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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