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LIVING COLOUR FACTS
-Formed in New York City in 1984.
-Released six studio albums and rose to fame with their debut album, Vivid in 1988.
-The band was championed by Mick Jagger who produced two of their demos as well as encouraged Epic Records to sign them.
-Other rock and roll legends that stood in their corner were Iron Maiden’s Steve Harris, Lemmy, Anthrax
-Vernon Reid is quoted as saying, “Metal is a very tribal thing. It’s also extremely competitive. I embraced the power of hard rock, but we were unwilling to play by its rules and culture. Some felt we were provocative merely for existing.”
Members as of the release of this song:
Corey Glover: Lead Vocalist
Vernon Reid: Guitar
Muzz Skillings: Bass Guitar
Will Calhoun: Drums
“CULT OF PERSONALITY” SONG FACTS
-Released July 14, 1988 as the opening track and second single from their debut studio album, Vivid.
- Reached No. 13 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and No. 9 on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart
-Won a Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance at the 32 Annual Grammy Awards.
-Video won a MTV Video Music Award for Best Group Video and MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artists.
-Song was essentially written in just one rehearsal session.
-Ranked No. 69 on VH1’s 100 Greatest Hard Rock Songs.
-The guitar solo ranked No. 878 in Guitar World’s “100 Greatest Guitar Solos” list.
-The title of the song comes from Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev’s 1956 anti-Stalin report, “On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences”.
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Looks like you beat me to it. : ) Good work, Keep it up!
Thanks Derek. Appreciate that! Apologies. Perhaps we should coordinate our videos? Lol. The great thing is there is so much good music to choose from!
Also... forgot to say, I think you should still do this one, if you want. Maybe down the road or something? There's bound to be new reactions to it and even if there is not, there are so many reactions that don't get used in these videos...
I just know I would be one of the first to run to your channel and watch it. lol You are one of the only RUclipsrs I've had the notifications turned on for since the day I found your channel. Lots of respect for what you do.
@@WonderMommaOG Much appreciated, thank you!
One of you two need to do reactions to Meatloaf's Paradise by the dashboard lights. :-)
Ha! I actually thought i was on Derek's channel. New sub @Momma
As a white metal dude, when these guys came out, we were all like, "yeeeeeahhh, you see? Anyone can get into metal! Metal is for all of us."
Yes, same. It was a very positive and encouraging discovery for me. Some say that the fact they are black didn't even get a second thought at the time. That just wasn't my experience. It was a very profound moment in time for me that only encouraged an already developing humanist attitude. lol
They weren't exactly "metal"... "Glamour Boys" is more of a pop song. While they were generally were hard rock, they definitely weren't a strict metal band.
I beg to differ. Not anyone could do what they did.
I was a young white kid and this song was one that got me into the whole genre. I could not wait to see this video on MTV when I was a kid. These guys fucking rocked. Fucking rocked. First rock song that made me think.
I was 12 years old when Vivid was released. At that time, I was already listening to Thrash Metal and Death Metal for years. Living Colour was instantly accepted and loved by the metal community. Vivid is an instant classic. The entire album is solid. Another favorite track of mine is "Open Letter (To a Landlord)".
Living Colour played at CBGB's (a beloved Metal & Hardcore venue in NYC.) Living Colour released several more albums after Vivid. All of which are excellent, IMO. Corey Glover's iconic vocals appear in other side projects too. Check out Ultraphonix and Stevie D featuring Corey Glover.
"I exploit you, still you love me"
Now THAT'S a bar. Scary how relevant it still is
Old as time
Vernon Reid = most underappreciated guitar god ever
Yes, and we know exactly why that is the case....
Honely, why isn't he better known?The man is AMAZING.
@@libertine40 he was on a cover of a magezine in the mid 80s. Nice try tho
@@libertine40 tbf hendrix is always like the number 1 guitarist of all time on most main stream lists lol
@@legendsbeast4624 Do you even hear yourself? "On the cover of *A* magazine *in the 80s* ..." (emphasis mine). Please...
We should actually make this song huge again. With today's issues we need to let people hear it, it holds as true now as it ever was.
YES!!!
EXACTLY.
