Living Colour performs Johnny B. Goode live in concert in Vienna - June 1989

Johnny B. Goode

Cult of Personality

Cult of Personality (Rock in Rio 2022 Remix) [feat. Steve Vai]

Cult of Personality (Re-Recorded)

Cult of Personality (Re-Recorded - Sped Up)

Cult of Personality (Re-Recorded - Slowed)

Cult of Personality (Remastered 2023)

(hidden track - unlisted) from The Chair In The Doorway, released September 15, 2009.

It’s just kind of like this completely warped Disney scenario, like “I heard a tree speaking to me it said ‘You are an asshole.’” [laughs] And in my mind it was like – we don’t have the budget for this – but it would be a total Disney tweeting birds kind of thing [laughs], except the world turns on you because you did a stupid thing, you left your true love. And instead of the world putting its hand on your shoulder, it calls you an asshole ~ Vernon Reid / Metalsucks.net interview http://www.metalsucks.net/2009/09/15/vernon-reid-the-metalsucks-interview/

Asshole

Glamour Boys (Live)

Flying, from Collideoscope, performed 9/11/09 at Mexicali Live, Teaneck, NJ during the Chair In The Doorway tour.

Soundboard, previously unreleased. from our archives

about Living Colour's FLYING: "... the achingly beautiful "Flying," a heart-wrenching tale about a young couple whose tragic end comes sudden and without warning. In a single moment, their dreams are both realized and erased, and no one ta
kes notice of their passing. "It's a story about a guy who goes to work at the Trade Center on September 11 and decides that today is the day that he's finally going to ask out Carmen, a co-worker," says Glover. "Ironically, they do wind up together, but it's certainly not the way he imagined it. It's the idea of taking this huge, tragic event and boiling it down to its smallest essence, which is that it was about people. There were so many people there that day, going to work, punching time clocks. Who knows how many of them got to realize their dreams on that final day?"

Dedicated to everyone affected by 9/11 ~ Peace!

Living Colour - Flying (Live)

Living Colour recorded live on 9/21/09 in New York City, performing their signature classic : Cult Of Personality

Cult Of Personality (live)

NEW music from Living Colour

Who Shot Ya? mixtape EP is available now on 

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Stay tuned for the full LP: SHADE to be released early 2017

Who Shot Ya?

Living Colour's Who Shot Ya (Andre Betts Remix) featuring Prodigal Sunn, Black Thought, Chuck D, Pharoahe Monch, Kyle Mansa - off the new Who Shot Ya mixtape EP available on iTunes, Amazon, and Google Play

Who Shot Ya? (mixtape)

Who Shot Ya (Andre Betts Remix)

From the 'Who Shot Ya?' mixtape EP, Regrets is a song recorded during the SHADE recording sessions.  
Available for download at:
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Regrets

Which Way To America from our private live collection, recorded March / April 2013 #livingcolour

Vivid 25 Live at The Paradise

Which Way to America?

Recorded live at Cabaret Metro - Chicago 1990

Biscuits

Information Overload (Live)

Time's Up

Love Rears Its Ugly Head

Stain

Leave It Alone

Cult of Personality EP

Vivid

I Want To Know (2023 Remaster)

Middle Man (2023 Remaster)

Wall

What's Your Favorite Color? (Remixes, B-sides & Rarities)

Sunshine Of Your Love (The Adrian Sherwood & Skip McDonald Remix)

Shade

Always Wrong

Broken Hearts (2023 Remaster)

Glass Teeth

Solace of You

Judgement Night: Music From The Motion Picture

Me, Myself & My Microphone

Desperate People (2023 Remaster)

Glamour Boys (2023 Remaster)

Open Letter (To a Landlord) [2023 Remaster]

Invisible

Memories Can't Wait (2023 Remaster)

Cult of Personality (2023 Remaster)

Preachin' Blues

Behind The Sun - our first single from THE CHAIR IN THE DOORWAY

Behind The Sun

From CBGB's 20th Anniversary recording (out of print)

This Is The Life (Live)

 Living Colour is an American rock band from New York City, formed in 1984. Led by guitarist Vernon Reid, the band's lineup solidified in the mid-80's w/ Corey Glover (vocals), Will Calhoun (drums) and Muzz Skillings (bass). Stylistically, the band's music is a creative fusion influenced by free jazz, funk, hard rock and heavy metal. Their lyrics range from the personal to the political, in some of the latter cases attacking Eurocentrism and racism in America.

The band’s debut album, “Vivid,” was released in 1988 on Epic Records. The album reached #6 on the Billboard 200 Albums chart and was later certified double platinum by the RIAA. It featured “Cult of Personality,” a #13 hit on the Billboard 200 Singles chart as well as the Top 40 hit, “Glamour Boys.” “Cult of Personality” went on to earn the band their first Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance.

In 1990 the band's second full-length album, “Time's Up,” was released and reached #13 on the Billboard 200 while certifying gold. It won a Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Album and featured guest appearances by Queen Latifah, Little Richard, Doug E. Fresh, Maceo Parker and James Earl Jones.

Due to creative differences, Skillings left the band in the summer of 1992, only to be replaced by session veteran and SugarHill Gang bass player Doug Wimbish.

“Stain,” their third studio album, was released in 1993 by Epic. Reaching #26 on the Billboard 200, the album had a much heavier and aggressive sound, containing elements of thrash metal and industrial music while receiving a Grammy nomination for 'Leave It Alone'.

After a split in 1995, Living Colour returned in the Dec 2000 and began recording “Collideøscope” in late 2002. Released in 2003, the album featured aggressive lyrics, with many of the songs about the September 11 attacks. It also contained cover versions of AC/DC's “Back in Black” and The Beatles' “Tomorrow Never Knows.”

Their first release on Megaforce Records, “The Chair in the Doorway,” was issued in 2009 and reached #159 on the Billboard 200 charged by the single 'Behind The Sun'

In 2013, the band celebrated the 25th anniversary of 'Vivid' w/ a world tour crossing North and South Americas, Europe, and Japan including the Soundwave festival in Australia.

The root of Living Colour's next album, came from a performance of Robert Johnson's "Preachin' Blues" at the 100th Anniversary Birthday celebration at the Apollo in New York City. To be released in the fall of 2016, ‘Shade’ is the sound of a band coming to terms with its shadows and light,” says founder Vernon Reid. “From the blue pulpit of Robert Johnson to the mean red streets of Brooklyn to the golden lure of Hollywood, ‘Shade’ is the next chapter of a unique American journey.”

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