he should be top 20!

Absolutely underrated!!! One of the most influential and long lasting bands of all time

I wish I could hit like a million times.

He is one of the reason that I even learned the axe.

Considered by many more of a jazz guitarist in a rock band than a rock guitarist.

Yep, I saw them open for the Rolling Stones on the Steel Wheels Tour in 1989. A lot of the Baby Boomer Stones fans, were gobsmacked by these guys when they exploded onto the stage. It was still a half empty stadium (old CNE Stadium in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) but they really filled the space. Quite a show even before the Stones appeared.

Last thing I was expecting 😂🔥

@@RobSquadReactions 🤣😂🤣

I can’t help but give a knowing grin when younger black folks realize that not all black artists are rappers. Look up Jimi Hendrix, Little Richard, James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Sam Cooke, or Sister Rosetta Tharpe. If you want to see more all-black bands, check out X, Bad Brains, and, Death.

@@RobSquadReactions Rock & Roll was birthed from the Black community. Look up specifically Little Richard & Chuck Berry. Then, why is Elvis called "King of R&R"? First, he rejected that title. Something about the only king being Jesus. but, he also knew he learned from the masters--Chuck Berry & Little Richard. The record labels thought only black audiences would listen to "negro music". Thus, they discounted Rock & Roll. When they heard Elvis, they were excited to have a white kid with a "negro sound". So, they promoted him. Some in the black community thought he "stole" their music & were offended. When Elvis played Little Richard's "Tutti Fruiti" on national TV, some in the Black community were outraged, including LIttle Richard. But, millions of Elvis fans simultaneously said to themselves "I gotta check out Little Richard!" that's when LIttle Richard realized that he had been honored & respected when Elvis sang one of his songs, not "ripped off". Check out: LIttle Richard - "Tutti Fruitti" or "Good Golly Miss Molly" Chuck Berry - "Johnny B. Goode" or "No particular Place to Go"

Prince was one of the best rock guitarists on the planet. He may have released a lot of R&B type albums but seriously, that man could play

Not in Holland, we love these guys

Still are. Their cover of “Who Shot Ya?” gives me chills!

How was it underrated? In was huge in the 80s, I know I was there.

@@JoeBlack1108 because mainstream not that I take any stock In that, didn't give them the props, they so richly deserved, & they shut have been a household name. More people are agreeing with me, than not. That's just my opinion, that they were underrated & underappreciated for the musical talents that they were

@@Kevin-cy4qn well my friend, they were played everywhere when I was young. I live in Ontario, Canada. Esp had a tribute guitar in Vernon Reid's name in 2017, I wish I would have bought one. I didn't know it was going to be one run, really kicking myself

You are so right Budin

True that. That song came out when the grunge era was beginning to pick up in rock. I would also say their rock is more post grunge before it could even be post grunge. In today's age with Trump and the dangers of dictatorship and how people blindly follow someone they believe to be a leader that only exploits them, this song becomes more relevant than ever. Lead singer Corey Glover has a voice that hasn't aged and Vernon Reid is one of the best guitarists I have ever listened to.

​@@pavelromanenko3718 you're absolutely right

They are on tour in 2024

I was 18... LOVED them, saw them live. They were ahead of their time, in a world of Glam Rock, they broke the mold. They should have been even bigger

I was 18 in 1988..and yes! We played the crap out of this!!! Never even cared or thought about them being black- none of us did- and I’m a little white woman living in the Deep South- though nothing of if, other than loving it! 🤷🏻‍♀️. ✌️

*CM Punk has joined the chat* *CM Punk has entered the vibe lounge*

the performance on Arsenio Hall made me buy 'Vivid'. Incredible performance.

wow i was like 13, and was great, it was like , welcome to the jungle GNR

We loved this! My friends and I. We were just as surprised as he was. Ha Still a banger song. I'm a '66 chick.

@@bethkahn8278 born during the summer of love 1967 - PEACE LOVE n HIPPYNESS!

Hi Sabrina I was born in 1952 and I’ve been loving watching all these kids experience our music… 50s to now, we’ve had so much to choose from! 🥰🎶🦋🎶❤️

Janet, this so true. When I talk about why I love reactors, I explain how I'm reminded of how good we had it. We've experienced decades of amazing music. So lucky 👍🏾❤🇺🇸👵🏿

Music is the language of the heart. It's really cool that all these kids are learning it again through these reaction videos happening. I find it kinda comical, cuz we knew how good this band is.