It is still huge. thanks to CM Punk
I agree. Song is timeless and apropos for today's world. Living Colour's lyrics have always been socially conscious.
I have been finding myself feeling the same way about "Free Your Mind" by En Vogue a lot recently.
Not just a black rock band...a kick-ass black rock band!
I never looked at them as a black rock band.i was in my teens when this came out and Everybody loved and appreciated them.nobody underappreciated them at all.we looked at them as much needed rock musicians.it was a good thing just like Jimi Hendrix was a good thing.musicians just need to be appreciated for who they are.
A kickass band period
@@robynhurley5119 That is back when we HEARD the music and didn't see who was making it. 🤘
@@robynhurley5119 Amen to that!
Was gonna say the same
MORE PEOPLE NEED TO HEAR THIS SONG. It is MUCH more important now than when it was released.
I'm 67 years old an remember when this came out. Oh my God, The Power !! I'm so happy to see the reactions of these wonderful people, the tears are flowing here.
That’s dope as hell Mr. James
And nobody gave a rat turd about race back then. Love Rears Its Ugly Head I think is LCs best song, slightly better. I wish there was a montage of people listening to that one. I know most would agree when they hear it.
48. Love, love, loved this song from day 1. Awesome to see so many discover and understand this song, now. All time jam!
@shack8110 now you're just lying. Racism was a massive issue, and even this very band had given interviews and stated they had an extremely hard time breaking in the genre specifically because of their ethnicity. No one wanted to listen to a band like theirs. Next time, stick to something you actually know, if there is such a thing.
Same!!!
Crazy to see how many people never knew these guys were a black metal band. They were awesome and their songs were interesting. Great compilation again.
Can only imagine if they listened to Bodycount or Bad Brains? Or Fishbone
More of a hard rock band then metal
Body count people need to hear them
If only they were a black black metal band
I'm guessing a lot of these people weren't around when this came out or something.
Vernon is so underrated it should be a crime. He's up there with Slash!
I would argue he is probably better than Slash. More like a metally version of Jeff Beck.
Slash is fine but this kid was on another level IMO.
I like Slash a lot, but Vernon is on another level.
35 years!!! Song still strong
Fun Fact - Lead singer, Corey Glover played one of the soldiers in the movie "Platoon."
oh wow your right..."lets didi Taylor,lets go!" didnt he stab himself in the leg?ive seen this music video a thousand times an watch platoon over an over an Never knew that was the lead singer!Wow you really do learn smething new everyday. right on ,thanks.
“We gonna get high-ty, high!!”
And Danny Glover's nephew
Yes sir
Every long haired metal head, knew of Living Color and rocked that shit🤟🤟🤟
It really is nearly impossible to explain how GIGANTIC this song was.
It was... just...
F*cking EPIC!
And nobody gave a shit about race
I remember when it was released. I was also like who are these guys, they are awesome!
Their whole discography is amazing, but that debut album “Vivid” is a masterpiece all the way through.
Open Letter to a Landlord deserves a reaction by everyone in this video.
“When a leader speaks, that leader dies”. MLK on screen during that line. Powerful song. Love these guys from day one. Lol. I’m 53 so y’all are listening to the music that raised me! 💜💜💜💜
They did a great job delivering that line!! With the imagery as well woooooah. This blew my mind on how accurate it is
Right on brother....same same
My favorite part is the beginning when everyone is like "THESE DUDES ARE BLACK?" Yeah man, the guitarist is like world famous. These dudes have been here for a minute.
Vernon Reid is a genuine guitar god. I remember when I first heard this song on the radio, back when it was first released. I kept shouting "WHO ARE THESE GUYS?!" to my friends. Killer.
To each of you that reacted to Living Colour, the cat on guitar is Vernon Reid he is the most overlooked Rock guitarist there is. 2nd if you were amazed by that there is a band called Fishbone they are a Ska,funk,punk rock band all brotha’s from L.A. Also, Ice-T has a band called Body Count. Also, a now defunct band called Unlocking the Truth . All these bands are very good.
Thank you!
Don't forget Bad Brains. One of the best live acts I've ever seen.
24-7 Spyz!
