I heard Vernon had major problems with endorsed ESP brother George Lynch. Which Vernon didnt want to have George using his last name with his newly formed band " Lynch Mob" and alarm bells went off........................ Great band, live,met them on the streets of NYC
turnip sucks it was an epic period, yes but they were as well. I think part of the problem is that they didn’t fit into a marketable niche. Their songs bridged genres. Their look ( which I always contend is 60% of a bands success ( was magnificent. Their talent head and shoulders above also-rans of the some time period ( stone temple pilots et al). Then really why.....I would guess that their fan base while faithful and still In tack( somewhat like the ones for Phish) never extended to the wider mainstream. Another reason is most of the songs are not of a personal nature. Even Bob Dylan has quote able love songs) . That said they do as well. They are wonderful beyond great. Here’s hoping LC is appreciated in a future their music was destined for.
Kat, I'm sure they will be appreciated more as time passes. I for one feel like maybe 1-3 solid songs come out each year if we are lucky these day's. Back in mid to late 80's thru 90's and early 2000 just about everything was epic. The time LC came out was a Nirvana of a time with entire albums capable of carrying radio stations were as we are lucky to purchase an album liking 1-2 songs today. Also feel bad for LC. They formed and came to be at about at the pinnacle time for music. GNR, Metallica, Sound Garden, Alice in Chains, Faith No More, ....(This list could go on so leaving it at that).
No-one knows why. It's one of life's great mysteries. They are one of the greatest bands ever. Happy to see they're still doing it. But yeah. They should have been huge.
The@@creageous By the mysterious "rater" that either overrates or underrates every guitar player on youtube requiring people to comment and correct the injustice
RATM released an album in 2000. I think it was called "The Battle Of Los Angeles". :) I mind Tommy Vance playing the video "Sleep Now In The Fire" from that album on VH1's Friday Rock Show that year, I don't know if any albums were released after that or not - probably there were.
Open Letter to a Landlord doesn't really make sense. If you've done real estate investing, you'd see there are multiple costs involved: the mortgage, property tax, contractor fees, HOA fees, utilities (if landlord paid). By the time all's said and done, the landlord's margin is like 12%, if that. If they want cheap housing, they'll have to ask about Section 8.
@@srujan00do you actually know the lyrics of this song? This is about gentrification, and specifically gentrification brought about by indiscriminate violence and devastation it causes the families.
immediately, after these guys won best, new artist at the Grammys, pop-culture started doing boy bands that were ripping off all R&B shit like *NSYNC, and I can’t even remember the names of the other people, but Justin Timberlake was part of that crew. Bullshit musicians. Heavy guitar rock music didn’t get the pop spotlight until the grunge era which was completely all white.
It was a great time for music. The formula hair bands had died away and grunge had not become a formula yet. Many great bands in that window really put out music that transcended labels. Faith No More was another one. Many were bands that had been around but started to get more notice during that time.
This band means so much to me. In the 1980's up until 1990 it was amazing how my favorite bands, had very few players that looked like myself. 5 guitar players and one special bass player come to mind I think of very fondly... Phil Lynnott, Tony MacAlpine, Vernon Reid, Larry Mitchell, Greg Howe and Jon Butcher. These guys are the epitome of "against the grain" of the 80's hair bands. They didn't look like anyone else that played hard rock, and neither did I. That was what was so great, for me. of course there were many many great artists before and after, regardless of race creed or color, but these guys honestly made a huge difference in my life.
Larry Mitchell was and is the absolute BEST. I was very, very fortunate to meet him between sets at the Robert Treat Hotel in Newark, New Jersey in 1996. I'd heard him a couple of years before on WSOU and was simply transfixed by his guitar playing. It was one of the better moments of my life. Vernon Reid isn't so bad either, LOL! I was just telling my wife how absolutely astounded I was when Living Colour won their Best New Artist Grammy. I still rank "Cult of Personality," "Open Letter to a Landlord," and "Type" among the nastiest riffs ever. God, music has absolutely tanked.
