For those who are NEW(ER) to the channel, YES this video is edited and NO we will not always be able to play the music all the way through (copyright). The link will be in the description if you would like to listen to the FULL version of the song without interruption. Thanks for watching!

You also have to understand, these dudes were young black men in the 80's, when rap was exploding on the scene, but they played rock."WOW" they made a statement, and made it big in my eyes.

Wow. 30 years later and this song means more now than ever.

"When the leader speaks that leader dies" is powerful. The negative consequence of being a Cult of Personality.

Fun Fact: Living Colour is the only rock group included in the Native Tongues hip hop collective. A cooperative known for their positive-minded, good-natured Afrocentric and socially conscious lyrics, and for pioneering the use of eclectic sampling and later jazz-influenced beats. Other core members include the Jungle Brothers, De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, Monie Love, Queen Latifa, Mos Def, Talib Kweli etc.

Living colour were phenomenally underrated. Top notch musicians.

These guys are brilliant musicians. They went to Berklee at the same time as Dream Theater. They were completely socially conscious with empowering lyrics. Thanks for getting to them! As a young black kid, they showed me music has no boundaries. Also that jazz, blues, gospel and hip hop weren't my only expressive outlets. Vernon Reid was my guitar idol. To this day, most guitarists cannot play his parts correctly.

I always forget you guys are much younger than me, because you tend to review videos/music from my high school/college era. This video/song was FUCKIN' FIRE!!! Vivid is a hellofa album, and as a black metalhead from back in the day, this group was super important. Thanks for the review...glad you guys liked it so much.

One of the most underrated bands EVER. These guys were amazing, especially given the saturated space of white rock bands.

Wow, so this came out in the late 80's. I was like, 14-15 when I saw this on Headbangers Ball. This song is still a banger 🤘

You're not a free thinker until you rock a yellow leotard!!

Safe to say, Ryan and George ain’t wrestling fans

You were focusing on their clothing man staaaahp. They are crushing harder then most bands since them. You gotta have an immense amount of talent to play this song. 🤓

Vernon Reid (guitarist) was severely underrated.

My mom was SUCH a fan of this band. I'm 39, so it's not like she was a teenager or anything. But she LOVED this band so much. She saw them live like 6 times and I just remember her saying how underrated they were. I recognized how underrated they were a long time ago. They were truly put out as a novelty, a "black metal" band. It's terrible, because they were such a phenomenal band. Drums, guitar, vocals, lyrics, they were SUCH a great band.

This video was kick ass when it came out and still is 30 years later.

Living Colour was WAYYY ahead of their time! They’ve been rocking for years and they’re STILL making music and touring today. They technically could be considered a one-hit wonder; as this was their most popular song. But REAL LC heads know they they have many great songs and albums in their catalogue. Another good one to check out from them is “Open Letter To a Landlord”. VERY DEEP lyrics! Thanks for doing this one, guys! 👊🏾

He's wearing a wetsuit for surfing. A Body Glove spring suit to be exact. It was weird in the 80s too.

A small touch a lot of people miss: during the first part, he says "Only you can set me free." The second time around, "Only you can set YOU free."

This band has always been my jam! Corey rocking that neon Bodyglove scuba suit is burned in my brain for all time. Vernon’s guitar skills are beyond. I’ve never met a guitarist that can cover Vernon’s parts. If you can catch them live, RUN, don’t walk, to get your ticket.

Since you mentioned rock/metal that you can dance to, I'm now curious to see a white zombie review. Thunder kiss or more human than human are gonna be your most popular requests.

Congratulations on finally reviewing Living Color! They're certainly not a one hit wonder, but rather one of the most original, and influential bands of the late 80s and early 90s. As a suggestion : Love rears it's ugly head

Cult Of Personality and Peace Sells, But Whose Buying, are two very energetic and fun political songs by Megadeth and Living Colour. This band is a representative of the term underrated, because most people heard this song but when they see them in the video, they are shocked to see that a great hard rock band CAN BE ALL BLACK MEMBERS. you know?

Great music knows no color. I was blown away when this came out and still am by the pure relevance that continues to grow. These guys were so underrated.

