Swallow This Live is the first live album by American

United States

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 glam metal

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 band Poison

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, released in 1991 through Capitol Records

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. The album peaked at #51 on The Billboard 200. The album was certified Gold platinum in 2001 by the RIAA

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.

Production and Marketing

The album features 16 live tracks from Poison's first 3 studio albums Look What the Cat Dragged In, Open Up and Say...Ahh!

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 and Flesh & Blood

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, and was recorded in Miami, Orlando

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, and Tampa

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, Florida

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 during the band's Flesh & Blood world tour. It also contains four new studio tracks, which were the last recorded before guitarist C.C. DeVille departed from the band later that year. One track, So Tell Me Why, was released as a single and reached #25 in the United Kingdom

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 in November 1991 and features a music video. "Guitar Solo" was named the worst guitar solo ever by Guitar World magazine in 2004.

Track listing

Disc 1

1. Intro
2. Look What the Cat Dragged In
3. Look But You Can't Touch
4. Let It Play
5. Good Love
6. Life Goes On
7. Ride the Wind
8. I Want Action
9. Drum Solo
10. Something to Believe In
11. Poor Boy Blues
12. Unskinny Bop

Disc 2

1. Love on the Rocks
2. Guitar Solo
3. Every Rose Has Its Thorn
4. Fallen Angel
5. Your Mama Don't Dance
6. Nothin' But a Good Time
7. Talk Dirty to Me
8. So Tell Me Why [New Studio Track]
9. Souls on Fire [New Studio Track]
10. Only Time Will Tell [New Studio Track]
11. No More Lookin' Back (Poison Jazz) [New Studio Track]

UK Single Disc Edition

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".

1. "Intro"
2. "Look What the Cat Dragged In"
3. "Look But You Can't Touch"
4. "Good Love"
5. "I Want Action"
6. "Something to Believe In"
7. "Poor Boy Blues"
8. "Unskinny Bop"
9. "Every Rose Has Its Thorn"
10. "Fallen Angel"
11. "Your Mama Don't Dance"
12. "Nothin' But a Good Time"
13. "Talk Dirty to Me"
14. "So Tell Me Why" [New Studio Track]
15. "Souls on Fire" [New Studio Track]
16. "Only Time Will Tell" [New Studio Track]
17. "No More Lookin' Back (Poison Jazz)" [New Studio Track]

2004 Remastered Single-Disc Edition

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. In addition, much of the profanity from the original release has been edited out and the track listing was slightly altered to have "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" as the last song on the disc.

1. "Intro"
2. "Look What the Cat Dragged In"
3. "Look But You Can't Touch"
4. "Let It Play"
5. "Good Love"
6. "Life Goes On"
7. "Ride the Wind"
8. "I Want Action"
9. "Unskinny Bop"
10. "Something to Believe In"
11. "Love on the Rocks"
12. "Fallen Angel"
13. "Your Momma Don't Dance"
14. "Nothin' But a Good Time"
15. "Talk Dirty to Me"
16. "Every Rose Has Its Thorn"