Fascinating to hear a musician's take on Vernon Reid. These guys were huge to me as well. Growing up in an almost entirely White/Jewish/Asian suburb of NYC, White/Jewish rockers introduced me to Living Colour. I just liked their sound as a drummer. As an adult, I've finally gotten into the lyrics, and I now realize how they were setting me up for a full embrace of Black Empowerment. Living Colour, thank you for showing me that you can be "the whitest sounding Negro I know" and be Blacker than the Blackest entertainment figures or athletes with the content of your message and the courage of your art.
This was a band that was so ahead of their time. They would be absolute beasts if they came out today. They were conscious before being conscious was trendy, & a lot of the imagery in this video has just started hitting mainstream in recent years.
Mike McMichaels Yup. All I ever heard was Cult of Personality, which was awesome in itself, then I heard this song and a few others of theirs. They were too INTELLIGENT for society. Plus kickass leads, chords, breaks. Society can't take too much intelligence. I think Hendrix would've admired the lead player in this band.
Had the cassette, back in the day. Best damn song on the album, not only because of the lyrics (Cult of Personality had great, true lyrics as well), but this song thrashes. Hell, it is heavy metal.
Joaquim G. Tbh it's sad that it takes no intelligence to get the joke and everyone doesn't get it and thinks its offensive. What a terrible time to live in indeed.
It's a dystopian verse. We live in a world where nothing is real and therefore everything (and anything) is possible. This is the illusion sold to us - those of us who were raised in a highly socialized environment (surrounded by concrete and steel) are told that we can achieve and become anything. And in recent years this is made even more ingrained in us with the power of the computer. Again - it's because of the fact that nothing in our world is real, that anything is possible.
The 4 Kings are back at it... Listening to this in 2024! That's how you know that something good is timeless! Rock and Soulin with Living Colour! Love yall! *NewFace Magazine LV Team Las Vegas!
This is such a Flawless Hard Rock song. It kind of reaches a feverish pitch at some point and it just builds up and you want to listen to it again over and over. What sucks is, Living Colour were here two weeks ago in my city with Extreme but I had the flu so I missed the show.
"This is the place where the Truth is concealed... Everything is possible but nothing is real. .." ...Can you say Prophetic? Wow. Truer today than ever.
The guitar build up, simple bass riff, drums, Corey's vocals just wow!! This track has the ultimate ingredients and foundation that geniusly equate to an iconic and solid musical production. ❤🎶
Saw them 3 times and so lucky to have a bunch of cds signed by them at a meet and greet. Cory is in the film Platoon, an Oliver Stone Oscar winning film, he survives by the skin of his teeth, literally.
Living colour is an awesome rock band that cared about social and political values that affected people as well as speaking up against stereotypes and racial profiling
Is he the most ego-centric frontman in history? Check the video to "love rears up its ugly Bed' Rears. ha ha. SHe likes it there. Come on all you trolls! You uneducated swine! I have a philosophy degree! I love my Father. I am single, 35 and ...patriotically AUSTRALIAN. You got what you wanted with Trump USA! Good luck with that. Se ya wouldn't wanna be ya welcome to the inexorable rise of China and India and Australia h a ha
@@male1456 nobody cares about politics pal, we all came here for music. If you look at it from artistic perspective, you’d know how big a deal was this in late 80s
Damn these guys are great. Saw them back around 1989/1990 and sadly never saw them again live. Great show, unique songs, brilliant guitar and that vocal range...woah.
They still tour, so get up offa yo azz and go check 'em out! I've seen them 6-7 times in recent years (plus a few in the "old" days) and as Madge says below, they're even better now.
Criminally underrated Band, Song and Album. Still rocking this today 2024. Wow 34 years ago I remember buying the cassette and jamming it on the way to high school school!
+Scot Morley Living Colour is probably one the most underrated bands in the rock history, these guys know how to make great rock anthems, saw them on stage in 2009, amazing performance.
Exactly me too, that one and Vivid, and then later I got some unplugged versions. It is the first time for me to revisit LC since the 90s, and they still epicly rock!
I agree with a commentor who posted, the music industry was not ready for these cats,they are so far ahead of there time musically, really a disservice to us the music fans.
