Living Colour
Living Colour (written in the cover artwork partly Living Coloür ) is an alternative metal band that was founded in New York in 1984.
Band History
The formation celebrated its first successes with the Rolling Stones, whose lead singer Mick Jagger, she supported frequently. Living Colour were part of the Black Rock Coalition, an association of black musicians in the field of rock music, and expressed on their plates political statements with regard to the status of blacks in the history of rock music, such as the accusation of exploitation of black culture by the whites in the title Elvis Is Dead.
In 1988 they released their debut album Vivid, from which, among other things, the song " Cult of Personality " was released as a single and the band won the 1990 Grammy Award in the category Best Hard Rock performance of the year. In the song " Funny Vibe ", which was also released as a single, Flavor Flav and Chuck D of Public Enemy are to be heard and it is considered as an early harbinger of the crossover flow of the 1990s, as various styles like hip hop, hard rock and radio are merged. The follow-up album Time's Up released in 1990, the title track in 1991 won a Grammy Award in the category Best Hard Rock performance of the year.
After the album Stain with bassist Doug Wimbish the new and extensive touring, the quartet disbanded mid-1990s and was revived in 2002.
All members are also involved in other projects. So Doug Wimbish and Will Calhoun play, inter alia, Jungle Funk, Vernon Reid has been active as a producer and studio musician and Corey Glover is occasionally active as a solo artist.
Their song Cult of Personality reached since July 25, 2011 as the song collection of American wrestler CM Punk new awareness. The band played this song on April 7, 2013 live at Wrestle Mania 29
Discography
Albums
The first two studio albums are now available as " remastered editions " with several bonus tracks.
Singles
- Cult of Personality (1988 )
- Glamour Boys ( 1988)
- Memories Can not Wait (1989 )
- Open Letter (To a Landlord ) ( 1989)
- Funny Vibe ( 1989) ( with Flavor Flav and Chuck D)
- Type ( 1990)
- Elvis Is Dead (1990 )
- Love Rears Its Ugly Head (1991 )
- Solace of You (1991 )
- Pride ( 1992)
- Fight the Fight ( 1992)
- Leave It Alone ( 1993)
- Nothingness (1993 )
- Aliens (1993 )
- Bi ( 1993)
- Sunshine of Your Love (1994 ) (cover of Cream)
- Song Without Sin (2003)
- Behind the Sun (2009)
Compilations
- Stone Free - A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix (1993 ): Crosstown Traffic
- Judgment Night OST: Me, Myself & My Microphone, along with Run DMC
- True Lies OST: Sunshine of Your Love
Videos
- Official Live Bootleg (1989 )
- Primer (1989)
- Time Tunnel (1991 )
- Fight the Fight ( 1992)
- Living Colour - The Paris Concert ( 2008)