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Eleven years after Living Colour released its post-breakup compilation Pride and three years after their reunion album Collideøscope, Epic/Legacy released the career-spanning collection Everything Is Possible: The Very Best of Living Colour. Since Living Colour had a career that burned like a supernova -- bright and intense at its beginning in 1988, but by 1993, they had imploded -- they're an ideal band for a compilation, and Everything Is Possible is indeed an excellent history of the band, drawing heavily from 1988's Vivid and its 1990 follow-up, Time's Up, while treating 1993's Stain as a footnote and sampling from the reunion record. As such, this is a lively portrait of the band at its peak, containing nearly all of the MTV and album rock radio hits (Stain's "Leave It Alone" is missing, but it's not noticeable), plus a healthy representation of the best album tracks. That almost all of these are culled from Vivid (over half the album is here) and Time's Up (just under half the album, if the "Soulpower Hip Hop Remix" of "Love Rears Its Ugly Head" is counted) is, again, no surprise: not only did the band turned dank and gloomy for Stain, but their neon-colored fiercely multi-cultural hard rock was in full force for those two albums. Truth be told, it even showed signs of exhausting itself on Time's Up, something that Everything Is Possible obscures even if it can't completely hide it: by that point, the politics, genre-hopping, celebrity cameos, and PC social consciousness were dampening the freshness of Vivid, which itself suffered from being overly earnest and as self-consciously complicated as the stop-start riff to their biggest hit, "Cult of Personality." Nevertheless, over the course of those two albums Living Colour produced some bright, ambitious hard rock that crystallized a lot of the ideas and trends of the late '80s and early '90s, and nowhere is that better heard than on this compilation, which captures a band that was and remains as interesting to theorize about as it is to listen to.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
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Will Calhoun, Lyricist - Will Calhoun, Composer - V.Reid, Lyricist - V.Reid, Composer - William Calhoun, Percussion - William Calhoun, Vocal - William Calhoun, Drums - Living Colour, Performer - Vernon Reid, Lyricist - Vernon Reid, Composer - Vernon Reid, Vocal - Vernon Reid, Guitar - Ed Stasium, Producer - Corey Glover, Composer - Corey Glover, Vocal - Corey Glover, Lyricist - W.Calhoun, Composer - W.Calhoun, Lyricist - Muzz Skillings, Lyricist - Muzz Skillings, Vocal - Muzz Skillings, Bass - Muzz Skillings, Composer - C.Glover, Lyricist - C.Glover, Composer - M.Skillings, Lyricist - M.Skillings, Composer
(P) 1988 Epic Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
William Calhoun, Vocal - William Calhoun, Percussion - William Calhoun, Drums - Wilfred Fowler, Background Vocal - Bernard Fowler, Background Vocal - Living Colour, Performer - Vernon Reid, Vocal - Vernon Reid, Guitar - Ed Stasium, Producer - Corey Glover, Vocal - Muriel Fowler, Background Vocal - V. Reid, Composer - V. Reid, Lyricist - Muzz Skillings, Vocal - Muzz Skillings, Bass - T. Morris, Composer - T. Morris, Lyricist - The Fowler Family, Background Vocal
(P) 1988 Epic Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
William Calhoun, Vocal - William Calhoun, Percussion - William Calhoun, Drums - Living Colour, Performer - Vernon Reid, Vocal - Vernon Reid, Guitar - Ed Stasium, Producer - Corey Glover, Vocal - Flavor Flav, Rap Performed By - V. Reid, Composer - V. Reid, Lyricist - Muzz Skillings, Vocal - Muzz Skillings, Bass - Chuck D., Rap Performed By
