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Track Listings
| 1. Song without sin |
| 2. A ? of when |
| 3. Operation mind control |
| 4. Flying |
| 5. In your name |
| 6. Back in black |
| 7. Nightmare city |
| 8. Lost halo |
| 9. Holy roller |
| 10. Great expectations |
| 11. Choices mash up/Happy shopper |
| 12. Pocket of tears |
| 13. Sacred ground |
| 14. Tomorrow never knows |
| 15. Nova |
Customer Reviews
The stand out song is FLYING - about 9/11, "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?" (from an LC bio)
Song W/o Sin - Starts off HEAVY ROCK and the end winds into this tablas or clay drum ending...sweeet!
Back in Black - AC/DC cover - makes you listen to the lyrics, again! nice choice.
Nightmare City - is a bad brains-esque reggae rock vibe. Tight!
Choices Mash up/Happy Shopper - Happy Shopper is actually another cover song by either Mark Stewarts mafia or Audio Active (japanese dub band) industrial laced song about consumerism, midway through the song, you get treated to a nice change of pace too.
Pocket of Tears - GREAT SONG, and a great song LIVE in concert!
All in all, a beautiful album by one of the most underated bands around. if you can check them out in concert, you will not be disappointed. Living Colour rocks! Thank you for getting back together and allowing me enjoy rock music again!
Fast forward to this year and we see them reformed with a new album and my anticipation couldn't have been higher. So it's a shame that I really can't find that much to rave about on Collideascope. One of the other reviewers was correct in identifying Flying as the stand out track of the album; it's truly a great song but part of what makes it stand out is that it follows the turgid boreathon that is Operation Mind Control. Flying represents a form of relief that makes you realise they haven't lost the ability to write good songs; something I seriously was beginning to doubt after Mind Control.
Unfortunately they then follow it with In Your Name, which could have been a great track had it had better musical direction - the naff sounding synth noises on it (presumably meant to be indicating some kind of computer game war noises or something) truly ruin what could have been a great track.
Whilst most of the rest of the album isn't as bad, neither is it truly great either, with the cover of Back In Black standing out as well as the intriguing Nightmare City. I also have to take exception to the version of Sacred Ground that they've included with this release; the version from Pride was a great, hard rock track and Corey Glover's voice had the right amount of indignant rage that the theme of this song demanded, whereas the version here sounds like it's been watered down.
All in all I'd have to say that this one is for hardcore fans only and certainly isn't going to convince any new listeners of Living Colour's greatness. If you want to convert new listeners then get them to listen to Vivid, Time's Up or Stain (all fantastic albums that deserve to be in anyone's collection) but Collideascope is one to give them once they actually like the band... otherwise you're more likely to put them off.
Finding it again I gave it another go and after a few spins the songs have worked their way into me. Read more
I you dont, you will probably like it too because its a new sound for the band. Read more
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