I remember seeing these cats at the Palladium in Hollywood when this came out. It was Primus, LC and George Clinton, Pfunk. They went into this riff and all I remember was BODIES FLYING! Incredible night and oh yes Primus did suck..literally.😝😝😝👏🏾👏🏾🔥🔥🕺🏾🤘🏾💯💣
I saw Living Color 30 years ago at the Coliseum in LA. They opened for Guns n Rose's & the Rolling Stones. Real good hard rock music what happened to them
uhhhh. Living Colour is fairly exceptional in that regard. Most hard rock bands are boring cash-ins (see the entire cock rock movement of the 70's) it's just that the collective minds tend to forget about them. The only genres I can think of that are specifically aimed at being thoughtful and discussion-starting are punk and grunge, and even then people tend to screw it up (especially with punk, yeesh).
the alt-rock and alt-metal coming out from mid 80s into the 90s were thought provoking and talked about real life. so many great intelligent bands and artists i.e. 1st wave of grunge(seattle bands), industrial rock and metal like ministry and filter, bands like tool and type o negative and janes addiction and even the 1st couple of nu-metal bands like korn(see their early work) and deftones not including limp bizkit though. there was just a shit load of good intelligent bands and artists at that time id say it was the peak of commerical music or maybe even music in general.
Arachnofiend Punk is pretentious edgelord wank. don't pretend it's intellectual on any level. and grunge? please. Alice in Chains put out a couple of thought provoking tunes, but Nirvana? Pearl Jam? Shit, even Mother Love Bone, while writing decent lyrics, aren't exactly Neil Peart in terms of lyrical genius. I can only conclude that you don't venture too far from the comfort of grunge and punk if you think they have anything to offer lyrically.
The talent and musicianship in this band is next level. Add that with incredible song writing and chemistry, and you have one of the greatest bands to ever come out of the 80's. No one like them since.
I remember when this video came out. Seeing Will on that Bad Ass Blue Pearl kit rocking out with that ambidextrous cymbal set up , Just KILLING It. What an inspiration !!!.... Will "Sonic Boom" Calhoun !!
I think i get the line "everything that comes around goes around". Its like the things we buy, we eventually give it back to the people that gave it to us.
Essa musica já esta marcada na historia dessa banda simplesmente INPRESSIONANTE não só pelos aranjos envolventes mas sim as letras compostas que retratam a realidade em que vivemos até esses tempos atuais.Por isso que Eu amo essa musica assim como outras cançoes exceto algumas mas vale apena ouvir denovo.❤❤
Probably one of the greatest bands that I've ever walked to face the earth, but most people are too deaf and blind to understand what they really stood for their lyrics. Not to mention having a lead singer with very soulful voice like Motown meets metal and funk. These guys are total geniuses
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I really never understood why these guys weren't more popular
I heard Vernon had major problems with endorsed ESP brother George Lynch. Which Vernon didnt want to have George using his last name with his newly formed band " Lynch Mob"
and alarm bells went off........................ Great band, live,met them on the streets of NYC
It's the same reason Faith No More didn't blow up. Simply well ahead of their time. That and the time they were playing was an epic period for Rock.
turnip sucks it was an epic period, yes but they were as well. I think part of the problem is that they didn’t fit into a marketable niche. Their songs bridged genres. Their look ( which I always contend is 60% of a bands success ( was magnificent. Their talent head and shoulders above also-rans of the some time period ( stone temple pilots et al). Then really why.....I would guess that their fan base while faithful and still In tack( somewhat like the ones for Phish) never extended to the wider mainstream. Another reason is most of the songs are not of a personal nature. Even Bob Dylan has quote able love songs) . That said they do as well. They are wonderful beyond great. Here’s hoping LC is appreciated in a future their music was destined for.
Kat, I'm sure they will be appreciated more as time passes. I for one feel like maybe 1-3 solid songs come out each year if we are lucky these day's. Back in mid to late 80's thru 90's and early 2000 just about everything was epic. The time LC came out was a Nirvana of a time with entire albums capable of carrying radio stations were as we are lucky to purchase an album liking 1-2 songs today. Also feel bad for LC. They formed and came to be at about at the pinnacle time for music. GNR, Metallica, Sound Garden, Alice in Chains, Faith No More, ....(This list could go on so leaving it at that).
