Poison Covers Justin Timberlake

Wal-Mart and Walmart.com is currently selling a special version of Poison's brand new album of cover songs, "Poison'd!", featuring an exclusive bonus track — a cover of "Sexy Back", originally performed by Justin Timberlake. An audio sample of Poison's version of "Sexy Back".

"Poison'd!" was released today (June 5) via EMI America Records/Capitol. The CD presents the band's first new studio recordings since 2002's "Hollyweird". Produced by Don Was at Hensen Recording Studios in Hollywood, "Poison'd" packs 13 explosive tracks, including new recordings of David Bowie's "Suffragette City", The Cars' "You're Just What I Needed", The Romantics' "What I Like About You", SWEET's "Little Willy", The Marshall Tucker Band's "Can't You See" and The Rolling Stones' "Dead Flowers". Some of Poison's best previously recorded covers are also featured on "Poison'd", including Kiss' "Rock and Roll All Nite", Grand Funk Railroad's "We're An American Band" and Loggins And Messina's "Your Mama Don't Dance".

On June 7, Poison will perform "What I Like About You" from "Poison'd!" on CBS' "Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson". Bret Michaels will also be interviewed by Ferguson about Poison's new album and tour and his new VH1 reality series, "Rock Of Love With Bret Michaels", premiering July 15.

Poison will hit more than 50 U.S. cities this summer on their "Poison'd!" nationwide co-headlining tour with Ratt.

Thanks for the report to Blabbermouth.net.

Comments

[tom_ato12345]

marilyn manson covered justin timberlake and now poison.. who's next?

[jonnieb123]

oh dear

[Seth Shadows]

This is like when Children of Bodom covered "Oops! I did it again." by Brittany Spears.

...Sad... Sad time for melo death.

[nightwalker903]

Seth Shadows wrote:

This is like when Children of Bodom covered "Oops! I did it again." by Brittany Spears.

...Sad... Sad time for melo death.

so that who covered it, i liked it

im listening to poison now, i reckon they could get away with it but still ya just dont cover JT lol

[metalhammer79]

thats terrible news

[ctuliebs]

what the hell???

I dunno, I'd probably rather listen to JT than Poison

Checked!

[demonhunter2]

this made me want to throw up...

[Sick_Boy]

That sounded too much like Dope's cover of F*** tha Police.

[bigal224]

what about the lostprophets JT cover of cry me a river. that was decent

[nktoday]

im a Jt fan, i find it funny that the least expected people to cover his songs are!

[emil_sej]

Dillinger Escape Plan covered "Like I Love You"

[F-ing Hostile]

Seth Shadows wrote:

This is like when Children of Bodom covered "Oops! I did it again." by Brittany Spears.

...Sad... Sad time for melo death.

personally i thought it was funny, but i dont think i can find humor in this, i hate poison to much

[Nathanial_ng]

it wasnt that bad right???

[acshadow25]

The bodom one was hilarious. This is just depressingly unfunny. It wasnt bad. But its justin timberlake! anyone even closely related to rock or metal shouldn't go anywhere near it

[IlikeMetal]

Aww man, but seriously who else would you expect to cover that song. These guys are still incredible and CC is a complete maniac, and I can't wait to see them with Ratt.

[Motley666]

I despise everything and anything about Poison after they ruined the 80's! Im deeply disgusted to see them releasing a new album, and may you go kill yourself if u actually buy it! Screw you Bret Michaels!

[kryptonite22]

what a load of bollocks that sample is.

[Brandon860]

Well, I just listened to some samples of the other songs and I have to say it's nothing overly impressive but rather average. For the most part the songs all sound too close to the orignals (except for Can't You See, who's majesty they butchered). I don't completely hate Poison, but I wouldn't buy or really recommend this album.

[Captain Insano]

Pathetic.

[Sapient]

*sigh*

What happened, you guys.

[bostons leppard]

comeon guys it doesnt sound that bad but seriously poison you better not play it when i come to see you

[rocknrollreject]

poision was never really good they only had like 2 good songs now this is just the nail in the coffin and i saw bret michaels on vh1 and he is doing the same thing as flavor of love and new york

[Sixpack5001]

rocknrollreject wrote:

this is just the nail in the coffin

yeah it is

[kurtcobain44444]

hahaha

[true_bacon22]

they should stop wasting time covering Timberlake and work on original material.....

[kaze_no_oto]

Poison isn't relavant any more. That's what happens. The 80s are gone, people should go gracefully instead of grasping for any stupid publicity stunt they can get their hands on - I saw someone mention Brett Michaels' new reality show - how lame. I wish people like this would move on already.