(P) 1988 Epic Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Mick Jagger, Producer - Mick Jagger, Background Vocal - Muzz Skillings, Vocal - Muzz Skillings, Bass - Corey Glover, Vocal - V. Reid, Composer - V. Reid, Lyricist - William Calhoun, Vocal - William Calhoun, Percussion - William Calhoun, Drums - Vernon Reid, Vocal - Vernon Reid, Guitar - Living Colour, Performer
(P) 1988 Epic Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Muzz Skillings, Vocal - Muzz Skillings, Bass - Corey Glover, Vocal - V. Reid, Composer - V. Reid, Lyricist - Ed Stasium, Producer - William Calhoun, Vocal - William Calhoun, Percussion - William Calhoun, Drums - Vernon Reid, Vocal - Vernon Reid, Guitar - Living Colour, Performer - C. Glover, Composer - C. Glover, Lyricist
(P) 1988 Epic Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
J. Harrison, Composer - J. Harrison, Lyricist - Muzz Skillings, Vocal - Muzz Skillings, Bass - D. BYRNE, Composer - D. BYRNE, Lyricist - Corey Glover, Vocal - Ed Stasium, Producer - William Calhoun, Vocal - William Calhoun, Percussion - William Calhoun, Drums - Vernon Reid, Vocal - Vernon Reid, Guitar - Living Colour, Performer
(P) 1988 Epic Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Little Richard, Vocal - William Calhoun, Vocal - William Calhoun, Percussion - William Calhoun, Drums - Living Colour, Performer - Vernon Reid, Vocal - Vernon Reid, Guitar - Ed Stasium, Producer - Corey Glover, Vocal - V. Reid, Composer - V. Reid, Lyricist - Muzz Skillings, Vocal - Muzz Skillings, Bass - Maceo Parker, Saxophone
(P) 1990 Epic Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Muzz Skillings, Vocal - Muzz Skillings, Bass - Corey Glover, Vocal - V. Reid, Composer - V. Reid, Lyricist - Ed Stasium, Producer - William Calhoun, Vocal - William Calhoun, Guitar - William Calhoun, Percussion - William Calhoun, Drums - Vernon Reid, Vocal - Vernon Reid, Guitar - Living Colour, Performer
(P) 1990 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
C. Glover, Composer - C. Glover, Lyricist - William Calhoun, Vocal - William Calhoun, Percussion - William Calhoun, Drums - D.K. Dyson, Background Vocal - Living Colour, Performer - Vernon Reid, Vocal - Vernon Reid, Guitar - Ed Stasium, Producer - Corey Glover, Vocal - Derin Young, Vocal - Derin Young, Background Vocal - V. Reid, Composer - V. Reid, Lyricist - Muzz Skillings, Vocal - Muzz Skillings, Bass - Rosa Russ, Background Vocal
(P) 1990 Epic Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
William Calhoun, Vocal - William Calhoun, Percussion - William Calhoun, Drums - W. Calhoun, Composer - W. Calhoun, Lyricist - D.K. Dyson, Background Vocal - Living Colour, Performer - Vernon Reid, Vocal - Vernon Reid, Guitar - Ed Stasium, Producer - Corey Glover, Vocal - Derin Young, Vocal - Derin Young, Background Vocal - Muzz Skillings, Vocal - Muzz Skillings, Bass - Rosa Russ, Background Vocal
(P) 1990 Epic Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
C. Glover, Composer - C. Glover, Lyricist - V.Reid, Lyricist - V.Reid, Composer - W. Calhoun, Lyricist - W. Calhoun, Composer - William Calhoun, Vocal - William Calhoun, Drums - William Calhoun, Percussion - D.K. Dyson, Background Vocal - Living Colour, Performer - Vernon Reid, Vocal - Vernon Reid, Guitar - Corey Glover, Vocal - M. Skillings, Lyricist - M. Skillings, Composer - Ed Stasium, Producer - Derin Young, Vocal - Derin Young, Background Vocal - V. Reid, Lyricist - V. Reid, Composer - W.Calhoun, Composer - W.Calhoun, Lyricist - Muzz Skillings, Vocal - Muzz Skillings, Bass - Rosa Russ, Background Vocal - C.Glover, Lyricist - C.Glover, Composer - M.Skillings, Lyricist - M.Skillings, Composer
(P) 1990 Epic Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
C. Glover, Composer - C. Glover, Lyricist - William Calhoun, Percussion - William Calhoun, Drums - W. Calhoun, Composer - W. Calhoun, Lyricist - Living Colour, Producer - Living Colour, Performer - Vernon Reid, Guitar - Corey Glover, Vocal - V. Reid, Composer - V. Reid, Lyricist - Doug Wimbish, Bass - D. Wimbish, Composer - D. Wimbish, Lyricist - RON SAINT GERMAIN, Producer
