Living Colour: Information Overload, Under Cover Of Darkness

From the "Time's Up" album (1990)

Corey Glover - vocals
Vernon Reid - guitar
Muzz Skillings - bass
William Calhoun - drums

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Living
• Colour
• Time's
• Up
• crossover
• rock
• metal
• jazz
• hip-hop
• rap

[liveup5]

Why in the hell didn't any other black guys end up rocking like this? I guess they all felt like Living Colour did it so well,that there was no need to bother. Instead,we got bombed,endlessly, with horrible rap and hip-hop. There needs to be a rebirth of good old funk. Oh how I'd love (just once) to hear Strawberry Letter 23 by The Brothers Johnson,coming out of a car that's going down the road,instead of all that yo-yo-yo,my bitches and all my bling shit. Pathetic crap.

[delavan26]

Great fucking song. These guys never got their due.

[pnut1353]

I am as white as can be and really don't give 2 shits what color these guys are. They are wonderful musicians and I have been a divoted fan since 89. Color doesn't matter

[lobo72]

@Evenhandedview only if you want to read it as racist sounding, really.



[Evenhandedview]

@lamentate07 It can't be "closed" like you imagine. This isn't the 50s. Anyone can listen to what ever they want to on the internet or hear of a good band through word of mouth. Get fucking real and quite with the "being held back" mentality. If good bands play live often and put themselves out there, they will likely be heard. Maybe instead of blacks being somehow "denied" the ability to rock out, they just chose to not participate due to a huge culture shift in the black populace.

[Evenhandedview]

@lobo72 Maybe you can come up with a less racist sounding theory.

[governorgilf]

After reading the comments, I never really thought about it, but it's true. I can't think of any black rock groups or acts since these guys. I know they're out there, but I bet they're few and far between. I saw Living Colour many times back in the day and were great every time, and their music provided a good deal of the soundtrack of my college years.

I'd love to see another group like them come along.

[orintha38]

Queen Latifah rapping on Undercover on Darkness.

[lobo72]

@lamentate07 Maybe they were smarter than most of their white contemporaries, and decided that the pinnacle that the bands you named reached was impossible to reach for them. So they devoted their time to something else :)

[proguitar123]

This is great!

[lamentate07]

why aren't blacks well represented in rock music over the last 40 years? is Chuck D right? is the industry racist in this way? do they want to keep rock for whites only? Because there seemed to be a small window of opportunity for black rock musicians in the late 80's with Living Colour, Fishbone, Tony Macalpine(guitar god btw), and then it closed.

[oldskool0035]

People used to ask who Vernon Reid is. I would tell them to listen to this song and when the guitar riff was over, they would know everything they need to know about Vernon Reid!