No-one knows why. It's one of life's great mysteries. They are one of the greatest bands ever. Happy to see they're still doing it. But yeah. They should have been huge.
"Everything is possible, but nothing is real." What a lyric.
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Life.
Yes!
Man the lyrics, 32 years later... its in peoples face more than ever. Amazing song. Amazing band.
In their ears.
For what ever reason, they never took off.
I liked them from day 1.
My stepson turned me on to these guys back in the early 90’s. Still bumping my 74 year old granny head to their music in 2024!!!
Thank you
Ditto
Vernon Reid is one of the most underrated guitar players. This guy is amazing and so is the band
Absolutely
Every electric guitarist I've ever talked to knows who he is though. He's legendary among musicians.
Vernon Reid underrated? By whom?
Vernon Reid was named No. 66 on Rolling Stone magazine's 2003 list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time (from Wikipedia). One bad dude.
The@@creageous By the mysterious "rater" that either overrates or underrates every guitar player on youtube requiring people to comment and correct the injustice
Few bands nowadays have such balls and power as Living Colour.
+Juan Carlos Sevinones Rage againt the machine. album bombtrack :D
I said current bands, Rage against the machine last album was realeased in 1998 I think, correct me if Im wrong.
RATM released an album in 2000. I think it was called "The Battle Of Los Angeles". :) I mind Tommy Vance playing the video "Sleep Now In The Fire" from that album on VH1's Friday Rock Show that year, I don't know if any albums were released after that or not - probably there were.
MESHUGGAH
They released Renegades in 2000 but i wonder if it was a compilation of songs in the vault
Cult of Personality, Glamor Boys, Type, Solace of You. These studs NEVER released a crappy single. Change my mind.
Open Letter to a Landlord doesn't really make sense. If you've done real estate investing, you'd see there are multiple costs involved: the mortgage, property tax, contractor fees, HOA fees, utilities (if landlord paid). By the time all's said and done, the landlord's margin is like 12%, if that. If they want cheap housing, they'll have to ask about Section 8.
@@srujan00do you actually know the lyrics of this song?
This is about gentrification, and specifically gentrification brought about by indiscriminate violence and devastation it causes the families.
Sadly one of the most underrated bands in history. Not sure how this happened, classic late 80's early 90's style video clip
Yet perhaps, thee greatest band of them all..... Perhaps!
immediately, after these guys won best, new artist at the Grammys, pop-culture started doing boy bands that were ripping off all R&B shit like *NSYNC, and I can’t even remember the names of the other people, but Justin Timberlake was part of that crew. Bullshit musicians. Heavy guitar rock music didn’t get the pop spotlight until the grunge era which was completely all white.
Underrated?? They were all over MTV and got to tour for decades. That’s quite an achievement
Not underrated at all I dare say. Vernon reid was always revered as an electric guitar virtuoso, especially then.
they came up in the era of rap which over shadowed alot of things
The hooks. The bridges. These guys musically were pushing rock forward out of the hair age. One of the bands that saved rock music.
I loved them. Still do. These guys are a force to be reckoned with
This album was SO fxcking underrated, it's a crime. It deserved better. THEY deserved better.
That riff kicks ass.
Hell yeah, it does !!!
I love that shit!
I know makes me wanna just beat the living shit out of some junkyard fridge with a sledgehammer
hell yeah
Living Colour and Kings X were two bands that stood out like sore thumbs in the late 80s early 90s. Absolute class.
saw those 2 bands together in San Antonio 1991
It was a great time for music. The formula hair bands had died away and grunge had not become a formula yet. Many great bands in that window really put out music that transcended labels. Faith No More was another one. Many were bands that had been around but started to get more notice during that time.
Bobby Davro those three part harmonies of Kings are fantastic.
Bobby Davro don't forget Faith No More.
Couldn't agree more!
