Living Colour

I've been listening to Living Colour at work today, the hard rock band that was big briefly in the early 90s, broke up in about '95, then got back together in about 2002. When I was a kid, I used to listen to them and people would say, "Oh, like 'In Living Color'? Is it the Wayan's brothers?"

Fortunately (or, unfortunately, I guess, for them), now nobody seems to know either one. Their new album from a couple years ago, "Collideoscope," is actually decent. Lots of anger. Lots of politics. Lots of 9/11 & war stuff. One very creepy ballad, "Flying," that's a love story of sorts told by a guy jumping from the WTC. It's a pretty song melodically, especially in the context of the hard rock on most of the album.

Political and cultural rage was the path they were taking in the 90s, with their previously 'last' album, "Stain." It's probably not a smart marketing move to put a woman wearing a slave-era torture device on her head on your album cover. But it was a great album.

Anyway, that's what I'm listening to today.