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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  • doctorb [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Today in "Realities that will never happen but let's spend all day arguing and feeling bad about it," would you settle for plain old nordic socialism in the US? Don't tell anyone but yeah I probably would

    • Commander_Data [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      If it wasn't so exploitative to the global south it wouldn't be so bad, but that system can't exist without the surplus it creates on the backs of poorer countries.

    • MikeHockempalz [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      We had that after WW2 (for white men only obviously). You can see how that's worked out for us

    • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Nah, settling for SocDemism just means reactionaries still have all the institutions they need to strip away any progress made by revolutionaries or the previous generations of capitalists who saw themselves obligated into giving concessions. :rosa: you can't expect a different outcome if you keep the same system.