I thought the same thing. Some songs just stand the test of time.

mmm yes and no the fact he says Gandi and stalin were the same fuck no they werent on any level there are these books you can find them in this large buildings they are called history books look up stalin murdered 3 million of his own people vs Gandi who advicated that there was too much of gap between the rich and poor and managed to beat the dominate power of the 20th Century the British Empire into handing back India to its people without violence and without firing a gun. So fuck that comparison

@@RK-zf1jm I never interpreted the song to be saying they were the same. I've always interpreted it to mean that there are extreme opposite ends of personalities that have made up history. Famous personalities, but their existence have made us all who we are today, because Ghandi, Stalin, Kennedy, Mussolini, all impacted the world's history. Everyone on the planet share the same world history. Therefore, we have more in common than we sometimes realize. That's music, I guess. Different people have different interpretations.

Oh man, I'd totally forgotten about Letter to a Landlord', what a killer song!

Definitely needs to do Open Letter To A Landlord. Or...Love Rears It's Ugly Head Live on Arsenio.

Absolutely Love that song. My favorite on the album.

Their entire album was amazing. Many bands from that time had something to say.

Well-put from a fellow Midwesterner who was 20 when this came out.

As a fellow 80's metalhead(Loved Beavis & Butthead, too! LOL), who was already a metalhead, by the time this came out, as it was unheard of, havin Black's, other than the great's, like Jimmy Hendrix & Slash, it was still unheard of, to see an all Black group, that could clash with the best of them, back then. So, with it still even more fresh in our head's back then, it was a bit more of a shock, makin us love it that much more! Cause, like I said bout Hendrix & Slash, but they were just the guitarist's, not the whole band. And, when Aerosmith & RUN D-M-C teamed up, and did a remake of Aerosmith's old song Walk This Way, it was even after this came out! And, with the huge feud, between the metalhead's & rapper's back then, it was a huge ordeal, and damn near unheard of. So, it sent shockwave's in every direction!

Still holds up today and does not sound dated at all, at least to me. I was coming of age during this era, I'm 44 now I guess I was probably 12. 13, 14, somewhere in there when this came out and it melted my face. To this very day this song still melts my face

They were so significant and such underrated artists. Vernon Reid needs to be hailed for his frantic licks that initially seems so outlandish until you really listen to the patterns of his playing, wild swoops of sonic sound, simply sublime on so many levels. They were sure as hell not a gimmick. Legit hard rock legends.

Headbangers ball y'all kicked major keister and im 73 so thereee

Listen to one of their other top hits, "Glamour Boys"...oddly prescient in the days of social media.

I'm 44. Big fan for more than 30 years. Kisses from Poland.

That is no lie. I used to watch these guys on MTV every afternoon.

Saw the band live! Great music and very energetic exciting band

Damn I feel old when u say your mom liked them Lol They were a good band that didnt get enough respect

Olden days!.. WTF!.. You make it sound like it was the 1920's!..Ageist much?

Jenn- how's Dante doing!?

Your mom raised you right!

@@simstress062 It was the 1920's 😭

Get outta here with that kravitz crap ,we out

This ^^^^ Good music knows no color

They opened for the Stones (Steel Wheels tour) in 1989. They were great.

@@33MarciS I would have killed to see that tour. I wasn't even born yet.

@@33MarciS I was vaguely aware of them when I saw that tour. I went out and bought a couple of their albums after seeing them.

So true - awesome lyrics like this do not appear in music nowadays.

Number one on my top 3. 1. Only you can set you free. 2. Don't dream it, be it. 3. As soon as you're born you start dying so you might as well have a good time.

Authentic Sovereignty is the opposite of The cult of personality. Which we ALL are guilty of. Use your God given sixth sense. Become free.❤️

Yezzir ...preach. Lyrics are toooooo damn deep. "I tell you 1 and 1 is 3"

You want some serious social commentary, check out their 'Open Letter to a Landlord'.

I would say more true today then when originally released.

I think early 1990's

1988

Late 80s...88

It’s a reaction to The Reagan era. We didn’t learn, unfortunately.