This band means so much to me. In the 1980's up until 1990 it was amazing how my favorite bands, had very few players that looked like myself. 5 guitar players and one special bass player come to mind I think of very fondly... Phil Lynnott, Tony MacAlpine, Vernon Reid, Larry Mitchell, Greg Howe and Jon Butcher. These guys are the epitome of "against the grain" of the 80's hair bands. They didn't look like anyone else that played hard rock, and neither did I. That was what was so great, for me. of course there were many many great artists before and after, regardless of race creed or color, but these guys honestly made a huge difference in my life.
Vernon Reid is just an amazing man haha
Larry Mitchell was and is the absolute BEST. I was very, very fortunate to meet him between sets at the Robert Treat Hotel in Newark, New Jersey in 1996. I'd heard him a couple of years before on WSOU and was simply transfixed by his guitar playing. It was one of the better moments of my life.
Vernon Reid isn't so bad either, LOL! I was just telling my wife how absolutely astounded I was when Living Colour won their Best New Artist Grammy. I still rank "Cult of Personality," "Open Letter to a Landlord," and "Type" among the nastiest riffs ever. God, music has absolutely tanked.
Fascinating to hear a musician's take on Vernon Reid. These guys were huge to me as well. Growing up in an almost entirely White/Jewish/Asian suburb of NYC, White/Jewish rockers introduced me to Living Colour. I just liked their sound as a drummer. As an adult, I've finally gotten into the lyrics, and I now realize how they were setting me up for a full embrace of Black Empowerment. Living Colour, thank you for showing me that you can be "the whitest sounding Negro I know" and be Blacker than the Blackest entertainment figures or athletes with the content of your message and the courage of your art.
JP IHCC Agreed!!!!!
What about Rocky George from Suicidal Tendencies?
This song becomes even more relevant with each passing day. Truly great art!
These guys never got their props. they were a solid group with great music.
I absolutely loved this band when I first heard them. Still do this day on my frequent paylists, epic music, great band
Why using the past tense?
this was my favourite song when i was 15, 16. I must've listened to it thousands of times. it still rocks.
This was a band that was so ahead of their time. They would be absolute beasts if they came out today. They were conscious before being conscious was trendy, & a lot of the imagery in this video has just started hitting mainstream in recent years.
agreed
Mike McMichaels Yup. All I ever heard was Cult of Personality, which was awesome in itself, then I heard this song and a few others of theirs. They were too INTELLIGENT for society. Plus kickass leads, chords, breaks. Society can't take too much intelligence. I think Hendrix would've admired the lead player in this band.
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Had the cassette, back in the day. Best damn song on the album, not only because of the lyrics (Cult of Personality had great, true lyrics as well), but this song thrashes. Hell, it is heavy metal.
Vernon is killing it on that guitar. Such an unbelievable guitarist.
He is a master 🔝
Vernon Reid LAMF!
This song has one of the greatest outros of all time. It's impossible to not get goosebumps while listening to it.
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVERY THING THAT GOOOOOOOOOOOES AROOOOOOUND COOOOOOOOOOOOMES AROUND COMES AROUND!
Definitely.
yes.....
Goosebumps is right!
Absolutely
Such an utterly magnificent song. It's lost none of its power, edge, and timeliness in the years since its release. Just pure brilliance.
Still Relevant in 2024 for me 😍!
Funk Metal at its finest.
Sorry, REAL BLACK METAL at its finest!
Why does it have to be classified, the song still rocks no matter what!
Joaquim G. Black (People) Metal, isn't a real genre.
Joaquim G. Tbh it's sad that it takes no intelligence to get the joke and everyone doesn't get it and thinks its offensive. What a terrible time to live in indeed.
Bryn BORDELON it's a joke.
Vernon Reid is the most criminally ignored guitarist ever. Fucking man could SHRED.
WELL SAID!!!
He surely is. There is a guy named Ty Tabor who is an unearthly guitarist, also sadly overlooked.
@@davidmuir7711 Kings x.. another one of the greatest little known bands.
What a powerful song. "Everything is possible but nothing is real" is one of the most freeing lyrics I've ever heard
It's a dystopian verse. We live in a world where nothing is real and therefore everything (and anything) is possible. This is the illusion sold to us - those of us who were raised in a highly socialized environment (surrounded by concrete and steel) are told that we can achieve and become anything. And in recent years this is made even more ingrained in us with the power of the computer. Again - it's because of the fact that nothing in our world is real, that anything is possible.
