I'm going to check this out. I remember buying Vivid back in the day based on Cult of Personality, but I was let down by the other songs on the album. I still think Cult of Personality is an incredible song, but recent listens to Vivid also left me underwhelmed with the other tracks. I'll check out Time's Up for sure. Thanks for the recommendation.
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Living Colour-Time's Up
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Wow - I just looked on Concert Archives and it lists Living Colour supporting Cheap Trick as 6th July 1988 UGH where did that time go?!
I occasionally play the remix of "Love Rears Its Ugly Head" on the radio, and I am a big fan of LC, but, too many early songs like "Glamour Boys" definitely make me prefer the experimental anger on Stain.
They sound great here. Can hear the bass really well
I usually find myself reaching for Stain, but that's no slag on their other work.
I saw Living Colour in Detroit about a year and a half ago. It was a Monday night in the middle of winter, and the crowd was luke warm at best. That just made the band work twice as hard to win them over. And they did. Before the show, I ran into Corey and Doug in the parking lot – we exchanged pleasantries, but they were in a hurry to get inside. Corey said he'd see us after the show. I'm thinking, "yeah, right." Four hours later, they stuck around until everyone who wanted to meet them and get an autograph got a chance. I was last in line. When I got to Corey, he said "hey, you're the dude from the parking lot!" They were all genuinely appreciative for everyone's support after all these years. Definitely a class act.
I saw Living Colour in Detroit about a year and a half ago. It was a Monday night in the middle of winter, and the crowd was luke warm at best. That just made the band work twice as hard to win them over. And they did. Before the show, I ran into Corey and Doug in the parking lot – we exchanged pleasantries, but they were in a hurry to get inside. Corey said he'd see us after the show. I'm thinking, "yeah, right." Four hours later, they stuck around until everyone who wanted to meet them and get an autograph got a chance. I was last in line. When I got to Corey, he said "hey, you're the dude from the parking lot!" They were all genuinely appreciative for everyone's support after all these years. Definitely a class act.
Saw them in (then West) Berlin in 1988 or 89. Incredible show - and tight, tight, tight. I think this was within a week of also seeing Defunkt there as well.
Damn, I've been in quarantine too long. I thought that show was just a year and a half ago, but it was Oct 2017! Anyway, there's this...
Glamour Boys was on Vivid though. IMO the songwriting was an order of magnitude better on Time’s Up. It’s almost like they had all these great songs in the can but some producer made them record a more radio-friendly debut first.
The first cd I ever got was Vivid. Loved that album but will agree the 80’s production is kind of cringe these days when I listen to it. the 2nd I got was The censored cover of Poisoin’s Open up and day Ahhh... Lol!
Same here, that's my favourite too. It has aged much better than the other two, IMHO.
I agree that MS, bass playing put them on the map, but they as a band reinvented themselves to get there. In the early years they were a Funk/Jazz instrumental band
I played some of the same NY clubs and saw them when Alex was playing bass for them
and they were amazing musicians. I for one was surprised when I saw them on MTV for the first time knowing their background. The addition of MS and Cory and Will on drums cracked it for them no doubt
I played some of the same NY clubs and saw them when Alex was playing bass for them
and they were amazing musicians. I for one was surprised when I saw them on MTV for the first time knowing their background. The addition of MS and Cory and Will on drums cracked it for them no doubt
No doubt Wimbish is a great player, but the dynamic changed so much after Muzz that Stain might as well be a different band.
But then again I love the earlier lineups of the band as well. LC has always been a band on the hunt for something new. They just headed in a direction on Stain and beyond that didn't appeal to me.
But then again I love the earlier lineups of the band as well. LC has always been a band on the hunt for something new. They just headed in a direction on Stain and beyond that didn't appeal to me.
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I was really hoping for more of what I took to be the Ornette Coleman meets Van Halen vibe.
Oh man!