And Vernon Reid is a really cool guy. Met him once, he was very down to earth.
yeah, 'there goes the neighborhood', baby!
I was in Florida on vacation the first time I heard this in 1988. Everyone in the store stopped to rock out to this. It is still one of my favorite songs. They were so far ahead of their time laying this truth out. We allow the people that our community chooses to put on pedestals to lie in our faces and still stand up for them. 36 years later and its only gotten worse.
The message in this song is extremely relevant to today. Great song loved it when it first came out and still love it.
It isn't that's it's " extremely relevant" now its just that nothing changes!
instant classic from the mid-80s that all us metal heads immediately took to our hearts for obvious reasons
forgot to mention their other epic song - Love Rears its Ugly Head. Love that s***!
That guitar riff dude...
@@stevesmith9617 call me crazy but i love the solo too.
@@cshepard09 it's wild and messy. Wat a great 80a song. The whole decade was wild and messy
@@stevesmith9617 people didn't give 2 craps about race, it was great music was all we cared about
Guitarist name is Vernon Reid and he's worth looking into, much more where that came from. The man is top tier all the way.
Vernon Reid is extremely underrated. He is an absolute monster on the guitar.
The song and band were way ahead of their time. I graduated in 1988 and i remember when this album came out. It shook the music industry.
Saw these guys several times back in the day and recently in the early 2010s at a Hendrix tribute event. They still kill it live. Massively underappreciated band.
Metal knows know color. Rock is rock, baby
Ghandi is the epitome of this songs meaning. He wasn't a good person, he was only portrayed that way. Liberated a nation, BUT he hated black people and slept with kids. True story.
Same for all the people named. Stalin was a hero for pulling Russia through WW2, then went on to exterminated millions of his own countrymen. MLK and JFK were both prolific adulterers. FDR was notorious for backroom deals and corruption.
Goes to show that people can do some awful things and still accomplish great things.
There's a speech he gave comparing blks to animals.. so yeah Jasso you're right.👍
He also created the forced evacuation and re-settlment of Indians and Pakistanis...over 1millipn died...the path to Hell is paved with good intentions
🤯🤯🤯 I didn't know that!
His racism was very obvious sind he was an avid supporter of the caste system but I didn't know he was a pedo. Wth.
LIVING COLOUR, Corey Glover, Vernon Reid, Muzz Skillings & Will Calhoun, is one helluva ROCK band!! I loved them from the get go! Their album "VIVID" is still one of my favorites! Every song on VIVID is awesome!🤘🤘
Vernon Reed's guitar mastery is epic....never played the solo the same way twice....this video version is one of his best....
These fellows are Rockers. Every band member of whatever band loves this masterpiece. Respect fellows
I LOVED THIS SONG WHEN IT CAME OUT!!! The substance of the lyrics are unbelievable and completely true. Great rock and roll doesn’t see color. We just love the music. Living Color was a GREAT band.
I love that people are "discovering" this song again. It is as relevant today as it was back then. I love the reactions as if on cue: Whoa, they're black, whoa they jam... whoa, the lyrics!! And Vernon Reid is one of the greatest guitarists in rock!
Living Colour was the bomb. I remember when they came out. I was modeling for United Colors of Benetton and we did a runway show to this song. They wore a lot of UCOB colors as did everyone. If you weren’t brighter than the sun you weren’t hip. NEON WAS KING
I remember UCOB. Girbaud jeans... and Cross Colours. 😅
@@WonderMommaOGmy BF wore Gibaud. He modeled for them and got free clothes 😊
Vernon Reid is one of the best guitarists I have ever heard live. Loved the album, all my friends had it.
I snuck downstairs after bedtime to watch them perform on the Arsenio Hall show. Got in trouble because I kept turning up the volume on the TV.
TOTALLY WORTH IT!!!!
GREAT BAND 🤘
thats so funny you said tht i remember my lil nephew an niece asking me to let them watch this in 89 the night before i shipped off to marine bootcamp. I forgot abt tht memory, WOW it was all ahead of us back then!!thanks for the rewind, hope this comment finds you doing well.
*Still get chills, all these years later, when Vernon hits that solo!* 🎸 🔥
*I LOVE THESE VIDEOS!!!*
*THANK YOU!!!*
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Yes, Black folk used to rock out. This was one of my favorites back in the day.
