Living Colour Vs. TV On The Radio

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voted tvotr cause i've listened to dear science more times than i've listened to vivid, and i've listened to vivid a lot

love rears its ugly head was pretty good. early tvtor was good too. theyve just become a bit too worthy (and more dull-rocking) ever since.

i'm gonna go for arpeggi/weird fishes this time

Chuck OTM in 2004, in 1991 not so much.

Voted for Fishbone.

why does chuck eddy never want black people to rock

Black people remind him of Filipinos, Sami, Roma gypsies and Asleep At The Wheel

Well, they're no BIG & RICH...

No Busboys, either.

I went with Living Colour.

I voted for Five Blind Boys of Alabama

why does chuck eddy never want black people to rock

In Stairway To Hell, fwiw: Bad Brains, Black Heat, Jean-Paul Bourelly, Jimmy Castor Bunch, Chambers Brothers, Betty Davis, Miles Davis (3 albums), Funkadelic (6 albums), Gettovetts, Headhunters, Jimi Hendrix (6 albums), King's X (2 albums), Last Exit (4 albums), Living Colour, Parliament, Power Tools, Prince and the Revolution, Run-DMC, Sonny Sharrock (3 albums), Thin Lizzy (3 albums), James Blood Ulmer (2 albums), Xavion.

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TVOTR are okay, but I voted for Geddy in blackface.

Not Living Color, mind, who were atrocious, but actual Geddy in blackface.

xp

And Love. (And probably others I'm not thinking of right now.)

Also think I slightly underrated both bands in the quotes above. Living Colour = more distinctive sound than I give them credit for (good slumming jazz guitarist, shitty singer, etc.); TV on the Radio definitely not the worst over-hyped New York band of the last decade (the Walkmen come to mind, for one.) Still have no use for them, though.

I voted TVOTR because of Living Color's clothes.

haha

y u hate on the body glove

on the corey glove?

My mom somehow convinced me of two false things about Living Colour when I was a kid:

1) That they were British (probably thought so because of the spelling)
2) That Corey Glover was the son of actor Danny Glover (don't know where she got this)

I saw Living Colour open for the Who in '89. AWFUL.

I drank at a bar in Williamsburg with the singer of TVOTR. WHATEVER.

I can't even vote on this shit but if Geddy in black face was a real option, I would take it.

I saw Living Colour in '91. AWESOME.

kind of agree with chuck about the walkmen though :/

This fucking thread.

I drank at a bar in Williamsburg with the singer of TVOTR. WHATEVER.

> Voted for Fishbone.

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Good work.

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I had no clue xhuxk hated Rush.

I do agree: kinda overrated, but "hookless, sexless, grooveless, tuneless, singerless, songless" is wrong. I actually think the singer (the main guy, not the fro guy) has a really great voice, and that new album is groovy. And they've made a couple songs about sex, though I guess they're not too sexy. Well, I guess you can keep the other three adjectives if you want.

xp Didn't hate Rush; just wasn't fond of their early '90s music. (Didn't hate Riot, Mordred or Living Colour, either; just thought they were all comparably...mediocre. Though in a passingly interesting way sometimes.)

(Actually, I mean early '90s Riot there, too, when they used samples and turntables to keep up with the times. Their early stuff was great.)

my cousin was in mordred

My cousin was in Mordred in a bar in Williamsburg. WHATEVER.

im not sure that makes any sense MAX

I saw Mordred open for the Who in '89. AWFUL.

ha - he was in some band w/dudes from metallica before they were metallica too - he used to talk abt it ALL the time

I can't even vote on this shit but if Mordred in black face was a real option, I would take it.

one vote for mordred in blackface^

http://i40.tinypic.com/2i9ixl.jpg

If Geddy Lee in blackface at a bar in Williamsburg was an option. WHATEVER.

If Living Colour's best album (STAIN) in blackface was an option, I'd still have voted for Fishbone.

Fishbone's worst album (Familyhood Nextperience or whatever, the one with all the celeb cameos) is better than any album either of these bands ever made.

what the hell does Fishbone have to do with either of these bands

Duh Dan they are black.

Alfred up there said he voted for them.

I hope Geddy Lee is lurking and makes a terribly ill-advised career move.