trio’s precursor to Kell’s sex jams — “backstage/underage” or “smack it up flip it/rub it down” Would love to read a tell-all of the teenage New Edition years.
Passion of the Weiss says:
August 4, 2008 at 3:24 pm (UTC -7)
Commish: Post photos. Please.
Kevin: Agreed. “Do Me” and “Poison” were in fact the only two videos I ever ordered on the box. They never aired.