Living Colour - Time's Up
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Artist: Living ColourEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2008-04-01
Music Label: Sbme Special Mkts.
Soundtracks:
- Time's Up
- History Lesson
- Pride
- Love Rears Its Ugly Head
- New Jack Theme
- Someone Like You
- Elvis Is Dead
- Type
- Information Overload
- Under Cover of Darkness
- Ology
- Fight the Fight
- Tag Team Partners
- Solace of You
- This Is the Life
Free Music Notes for Time's Up
Free Music Review: Best album of the 90's?
Hit: 5 Stars
I won't say this is without a doubt the best album of the 1990's, but for my money, it's GOT to be a nominee. Living Colour caught my ear with their fantastic debut "Vivid", but they made me a lifelong fan with this 1990 followup. While "Vivid" was a collection of great songs, "Time's Up" is a full blown artistic statement. After the surprise success of "Vivid", it would have been too easy for them to make "Vivid II" and watch the cash continue to roll in, but instead they kick off this second release with a speed-metal thrash style song (the title cut) played at the speed of light with strong lyrics that echo the immediacy of the music in this track. Wow. This is not your "MTV" Living Colour. Which is not to say there aren't some downright catchy songs here: the playful R&B cut "Love Rears Its Ugly Head" will stick in your head, as will the African flavored "Solace Of You" and several heavier sounding tracks like "Elvis Is Dead" and the lead single "Type".
But the strength of this cd isn't the "rock" songs or the "r&b" songs or the "thrash" approach or any one song or set of songs, it's the fact that the band mixes and blends so many musical styles on one album that still manages to be cohesive as a whole. Take for example the closing "This Is The Life", a very heavy Zeppelinish-sounding track, but the lyrics are very Eastern, so the band gives us a very eastern-flavored intro and outro that really completes the song and gives it that authentic feel that few bands can match, past or present. A few tracks are segued by short instrumental bits that only add to the diversity of this album, yet like great albums from the likes of Queen or The Beatles (who were also very diverse musically), the album still "flows". It's the last album I can think of where I like every single moment of every single song...
And don't let the diversity of what Living Colour does here scare you! Fans of the hard hitting "Cult of Personality" from their debut will still find plenty of songs rooted in good ol' fashioned hard rock here, but there is SO much more as well. So on this one, all I can say is BUY IT if you don't have it, and when you listen, expect the unexpected!
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