Not a leotard, lol! It's a wetsuit. And it wasn't just for this video the wetsuit was, like his "thing". Slash had his top hat, Flavor Flav had his clocks, Corey Glover had the wetsuit! In Southern California, it was kinda a "trend", in that if people saw you wearing one all the time, they assumed you were a surfer, which of cousre meant you were cool, lol! It was like the urban cowboy thing, you look like you were a cool rodeo dude, even if you grew up in the city, girl just liked the look!

No More Tears by Ozzy Osbourne. But make sure it's the full version. There's a version about a minute longer than the rest of the search results where the solo was cut, presumably for radio.

It's time for Faith No More now! :D

This album turned 30 last year, yet holds up remarkably well. Their most recent album, 'Shade', is also very solid. Check out Corey Glover's album 'Hymns', too. Very good.

Just saw them perform about 6 month's ago in San Antonio at River City Rockfest. They still grooved and rocked our faces off simultaneously!

You've got to do Hunger Strike by Temple of the Dog. It's a vocal masterpiece from Chris Cornell and Eddie Vedder.

Love Rears It's Ugly Head was one of their best songs (from their second album), and was a big hit with lots of radio play. The live version is KILLER!

I'm so glad you finally checked out Living Color, Cult of Personality. Its a great song. Great band

Living Colour - Open Letter (To a Landlord) - Great song & good video

Not a one hit wonder but Cult was their most successful commercialized song. Their music style, I would call Avante Garde, is hard to latch on to. The first breakdown in "Time's Up" is effing awesome.

Other songs "Open Letter (To a Landlord)", "Love Rears Its Ugly Head", "Solace of You", "Type", "Leave It Alone"

That was a Body Glove wetsuit for diving or surfing....very very popular in the late 80s/early 90s

YES - ROUNDABOUT!!! YES - ROUNDABOUT!!! YES - ROUNDABOUT!!! YES - ROUNDABOUT!!! YES - ROUNDABOUT!!! YES - ROUNDABOUT!!!

I used to request this one when I first subbed (back when comments didn't get buried so fast lol). Anyway, I'm only a minute in to the video, but I'm predicting you guys will really dig the groove and the relevant lyrics. I performed a cover of this song in a talent show with a co-worker and totally bombed....too nervous to play it right lmao...but it was still fun!

Love these guys!!! Saw them twice back in the day and they f-ing rock!!

What I love about Living Color is that they appeared at a time when hair-bands ruled the day. But then - here came a band that suddenly put the entire rock/metal establishment on notice. And the best part - they were an all black metal band - and doing it even better than the white-boy hair bands. The groove, the energy, the attitude - instantly put so many metal posers of the time to shame. As a bonus, the rest of their album is mixed with a power amalgamation of rock, metal, funk, pop and reggae grooves that showed the wide range of musical talent these guys had. Kudos to Living Color for breaking open the door of rock and metal to everyone, regardless of race, who wanted to express themselves within the genre. Love you guys (and Lost in Vegas for being pioneers as well). 👍

Vernon Reid- Lead Guitar. He is fabulous!!

"only you can set you free"....its a warning about giving away the power that you hold inside you in exchange for following others.... 'power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely' -Lord Acton

You guys are top notch entertainment, I love your channel.. y'all give the best reviews and pick monster tracks for your material

So stoked you guys did this one. It still gives me goosebumps every time I hear it.

Check out Living Colour’s song “Open Letter to a Landlord “

Just as an aside: the lead singer (Corey Glover) is in Oliver Stone's Platoon in a fairly decent-sized role. Awesome reaction as always!

Loving the channel. This song brought home what I loved about it and what you guys are doing. Do what you want as long as it doesn't negatively impact anyone. Don't follow what anyone says if it goes against what you feel in your heart

"Open Letter to a Landlord" by Living Color. Groovin', and again, lyrically deep.

Time for this to be stuck in my head for another few decades

Vernon Reid is a goddamn monster with that guitar. You can't crack on their look too much - it was 1988. Hell, I had a mohawk back then. Not exactly a one-hit wonder. They also had a song called "Glamour Boys" that got some airplay on the radio, but Cult of Personality was their signature song.

You guys gotta get on FISHBONE! The original AfroPunk. Black Flowers is such an amazing song. But any of it is so worth it!

You guys have an interesting way of analyzing things. I shall subscribe. Well done, gentlemen! I wish you great success.

more like lenny kravitz sounds like living colour

Faith No More. Faith No More. Faith No More!