IMO, not even their best song. Two of my favs are "Glamor Boys" and "Love Rears it's Ugly Head"

That album was so underappreciated

@@scully5860 love rears its ugly head and pride

Give Shade (2017 album) a listen

It was the first CD that I bought after having bought hundreds of albums, cassettes and 8-tracks over the years.

*Metallica has entered the chat* :P

@@clonexx Metallica can't hold a candle to Living Colour on musicianship, songwriting, or style. Compared to the stuff Vernon Reid was doing on guitar, Metallica may as well have been Kenny G, he was so far ahead of them. Burnin' Vernon grew up playing with Ronald Shannon Jackson's Decoding Society, which is free jazz and musicianship of the HIGHEST order. Kirk Hammett made his career playing stuff Vernon outgrew by the time he was 18. Will Calhoun could do things with one foot that took Lars Ulrich two, and Will's groove is so deep your gonna loose your damn HOUSE in that pocket. And Cory Glover is one of the 10 best male rock singers ever to open his mouth. Not. Even. A. Competition.

@@lightaces You’re perfectly entitled to your opinion, but I would bet a substantial amount of money that the majority of metal fans and musicians would pick 80s era Metallica over Living Colour. Lars used to be a great drummer, he isn’t anymore. Hetfield is one of, if not the best rhythm guitarist of all time. Kirk is mediocre most of the time but has his moments. Cliff was insane on Bass and Jason was a beast as well. It comes down to taste, because music is largely subjective. The era he was talking about though, the hair metal era? That was Metallica firing on all cylinders. More bands have been influenced by them than any other metal band from that era. I never said Living Colour had no talent, I wasn’t even comparing their talent to Metallica. I was responding to him saying that they were ahead of their time in the hair metal era, which Metallica had been the same since 1983 through their first 4 albums and all of the 80s.

@@clonexx A lot of stuff is subjective. It is simply fact that the dudes in Living Colour have a broader and more complex musical experience than anyone else in Metal, and really most guys in rock. You put anyone in Metallica on a stage with Sonny Rollins, they're out of their league. They are completely lost, and have no clue what to play, unless Sonny takes pity on them and plays a simple blues. You put any of the guys in Living Colour on that same stage, and they can not only hang, they can cut some heads. Metallica is only really comfortable playing Metallica. Living Colour can play Metallica at least as well as Metallica (and Will could do it with only one kick pedal - no kidding, I've heard him do it), but they could also play with Ornette Collman, Sam and Dave, John Lee Hooker, Earth Wind and Fire, Emmy Lou Harris, Sting, Prince, or anything else you can name, and they can play them all at a level the guys in Metallica can only occasionally reach when playing their own music. You say yourself, Kirk "has his moments." Vernon is nothing BUT amazing moments. One of these days the rest of us might catch up to the ideas he was working on, but I doubt it. I'm not talking about popularity. I'm talking about musicianship. There is NO competition. The guys in Metallica are rock stars. The guys in Living Colour are musicians. I know which one I care about, and it's not how much Gucci James Hetfield can buy.

@@lightaces I don’t care about money or “rock stars”, it’s a simple fact that I enjoy Metallica’s music over Living Colour’s, and I’m a musician. You’re making statements that you have no way to verify or back up. You have no idea what kind of talent as a musician James has. He’s well more than just a thrash “chug chug chug” guy. Rob could hang with the best of them, just listen to his work in Suicidal Tendencies, but he wasn’t there in the 80s Metallica era we’re talking about. I listen to a fairly diverse range of music, but my home is and always will be metal. I’ve been into bands like Dream Theater, been into them since their first album, especially since they are from Long Island, where I used to live. There’s also more to a band being good than just musicianship. Dream Theater isn’t nearly as big as a lot of bands with severely less talented people in it. They’re all insane musicians at the top of their respective instruments, yet they aren’t that big in the US. Songwriting talent and lyrical talent both also play a huge role in being a musician. I recently listened to Shade, and it’s a good album, was an interesting listen. I’m not sure why you felt the need to come in and go off about Living Colour in the first place. The fact is Metallica was breaking molds and led the thrash world for 3 years before Living Colour had a consistent lineup, the one you were referring to for their talent I believe, and 5 years before the masses got to hear Cult of Personality. While I said I dislike the solo in the song, that doesn’t mean I don’t like the song, the hook is amazing. All I said was “Metallica has entered the chat” and you seem to have taken it as some sort of slight against ILC, it wasn’t. It was an answer to someone saying they were breaking molds in the hair metal era, which Metallica happened to be doing, a year before ILC was even formed and 3 years before the mega talented lineup was formed, that’s all. It doesn’t mean ILC weren’t breaking molds also, because more than one band can be doing so at the same time. Have a good one bud.