Its so awesome to see how open minded people can appreciate great music regardless of skin color. We didnt have this problem back in the 80's.
One of the all time greatest rock songs.
Incredible job going to full on 9 screens while Vernon Reid absolutely DESTROYED that guitar solo. This was such an enjoyable experience. Thanks for the hard work putting it together.
Wow, thanks!
Vernon Reid #Legendary
I read somewhere that he was playing 1/64 notes.
The 9 screen reaction shot was a genius idea. It was pure joy watching Vernon melt everyone’s faces!
I remember watching this on MTV when they actually played muaic on music television. Love that people are still watching this video and digging it!
Corey and the boys influenced alot of future hard rock and metal bands. They were speaking straight facts in that song. Another amazing video. Keep up the great work. 😊💙🙏
Many thanks!
@@WonderMommaOG my pleasure.
Great compilation.
Coreys voice is so potent and Vernons solo is literally superb. The energy emulating from this gem is next level. This song came out of the gate as an F5. Still is in 2024.
MASSIVE RESPECT for the structure, tone and mastery created by Vernon Reid. When I first heard these guys in 1988 (!!) I was so blown away!
That's the exact face I had in the 1980s when I found out this incredible band was all Black guys rocking HARD. AWESOME.
When this song came out, I was 22. It was off the chain!! It was all over rock radio, and they opened up for the Rolling Stones.
I was there when this came out. A Filipino Metalhead, I am to this day. When this came out, it didn’t hit me as anything other than. a great song. Back then, to just about everyone, Race was an issue of the PAST. White rappers, black rockers were the on the rise, as completely natural progression. I miss those times greatly. I WISH we could go back to when RACE, wasn’t the focus. And being decent, was.
Well said!
"Letter to a landlord" also by this very band is incredible also!
check it out here!!! ruclips.net/video/6V5VkMqM07s/видео.html
One of all time favorite song by them! ✌🏾
Mick Jagger lead singer of The Rolling Stones discovered them at CBGBs in NYC
Can't believe so many folks hadn't heard of these guys. They played "Cult of Personality" on Saturday Night Live!
Saw these guys at lollopalooza back in the day. Vernon Reid can shred with the best of ‘em.
I was 16 years old in high school (1989) when this song came out on the radio. I loved it the first time I hear it and has been with me since then, as Rock lover, I'm from México, I wasn't so surprised when first I see the video, not so much because I have seen videos of Jimi Hendrix playing guitar, but It was refreshing to hear a band like Living Colour.
Seriously, rock n roll and metal is for everyone and anyone, forget about the ethnicity, background or origins. Living Colour is the proof of that and they gave out a deep and strong message.
As a white metalhead gal I say ROCK ON EVERYONE! 🤘🏻
Truly the Magnum Opus of Living Colour. I'm glad this song is having an impact on all these folks!
High school music was off the chain in the 80's. I love these guys. And all of you here. ❤
I was 18 when this came out.
When I first heard it I blasted it as well as U2's bullet the blue sky. I couldn't get enough of them. I'm glad that others have discovered them.
This song is a history lesson for everyone to learn from.
I was a 27 year old man when this came out, I absolutely loved it on it’s surface, but I never truly understood it, now as a 60 something year old man I can truly say this was truly prescient, it’s like they had a crystal ball, so poetically describing the trumpist, maga, neo-nazi, cult of personality we have now in 2022. If you need and example, just look at some clips from the CPAC convention in Dallas, TX going on this weekend.
Well said. It's a damn shame, the state of the world currently.
Sadly, the same thing applies to Joe Biden. People know him from being V.P. and the memes. Look into his past politics and you'll see he's bad too.
@@modernenglishman7802 even if what you say is true, his current behavior/actions are what’s relevant. Biden just signed into law one of the most impactful (read, beneficial) bills in the history of the US, the inflation reduction act which will finally tackle climate change amongst a myriad of other things that people who are not part of the trump cult care about and are important for our survival as a species. Filthy, abominable Trump cares nothing about anything other than himself. The sooner he’s pushing up daisies or in an orange jumpsuit (to match his skin) the better off the world will be. Biden has turned out to be one of the best presidents we have have in modern day history - and the fascist Republican Party, Fox News, et. al. is just seething over it.