(P) 1993 Epic Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
W.Calhoun, Composer - W.Calhoun, Lyricist - Doug Wimbish, Bass - Corey Glover, Vocal - W. Calhoun, Lyricist - W. Calhoun, Composer - RON SAINT GERMAIN, Producer - William Calhoun, Percussion - William Calhoun, Drums - Vernon Reid, Guitar - Living Colour, Performer - Living Colour, Producer
(P) 1993 Epic Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Doug Wimbish, Bass - J. HENDRIX, Composer - J. HENDRIX, Lyricist - Corey Glover, Vocal - William Calhoun, Percussion - William Calhoun, Drums - Vernon Reid, Guitar - Living Colour, Performer - Ron St. Germain, Producer
(P) 1991 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Peter Brown, Composer - Peter Brown, Lyricist - John Bruce, Composer - John Bruce, Lyricist - Vernon Reid, Guitar - Living Colour, Performer - Eric Clapton, Composer - Eric Clapton, Lyricist - Michael Beinhorn, Producer
(P) 1994 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
Muzz Skillings, Vocal - Muzz Skillings, Bass - SoulShock, Producer - Corey Glover, Vocal - V. Reid, Composer - V. Reid, Lyricist - Various, Producer - William Calhoun, Vocal - William Calhoun, Percussion - William Calhoun, Drums - Vernon Reid, Vocal - Vernon Reid, Guitar - Living Colour, Performer
(P) 1990 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Albumbeschreibung
Eleven years after Living Colour released its post-breakup compilation Pride and three years after their reunion album Collideøscope, Epic/Legacy released the career-spanning collection Everything Is Possible: The Very Best of Living Colour. Since Living Colour had a career that burned like a supernova -- bright and intense at its beginning in 1988, but by 1993, they had imploded -- they're an ideal band for a compilation, and Everything Is Possible is indeed an excellent history of the band, drawing heavily from 1988's Vivid and its 1990 follow-up, Time's Up, while treating 1993's Stain as a footnote and sampling from the reunion record. As such, this is a lively portrait of the band at its peak, containing nearly all of the MTV and album rock radio hits (Stain's "Leave It Alone" is missing, but it's not noticeable), plus a healthy representation of the best album tracks. That almost all of these are culled from Vivid (over half the album is here) and Time's Up (just under half the album, if the "Soulpower Hip Hop Remix" of "Love Rears Its Ugly Head" is counted) is, again, no surprise: not only did the band turned dank and gloomy for Stain, but their neon-colored fiercely multi-cultural hard rock was in full force for those two albums. Truth be told, it even showed signs of exhausting itself on Time's Up, something that Everything Is Possible obscures even if it can't completely hide it: by that point, the politics, genre-hopping, celebrity cameos, and PC social consciousness were dampening the freshness of Vivid, which itself suffered from being overly earnest and as self-consciously complicated as the stop-start riff to their biggest hit, "Cult of Personality." Nevertheless, over the course of those two albums Living Colour produced some bright, ambitious hard rock that crystallized a lot of the ideas and trends of the late '80s and early '90s, and nowhere is that better heard than on this compilation, which captures a band that was and remains as interesting to theorize about as it is to listen to.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 17 track(s)
- Total length: 01:16:23
- Main artists: Living Colour
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Epic - Legacy
- Genre: Pop/Rock
(P) 2003 Courtesy of Sanctuary Records Group Inc., 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
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