This is still one of my all-time favorite bands. I used to play this as loud as I could from my 3rd floor dorm room in my fraternity in 1989. "Vivid" and "Time's Up", their first two releases are my two favorite albums. The musicianship and lyrical content are so powerful from this band. I guess you could technically call them a one hit wonder since "Cult" is by far their most famous song, but they have so many great ones! They brought so many influences into their songs:rap, metal, funk, calypso("Solace of You", one of my favorites!). This band just had so much talent I saw them live on the Rolling Stones' Steel Wheels tour in Cleveland, OH in 1990. Damn great show!

I got to see them live as an opening band for the Rolling Stones concert back in late 80's. They were/are so underrated! Absolutely powerful musicians. Thanks for the reaction!

Living Colour is not a one-hit wonder. You can listen to any song from Vivid, Time's Up or Stain albums and you will be equally amazed. I recommend though Desperate People, Funny Vibe, What's your favorite color?, Time's Up, Visions (uderrated song), Type, Pride, Elvis is Dead. Have fun with those.

Those are wetsuits 😂😂😂 even in high school that shit was hilarious to me! You would need to put a pound of baby powder on to be comfortable at all in those things outside of the water

Thank you!!!! So much fun!!!! Love hanging out with yas

These guys were light years ahead of their time! This song proves it! Spandex be damned, this song hits every bit as hard now, as it did then...

"Open Letter to a Landlord" "Elvis is Dead" (with Little Richard!) and "O'logy" (Vernon's take on Charlie Parker's "Ornithology") are all good.

Freewill by Rush!!! You guys are GUARANTEED to be blown away by all aspects of it!

I loved this song when it came out... still do. Certainly still relevant today (and not in a particularly good way). Vernon Reid was an absolute beast on the guitar.

Trivia: Although he doesn't play on this track, Doug Wimbish joined Living Color later on bass. The notable thing about Doug Wimbish is that he was a member of the house band of Sugar Hill Records. He appears on many classic tracks including "The Message" by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five and "White Lines" by Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel. Between Sugar Hill and Living Colour, he formed Tackhead (with both the drummer and guitarist from Sugar Hill Gang). Check out ANYTHING from Tackhead and you will be pleasantly surprised... (And if you want more, they backed up many groups on the On-U Sound label... Mark Stewart and Maffia, Fats Comet and countless others.) If things ever get back to normal and we are able to see live music again, don't miss a chance to see Doug Wimbish play... he is the Jimi Hendrix/Eddie Van Halen of the bass guitar.

They had other songs. Love Rears Its Ugly Head, Solace of You and Leave It Alone,, but they made some great albums back in the day.. They are still active BTW.

Monster Magnet - Space Lord

This is super relevant right now. I hope your analysis trends. This is great:

I fkn love you guys. Real entertaining. Hilarious. Keep it up! 👍👍🏾

Black Sabbath - N.I.B

If you want to know the connection between Living Colour and In Living Color. The band sued the TV show for taking their name and logo. They won and the show had to fork over some money. The band won a grammy and performed several times on Arsenio Hall's show. Another song to check out from them is "Love Rears Its Ugly Head". Totally different style than "Cult of Personality" and shows off Corey Glover's vocals even more.

Always loved the guitar in this as well as the song in general. And no no no! I liked the part that you didn’t think should be in there.

Watching this reminds me of how awesome Public Enemy was around the same time. I am not sure how well the kiddies today know Public Enemy apart from Flavor Flav's lame reality show a decade or so ago, but you guys should do Bring the Noise or Rebel without a Pause from It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold us Back. Or Welcome to the Terrordome from Fear of a Black Planet.

If you watch WWE/UFC it was used by CM Punk as his entrance music

And now entering the ring. Your World Heaveyweight Champion of the world! C.M. PUNK!

Will Calhoun on this just knocks it out of the park. His drumming is both exciting and IN the pocket. He plays the right groove and fill at the right moment, helping to bring this song to its full potential.

Respect what they were doing in the time they were doing it. NO other brothas were doing this. Listen to the words and you'll see it means more today than in the 90's.

About time you guys did Living Colour. They were kinda big when this hit landed. They were one of the few that started introducing groove into hard rock/metal playing. Also, one of the first all-black bands that made it big in this genre (I believe the only one before was Bad Brains? And they were rather underground). You might want to check out "Love rears it's ugly head" as well, different vibe but you will absolutely love it. Also, please do Babymetal ("Karate" or "Catch me if you can" or "Megitsune" or "Ijime Dame Zettai"...). You know you'll have to, sooner or later.