Same except I turned 48 in February

@@acemodez3169 it's fun to see people learning about music we grew up on. Sometimes it seems strange though because my son is in his mid 20s and knows music from every genre/decade.

@@jacquiekrieger2170 it seems odd to me that so many people have never heard some songs. They're such good songs and played so much like do they live under a rock? I understand people don't grow up listening to some genres or whatever except I've always known so much music forever even music way before my time, same with old tv shows actually. It's very difficult to find something I haven't at least heard of if not listened to (or watched)

A good follow up to this to enforce the open mind would Home Free's cover of End of the Road.

Like Trump. He has cult-like followers.

“When a mirror speaks, that reflection lies.”

@@BUHNANUHBREAD or like Bidens supporters who believe the lie of the media🤷‍♂️

...at some point, you have to realize that, not only are they all lying to you, but none of them care about you, your wellbeing, or your future...

@@BUHNANUHBREAD Most of Trumps 'lies' are being proven as fact. Meanwhile, we have a senile President and an incompetent Vice President.

Fact.

Um.... Around the 1920s, the cool white kids had to sneak across the tracks to get some of the best music in town. Berry Gordy founded MoTown, because "Black music" wasn't being properly respected by the existing music labels. Although there are divisions...anyone can play anything. There are black country music legends. There are white Hip Hop or Rap legends, too. America is free like that.

@@kathyp1563 I meant division within the audience. I have everything from Rare Earth to Parliament to John Denver to Mozart and Led Zeppelin. Labels are part of the intuition that's trying to keep us from binding together.

@@deannacrownover3 Ah. I agree whole-heartedly. The audience always liked what they liked. The audience always just respected talent. The labels made assumptions & created divisions.

@@kathyp1563 AMEN!

It was awesome

He’s also the son of Danny glover from lethal weapon

I know! I think J would really enjoy *Let Her Cry* +...

I agree completely underrated

Same. I even put it on my kid's playlist. I love introducing them to great music and great bands.

Well put! And absolutely spot on!

There was a band in the late 70s I believe they we're called slade..a black band.. They were great

Oh it’s super relevant today and yes I was shook

Couldn't agree more!

How could have you not known. In 1988 most everything Debuted on MTV. You know ,back when music video's actually played on "Music Television" ;)

@@larzakalazerath6655 Always too busy with other things in life to watch tv.

@@vickiroman189 I found Living Color because of Corey Glover's acting. Herd he had a band and I wanted to check it out. Then they blew up on MTV. Just thought everyone knew the band was black, Never really thought it that strange back then.

@@larzakalazerath6655 Guess I should have said most folks I knew didn't know they were black. I am surprised about the number of black reactors who are shocked when they see them. Just another example proving great music has no color. Have a great day, fellow music lover!

@@vickiroman189 I find it funny too. Especially since Rock n roll and metal was so inspired by a lot of blues and Motown which has been dominated by all kinds of black Artist. You are so right about great music. It has always broke though all divides that we silly humans make. Hope your day has been grate as well !

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I think you mean 1988.

@@GS-Das yeah, typo thanks. I will try to edit it.

You should give Shade (their last album from 2017) a go if you liked them. Also their EP Who Shot Ya and The Chair in the Doorway (from 2009)

That sounds dope! I’ll be sure to add it to the list

Dug Pinnick killer vocals and Bass grooves yeah definitely worth the check out!!!

I forgot to add them to the list. I put Family Stand, 24-7 Spyz & D-Xtreme for socially conscious BRC artist.

Moanjam is my personal favourite

Yes, Kings X. Dug is a brilliant vocalist.and bassist.

It was so cool!

I think SRV's Momma and Daddy would argue with that! 😂

@@DanBoyd1111 - LOL

...and finds out the roots of funk & metal had a single source - PFD (Long Live George Clinton!)

@@greggkotzman2542 and James Brown!

Or that Slash's mother is African American.