The Most Underrated Band In The World!!!
One Of The Best Rockbands In The World!!!
I can't believe this is over 30 years old. Utterly timeless, as fresh and as relevant now as it was in 1990. Brilliant!
The intro of this song is addicting
True!
The lyrics were overshadowed by the sonic brilliance of the band and since i totally listened to the lyrics it brings me to tears Pure visionaries!
This was their biggest hit on rock radio, peaking at #5 on mainstream rock and #3 on alternative rock.
Never realized how vocally talented this guy was until this song. Sheesh!
Corey Glover is fantastic. Go listen to the intro to "Open Letter To A Landlord." He's brilliant.
Corey is a vocal god among men
"Love Rears Its Ugly Head", "Someone Like You", their cover of Al Green's "Love And Happiness". Killers. All of them.
He has amazing solo stuff as well
The albums Vivid and Time's Up are amazing
The 4 Kings are back at it... Listening to this in 2024! That's how you know that something good is timeless! Rock and Soulin with Living Colour! Love yall! *NewFace Magazine LV Team Las Vegas!
This is such a Flawless Hard Rock song. It kind of reaches a feverish pitch at some point and it just builds up and you want to listen to it again over and over. What sucks is, Living Colour were here two weeks ago in my city with Extreme but I had the flu so I missed the show.
"This is the place where the Truth is concealed...
Everything is possible but nothing is real. .."
...Can you say Prophetic? Wow. Truer today than ever.
find A politician that will say that today!
You see, these men had attitude with intellect. Not to mention--artistry, musicianship...
Love this band. I always thought they were underrated.
+Screaming Tima so true... everything about them is so amazing.
They still are. As good as anybody, I think.
"Everything is possible but nothing is real"
It's the most badass line possible from a Zen master.
The guitar build up, simple bass riff, drums, Corey's vocals just wow!! This track has the ultimate ingredients and foundation that geniusly equate to an iconic and solid musical production. ❤🎶
Saw them 3 times and so lucky to have a bunch of cds signed by them at a meet and greet.
Cory is in the film Platoon, an Oliver Stone Oscar winning film, he survives by the skin of his teeth, literally.
Living colour is an awesome rock band that cared about social and political values that affected people as well as speaking up against stereotypes and racial profiling
Love this comment
i racially profile them as superior fuckin musicians.
IMHO, one of the greatest songs ever written.
Mine too
One of the biggest crimes in rock and roll is that these guys weren’t the biggest thing going in the late 80’s and early 90’s
--and frankly, NOW.
Probably one of the best songs of its time, but you never hear it played on the radio any more.
Criminally underrated band.
This riff! This music! just EPIC!
That guitarist owns the band, he's fucking sick
He's like a funkier metal Hendrix
MOST UNDER-APPRECIATED BAND EVER!!
Huh? No one can even dispute or debate that? What is this world coming to? This song sucks! Self-induldent sloganistic bullshit!
Is he the most ego-centric frontman in history? Check the video to "love rears up its ugly Bed' Rears. ha ha. SHe likes it there. Come on all you trolls! You uneducated swine! I have a philosophy degree! I love my Father. I am single, 35 and ...patriotically AUSTRALIAN. You got what you wanted with Trump USA! Good luck with that. Se ya wouldn't wanna be ya welcome to the inexorable rise of China and India and Australia h a ha
I, uh.. based on these replies, Sam went wild.
@@male1456 nobody cares about politics pal, we all came here for music. If you look at it from artistic perspective, you’d know how big a deal was this in late 80s
@@evenstevensteven yeh dude just seen I wrote that 6 years ago must've been off my effing head! Peace.
Damn these guys are great. Saw them back around 1989/1990 and sadly never saw them again live. Great show, unique songs, brilliant guitar and that vocal range...woah.
+Give it up for Jackson Heights own, Mr. Randy Watson Ditto ♫
I love your band Sexual Chocolate, Randy!
Saw them last year and they are even better now! Go Fogey rock!