@@modernenglishman7802 they all are. Lol.
When they first came out...Mind Blowing like the beginning of Star Wars and the Matrix! That Voice; Electric Guitar rift, and Energy presence! Amazing even to this day...Timeless!
Obviously this song was on MTV non-stop, they were huge. Amazing vocals and musicians.
I just wanted to recommend their first album to Anyone who hasn’t heard it. I was a teen in the 80s, this is still one of the best rock albums from that era.
Another great reaction montage. It's fun to see all these reactors having a lightbulb moment in realizing the band is black. I wonder how they'd react to the band Death, who were three brothers (in both senses of the word) from Detroit who formed a punk band in the early 1970s. So, they were pioneers on two fronts: one of the first (if not _the_ first) all-black recording rock bands, and one of the first (if not _the_ first) punk bands anywhere. There's even a documentary about them ("A Band Called Death").
EDIT: An additional note of appreciation for your informative descriptions under the videos, which add some nice background and context for the videos themselves.
Thank you so much. I completely spaced that part of the description. lol I have now gone in and fixed it. Thank you for your comments!
@@WonderMommaOG It happens, lol. You're doing great. I'm always tweaking the descriptions of my own vids, and yet am still constantly surprised that even a year or two later I still find mistakes there.
Guitarist here is very skilled and always hoped to hear alot more from him
Kick ass song, old but still relevant today amazes me how many of us don’t know Living Colour 😮 I saw the video on MTV back when they played videos 😅 My son shared this reaction video with me. He was digging it and I referenced it to explain the draw of our 45th President. He embodies the dark side of the Cult of Personality. “I exploit you, still you love me” “I tell you 1 and 1 makes 3”
Cult of Personality, an amazing gem of a song from an amazing gem of a band! Been a fan of that song since I was a kid. Sad that none of these people had heard of the song before, and it’s sad but funny how many were shocked they were all black.
One of the best Killer Rock Songs of all time!
Caught these guys in 86 in Daytona Beach at a little club called the American Room, blew the roof of the joint!!
Vernon Reid is, was and ALWAYS will be the greatest guitarist in the game. He's a genius.
Such a good song, that is even more true today than back then! Vernon Reid is a monster on that guitar. When I was a kid we all tried learning this on guitar. The problem is trying to recreate Vernon's fluid-like wizardry. Its impossible.
Every one in this band was killing it but that shredding on that guitar
One of the best rock / message songs of all time
I was a kid when I heard heard this. I instantly loved it!
Even back then I understood what they were talking about. Many people pointed out Ghandi but there were many that they were talking about.
Another “leader” who was/is worshipped by the masses but was an awful human being was Mother Theresa. It is a bit more common now to be critical of her but back then it was unheard of.
Mind you, Mother Theresa had multiple “homes” for the poor but she would rather see them starve to be closer to Christ. There was a lot that woman did that was inhumane to say the least; starving the poor, refusing basic care, those homes she got millions of dollars donations for? Yeah, they never saw a dime. She housed the sick but would let them life in squalor. The hamo of religion was strong and she became a Saint only after the church changed there criteria for one.
If you can’t tell, I have a lot to say about Mother Theresa none of it is good. But that goes for Ghandi too. One of his wives Aisha was just a *child!*
They preyed upon so man y and they are still talked about positively by the masses except by the few who knew these people and their lives.
Love this band! Flashbacks to teen years watching them a lot on MTV. The message in this song is still so relevant today. Timeless 🤘🏻
"They're black?" 😅🤣😂 You guys had me cracking up. I love this song. From the late 80s, but I always pump it up when it comes on the radio. They're pretty awesome. Thanks everyone for the entertainment - I really enjoyed this reaction video! 👏👍👏👍
This song never stops being relevant. It might actually be getting even more relatable over time!