I would suggest the Living Colour song "Love Rears its Ugly Head"

I love this song. Killer bass line. I still practice to it now & then.

That guitar solo is in the top 100 guitar solos of all time, ranking far above some of his less melinated counterparts.

In high school, my geography teacher played this song for us to teach us this lesson. 😎 Glad to see this as one of y'all's reactions. A classic!

Yes, this was their best known song. But...there are so many awesome songs on "Vivid" released in the mid latter 80's. Shame on those who don't dig deeper into it. Songs like "Desperate People" and " Open Letter To A Landlord" " are incredible and deserve a listen. "What's Your Favorite Color?" is funky as hell! Funny Vibe, Which Way To America, are musical tour de forces and Vocalist Corey Glover always delivers on the poignant lyrics and soulful inspired performances. They kick ass live too. If you want to have some fun... check out "Elvis Is Dead" on their follow up album "Type". There is footage of them performing it on The Arsenio Hall Show , it was awesome! They were not a one hit wonder "Glamour Boys" from the same release got a lot of air play as well. "Type" the title track off their sophomore release would also get a lot of airplay after it's release. The third album "Stain" produced another song called "Leave It Alone" that would enjoy significant radio play. "Nothingness" also on "Stain is an excellent track as well. A truly unique and incredible group who recently released a live 25th anniversary of Vivid and a studio release "Shade" not so long ago.

The year was 1989, and I was new to high school. From my perspective, the two biggest hits were Paradise City and Cult of Personality. I always liked Cult of Personality. Also, the lead singer was in the movie Platoon. Guess who!!! 8)

decades in the stage lighting industry and thousands of shows later, living colour is still one of the highest energy shows i’ve ever seen

I'd like to see your reactions to No More Tears by Ozzy Osbourne. The formula of that song has a great baseline, and Zakk Wylde's guitar work is a fine example of early 90s metal.

"Type" by Living Colour is also good.

They were very different Musicians. I knew them in Brooklyn and they were very cool and approachable even after this song blew up Worldwide. I was a Metal Guitarist and would practice with them. They taught me a lot of great Funk Riffs. The first time I met them I showed up with my gear to play with a new band being created. My singer was very good friends with them especially Vernon.They showed up several times to just jam. They didn’t like the Puppet Masters in the Industry. They were free spirits and didn’t take to the bureaucratic BS you had to deal with.

Corey Glover lead singer for Living Color,was one of the cast in war movie Platoon,along side Charlie Sheen, Wilhelm Dafoe, Johnny Depp and others. I love this song and it's a rocking masterpiece,imo.

Now that you guys are getting to some outliers, I would highly recommend you try some 'Yes'! They are similar to Boston and they influenced Rush! Please check them out! Some great choices are: - Roundabout - Starship Troopers - Your Move; All Good People - And You and I - America

YES!! Now you must react to Cemetary Gates by Pantera

I exploit you, you still love me - best line and fits with what's going on with our current POTUS

you guys have it going, keep it going!

LC were heavily influenced by Bad Brains. That's a band you gotta check out. True trailblazing legends.

I always enjoyed Living Colour and it was great seeing a reaction. Their music is solid, but I forgot about the onesie he rocked in the video...yikes!! 😂😂😂 Other high energy songs from them to check out is definitely 'Type' and 'Elvis Is Dead'. 'Love Rears Its Ugly Head', 'An Open Letter To Landlord', 'Flying' and 'Glamour Boys' are others. Great vid!!

Great work, guys! I'm a Living Colour fan, but, really 1990 videos are something over!!!! I love your song analysis. I would like to mention two more songs from the band. best regards and BAITAbraço!

Just sayin...you guys are great!! Keep doin what you’re doin!!!

Would love to see you guys react to Body Count.... - There Goes the Neighborhood - Voodoo - Hey Joe An underappreciated band for sure.

Open letter to a landlord... by Living Colour

They are still touring with 'burnin Vernon', one the most criminally underrated guitarists. They are coming to Memphis in March, ya'll ❤❤❤ another leader- Lincoln.

Lmao. Y'all know we was clowning (fashion sense) in the 80s and even into the 90s a lil. I missed y'all. Great job LiV