Living Colour - Collideoscope
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Free Music Review: A little let down.
Hit: 3 Stars
I was sooo ready to love this album. But, it's just not happening. The album seems to be all over the place. It seems to be half Glover solo album and half LC. LC has always been very experimental in the past, but this is different. I can't put my hand on it, but it's just not the LC of old. Believe me, I used to be a diehard fan. Stain in still one of my favorite albums of all time. Burnin Vernon is still burnin on this album, but is just seems to "produced" or maybe "canned" would be a better word. The first time I listened to it, I hated it. Now that I have listed to it a few times, I have found a few songs to like, but that about it. Normally, I would give an album like this 1 or 2 stars, but LC has earned 3 stars just for making a comeback. Jim.
Free Music Review: Not worth waiting 10 years for
Hit: 3 Stars
I found the first 4 songs to be right up there in quality with the songs from Living Colour's first album. The rest of the album goes increasingly downhill after that. The album would have been better off without the embarrassing and uninspired remakes of Back in Black and Tomorrow Never Knows. On a positive note, the group is extremely tight and is definitely a musicians band. All in all, I would say this is an average album but worth the buy for die-hard Living Colour fans.Free Music Review: Very disappointing (2.5 stars)
Hit: 2 Stars
After a very long hiatus, Living Colour returned to the music scene in 2003 with their fourth studio album, Collideoscope. During their heyday, the band was a rarity in hard rock as their first two albums, Vivid and Time's Up respectively, were very strong statements both lyrically and musically. The band could add any genre to their brand of music and make it their own. Although their third album, Stain, was a less challenging release and was hampered by a muddy production, the great songs were still intact. During the next 10 years, both the musical climate and the state of the world had changed drastically. When the band released Collideoscope in 2003, longtime fans wondered how interesting the new album would be. Well, the good news was that their social awareness was still intact. The bad news was that the great songs were gone.
The album starts out strong as "Song Without Sin" and "A ? Of When" feature menacing riffs from Vernon Reid and strong vocals from Corey Glover. Unfortunately, the next track, "Operation Mind Control" is very sluggish. The band redeem themselves on "Flying", a graphic tune dealing with the 9/11 tragedy. From here, the album is a mess. While tracks like the rock/reggae of "Nightmare City", the bluesy "Holy Roller", and the funk/rock of "Great Expectation" are decent tunes that grow on you, other songs such as "In Your Name", "Choices Mash Up", "Pocket of Tears", and "Sacred Ground" are hurt by either too many sound effects, bad production, weak lyrics, or unmemorable melodies. Sadly, the rhythm section of Doug Wimbish and Will Calhoun play it pretty safe, as though they were just rushed into the studio to do their parts, rather than leave their unique stamp on them. As for the cover tunes, their version of "Tomorrow Never Knows" is okay while Glover's vocals on "Back in Black" are painfully bad, like the sound of nails on a chalkboard. All told, Collideoscope is a disappointing album that rarely shows the greatness of their previous three albums.
Free Music Review: Beyond dissapointing
Hit: 2 Stars
I love Living Colour, so I didn't let the poor reviews dissuade me from giving the album a try...
I was pleasantly surprised by the first track. Its a slow rocker, but its pretty good. Not a ton of substance, but a Song Without Sin starts it off well. It was however, honestly, all downhill from there.
A ? of When was bad, and then there's Operation: Mind Control which may be the worse song ever written by LC. The next track bounces back with a great slow song in Flying... so I'm thinking ok. There's 11 tracks to go and they're 2 for 4 so far. But that was it. The rest of the album is garbage. Corey sounds alright on some, weak on others. The riffs are very dissapointing, the drumming non-existant and the bass lines without punch. Overall the album is pretty terrible. The mix and quality is awful. I can't think of many albums with worse production. I feel like they borrowed a high schooler's equipment to put this together. Seriously, don't waste you time buying this album. It was so forgettable, I almost got excited about the bad cover of Back in Black compared to the other tracks. I am the last person that would criticize LC based on my love for them. Stain was even my favorite album, and it was the least poppy of the 3. Well, this is less poppy than Stain, yet I hate it. There is just no substance to it. No meat, no nasty funk vibe, no real rock. Really let me down.
Free Music Review: How the mighty have fallen
Hit: 2 Stars
Not total drek, but as a long time admirer of the band and the men in it, this wasn't worth waiting year for, let alone ten. I've got somewhere in the neighborhood of 30 LC CDs in varying types of promos, imports, live recordings, etc., and this wins out as the worst single CD of the entire bunch. There are a couple of gems ("Flying" strikes me as one of the best songs of recent memory), but there was little grab upon first listen and even less after my 40th. I don't have a problem with the covers as some do (I love their rips in years past through "Should I Stay or Should I Go?", "Sailin' On", and "The Ocean", amongst others), but even the covers seem forced. I know these four can do better work. Even "Sacred Ground", a needless repeat from the greatest hits CD of 7 or so years ago, sounded better the first time around. I just hope this is the accidental b-sides album and the real Living Colour "new" album will be out soon.