Robbed hit of the week 9/25/17 - The Escape Club's "Call It Poison"...
from the album Dollars & Sex (1991)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #44
This week's "robbed hit" comes from the British new wave band the Escape Club, who had sent their single "Wild Wild West" to #1 on the American pop chart in 1988, followed by the top-40 hit "Shake For The Sheik". (A third single, "Walking Through Walls", was a minor pop hit at #81.) Two years later, the foursome led by singer Trevor Steel and guitarist John Holliday released their third album Dollars & Sex. The first single from the record, "Call It Poison", continued in the vein of their first hits, combining slightly edgy lyrics about current situations and putting them to a funk rock beat not unlike INXS. Written by Steel and Holliday with bandmates Johnnie Christo and Milan Zekavica, the song was loud and fresh and ready for radio consumption, with a seeming diss at the current-time glut of glam-metal bands, hence the pun on "Poison"...
However, "Call It Poison" just missed the American top-40 in March of 1991. Like their previous work, it didn't even make a dent in the British chart.
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Here's the club mix of the record, one of the first productions of dancefloor legend Danny Tenaglia...
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