Songoftheday 11/16/17 - I've felt this before now I feel it again, no matter how hard I try this feeling won't end...

"Life Goes On" - Poison
from the album Flesh + Blood (1990)
Billboard Hot 100 peak; #35 (two weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 2

Today's song of the day comes from the glam metal band Poison, whose third album Flesh + Blood had scored them a pair of top ten pop hits with "Unskinny Bop" and "Something To Believe In", along with track "Ride The Wind" which also reached the top-40. The fourth single released from the album was the midtempo life lesson "Life Goes On". Written by the band (lead singer Bret Michaels, guitarist CC Deville, bass player Bobby Dall, and drummer Ricky Rockett), it would become their last to reach the pop top-40...

"Life Goes On" climbed into the pop top-40 in June of 1991. Surprisingly, the song missed the rock airplay chart altogether. A fifth release from the record, the title track "Flesh & Blood (Sacrifice)", didn't reach the charts in the U.S. but was a minor hit in the Netherlands at #88. A live album, Swallow This Live, followed, with new track "So Tell Me Why" hitting the British top-40 at #25.

Deville was kicked out of the band by the end of 1991 from excessive drug use, with Richie Kotzen taking his place for the band's next studio effort Native Tongue in 1993. While their look and sound had evolved from the make-up-laden start to a more country-rock vagabond chic, grunge music like Nirvana and Pearl Jam had dominated radio by then, and lead single "Stand" stopped short on the pop Hot 100 at the halfway mark of #50 and peaked at #15 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock tally (it did climb to a respectable #25 on the British singles chart). A second single, "Until You Suffer Some (Fire & Ice)", also reached the UK top-40 at #32. Kotzen was also fired during the subsequent tour, with Blues Saraceno, who played on new tracks on their greatest hits set in 1996.

Deville returned to the band in 1999, and since then they have been touring frequently on the metal oldies circuit, one of the most consistently successful bands in concert. Meanwhile, Michaels carved a niche for himself, appearing in various "reality" TV shows like three seasons of his own "Rock Of Love" dating competition and the Celebrity Apprentice, which he won (and his flavored ice tea from the show was a popular seller in stores). Their most recent studio album together, Poison'd, came out in 2007, with the band performing cover songs like Justin Timberlake's "Sexyback". Michaels has had the biggest solo success apart from the group, with his 2010 album Custom Built making it to #14 on the albums chart two months after his winning stint on Celebrity Apprentice aired.

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And here's the band performing the song live on the Swallow This Live tour and album...

Up tomorrow: German metalheads feel the breeze as the Wall comes down.