They still tour, so get up offa yo azz and go check 'em out! I've seen them 6-7 times in recent years (plus a few in the "old" days) and as Madge says below, they're even better now.
Your soul glows Randy Jackson
Who could have predicted that this would be more relevant today? We should have listened.
These guys should have been huge. Incredible metal sound, good vocals and energy..
ÅbSoůlute Trůth 🌟☮️🎉
Criminally underrated Band, Song and Album. Still rocking this today 2024. Wow 34 years ago I remember buying the cassette and jamming it on the way to high school school!
Vernon Reid’s chord shapes and those vocal harmonies still give me chills in 2020 ✨
Would of loved to see these guys tour with Faith No More, think that woulda kicked ass
David Murphy Yes please
David Murphy The two singers actually have a lot of the same vocal qualities now that I think about it
Thats the first thought I had
Or Jane's Addiction
These lyrics have haunted me the last few days. I love these guys. This song, is right now.
This song is still so true in every single line to this very day.
This band were really ahead of their time.
I hadnt heard this song for years. This band rocks!🎸
One of the best amalgamisms of talent ever. I miss Muzz Skillings bass playing and his sense of rhythm.
2024, and this song still hits harder than ever before.
I will never understand why this band where not BIGGER than they were/are. Bloody brilliant and this song is just perfect.
Such an underrated song and album! 1990 at its best!
+Scot Morley Living Colour is probably one the most underrated bands in the rock history, these guys know how to make great rock anthems, saw them on stage in 2009, amazing performance.
Living Colour & Fisbone, the most underated bands!
2 of the most influent Rock Fusion Bands!
Une petite pensée pour Bad Brains ;-)
ciscomars Bad Brains plaisantait pas.
Rocoustile
En effet super groupe.
So true.
Absolutely agree.
Was fortunate enough to see both bands live.
Man,what a great album this was! I used to own "Time's Up" on cassette back in the day. Rocked it all the time in my stereo's dual cassette player.
Me too! And the other one, forgotten what it's called now...
Do you mean "Vivid"?
Yeah, that's the one.
That was a good one too. I had it as well. I used to have a ton of cassettes back in the day. I actually still have some of them put away somewhere.
Exactly me too, that one and Vivid, and then later I got some unplugged versions. It is the first time for me to revisit LC since the 90s, and they still epicly rock!
I agree with a commentor who posted, the music industry was not ready for these cats,they are so far ahead of there time musically, really a disservice to us the music fans.
To the guitarist, I wish my Uncle Lawrence, "your Grandfather," was still around to see performing. Tight band little cuz, take the gift all the way.
This is the time when the lie is revealed. Everything is possible but nothing is real.
+Metemi ugot that right my friend
+kwame cofie agyeman I tought I was your friend... :c
Somehow applies even more in 2019. What a shitshow.
Ok neo
@@weregretohio7728 When ya thought it couldn't get worse in 2019, 2020 happened.
Vernon Reid ever with your insane riffs
Living Colour is an amazing Band! ❤🤘🇱🇷🇧🇷🎵🎶🎵🎶
Top 10 hit of 90!
I remember seeing these cats at the Palladium in Hollywood when this came out. It was Primus, LC and George Clinton, Pfunk. They went into this riff and all I remember was BODIES FLYING! Incredible night and oh yes Primus did suck..literally.😝😝😝👏🏾👏🏾🔥🔥🕺🏾🤘🏾💯💣
I saw Living Color 30 years ago at the Coliseum in LA. They opened for Guns n Rose's & the Rolling Stones. Real good hard rock music what happened to them
The riff of this song is terrific. I love it.
This band is just on another level 😊
humanity hasn't made an inch of progression since this song. However we have to rise above the ones trying to pull us down.
First listened 20+ yrs. ago. Still love them so much. They were fuckung amazing.
That snare drum sound! Love it!
Commercial hard rock used to be intelligent, harmonically rich and well written. See above as evidence.
uhhhh. Living Colour is fairly exceptional in that regard. Most hard rock bands are boring cash-ins (see the entire cock rock movement of the 70's) it's just that the collective minds tend to forget about them. The only genres I can think of that are specifically aimed at being thoughtful and discussion-starting are punk and grunge, and even then people tend to screw it up (especially with punk, yeesh).
