Today marks the 34th anniversary of Living Colour's debut album, Vivid. Hailing from New York City, Living Colour consists of lead vocalist Corey Glover, Vernon Reid on guitar, drummer Will Calhoun, and on bass Muzz Skillings and later Doug Wimbish. The most popular single off of Vivid, "Cult of Personality", received extensive radio airplay in the late 80s and early 90s and can still be heard on alternative rock stations to this day. The song would eventually garner the band a Grammy award for best hard-rock song. Sadly, Vivid was the band's only mainstream success. An all-black rock/metal band singing about gentrification, the status obsessed, alienation and mass shootings, and sexual identity among other politically charged topics wasn't commercially viable during an era of mass consumption and little self-reflection. Vivid's limited commercial success did pave the way for other politically charged acts such as Rage Against the Machine to sign major label record deals in the following decades. Living Colour would go on to record five more studio albums, including the criminally underappreciated Stain, and is still touring today.

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  • Kanna [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    I decided to look in r/politics lol:

    Biden lost each dakota by 110k each and Wyoming by 120k. So if 340k Democrats move by 2024 we flipped three states on top of Texas potentially going blue

    :che-laugh:

    All we need is 340,000 people to move to shitty states in two years. We got This!!

    • silent_water [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      I'm just going to start responding to this inane BS with "political power flows from the barrel of a gun". I'm so done with liberal hand-wringing.

    • Trouble [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      Liberals believe that labor struggle is impossible but also believe they'd be able to get hundreds of thousands of people to do this purely out of altruism to the democratic party.

    • Donut
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      1 year ago

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    • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      I mean the latin american immigration could be contributing to that. Texas diaspora is different from Florida's. You tend to get poorer immigrants in Texas who are more likely to vote Democrats than the rich ones in Florida.

    • scraeming [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      If you took 10% of those people and had them blockade congress you'd be more likely to have demands met than electing a few more senators.