This was my youth
I loved this
They are great. So glad that they are being enjoyed today❤❤
Let's put it this way y'all. I've been jamming since the 70s. And I've never ever seen an all black rock band that jammed like this. And put shame to a lot of other rock bands. They were new and unique and had their own sound. And me coming from the greatest Rock era of our time loved every minute of it😂😊
These guys were incredible, Cory (the singer) was into doing movies at that time and IMO, if they were able to keep it together the sky was the limit, they had other songs from their album that will blow you away as well. To this day I listen to this and... It puts me in a better frame of mind, the guitar solos, especially the 2nd one is absolutely insane.
While I was waiting to get a haircut in park slope Brooklyn the lead guitarist was getting his hair done and also the drummers mom worked at my job, she was so proud of him.
This is the song that made me love hard rock/metal. This is my favorite song of all time for the past 35 years or so. I have never gotten sick of this masterpiece. I was so amazed that they were black because I didn't even know there were black musicians doing hard rock. I'm happy to see these people appreciate my favorite song.
The bass line in this song is insane. And they could play anything. They have an amazing blues song caked love rears up is ugly head. Incredible
I've loved Living Colour since I was a kid. Got everything they've ever done. Amazing band and Vernon Ried is one of my favorite guitar players.
Black dudes rockin? Ummm…..Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jimi Hendrix, Phil Lynott, anyone…..? Black Rockers have been around a long time, folks!
Saw these guys live at the LA Coliseum back in ‘89, opening for G&R and The Rolling Stones - their set was amazing
During "THE" solo. The guy in the green shirt, top middle is hilarious. Pure bewilderment.
In '89, my band covered half of this wonderful album, our fave. Listen to the rest, it's literally all good.
Not only is this song one of the most important songs ever. Right up there with Imagine. It's also my most favorite song ever.
Cult of Personality is what got Cadet Bone Spurs elected POTUS. And the world is poorer for it.
Cult of personality is also what got Obama elected (and Bill Clinton, and Ronald Reagan, and JFK, and probably about half the other presidents that have ever been in office). The world isn't poorer for Trump being president. The world is poorer due to the reaction by the jerkoffs in the media and the Washington establishment (but there I go repeating myself) to Trump being president. Their "cure" has done way more damage to this country than Trump's "disease" ever did.
I was shocked that no one knew the memebers of Living Colour were black . Then I remembered how young the reactors were.
As a drummer growing up in the 70s and 80’s I knew these guys could rock. I saw the open for The Rolling Stones in the late 90s . These dudes can rock!
The words ring more true today than when the song was written. Arguably, we’ve had two cults of personality as presidents of this country. For better or worse.
The used to play this on MTV all the time. What a great memory! The lead singer, Corey Glover, was also in the movie Platoon! He was that dude near the end of the movie when the helicopter takes off saying "we gonna get high tonight!" lol legend
When these guys came out on video, some people were surprised.., I was excited. I really hoped Living Colour would inspire more black rock bands so we can hear their stories or their messages that isn’t known in this genre. Sadly, they might just be an exception.
I remember when they came out it was AMAZING. His voice is on fire and the song has an eternal message. I don't know how they faded away.
Truth then, truth now. Let's get it together people. Together. Love and respect is the key.
You ALL are amazing. Thanks for this video!
This is easily one of the Greatest Rock Songs of all Time!
Knowledge is power, but music is Passion.
Living Colour, take your place among the greatest of all time!
Can a brother, get some guitar lessons, Vern?
The whole album, Vivid, is epic. One of the best ever in my white boy opinion! Saw them once, also epic, open for The Rolling Stones in Vancouver, BC. Five hour drive was worth every second!
I saw these guys at Afro punk a few years ago, and I had the most amazing time. They played along with bad brains, and it’s great to see that we have some black Rockstars out there. We need more!
From Malcolm X to FDR what a ride! Vernon Reid is a guitarist of epic proportions that is not always talked about but all you have to do is listen nothing more nothing less. The power that Corey Glover uses to deliver those lyrics is amazing and perfect for this song.
The lead singer was in the movie platoon.
I'd love to hang out at a party with every single one of the reviewers in this montage. That'd be one hell of a room.
that would be a trip! a bunch of GEN X'ers,millinials,an a couple of gen Z'ers? Id pay the cover charge to see that...now tht i think about it........maybe not!lol🤟