Arachnofiend They're all rock/metal bands.
the alt-rock and alt-metal coming out from mid 80s into the 90s were thought provoking and talked about real life. so many great intelligent bands and artists i.e. 1st wave of grunge(seattle bands), industrial rock and metal like ministry and filter, bands like tool and type o negative and janes addiction and even the 1st couple of nu-metal bands like korn(see their early work) and deftones not including limp bizkit though. there was just a shit load of good intelligent bands and artists at that time id say it was the peak of commerical music or maybe even music in general.
Love ur slick little backhand! A Pepe dude maybe??👌🏼🐸
Arachnofiend Punk is pretentious edgelord wank. don't pretend it's intellectual on any level. and grunge? please. Alice in Chains put out a couple of thought provoking tunes, but Nirvana? Pearl Jam? Shit, even Mother Love Bone, while writing decent lyrics, aren't exactly Neil Peart in terms of lyrical genius.
I can only conclude that you don't venture too far from the comfort of grunge and punk if you think they have anything to offer lyrically.
They are in my top 10 all time bands. Seeing the next week with Extreme.....first time seeing Extreme. My 8th time seeing Living Colour in 35 years
"Everything that goes around comes around". Baby, ain't that true
Love this riff
The talent and musicianship in this band is next level. Add that with incredible song writing and chemistry, and you have one of the greatest bands to ever come out of the 80's. No one like them since.
Vernon Reid just brilliant!
That's the tightest rock drumming. Legit.
Loved it when I was 17. Still love it.
I still love them! Riffs you could build a house on! Very underrated...awesome, awesome band!
BEST MUSIC VIDEO EVER
BEST SONG EVER
BEST GUITAR EVER
BEST EVERYTHING. EVER.
Yaaaaassss!!!!!
+Eric Genest agreed.
As a guitarist who started in 198i, Vernon was my hero.
2021, this song has never been more appropriate.
Bartender, Ill get This humans tab!
almost forgot about this song one of their best, overshadowed by cult of personality
and a brilliant video too
still relevant today
This is one of the first Music Videos I’ve seen on MTV! And I was somewhat freaked by it at first but ultimately liked it!
I saw them with Kings X in the early 90's. Amazing show.
me too 1991
An ahead of their time song. One of my all time favorite rock songs.
Que banda hermosa! Cuantos albumes increíbles que hizo Living Colour por Dios! Siempre merecieron mayor reconocimiento!
Sssooooooooooooo relevant to this day. These guys broke molds. Thank God! It WILL be great to go see them!
When i bought Time's Up, back in the 90's, i just couldn't stop to listen it...everything that comes around goes around...
This song changed my life when it came out. It’s still as good now as I remember.
Long time favorite of mine. Keep coming back. Thanks Guys!
I seriously miss these guys!!! They were so good in what they did!!!
Corey Glover has such a beautiful voice
MAN MY EARLY ASS 20'S not even, my late teens lol lol- I ALWAYS LOVED THIS JAM!! SUCH A GREAT BAND❤️👍
This album was ahead of its time.
One thing about this band, its just pure energy!! everyone is in your face!!! great stuff
I remember when this video came out. Seeing Will on that Bad Ass Blue Pearl kit rocking out with that ambidextrous cymbal set up , Just KILLING It. What an inspiration !!!....
Will "Sonic Boom" Calhoun !!
I think i get the line "everything that comes around goes around". Its like the things we buy, we eventually give it back to the people that gave it to us.
Essa musica já esta marcada na historia dessa banda simplesmente INPRESSIONANTE não só pelos aranjos envolventes mas sim as letras compostas que retratam a realidade em que vivemos até esses tempos atuais.Por isso que Eu amo essa musica assim como outras cançoes exceto algumas mas vale apena ouvir denovo.❤❤
Probably one of the greatest bands that I've ever walked to face the earth, but most people are too deaf and blind to understand what they really stood for their lyrics. Not to mention having a lead singer with very soulful voice like Motown meets metal and funk. These guys are total geniuses