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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  • Trouble [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    Don't let libs hide from the fact that the democrats had half a century, including multiple years in which they had veto proof majorities, to try to enshrine abortion rights into law at a national level, and they didn't. They let Republicans make abortion functionally illegal in many states, all while acting like Roe was upholding an adequate level of abortion rights, and running purely on defending this flimsy ruling based on "privacy" instead of passing legislation that actually accomplished anything. No one has any memory, I swear to god, people think that the dems finally losing on this issue after 50 years of failing to do anything to strengthen their position is somehow proof that we just need to vote harder and donate more, instead of a fatal discrediting of the party.

    • Lundi [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      LIke, at what point after taking fat fucking Ls straight to the dome do you go, 'you know, the same shit isn't working. maybe vooting and obsessing over parliamentary procedure doesn't do shit'?

      I wonder if it will ever click for those well- meaning, ignorant libs?

      • Trouble [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        People have no political memory. Everything that happens is happening for the first time.

        Also Russia or something.

        • Trouble [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          At this point I'm just getting recreationally angry at democrats, but I'm thinking about "safe, legal, and rare" fuck Bill Clinton too while we're at it