[fireoptic]

They're just covering songs that will make them money. Whether the fans take them serious, or take it as they have a sense of humor, this is only for business.

Fuck Poison!

Checked.

[gopherthegreat]

Sapient wrote:

*sigh*

What happened, you guys.

well that implies that poison used to have a sense of artistic integrity, which is something poison never had

[Escape_Artists]

LOL what idiots.

[GuitarGod610]

They just lost my respect.

[Motley666]

It brings a warm feeling to my heart to see that no one likes Poison

[LynchMobster]

why. seriously, wtf was going through their heads. not only do you make yourself look bad, but your giving JT support, which a big no-no. thanks a lot poison, now the terrorists win.

[LandOfConfusion]

damn it! they took my idea. oh well they did a great job and deserve it. would have liked it more poison

[Vicious00009]

GuitarGod610 :
They just lost my respect.

Yeah I agree. I actually like Poison for what they were, a cheesy 80s' rock band that liked to party and have fun. but Justin TImberlake? Thats just low. Next to Fallout Boy, Justin TImberlake is the lowest form of music. I can't even talk about this, it's too depressing.

[unforgiven1234]

HAHA!!! when i saw that i was like "Hell yeah! Poison kicks even more ass now!"

[whatamidoinhere]

Loads of people have covered JT songs though...it's not really a big deal, and say what you want about him, he is a good singer! And covers by other bands just make the music better...so I don't see why anyone would complain

[war666child]

WTF?

[CanCan]

How awful.

[Son of a Brit]

Seth Shadows wrote:

This is like when Children of Bodom covered "Oops! I did it again." by Brittany Spears.

...Sad... Sad time for melo death.

That was an awesome COB song. They took a horrible pop song and made it cool

[ibanez916]

sounds like the track was "poisoned" with bulls**t, did they really become this pathetic to get some xtra dough. "Let's make an entire album of cover songs and choose the worst ones to cover." great idea guys, wats next, some backstreet boy song?

[J Dub]

LOL THAT IS SO AWESOME!

[TheFallen1328]

unforgiven1234 wrote:

HAHA!!! when i saw that i was like "Hell yeah! Poison kicks even more ass now!"

haha thats exactly what I said!

[ckyskater419]

come the **** on guys, poison shouldnt have done the timberlake song...stick with rock/metal. poison is great but they just made a poor desicion

[2113]

You can tour on cover songs alone? News to me.

[PowerChordAway!]

If you cant tell what he's singing, then it actually doesnt sound too bad. But as soon as you catch the lyrics, it degrades it quite a bit

[scarfacesuit]

well, poison is sort of a poppy "metal" band, so i could see them covering some pop stuff, but sexyback is more dance/pop/hip-hop... interested to hear it, but i doubt i'll like it much.

[primusucks]

poison sucks

[JS5150]

aren't the new people supposed to cover the classics (I use that loosely with Poison)

[-[NiL]-]

I actually find it cool that they are secure enough to play a Justin Timberlake cover.

[New Band Order]

i admit, COB'S cover of brittney was a bit much, but now i think iv'e heard it all...

[Rodders]

That album ot such a slating in Kerrang... and to be fair I think it was well warrented. I also think Justin Timberlake is much better than Poison.

[full_metal]

are dis guys supose to be metal?

[soapbar]

lost prophets did cry me a river it was pretty good

[Pvz]

WTF?!?!?!?

[Noxkid457]

The vocals sound like RHCP lol..

[AnoKid09]

i like poison
but i had no idea they did so many cover songs
this saddens me

[laxslinger]

I know most people on here are kids that probably never had a job but I have a question - what's wrong with doing something to make money? Would you work for free? I sure wouldn't. Even if they made a CD "just to make money", what's wrong with that? You think any band works for free?

[SoftParade1967]

I accually love there version of SexyBack. I hate Justin timberlake but this version is just awesome!

[HermanLi311]

i just heard this song and all i can say is WHY C.C. WHY

[lozza985]

You's are all ****ed, going on about how JT may have talent. The wanker uses a machine to manufacture his music. Poison are an ace band who actually use talent with real musical instruments to write kick ass songs, and if they wanna cover a shit song by a shit artist, so be it. They can get away with it. It's the shit hip hop artists like JT who try covering classics and completely ****ing them up, eg. Angels by Robbie Williams being covered by Jessica Simpson. Ridiculous.