This was THE album I was most obsessed with for roughly a year or two of my life way way back.
And I'll never forget when we were listening to one of the greatest songs on the record in the big recording studio we were recording at, because we loved some aspects of the mix and wanted our engineer to get an idea of what we were looking for... and his biggest revelation was "Wow, the engineer/producer REALLY HATES THE BASS GUITARIST". Which I thought was funny - but yea, Muzzy is too quiet on some of the songs here, I do agree.
But the album also has his ridiculously amazing and all too short solo instrumental on it, and his playing everywhere is why I consider him one of the greatest bassists in history.
I used to own a laser disc (yup the big 12" video discs) documentary of them around this time - rehearsing in the studio that speedy part that begins the opening track (even faster than they did it on the album!?), and they all just ended up laughing because it was over so fast.
And the interviews with them - crazy Lol, but they were having SO MUCH FUN too in those days.
This was THE album I was most obsessed with for roughly a year or two of my life way way back.
And I'll never forget when we were listening to one of the greatest songs on the record in the big recording studio we were recording at, because we loved some aspects of the mix and wanted our engineer to get an idea of what we were looking for... and his biggest revelation was "Wow, the engineer/producer REALLY HATES THE BASS GUITARIST". Which I thought was funny - but yea, Muzzy is too quiet on some of the songs here, I do agree.
But the album also has his ridiculously amazing and all too short solo instrumental on it, and his playing everywhere is why I consider him one of the greatest bassists in history.
I used to own a laser disc (yup the big 12" video discs) documentary of them around this time - rehearsing in the studio that speedy part that begins the opening track (even faster than they did it on the album!?), and they all just ended up laughing because it was over so fast.
And the interviews with them - crazy Lol, but they were having SO MUCH FUN too in those days.
Im in the Stain camp too. Simply amazing.
I met Doug and Vernon this year at NAMM.
These cats are and always have been severely underrated.
Based on this thread, I opened Spotithingy this morning and typed Living Color in the search.
Back in the "90s I had all their albums on what fornat? Cassette tapes of course!
Horrible medium, but it was affordable and practical (portable).
So I start listening to all their albums like I use to with cassettes. Random albums, but entire album in orders of tracks.
I get to Vivid and I'm just rocking out to "Cult of Personality". Next track is "I Want To Know", a song that I always thought a poor attempt to get on "pop" radio. I mean a really poor attempt. A few in this thread mentioned that they thought Vivid was "underwhelming" or too pop, but remove THAT ONE SONG and the album is actually pretty good.
I remember My friend and I transcribing "Middle Man" (the 3rd track) from the cassette. That involved a lot of "FFwd" and "Rew" of the tape. At one point I said to my buddy "Don't reward to far or we'll hear "I Want To Know"". We laughed a lot at that. "Substances" may have been involved. We surmised that "I Want To Know" was the most skipped song of all time.
Again, I want to re-iterate that Living Color is an amazing band with great songs (except for one...)
Back in the "90s I had all their albums on what fornat? Cassette tapes of course!
Horrible medium, but it was affordable and practical (portable).
So I start listening to all their albums like I use to with cassettes. Random albums, but entire album in orders of tracks.
I get to Vivid and I'm just rocking out to "Cult of Personality". Next track is "I Want To Know", a song that I always thought a poor attempt to get on "pop" radio. I mean a really poor attempt. A few in this thread mentioned that they thought Vivid was "underwhelming" or too pop, but remove THAT ONE SONG and the album is actually pretty good.
I remember My friend and I transcribing "Middle Man" (the 3rd track) from the cassette. That involved a lot of "FFwd" and "Rew" of the tape. At one point I said to my buddy "Don't reward to far or we'll hear "I Want To Know"". We laughed a lot at that. "Substances" may have been involved. We surmised that "I Want To Know" was the most skipped song of all time.
Again, I want to re-iterate that Living Color is an amazing band with great songs (except for one...)
